Lesser of two evils / Helpful Info

[Chronos Blackburn 149]

This story is another reason why I love this game.

 

Today after we realized the North was empty and after figuring out:

 

1. You have to clean your wounds with either; disinfectant wipes or Alcohol

2. Charcoal (spelled wrong) pills are what you take when you're going to vomit

3. Antibiotics (two types (that I know of); Broad Spectrum Antibiotics, and the kind in a bottle that you have to inject with a syringe) are what you take when you get sick.

3.2 antibiotics are NOT an INSTANT FIX, you have to not strain yourself, and you have to drink water, LOTS of water, and eat lots of food. Never let your person be hungry or thirsty.

4. If you fall and your guy grumbles and complains, he has an injury, if you don't clean the wound you will get sick, you must also bandage yourself or you will just die. (refer to notes 3, and 3.3 for more info)

5. Taking Vitamins helps you not get sick

 

IMPORTANT: This is only a guess, but I'm pretty sure its correct.

 

If you're guy ever says he is "thirsty" or "hungry", its not good. By the time those messages start popping up your; Hydration/Energy/Health are already at 50%, you have to over eat, and over drink to keep yourself healthy, if you see any messages at all your guy is unhealthy, and more easily injured or more easily becomes ill.

 

This is not the DayZ mod, so you can not run everywhere, or you get the messages "I feel faint, my head throbs, I feel unsteady" and with those messages, you get hungrier and thirstier easier, and you can get injured and get illness easier. STOP RUNNING EVERYWHERE, learn to walk... or at least take breaks.

 

Moral of the story, Over eat, over drink, and stop trying to job everywhere, learn to double tap shift and walk... or your going to die.

 

[/end of rant]

 

Anyways back to my story, after making it all the way North, and finding that no1 else had made it up there, at least none that we could find we decided to go down and share our knowledge with fresh spawns.

 

We made it back to Cherno and right outside of town we saw a small gathering of people, there were 5 guys, 1 had an M4 the rest shovels and axes and hammers with a mix of civilian clothes.

 

Those 5 guys had about 10 people handcuffed outside of town, and I noticed they were bringing more people to their area in handcuffs.

 

me and my other 4 buddies were all completely geared out, cammo clothes, vest, helmets gas mask, M4's with about 100 bullets each, we decided to intervene.

 

We snuck up to a bunch of bushes and a tree about 20 feet from their group (was odd we didn't find any of them pulling security, I mean this is DayZ).

 

We decided to watch and see.

 

All of them, including the ones capturing these people were using in-game chat, that meant these bandits were apart of an in-game pick up group. That was odd, what was also odd was that only 1 had a gun, and no random hero had come by and freed these people.

 

Turns out they were trying to figure out how to work the medical system, a couple of them were sick and they thought taking blood from these guys would cure them, when 1 died they tried to figure out what happened through more trials. None of them realized there were different blood types, or they just didn't care and knew they were dead anyways if they didn't get some more blood.

 

After 1 guy tried to escape the one with the gun was about to shoot him, then I killed him. My friends and I shot down every person who wasn't hand cuffed.

 

We went to the people hand cuffed and they were appraising us. We then realized we needed blood... We blood tested every person who was hand cuffed, took blood from each of them, took other essential things from them (like food, half of a map, and a can opener) and told them to hit Q and E to get out (we didn't have hand cuff keys) And we left.