Water & food
Manual Water Pump
Draws from a well or tank by hand. Rated by lift height, which is the number that decides whether it works at your depth.
Scenario
Dawn of the Dead
You are safe. That is the problem.
You got inside, the doors held, and the supplies are genuinely enormous. What nobody warns you about is month three, when the walls are the same walls and the people are the same people and the food is running out slowly enough to argue about.
What kills you
The siege, and everyone inside it with you.
Rules
- 01Ration from day one, not from day thirty.
- 02Everybody works. Idleness is the real infection.
- 03Decide the rules while everyone is still reasonable.
- 04Always keep one exit nobody has discussed.
The kit
5 itemsThe mains will stop before the food does, and nobody plans for that order.
Sanitation ends more sieges than starvation. Nobody wants to discuss it beforehand.
Shelter
Bucket Toilet Kit
A seat, a liner and a solidifier. Unglamorous, and the alternative is a sanitation problem indoors.
Month three is a psychological problem and this is a psychological tool.
Absurd
Playing Cards Set
Fifty-two pieces of paper that generate hundreds of games and pass an evening with anyone.
The doors that hold are the ones somebody decided to lock on day one.
Shelter
Padlock Heavy Duty
A hardened shackle that resists cutting. The shackle, not the body, is what gets attacked.
Boring, dense, and still edible when the interesting food ran out in week two.
Water & food
Bulk Rice Storage
Long-storing staple grain in quantity. Sealed food-grade containers and a cool dark place do most of the work.
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