Thought it might be a good idea to go looking for supplies for my little Fortress o’ Gas Station. Went into town, saw a zombie, went south a little, more zombie, “fuck,” I started moving faster, 7 more zombie types show up. “FUUCK!” Run faster, suddenly there is a horde of about 48 zombies and zombie dogs chasing behind me.
Had a character who had spent about a week rooting around in a farm buiding defenses and raiding the locale town for new supplies when he fines a car and after forgetting that cruise control was on fumbled the newly found truck into a fugal spire and when he tried the throw the vehicle in reverse a newly formed fugal wall appeared behind him and after killing 30 fungaloids and fungal zombies ended up dying hacking up spores in the remains of his truck surrounded by fungaloids.
i’ve heard about molotov’s for awhile but never had a readily available liquor store to test em out…well, throw them FAR. burning alive sucks.
Jose Lee tried to outrun a zombie pack lead by a wolf spider. After a couple hits with a plastic jerrycan instead of his karate-chops he decided to fix his mistake by using more severe self-defense measures. Unfortunately, his poor expertise in rifles made his SKS misfire often enough to not be able to finish the wolf spider in time. His twitchy body lied on the ground, his mouth pouring green foam. The zombies didn’t seem to be worried about food poisoning, though.
I tried to drink water. Coincidentally, water was not w, it was W. w was bleach…
Had a particularly successful character going; claimed an LMOE shelter, cleared a few FEMA camps, was on my way to raid a lab. The lab was inaccessible by road thanks to giant death craters, so I tried taking my motorcycle around through a field. Field was full of landmines. No problem; I’ve got Traps 5, 14 Perception, and have disarmed a half dozen landmines so far without incident. Disarm three landmines. Fourth landmine explodes and kills me instantly, regardless of being at full health and fully armoured with kevlar and chitin.
Character who had quite a bit of stuff died while looting a lab. Farg’n turret took me from full health to dead in one burst. I was wearing a kevlar vest and an army helmet…
what is the turret range, btw?
24 tiles IIRC (assuming they can see you, vision radius decreases in darkness obviously).
And my last character went down in a swarm of deadly wildlife involving at least 2 bears, a horde of spiders, some wolves, and a few coyotes (I build my versions) spawned by the constant noise of me driving around running said swarm over.
24 tiles IIRC (assuming they can see you, vision radius decreases in darkness obviously).[/quote]
I just found out the hard way 
Landmines, Landmines everywhere.
Ed’s dead.
He’d been driving around for over a year, looking for a hospital so he could fix his damn legs. Eventually he just gave up and kissed a turret. There’s a billion tons of ammo in the truck.
[quote=“Slax, post:172, topic:339”]Ed’s dead.
He’d been driving around for over a year, looking for a hospital so he could fix his damn legs. Eventually he just gave up and kissed a turret. There’s a billion tons of ammo in the truck.[/quote] Poor Ed 
All he ever wanted to his damn legs back! My story is… I decided to throw a mini nuke and take the explosion to the face like a man 
(And by man I mean like a idiot :D)
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got in a fight with a pack of rats in a cave
Dont get in a fight with a pack of rats in a cave.
Tried to make a “mansion trap” (burning a mansion down with a bunch of enemies inside) I made a line of gunpowder, bandages and other flamable stuff around the house so it started burning faster, because there were like 200 zombies and fungus following me (no kidding). The bad thing is that the line of flamable stuff was faster than me, so I didnt have time to go outside… burned to death with 1000 bullets of 9mm (fucking sentries)
I remember the first time I died in Cataclysm before it was C:DDA. I decided to try to kill the first thing I saw, which was a squirrel. Low to-hit made me miss every time, and somehow the squirrel gained hostility towards me rather than fear. It was consistently hitting 1s on me and chased me into a forest where I got boxed in by trees.
Something like this:
7 77
7@7
7 r 7
It killed me slowly. I didn’t manage to hit it once.
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Triffid grove above, fungal bloom below-- beehive to my rear, and a city ahead.
Day Seven, hundreds dead. Single-handedly cleared half the town and burnt the rest, building a barricade of bodies head-high. Burned down the fungal bloom too. Seriously, the guy deserves a medal.
Breaks into a pawn shop to loot a shiny sword… and beaten to death by a gang of copbots.
War hero, Killed for vagrancy and petty shoplifting, Nowheresville, DDA.
Upgraded a truck full for the first time. Turns out, putting bigger tires on it does not make it float. Also, it turns out, zombie guts are really friggin slippery >(
Hardcore parkour’d onto a giant wasp at night.
the a stands for aaaaaaaawhydididothataaaaaa.
I was hiding inside an evacuation shelter with all the doors and curtains closed, sleeping, when I was woken up by several coyotes who somehow ninja’d their way inside, I did not have my armor on hand, and barely managed to take off my blankets before they were flanking me, I killed one of them with a shotgun blast while the other two ate me alive.
I play with Quick, Parkour Expert, Fleet Footed, and Hardcore as my traits, these do not go well in enclosed spaces with packs of wild animals, regardless of what weapons you may have, and how much ammo you have stockpiled.