I, @lturner, being of a strangely daring mind (from eating chocolate at midnight while pregnant?), choose Option 4.

• I have 1 Knife
• I need to eat by Day 4, Round 2

I'm going to post my usual discussion from my favorite @dwells and @essentialoilmom's Steem-Pocalypse Show since I don't think I should stay up any later on this.

This is the toughest riddle of the game so far. My instinct is that this is an inventory round since there is no moral/ethical choice that would indicate an easy elimination (like shooting the lady who wanted to trade...that was a quick elimination round). That being the case, the question is...what inventory can you acquire before having to run from people you are almost inevitably going to encounter in the stores (remember the grocery store two rounds ago, the vacant lot and the crashed vehicles).

Simply walking down the street seems to me the best option for people happy with their inventory so far. Since I'm usually very cautious, I'm not one of them. I did eat from the abandoned lot, but am traveling light with just a knife. Furthermore, we know for sure there was one antsy boyfriend on a roof just a few minutes ago and even though he was simply there to protect his girl, walking down a street might be riskier than it sounds.

My visits to pawn stores brings up memories of a lot of electronic stuff, collector's items...and guns. After looting, you might be hard pressed to find a gun, but that would be my guess on what inventory you could find in the pawn shop. Probably something small like a pistol would've escaped looters, though there might not be any ammo left. I'm not sure there'd be much else of use to a forest-bound escapees, such as a tent, sleeping bag, fire starter, etc. I also wonder about sewer overflow contamination of any items on the first floors of either building.

This makes the sporting goods' store attractive, all right. The question then becomes...first or second floor?

It all depends on Papa-Pepper's mindset. Like I said, I think this might be a collection round so he may allow everyone to escape alive, but someone heading up to the second floor might have to run before finding anything if there are people holed up in there. The first floor (per my recent research) seems like it would most likely have once held sporting equipment, shoes, clothing and probably guns (the draw-in items). The second floor would more likely have camping equipment and possibly less flashy hunting items like fishing lines and water purification tablets.

I definitely am concerned about the possibility of someone holding the high ground up on the second floor. However, it does occur to me that someone REALLY wanting to hold high ground would be up on the roof. With a nice tent they took from the second floor, perhaps.

Now watch me get eliminated the first time I do something mildly gutsy.