- From a box where they store it ... ok, but why would they store it in the first place? I mean, again we are on Nautiloid ship and we just got our own tadpole ... that means that we are either becoming Mind Flayer, wich dont use weapons ... or we are becoming thrall, respectively food some time later, wich dont need to be armed as we stated abowe ... or we are becoming a True Soul, wich are meaned to infiltrate important positions and work from there ... ok, this last option could use a weapon, but is it really safe to keep it close before we are brainwashed? Nope its not. :-/
- Just laying on the ground around our pod ... ok, but same problem as with the box, what reason in hell would anyone have to after wasting time with disarming us, just to keep the weapon laying around anywhere?.
To be fair, mind flayers *do* wear armor. so it's not unreasonable to find a box of different armor types. And as shown by the many pods, they've been collecting (and maybe transforming) people for a while, each of whom might have--and thus leave behind once transformed--gear including weapons. The MFs might keep these weapons to sell or maybe even give to humanoid thralls.
Regardless of the reasons, the MF ship is the tutorial level of the game, so I'm strongly in favor having a box of equipment with pop-up tooltips to help incoming players understand the different types of weapons, armor, and proficiencies, as well as customize their loadout.
