Previously I simply coiled the metal strips and stopped them wrapping them with fabric, obtaining a really basilar shins and forearms protector. Now with the new braided rope I secured them more firmly in a criss-crossed fashion. The chest armour undergone similar overhaul.

- It sure made them look like a life saving vest...

Ignoring my own remark, I put them on and checked the result, focusing on the menu sphere and than on the status.

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The results were more than encouraging, and some really surprising. I expected an increased defensive capability but to double my initial def value and even add some attack... 

- Maybe the increased hardness in hitting with arms and legs?

Well talking to myself will not help so, happy with the result, I continued the preparation for an eventual attacker. To be honest I continue also to satisfy my inner desire to forget the situation and drown my doubts in manual labour.

Next I tried to sharpen more the knife and also to fix a better grip for it. Slowly and firmly rubbing the edge, with one of the metal cubic connector, solved tolerably good the first problem. Hitting the grip into shape and then wrapping it withe the rope solved the second.

Checking the knife value with the status gave me a satisfying +5 in atk, but that made me think... If a really simple knife have almost half of my attack value... Are my stats really that relatively low?

Having nothing to compare my stats with is really frustrating but, for good measure, I'm going to consider my starting status values low or medium.

Anyway, the rope made from the sheets fabric revealed to be much more useful than predicted so I started working to braid the last intact fabric into ropes. While I worked on it I started to think of more useful stuff. One of the last pipes can maybe become a spear for mid range fighting, never used one but I've always read that even a non trained person can fight with less fear if the weapon have longer reach.

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- The last pipe can maybe be bended to form a small shield? The bolas idea to use the three square pieces is still full of holes...

While muttering I ended making the rope and started working to flatten an end of a pipe by hitting it with the bigger piece of metal. Folding the flattened end on himself was harder, but still gave me a pretty pointy spearhead.

Bending the last part of the bed frame revealed impossible with my actual means, so instead I folded it in four part and secured the new obtained zig-zag pipe with the new rope. The string-handle was wobbly but better than nothing.

Like I grumbled before the idea to tie up the tre square connector with ropes to make bolas, was really not realistically exploitable. Not only because I wanted the remaining length of rope to be free to use, but also because the last pieces of metal could be used in probable future project.

Also I wasn't sure of the effectiveness of my rope to restrain someone or if I was really going to be able to it anything for the matter.

So equipped with everything I created until then, and feeling like a post-apocalyptic/steampunk poor basic adventurer, I invoked the "avatar stats" hud window.

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Now that I'm prepared at the best that I can I think it's time to go forward.