[quote=“Tamior, post:17242, topic:42”]Ah, yes, schools.
The only place to rival the spawn density of Irradiated Wanderers in the vault.[/quote]
Yeah, early game (when you need the books most), I usually try to sneak in the back, break a window (if the Zs didn’t do it for me) and loot the library without ever dealing with the horde. If you really want to clear it out some first, go early in the night or the night before, get close, make a good sized pile of flammables, light it up, wait a turn or two, then run - all the Zs (and especially child Zs that are so hard to hit with a new character) will congregate right there and many of them will burn. Come back a few hours before morning, repeat off to one side of the other (to draw the survivors), go back to the original spot, and pulp the corpses. Bam, school is much less dangerous now (but only “less dangerous”, not “safe”).
Schools are also a GREAT place in the early game to get backpacks and other such “school kid” storage. Pretty common to find Swiss army knives, too, not to mention the usually decent stash of food in the cafeteria (and often a gallon or two of milk, useful for the gallon containers if nothing else). Schools can make really great early bases, if you can clean them out well enough.
