The Extra Clip (or why I love this game)

[smokehy 1]

I had been farming the north airfield for a bit on my new character (after the last randomly dissapeared logging in one day), and had a nice M4 (flashlight, RIS handguard, CQB stock, bayonet, and 4 60 round magazines), plus a whole 300 round ammo box full of 60 stacks of 5.56 ammo. I had killed a few people around the airfields, but it was slow going waiting for a fire fight, so I decided to head down to cherno/electro and see if I could stir up some trouble.

 

The daytime server I was on was full, and so i was a little dissapointed when Cherno was dead, not a soul to be seen so I laced up my military boots and moved on to Electro. Right on the outskirts, I see 2 guys with at least 1 mosin standing around doing the cactus dance. They obviously don't have their weapons up, and I'm rolling in with my 60 rounds of M4 goodness at the ready, so I decide to try and be friendly.

 

I strike up an inane conversation, and they seem friendly enough. Until I learned a valuable lesson in Dayz: being punched can knock you out pretty damn fast. As I lose consciousness for the first time with my screen completely black, I hear the non-puncher say "c'mon man, that isn't cool, he was being friendly. i don't condone this" and the puncher say "hurry up and get his gun".

 

When I slowly come to, I notice that my shiny M4 is now in the hands of the non-puncher, I bleeding from MULTIPLE spots, and a quick glance at my invetory shows I have almost nothing left. Except they apparently left me my pistol, but were obviously smart enough to remove the magizine. Hmm, when I righ click it it says I can detach the magazine... before I could act, i'm punched unconscious again. I assume this time they are going to leave me for dead, or just murder me outright.

 

Nope.

 

The non-puncher revives me AND gives me a saline bag. As they wake me up for the second time, the non-puncher is trying to tell me he's sorry to steal my stuff but that's the way it is. With my heart beating a million miles a minute, i take a step back, hit the hotkey to pull out my pistol and immedietly drop the guy with my M4 with a hail of bullets. All I hear is a cut-off "WHAT THE" as he is gunned down. I quickly track over to the puncher as he is trying to run away and empty the rest of my clip into his back.

 

Fearing other people, I quickly find my rifle and get that equipped, and shakily start gathering up the important pieces of gear (tac vest with ammo, ammo box etc, my pristine  hutning scope I found) before retreating to a house quick to take stock. Feeling very lucky, and having recovered everything I start moving into Cherno.

 

And who do I meet? 2 fresh spawns running in the direction of the corpses. My assumption? The Bandits going back for their gear. I killed them again and camped their corpses for 20 minutes, but no one else showed up.

 

All I can say is, thank goodness for stupid bandits not checking to see if the pistol was loaded!

Edited January 1, 2014 by smokehy

[imperian_man 31]

Cool story bro!

[Flyer007 1]

Great story and well played!

[smokehy 1]

I've now learned from this incident to be shoot on sight, even if unarmed, since apparently being punched in the back is pretty effective.

[Flyer007 1]

Bummer on the shoot on sight.  This game is so much more exciting when you have encounters like yours above.  

 

I congratulate you on playing it out and not logging!  

[smokehy 1]

I agree, it was a harsh lesson, and I'm sure I won't shoot on sight all the time, but I think in Cherno/Electro that will be my MO!

 

And believe me, the feeling to rage log after I got punched the first time was strong, my thought was if they let me live I might be able to find them and, i dunno, punch them to death? I'm glad it worked out the way it did, lol.