Wandering around with my latest character, Emilia Ponce, who’s the successor to Summer Smalls. Both of them were Infected scenario starts and both spawned in the same massive city area. Summer had gone around for a while collecting things, making a base at an LMOE shelter that was astonishingly close to said big city, only to accidentally get her leg broken from a single shot of a .50 caliber turret that she strayed too near. She put on a splint for it, but eventually she died because she was trying to loot while her leg was still healing.
Emilia took up her mantle, grabbing her stuff almost straight away since she spawned in a house very close to that, and has since been doing tons of looting, using a composite crossbow. Because of reasons she stayed to the west side of the city, and had been looting to the south and around, noticing as things went on that there were a LOT of fungus colonies. It wasn’t until she looted her way through a lab (that didn’t seem to have a lab finale basement that she could find for some reason) and managed to get a map of the area that she realized why. Prior to that, due to a combination of primarily night-time travel and just sheer luck she had only seen one Fungal Tower on the map.
Turned out there were actually four of them near the city, the other three all off on the sides she hadn’t explored. So I decided that was enough of that and when I felt I was ready I spent several days turning my cube van into a proto-Deathmobile (thanks integrated toolset from being bionic prepper!), loaded up everything from my base and headed off.
I passed by so much fungus as I drove. I originally headed north, because during some random exploration I’d seen a Survival Holdout (Catacylsm ++ I think) and the first one of those I’d run into was great, so I figured it’d make a nice new base. Sure the second one had actually been full of robots and turrets and had killed me the instant I opened the palisade gate, but surely this one would be fine, right?
Right?
Ah, no. Turned out there were zombies. I thought it was just one or two shocker brutes at first. I’d lured one out, managed to kill it after kiting it around trees, and even got CBMs from it. I ducked around the other side of the Holdout and–what’s that? A ZOMBEAR?! It was tearing apart my car!
Fortunately I killed it, more easily than I expected in melee combat because apparently the cheapo plate mail from the mansion I’d looted was better than I thought it was. And my car was fine–it just broke a few windshields. I’d managed to get to it in time to get it out of there. Unfortunately that’s when I ran into the real danger: three zombie necromancers. Plus three more shocker brutes.
I’d never been more scared in this game as I hopped into my car, desperately turning it around all the while getting shocked, watching my head HP go down… 20… 10… 5!
But then I got away. I actually got away.
I’ve just been driving around since. No idea where to go or what to turn into a base because there are strong zombies EVERYWHERE for some reason, and more fungus in most of the directions I’ve gone too. This game is so good I swear.
