We Sons Of Daley [Manhattan Blues]

Look around for anything edible you could kill and gather. Might as well try stocking up on some food while we wait.

This is an excellent idea; and soon enough you have a few deadfalls set up for whatever else might be burrowing around here (suicidal as that might be for little animals as it might be for you).

Take the badge and inspect it more closely. I'm just curious.

The paint has long since chipped off in the winter, but it's a vaguely circular badge. It still has raised letters on it, faded with time and weather and sun: ST_T_ _O____E. It almost crumbles in your hands. It's almost certainly a fake, but at the same time, you turn it over and over in your hands, carefully looking at the latch-pin, and then making out the number at the bottom square:

9 9 9 9.

Try to ID some of that fungus.

You're not sure about this one but it looks like it's connected up with the IVY somehow.

One of your DEADFALLS go off. Dinner, therefore, has arrived, if it didn't give a false positive.

Nope, that's a dead GOPHER, all right.

Well, okay, maybe that's not really DINNER.

But where there's one gopher there's generally more, so you're pretty confident you'll be able to get enough to feed yourself and ALICE.

You also grab some MINER'S LETTUCE.