Sugar Jakobs

I haven't written anything here in a bit, due to my partner having not been around for a little while. Having made friends with one of the admins on a private hive that I log on to, we both decided to do something silly since we didn't have much else to do. It took around half an hour for things to happen, but I think it was certainly worth it! We arranged for another 5 or 6 players to join us, the admin took to his power usage and turned each of us into a dog. We then prowled the island, scaring survivors with barking into side chat and other such nonsense! If I had enough space on my pc, I definitely would have recorded the ridiculousness of it but alas I still have a bunch of other gameplay to sift through before deleting.

Spaghetti.

I actually like side chat. It helps me find people that are in need of help and such - though of course bandits can use the same information. But doesn't that make it fun too - knowing that there will be those trying to ruin your day? Just ruin theirs instead!

Now try working off -60k humanity.

My partner and I, after 4 days of searching, managed to get our hands on a couple of helicopters that had been sitting around on Skalisty island. The first was a little bird, which we used to find some more parts and then hide in the forest after we'd fixed up the russian, which we decided to use for fun since we didn't feel we needed two choppers. At first, all we did was fly about in it and pick up people who needed lifts - most of which actually didn't shoot at us, which was cool B) As the server restart drew near and we set the chopper down for the remaining ten minutes and such, I noticed that a person had mentioned on side chat that this was the first time that they'd ever played Day Z before. Now, seeing as I'm a total badass, I decided that my partner and I should go show him some fun. My partner got some software working in which he could stream his audio through his headset - then set off to the bambi, flying over the town in quite possibly the loudest helicopter imaginable. Now, I'm sure this was awesome in its own right for the bambi, but the fact that Jimi Hendrix's All Along The Watchtower was being played from the helicopter itself and a couple of fully-geared survivors were manning the beast of a vehicle that had come to pick him up from the zombie-infested town was probably what made his night. We flew around, pretty much just showing him bits of the map and having a general good time - not too fussed with teaching him too much too quickly, as I'll most likely go and give him a 1-on-1 lesson or two later on. So there we have it. We picked up the brand new bambi in a chopper, playing some of the greatest hits from the vietnam and world wars, while he sat shotgun in the chopper. Got him a tiny bit of gear, but mostly just kept him close to give him the best possible experience for his first time in the mod.

After spawning in Electro with a friend, we set about getting geared up before heading off north to find ourselves a vehicle. After grabbed an M16 with an undermounted grenade launcher and a HE shot for it, we looked outside of the inner firestation to find that there was a little bird simply sitting at the brick house nearby. Being the impulsive curiosity that I am, I decided to check it out - only to get shot in the back immediately. Now on less than 4k blood, I sprinted off after regaining consciousness (he was a bad shot apparently) and fled to the shoreline. My friend ended up being sniped from the shore, as the guy who had shot us (or who we think had shot us) changed position to on top of the roof of the brick building just east of the hospital. I didn't even know you could get up there. My hands were shaking with pain and the light-headedness from the blood loss was making it impossible for me to get a good shot on the ghillie sniper, who was about 150 meters away, only poking his head up. I mentioned on side chat that there was a sniper in electro, on the particular roof and a couple of guys I knew had a helicopter decided to come check it out (they'd shot me just a few minutes beforehand, as a fresh spawn in kamenka). The ghillie turned and started shooting up at the heli, which gave me plenty of time to load in the HE grande into the tube and take aim. Just so you guys know; I had never fired one of these before, so I knew absolutely nothing about the trajectory or damage it would do. This literally was just a "I wonder if this will hit?" moment! Firing it off, I watched impatiently for the half a second it took for the ghillie to suddenly explode in a shower of dust. The grenade had landed perfectly on his position, killing him instantly. If there ever was a time I could laugh like a menacing psycho path, this was definitely it.

That is just your preference. You've already made it abundantly clear that you prefer violence to be the answer above all else.

Not all people who take hostages kill them afterward. I, for one, don't. In fact, they typically end up with better gear than they had before I came along - because they eventually earn my trust by not being stupid and attempting to kill me with their less than advantageous positioning. Please, don't be stupid. I don't want to have to lose humanity or waste ammunition on a person who could have actually benefited from talking to me instead of just turning around to try and kill me.

Seems more like someone who got that gear illegally, friend. Also, a DMR doesn't need 12 magazines!

Actually, I do have a story to keep you guys entertained for now! In a previous story, I mentioned that I had been shot by a group known as HAAB. I failed to mention that the friend they then took captive was in a skype call with me. They continued feeding me information about their whereabouts, in case I had the ability to come back and try to ambush the guys that took them - sadly, I was having a lot of trouble gearing up that time around. Luckily enough, another friend of mine logged on soon after - who was then able to chase them down and start ambushing them as they tried to fix up an SUV. Now, this would have been an awesome event full of treachery, deceit and much death but... My friend completely failed. It was actually quite entertaining. He ambushed them a total of twice, damaging one of their vehicles a little in one and only managing to kill a single person the second time. That would have been fine, save for the fact that the single person he'd killed was our informant. So all-in-all, he successfully did nothing, only to bleed out later from a lack of water. Suffice it to say, I laughed really, really hard at him. The informant later went on their TS channel, to prepare us for another ambush on them at a later date (getting their trust first was crucial supposedly). They made it so that their TS was being broadcast through our skype call, meaning that my friend and I could listen to their chatter - the most prevalent topic being about Sugar Jakobs, the hacker. The player who managed to get shot in the back, then come back 15 minutes later to fail to ambush them twice with full gear. The thought that these guys had absolutely no idea that there was a second player was actually hilarious. Anyway, I'll keep adding more stories for your entertainment!

Hey guys, just giving you an update! I haven't been able to get much gaming done the past few days due to personal reasons, but in the time I *have* had I managed to find a new friend to partner with. We're currently working on getting a heli up and running, which we'd use to most likely help bambies here and there - or find bandit camps and screw with them some. I'll be sure to add yet more interesting experiences as they happen, so don't worry!

I am usually found on US 659. A few of those guys hang around on there.

After losing my gear to a hacker that spammed at least 50 shots from his pistol into the area surrounding and my body, I came upon a bambi while leaving Electro. I tried showing him the ropes and leading him to Cherno to find some quick gear for him, though it soon came to light that even though I'd been chatting to him through direct chat for the past half an hour, giving him pointers and tips and whatnot - he apparently couldn't hear me. That was irritating. We made it to cherno to meet up with a guy who claimed to be able to help us out with antibiotics and such, which the bambi needed. When we found one another, I dragged some of the aggro away and broke off to try and give them some breathing room - no such thing happened. The idiot lead the bambi straight into a cafe and up the stairs, with at least twenty zombies on their tail. Knowing that this was not going to end well, I ran in after them and tried clearing the stairs for them, shouting in direct chat for them to move on to another building which had more than one exit - only to then be swamped myself, whilst the two were arguing inside. What an absolute fiasco! After spawning again, I notice a guy running around - glitching here and there but certainly moving much too fast to be a normal player. My suspicions were confirmed when he called out my name, even though this server did not support the nametags option, meaning that this guy clearly was a hacker. Long story short, he ended up guiding me to a broken down Ural near Cherno, where he asked me to wait patiently whilst he fixed it up for me and the bambi, who respawned there. The guy we'd met up with was still alive and kicking, though now lacked any ammo for his weaponry. He met up with us again there, the ural soon being fixed up. Just as it was fixed up however, he put a bullet in our heads with his makarov, after having stuck with us for almost 45 minutes. Now, I understood why he did this; the ural was a great motivation for betraying us... The only thing was that he logged out immediately afterward, meaning that there was literally no point other than just to fuck with us. A few minutes later, the hacker drove up to my spawn with the same ural (he could see everyone on the map) then drove me up right to the top of the map, then left me the ural itself with a little bit of gear inside. However on the way there, I started losing blood to sepsis and currently don't have any wipes. Now, with less than 3k blood and nothing to show for it except for a hand-me-down ural - I slowly bleed to death in the middle of a forest. All in all, I think it is safe to say that I got nowhere, today.

Oh forgive us, Lord of the Internet - what with your ever-lasting connection that could never possibly drop for any feasible reason! Please, guide us on the path to glorious hardcore gaming, you humble bundle of insecurities. Back on topic; I have successfully held up a couple of people in my experiences. It has never been for looting reasons however, merely to be assured of my safety and their own. Who knows? I might even have some gear you'd been looking for spare? Anything could happen in Day Z - some people with hurt egos simply ignore this fact.

No, the first of the two definitely saw me, especially seeing as I had a group of about ten zombies aggro'd on me for the entirety of this conflict. I later was able to chat with the guy who got away, who didn't seem all that angry with us - he *did* get a ural out of it, after all!