All that work of fixing up the Elektro bus... only to be unlucky

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I logged into a different public server to re-gear up and such after having a great time shooting each other on another server where only basic weapons were being found (shotguns, Lee's, pistols and 1866's) (not sure why the previous server was like that, but the fire stations weren't spawning guns), and took the 6 minutes or so to run straight into Elektro. This server was night, but that didn't bother me since I was defenseless and would rather not be easily seen.

Now after all the firefights, killing and getting shot on the last server, all I wanted was a good weapon to start out with - so while I was running south then west, toward Elektro, I bypassed the grocery and church to head straight toward the inner-city fire station. Apparently this was lucky on my part, and not so lucky for a guy, or group, who were fixing up the Elektro-spawn bus since we didn't see each other on that pass-by.

Up the firehouse I go, and find myself an AKS-74 Kobra. Good enough, so now it's time to go to the grocery store. As I get into the garage section of the fire station I hear the hydraulic door sound of the bus. At this point I think someone's just making noise to lure some noob over to get him sniped or ambushed... that, or they're just getting into the bus to check the bus's inventory, then leave. I tried to take a cursory look out the back door of the fire station garage, but didn't see anything except the shadowy zombies...

I went back into the garage, but then heard the hydraulics again. I ran back out the rear door and against the shack in the back to shield myself, but to try to take a better look, or to try to ambush whoever was fooling around and would most likely run into the fire station for one last check of weapon spawns. But to my surprise the lights on the front of the bus lit up, and in short order they are pointed pretty much right at my location. Wow... the jig is up - I was being lit-up (or the shack is - I'm hiding behind it)... do they know I'm here?! Then, to further my amazement, I hear the bus engine. The driver made an initial move, then stopped, then started moving again (I'm assuming straightening the bus out from its position at the church?), so I ran over to against the chain-link fence (from the inside of it, still at the fire station), aimed my Kobra reticule - still in the dark, but I had the driver's side headlight shining at me as a reference, so I aimed above it, and unloaded on it.

Wow, the damned AK74-SU Kobra is blinding to shoot in the dark. The muzzle flash just completely over-lit the Kobra site, so all I could do was to keep the trigger on (because now my night vision would be really diminished if I let off to try to re-aim). All I could see was that the bus seemed to have stopped - which meant (to me) that its inhabitants had got out and were coming for me. But then another explanation went through my head... what if the bus driver is actually dead?

I really couldn't see because my night vision was gone from the firing, and zombies were more active over there now, but I decided to run out of the fenced-in area and over to the bus, reloading on the way, to fight them head-on if need be. Instead I got the whole way to the bus without an incident, but in the dark every zombie running my way and around the bus looked like a player/survivor running at me... so I'm a bit tense and trying to enter the driver's seat from the outside of the bus... but that isn't working at all for some reason. I had to run to the other side of the bus, and the only option it would give me was to get in as a passenger. It was only then that I saw what looked like a survivor lying on the road on the front-passenger side of the bus.

Fine, I decided to get in, then see if I could move up to the driver's seat - which it did finally allow me. And I was off. Within seconds more gunfire erupted my way (I'm guessing the driver had at least one accomplice that wasn't on the bus yet? Fixing up the bus, alone, in Elektro is pretty time consuming and dangerous to do alone).

I don't know who Mantis Toboggan is, but since there were so few on the server (like, four, including me), he may have been the guy in Elektro shooting at me as I left... I'm not sure if I ran him over or if zombies got him. I'd like to think either... but then he could be just a random death.

But once I got out of Cherno I accidentally hit a road-block I didn't see in the dark ( by this time I had shut off the lights the original owner had turned on), so my route was cut short early.

So what to do now? Well, I was really curious about who I stole the bus from and, moreover, if his good loot was still on his body...

So I ran the 5500 meters back to the scene of the crime. The whole time I was thinking that they say a criminal nearly always returns to the scene of the crime... and here I was doing it.

Chances were that in that amount of time the survivor I killed had re-spawned and made it back to loot his own stuff, or that his accomplice would get to it... but then with only about 4, and now 3, people on a night server... there was always the chance I could get there and loot it myself.

Back at the scene,

No such luck... the good stuff had been taken off of the corpse save for the Ghillie suit, but then I didn't have an extra change of clothes.

I tried to search for Haggis immediately here on these forums to tell him where his bus was (minus two tires, but in other wise great condition... and I left the lights on to help the next guy find it), but to no avail - apparently Haggis doesn't post under that name, or at all, here in the DayZ forums.

Sorry pal - that just wasn't your lucky night. Nothing you could have done about it since none of us knew each other was in the area until it was too late.

Edited September 9, 2012 by Mambo

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[dakilla187 28]

I didnt read nothing, but is this being published?