tl;dr Tweaker bad day challenger (15 Str, 10 Dex, 12 Int, 11 Per) survives for 30 days to die in a stupid fight with 2 shocker brutes.
So i managed to keep a bad day challenger alive, finding a lucky empty farm and sleeping through my amphetamine withdrawal, having enough food in the farm fields.
After getting him moderately skilled and equipped, i went to town to loot a bit and to search a better car. All the good shops were on the other side of the town, so i started to gradually kill them zombies and loot the houses. During that day i have found almost all i needed - a functional APC, a couple of those big vehicles with roller drums, plenty of cargo trucks and electric cars. I managed to get to a garage and find an acetylene torch, welding goggles (although i could craft those), a welder and other useful stuff, a nearby library and dojo gave me a lot of cool books, so i went back to the farm to work on those skills and then come back for the APC.
All went fine so a couple of weeks later i get back to town in a light survivor suit and a survivor mask and other survivor gear, unarmed 3, karate, taekwondo and other basic martial arts feeling pretty confident and ready for the midgame. Now the only thing i didnât have was a hacksaw and i didnât feel like wasting acetylene charges or batteries on removing vehicle parts, especially since i had a lot of that removal to do.
So, long story short, i see that hardware store at the far side of the town and i decide to go there to find that hacksaw. On my way there i murder countless zombies, a couple of brutes, which are total pushovers with unarmed 4 karate or taekwondo (i donât like taekwondo for itâs knockback. Itâs only good against more than a couple of enemies at the same time). I kill a shocker with my Browning BLR and i get overconfident.
Now here comes a hulk. I engage it in melee and manage to keep him stunned with karate, until he gets a tile away from me. Now i do something stupid and let him get a hit on me, sending me flying and adding about 25 pain. This is where i understand that i only have codeine and tramadol against pain and i eat a cocaine instead of codeine and he sends me flying a second time, getting my pain to 45. Now i understand that itâs past time that i start running and i do so to a nearby store and get the hulk on a counter and pound him to death with my forked spear (he was in law health).
Well, i get out of that alive and i get even more confident and i go further - to meet a couple of shocker brutes. Now i thought that they are some sort of regular brutes with electricity and i decide to fight them. I somehow manage to kill one and had the other one on the other side of a car. So, with half health and a lot of pain, i make the stupid decision to try and fight the other one, which sends me flying a couple of times and kills me, since i had nothing to manage the pain.
Why canât i run away when things get complicated?
