Bus jacking for the first time...

[Numinak 10]

So today, I ended up on the southwest most part of the map (I'm a terrible navigator, as I was aiming for Electro). As I came to the edge of the map where the road ends by the water...I spied a bus! My first actual vehicle find (beyond one I saw someone driving). So carefully I sneaked up to it and saw the coast was clear, hoped in and found everything green...except it was out of fuel.

I then spent the next hour running along the coast, desperately hoping to find a jerry can, avoiding other survivors in the process (mostly successfully, until an unarmed newspawn comes running at me trailing zeds, thankfully they wanted him more than me). Finaly find a can of gas and book it back to the bus. I finaly get to it and refill the bugger with the one can of gas I've got, hop in....and off the edge of the map where there are no tree's I see someone standing there! I was already in the bus so I started the slow creep to turn it around and get it to the road, and oddly enough he didn't start firing. I figured he didn't have a weapon...and just as I was about to hit the road he opened fire and I saw why he had hesitated. Coming up the road was another survivor, his friend I'm guessing.

I'd barely beat them to the punch of stealing that bus! Anyways, I finaly get on the road without taking any damage and speed away, cackling like a madman as I got to drive my very first vehicle! Sadly, I wasn't aware of the secret of refilling jerry cans at that time, and even as I tried to make my way into the interior with it, I ran out of fuel, with Cherno still clearly visable.

I probably would have run back to get some gas (now that I figured it out), but I had to go to work. Damn you work!

So, I find and lose my first vehicle, as I doubt I got it far enough away to last until I log back in tonight. But it was fun! Nervous as hell expecting to get shot, but fun! Guess I'll be sticking to the coast more often after this!