Light & comms
Rechargeable Work Lantern
Area light rather than a beam, for lighting a room instead of a path. Look at runtime on low, not maximum brightness.
Scenario
The city is yours until sundown.
The infection did not kill everyone. It kept them, changed them, and made them intolerant of daylight. The streets belong to you between dawn and dusk and to them for the other twelve hours. The hard part is not the nights. It is what the days do to a person alone.
What kills you
Darkness, and the hour you misjudge it.
Rules
The book behind it
Richard Matheson, 1954
The ending the film could not use, and the one the title actually refers to. Matheson's last man is the monster in someone else's story — a reversal three separate adaptations have flinched from.
A torch shows you one thing. You need to see the whole room.
Area light rather than a beam, for lighting a room instead of a path. Look at runtime on low, not maximum brightness.
Everything else on this list is temporary without it.
Unfolds to charge devices directly from sun. Output collapses in cloud, so rate it pessimistically.
Whatever you sleep behind has to hold without you awake.
A brace between the door and the floor, resisting force the lock cannot. Fits inward-opening doors only.
Alone, the thing that goes first is your sense of what day it is.
A sewn binding that survives a pack, unlike glued blocks that shed pages.
You will keep transmitting long after you stop believing anyone answers.
A receiver with a crank so it never needs a battery you do not have. Most also charge a phone, slowly.
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