Thanks Karl, you rock.

[Saim 4]

Newbies log, attempt one at survival. (if this isn't the place for a survivor to post this let me know and I'll move it.)

TLDR: Karl saved me time and time again but gravity still won. Thanks for all the help Karl.

I finally started DayZ last night (yay me!), I had this vision that 'yeah I'm going to rock this game' despite how unforgiving it sounded and how awful some of the posts were about bandits...

I could not have been more wrong...

Spawning near the coast as per the usual it sounds like I started to fumble with the controls and get familiar, apparently me moving around made too much noise though and drew the watching remaing eye of a walker in a hamlet just down the hill. Not realizing this until he was on me, I started to run bleeding to the water nearby hoping, just hoping, that he couldn't swim. Thankfully I was right. Not wanting to move out too far for fear of drowning I started swimming down the coast a little (still not realizing I'm bleeding out) and found a safe-ish spot on the shore where I noticed all the blood. After patching myself up and trying to get in to a nearby town with no luck due to all the not-so-friendlies I hit the woods.

After about 10 minutes of wandering I stumbled across another town with what looked like only a handful of walkers kicking around, at this point I've realized I can crouch/sneak and the ear and eye in the top right are my best friends at the moment, my only friends really, there hasn't been a sign of anyone so far which was kind of expected. I sneak close to the barn/shack on the out skirts of town only to clumsily draw more attention to my self and the zombie committee comes to welcome me. I dart across the bridge heading...left? No idea which way is up anymore, all I know is I have to run and keep running. I zig to the left and see a pond (will this work twice, will water save me again?) the firm answer is no, its a god damn pond not an ocean. I'm screwed. No where to run or hide, no idea what I'm doing, this is the quick end to my first attempt at suriving.

Shots fired.

Hopefully not at me, I'm too worried the zombies on roids will catch me to turn around and look (the number pad keys 1, 4, 7, 3, 6, 9 would have been nice to know at the time). All the growling and drooling seems to have stopped so I hesitantly stop to look, and here comes a scary guy in a mask running towards me. At this point with my button mashing I've realized how I can talk, but still not sure if I'm dead meat from this 'bandit' toying with me or if I've the luckiest person alive (emphasis on the alive) Turns out, this stranger is awesome and his name is Karl. Not only did he kill the zombies, he's offered a helping hand.

The cut the story short, after patching me up from the lack of blood and keeping me limping along, helping me find pain meds and a shotgun, being chased out of a town from a horde of zombies into a city fully of more zombies, into a hospital, patching me up some more with blood so I can finally god damn see again. I fall off a ladder and die.

Sorry for dieing in such a stupid way Karl, but thank you for showing me how awesome this mod is so far. I'll be back on again tonight to go see if there's anything left on my body (hopefully you've looted it, I would hate for any of it to go to waste)