An unfortunate occurance

[Bell Pepper 1]

I'll start with this: my squad had a small, remote camp with about six tents and four vehicles; the tents had nearly everything you could think of inside of them that we couldn't hold ourselves.

Right, so this is how it went down...

Our squad consists of 6 people in total. At this time, only 2 people from our squad (including myself) were on because the others live on the other side of the Earth and were currently sleeping. I decided to go on a vehicle hunt and asked the other squad member to join. He said he didn't want to go right now and so I went anyway. On the east coast I noticed a boat through my binoculars and went over to it. Since it was stuck, I thought it would be a good idea if I went to Steam chat the other squad member to push the boat with one of our tractors into the water. He said he didn't feel like it. I kept trying to convince him to come help me. Little did I know what was about to happen next...

I re-open the game to find an armed man crouch-running towards the boat. I froze for a moment as I knew the animation for exiting the boat was lengthy and that I would be shot and killed, so I decided to wait in the boat to see what happens. He shoots me with his pistol. At this point, I exit the boat and I am killed.

I tell my buddy what happened and that he should go kill the guy and rescue the boat and my supplies. Again, he refused but this time he left the game. "Don't feel like it."

I respawn in a nearby city. I spend about half an hour regathering some supplies to go back and kill the man there myself. When I finally make it there, he is gone and the boat is still stranded in the same area. I realize that our camp is now left unprotected and start heading there. When I finally make it there, I see a group of 3 bandits raiding our little camp. I try to be stealthy but one notices me and I start backing up to find cover and make a shot at them without being out in the open, as they were much more heavily armed (from our tents) than I who had just respawned not even an hour ago. Obviously, they kill me again. I give my buddy an update and, you guessed it, he still refused to help out.

I can get over the fact that I've been killed and have lost my things; it's fun enough rolling with my buddies of my squad. However, I am not exactly happy about my partner's decision not to protect anything for our squad and I do not know how many things the bandits decided to leave at our camp which now needs moving; the rest of the squad would be very disappointed if our vehicles were taken and our camp demolished; especially when it could've been prevented... We used to roll like total bosses in one of our four-seaters playing the ice cream truck song in the Direct channel... I question whether this particular squad member is an asset to our squad or not... I haven't seen him shoot a single bullet at a person and he always chickens out during combat that isn't with zombies...

All I can say is "oh well." If our camp isn't in a suitable condition tomorrow, we'll have to find a different server and make a new camp with all new things and find new vehicles... When I think about it at the end of writing this, it doesn't seem all that hard; we accomplished all of this in a matter of a few days... The only thing I'm worried about is my squad's reaction to our vehicles being stolen...

We were so attached to them that we even gave them names. Here's the list:

Adam (Old Hatchback; named after someone we've killed on several different occasions)

Chrik (GAZ; named after an acquaintance)

Chair (tractor; named after someone we've killed before)

Terry the Tractor (tractor; named spontaneously/origin unknown)

The boat was not yet named...

I just hope my buddies are up to starting from square one... :P

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Well shit now we have three totally dangerous bandits running around.