𝙇𝙄𝙆𝙀 𝘼 𝘽𝙇𝘼𝘾𝙆, 𝘽𝙇𝘼𝘾𝙆 𝙎𝙊𝙍𝙍𝙊𝙒, 𝘼 𝙎𝙏𝙊𝙍𝙔 𝙊𝙁 𝙎𝙐𝘾𝙃 𝙒𝙊𝙀

The gun shops are a bust. Completely ransacked. There are stores that look like they had sections with guns but they're also gone. So I'm currently breaking into what looks like a guard precinct. There are some weapons here but they're in bad shape and practically antiques.

[His voice squeaks a little in indignation on the word "antiques" at the sheer, pitiful oldness of it all. Of course he'd think projectile weapons were lame and out of fashion. Aside from being less functional, it's so uncool, having to hit stuff with little metal beads instead of high speed photon bursts. Like, okay, it's kind of cool people figured out how to shoot little metal bits into each other with nothing more than chemical propellant and a prayer, but he just prefers huge ammo reserves and larger bursts of damage.]

[Ugh. He's so put upon in the stone age times.]

I found a gun here I can maybe fix up if I can find some metal machining equipment and files. [He's found a decommissioned NYPD S&W Model 10. It's a little rusted and pitted, but still mostly intact, and it's obvious from the way he holds it and stares down the sight that he's stared down the sight of a gun many a time.] Preferably powered, but with the right tools, I can even fix it by hand. It'll just take forever.

[An odd bit of expertise for a 14-year-old boy. Usually, it'd take years to get that kind of metal-working expertise and the ability to restore something that damaged and broken.]

It's a manual, chemical based projectile weapon with a revolving chamber. I think I saw a thing meant to let people speed load these in one of the gun shops though. Like where you could pre-fill a round clip to drop in? I bet I could make more of those clips.

So question one: Anyone know how to make ammo for these? Or can their weird new powers do it? 'Cause it'll suck if I have to figure out how to make that too. I can figure out something to trade in return.

Question two: Anyone know where I can find some metal-working tools? Like facilities or shops on Earth in this era? I've been to New York City before but this is like seeing it in prehistoric times. The gun stores were wiped and I don't know where to find super-old stuff here.

[For instance, he has no clue that some schools have metal-working classes, but logically knows that some kind of institutions with that kind of thing might exist. He knows unfamiliarity with the era means it'll be harder to find without asking.]

And three: does anyone want anything fun from evidence lockup?

[He holds up a baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire.]

It's mostly wiped out but there are still a few goodies left.

[He looks around and nods his head approvingly at the clear and obvious signs of humanity's tendencies towards lawlessness in this time. Not all of it is grim, either; he's in a section that's mostly just confiscated, improvised weaponry or dismantled booby traps. Not all of it was necessarily used in commission of crimes because it wasn't sent off to any forensics labs. Just a handful of things that might be useful against the monsters, pre-modified so people don't have to find a bat and hammer their own spikes into it, for instance.]

[Past New Yorkers were such a creative people. He sounds impressed at the incivility:]

Humans from this era knew how to party.