Ugh.. bad day in DayZ

[bond1971@tpg.com.au 92]

It started off as soon as I logged in. First thing I do is to look around to see if our beat up Hatchback is still there, it has been with us now for a couple of nights but alas its gone... so too is our stash of medical supplies and food in the boot.

Oh well, was a good thing while it lasted.

My brother and his son have just managed to get the game and I had already spent nearly an hour explaining the process of installation and game tweaks for FPS improvement so they were still spamming on the enter key waiting for a spot to open so they can come in.

Now that I do not have a car its going to be a long walk to the coast, if only they had logged in yesterday when we had the car, sigh.

My brother was the first to log in, I had been running already for about 15 minutes and he had already clocked up two deaths, one from a zombie and the other from a sniper in Electro, I chuckled to myself but let him play and die until I could get close to the coast. Harsh lessons but it will toughen him up :)

I entered a barn, one of those barns with two internal stairs and immediately there was another survivor, he had come in the other door and was proceeding up the other stairs, I swung my gun at him and noticed immediately that he was unarmed, didnt even have a hatchet, there were two zombies climbing the stairs after him so I took out the zombies and tried speaking in direct chat that I was friendly however I would shoot if he produced a weapon. It was a bit intense, I am 3rd on the Leaderboard with several hundred zombie kills, 0 murders and 0 bandit kills but on my 4 day of survival so I was not about to take any chances.

The guy just sat on the other ledge looking at me, he wasnt responding in chat both verbally or text and even after I explained to him how to toggle chat channels and talk I had no luck. Anyway he had not produced a weapon and I wasnt going to turn my back on him so I proceeded to leave the barn. Looking around I noticed he was following me, wasnt getting too close but was definitely following me, I tried again to raise him in chat but no luck. I had a sniper rifle in my backpack, I didnt want him getting to close to me and simply taking it out from my backpack and using it on me, that would be embarrasing.

I had an idea, i asked him to salute if he could hear me, then I see him salute, phew omg we had communication. Anyway he kept following me, so I asked him if he had any weaps, he saluted to say no so I left a lee enfield with 2 x clips on the ground for him, the only instruction was that should he pick it up whilst i was still in sight I would shoot him dead. I started running away and he watched me go, he kept his word.

After about 10 minutes I did notice someone behind me but they veered off as they got close, they didnt see me, i couldnt help but think was that the guy I had armed ?

Ok back to my brother, he now had landed near Electro, I told him to follow the powerlines and I would meet him. Took about another 10 minutes and I caught up to him, he had a zombie in tow but he had an axe, i told him to keep running as they couldnt hurt you if you keep running. Then his son managed to login, I needed to stop running to plot a plan on getting to him so I needed to get this zombie off our ass.

I told my bro to stop and i would kill the zombie, I turned around and took a shot at the zombie, then *whack* I was insta killed... wtf ... my bro had started whacking with his hatchet and it must have one shot me. FFFFUUUU there was a lot of expletives and he was very sorry. We confirmed it was him as he had a murder 1 now.

Told him too loot my stuff, he couldnt get it all and I gave up trying to explain how to open backpacks over vent, I got lucky and spawned close enough that I could get back to my corpse which he had now mostly looted anyway.

Ok skipping ahead, we managed to catch up to his son, my partner had already logged on and she was meeting us near the balota airfield, I figured there was now 4 of us and it would be good to gear them up, and myself now. Nearing the airfield there was a sniper there, unbeknownst to us he had already killed a couple of peeps and as I spotted him I called him out but he managed to kill me again, my bro with a lee enfield one shotted him and they looted him.

Our adventure for the night was nearly over. We bid goodnight to all and they camped out in the woods while I was left alone to spawn and begin the process of collecting gear again.

Ran into Electro, shot dead. Sigh.. that will teach me, there were corpses everywhere, its stupid now how people are killing onsight. Then the first hacker hit, we were summoned to a forest, I quickly ALT-F4d and escaped the carnage, I came back in and saw that I was now on the leaderboard with 30 kills, most had died in the firefight, server coming down (admins are quick on AU and ANZ which is good) so I swapped servers to a night time server so I could run and gear up unmolested. An hour later, bang, hacker hit, summoned everyone to the debug forest I think, I quickly exitted out again and survived but when I spawned in I was on the beach near Balota, thanks hackers !, I was now geared and near where the family had logged out.

[Brudagon (DayZ) 64]

I really want to read it, I do.

[01da 218]

Use different color text next time. Maybe Cyan.

[Hoodie_B 2]

Good read! You have my beans :)

[Rising (DayZ) 99]

Good read! You have my beans :)

And you have mine. too high to read, so i scrolled down wondering if it was going to be worth it.

[M O N S T E R 599]

Use different color text next time. Maybe Cyan.

I love you so, so much.

-MONSTER

[ColdCamV 20]

Good story, sucks about the hackers in the end and I admit, I did have a chuckle when it said your brother had killed you by accident haha.

Also very kind of you to leave that new player a lee enfield and actually trust him enough to not gun him down like so many others do, so for that, my hat is off to you sir.

Well played.