Good times were had!

[SquishyBear 31]

Indeed. Bandit life is great.

We, our little crew of 5-7 survivors/ bandits in training, have a nice home server. One that is fairly empty during the week, but gets a little over 10 players on weekends which is great. We have been playing there for weeks now and are starting to get to know the regulars on there. And the other way around. Plus we have had hunches on who the server admin(s) may be and last night those hunches became fact.

Last night (it was night on the server as well) my hubby, NavyCuda, was cruising around in one of our pick-ups looking for heli crashes since the server had just restarted several times the other day. He gets to Cherno, close to the gas station by the coast... when he sees our, I repeat OUR... ;) ... we found it, fixed it and had it for weeks now, UAZ driving away from said gas station. He jumps out, starts shooting at the driver who falls out of the vehicle dead.

"Dimkon was killed"

Passenger in the UAZ moves over to driver's side, attempts to run over hubby, boom boom.

"Antweezy was killed"

DMRs rock.

So now we have one lone survivor with two vehicles and two, possibly mad, survivors spawning at the coast. Hubby hops into UAZ and hides it not too far away. Runs back to the dead guys, loots them, (M14s, NVs, Rangefinders, food, drink), hides them, takes pick-up and drives off. He hasn't driven 50m when he gets shot at by a pistol. Mind you at that time it was only him, the two dead guys and one other person on. I was in the process of logging in, so was a friend. I tell him to ignore the guy and just get out so we don't lose him or the vehicle(s).

So he drives out of there, hides the pick-up, torques back to the UAZ (it's the better of the two in our opinion) and drives it up to our camp to pick me and a friend up to attempt a pick-up rescue mission.

About 10 minutes pass between picking us up and getting back to the general area the pick-up was hidden in. During that time one person leaves the server and it's just us (3) and the two we just killed.

Suddenly the server restarts while we are driving... Hi antweezy and dimkon! You guys were really mad last night weren't you? :D

We come back in to find ourselves standing in the middle of the road outside Cherno. First thing we do is get to cover, second thing we do is try to remember where we last saved the UAZ, all while moving closer to the pick-up.

Boom.... boom.

"NavyCuda was killed"

!@&%$!

The two of us that are left decide to move in on the pick-up, hearts pounding, scared shitless. I try to take the "high road", circling around north, hoping there's enough trees to cover me, not having a single clue where these two guys were or are, nevermind where my friendly is now.

I reach a big ass field with maybe one bush on it, that I have to cross to get to the pick-up. I run to the only bush in the field, crouch, check my position to get my bearing when I see myself getting hit... silently. I'm in shock, both in game and real life. Then I get killed by two consecutive shots that I still couldn't hear. There goes my 50 day old character.

"SquishyBear was killed"

Now it's just our friend left up there in the hills somewhere around Cherno and the pick-up. He gets shot at several times. Runs away, bleeding. Repositions himself, gets shot at again, missed. Runs around some more, trying to avoid certain death. We decide to abandon the rescue and get our UAZ back instead.

So hubby makes it to UAZ which is in great condition at our last save but needs fuel. We can't find fuel, there's no jerry cans anywhere!!! 500 industrial sites and not one jerry can!

!@&%$!

"Lino155 was killed"

They got him too. Now it's all about the UAZ and saving it and our other pick-up in camp. We all run towards the UAZ. Hubby and I decide to torque to camp due to lack of jerry cans when hubby falls off the docks into the water and treads water for a good 10 minutes, blindly trying to find some place to crawl out of the water while I'm running through the wilderness.

Another friendly signs on... thank god! He's in camp with the other pick-up. We tell him to get that thing down here, one jerry can is plenty fine, just get down here!

We manage to fill up the UAZ, take it back to camp, we got the pick-up too. Another friendly comes in. Suddenly we hear "There's a dirt bike here". So now we have an UAZ, a dirt bike, a pick-up and an ATV that has not been found that need better and safer parking opportunities... but we still have them!

But we are missing a pick-up... ane we are pretty damn sure they have the choppah too. We've heard it fly around with just us and them on. We also believe they have at least one other friend that plays with them. We now know they are admins, we now know what not to do when they are on, we learned a lot last night.

It's on!

PS: Yes, it could be considered a dick move to restart the server to take the vehicle out of the equation, but we thought it was brilliant. No one combat disconnected, they just didn't want to face us in the vehicle. We didn't mind at all.

PPS: We got visited by a friendly hacker last night too. We noticed this guy in our camp looking around, almost looked disoriented. Then someone actually pointed him out and we realized our positions were broadcasted all over the server (good thing it was only us on at that point). We shot at him but he didn't even care nor did we hurt him. He looked at our stuff then left. No harm done. Interesting experience.

Edited September 28, 2012 by SquishyBear

[NavyCuda 39]

You forgot to mention how frayed everyone's nerves were. So much so that I died again to a friendly fire incident, even though at that point we were the only ones left on the server.

[Carbon (DayZ) 10]

10/10 would operate with

[Elite Skydaz 13]

Reminds me of the time when I shot at a hacker, GOOD TIMES.