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Two Sentence Horrors.

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I started to suspect that "Geiger Counter" was not old German for "Gold Collector", as he had said.

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[–] Zikeji@programming.dev 12 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

It means neither. It's a commonly used term when roleplaying post-apocalyptic scenarios to denote "before the apocalypse". So OPs scenario is survivors of an apocalypse lead to believe a Geiger Counter is a gold detector.

Edit: to clarify, the "fall" it's referring to is the fall of civilization