>Search for any weapon
You look around your apartment, which is basically just your bedroom and a small kitchen. In fact, it's barely an apartment: it's actually a small stone hut in the middle of the desert outside the city. You like the sound of "apartment" better, though.
You take some time to light an oil lamp and search for a weapon of some kind.
In the corner beside your bed leans an old lutar, a combination lute and guitar. It has a long neck with eight strings, and a fairly hefty body, carved from hard wood. You pick it up and give it a few test swings. Honestly, it will serve you better this way than playing it, which you don't know how to do.▮