First Murder in Stary Sobor

[UndeadMerc89 3]

A short story of my very first murder.

It's my first night playing with a new clan that I hooked up with. I'm on their server and it's dark as all hell out. You know what I mean, just enough light to see movement but you're more likely to run into a tree then not. I've taken the time though to hop onto their TS3 server to get to know the guys and to make sure there is no friendly fire going on. Just gotta love taking a round to the dome because you forgot to tell your teammates that you're in the area. Anywho, back to the story.

So I come into the server just north of Stary. As any sane person would do, I head south to hit up Stary and maybe find NVG's, a GPS, or even a map would do. Oh, and the little POS car that spawns there. The one that requires more work then it's worth? Ya, that car. So I'm talking to the guys, telling them where I'm approximately at but it's difficult with no GPS or Map so it's just "North of Stary, please don't shoot me."

Well, besides eating bark a few times I make it to the tents on the outskirts of Stary and I start doing my thing. Looking for anything of use or even may be of use in the future. Don't tell me I'm the only one who starts gathering STANAG mags before I even find a rifle that uses them. Well, I clear the first tent and I'm moving the Tent #2 when I hear the oddest sound. A vehicle. I start to panic. Who the hell is rolling around in a vehicle? Is it the clan? Is it one of the 3 people on the server that not associated with the clan? I don't know and now I'm freaking out.

Well, as you can assume by the fact that I'm writing this story, the vehicle comes to a stop on the slope of the hill leading to the military tents in Stary. I'm in full panic now. No one on TS will say it's them, in fact everyone is accounted for and no they are not driving a tractor. Being my first night with these guys, I ask for permission to engage. I don't know what's coming towards me, but they have a vehicle and they are coming into the military tents so I'm assuming they at least have something to mess my day up. It takes just a few seconds and I hear, "Go for it. He's not one of us."

Hehehehehe in a childish, maniacal sort of way is all I hear in my head as I acquire target and proceed with Operation Overkill because when in doubt, empty the magazine. I keep pulling the trigger in semi until I see the death message pop up confirming my kill. I realize now that my heart is easily passing 120 bpm, which is an accomplishment in and of itself playing a video game. I've just killed my first survivor.

I speak up on TS 'cause everyone went silent waiting for a SitRep to confirm that the Death Message was from the guy I opened fire on and that I was not injured in the very one sided fire fight. I feel accomplished, even happy that I wasn't the victim for once. I go to the poor guys body and find all sorts of nice gadgets. Upon inspecting the tractor though I was surprised that he didn't die on the way. Who drives that thing on all red? Well, besides me... but that's a different story that literally ended with a bang.

Well, I thought I'd put this up for people to read. You're welcome to say what you will, but if you're going to ask why this isn't in the bandit area then I have a simple answer for you. It's because I am not, and never will be a bandit. I killed because I perceived a threat to my safety, not because I wanted what was on him. Yes, I did enjoy not being the victim and feeling superior but I don't hunt people for the sake of killing them. This person came into the area I was already in and unknowingly provoked me into action. If he'd drove on past or went into a different part of town first this would of been more like, "The Nth time I've seen another survivor and ran away like a little girl."