Elektro and a full server

[InflatedLyric 39]

I had to check it out. I usually play when 10-15 people are on and I run inland find a small town for food and that will get me to NWAF. Then I spend 8 hours gearing up and looking for every possible upgrade. Never having any player interaction, until I am so tired of creeping around that I just start running. Running until I can run across someone else's screen and then get shot at. This validates my existence, I am not invisible! Unfortunately, this also inevitably gets me killed without any actual interaction.

My thought was, I would hang out on the coast never really gearing up by my 8 hour standards, but just see what player interactions I can have. Elektro just happened because of my spawn point and I knew people would be there.

The snipers on the hill set the tone, I had quickly found some decent loot in the fire station; however as I climbed too high in the tower, I started taking fire. In a panic, I tried to crouch and take cover, but was forsaken by my knees. As my chest and cheek met the floor simultaneously, I felt a four letter expletive slip past my lips, but that is were it disappeared. My heart pounding and thoughts racing, I prepared for the end; but as I watched and heard the bullets hit all around me, something comforting came over me: they have no shot on me, a bullet cracks against the bottom of the window. I contort my body and move toward the stairs and I watch a shot land on the stairs a few feet below me. As if this shot signaled the start to a race, I spring to my feet and sprint down the stairs and out the back door. The building provides a brief bit of cover and I feel grateful to be up on my feet running even if this person, at my back, that doesn't even know me would wish me dead. As round after round finds nothing but dirt, I find myself tickled and contemplate how long I could keep this up, do they have the ammo to keep wanting me dead?

I decide it best not to tempt fate and simply continue to run further into Elektro. The gun fire gradually fading. I am finding some good stuff in the city, but there is still a ringing in my ear and it constantly tells me that I should flank the sniper. My inexperience tells me that I will only die, but try as I might I could not convince myself the right thing to do was run away and live another day. For never having flanked anyone, much less never being on this hill in Elektro, I think I did a really impressive job of coming up on his six. I dropped my food and purple pack, it would make me harder to detect and I would not be delivering him food. I creep closer until I can start to see down the hill.

I can tell from the lack of a view over Elektro, he has to be further down. I see an obstacle now, I was not expecting. An infected guarding his six? I think to myself, how can that even be fair play? Then simultaneously as it occurs to me I should have brought more than a pistol and I wonder if I can just sneak around, the infected turns his head, let's out a shrill cry, and starts coming right at me. My plan is broken without an alternate. I decide to run in circles and frantically look for the sniper. Realizing even then it was a bad plan, but it was the best one I had on such short notice. Before long, I heard the familiar sound of his weapon discharging and the crack it made as it hit the dirt surrounding me.

We all know how this ends, I know you were hoping for more, but I cannot be your hero. As it turns out I am not bulletproof.

[InflatedLyric 39]

To be continued...

[pinkdino99 13]

reason 6,142 why this game is awesome already