# My First Kill, and DEath
**URL:** https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/my-first-kill-and-death/11590
**Category:** The Bunker
**Created:** [March 20, 2016, 8:37pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/my-first-kill-and-death/11590 "2016-03-20T20:37:36Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@Caplin](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Caplin)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2016, 8:37pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/my-first-kill-and-death/11590/1 "2016-03-20T20:37:36Z")
So I was wandering around outside the shelter on the first day, not really sure where to go. There were fields and shrubs and flowers, and eventually a road. I hadn’t been able to find a backpack or any other container in the basement.
I was alerted to the presence of a group of horrors, including a decayed zombie and a Mi-Go. Not really sure what I ought to do, I decided to try and fight the former, hoping the latter would stay well away.
I ended up bashing the thing to death with a rock—not even a sharp one. I could have probably handled things better, but managed to escape more or less intact. I grabbed its sling pack and tried to head in the general direction of home.
Of course, the mi-go ran after me and pretty much did me in without a fight. I had only a vague idea of where the shelter was, and so was probably inefficient about the whole “fleeing in terror,” thing. Still, at least I got a container?
Lessons from this: make sure to have at least some idea where I’m going before I blunder off into the wilderness. Run away faster. I’m a bit unsure how I can work on the former right now. But this is progress, of a sort. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Litppunk](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Litppunk)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2016, 9:57pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/my-first-kill-and-death/11590/2 "2016-03-20T21:57:55Z")
world map should help with that. To get a good start I recommend running out and grabbing a rock, bashin up the shelter for metal and wood, then crafting a makeshift crowbar, enough makeshift pick-locks to get to level 1 fab, and two wooden frames, then building a cart with (\*) the construction menu and then (E)xamining it and (I)nstalling a box so it can be a draggable container.
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### Author:  [@Labtop\_215](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Labtop_215)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2016, 11:39pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/my-first-kill-and-death/11590/3 "2016-03-20T23:39:14Z")
Press the M key for a bigger map. Or as a challenge you could draw one in real life if you want, but you might end up losing characters quickly, so that’s probably something to pick up much later on.
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### Author:  [@Caplin](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Caplin)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2016, 2:44am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/my-first-kill-and-death/11590/4 "2016-03-21T02:44:08Z")
Well, drawing a map on my own would require Braillegraph paper of some sort, I imagine, and better access to the world map than I’m comfortable with at the moment. 🙂 It’s a nice idea though, in theory.
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### Author:  [@Litppunk](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Litppunk)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2016, 5:02am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/my-first-kill-and-death/11590/5 "2016-03-21T05:02:28Z")
Perhaps too subtle. I wonder if he will pick up on it without reading your other thread…
memorize the layout of your world. Easy. 😛
The game tends to make cities somewhat centralized, so if you see a house, it is part of a town somewhere. This does not apply to all buildings, just the ones you would expect to show up in a town.