Newbie [DKCL] Bandits

[graphel 9]

I'll just start off by saying, that not all of us are cut out to be bandits.

I will now tell you about my recent experience that brought this to my attention upon coming back to this game.

I spawned a bit down the coast of Elektro, pretty nice first spawn in my humble opinion. I then proceded to scrounge a kit together, mainly from appartments and the grocery store.

Really just the basics; Food, drink, a nice Alice pack, lots and lots of bandages, Binocs, and last but not least, an Enfield, and an M1911. And of course, ammo for both guns. I move out of Elektro, a bit north, and then head towards Cherno while basking in the glory of having avoided every zombie I found. My intent at that point was to hit up the barns and hopefully find a CZ.

Sadly, no luck on the CZ, just tons of food, and flares, which I tend to avoid. I shortly arive in Cherno, and decide to scout out the city from the northern hills, and look for and spawned zombies. I am directly north of the industrial buildings when I hear two frags explode, which immediately gets me into prone, as I look around to my right, near the appartments, for the source of the sound. On a whim, I decide to check the player list, and see if there are any clan groups on this server, and notice three players with the clan tag [DKCL]. From this point onward I assume that the frags are from those guys.

It's not long before I notice, again to the right, copious amounts of white and green smoke a short distance to the west, up the hill from the appartments. I decide to move to the north west with hopes of a better visual on the area, and hopefully to spot who ever threw three or four smoke grenades. After a short while I see a surviver running between the appartments. When I look at him with my binocs, I see he has an M16 ACOG. realizing that with that scope he is a huge threat to me, so I decide to move a short distance south to keep him in sight, and not lose track of him.

Now, I believe that it was that last move that brought the [DKCL] guys attention to me, whether that brought me into their line of sight, or shooting range, I do not know. I also have no idea of whether the first surviver was part of their group or not, but I never saw him again. Anyways, next thing I know, I am taking fire from a few different westerly directions. The guns I remember hearing are an Enfield, and AK, and a shotgun. Now for a while i just crouch run around trying to figure out the cirection they are in, while they waste huge ammounts of ammo, landing shots around my feet. At the same time that I figure out roughly where they are, the guy with the shotgun lands a hit on me, and I run east looking for some trees, bushes, or anything to use for cover. Not long after I find myself a nice dip in the hill, and turn around and prone. I wait a short while to look for pursuers, and then bandage myself.

The spot I am in provides good cover, with a hole in the ground behind a bush. I stay there for a while, waiting and watching for the search party I know is coming. The first one I spot is moving east a bit south of me, stright for the pond. I move a bit more east to get a better view on him, and take a few shots. Nice! [DKCL]hazinater has died! one down , 2, possibly 3 to go. I move east yet again, and take a few shots from a shotgun, and an ak. I am hit once again and take cover behind a group of bushes, and bandage again. I now do the same as before, waiting and watching. Maybe 20 seconds pass before I see a guy in a guillie suit moving north east in the field above me, before I lose sight of him.

With the intent of teaching these guys a lesson, on the fact that a lone wolf with "newbie" equipment is still dangerous, I follow parralel to him, north east. After a little while we see each other, and exchange fire, I hit him twice, and get hit once. I take note of "[DKCL]jennifer has died." and bandage myself yet again. I am now not in a good state of health, blinking red blood icon. I eat some food to replenish some health and move to cover again before I see my shotgun man 200m-250m north of me up the hill. I aim, annnd pass out! This happends twice more before I can even shoot. I take two shots and he goes prone and dissapears. I always loved combat loggers.

I quickly make the assesment that all of this gunfire, frag explosions,and smoke must have attracted attention, so I begin moving north, only to pass out again. I soon get swarmed by zombies and quickly die. I spawn in Cherno, luckily, and head out to recover my stuff before they get there and hide my body, though I am conpforted by seen both of the people I killed die over and over again in the death feed. While they are cycling spawns I might just have time to go and get my stuff, and some of theirs. Upon finding our bodies I start recovering my stuff, but before long another guy shows up, with the bandit head skin. He shoots and kills me with his Enfield, and says in direct voice "That's what you get for being a bandit." I tell him to have fun with the massive swarm of zombies I saw headed his direction before I died.

I once again, spawn in Cherno, and head to the boddies. I find them and some other guy with no kit running around the boddies away from zombies. he for some reason books it to the woods, and I move up to once again, try to get my gear back. I fend off a few zombies with my recovered 1911, and then pick over their gear. The first guy had nothing of interest, so I head up to the guillie guy. On him I find an Enfield, probably that randoms weapon, and no AK. Other than that he had a full kit. ie: rangefinders, NVGS, compas, watch, GPS Ect. Ect. I take what I need and hide the boddies, nothing really useful left on any of them.

I then move north to the woods, and log to come here and type this!

So be warned, if you see either [DKCL]hazinater or [DKCL]jennifer, or anyone else with that tag for that matter, expect cratfy, yet poorly executed traps, poor marksmanship, and lack of observation skills. They may be a good source of gear for you other lone wolfers out there. I never got the third [DKCL] guys name as I didn't think to take the names down until I saw them in the death feed multiple times. I decided to share this as I am amazed i am still alive. Two of theme had accurate, high damage rifles, and I somehow didnt die. They completely had the drop on me. A rather ammusing first few hours back if I do say so myself :D

Any thought and comments welcome.

Edited September 25, 2012 by graphel