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“PFF-AHAHAHA!”
“Oh my GAWD!”
“It's a clown! A literal clown! Haha- let her go boys, we found someone more fun to play with!”
The three punks are still laughing, recovering from the surprise of your interruption of their mugging- but thankfully, she got away. That's the most important thing. Now you have a bigger problem- you're between them and their latest prey. They are getting closer now, fists balled up, grins on their faces. You aren't the biggest or most in-shape guy- but you have a certain feeling inside you. Some kind of righteous certainty. It doesn't matter that there are three of them- you know you're in the right. But something to tip the scales in your favor wouldn't hurt.
Next to you is one of the ubiquitous <span class="mu-i">Upcycling Stations</span>. Located all around level 5, these are places were trash and salvage from the upper levels are dropped every day. Other then clothes, food, and rent, which is all covered by your UBI, there is little income left over for other items or luxuries. Upcycling stations allow a craft citizen on your level to find useful tools, appliances, bits of furniture or fabric, and so on- reworking and scrapping them for valuables.
Scanning your eyes across the bin for a useful weapon- your eyes pick out a few things. First, you see a <span class="mu-i">bottle</span> of some kind of oil- a half-full type of slightly spoiled lubricant. If you splashed that in one of their eyes, you figure it would be tough to see. You could remove one of the punks from the fight early with that. Second, you see a <span class="mu-i">length of cable</span> with a small metal connector at the end- torn out from a wall socket- it looks useless for carrying a charge at the moment- but it could be useful as a whip or lasso of some kind. Third, and perhaps most promising, a <span class="mu-i">leg</span> of a chair or stool- useful now only as a small length of wood or perhaps a makeshift handle- now useful as a club. Finally, the heavy <span class="mu-i">ceramic lid</span> of a pressure cooker or some other heavy-duty appliance- a thick discus that could be thrown with great force, or maybe even a shield.
Which do you pick up?
>bottle
>cable
>leg
>heavy disc
