The Cave Survival.

[Creature]

You are stuck in a cave. It was a old mining cave and the entrance has collapsed. You don't hear anything up ahead but all you have are:
A Pocket Knife
A Torn And Sweaty T-Shirt
Shredded Jeans
A Lantern
5 Matches in a Water Proof Container
A Fire-Axe

Things Around You:
Broken Lanterns
Shards of Glass
Some Mice
Bat Guano (In other words its bat crap. and no your not in it)
A Few Rusty And Broken Picks
A Housing To the Right
A Bucket
A Thin Tunnel Ahead
A Friend (if you want you choose skills)

Things in the Housing:
Sheets
Pillows
Blankets
Clothes
A Chest Full of clothes and a never used pick
Some Dynamite
Planks
Forgotten Gold
Nails
Hammer
A Pistol With 2 rounds still in it
2 Boxes full of ammo for the pistol

Ask me what you do when you get to the next part. (tunnel ahead)

[ghdeh1]

I take a club like log from on of the broken picks. Then I go to the housing area and take two days worth of clothes. I also take the pistol, reload it and take one box of ammo and the dynamite. Using the log as a holder I put all of my items beside the pistol in the blanket and fashion it into a carrier.

*Quick question why does the housing have no food?*

[Creature]

All The Food is rotten or gone. You gotta think for yourself.

[Screwballgunnut]

Maybe I'm just overly optimistic, but considering the description, I'd think it sounds like I'd just found a good place to get a little bit of sleep in the housing. The lantern would already be lit, using one match, as trying to fumble around in the dark is no bueno, and the other lanterns would be checked for fuel. The pistol would get reloaded, new clothes put on, and a backpack would be fashioned out of one of the pillows, by cutting some long strips off the sheet and tying them to the opened & emptied pillow for straps. Both boxes of ammo, the matches, the socks in the chest, the hammer & nails and a little bit of the gold would get put in the improvised back pack, figuring on a load of about 15-20lbs. I'd also make slings out of sheeting for the new pick and the fire ax. I'd take one, my friend would take the other.

Prior to crashing out, I'd take the time to build a bunch of snares, and see just how many mice get caught while i nap, as me and my friend are both pretty good trappers. When we awake, we'd check our traps, and immediately kill, skin & gut every mouse that got caught. A small fire would be built using some of the lantern fuel to light some of the torn sheeting, and then lighting the broken pick handles, and the mice would be cooked on a spit, and eaten. From there, my friend & I would use some of the other pick handles & sheeting to make torches, and proceed from there.

Some thoughts for otherwise odd ideas: Why would I leave the dynamite? Old dynamite has a tendency to sweat, and is VERY unstable. If you jar it too hard it can explode on you, and not knowing how old it is, I'd rather be safe than sorry

Why would I take the socks, but leave the other clothes? Simple, its easy to hike/survive in dirty/ragged clothes, but wet/ragged/holey socks and life is miserable. Keep your feet happy and you'll make do.

Why am I not worried about water? Been in enough caves to know that if there is guano & mice roaming, there will be water in the cave, so it won't take long to find it.

Would you really eat a mouse? Absolutely, no different than eating squirrels, and they're TASTY!

Why take the gold? Simple, gold is one thing that ALWAYS has value. Even in the earliest civilizations, man realized it was rare, and therefore precious. Assuming I get out of that cave, I'll come out in good shape, with a small fortune to trade for necessary items.

[ghdeh1]

*I meant canned or vegetation, like growing naturally*

[Creature]

Hm you guys have good ideas. Lets throw something in. Right after you are about to go forward you hear steps. What do you do?