I did not crash, rather the moment i hit the brakes, every single NPC was smashed from the back of my RV through the front, mutilating every frame and object they flew through before promptly being caught underneayh what was left of my RV.
Perfect example of what happens when you don’t buckle up.
I once made the mistake of starting a fire to keep warm… Next to a pile of ammo, mininukes, and carl gustav recoiless rifle ammo. I was tired and didn’t think much about it until the entire building I was in was leveled.
Once I attacked a zombie brute with my bare hands and immediately after getting my face punched in that my katana was still in its sheath.
Something like this happened to me once, but I won.
At least you didn’t fight a zombie dog with your katana while wearing your sleeping bag
That actually did happen to one of my random genned characters, Of course a dexterity of 6 probably didn’t help any.
First time I ever encountered a spider-infested basement…
Go down the stairs: “Hmm, spider webs. Well, I have this zweihänder I stole from the museum, and I’ve been able to kill spiders in fields in 1-2 hits. It can’t be THAT bad!”
Pick the lock on the basement door. “Hmmm… that was an awful lot of ??..” Followed by “eh, one monster can cause a lot of those when you do something that takes time. It can’t be THAT bad!”
Open the door. “Giant Black Widow? Maybe it’s worse than I thought…”
WHACK! “oh, that wasn’t too hard.” “Wait, there’s another one…”
WHACK! “uh oh, there’s three more”
WHACK! WH–Ouch! You’ve been badly poisoned-ACK! WHACK! “crap there’s another one, time to shut the door!”
“Can’t close wooden door. There are 5 spider corpses in the way! You idiot.”
50+ spiders, 8 badly-poisionings, 10 aspirin, and an Adderall later…
WHACK! “crap, there’s another one!”
WHACK! “damn, there’s TWO MORE”
check pain level and remaining limbs “Run away! Run away!”
Actually survived that one… thankfully it was cold, and I had a lot of layers of reinforced clothing on, and a doorway choke point to fight in. The spider kill counter for that character was over 60, and she only killed about 3 outside of that incident…
There is one foolproof way to get rid of spider basements and I don’t know it.
You + a katana
You + a katana[/quote]
You still can die with a katana.
I prefer good old “kill it with fire”
Truly the Time Honored way of perpetrating Mass-Murder!
Decent protection on every body part and a decent weapon. Protection is more important against the masses of spiders than being unencumbered: if they can’t bite through your clothes/armour, they can’t poison you. A leather jacket and leather pants aren’t a bad idea; I’d also recommend a helmet of decent coverage, some safety glasses, a protective mouthpiece or some other real mouth protection (a motorcycle helmet would probably work), layered protection on the hands, any decent pair of boots, etc. (And reinforce everything, of course.) That and a knife spear worked pretty well for me–I came out of a basement of like 70 spiders completely unscathed.
Alternately, a good bow with lots of ammo (there can be upwards of a hundred spiders in one of those basements) and a full flashlight. The spiders don’t hunt by sight, so the light’ll only help you, not them.
In any case you shouldn’t torch spider basements. There’s an increased chance of good loot down there–sometimes you still won’t get anything good, but RNGesus is a fickle god. That, and enough chitin to plate a bloody vehicle and enough meat to last you for years. (Or, if you don’t want to eat it, a nearby refugee camp might want some jerky or other preserved meat and not be too discriminating about what it came from. Or you could dehydrate it and make it into protein powder in an attempt to forget its origins. Or yada yada.) And, of course, plenty of experience for your weapon of choice and for Survival when you butcher them all.
If I were to do it again, knowing what’s waiting down there, I’d take the time to knock together a small cart first, and shove it in the doorway as soon as I got it open to slow them down. I think if I’d had my Looter-Scooter down there with me, I might have escaped unscathed.
Spiders can t break down doors.
So you can shut a door behind you and thus they ll be unable to follow you.
You could use this to channel them out one by one to (which i generally do to ensure that i only have to kill one for food and preserve the rest).
I am basicly keeping these spiders like cattle.
[quote=“Valpo, post:34, topic:8489”]-snip-
I am basicly keeping these spiders like cattle.[/quote]
Spider cattle! Spider cattle! Does whatever a spider cattle does!
[quote=“Valpo, post:34, topic:8489”]Spiders can t break down doors.
So you can shut a door behind you and thus they ll be unable to follow you.
You could use this to channel them out one by one to (which i generally do to ensure that i only have to kill one for food and preserve the rest).
I am basicly keeping these spiders like cattle.[/quote]
Just yesterday I was thinking about how that would be a sign of how acclimatized you are to the apocalypse.
“It’s getting late in the autumn. I better get some salt and butcher the spiders in the basement for winter.”
[quote=“Hardluck, post:36, topic:8489”][quote=“Valpo, post:34, topic:8489”]Spiders can t break down doors.
So you can shut a door behind you and thus they ll be unable to follow you.
You could use this to channel them out one by one to (which i generally do to ensure that i only have to kill one for food and preserve the rest).
I am basicly keeping these spiders like cattle.[/quote]
Just yesterday I was thinking about how that would be a sign of how acclimatized you are to the apocalypse.
“It’s getting late in the autumn. I better get some salt and butcher the spiders in the basement for winter.”[/quote]
I just did that… took the pieces for a trunk-onna-frame down, put it together, and shoved it in the open door. Whacked on the wall to wake up the spiders, and it was a total non-event. A little tedious afterwards to go in and clear out all the webs, but turned out to be totally worth it - 100+ meat (thank goodness for solar-powered food dehydrators), and a Mk. II power armor helmet!
[quote=“Valpo, post:34, topic:8489”]Spiders can t break down doors.
So you can shut a door behind you and thus they ll be unable to follow you.
You could use this to channel them out one by one to (which i generally do to ensure that i only have to kill one for food and preserve the rest).
I am basicly keeping these spiders like cattle.[/quote]
I just kill them all and make spider jerky.
Once you found a source of salt like a swamp sure you can do that.
If you don t you can consider my strategy.
Once you found a source of salt like a swamp sure you can do that.
If you don t you can consider my strategy.[/quote]
Or you know, dehydrated spider, brought to you by solar powered foodco.