Strangers in the night

[Stworca 87]

Hi, my name not important, i'm far too old, and my hobbies that aren't games are rated "M" for "Make sure they don't see the light of day". I've been playing DayZ for two weeks now.

I'm not the best of shots, and i'm not one with the fastest reflexes. I know this, and i play in a way that doesn't require me to be either one. When i see someone enter the barracks at NWAF, i toss a grenade instead of following them, and even if i do, it's with SD clip on full auto. I don't play the sniper in deep fog. My main form of movement in the cities are barrel rolls, and my inventory has wires, sand bags and tank traps. I have never entered NWAF from the south, or east and I don't know what the layout of Cherno is...

..Or at least i didn't. Last night i was playing on everything-except third person-disabled server, and tried getting my hands on a ghilie suit, that would compliment my NVG and LA85. I've approached the city from the north-west, just as it started raining, with my goal being the apartments. Annoyed and concerned about the fact that there were so many players online, i've used tank traps to block the roof access to the hospital - there was no box behind it - and started exploring the apartments, starting with the short one to the south. The number of zeds alive was increasing all the time, but i didn't hear any shots so i've cleared two buildings.. three.. and just as i was slowly descending the stairs in the large appartment in the middle, it all started..

Someone broke the hospital glass with a shotgun,

I was mid-stairway when that happened, and only approached the balcony after a lightning has struck. Some random Survivor McNoSidearm has crawled inside, leaving a blob of zombies in front of the building. A minute later, he stormed out towards my direction, and was put down with SD rounds - pointless to use them? Nope! No zombies on my ass! - and i started descending on double speed, to hit the last ap. before i get less lucky. The zombies still idle, munching on the corpse of Survivor McCoyotePack.

As i cleared the last building, and was almost out of the 'woods', on the last half-stairway, my NVG started acting up. Backtrack, turn it off, take a peek... a chemlight was lying right in the middle of the doorway. I didn't even hear the bastard, so with heart rate of 160 i backtrack half-a-stair and wait. I made a mistake of trying to ascend a whole level, when he started firing and forcing me back down.

"Checkmate" i think to myself. Wrong. The bloody zombies didn't even budge, despite his MX being loud as fuck.. And so i know how the other player feels, when exposed to SD rounds from a regular gon. I'm cornered, unable to go up or down, but he also is unable to get to me.

I go as far down as possible, and place my bear trap, and just as it's down i hear a hissing noise of road flares being thrown in to completely rape my vision. Somehow i manage to hit N just before the flare flies inside, and book it upstairs with all speed. One flight, two.. and then his leg breaks, declaring me the winner by sidestep full automatic fire, I flee the place as soon as i can.

I now have my ghilie suit, but whoever you were, you can have my beans. No, fuck the beans. You can have my firstborn, once he's there.

Yours :

Cautious stranger in Cherno.

[RayPugh 146]

exchanging glances

Wond'ring in the night what were the chances

We'd be sharing love before the night was through

[nicraM 137]

I usually whistle this song while I work.

[Sticker704 121]

That has got to be one of the most badass things I have read in my entire life.

[Myth`~ 46]

Poor Bill, has Louis been taking your pills again? Come on now, let's get back to the safe room. No, there are no strangers out there to kill you, there's no such things as this 'chemlight' and 'flare' as you call it.

Come on, let's go and polish your M16, that always calms you down.

[Bullet Catcher 7]

Way to keep your cool friend, you have my beans.

[Stworca 87]

I didn't want to make it a wall of text thread, but at the same time a "tl;dr" one wouldn't give justice to mister flare throwing badass. :D