My most badass character so far just died.
Sam Stein.
Starting in a LMOE shelter in a world with harsh conditions (large cities, high spawn rates, low item spawns), he stepped outside to look for food one day. Outside, he found a zombie horde. Oh dear.
However, this was not his end, for he had been training his dodging skills extensively by practicing against the fish that somehow attacked him from the river in the LMOE shelter. With naught but a trusty pipe and the strength of his arms, he challenged the horde, roaring his defiance at them. At first, he merely picked off any that came near at night, but then⌠but then, one of them dropped a Fire Axe. With this new weapon, and skills earned through hours of zombie bashing, he started to challenge the horde more openly.
Oh, he slew a great, great many of them, but in the end, inevitably, one scored a deep wound upon him, and though he tried to cleanse the wound with cauterizing fire, it did not aid him. With no antibiotics in sight, he waiting for nightfall, then struck a path out of the horde, in search of antibiotics.
But alas, none were to be found. Not in the nearby mansion. Not in the evac shelter beyond, not in the refugee shelter, and not in any of the houses desperately searched through.
Sam Stein finally fell to the infection after about 3 solid days of constant combat, starting basically from 0 skills. he killed shocker brute, zombie soldiers and a myriad of other beasties, but in the end, it was the smallest of all organisms that felled him.