I was having a pretty good run - I’d cracked open a couple of bank vaults/basement safes, and found a heavy power armor to match the heavy helmet back at my base. I then went into another house basement and saw a safe among the junk. “Score,” I thought. I walked a few step in, when…
“A piercing beam of light bursts forth!”
Somewhere to the southwest, there was apparently a floating eye. However, apparently when you’re underground, the ceiling doesn’t fall on you, so I thought I’d just run to the safe, crack it, and get out. One small problem with that plan: The collapsing rock walls had left me quite deaf. You can’t crack safes while deaf. And as long as the eye was back there wrecking things, I would stay deafened.
For once, I decided not to push my luck, and “NOPE’d” out of there. The eye would be within range of the other basements on the block, and I had perishable food in my looting buggy, so it was time to go. I punched out and headed for home, only to realize that I was still deaf. Some triffid queens had blocked the way I came, so I decided to look for an off-road route. Of course, I ran over a mine. It did quite a bit of damage, but since both I and my vehicle were armored, we were both still functional, at least. Then I discovered that there were a couple of undrivable forest tiles between me and the way home, and I couldn’t see any other way around, and night was falling, and I was in pain and still deaf and wondering if my hearing would ever return…
It was an emotional low point.
