I mean it would be easy to choose somebody like Professor Moriarty. Assuming they didn’t gain instant knowledge of how to navigate the 21st century and/or you didn’t have to spend the 24 hours in their time/universe.
Professor Moriarty would also likely be disinterested in actually coming after you. He only targeted Holmes because Holmes kept uncovering his criminal plans. He began to see Holmes as a roadblock, and was continuously frustrated by Holmes’ investigative abilities. As long as you weren’t in Moriarty’s way and didn’t have anything to offer him, he likely wouldn’t care about you. After all, his public image was that of a respected scholar. You’d be a little fish in a very big pond, and Moriarty was smart enough to recognize that going after you would net him nothing in return.
Fine. Hop in a car, and get on the nearest highway. Every time you come to a fork, roll a die to see which direction you go. 24 hours is a long time to drive, but not impossible. And assuming a truly random path, he’d have no hope of predicting where you were going to try and head you off. Hell, stop over and rent a new car whenever you’re running low on gas, just to make things even more confusing; You’re about to win $3B, so what is a few hundred dollars in rental car fees?
You don’t win the money until after he fails though. So I guess it depends on whether or not he’s aware of the stakes. Does he know about the money? If so, it’d probably be smarter to just bargain with him and offer half of it after the time limit is up; No reason to get greedy, cuz 1.5B is still more than either of you can ever hope to spend. He gets to funnel it into crime stuff, you get to live your life in peace. You both win.
I mean it would be easy to choose somebody like Professor Moriarty. Assuming they didn’t gain instant knowledge of how to navigate the 21st century and/or you didn’t have to spend the 24 hours in their time/universe.
Professor Moriarty would also likely be disinterested in actually coming after you. He only targeted Holmes because Holmes kept uncovering his criminal plans. He began to see Holmes as a roadblock, and was continuously frustrated by Holmes’ investigative abilities. As long as you weren’t in Moriarty’s way and didn’t have anything to offer him, he likely wouldn’t care about you. After all, his public image was that of a respected scholar. You’d be a little fish in a very big pond, and Moriarty was smart enough to recognize that going after you would net him nothing in return.
Moriarty was told that if you die in the next 24 hours he gets $3 billion.
Fine. Hop in a car, and get on the nearest highway. Every time you come to a fork, roll a die to see which direction you go. 24 hours is a long time to drive, but not impossible. And assuming a truly random path, he’d have no hope of predicting where you were going to try and head you off. Hell, stop over and rent a new car whenever you’re running low on gas, just to make things even more confusing; You’re about to win $3B, so what is a few hundred dollars in rental car fees?
Careful, that’s how you end up here:
On the other hand, you’ve just come into three billion dollars of untraceable liquid assets, and would be the only loose end when he acquires them.
You don’t win the money until after he fails though. So I guess it depends on whether or not he’s aware of the stakes. Does he know about the money? If so, it’d probably be smarter to just bargain with him and offer half of it after the time limit is up; No reason to get greedy, cuz 1.5B is still more than either of you can ever hope to spend. He gets to funnel it into crime stuff, you get to live your life in peace. You both win.
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