Well, going from the source material, you will almost<em>always</em>find something useful when you need it...since it would be a pointless exercise in sadism for me to throw you into the soup without any means of defense.<br/><br/>I'm saying not to worry,<span class="bbc_u">as a player</span>, about whether or not your character will be able to arm himself.  The character can worry all he wants.<br/><br/>(The manner in which DRYH handles things is something I still occasionally mistake, but I've been racking up some experience as a player in another game, which is how I found out I was Doing It Wrong...)