Your First Venture Into The City

[phillip.p.abbott@gmail.com 2]

My first experience was an intense, drawn out one.

I crouch and crawl from the East or Cherno through the industrial area where I spawn, luckily only pulling two crawlers.

As I try and cross one of the first streets I noticed a mob of zombies and the distant thud of a shotgun going off, though my recently found bino's don't show much down the dirtied street.

Finding a strip of small loot shops, I decide to look for a bigger pack but to no avail.

Suddenly shots ring out again, from a rooftop and definitely a high powered rifle of some sort.

Realising the error of half my deaths previously was to impatience, I decide to literally sit in the toilet cubicle and lay a fresh one out (pretty sure he was one or two rooftops over from me.)

Eventually the shots stop and I assume it to be bandits server hopping. I take my chance and creep my way over to the hospital tents. My God have I never been so happy, bundles of bandages, painkillers, a couple of morphine.

First thoughts: Oh man I can't lose all this stuff!

Second thoughts: I'm going to lose this stuff.

This outlook on the game helps you function better, which is why when I decided to try and smash the hospital windows opposite the road with an empty bottle I calmly sprinted up the watchtower opposite to bandage. As I'm about to climb back down the ladder, again *THUD* *THUD*

I look down to see the shotgun wielder from earlier dashing into the hospital, leaving shortly after with what I can only assume to be a ton of morphine and blood bags. I watch him sprint down the main road and turn into the industrial area in order to shake them, taking this time to crawl into the hospital unarmed.

Now packed to the teeth with medical supplies I decide I need to find at least a hatchet to protect all my goodies, finding a makarov eventually.

On my way out to meet with a friend who scored an AK with 4 mags in Elektro, I decide to check the main square seeing as I hadn't heard any sniper shots. Well, there were definitely some sniper shots as before me lays a bleeding corpse with an ak in hand.

First thoughts: I'm going to lose this stuff, this is sniper bait.

Second thoughts: What have I got to lose at this stage in the game?

And so I snuck the whole way out of the city without the sniper getting a bead on me, now holed up in Prigo barn.

Not bad for day 2 of survival, have you guys got any "First time in the city" stories?

Edited July 13, 2012 by Playing Judas

[thetamsen 57]

Great story! :D

[Mays (DayZ) 154]

I went in, my brother (who I was on skype with) alerted a ton of zombies, he ran into me with them all, I died.

The end.

[savini 587]

I can't even remember my first couple DayZ days, but I enjoyed your story.

However, if I may, the part where you "noticed the survivor from earlier" was a bit confusing as you had not established that you had seen any survivors earlier.

anyhow, cheers :)

[Caviano 287]

Intense son.

[phillip.p.abbott@gmail.com 2]

Appreciate the feedback, I suppose anyone playing since release isn't going to remember a whole deal though :P

Also, spotted the part you were on about Rhodes, thanks for that I'll go ahead and edit.

And seriously, Mays, I'm provoking creativity here. The game has a massive roleplay element and I don't see why it shouldn't be utilised on the forums a bit.

[sticky 7]

My first city was Berezino, but I did not know the name at the time. I ran in looking for loot, crawled out with a broken leg, got some tips on these forums and crawled back into the city for morphine, healed myself, found a survivor, panicked, shot, got shot, we both died, put it on youtube.

[Foogals (DayZ) 61]

Went well actually, I didn't go NEAR a city until I got a skype group and the server we were on had nobody in Elektro. :D

[scoffield77@gmail.com 192]

Pretty awesome story here's mine ;)

My 1st trip in to a town was in Sol. I entered the town from the North to find a couple zombies and some barb wire in a tent on the road

I crawled up on the tent to see what it was, I didn't know what it was used for or anything at the time. I look up at the hill to the west and see a survivor staring right at me. As I type hi in the chat he shots at me with his makarov I rush to a house to get behind and take some pop shots back at him just to suppress. I forced him to run to my left while I fall back across the street and take a couple more shots but missed as he did the same, he moved up on me again. While he was in the middle of the street I shot his knee caps out and ran up the hill to the west. I could hear the sound of gun fire behind me, when I turned around I saw him on the road getting eaten by zombies.