[quote=“111Soulite, post:2517, topic:47”]@.@
kinda lost and hungry, and those poison clouds aren’t helping[/quote]
That’s one of the more dangerous mine finales. Best you brave the poison and GTFO; if you went mining without gas-protection gear, then you deserve whatever you get.
So I’ve finally actually started playing again, and poor Ritz who just escapes a giant horde with nothing but the clothes on her back and the backpack she looted off her dead safehouse-mate has come come to a FEMA camp… Only to find a SEA of blood, corpses, and shotgun hulls. I was VERY confused, but when I entered the camp I found this lady with a leather jacket and a shotgun bludgeoning zombies to death with her now ammoless shotgun. I wasn’t able to save her, but she only left around 10 zombies in the camp for me.
Thank you, based NPC. You just made looting that FEMA camp 100% easier. Now Ritz is decked out in an army jacket and steel-toed boots and she has a sheath with a steak knife and a real crowbar. I unfortunately cannot find the NPC’s corpse in the camp, as they’re pretty much everywhere.
(necro reply)
Yea it’s basically a bug, but you can’t trigger it without either cheating or interacting with another bug. (I found it a while back while investigating a save-scrambling bug). It’s pretty amusing to take an up stair from the “top” level and find that there’s something up there 
Started a new chara and found directly west of the shelter a military crash AND dead military guys (nearly got killed by 4 zombie soliders tho).
Then later on I found something a little bit interesting. In a cave (rat king cave) I found more advanced tech than I have ever found in a lab, bunker, outpost (laser turret and DREAD wrist sub-machine gun along with other stuff). Bug or reason behind it?
Just discovered explosive arrows for my archer, Blaze. If any archers are around at the moment, get your hands on ‘The Fletcher’s Friend’ by any means possible. It has absolutely amazing recipes for your archer.
Oh look, a fema camp. Puts on leather armour suit and readies the explosive bow of justice.
[quote=“Jakers, post:2525, topic:47”]Just discovered explosive arrows for my archer, Blaze. If any archers are around at the moment, get your hands on ‘The Fletcher’s Friend’ by any means possible. It has absolutely amazing recipes for your archer.
Oh look, a fema camp. Puts on leather armour suit and readies the explosive bow of justice.[/quote]
Jackers, you will never reach the awesomeness of me with my bow.
[quote=“FunsizeNinja123, post:2526, topic:47”][quote=“Jakers, post:2525, topic:47”]Just discovered explosive arrows for my archer, Blaze. If any archers are around at the moment, get your hands on ‘The Fletcher’s Friend’ by any means possible. It has absolutely amazing recipes for your archer.
Oh look, a fema camp. Puts on leather armour suit and readies the explosive bow of justice.[/quote]
Jackers, you will never reach the awesomeness of me with my bow.[/quote]
You’re probably right… sniff. Out of curiousness what is your awesomeness? (Archery, marksmanship type of bow, blah blah.)
I’m guessing you’re bow is like 
And mine is like 
Accurized reflex recurve bow with a underbarrel laser sight. Metal arrows with a standard quiver.
Headshotting zeds from across the town.
Noobs I have modded an energy bow that imbibes arrows shot from it with electricity. (Not that it makes it a considerably better weapon, its just there to look flashy really.)
Pfft. I used to have an artifact bow. Gave me +3 str and made me faster, but gave me the shakes and sent blood everywhere.
You know I am pretty sure you are lying, I have never stumbled upon an artifact bow.
My energy bow is very real though
[tt]{
“id” : “energybow”,
“type” : “GUN”,
“symbol” : “(”,
“color” : “yellow”,
“name” : “energy bow”,
“description” : “A bow.”,
“price” : 120000,
“material” : [“wood”, “plastic”],
“flags” : [“ALWAYS_TWOHAND”, “STR10_DRAW”, “RELOAD_AND_SHOOT”],
“ammo_effects”: [“LIGHTNING”],
“skill” : “archery”,
“ammo” : “arrow”,
“weight” : 540,
“volume” : 10,
“bashing” : 8,
“cutting” : 0,
“to_hit” : 0,
“ranged_damage” : 12,
“range” : 14,
“dispersion” : 6,
“recoil” : 0,
“durability” : 6,
“burst” : 0,
“clip_size” : 1,
“reload” : 110,
“valid_mod_locations”: [[“underbarrel”, 1]]
},
[/tt]
[quote=“John Candlebury, post:2531, topic:47”]You know I am pretty sure you are lying, I have never stumbled upon an artifact bow.
My energy bow is very real though
[tt]{
“id” : “energybow”,
“type” : “GUN”,
“symbol” : “(”,
“color” : “yellow”,
“name” : “energy bow”,
“description” : “A bow.”,
“price” : 120000,
“material” : [“wood”, “plastic”],
“flags” : [“ALWAYS_TWOHAND”, “STR10_DRAW”, “RELOAD_AND_SHOOT”],
“ammo_effects”: [“LIGHTNING”],
“skill” : “archery”,
“ammo” : “arrow”,
“weight” : 540,
“volume” : 10,
“bashing” : 8,
“cutting” : 0,
“to_hit” : 0,
“ranged_damage” : 12,
“range” : 14,
“dispersion” : 6,
“recoil” : 0,
“durability” : 6,
“burst” : 0,
“clip_size” : 1,
“reload” : 110,
“valid_mod_locations”: [[“underbarrel”, 1]]
},
[/tt][/quote]
Yeah, I’m also gonna call bullshit. Even the artifacts wiki page doesn’t mention bows at all. Might be a newer thing, though. No idea if any artifact stuff has changed.
That energybow, however, looks pretty cool.
Egh. I feel so pathetic right now xD. Don’t worry little composite bow… you’ll be big and strong one day!
Lol I was joking guys.
[size=5pt]Or am I?[/size]
It’s been about 2 years since the cataclysm. The numbers of zombies all over the area are going down, primarily because of the actions of a few elite survivors, including you. But the numbers of other extradimensional creatures have gone up - the portals are still leaking. You have been driving for a few hours toward where you think a fungal spire is, with the intent of destroying it. The two fusion turrets on your car have been thumping faster and faster lately to keep the fungaloids out of your car’s path.
After cresting a ridge, you see out you windshield not one, but four fungal spires all very close together, in the center of an irregular fungal wall. Upon driving closer, you see that the wall used to be a town, with walls of fungus stretching between the gaps in the houses. You drive up to the fuzzy grey wall, preparing to blow it down with a well-placed C4, when two fungus-encrusted turrets free themselves and begin shooting! Fortunately, they only get off a few shots before one runs out of ammo and the other jams. The bullets broke your right front window, but you and your car are otherwise fine.
A few seconds later, a tall, lanky man pokes his head up from a nearby roof. “Sorry 'bout that,” he shouts with a too-wide grin. “Ah hope you ain’t hurt. But ah see that C4 in yer hand and ah hope you ain’t thinkin’ of blowin’ a hole in mah garden wall. And turn off yer turrets. Ther killin’ my plants.”
“Garden wall? There isn’t anything here but fungaloids!” you shout back. You reach into your car and turn off the turrets because frankly this guy gives you the creeps.
“That’s what ah’m growin’! Come inside and look at my beautiful garden!” he says with a smile. He gestures, and the wall you were going to blow up opens inward as a pair of massive double doors. You peer into the hole, revealing the small town to be packed full of fungaloids and shrubs with those strange, pink berries you’ve seen at other fungal spires.
You walk inside, keeping your guard up and examining your surroundings. The turrets follow your movement, but neither shoots. Fungus coats every surface, but strangely not the tall man or his clothes, a tattered and repaired plaid shirt and jeans. “Ah’m sorry, ah never introduced mahself. Ah’m Marloss Man.”
That’s right, Marloss Man has finally finished marlossifying Marloss Town.
MM was a character lucky enough to spawn near a Fungal Spire and a well-stocked military party. He blew up the spire with a rocket launcher, gathered some marloss berries, and proceeded to become awesome. He found a car in a large town, modified it, and began driving from place to place, looting everything. After becoming 10+ at everything important and killing thousands of zombies, he came upon a small town. He decided to fortify the place. By this point, every surface of the town is covered in fungus and marloss bushes. Nothing short of a moving triffid grove could take this place.
MM’s character was that of a farmer who lived near where a portal opened. After the zombies came, he fled to the shelter, but left soon after. He came upon a dead military patrol, and killed a fungal spire with it. After gaining Marloss Carrier, he did what he knew best - farmed marloss berries. He ate so many that he became a sort of god of fungus, and built Marloss Town as his Garden of Eden, where he is king of a near infinite horde.
MM is one of my favorite characters, along with Wolfman, a former scientist gone beast, and The Survivor, a gas-masked ratman wielding a stop sign for a shield and a hand-made sword.
Well, my gas-mask alcoholic/junkie feels insufficient now.
I… Wow. I tip my hat to you, Marloss Man. If only I could be so grossly incandescent dedicated to a single goal.
Ritz has sort of converted the FEMA camp into her home, but I wasn’t planning on it so everything is disorganized and I still have a bunch of corpses around that need pulping. As it turns out, that NPC’s name is Teena, she is VERY much alive, and she is VERY pissed at me for what I can only assume is leaving her for dead. She chased me around the camp but decided to focus on using her shotgun to try breaking into the room where the hulk is kept with little success. And now she has a friend in there too, who also wants my blood but is too busy trying to get at the hulk. Silly NPCS.
Ritz now has a duffel bag for looting runs (thanks military zombies!), and I’ve discovered how useful sheathes can be now that they really work. Drawing my steak knife and plunging it into the chest of a zombie has never been so satisfying. Now I just need to find a machete so I can get that higher damage without being too slow.
I told my friend (who doesn’t play Cata) about Marloss Man and he loved it. So I decided to post his story here.
Just got a load of useful tool and am now living in a cabin with in 4 map tiles of a mansion that I cleared out. Gonna be fun. and all this withing 10 minutes of starting.
I stepped on a land mine and came off completely fine 
No pain, either.