Stories worth sharing (while waiting on maintenance)

[Death By Crowbar 1213]

Figured while waiting on maintenance I'd share a recent story from a day or so ago. With over 700 hours played and plenty of time on the forums I know many have shared such stories before but figured I'd pitch in my own recent one for a maintenance window read.

 

The New Kid

 

I was on a nearly full pop 40 max server on Stable in Svetlo looting the police station and apartments looking for clothes, food, and mosin ammo. I had a minimal recent spawn kit but had gotten lucky finding a fire ax in the piano house and a backpack somewhere else. As I hit the corner apt with the restaurant downstairs I hear punching and zombie growls - someone is attempting to punch a zombie. I poke my head out into the street and see 2 zombies at a window and inside I see a bambi trying to punch them through the window.

 

Me: Need help?

Bambi: Yes please!

 

... was a kid's voice, middle school or early high schooler at best. So I ax the two zombies like fish in a barrel and he comes out and thanks me. His name was Maxax ... or something like that, he told me he got DayZ SA about 2 weeks ago and that I was the first person who didn't try to kill him. I laughed pretty hard at that. I also cried a little inside - here's a new guy who's only run into one way to play DayZ, it was a golden opportunity to show him a better way and have some fun.

 

Me: Want to loot together, safety in numbers?

Maxax: Sure, I'd also like to hit up an airfield, never been to one before.

Me: Alright, there was a sporter in the police station, let's get that, check a few more buildings, then we can head to NEAF even though it's been nerfed, it's close.

 

... great, he runs into the Police Station looking for the sporter I saw on the 1st floor. I stand guard outside while he loots. I notice a guy running down the street, he's got an ax, a rifle on back and one in hands. Oh great, this will get interesting. He runs up to me and stops, shouting, "Be cool, be cool!" At this point I realize I'd had my ax raised the whole time from killing zombies, so I lower it and say, "Oh sorry, forgot I had this up from killing zombies." At that instant he raises his rifle in hands and fires once - I get hit but not bad, in the arm or something I think. I strafe to the side as he shoots again, and he hits me again - but it must not have been a good hit because somehow I'm still standing, although I'm bleeding and my vision is already blurry. He fires 3 more shots all missing while I try to put an ax through his head - finally one ax swing hits and he's instantly dead. Maxax comes out to find me standing over the corpse, I'm assuming he was hiding inside the whole time. The jerk had a Carbine with 2x5 mags in hands and a Mosin on back, with ammo for both. Maxax gets himself a fresh mosin (with ammo!) and I take the Carbine into hands.

 

Maxax: This is cool.

Me: What is?

Maxax: This is the first time I've gotten a gun WITH ammo before getting killed.

Me: LOL... I think we're ready to head to NEAF!

 

After patching up and eating some we truck off SW towards NEAF. We arrive, hit up everything and see noone - but there's a corpse with gear in the ATC, Maxax gets a full backpack of assorted stuff and food, he's pretty stoked.

 

Maxax: Hang on a sec. How do you take a screenshot again?

Me: F12. Why?

Maxax: I've never been this geared up before, taking a pic to show my friends!

 

Good times. Once out of the ATC I make a fire because we're both freezing and plus he'd never made a fire before. Maxax was the one with the matches so I made the firekit and got the wood but let him do the honors of lighting it. The fireplace kit was glitched up ontop of the root of the fallen tree, so the fire is about eye level in the air which is hilarious and we laugh about it. We then head off to Krasnostav and I show him the little room on the top floor of the Hospital that sometimes has guns, and there's a Longhorn there. Maxax gets to try out his first scope, and as luck would have it he's got ammo for it (same ammo for mosin). I camp out in that top room as Maxax guards me.

 

This was a good day to be a survivor.

 

Maybe there's one more hero in the making. The choice is up to him...

[jukaga 271]

Good on you for showing him the ropes. I've been burnt several times trying to help out fake noobs so I'm pretty wary of doe-eyed 'please help me' kind of people these days and keep the interactions at a bit of range and short of length.