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I wonder why a bunch of abandoned cars went down my out of the way driveway in the middle of a forest as I slowly go downstairs, sword and shield ready, yelling "Who's there!?!".

Bug report: If you shoot something, the game slows down considerably, to the point of unplayability.  To be exact, you take several turns to take each action, noticeable if you're standing on an item.

Appearance: I look anywhere from 16 to 21, apparently.  Caucasian, tall, thin, messy and long brown hair, black goatee, thick black eyebrows, black mustache, and thin-framed glasses.

Skills:
*Brown Belt in Hapkido (4 belts lower than black)
*Basic training (few months worth of it) in Italian renaissance-style sword-based combat (rapiers, longswords...)(there's this place in Vancouver...)
*a bit of survival training
*Bronze Medallion (midway through lifeguard training)
*a bit of cooking experience
*physically, I'm somewhat fit
*slightly experienced at archery
*A few months of horseback riding training
*a bit of fishing experience (minimal)
*I'm a very fast walker.  Very, very fast.
*I can stay wide awake with very little sleep
*I recently passed Bronze Sail 4 in the Canadian Yachting Association sailing courses.
*...I can sew.  Hand and machine.  Only thing that fit in my high school schedule.
*A few months of metalworking training
*A few months of woodworking training
*Experienced at using computers
*Great jumper

Inventory: Longsword (dull, though even somewhat dull swords can still cut well), large, round wooden shield, a few kitchen knives, grey fedora, black trenchcoat, short bow and about 5 arrows, dice (hey, d4s are freaking caltrops), a full bottle of melatonin (that is to say, not enough to cover the bottom of the bottle), a light sleeping bag, cheap binoculars, and some non-perishable food.

Location: 2 floor house in the middle of a temperate rainforest in a semi-rural town on the Sunshine Coast (BC).  House is slightly elevated, and touches the ground at very few points.  If stairs are knocked out, there is no easy way into the house.  Top floor contains three bedrooms, a study, and two bathrooms.  Bottom floor contains a bedroom/storage room, two bathrooms, a balcony (wood's rotting, we don't step on that thing), the giant living room, a kitchen, a mud room (only entrance to the building), and a small living room/bedroom for my grandmother.  There is a driveway with two working cars (which I cannot drive) and a non-working car (which I also cannot drive).  The town's on an utterly fucked up highway (traffic jams are constant).
Highway allows access to a few more small towns and one larger town.  Most access to my town is through a ferry.  Important buildings nearby: two grocery stores, the local mall (containing little of worth other than a grocery store), the local high school (where you can find a musket and bayonet in a socials classroom), the ferry terminal, one hunting store (sells guns, fishing tools), and the house of a friend of my family's (said friend makes crossbows).

Age: 14 and a half.

Disorders: Intolerance to oysters.  I vomit if I eat them.  Also, I'm currently using melatonin to allow me to actually sleep.  Normally, I'm barely awake during the day and wide awake during the night.  With the melatonin, I'm barely awake at all.  Also, slight caffeine addiction.  My eyes are a bit of a mess.  I can see without my glasses, but everything past about half a meter away is pretty blurry.  Finally, my right arm fatigues extremely quickly.  I'm right handed.  It's a problem.  To make up for that, pretty much all of my training in the use of swords has focused on my left arm.  I wield rapiers in my left arm and use it as the primary arm for longswords.

Knowledge: I can build a makeshift shelter in the forest, use camp stoves without destroying everything (which, as I saw at my summer camp, is a very rare skill), and identify the occasional edible plant.   Best.  Summer.  Camp.  Ever.  On a slightly less survival-focused end, I'm ahead of my grade in almost all academics, and ahead of my age in my grade.

Tolerances: I can stand blood and gore quite well.  I can stand seeing rotting things.  I can go without sleep for quite a long time.  However, I have problems getting rid of stress.  To be exact, I find myself almost unable to get rid of stress.  Also, I'm a teen, I have problems going without much food.  My tolerance to heat is odd.  I can tolerate heat quite well, until I suddenly find myself freezing in the heat.  I can't tolerate cold well.  At all.

NOTE: May edit this before game starts, if I think of anything else.

Also, we could really use more people mapping.

What are the names of the mods?

There's Complete (closest to vanilla STALKER), and there's Oblivion Lost (pretty far from vanilla, but fun), and there's LURK (where the enemies can snipe you from across the map with inaccurate pistols at the lowest difficulty level {and that's not a bug, apparently}).

That would be awesome.

How about having "attempt to break out" be another option?  Unlikely to succeed, and usually leading to a longer sentence if you fail, but if you succeed, you get out early.

I wonder whether Rawr will take any action...