Cherno Adventure: The friendly hostage and the zombie sniper

[herrjon 478]

Just a story of my recent Cherno spawn. It's a long one.

I start at the apartments, then hospital, then firehouse, as well as other misc. buildings along the way. At this point I was very lucky, having a gillie suit, all hunting gear, 2 water bottles, misc. toolbelt items, med supplies, and an AKM and G17 with 4 mags each. I unfortunately had to log out in the pub as I lost track of time and needed to rush to work.

When I logged in today, eveything seemed quiet. No loot had spawned in the pub yet, good sign. I get downstairs and hear the proverbial flies. I cautiously make my way outside and found the dead body near the street to the north. I see he has a Chech Backpack on and is holding a G17, meaning he has mags. I scope out the other buildings, and of course, I spot a player in the tower of the firehouse. I assume he is a sniper and knows I'm there, as he's pointed right at me. I suppose I could make a shot with my AKM, but I don't trust my aim, so I head into the pub hoping a CZ 550 or an Enfield spawned. I go upstairs and find loot, but no guns.

Just as I'm about to check downstairs, I hear zombies below me, lot's of them. Then, gunfire, sounded like a Makarov, definately a pistol. Then screams of a survivor being eaten alive. Someone had agroed a bunch of zombies into the pub and was holding out by the bathroom. The noise stops and I approach the area cautiously. We both get a quick look at each other before retreating back into opposite rooms. It seems he made it out alive, and could have ammo left to kill me if he wanted, but I had the advantage, bigger gun and better territory. I had 3 doors and he was trapped. I want to help him, but I proceed with caution. The chat was as follows.

(me): "Are you ok in there? Do you need any meds?"

*silence*

(me): "I want to help you. I have bloodbags and stuff, just come out unarmed."

*silence*

(me): "Please respond or I will fire."

(him): "I'm friendly! Don't shoot!"

(him): "Please just leave me alone."

(me): "Are you sure? I can heal you. You just need to come out unarmed."

(him): "No I'm good. Just looting"

I then tell him I'm leaving a couple cooked meat for him under the stairs, and warned him of the sniper. He was grateful for that and we parted ways. I suppose he did have cause to fear me, wearing a gillie suit and using an AK, I'd be scared too. It was strange being on the other side of the big gun. I felt bad for him and wanted to help him, but I understand why he wouldn't be so trusting.

Back outside, I see the sniper is still there, and I have no reliable way of dealing with him. I decide to swing around and flank him, unoticed. I hit up the supermarket on the way, hoping for a gun. No dice, just two dead players, food and pop, and toolbelt stuff I already have. I find an angle of aproach, blocking his LOS with a large tree. I still don't know what I intend to to when I get in there. I've never killed before, and I certainly don't want start now, but I still need a good pack and some ammo before I leave. I just hope I'm able to knock him out long enough to loot my dead friend by the pub.

I get to the firehouse. All entrances are heavily blocked with barbed wire and sandbags. Thanks too my toolbox and a little luck, I get in quickly. What I found was jaw dropping. A trail of dead players went from the door up the stairs into the tower. I heard nothing but flies. I didn't want to take the time to loot them yet, but I counted as I went up, a total of 10 lined the staircase and landing. Clearly something bad happened here, and either I just missed it, or I was just in time. I'm filled with anger towards this mystery player on the top of the tower, and throw away any reservations about killing. I was intent on killing that bastard.

I get to the floor just below the top. I'm unsure of if he knows I'm here or not, so take the cowards way. I line up a throw to bounch a frag grenade off the wall all kill anything up there. My aim was true and it exlodes in the top floor. But wait, I still have no kills and there was nothing on the kill feed. I creep up to investigate and find him, just standing there. In a panic I unload a full mag of my AKM on him. When the smoke clears, he's still standing there, not moving.

It turns out in this large battle this player glitched when he died and remained standing. I could loot and examine his body like any other corpse. I was worked up over nothing. I breathe a sigh of relief that is quickly interrupted by what sounds like all the zombies in Cherno. Thankfully the barricades kept them outside and up front. I had time to loot and hide all the bodies in the tower. Most were cleaned out, but I did get 4 AKM mags and an ALICE pack. I used the ladder to glitch out on the roof to leave. There were two more bodies, making the total count of this blood bath 16. Nothing useful, just hid them and moved on.

After going back to the pub to finally loot the first body, I find 2 G17 mags. I took them, went onto chat saying a prayer for the victims of the Cherno firehouse massacre, and left that crazy city behind me.

Edited August 8, 2012 by HerrJon

[Daffy Duck 15]

Jebus, that's one great story. Earlier tonight I was in Cherno, I only wanted to loot the apartments, just needed a compass and a backpack, you see? So I crouch walk into the back-most apartment. Loot it, find damn near nothing of any use. I then move on to the apartment in front of it (the one in front of the hospital), it's empty too, but from the balcony I see a player looting the hospital. I call out on mic, "Hey, I'm friendly, are you friendly?" He looks around but makes no response, I then type "I'm friendly", still nothing. He only had a revolver. Suddenly I hear a series of gunshots, somebody else shooting nearby, not sure at what though as the gunfire hits neither me nor my silent friend. I tell him to stay there, I'm gonna try to kill this guy who I assumed was trying to kill us. He didn't stay there, he came into my apartment building. I have an M4A1 ready to fire, so I tell him if he doesn't respond I *might* shoot him (my mistake, I know, I learned from it). The shooter is no where to be found, while my silent friend makes his way into the top floor, doesn't see me and enters the other rooms. He comes into mine, turns and sees me in a corner, fires once and I massacred him. He turned out to be a bandit! First bandit kill :P Bandage myself, felt quite bad because I thought he stopped shooting after I yelled friendly a couple times, but I couldn't risk it. Happened too fast. I took his ALICE pack (yay me) and after camping the entrance for fear of the shooter, I left and made a quick getaway to the forest.

[CoolCain10 55]

Lol there's a video on that btw if you look up on youtube "The Firehouse Massacre PSISyndicate" also if this is the one you're describing then you got a nice russian on your server and when his friend found him with all the bodies he simply said "They fired first"

[herrjon 478]

Lol there's a video on that btw if you look up on youtube "The Firehouse Massacre PSISyndicate" also if this is the one you're describing then you got a nice russian on your server and when his friend found him with all the bodies he simply said "They fired first"

lol watched that, pretty awesome. Wasn't the same event, since that was a week ago in Elektro and this was yesterday in Cherno. But the point is the same, firehouses are bloody dangerous.

Edited August 8, 2012 by HerrJon