And it was pretty freaking cool. Kk, back story. My friend, Alex, and I were newbies. We gathered in Elektro where we spent an entire day looting the city and hiding from PvPers. Yes, its a pretty long time to loot, but we were new to the city (And the Hospital Windows would NOT break). After looting the city, we took the advice of forums, we left the coast and ran inland. Long story short, we came to a small town a ways from Berezino. As we crept into the town, we found a dead zombie notifying us that others were near. We crept and proned our way into the town and noticed a store dead ahead of us... And right in front of the store was another dead zombie. At this point, Alex, wanted to bail. We were stacked with the best loot we had ever had: AK74, AK74 Kobra, 2 .45s, 2 ALICE Packs, stacked with medical supplies and beans galore, and lots of ammo. (We were noobs, this kind of gear was GODSEND) Anyways, he wanted to bail. I for one, didn't. We spent 2-3 hours prior walking and running through empty towns and forests. I wanted to see other people and team up with them... Or take down a bandit. I persuaded him to enter the market with me. He agreed. We decided to entire from the back of the store. We slowly crouch walked across the entrance of the store. I was leading and I didn't see anything, so i felt it was clear and kept walking around the corner- CRACK CRACK CRACK. Bullets started flying, and as I turned around, I saw Alex's body fall to the ground. I dived behind a mini trailer in the same lot at the store and frantically called out to him on Skype. "BRO. Are you dead? Are you Bleeding? BRO ANSWER ME." He told me he was just unconcious but bleeding heavily. I didn't know whether to run out and administer first aid, or try to shoot the perpetrator. Even if I wanted to shoot the assailant, I didn't even know where the shot came from. All of a sudden, a civilian in black clothing crept out into the entrance of the store with a SAW. I shat my pants a bit, and started typing in direct channel. "FRIENDLY. DONT SHOOT MAN. WE'LL GIVE YOU OUR STUFF. Just trying to get to Berezino T.T" As I was typing, the civilian saw me proned at the corner of the trailer. Without bothering to respond, he started unloading into my corner. I took out my AK and fire some shots. The fire fight lasted for less than 10 seconds when I got a lucky headshot firing on Semi. His body crumped to the floor and the system announced a newly dead player... And a new bandit kill for me. Panicking, I didn't do the sensible thing and clear the store first. I ran over to Alex, bandaged his wounds, epi penned him, and gave him a transfusion on the sport. We spoke for a second and tried to relax. Out of the corner of my eye, the SAW was laying next to the bandit. Greedily I ran over and started going through his stuff, discussing with my friend how we were going to carry this man's SAW, how we were gonna divide the loot. I called Alex over to look and he started going through gear... But this was where our greed got us. We didn't clear the store. We didn't check to see if there was more than one. And as we were going through the loot, a second "civilian" popped out of the counter door way holding a Remington. But we didn't see him. The bandit's friend stood up and emptied his shot gun into us. We were dead before we hit the ground. In just a few seconds, we went from victors to chumps. But who cares, it was my first fire fight and encounter with a bandit, and it was a pretty cool bonding experience for me and my friend. All in all, another awesome day of DayZ.