We Sons Of Daley [Manhattan Blues]

Maybe think about how you'd defend the basement if an attacker were to teleport on top of the island?

Probably by running again; it's hard to get a bead on someone if they're too far away. If it came to a fight, you'd probably prefer to counter-ambush, since that's a tactic you're fairly certain both you and Alice are conversant with.

Scrounge some more for materials?

On the other hand, 'someone teleporting on top of you' tends to land in the general level of things that you've classified as 'beyond your pay grade'. Well. Before you woke up, anyway. It's like all the weird the world had for you just sort of spilled out into the last couple of days.

You take some of the fine marble dust that litters the area, and, with a little shoulder work and an hour or two, manage to build yourself a nice SAND WALL.

You also go ahead and start tossing REBAR down to Alice. She'll think of SOMETHING to do with it, you're fairly sure, once she's more topped up on energy.

Review your skills and abilities?

You're a PSYCHIC MARTIAL ARTIST who can SHOOT THINGS REAL GOOD and knows how to use a TYPEWRITER, and is SORT OF TOUGH. You LOOK GOOD DOING IT, too.

Now that your core competencies are out of the way, you're pretty good at PERCEPTION and DEFEATING IT. You've got more grasp of strategy than a novice in a nunnery. You're decent at ATHLETICS and such. You know how to JUGGLE, sort of, and can LIFT THINGS WELL. You're barely competent-to-abysmal at just about anything else, really, including BUILDING THINGS.

I can't think of much else you'd want to do to pass the time. Practice crafting?

Well, it's getting on toward sunset anyway, and you've a brace of gophers, so probably best not to burn daylight uselessly anyway.

You show up with them in hand and start up another fire while preparing the gophers and squirrels for food. Not much on them, you'll admit, but you don't eat much.

Alice looks at you, from where she had been looking over the PISTOLS. The DOUBLE-TAKES, and holds out her hand. "Arlington."

"Yeah?"

"Give me your DUSTER."

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