New player here (hello, everyone!).
After a few tries just to get to understand the game a bit better, I have made my first “true” character: “Old Man Wang”. Well, he’s both short and near sighted, hard of hearing, an heavy sleeper and truth teller (that makes me think a bit of Grandpa Simpson)… and knows kung fu.
So in my mind I pictured him like a chinese senior citizen. 
Spawned into an evac shelter near the little town of Hamlin to the east, with a fungal tower somewhat too close to the west and a military outpost further away to the southwest.
No problems with the fungi so long, luckily. Wang has spotted a mi-go battling some blobs when he ventured a bit to the north: when it attacked and killed a moose, Wang decided to confront it for the spoils (that was a lot of meat and other resources after all!).
It took some 6 bullets from a 9mm pistol he had found earlier to scare the mi-go away: a victory nonetheless and there also where a few dead people and their goodies around. Mostly drugs. Maybe drug smugglers?
Anyway most of the meat spoiled: Wang learned he would need to get better skills and equipment to start to preserve the food he found.
Now 14 days after the apocalypse: Hamlin it’s almost free.
Wang has acquired both the ingredients and the cooking skill to preserve fresh food for quite a long time. A couple funnels keep an alluminium keg and a plastic jerrican full, so water is no longer a problem.
Decent equipment and a shopping cart to move stuff: manufactured a couple of grenades with birdshot.
Also, the town is full of vehicles: even a few humvee and an APC! One electric car with intact solar panels, too. Might get to work on some vehicle when the town is finally zombie-free.
Funniest moments:
Old Man Wang almost got trapped by zombies into an art gallery: smashed his way out through a glass window, only to discover that police robots are still active.
So what do you do when the fire-hardened arrows of your shortbow bounce off the plating of a police bot? You run away.
And since you are running, you might as well run toward a few zombies, then dart away and let your two enemies massacre each other!
The police bot killed some ten zombies before being destroyed (I think because of a spitter throwing acid at it). Wang killed off the couple zeds still on their feet and butchered all of them before going back to the shelter for dinner and rest.
The morning after Wang is back in town when a riot bot intercepts him. Oh, c’mon!
Same old tactic: Wang ran into the town, down a crossroad and into half a dozen zombies, then hid behing an abandoned humvee. While zombies and bot where exchanging greetings, he ventured further hoping to find another spitter zombie or something, to kill the bot: no luck this time but he managed to lead another dozen zombies to the royal rumble in the street.
A bit of times passed while Old Man Wang ate cracklins while enjoying the show. However, as fun it was seeing the robot thrown away by a zombie brute, the fight was looking inconclusive: the riot bot wasn’t equipped to deal significant damage and the zombies were at most scratching the paint from its metal plate.
Time to end the show with a bang. Literally.
Wang had been training with throwing peebles and marbles just in case such a situation would present itself: so he pulled out one of his homemade grenades and pulled the pin. As it landed precisely in the middle of the brawling mob, Wang ran like hell away: he was barely outside of the blast radius when the bomb went off, just like in a Vin Diesel movie.
20 some zombies and a robocop killed with one fell swoop.
Sadly the humvee got a bit of damage too, but as they say “you can’t make an omelette without blowing up something with homemade explosives”.