fandomhigh | Wilderness Survival - Week 4 | Thursday Morning, A Clearing in the Woods

Callisto had two lock boxes today, rather than just one. She pointed at the first box. "Shoes."

Then she pointed at the second box. "Now your clothes. Everything except your underwear."

After everyone had removed their clothing and placed it in the box, Callisto continued "If you spend a prolonged period of time in the wilderness, then it is more than likely whatever clothing you were wearing at the time will come under a considerable amount of wear and tear, especially if it wasn't designed for the environment you're in. The results can be… unpleasant to say the least.

"Luckily, it is possible to repair, and even make clothing from items found in the wilderness. Animal skins, some kinds of tree barks, vines, sinew. The possibilities, if not endless, are at least more varied than you'd think. Even luckier for you, I'm not making you hunt and forage for the raw materials.

"I think you can guess the rest of today's lesson. Use the materials I've provided to make garments to replace the ones you were wearing before. I know the equipment might be a primitive compared to what some of you may be used to, all bone needles and stone knives, but well, you'll just have to deal.

"Get to it," Callisto said. "And as an extra incentive, you're not getting your clothes back until next week, so make sure that you put a decent effort into the clothes."

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Bridge looks over the skins, selects a few, and starts to work sewing them together with a needle and some sinew.

"I'd say this is getting ridiculous, but who knows?" Janet glared at the skins. "Maybe we'll get stuck in Locker 327 for a year and need the knowledge."

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Bridge nods. "Or stuck in an alternate dimension or something," he adds. "It's happened before."

"Tell me about it," said Janet. She peered over at Bridge's sewing. "So what are you trying to make?"

"I was going for pants," Bridge says sheepishly, "but I cut them a bit too short so I think they'll end up being, ah, shorts."

"Shorts are still good," said Janet. She looked down at her pile of furs. The stitches were almost, say, surgically precise. "I'm making a bikini. And a sarong. If I'm going to look like a refugee out of a prehistoric dinosaur movie, at least I'm going to look like the sexy cavegirl." She eyed the bone needle dubiously. "Or I'm going to try."

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Bridge grins. "I'm sure you'll look great," he says. He holds up his own creation and makes a face at it. "Me, I'm not so sure."

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