Short Story for the Bored

[azlen 14]

This was just a wierd experience for those of you who like reading about people's fun times in DayZ!

So me and my group of two other guys are just roaming around the continent, not sure what to do with ourselves. We decided to make a run to Stary Sobor and see if we could find any new weapons.

We play on servers we just randomly picked to start with, but have grown to enjoy over the hours spent in them. The particular server we were on was currently night-time (not a problem since we all had NVG's) and as such only had us currently in the game. As we approach Stary, DayZ's beautiful graphical glitch formally known as artifacting appears! Woohoo!

No big deal right? We just run to the big red metal building to do a full relog. That always fixes the artifacting. Me and Buddy 2 have it bad, so we are the ones relogging, but Buddy 1 doesn't have it at all, so he starts checking the tents. "Careful" Buddy 1 says as we are logging back in. "There are two other guys getting on the server."

"Oh nooooo!" we reply in a sarcastic manner as we all start laughing. We are fully capable as a group to be able to confront anyone with our current gear, and the chances of running into TWO other people on the server in this particular spot are pretty slim.

I zone in, and with my handy dandy NVG's I see Buddy 2 prone in the middle of the building. "Rofl Buddy 2, why are you prone right now?" I ask jokingly. "What do you mean?" He replies, "I'm not even loaded in yet."

Just at that moment, A standing player appears a short distance away from who I thought was Buddy 2. I recognize this to indeed be Buddy 2 himself. "Oh f**k you Buddy 1! Trying to dick with us like that!" (Buddy 1 has a habit of doing things like this to scare us)

"Huh? I'm looting the tents right now Azgaurd. What are you talking about?" Confirms Buddy 1. My heart skips a beat. "No way....there's no way that this is one of the other TWO people on the server. It just isn't possible!" I tell myself. We all have heard stories of people who log into the game, and they spawn next to some kind of body or clone of theirself, and if you shoot it, YOU will actually die. I relay this info to Buddy 1 and 2, and we are all wary to try anything, because this body or player looks like us. It has all the same weapons as Buddy 1 (AKM and PDW) The only difference was it had an Alice Pack and Buddy 1, as well as me and Buddy 2 had Coyote Backpacks.

All of a sudden, the body starts spinning around on the ground! We start moving around it, trying to check it, see what it is. It stops spinning. Then...it points it's gun right at us! We try to move to get away from it's aim just in case it shoots! We are both stunned with fear. Too afraid to shoot. We try to communicate with it over Direct Chat. It isn't responding. We can't figure out why it is acting so strangely. We realize now that this survivor had no Night Vision, and since we are so accustomed to it, we didn't realize he couldn't see us, and was only following our footsteps.

Still in shock, I hear Buddy 2 shout "There's another one up on the catwalk!" I spin around and sure enough I see another man sitting on the catwalk above us. "Simply not possible!" I keep thinking to myself! We are both stunned, all the while Buddy 1 is shouting "SHOOT THEM!!" After a few more seconds of delay, a bright light flashes down upon us. We scurry to a corner of the barn out of the light, realizing the man on the catwalk had pulled out his flashlight and illuminated us! His buddy down on the main floor must have told him he was hearing noises, and to see what they were. We kept talking over Direct, as we usually don't kill players for no reason. Plus we were still wary in case they were one of DayZ's many glitches and might actually harm ourselves by hurting them in the process.

The light clicks off, the guy on the floor spins a few times, halts for a moment, and then sinks through the ground. "He aborted!" we both conclude at the same time. Instantly, all restraints are cast off, and even without a verbal confirmation of what to do next, me and Buddy 2 both mumble "Shooting." We have both trained our guns on the remaining man on the catwalk. My buddy lets loose his AKS-74 Kobra and I my M249 Machine Gun.

Bullets. A thud. "One murder." Buddy 2 confirms.

We go check his body, and notice his pistol lying on the catwalk. He must have had to drop it when his friend requested that he pull out his flashlight. His friend was able to get out quickly, but he hadn't enough time to mess with Arma II's quirky inventory enough to put his flashlight away and get his gun back. It was a shame, they probably meant no harm, and were just hopping between low population servers to try and get some better guns at Stary Sobor. We try to avoid murdering the innocent as much as possible, but as most of you know in DayZ, it is hard to judge people's intentions based on appearances alone. Hopefully this will be a lesson for them to make sure their Direct Communication is working. Nonetheless, you two will never be forgotten!

Let me know if you liked my little story! And if you are really bored and you would like to check out more of our goofy misadventures, feel free to check out the videos that my group members make!

http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCc5svHUtpjbIg6GfNTXErww?feature=CAMQwRs%3D - Buddy 1

http://www.youtube.com/user/westerntuna?feature=CAcQwRs%3D - Buddy 2

I hope you were entertained! ^_^

[Gogster (DayZ) 626]

"Are you not entertained?"

No.

[Xuse 92]

Cheers for that, Need more like this to pass the time in work ^_^

[azlen 14]

Haha Gogster i'm getting the feeling that is a refference to the one DayZ video on youtube where the 2 guys are forced to fight with hatchets XD.

Edited August 28, 2012 by Azgaurd

[sonicrainbrony 136]

Pretty good story. Just barely not bean-worthy though.

[Oreb 0]

I like how you make me sound cooler then I really am.

[cyanyde 165]

Much better read than the countless threads whining about stuff or threatening to quit playing for various reasons.

I'll give you beans for that alone. ;)