So, I created an awesome character today. My best yet.
[spoiler=Wall of Text](NOTE: I play on Classic Zombies for a futuristic Romero-style feel.)
I made a character based off of me, with roughly my own IQ and the lower than average strength that I have. I discovered a nearby Public Works facility, and I figured they’d have halfway decent weapons and good tools, so I only made a wood spear and set out. After dispatching the local zombies, I found a charcoal forge, a welder and goggles, that kind of stuff. I rigged up a steel spear and set out to honing my skills.
A few days later, after battling (and getting over, courtesy of the nearby zombie-infested town providing blaket-rags) sleep deprivation, I found a mostly intact cube van with enough gas to get to the closest station and fill up a bit. Afterward, I honed my skills in combat and annihilated the entire nearby township’s zombies. I had run over a wolf with the cube van at some point though, and this led to the entire passenger seat, roof and all, being ripped out. I searched for a mechanics book, but there was none.
Then, I looked south, to the school.
I patched up my clothes and readied my spear. I set off toward the school and was immediately bombarded by tiny zombies. Killing one after another trained my spear skills (A deathmatch with the Aiel? Ha! Easy.) and my mind (What’s this? Zombie Hitler is holocausting all the remaining human children? Pffft.). I destroyed the entire school of undead and found…
Mechanical Mastery. The only mechanics book in the entire school required Level 3 mechanics beforehand to be any use. (The library also contained romance and “adult” novels, too, and I found friggin’ guns in there.) I took the good books and left. I got in the cube van and set off to the west. On the way, I brushed up on chemistry and found a pile of CBM’s that would be too risky to install. I encountered a flooded section of road and walked around it and proceeded on foot, eventually finding a Wal-Mart and some explosives crates. I used dynamite and grenades to destroy the undead and eventually found some useful things. (One, two, five!) I then proceeded south to the nearby town. I hooked up a car with some batteries (followed by zombies all the way) and walked over to a gas station, filling a gallon jug with gasoline. I knocked the zombie in the driver’s seat out of the way, hopped in, and drove up to where I left the van.
I dismantled the car partially and fixed the seat of the van (converting it into a floor cargo space), performed general repairs on the roof and sides of the van, and used a seat from the car to make a bed in the back of the van. I built a door between the driver’s seat (henceforth referred to as the “cockpit”) and cargo space (henceforth referred to as “crew’s quarters”), renamed it “Batmobile”, and set off the other way.
I encountered a much larger town that way, and I decided to rebuild civilization and stab all the zombies into chunks. I got sick a few days after getting there, however, and was forced to stay in the crew’s quarters reading. I did, however, find an RV, and I installed its kitchen unit into the crew’s quarters (which were, by this point, full of leather scraps, food, explosives, guns, and the like).
After recovering, I have now set out to reclaim the town. Wish me luck![/spoiler]
