There were only two things near my evac shelter: a Fungal bloom, and a hazardous waste sarcophagus. I opted for the hazard waste one first because at least it would have items I could access without my arms exploding with cordyceps or some horribleshit.
Mutated into a plantman again only this time screw food didn’t want it, ran on truckloads of water instead. Then wound up starving anyway because fungaloids spawned right beside my evac shelter in the middle of freaking nowhere. Oh hey turns out the one bottle of water you have poisoned you. Have fun with that instead of drying into paper. Had to rely on the methamphetamines to outpace the uglies chasing me.
was excited and parched and exhausted as I approached an abandoned LMOE shelter for the first time in forever.
The sun went down. I stumbled in the dark before discovering absolutely no doors into this shelter whatsoever. I was going to keep moving, but being really hungry, dehydrated, , coming down from the meth and in zombie-attack pain, I came down with a cold.
Uuugh. At least I’d found nyquil back in that sarcophagus. That was it, sleeping on the ground time it was.
You cough loudly.
C@
In a tiny circle of darkness and this happened.
I dropped a shitload of gear, cauterized the bleeding, snorted all the remaining meth and ran like a sissy.
I think I had over 300 pain by the end of it because of all the cauterizing when the cougar caught up with me. Still, I managed to almost lose it a couple times over the course of ten map tiles or so, but the coughing kept giving away my position and I couldn’t find any forest to lose it in. I was somehow still alive.
Then I exploded on a land mine.
That didn’t fucking kill me.
The cougar still came in and slapped me, and with forest in sight I ran for it, thinking I did not have the health to take time to cauterize again and risk another attack.
I actually bled to death a few steps away from terrain I could have hidden in.
