Wilderness Adventures, Tuesday

[imafuturist]

Class was once more outside of the school, out in the woods where the 'skills' being imparted on them could really be used.

"Okay, so today we're going to learn another valuable lesson," Tony said. "Starting a fire. Safely, please."

"Fire is important for cooking food, staying warm when you're stuck in the Alps in February, and apparently for warding off dinosaurs when they show up on this island because that made sense," Steve muttered.

He learned that fire could scare dinosaurs from cartoons and movies, kids. Don't trust that.

"And sometimes you won't have matches or lighter fluid on you," Tony added with a sigh. "Which happens here sometimes. It's a thing. So, we have some methods for you to try."

"Since you all seem mostly well-versed in wilderness lore--" were they hearing "better at this than two guys born and raised in New York?" because that's what Steve meant, "--pick one that you haven't tried before."

A roar came from the woods nearby. "--And we'll be on the lookout for predators."

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Re: Make a Fire

[howareyanow]

Of course Wayne had tried all of the suggested methods before, and to varying success, so he did take maybe a moment to see if he could just glare and squint a fire into existence (listen, you wanna tell him the whole world was plunged into some nonsensical prehistoric world and there were talking dogs and blue aliens here and it was suddenly illogical that maybe he could now make fire with his eyes? It was worth a try, bud). That was clearly not working, though, so he stuck with the good old rubbing sticks and bark togeher method, fanning it out when it started to get some smoke to encourage it to catch on the tinder, and then maybe using that to light up a dart while he was at it.

They were outside, ain't no reason to get excited.