We Sons Of Daley [Manhattan Blues]

Look around for something you can use for a pot. Or something you can karate-chop into a pot. If you can find a suitably pottish object, boil the fish in said object. Otherwise, rig up some sticks so you can let the fish cook over the fire.

Eh, it's not that hard to find a GRATE and put it over it, that's why you now have an IMPROVISED HIBACHI instead of a SMALL FIREPIT. You do go ahead and gather some more FIREWOOD and a few METAL SKEWERS, though. This takes about ten minutes.

Then pick a direction. Scratch out a little note telling Alice where you're going to be and go exploring/foraging in that direction. Of course, we can always telepathy her when we our radar tells us she's back, but y'know. Just in case.

You write a note down on some PAPER. Situation being what it is, you're still not some kind of CAVEMAN. She should be able to notice the note.

You roll a die, deciding to head SOUTHEAST.

EMBROIDERY SERVICE SHOP

This is one side of a small mall, that fronts along a large RESIDENTIAL AREA. It faces what used to be a ROAD, but you can't tell which one, merely that it was there; the bloom and the intervening years have turned it into a large MEADOW, which heads to the NORTHEAST and SOUTHWEST.

Inside, ROOTS and IVY cover everything. Old SEWING MACHINES, bent and broken by PLANT LIFE, lay disused. A SORT OF PRESS THING is similarly bent and broken. MOULDERED SHIRTS lie in piles, where NEW PLANTS exist.

OLD GROCERY STORE

This used to be a grocery store. you can tell because now it is a DENSE GROVE of FRUIT TREES, mostly APPLE and other plants SUITED TO ROCKY SOIL. You could forage here, if you wanted, but it looks like the local animals are pretty attracted to it.

DAY CARE

... Nothing here but a graveyard.

OLD RESTAURANT

This old restaurant seems to have a lot of broken glass and METAL everywhere. The food stores, of course, are long gone, taken in the looting, and if you feel like risking hitting a pocket of NATURAL GAS or STORED MAGIC, you could see if there's anything here of use (though it might be a little unlikely).

It took you ten minutes to get here. All these options would take about thirty.

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