Day Z: Persistant world zombie survival mod - Page 48

I spawned just east of Cherno, TJ just west of Elecktro... close, but between the two places I knew I didn't want to be. About this time I realize I've made a terrible error... this is a first person only server XD, but we're men, so we tough it out. We headed down the coast towards each other, feeling slightly cheesing running along the beach like a bad romance film, but we met up with no issues and headed north strait away. We investigated the little town at the foot of the mountain, found nothing but zombies, but we were starting to feel a little better about the controls and our leet stealth skillz (lol).

We headed up over the mountain and ran into some powerlines which we decided to follow west, keeping to the treeline. As we travel I spot a body under the powerlines. Suspicious, but salivating at the thoughts of phat lootz, TJ crawls out to the body and investigates. Nothing but beans. Slightly saddened but still determined, we continue on and end up at Prigorodky where we finally saw some buildings we could likely loot, which was pretty fantastic seeing as we were still in basically starting gear. I take the lead, because for some reason TJ seems to think I know what I'm doing despite him being by far the better FPS player, and we approach cautiously. Crouching, then eventually crawling into the first of three closeby building. It looks like some sort of stable, and after a quick search we don't find much of interest. TJ decides to check the last room while I head for the barn with the red roof, crawling to avoid zombie aggro.... I failed. One zed sees me, runs up and manages to smack me before I can get off my three makarov shots. Giving up on stealth for the moment I hop up and run into the barn, heading up a staircase to funnel zombies. I take out a couple more zeds, far less than I would have thought would come running, but it appears we're 'safe' for now. TJ comes into the barn and checks the west side of it as I'm already checking the east side. I don't find anything so I move on to the last barn. Right as I find a crossbow, TJ tells me he's found a Winchester, which to our noob eyes is a jackpot! On my way back to the barn to get the winny I pop a zombie with the crossbow to try it out... which one shots it! How awesome! I give TJ the crossbow and a few bolts, I take the winny with about 4 clips, and move back to the treeline to continue on our powerline following adventure.

After scoping out the small dam, at which we found nothing, we continue on west and come to the compound north of Vysota. TJ's itching to try out the crossbow so he takes aim... and whiffs 4 bolts. He quickly drops it and takes the winny we found in the little gatehouse of the compound. Meanwhile I go and scope out the stables and once again, jackpot! A fancy new czech backpack nicely delivered to me by some dead guy! As I'm looting I somehow manage to aggro a zombie, which the winny dispatches, which aggros like 8 more zombies... that the winny also dispatches. I'm feeling like a sexy shoeless god of war. We check the final barn where I find a hatchet, but not much else of use. So now, both loaded with winny's and with plenty of food and water, we head out west once more, deciding to follow the southern powerline when they split.

We arrive at a powerstation where we see some zeds. Feeling godlike we decide to blast our way through rather than just sneak around. It goes fine, I start with the rightmost, TJ with the leftmost, and we take down the 4 zombies in our way. This is when the first reality check kicked in. Suddenly, zombies are spawning on top of us, a couple at a time. We gun them down, but more spawn, and more, and more... I give the command to move out (Fuck... just run!) and we sprint off to get out of the spawn zone. By the time we dispatch them all we're both at around 6k blood and coming up on buildings I've never seen before in my streamwatching. We dispatch a few military zeds after accidentally aggroing one that was hiding in a tree and then move into the compound. From my guestimate, we should be near the airfield... but none of this stuff looks familiar...

We search the small compound (about three buildings and a couple crashed hummers) and find practically nothing (I think we found a smoke grenade and some M203 ammo). We move on, find a road so I can reorient meself, and what do I see down the road but military tents! Now I know where we are, I explain to TJ that this place is usually a bit of a hotspot, but we decide to brave it anyway in hopes of phat lootz... erm, survival gear. We approach without issue and climb over the sandbags. TJ goes to check the tents while I check the corner towers. I find nothing, nothing, nothing, and then TJ announces that's found a body... with stuff. I crawl over to check it out with him and it was like christmas in that tent. AK74 with red dot (well.. technically green) and 3 mags, matches, compass, map, knife, 3 bloodbags (two of which we used immediately), and a slew of other goodies. He takes the AK, I take his extra winny mags and then quickly head over to scope out the last tower. I'm quite nervous as it seems like we've been here forever, but we make it out ok and decide that well, we're here already... might as well check out the airfield before we head north.

We creep along the treeline until TJ spots a rusted out truck near the airstrip. He sprints over to it to get a better view of things and I continue to creep along the treeline. Suddenly he says he spotted a nametag north of the airfield... my heart starts pounding immediately. We've yet to see anyone alive, and NOTHING has been said in chat. No disconnects, no deaths, no talking... just nothing. He loses sight of the tag but sees a zombie headed towards where he lost it, so he decides to wait to see if it aggroed before moving from the truck.

The first bullet whistled in and TJ immediately turned and bolted for the treeline... the second bullet took him in the back and dropped him unconscious and bleeding. I sit, frozen like a hare in the treeline trying to get TJ to tell me how much blood he has left, how long the timer has before he can make it to the trees, etc. When I finally get the info I know one thing... he's not going to make it. There hasn't been a shot since the first two, so there's really only 3 options. Either a) he ran out of sniper bullets... unlikely b) he lost sight of TJ when he fell behind the truck... somewhat likely give the angle we think he was shooting from, or c) Admiral Ackbar... most likely. Still, I'm not leaving him to die. I begin to crawl towards the truck, my heart in my throat knowing I'm his only chance at living...

I never even heard the bullet, but it took me from 12k to -9k instantly. I died before TJ bled out.

We respawned on the same server, now re-realizing that we are noobtastic at this game but addicted beyond belief. I spawn at Kemenka, he at Cap Golova. Like a boss he makes the run through Cherno and we meet near Balota. We try to raid the tents again and nearly die to zombies. I end up out of ammo, he ends up with 2 bullets. Naturally, there's nothing in the tents. So, no ammo, low supplies, middling blood, we decide to check out old bodies in case for some crazy reason they weren't looted. I crawl out to check the gear on one body... it's all there. I quickly steal everything, crawl back tot he trees and TJ goes and takes the stuff from my old body. Now we're rearmed!

We immediately circle Balota and then head northwest, checking a few (empty) deerstands and making our way towards Zelenogorsk for the super market. It isn't until we're crawling down the dirt road towards the supermarket that anything really happens... and that happening is bad. We're crawling along, surrounded by zombies, and I mention to TJ that the AK I now have is quite loud, so if we do aggro some zombies it would probably be better for him to take them out with his winny. About 10 seconds after I say this... I hear a shot behind me. A zed had been heading for us and he got nervous and popped him. I look around and see about 6 more zeds coming, he takes out a few but has to reload.. with even more coming... I open up with the AK. At the end we've got about 40 dead zeds and I manage to bandage myself with about 600 blood left. I can't see a damn thing... We hurry over and loot the SM, getting another czech pack and not much else... completely not worth it.

We hit the treeline and head north, TJ kills a couple rabbits which, couple with some cans got me up to where I wasn't passing out constantly, but I still could barely see and had the shakes like no one's business. We finally get to Pustoshka, hitting up the fields along the way in hopes of a cow (no cow) and TJ Solid Snakes his way into and out of the supermarket without any issue. He finds an Alice pack, a winny to replace the AK that I no longer have ammo for, and a few more scraps of food and drink. At a loss, we move on to more deer stands so we at least have an objective while we're searching for cows.

TJ checks a few deer stands, finding a whole lotta nothing. This whole time he's forced to protect me from zombies as I quite literally can't make them out until they're hitting me. So, as I'm sitting by the ladder of a deep stand I here TJ yell excitedly "COW!" A word that I'm sure neither he nor I have ever been as excited to hear. He kills it (apparently 2 makarov clips and a winny shot) we cook it and both get back up to around 8.5k life. Thus ended our first night of adventures, with the server quickly turning to the utter blackness of night we logged.