We Sons Of Daley [Manhattan Blues]

Try getting a fire started, old-school. Gather up sup tinder and twigs and sticks. Ideally you learned survival in training.

Not enough to know how to do most of this stuff...

You gather up some dried leaves and deadfall. After a moment, you realize you'll probably want some way to AVOID SPREADING THE FIRE, so you go scrounging outside.

There's a TUBE OF SOME UNKNOWN MATERIAL with a TWO-FOOT APERTURE. It's barely even cracked.

You take a long moment to JUDGE THE PROPER SIZE and another, longer moment to MEASURE TWICE. Then you realize that it's THREE INCHES THICK. You'd be here ALL DAY cutting it... Unless...

You're not sure when your HANDS became deadlier than your WEAPONRY but you're not about to start complaining now. Even here, you decide to take a moment to consider the FORMER PIPE holistically.

Unsurprisingly the first whack doesn't get you what you need, but surprisingly it DOESN'T BREAK YOUR HAND EITHER. In fact, it leaves a CLEAN CUT THROUGH THE MATERIAL.

It doesn't take much longer to get it free and ROLL IT BACK to your CAVE.

You now have an IMPROVISED HIBACHI.

You also have a FIRE.

Your SURVIVAL has been granted a SPECIAL BONUS.

I guess we can't thaw something so much that it catches fire, can we? No, that's for pyrokinesis.
If we're not man enough to start a fire old-school, buy pyrokinesis and free-point cast something to set it on fire. Might as well start cooking/smoking these things.

No, you cant. Luckily, it doesn't seem like you'll need to.

Otherwise go look for edible plants? Alice probably know the local cuisine better. Maybe you learned plant gathering in boot camp.

No, but you did learn it growing up on a SMALL FARM for SEVENTEEN YEARS. You don't have a lot of HERB LORE but you could spend the next hour LOOKING AROUND to see if there's ANYTHING YOU RECOGNIZE, if you wanted.

Heck, this is a CITY, there's a hell of a lot of stuff you could do, including just EXPLORING THE COPIOUS RUINS.

You still don't have an ICE BOX but that may no longer be a CONCERN.

It's three hours after dawn.

>_