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Originally Posted by Ghostdancer
1. I think he's saying that fires simply won't ignite or go out due to some supernatural force.
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I can accept that.
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2. At most an hour? LOL. No, dude. I've seen someone spend 3 hours using a pump drill in a swamp to get a fire going in 40F weather. Firebows are even worse when dealing with damp kindle or firewood. Granted, that may not be the case because you have the materials in a shelter out of the weather, but that seemed like a blanket statement about primitive firestarting.
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Sure, and I once struggled all day and failed. It happens.
I was just rather responding to the notion that it's faster to walk for half a day (or more) to the next town/manor lord's residence for fire than to try to start your own. I'd imagine that even in a medieval town/hamlet/farm area at least one residence would try to restart their own fire rather than admit to a neighbor
they let their fire go out*.
* Which ranks right up there with
losing your hat or
not knowing where your towel is.