In which my trip to Balota turns out badly for everyone

[bfisher 561]

To set the scene, I've been playing on a private hive with extra vehicles that sometimes spawn with non-offical Dayz weapons. Nothing crazy, but enough vehicles you can pretty much get one when you need one, some bikes at the more isolated spawns and non-standard weapons like the KSVK anti-material rifle in my pack (which ironically, can't be fired while wearing the pack making it wildly impractical). At this point I also have a ghillie suit, silenced M4 with the dot sight and a silenced pistol plus all the supplies and gear (except, oddly enough, a hunting knife).

I decide to hit up the Balota airfield to try and find some STANAG mags because I'm running low. I recon the base for awhile from a hiltop to the north. I don't see much except for a UAZ on the road heading off towards Cherno and some side channel chatter from some Bambis in Kamarovo looking for a ride to Balota. The sun is to my east so I decide to circle around and approach from that direction to give me an additional advantage over any snipers. So far all this is pretty stealth.

On my way, I find a UAZ jeep sitting on the road. After a few minutes of verifying that it's not a trap, I take the UAZ and decide I'm going to storm Balota with it from the east. I stop at the east end of the runway to set up with the KSVK to make sure all is clear. So far, nothing around except for a bus, a Ural truck, some and some motorbikes. Not ususual on this sever as I said before.

All of a sudden, everything goes to shit...

While I'm dicking around with my giant gun, I see two UAZs heading directly towards me. I'm not set and rather get caught without my pack and M4, I switch back to them, put the sniper rifle back in the bag and get back in my UAZ to get the hell out of there. The two other UAZs manage to catch up and pin me between them. We all come to a stop and jump out of our trucks.

These two jackholes are straight-up bandits with scarfs and AKs and everything. We start firing and I hear 7.62mm rounds wizzing past me. What the first bandit DOESN'T hear is the sound of my silenced M4 playing some chin-music on his face. He goes down. I run around the trio of crashed UAZs and reload. I see the other bandit trying to crawl under one of the jeeps to take a shot at me, so I give him an encore performance.

I'm pretty psyched since I just killed two bandits. Unfortunately, they prefer the cheap Russian crap, so no STANAG mags, but I did get a hunting knife off them. I probably should have hid the bodies, but maybe some Bambis these idiots would have killed will now have a chance in life.

And had I left it at that, things would have been ok...

That's when I se ANOTHER UAZ. Now I don't know if this guys is with them or not, but I can't take any chances. I turn to get into one of the crashed jeeps, but then you might recall that Ural I mentioned earlier. It's not far, so I hop in and give chase. First thing I do is smash through the pile of UAZs because I can. Then I chase down the other UAZ. I'm blasting the horn "FRIENDLY!" but he beeps back "FUCK YOU DUDE!". I chase him down the road bumping him a couple times then let him go.

Later I meet a girl!

I'm driving the Ural up and down the road between Cherno and Kamenka, Maximum Overdrive style. Basically blasting the horn and smashing into anything I see. All of a sudden I see a girl getting ready to hop on one of the Bambi Bikes the server spawns near Kamarovo. Instead, she decides to jup in my manly truck and I think "Great! Now we can repopulate Chernarus!" I'm not sure if it was monsterous blood-soaked ghillie suited visage, my crashing into a telephone pole trying to turn the truck around or maybe I actually spoke that last part over side chat, but she jumped out of the truck and probably broke her legs. Ah well..better to have loved and lost:(

And now everything really goes to shit!

Saddened by the end of my relationship, I'm driving back towards Balota when someone opens up on me with a freakin machinegun! Possibly from a helicopter! I start heading cross country but both me and the truck start taking some serious damage. The truck is no longer drivable and my legs are busted so I flop out and switch to the KSVK, using the truck for cover. With all the pain and blood loss, I can't see shit. But no one is shooting at this point, so I grab my pack, inject some morphene and blindly run the heck out of there.

Sadly I lost the KSVK without ever getting a chance to fire it. But I am glad I didn't give the last of my morphine to that girl!

Final tally:

2 bandits dead

1 female Bambi really fucked up and probably going to die soon

3 UAZs and 1 Ural destroyed

Multiple other vehicles damaged or destroyed

Most of my STANAG ammo gone

Lost my KSVK sniper rifle

I'm in pretty bad shape physically (and emotionally).

I did end up finding a hunting knife though!

[bibbish 49]

I found that amusing, nice story!