Urban Death Games - Like Alice in borderland

Like most of you, I had a blast watching the live action death game series of Alice in Borderland, and in true What would you di fashion, I made a general gameplan of things I would do to increase my survival chances.

Thus, let's use the series as our main scenario and see what steps are important to take.

If you have any ideas of your own, please share then in the comments to enrich all our gameplans! Have fun!

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Where the hell is everyone?

If you suddenly find yourself seemingly the only person in the world, or like the mc, left with the friends with whom you shared your bathroom stall, then youre in big trouble.

By sheer improbability of the speed of everyones seemingly silent and immediate vanishing act, the only conclusion can be nefarious.

Whether it is the biblical rapture and you and your friends are sinners who were left behind, a paranormal event, aliens or whatever.

It all comes down to one thing. You are in deep shit.

Running around in the middle of the street and screaming hello is the last thing you should. Keep a low profile and stick to the sides of the buildings or preferably cars just in case something creepy as fuck bursts through the store window.

Your first quest is to improve your survivability in case of a hostile encounter. Food and water come second.

... Weapons

Pick up the first bar, stick, knife or whatever you find that you can, then look for upgrades.

If you're at home or work, go to the kitchen and get one of those meat cutting knives, not the cleaver, but that thin reinforced knife with the pointy end. Its light weight, usually the sharpest and most durable.

If you need a sheeth, grab two pieces of carton and tape them together, make sure they extend past the point. Re-sheething the knife may be a bitch, but all you need to be able to do is draw it in an emergency.

If there is a second knife, and some tape, get something like a broom handle and taoe the thing on. It wont survive many stabbing motions but a makeshift spear when outside as you go to upgrade and find out what the hell is going on, goes a long way if there is some large agressive creature like an escaped animal from the zoo.

From then on, you will want to consider getting a crowbar to be able to enter places you dont have access to like closed shops, doors and lockers.

A fire axe works as well, but generally they're heavier to carry arround and if your going to not camp out where you are, you will want to be light weight.

To that end, katana's are unlikely to be useful unless out in the street if you know how to use them and keep them drawn. The reason is theyre too long for anyone to draw easily and fast without proper technique and posture, and too long to not get hindered by ceilings and corridors, which would limit them to stabbing motions only in a hallway, and stabbing and horizontal slashing in a room.

Ideally, assuming your a noob with weapons, you will find a wakizashi, kodatchi, tanto or manchette which is short, lightweight and has some cutting power to it.

Whilst stabbings are more prevent, in the news, they tend to be acts of passion and more deliberate. One handed Slashing is what most people do when they panic and thus it is logical for a person untained in weapons entering an unexpected situation to get a light weight, onehanded slashing / chopping weapon.

Personally, I would recommend a manchette for this, as the avarage nerds reading this and regular girls, dont have the endurance or experience to wield the others effectively, and the tanto lacks range.

Especially if you haven't killed before, a tanto is too short to use as your main weapon. I definitely recommend getting one if you find one instead of your kitchen knife, because the tanto knife point is actually armor piercing and a lot of the commercial models come with fairly durable blade and optimised glass shattering point on the grip, which saves having to get one of those emergency hammers from a bus.

Wakizashi are generally heavier than they look and more of a mix between slashing and stabbing design wise. Youre also more likely to use them two handed out of reflex as a result, and thus less likely to reach the speed needed to land your blow without training.

Commercial model manchettes are generally very thin, low weight and design wise have a slightly heaver point which helps you in your more naturally reflexive chopping and slashing motions.

Untrained youre a brute, so best get something that will lend itself to it.

..... Armor

Initially you should first get whatever tough materials you have on hand. My initial reaction in a zombie apocalypse would be to grab some magazines and tape them around my shins and fore arms for initial protection.

The chinese have experimented with stackedpaper armor in ancient times and due to the way it slows down blades and absorbes kinetic impacts, its a valuable emergency solution. Unfortunately, if it gets soggy or wet, it quickly becomes useless, and whiksy lightweight compared to most armor types, its still quite heavy and uncomfortable long term when used this way.

This however is a good get home card to play, and very important to do when facing the possibility of an immediate attack of an unknown enemy.

What you really want to go for is protective sports gear. You know, like those wrist guard protectors that you used when rollar skating for the first time.

They're light weight and extremely impact absorbant. If you have any protective sports gear then it beats the hell out of paper armor because it will be more comfortable to wear, have better breathability and is quite capable of deflecting an untrained hacker slasher.

If you watched forged in fire and related programs on the history channel, you come to notice that impromptu cutting without correct technique is a failed application of science.

Cutting, slashing, chopping, stabbing, blades are designed to excell in specific areas, and have sweet spots and associated motions to take advantage of those spots.

Katana's for example use the principle of leverage with their lenght and curved blades to make a specific part of the blade optimal for slashing through various opponents. The varioud diffrent katana shaoes throughout history are not because the blade was more effectively designed for the same target, but in response the most comon new type of opponents anf armor their users faced.

When armor wasn't up to par, slashing was much more effective, yet you see the blades straightening out and getting better armor piercing points and heading for stabbing specialisations as we get closer to modern times, the kenjutsu styles also adapted to the changing times, resulting in kendo which excels against armored opponents wearing armor comon to the era it was developed in.

My point is, that something as durable as protective sports gear is the best lightweight, comfortable, breathing and commonly available option for long term use, as it is tough enough to deflect what would otherwise be a deep cut, or dismemberment from an improperly wielded blade not hitting you with the right angle, part or velocity and the science of their perfected combat styles to serve as a combat multiplier.

Likewise, a break from a club or crowbar hitting your forearm as you shield yourself with your arms in the all too likely panic, will quite likely be averted, or a pulverising blow reduced to a break.

Against a skilled practitioner or fighter, your best bet is still not to be found and otherwise to escape, because they will better be able to account for your protective gear and use their weapons with experience and efficiency, making any armor less likely to make a diffrence.

Armor works to reduce the margin of successful debilitating effects or certain kill shots. Wearing a plate armor bra isnt going to suddenly make your belly impervious to weapons. Armor works to reduce effectiveness of hits at the location it is placed, and in most cases is highly likely to fail against stabbing attacks, or in the hands of a trained or combat hardened opponent in a one on one fight.

Fortunately, most people in alice in Boarderland are untrained regular civilians, which means that sports gear will be effective at increasing your survival odds most of the time.

If you arent in a deathmatch or team deathmatch game, then obviously, you can put it in your backpack or whatever, if the others seem not to be out to kill you.... Keep it on if they carry weapons and its a game of smarts tough, only games of physical prowess and agility will make it and anything else you bring a possible liability.

...Transportation

A lot of people seeing the series are suddenly all about old cars and motorcycles to move around in. I vehemently disagree.

Motor vehicles are loud, you can hear them from miles away in an fairly quiet place, especially if you have buildings to reflect the noise.

Sound attracts attention, and in such a scenario as a seemingly empty city which we concluded is most likely to be of a nefarious nature, thats a very dangerous thing.

Bicycles are fairly quiet, can carry a lot, are light weight, easy to lock, unlock and hide in the dark. Dont forget, at night in alice and borderland everything is dark. Everything besides the gaming locations.

This makes it extremely easy to hide things as the light kills everyones night vision close to the gaming location. Tossing your bike in the bushes or alcove or behind a dumpster nearby the objective, it's unlikely to get spotted and stolen.

Likewise, your silent transportation will ensure your able to hear it if something or someone follows you as they need to run to keep up.

Likewise, as seen in the endurance run episode where they were actually safe already, having had a bicycle nearby would have massively increased the physical endurance and distances one could travel instead of having to run it, had the mission been instead that only the one furthest away from the bus lived. A likely game scenario for outdoor games.

Additionally, bicycles have a dynamo, which powers a light to navigate through the streets... Or possibly, if your able wire it up along with hooking the necessary converter in between, charge your rechargeable batteries by hooking up a battery charger...

Whilst an old car or motorcycle could still do that too, without the electronics tampering, you'd first need to know how to hotwire one unless you find the key, and likely, how to replace the spark plugs, battery and whatevrr electrical components it might have that got fried. The fact the bus worked meant someone took time to fix it or replace components, as it had working lights.

.... Transmigrated and as the mc in the toilet stall.

(With hindsight and earlier pointed out knowledge)

1. Tell everyone to keep quiet and low, grab anything that can be used as a weapon we encounter.

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If you have pen and paper, or can write something somewhere, take off a piece of clothing and write the likely hood of danger down, and the importance to not say anything out loud, outside and to stay silent indoors as that may be overheard. Showing this under your clothing to your friends to read, will prevent any possible observers from reading what information you share with them from anywhere that isnt a first person pov of the paper.

This is important because your friends need to know that based on all likely scenarios for everyone to be gone, all of them are extremely sinister with other people being statistically most likely to be dangerous, or used as bait. Just reference terminator, where human like robots were used to infiltrate the resistence and get them nabbed.

So make sure they're especially weary of completely normal people, especially hot women on heels walking around in what appears to be a dangerous scenario. Which is the most common bait used by bandits by the road side irl and apocalyptic scenarios.

2. Head to the nearest outdoor store, army surplus or hardware store, in that order of priority for whatever is close by. It is for the same goods or get a placeholder till you can find an outdoor store.

These are the most useful places to go due to the sheer variation of goods availeble that you want to immediately procure. They are also to have the most likely working gatgets that wont be effected by EMP, such as mechanical watches, squeeze chage flashlights, solar charing units, and handcrank radios.

(I will list a shopping list for the outdoor store after this list)

3. Procure transportation. Steal a couple of bicycles with a single lock on them. One for each, and oil them up to avoid any squeaky sounds they might make.

4. Find a safe, defendable place to crash, with many unorthodox exits that a regular person would not immediately think of when they're planning to ambush you, and set up sound traps like tin cans on a fishing line to act as a trip wire on most common approaches to your location and the ones with a good view of it.

Just knowing there was someone who tripped your wire, making a noise at the building across the street, will let you know you're being watched and its time to sneak away from there and relocate.

Never spend the night in the same place untill you have a better understanding of your situation, and try not to make it obvious that someone has been staying there recently.

5. Locate other people and observe them. Find patterns like the fact multiple ones wear the same wrist bands, colors or what not.

Big groups regardless of intentions mean bigger troubles. A small group of you and your friend moving on their own and avoiding the rest when possible is your best chance to avoid unnecessary drama and dangers, as big groups are always the first target.

When you find a big group, identify the leaders and who go out and about more than most. These are the most likely spies, and collaborators that put you in this scenario.

6. Get to your game locations early, and scope then out before entering. An outdoor spot is either a physical challenge, or combative in nature.

Likewise, buildings are more likely to be mind games, puzzles and cage fights. You will want to avoid entering the same building as your friends, unlike the outdoor locations which aren't as likely to involve heart games.

Likewise, outdoor locations give away their game types, as a set of binoculars from a vantage point outside the game area is likely to help you spot what type of game your dealing with.

The only other option would be to find a working RC drone that you can fly inside a building and check the game tyoetout with, but this sort of equipment is unlikely to be in working conditions.

There is also a lot of information you can infer from observing locations, most games have their game type on a table inside the immediate lobby or whatever entrance. Looking in with a set of binos from a good vantage point might once more give away the game type.

The type of building also gives away a lot about the game. The bigger the building, the more it's amount of floors or spacing will be important.

Low buildings will be more likely to have mind games due to a more limited size.

This is all important to take note of, because the size of the potential battlefield and the possibility of going outside of the buildings boundaries might mean the diffrence of life or death..

7. Entering a game location.

All public buildings have emergency floorplans, whilst some people make note to study them, I would just rip them of the wall and take then with me, and do the same for each additional one I encounter.

This way, should they become relevant information to me, then I can draw on them with a marker to make each challenge more simplified for me.

8. Try to find out how the lasers find their targets.

In the series they tend to trigger based on perimiter breaches such as someone throwing an item. Yet when shooting people, like the ones who didnt extend their visa, they always seem to hit the top of the head.

It's quite possible for there to be some sort of chip or transmitter to be implemented underneath your skin, it would be worth noting where it is, and removing it focibly if you're not going to be able to extend your visa.

9. Prepared to spoof the laser/targeting system

If you cant find the transmitter, but you believe it is underneath your skull, the next best bet is to try and prevent the signal from going out.

Whilst painstaking, a tinfoil hat, or motorcycle helmet covered in the stuff might well do the trick to interrupt the signal by acting as a faraday cage. Something you can easily test with some kids radios or babyphones you might find working, by placing the helmet over it as its transmitting.

Do move the moment you put the helmet on yourself tough and keep moving while your at it untill your certain tough, it's quite likely that a laser will fire on your last known signal transmigration location.

Likewise dont construct it anywhere but inside a small tend or something where you are sure there are no cameras that could observe you belonging to a game master.

Another thing worth trying is if you find an armored vault or armored concrete location, or hiding in away in an iron storage locker.

The lasers have shown to be a single burst like shot and not continuous to burn through multiple layers of material takes significant power, its quite likely that continuous movement beneath thick layers of material will make the laser unable to burn its way down to you before you have moved. A continuous beam moving after you would have to burn its way anew through the top layer material, meaning movement will keep you alive.

Another important thing to consider is the refraction of light. Hiding underwater is quite likely to scatter the laser as it goes through and making the light too diffuse to harm you after some depth.

This is especially the case for murky polited water like Tokyo bay, which would not only warp any optical sensors but the cold water will also reduce the conductivity of heat to some degree as the light is scatterd, and the heat of the laser cooled as it passes through.

Infact lasers are highly inefficient in atmosphere due to the atmospherical conditions reducing their effectiveness which makes them extremely hard to get as effective as seen in the series.

Due to the diffrent layers of atmosohere each forming new barriers, its even less likely to be a laser on a satelite system and more likely to be on a highly space magic like compact drone, simply because of the properties of light and lasers.

High tech wouldn't mean impervious to reduced effectiveness by disruptive circumstances that a specific thing is vulnerable to.

It might be overpowered further to bridge negative conditions to a degree but nothing not even high technology is fool proof and effective under all circumstances.

10. The next most important thing is to find out if there are boundaries to the system. Is it city wide? Region wide? National?

The radio can probably tell you this by checking the various frequency bands. In tokyo, if its local, you should still be able to receive chinese radio. If you don't. Its likely world wide because your walkie-talkie wouldn't work when radio signals are being jammed

Likewise, you could go to a rooftop at night and use a looted telescope, to get a better look at the origin source of the lasers.

If they litterally appear out of thin air, and there is no visible distortion at their point of origin then the likely hood of this being a digital reality significantly increases, which means there is no physical way to escape.

This would also explain how things like the bonfire at the beach, and game locations are suddenly converted, despite the fact such conversions would normally require work crews and sound.

If a location is being prepared by a crew during the day, it is worth noting where they come from and go to, as well as how they move around. It would generally mean that it isn't a digital reality if such crews move around, and any singular person or being coming and going to said people is likely the go between between themselves and a higher power outside of communications equipment.

Which would make them the next target to follow, etc etc. However if the locating device is on your person, I wouldnt recommend following such people beyond a massively long range Line of Sight operation, for the signal, would give away that youre following or tracking the game masters if you trigger a Perimeter alert such as a radius based on their circle, and remain motionless too long or head on a direct vector towards them.

Following a game master to some place may potentially provide for a way out of your new hell... If its a digital world tough.... It'll be more of a beam me up scotty exit, the digital game master should he enter would probably be invulnerable or simply ejected if his avatar was killed, and able to reinsert as anything or anyones look alike if he or she wanted, and there would be no other option than to win the game and hope they truly allow you to leave uncontested.

Otherwise, its a long term survival endurance race of potentially years or more untill someone on the outside discovers the situation and gets you out.

Kinda like Sao but without an ingame cheat and burocratic morons of government agencies having to first get permission to try and then successfully hack a highly advanced system beyond their paygrade, first to halt the death game scenarios and then to figure out how to de-digitise you.... A literal lifetime lasting challange depending on the technological gap, and most likely to end up with a:

We cant save you, but we can relocate you to the metaverse 2.0 where you can play world of warcraft as if it is real life.... Which is possibly where tech for a digital scenario came from or was an alpha test for...

Another way to check what scenario you are in, is if you can get to the body of an enemy like the ones with the horse masks, if it's fake, then the serial numbers on their weapons will likely be the same as an oversight to detail, same for the textures on the magazines if they carry multiple, if it has the same damage marks on both for no apparent reason, you might have outsmarted the system.

The reason I point out the weapons specifically is because its unlikely to have been in place in the city already, the only way to get it so god awefully realistic would be if it was an active scan of a moment in time of the area, so goods in the stores and their expiration dates probably wont give it away and instead reingorce the illusion that this is reality and not a digital world.

However, the same can not be said for the game specific tech. Lazyness would have a person create one gun or scan one gun, one bomb headset or neck chain. These game scenario specific items, will lack variation between them if they were digitally placed and generated.

After all, why scan a whole host of the same weapons for some lame ass texture varieties... Why bother?

The same goes for the death games your in. That one where the door that looked the same as all the others was unharmed by bullets? Not even a scratch? Thats impossible, and it was a regular looking door when it was opened up. A strong point in favor of alice in wonderland being a digital Scenario, in which the counter laser options and laws of physics are unlikely to matter.

In fact, the scenario becomes increasingly bleak. Even rescue becomes unlikely if your trapled inside a game for the prior mentioned reasons, but the fact that your entire known world has been flash scanned somehow, is so complicated and advanced, that it becomes likely, you are a flash scan of yourself as well, meaning that somewhere, out there in the real world, you still exist, with no idea whats going on to your digital self, despite you, the digital copy being a real sentient being none the less.

If you are a copy. It means you're likely copied into in a gladiatorial death game for the elite to enjoy, or even your analogue self as the ultimate entertainment....

In which case you have a new imperative. Survive, thrive and win freedom, for it might still grant you a paradise life, but also, the non digital you, might gain something from your best performance.

If you ever wondered what it was like to be in a gameshow, or your favourite videogame, this is the ultimate test under high pressure to see how you will perform. It might even be used as an indicator of world access levels in a multiverse 2.0 upload. Performing badly might well result in:

sorry sir, but according to your flash copy's pathetic performance you're not allowed to go to harry potter, voldemort is too scary for you.

Or sorry sir but you are not eligible for a grant / free upload on the grounds of your flash copies poor performance, and we only cover the costs for those of solid entertainment value.

A whole host of scenarios in which you wish you had a better performance, so you will need to up your game, up your entertainment factor without looking fake or like the usual psycho doing so. You will want to be that hero everyone will refer to as the main hero, the protagonist of the show, the one parents will tell their children to take as their example for that person is the ideal person, strong, capable, morally just without the extremes. The ultimate top contender in any performance review who actually was entertaining to watch whilst doing so.

...... Outdoor Store Shopping list.

You and your friends just reached the outdoor store on day one. Arisu, now you, and friends werent optimally dressed for this shit nor equipped.

Here is your new shopping list:

- light weight waist wide backpacks for potentially advantageous ingame goods.

- larger pack to dump outside the game area for more extensive pre and post game needs.

- lightweight, full long sleeve outdoor clothes for your temperature range, preferably cottons for outer layers rather than synthetics due to melting burning goo hazards from fire related challenges, and moisture wicking fabrics

- a lightweight protective helm, like a bicycle helm, to prevent getting youe brains bashed in by other challengers.

- comfortable urban (low) profile shoes / boots with oil repelling, water repelling,insulated soles, enough flexibility to preserve enough agility to climb. If needed and support your feet.

Personally, I would get some good urban boots, and swap out for some light weight high grip climbing or running shoes depending on the situation, my bag would allow me to carry them with me.

Boots also help if you find yourself in a physical altercation if they have a level of protection like boors with safety ratings.

Still a simpler non safety rating boot like those awesome urban oakley s.i. Assault boots, who simply offer a little bit more support and thougher leather are already leagues ahead of your white nike sneakers.

My advise, is to get three pairs, 1 pair of boots to fight in, 1 pair of climbing shoes for physical challenges, and 1 pair of running shoes.

Make sure theyre all a dull or common color like black, dark grey, sage green or brown, you dont want your feet to give you away with a white boat ring drawing attention as youre trying to hide.

Likewise, keep them dry and clean, traverse the city wearing hospital shoe covers if you need to so you dont leave wet muddy footprints indoors.

Bring two tea towels to wrap around your feet if needed for sneaking over rough surfaces like concrete not tile.

- high grip gloves, preferably with knuckle protection, cut the finger tips off if you need to but make sure sweaty hands wont cause your undoing, primarily for potential combat scenarios. Depending on the game type, you can take them off, and just go with the next item just in case.

- climbing powder / antiperspirant

If not for yourself then for a potential team mate with sweaty palms so you dont drop to your death because one of you has no grip, its a quick way to dry the hands, just don't leave too much of it on, you dont want an actual layer of the stuff or you will still lose grip and the stuff is just there to quickly de-sweat, which is why anti perspirants sprayed on your hands after drying them will work just as well.

You won't have time to do it after the game starts, so for the latter do it before you grab your phone and cover it with perspiration, its also better to use an antiperspirant simply because chalk leaves hand prints which could allow people to track you down.

The moisture absorbant powders however, are a swift way to get that slick blood of your hands if your oj your forced killing spree, so some climbing powder and a quick wipe with a rag will get rid of the worst of it if you got a swift moment.

- climbing harnass and rope

They might be mighty uncomfortable, but if you know how to use them, worth a grab, if some assholes come to raid your hiding place in your apartment during the night to kill you, leaving a long rope tied around a. Fixed / anchored object, will allow you to bail out through the window as theyre taking that fireaxe to your baricaded door.

Likewise, some challenges might benefit from the increased safetry rating if you can anchor yourself as you climb up some shitty dingy ladder of which ofcourse some shitty rung was not made of stainless steel and pops, more importantly, it will allow you to safely rest when anchored instead of overtaxing your arms.

- supportive moisture regulating socks. You use them for your soccer match, and various other sports, you use them for hiking and everything else thats intensive.

A good comfortable, supportive pair of socks, might just mean the difference between being distracted by painful feet or its support being a decisive factor for your endurance.

Get a bunch for your big bags, and swap to a fresh pair frequently, and especially before entering a game.

- protective gear, like shin guards etc. If you end uo in a combat scenario, its nice to have some protection in place to give you the earlier mentioned edge. Dont overdo it or let it impair your movement, but dont shirk on it either.

Even light weight flimsy looking protections can make the diffrence between a heavily bruised skin, or road rash, or worse.

- energy drinks / food

Outdoor stores, often have high energy dried food bars, sports drinks and powders that can give you just that tiny bit of an edge to keep your head clear.

I recommend drinking iso / electrolyte drinks before entering as the stress will kick your body in high gear. Just the nerves will likely begin rapid dehydration and cloud your thinking, so taking a drink before entering, and bringing a high energry drink and energy bar for inside, will help keep your mind in the game without the sudden onset of hunger, thirst and lack of fuel.

Just think back to those few times someone convinced you to fitness or you had P. E. And suddenly you found yourself in need of these very things.

Hell, put it in a fanny pack for all I care if you fear it becoming a weighty burden that you need to rapidly ditch. Its better to have it, and ditch it because you dont need it, than to need it and not have it.

You will be especially thankful in mind games as chewing actually help you focus by relaxing you, getting that minty fresh gum to chew on, could help you relax and perform better as your nerves get an outlet, bad guys wont be able to see your jaw shaking in your terror nerves, and you will be less inclined to nervously blabber and make yourself the number one sacreficial lamb for not being able to hold your shit together as well as the rest of them.

- squeeze led lights

Emp? Who cares, squeeze these ugly flashlights a few time and they work!

- solar chargers.

Solar chargers actually work after an Emp, or well the pannel does, its usually the converter that gets fried, but due to the fact most of these things come in that nifty metalic hardware foil, usually survive too.

Otherwise, check out back in storage.electronics are usually locked in a cage due to their hefty price tags against employee theft, with hefty camera surveillance.

Sometimes these storage cages and areas really mess with your self phone signal, so whats in there could very well have survived an emp.

- emergency first aid supplies

You wouldn't expect it, but outdoor stores, often have some of the best heavily duty, death stopper stuff out there.

Large tubes of super glue, blood coagulating powders like celox to keep from bleeding out from that stapwound or nasty cut you just got, ready to go emergency slap on patches, bandage sprays emergency burn wound treatments its all there, clearly labelled with step by step guides on the back.

These emergency supplies are the most legal, heavy duty, omg im going to die, things out there, packaged so that non medical folk like you and me who would be absolutely lost in a pharmacy or hospital scavange hunt, can look at their life endangering fail wound in the ass end of nowhere, can treat themselves as best as possible, or buy time for the rescue helicopter to fly in and save your ass from what without this stuff would have been your death before they got there.

Seriously go look at the medical suppies in one of the bigger outdoor stores with climbing and hiking gear, they got everything that you wouldn't have known to even exist or be legal without doctors subscriptions.

- gas stove, cooking apparel, tents, camping gear, sleeping bags, emergency mylar blankets, etc.

Its all there, everything you need to camp out in the wild and shower, will suddenly be very usefull in a cold, wet, powerless, city for without power there is no shower to pump the water up. Even the gas lines could stop delivering gas if the power of the regulating and safety systems go out... That means no cooking after a bit too.

- goggles, masks, motorcycle helmets

Dont want to be recognised or get blood in your eyes? Or do you just need that one extra push to help you disconnect from reality to keep from breaking down as you're forced into one death game after another?

If you have ever gone skying, you might have felt slightly disconnected from the world with your goggles on. Integral helmets and goggles tend to give a surrealistic feeling, a layer of protection, a step back from reality to those unused to wearing them.

Its almost like playing a video game or watching a movie, and whilst the degrees of the effects goggles and helmets might have on you, it more often is enough you help you distance yourself and keep your shit together.

Its like those shy people in anime wearing a mask, or that person from school whose totaly phobic towards people but is suddenly all touchy feely with his furry suit on.

Masks, goggles, even glasses have a psychological effect on us that allows us to more easily deal with reality by putting something between us and them, like a neet/hiki looking out of his window to the outside world but being unable to open his door.

Sure it's a form of hiding. But if you wanna survive a death game, if a pair of ski goggles or mask allows you to keep your shit together and survive.... Go for it!

- baby powder

Whilst not all outdoor stores sell it, or rebrand it. Baby powder is a survivalists magic. Its anti odor, anti bacterial, anti rash properties make it a perfect hygiene product out in the bush, or a messed up city.

Just look up 'ways to use babypowder'. Its also fairly commonly used by people who sweat a lot to avoid stinking. Hikers often put it in their boots to get rid of the smell, or to keep light weight in an area where water might be an issue, as dry soap for hygiene.

The uses are many and very often if there isnt baby powder on the shelve, its just been rebranded so as not to hurt your ego

Likewise, much like climbing powder, it's very fine and could be used to check for fingerprints depending on the brand ( Try it out in the store if theres multiple brands)

- disposable gloves, wipes, Ductape etc.

More often than not in Alice in borderland, you're a dirty mess after your game, and just want to go to bed.

Soldiers prefer to use babywipes to get the camopaint off their faces, dispable gloves, are nice to search the dead bodies afterwards for anything usefull like important clues, or performing that emergency treatment on your friend and prefering to avoid chances of infecting them by touching an open wound with dirty hands causing him a bacterial infection with near certain guarantees.

As for ductape... What can't it do? Seriously the stuff is any survivalists top 5 item for a reason.

- Multitool

Running around with a toolbox in the middle of a game woulf be shit, but a multi tool might just have the few essentials you need, often it has the most common used sizes and tools for everything you might need.

- weapons

Outdor shops often have manchettes and survival knives. So this is a good place to gear up in most cases.

Whilst you wont find your geardo survial katana here because its bs. Most of the recommended stuff from before is usually present.

- fishwire

As dirty avarage casual couch potatos, i doubt any of us has experience laying actual boobytraps. But what all of us can do is set a wire trap alarm.

Its quite easy you rig a wire through empty can caps that are still attached to said cans. The wire is thin and hard to spot, and most people generally arent looking for traps.

Place these around your place to sleep for the night, that way, of someone trips the wire and the cans make a ruckus clattering to the ground, you know someone is out there spying on you or about to ambush you, and its time to prepare to fight or get the hell out of there.

- survival books!

One thing I always see in an outdoor shop is at the very least the pocket edition of the SAS survival handbook. Search libraries for survival stuff all you want, but the SAS survival handbook is as simplified as it gets, is located in an easy to find place alongside your other gear..... Pretty damn good idea to grab it in my book

Honestly, I can keep going. On and on but go to a well knoen outdoor, sports and military surplus store and see what sorts of stuff they got.

Then think of ways to cheat the system.

Plateless kevlar tactical vests? Sure, let me grab this plastic wrapped stack of paper and use it as a plate instead. It will stop a knife to the paperplate chest in a combat scenario atleast, and might be more effective than a backpack for maneuverability.

......See a pharmacy?

Look through the drugs, pop some painkillers that dont thin your blood before the game begins so you can better push through the pain of various forms of bodily harm, grab some antibiotics to down the moment your cut, then drench them in alcohol or anticeptics. Your buddy is losing his shit? Anti depressants.

Know a drug that is banned under doping / performance enhancing methods according to sports regulations? Have a look, it's probably there.

Don't have that killer instinct? Want to let your buddy move on painlessly, or you can hardly think through mind numbing pain but can survive the scenario if you stay put? Morphine.

Need to stay healthy? Grab those hardcore vitamine b and d capsule supplements. Etc etc.

If you feel safe enough to raid the place anyway, then be sure to read the disclaimers and instructions on whatever you grab. Some meds sound almost exactly the same and a single letter is all that differentiates the.

......observing your target location

...Like less of an amature.

1. Dont stand anywhere that creates a profile of human to your background, like a skyline.

Arisu the mc in the series and his climber gf made the stupid mistake of standing at the edge, out in the open with binos. They were likely spotted by guards who then send in a team to ambush them, because they stood there too long.

2. Blue, Grey or Green Poncho's are your best friends

Human eyes easily recognise human shapes, camouflage is primarily about breaking up humanoid shapes. Using a poncho, curtain draped over you like a wannabe casper the ghost, a help break up your human outline and reduce the chance of being spotted.

3. Observation locations

NOT THE ROOF, NOT AT THE WINDOW.

A common mistake due to television series BUT modern sniper doctrine has you move to the back of the room you're in as visibility deeper into the room from the outside becomes poorer due to the refractions involved.

If your outside, this means your best hiding spot is in the back of a dark alley, instead of at the closest opening to your target.

And if you have to be an idiot and watch from the roof where your silhouetted against the skyline, do it with your back, planted to the roof access stairwell. That way, the main shape will be a square, and as rediculous as it sounds, unfolding a carton box and spraying it concrete gray like the access point and gluing onto your bino's would actually break your form up better than your poncho or sheet in that situation.

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I almost started to add ambush 101 tactics in here, but decided against it. This article is getting waaaay too long.

I hope yall enjoyed this article / informative rant and didn't suffer as much as I did fighting against my horrible spelling correction...

Hell... it tried to make me write Alive in Boarder Land instead of Alice in borderland.... So sorry for any poor grammar on my phones part. ;p

Have a nice day and comment as you want!