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| 1 2 | UER Forum > UE Main > Are you qualified to explore, or will you just DIE!?!?!?! (Viewed 2647 times) |
Steed
Location: Edmonton/Seoul Gender: Male Total Likes: 2670 likes
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| | | | Re: Are you qualified to explore, or will you just DIE!?!?!?! < Reply # 1 on 5/12/2023 2:42 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Well this seems like an opportunity to humblebrag, so...
My first job out of university was as a construction site security guard, which makes me at least sound like I might have some sense of how to move around those places. During that time I was promoted to a control room where I likely handled scheduling for some important sites in Ontario. I also took a human factors course in university that influenced me a lot and helped me to understand how any human-designed system is supposed to work. My current job is at a newspaper, and I've developed a habit of running toward danger rather than away. In the last eight or so months, I've infiltrated a catastrophic disaster site and went in search of an abandoned tiger. This probably puts me at extra risk of death, but I think I also am especially able to draw attention to injustices, rather than becoming an unidentified stiff in a morgue. I'm pretty certain I'm fated to die ironically, like being killed in a freak accident like being struck by a bus jumping a curb or something dropped from a roof, right after pulling off something epic like a crane climb or a subway tunnel. In my opinion, most of us are safer when we go into danger with our eyes open than when we sleepwalk through daily life.
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| Samurai Vehicular Lord Rick
Location: northeastern New York Total Likes: 1900 likes
No matter where you go, there you are...
| | | Re: Are you qualified to explore, or will you just DIE!?!?!?! < Reply # 4 on 5/12/2023 4:20 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by Roro I will tell you a story. Once I had a new friend and walked them to an old unfinished construction site with a crane in the middle of it. I wanted us to climb on the crane to see the view, just like I had already done in the past, some years before. Luckily there were some kids there, near the crane. They told us one friend of them died because the ladder was rusted and broke. Indeed it was broken and had some white-red tape around. I don't know if I would climb if they weren't there, as the information came before the observation. But the danger is real.
| i was at work one night (11p-7a ahift) doing my 3rd round of tests, when i came across three chuckleheads wandering around my place of business. No boots, no safety glasses/ goggles, no hardhat, no chem gloves... just wandering around taking pics of my recaust plant. They had parked their car a mile or so away and walked up the tracks thinking that an operating paper mill would be a 'cool place to check out'. (facepalm) I asked them to leave and to their credit, they did. I didn't have to call security.
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| Aran
Location: Kansas City Gender: Male Total Likes: 1849 likes
Huh. I guess covid made me a trendsetter.
| | | Re: Are you qualified to explore, or will you just DIE!?!?!?! < Reply # 5 on 5/12/2023 6:10 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | I have several years of experience working in various research labs, including work with a variety of human pathogens. Suffice to say I know my way around a laboratory and how to handle the hazards one might find in abandoned ones. Despite that, I still manage to get myself into trouble by getting too casual and mishandling destabilized explosive chemicals and pathogenic blood samples I find in abandoned labs (in fairness all the paperwork said decontamination was finished two years prior, so I wasn't expecting to find that), but I'm still here so I must be doing something right. I also have a minor in archaeology, which has occasionally come in handy- especially when it comes to knowing how to write a historical research paper, which most of my big write ups these days have become.
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| "Sorry, I didn't know I'm not supposed to be here," he said, knowing full well he wasn't supposed to be there. |
| Cfourexplore
Location: North Carolina Gender: Male Total Likes: 583 likes
Never a dull moment in Midworld.
| | | Re: Are you qualified to explore, or will you just DIE!?!?!?! < Reply # 16 on 5/23/2023 12:53 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | I've been doing urban exploring for about 5 years...though I'm prone to making rather foolish mistakes; I'd say I tend to have a heightened sense of situational awareness and a mind that analyzes (often to the point of overthinking) and processes enough to allow me to not just die three steps into an explore. I've worked several security jobs, and a few industrial places that have shown me the "art" of knowing where to look and how...and what not to touch, and what to avoid. Though I've been struggling with depression and anxiety in the last couple years (and recovering slowly but surely), I have a social ability that seems to allow me to engage with others in a non-confrontational way that often benefits me when I run into people. My biggest flaws are a) I often overlook the easy way in, and end up resorting to the trickier PoE...and b) when trying to be stealthy I'm often like a bull in a China shop...if it's there to be kicked, rattled, or tripped, my feets will find it! Overall, I'd say my natural abilities have allowed me to learn even more about how to best explore, and survive each time...not to mention all the advice, tips, and experiences I've learned from my fellow UERers! Strength-5 Perception-7 Endurance-5 Charisma-6 Intelligence-6 Agility-7 Luck-8
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