Karma- So I decided to check the forums everyday since I got the game and read stories. There was this post about someone looking for a friend to play with and I hit him up through pm's a few days later we hop in ventrilo together and join the same server. I had to kill myself because I was trapped all alone way far away, he was up near Devil's Castle watching a helicopter crash site for me to loot because he was already decently geared. I respawn outside of Electro and just decide to run North as best as I could. An hour or so later I finally see Devil's Castle but not him. A few moments go by and he tells me "Hold on a second there is a guy here.". Then a few moments go by and "How do you talk ingame?" I respond telling him how to change to direct chat and talk. I hear a gunshot ring out and his name pop up....died. I instantly turn around to where I heard the shot and ran towards it, when I finally see the helicopter I heard a voice come over comm. A sniper in a ghillie appears in front of me. I tell him that he shot my friend can I get his stuff? He leads me to his body and I loot everything as50, m9 sd, food, etc and when I do he tells me to drop them aiming the gun at my face, I do what he says and ask him if he has a blood bag because I was dieing of thirst and a zombie attack. I did what I could from my friends supplies, stopped the bleeding and refreshed myself with food and drink. I kept trying to chat with him and he says hold on a sec, I wait... and there it is a 4x4 truck spawns right at the top of his head and falls killing him. I instantly panicked looted his body and got my friends guns and any ammo the guy had and left the server. I assumed he was a hacker and would teleport back to me shortly. I got my friends AS50 back along with 6 nato clips for it since he only had 1. Friendly Fire- After the episode with the hacker we decide to meet at Devil's castle so I get out of Day Z and guide him to towns and whatnot with the Dayzdb.com map. He finds a ghillie and other things, at this time it is late and we decide to call it quits and that he would get to Devil's Castle the next day. Next day comes and we meet at the castle I give him his gear and we then decide to raid the airfield which was an experience. He got in position to scope it out while I reconed into the air strip for gear with a Bizon. I'm not a quiet survivor I was running and didn't find anything in the fire station/ air tower. I run out to check each of the hangars NADDA. He then tells me to turn right and run straight to get to the barracks, middle of the airstrip shots ring out and I begin to do a serpentine pattern. BAM a bullet smacks me in the leg dropping me to the ground, zombies smacking me I take care of them and wait a few seconds (not smart on my part I attempted to bandage or I would bleed out) I get coup de graced and die. I tell my friend the position of which the bullet came from and there were at least two people. He gets visual on one with a sniper and proceeds to take him out, 1 bullet and the guy dropped. Waited for a while and the second one appears sprinting. Leading him with his sniper he takes 2 shots and the guy is dead. Now I had to make it my way back to him (ugh more traveling). I start out by raiding the Balota airfield and manage to get a PDW and later on in my travels a cz sniper. On my way toward Starry since we planned to raid the grocery for items and for food because he was starving, I stumble upon a deer stand with both a ak and an m16a2 I contemplate what to do with him and take the m16a2. Make it to Starry and meet up, we make our way to the grocery store and draw some aggro, I have my PDW out to minimize the aggro and open fire on the few zeds. One glitches through the door and my friend in ventrilo says "I shouldn't be in here" truer words have never been spoken. I flick to the glitching zed on my screen and bam I see my friends name pop up that he has died I managed to flick to his face and popped him dropping him in one shot while he was crouched. We kinda laughed a little and I guarded his body for dear life. Mean while names have been popping up frequent that they are dieing, then my friend tells me to grab his stuff and leave before I get targeted. A hacker was teleporting people in the middle of barbed wire and shooting people. Because he was getting some soda in game when it happened to him. So I grab his stuff and disconnect. Car bombs - We load up into another server, turned out his as50 wasnt in my inventory nor was his m9 sd. What a crappy night this has turned out to be. I manage to loot starry's military tents, no one was in the town surprisingly. I found 3 mags for my m16a2 some being sd ammo. After a few hours we meet up he has a train of zombies which we dispose of. I hand him what was his and my pdw proceeding to bandage him up with a blood tranfusion. Our plan was to go to starry again to raid the grocery store he spots a truck so he is army crawling to the truck while I keep a look out. He gets in, turns out it is a perfect truck and he drives away and a few zombies follow. I try to dispose of the zombies and get in while a zombie gets behind truck while I'm still trying to get in when all of a sudden the truck explodes and he dies. Once again gather what he has and loot Stary's tents for gear for him. Then head south to start traveling together again. Even through all this strife I've never had so much fun in Day Z and havn't experienced this many hackers as I have in the past few days.