>>12734906Let me see... quarterstaff, longbow and hunting arrows, a sling and a pouch of pebbles from the shore. Good to go.
You may take away all my physical implements. But as long as I'm allowed outside with a piece of string and some cloth, I can find some flint, make an edge, knap some arrowheads, and make a bow that'll bring you down silently at 30 yards.
Weapons are not dangerous. Ideas are. The best weapon is one your enemy does not know you have.
Read your Lofty Wiseman and then read up on the prisoners in Colditz - what they were able to build and make while under armed guard in prison is nothing short of genius. You can kill a human with half a sharpened clothes-peg. You don't need bangsticks.