Storytime!
My character started off with the standard risky and dangerous stories, like being stuck in the middle of a mall and not noticing that it was nearing sundown, or stumbling into a rat infested cave. Only these few initial incidents forced me to cheat my way out of them, due to their closeness to the start of the characters' life (i try to stop cheating by day 7) and status as being completely stupid. So i managed to get lucky and find some crash sites with CBMs my android could use, including utilities. (started with solar power and blood
analyzer) Near the end of the first 7 days, i got a welder and some vehicles, and went to creating a new vehicle in front of a gas station, in the street, because the quad i was using managed to stick a gas pump BETWEEN its front and rear tires.
Broke down that quad, walked to get a replacement motorcycle and another quad (put the quad inside the bike) drove back and built a custom four large wheel 3x5 tile 2.5L four gas tank and totally armored (except large wheels) dune buggy i guess?
I see a lab on the map that's across a bridge and nearby, so i think "Why not go there and increase my CBM battery limit?" Mistake #1.
The bridge was crawling with triffids and fungaloids due to a nearby heart/spire, and i didn't find a gasmask yet. Going at 30 over the bridge i barely managed to avoid impact with MULTIPLE small grove-like areas that were created by triffid queens on the bridge itself. Fungaloids never breathed on me, but when i entered the lab after a successful electrohack use (i had no lab IDs, but 1 electronics skill from all the previously installed CBMs and 2 Computers from How To Browse the Web) i immediately ate the first royal jelly i saw anyways. After clearing out the second lab level i was running low on food (34+ water!) so i was forced to leave soon. Opposite the lab was a mineshaft which i quickly explored and found it was a spiral cavern, and that the lab finale being an extradimensional monster pen including a flaming eye that opened a path into that area from the mineshaft's second to last level. So a few extra CBM batteries, mineshaft metal frames, and extradimensional creature kills later, i leave the area for good with my vehicle having a few more storage attachments and attached machete blades in front of the forward wheels.
Not wanting to go back over that hell-bridge i came over on (even though i have a gas mask now from the mineshaft) i decide to go south which has a house next to the road. Mistake #2.
The house was in a swamp, and i sleeped on the bed on the ground flood level because there was no basement. I awoke to the sound of the glass being shattered by a giant frog, accompanied by some giant insects and a giant slug. Needless to say i got the hell out, jumped on my ride, and hit 0-60 in 3 seconds. Several bugs splattering their guts on my windowless boardless vehicle later, my running shoes dissolved from acid spit. But it gets worse. Before i even reach the bridge, before i even leave sight of the house, i run into a minefield which i just barely manage to stop in front of and go around just fine due to a lack of nearby trees. Once i'm over the bridge, it happens AGAIN with another minefield; but this time going significantly
faster then i was before. So i pull the hand break... And for the first time ever in cataclysm, the vehicle skids out. I move left to regain control and i do. I stop totally, and find that the minefield surrounded by forest on both sides. And blood sucking insect friends closing in fast. And because of the pain from acid while i was skidding out, my 10 perception has been reduced to 8, concealing the mines again. I step on one on my second step away from my vehicle.
So i'm thinking, this is it, my character is dead. But he isn't. I end up using all of my first aid on the scene and eat 3 codeine, kill 10 bugs with one of my two USP 9mm's (+silencer +expanded) and some frogs with my SKS (+extended barrel +silencer) before finally getting back in the seat and SOMEHOW get the hell out of that deathtrap without getting blown up. Probably because the forest wasn't so horribly dense on the side of the road as i feared it would be, despite having to hit a small tree and underbrush anyways. So i hit 50 again going south to outrun these damn bugs and
i just keep running into them, in fact, i 6 of them were literally lined up in a row. One of my machete blades can't take it and flies off. "Nope i ain't stoppin' fuck that." because my health is still light red and yellow. I don't stop until i hit a parking lot with a motorcycle in it and the bugs finally give up the chase 5 map tiles away from the last swamp tile. I ditch the vehicle in the lot and shamble over to the nearest house with a down basement sign on it, which turns out to be a grow op special basement. I wait an hour with safe mode on for any followers, then chew through some 7-9 of my 45-stack of bandages healing myself, and another codeine to fully heal myself before taking two sleeping pills and sleeping the rest of the night away.
I was literally
holding my breath the entire time during and after the second minefield.
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Topic: Cataclysm: A Zombie-Survival Roguelike (Read 1263610 times)