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While Ishmael gets the fire started, you take a loon around the interior of the living room for a few moments. You point to one of the windows for a moment, noting the scratches on the glass. "Won't they break through the windows pretty easily? They're already getting damaged."
"They could, they could. They tend to go for the door more often, though. I think the lights might bother some of 'em. Not all of 'em, though." Ishmael replies, pulling up a stool and manning his spot at the fireplace now.
You can already see a few creatures flitting around in the darkness out there. It's unnerving, and you feel vulnerable. Too vulnerable. "I'm going to see if I can block the windows off...make it a bit safer in here." You say. "Do you have any materials for that?"
"I put most of my resources into reinforcing the basement. I might have some left over down there, I'm not entirely sure. You definitely don't want to be using the firewood for the job, though - like I told you before, it's all <span class="mu-i">wet</span> so it smokes real good. Wet wood makes for poor carpentry. And dry wood doesn't smoke so good, so I don't keep much of a supply of it around."
"Right. I'll take a look around, then. See what I can do." You reply. The main floor doesn't really have much you could directly block the windows off with, unless you wanted to dismantle some of the old man's shelving or stack cabinets on top of tables. Neither of which you think would do a particularly good job of blocking things. The couch isn't a viable tool to block things with unless you want to sleep on the floor for the next week.
There's a bigger shelf in the back, and you're pretty sure some standard bedroom amenities upstairs. You trudge through the house to find the basement entrance, a simple set of stairs leading down to a particularly thick door with steel sheets bolted in place in front of it. Descending the stairs and opening the door, you see that the inside is that of an older wooden door with steel bars stretching along it for added support, thickened hinges, and a deadbolt twice as thick as the one on the front door. Funnily enough, it also has a dusty glass viewhole to peer out into the stairwell with.