I'm kinda like Jesus, but not in a sacriligious way

[Bottlerocket 205]

So, as an antidote to the rampant Pking/shoot on sight behaviour which has overtaken DayZ, I thought I’d go help some unarmed noobs.

The plan was simple – load up with food, drink and medical supplies and head to the coast west of Cherno and find newly-spawned players to help out. I made a decision not to take weapons, as I assumed I’d just get shot once I handed one over.

I set up camp on the hills overlooking the coast between Komarovo and Kamenka, near the

area around the large industrial building/dock, looking for people without guns in their hands to help.

Here’s how it went!

Edit - Long post this, but it covers three different write-ups - about nine tales in all. On a side note, actually doing this repeatedly is quite difficult. It's a long wait for people to come along, and you do encounter hostiles too. Getting enough gear to hand out means gearing twice - another great way to meet hostiles. For every successful write-up, there's been about three deaths on my part.

The third (and probably last experiment)

1) I was in my noob-spotting post, when I saw an unarmed char running up the coast. As usual, I sprint down the hill, and adopt an intercept course to catch them before he runs into Komarovo or the docks. All works out well, and he stops when I approach, walking now with my gun lowered, saying 'friendly'. But wait - as I get within a few feet, he goes prone, flinging his hands out in suplication.

Despite all my best efforts, he refused to communicate, or pick up the gear I dropped, or even stand up... I'm doing the 'Jesus' thing here, but I didn't put myself in danger like this to be worshipped, so I drop a couple of steaks, shout GEAR HERE and wander off. He never said a word or got up from the ground.

2) I hadn;t really been paying attention for a while, so I missed 'Newco' running past. The first time I saw him he was on the roof of the dock building. I was debating going to help, but by that point he had a hatchet, and I didn't fancy fighting him on the walkways or the stairs inside the building if he turned nasty. But fate intervened.

Before I could make up my mind, Newco ran around the edge of the roof - really right on the edge - to the other side, failed to stop properly and fell to his doom. I watched a zombie below casually saunter over and begin eating his corpse. Yes. They do that.

Goodbye, Newco - you died as you lived.

3) This one was a classic. I was scanning the area with my binos and noticed a survivor lying prone on the end of the dock, armed only with a hatchet. So I go down, sneak past the rather large amount of zombies he's spawned and begin my tale. Turns out he was called 'Joffrey', and didn't speak much English.

Now, any Game of Thrones fan will know about Joffrey, and I was debating putting a bullet in his head on name terms alone, but I held off :)

Despite the language barrier, we established that I was a friend and had come to help. Unfortunately, I'd gone from prone to crouched and aggroed some zeds while I was talking to him, and they were now blocking the end of the dock.

There was only one thing to do - dropping my aid parcel of food, drink and meds in from of him, I said I'd lead the zeds off so he could make a break for it.

I go into batman mode - throwing a smoke grenade to draw them off then running out into the middle of the yard in front of the docks, firing off my AK to get the zombie's attention.

And boy, did that work - It ended up in a running battle against a horde of 15 Zs, which chased me all the way back up the hill. I finally made it, limping, bleeding, down one mag of AK rounds and another smoke grenade - with 11 fresh kills to my credit and a lot of confused Zs in my wake clustered around my smoke bomb distraction.

I scanned the dock through my binos - Joffrey and the supplies were gone. Good luck, my friend....

Edit - The second experiment:

1) I was on the hillside, watching for noobs coming along. I spotted one who had clearly been overwhelmed by the horrible fate that awaited him, and had killed himself on the spot.

Later on, I saw a figure sprinting along the coast - his name was Dave 2.0. While he paused to get his bearings, I ran down and started walking towards him, with my gun lowered. I got real close, and was just saying 'friendly', when he took off like a rocket! I gave chase, but I'd clearly scared him beyond reasonable thought as he ran into the zombie-infested industrial area, so I had to break off pursuit.

I later saw 'Dave 2.0 has been killed' on my monitor. Sorry, Dave. I only wanted to be your friend :(

2) Later on, I spotted another survivor trotting along, so I broke from cover and intercepted him before he could get into danger. I think his name was 'Orbitalpro'.

He was pretty pissed off and wary, having just been Pk'd, and I was roleplaying a bit which must have confused the hell out of him, but I convinced him I wasn't the enemy and gave him some meds, food, a water bottle and an unloaded Makarov.

I was just debating whether to give him a hatchet as he was heading to Balota, when .... BAM. I was headshot by a sniper behind me. Thanks, random arsehole.

I hate snipers at the best of times, but it's pretty lame coming down to the noob spawning areas for your prey. Oh, well - that's the risk you take doing the Lord's work.

Orbital - I hope you got away and looted my corpse. I came to give you gear, and hopefully you got more than I bargained for :)

Here's how the first go played out:

1) Spotted my first noob-in-need running towards the nearby village, and sprinted down the hill, eventually matching his speed on a parallel course.

I was getting close enough to him, shouting ‘Friendly here’!, when he aggroed a zombie and sped off up the hill. Aha! I thought – I can save him from getting eaten!

So I ran after him, taking pot shots at the zed and another one he aggroed. But for some reason he didn’t stop to let me catch up with him :(

It was hilarious – we looked like the most absurd foot-race ever. He was out in front, tearing through the woods, while two zombies sprinted a bit further back, with me bringing up the rear, blasting away with my AK.

Eventually, I killed the zeds, but the survivor didn’t wait to speak to me. Thinking about it, I can’t blame him. Looking over his shoulder, all he would have seen was two-bloodthirsty monsters and a survivor taking pot shots in his direction.

2) Back on the hill, a little later on, I saw another guy making for the industrial building, with a horde in pursuit. I set off again, and spot that he’s been chased onto the roof.

Perfect! I thought – I’ll kill the zeds after him and lead him to safety. I had to stealth a bit to avoid aggro myself, but I made it down without incident. But I was too late .... all I could hear was buzzing flies.

You see, before I could help him, the poor noob had JUMPED TO HIS DEATH! Yes, gentle reader – so terrified was he of imminent zombie dismemberment, he threw himself off a three-storey building, not knowing that salvation was around the corner.

I sighed, and made my way back to my lonely perch.

3) I was about to give up, when I saw three guys running down the road. This made me worried, as I assumed it was three bandits on the prowl.

But no! It was another survivor being chased by two zeds, and running right for me. What happened next will stay with me forever. I dashed down the hill like batman and ran past him, throwing a smoke grenade at the zombies’ feet.

This distracted them, and I caught up to the noob and led him up the hill to safety. Success! I gave him morphine, a steak and a full water bottle, told him to get off the coast and head north, and went on my way.

I have to say that this was wizard fun. Scanning for survivors, worrying about zombies, keeping an eye out for snipers (I did see one), and the excitement of ‘first contact’ was among some of the most engaging gameplay I’ve ever had. Just throwing this out there to show that you don’t have to be a murderer to get a hit out of DayZ.

Edited August 4, 2012 by Bottlerocket

[Egor190 14]

I had a experience like that, except I was the guy being chased. This was when sidechat was still around. Guy had a bunch of nice gear, M16/203, all that stuff, and I free look behind me to see him following me and this tail of zombies I had. I dodged around a bush and shot him in the head when he came around the corner. In side chat he explained he was friendly and was just trying to help which made sense because he could of taken me out with that M16 from 300 yards away. One of the few kills ive ever felt somewhat bad about.

[Bottlerocket 205]

That's why I made damn sure I only apporached unarmed guys.

[yahhzoo 10]

Man you are like Jesus. That is amazing. You are a kind person and I hope bandits don't mess you up while you are trying to help people.

[KaeSlick 0]

And like Jesus you're gonna get yours one day.

[Bottlerocket 205]

And yea, it came to pass - Should have mentioned I got myself shot on my way back north to get more supplies.

Doesn't bother me, though. The real fun in DayZ comes from getting gear after starting with nothing. And as soon as I'm geared I'm doing it again!

[dph314 2]

And like Jesus you're gonna get yours one day.

As EVERYONE in this game will. The point is= doing something fun with the time while you have it, like the OP is doing.

[Bottlerocket 205]

Updated first post .... think I should have a third go?

[Sterling (DayZ) 22]

Only if you record it and put it on Youtube!

[Redshift 58]

[Bottlerocket 205]

Thanks, Redhsift! I so want that emote to replace the salute one!

[Redshift 58]

Thanks, Redhsift! I so want that emote to replace the salute one!

Hehe so do I :)

[N0DemonZ 17]

That was a good read ! Keep it up and I hope you post some more !

[Ragdrazi 7]

I have to say that this was wizard fun.

Wizard fun?

[SponceUK 24]

Fantastic :D

I've tried to do thing kind of thing before but the only successful attempt was with an armed woman who was apparently in need of blood. She had blood so I gave her a transfusion and some steak and then headed off into the woods. As I left her friend turned up and they followed me for a bit, I watched them and stalked around them but her friend was just changing his clothes and needed cover :)

Was a lot of fun

Edited July 12, 2012 by SponceUK

[Bottlerocket 205]

"wizard fun".

Yah - it's a 1950s English public schoolboy's term for amazing. Like, "ripping", or "corking". "That was a wizard apple crumble, matron" one might say. Or "Shrewsbury gave Smeaton a wizard rollicking during latin prep this morning."

It's fun to use old words.

Edited July 12, 2012 by Bottlerocket

[Wargunner 55]

Awesome job.

I made a decision not to take weapons, as I assumed I’d just get shot once I handed one over.

Now these are the players I do not wish to help. You never know when you might be helping a troll without a gun. But it's just too hard to tell.

Really good story though, keep it up. :)

Edited July 12, 2012 by Wargunner

[William_Munny 12]

That is absolutely brilliant.

I properly laughed out loud reading that and i'm deffo going to give it a go when I return south!!

Nice job.

Can you please give info on what kind of role playing things you were saying?

Edited July 12, 2012 by William_Munny

[Nitram (DayZ) 7]

Honor and Respect to you.

[Bottlerocket 205]

Can you please give info on what kind of role playing things you were saying?

Thanks for the nice remarks. I kinda rationalise this by assuming that when the infection struck, it came from the south and everyone moved north as refugees. But the sickness came with them. So when you awake on the coast, you're really one of the last few refugees hoping to find sanctuary.

Now, my char's job was to be a refugee co-ordinator. But everyone's dead, excpet bandits and survivors - and the last few people coming from the south. So she's gone back to try and help them out. She feels it was her duty.

So far, so good - but try explaining all this in text chat, while staying in character, and at the same time reassuring someone you're not out to kill them.

I'm sure someone, somewhere, was giving their monitor the blankest of all blank looks.

[Ragdrazi 7]

"That was a wizard apple crumble, matron" one might say. Or "Shrewsbury gave Smeaton a wizard rollicking during latin prep this morning."

Are you from Hogwarts?

[Xykotic 4]

Kinda like Jesus? In the way he told his followers to murder and steal in his name?

Sounds like a bandit to me, shooting on sight.

[Bottlerocket 205]

Thrown up another update to this - probably the last.

[Atanar 31]

I am a way better person than you. I put up a tent at Kamenka with frag grenades.

[Bottlerocket 205]

I am a way better person than you. I put up a tent at Kamenka with frag grenades.

Hey! That's a good idea too. I've done stuff like that, though. Sometimes I'll just go down and drop a pile of goodies and mark it with a flare.

Once, I left a pushbike :)