What's Happening in YOUR Randomly-generated Apocalypse?

[Steelmaniac]

There’s no gas station in the town, so I’m debating if it’s worth it to search for a vehicle now, or to search other nearby towns for one with a gas station and welding stuff.

Try to suck as much gasoline as you can from crashed/stuck cars if you find one that works but doesnt have enough gas to start up.
If it’s also out of battery power, you can refill car batteries using normal batteries. Go figure.

[Lord_Letto]

[quote=“Rosanna Foxfire, post:4760, topic:47”]There’s no gas station in the town, so I’m debating if it’s worth it to search for a vehicle now, or to search other nearby towns for one with a gas station and welding stuff.

Try to suck as much gasoline as you can from crashed/stuck cars if you find one that works but doesnt have enough gas to start up.
If it’s also out of battery power, you can refill car batteries using normal batteries. Go figure.[/quote]
to Siphon Fuel, you need a Rubber Hose (Can be obtained by Smashing a Fridge to death) and any Watertight Container, to refuel you need to examine the car and look for the tile with the fuel tank, also note the condition, IIRC Yellow-Pink-Red Leaks Fuel, More so the worse the condition is.

[Rosanna_Foxfire]

Good to know. I just died to an infection. I was scrambling around the same town in the hopes of finding a medkit or disinfectant and was very reckless.

[Jakers]

Good to know. I just died to an infection. I was scrambling around the same town in the hopes of finding a medkit or disinfectant and was very reckless.

Cauterize yourself! Sure it hurts… but… uh… I guess it’s better than dying. All you need is knife and some sort of fire source, a lighter’s probably best.

If you already knew that, then you are very unlucky, RIP

[Rosanna_Foxfire]

[quote=“Rosanna Foxfire, post:4763, topic:47”]Good to know. I just died to an infection. I was scrambling around the same town in the hopes of finding a medkit or disinfectant and was very reckless.

Cauterize yourself! Sure it hurts… but… uh… I guess it’s better than dying. All you need is knife and some sort of fire source, a lighter’s probably best.

If you already knew that, then you are very unlucky, RIP[/quote]

…I had forgotten I could do such a thing.

Which sucks, because I had a safe location loaded with supplies and painkillers.

[digitCruncher]

Is in summer, after a very long hiatus. The LMOA shelter to the north is still heavily entrenched with zombies, and is very difficult to access. So in the meantime, I am looting an ice lab. I have looted a couple of books (but my 8 int means that learning advanced things is very slow). Installed my first bionic (a battery), and found my first serum (Ursine!). I probably can go toe-to-toe with a turrent, and once I have completely scouted out the level except for the turrent-regions, I will fight the turrent(s)

Little worried about what is in the north-east part of the lab. Whatever it is, it is very loud, and I can hear it from at least 70-80 distance. I would probably be deafened before I have to fight whatever it is. Also, dissicators are a little scary. Saw a zombie scientist get cleaved in two…

After I clear the top level, however, I am going to live there! Build my own little house nearby and everything! The ability to never have to worry about preserving food is just too valuable. And my solar car is gaining more energy than I can use, so I can loot several nearby cities, which is great!

[Rhodri]

Just set fire to a spider basement. SMOKE AND FIRE EVERYWHERE!

[Jakers]

Just set fire to a spider basement. SMOKE AND FIRE EVERYWHERE!

YOU MADMAN

YOU WASTED TONS OF GOOD SPIDER JERKY

(?) Jakers will remember this.

[Rosanna_Foxfire]

I happened to respawn in a shelter remarkably close to where I was, with a basement filled with zombies. I survived the zombies, and collected the items I had left behind in my previous life, including a functional hippie van, with almost a full tank of gas. A few moments to recollect my skills and make a better melee weapon, and I was off to the nearby lab!

Unfortunately, someone decided to put a tank drone in a roadblock. And I was driving towards it at a leisurely 30 miles per hour.

Needless to say I did not last long.

[Jakers]

Oh dear. Tank bots truely are pure death, suffering and regret in ASCII form.

RIP in pepperonis.

Here would be a good place to offer some advice on how to survive a tankbot attack but its really quite simple. You don’t.

[Rhodri]

[quote=“Rhodri, post:4767, topic:47”]Just set fire to a spider basement. SMOKE AND FIRE EVERYWHERE!

YOU MADMAN

YOU WASTED TONS OF GOOD SPIDER JERKY

(?) Jakers will remember this.[/quote]

The RNG shares your anger, apparently. A tear in reality keeps sending hunting horrors at me.

[Jakers]

[quote=“Jakers, post:4768, topic:47”][quote=“Rhodri, post:4767, topic:47”]Just set fire to a spider basement. SMOKE AND FIRE EVERYWHERE!

YOU MADMAN

YOU WASTED TONS OF GOOD SPIDER JERKY

(?) Jakers will remember this.[/quote]

The RNG shares your anger, apparently. A tear in reality keeps sending hunting horrors at me.[/quote]

FEEL MY WRATH

[Rhodri]

[quote=“Rhodri, post:4771, topic:47”][quote=“Jakers, post:4768, topic:47”][quote=“Rhodri, post:4767, topic:47”]Just set fire to a spider basement. SMOKE AND FIRE EVERYWHERE!

YOU MADMAN

YOU WASTED TONS OF GOOD SPIDER JERKY

(?) Jakers will remember this.[/quote]

The RNG shares your anger, apparently. A tear in reality keeps sending hunting horrors at me.[/quote]

FEEL MY WRATH[/quote]

You won’t take me alive! Because I killed myself. Those things were merely annoying. You annoyed me to death, my only weakness, really.

[iceball3]

So i got caught up in my first gun to gun NPC confrontation this character.

Holy hell that was close.
Lesson learned, in the same range field:
Rivtech shotgun >>> rivtech smg
But,
Rivtech smg + goo canister + adrenaline shot + rivtech medical injector + bump of cocain >= rivtech shotgun
Point is that was a really close one, and now i got a shotgun to fire that ammo i’ve been finding!
Well, once i can get back up again, i seem to be stuck on the ground from sheer pain…

[Nopkar]

Finally broke the Prime threshold on my unwilling experiment character. to celebrate I equipped my samurai armor with a diamond katana and cleansed a town. The mental image is just too awesome

I keep referring to myself as The Prime. I’m having way too much fun with this character

[Steelmaniac]

find vibrator
masturbate innapolicecar with a shitton of Zs banging at the garage’s door wearing a torn US soldier uniform covered in blood
such is life in CDDA

[Rhodri]

After getting a shitty spawn, I said “Fuck it” and went to a nearby fungal bloom. A few marloss things later, I have a few friendly fungaloids turning against their own kind. This will be interesting.

[Rivet]

[quote=“Steelmaniac, post:4776, topic:47”]>find vibrator

masturbate innapolicecar with a shitton of Zs banging at the garage’s door wearing a torn US soldier uniform covered in blood
such is life in CDDA[/quote]

Now give it a name and use it to slay them all.
Such is death in CDDA.

[Loendal]

I’ve been doing some exploring in my Rambler RV… Came upon my first mall. I’ve killed something like 40 of the buggers already and I haven’t even gotten close to the doors yet!

Wish me luck!

Edit: I KNEW I shouldn’t have come in here telling my tale! Look what happened!!

Cataclysm - Dark Days Ahead version 0.B memorial file

In memory of: Jeffry Oreilly
"Argh!!! The bloody corner wall"

He was a Cop when the apocalypse began.
He died on Summer of year 2, day 14, at 11:48:18AM.
He was killed in a road in the wilderness.

Cash on hand: $5881

Final HP:
Head: 74/74
Torso: 0/93
L Arm: 24/93
R Arm: 40/93
L Leg: 92/93
R Leg: 85/93

Final Stats:
Str 3 Dex 2 Int 4 Per 4
Base Stats:
Str 11 Dex 10 Int 10 Per 10

Kills:
a - 12 giant ants
a - 5 soldier ants
B - 2 bears
O - 9 blobs
o - 36 small blobs
Z - 45 boomers
@ - 3 C.H.U.D.s
d - 1 coyote
d - 1 coyote
D - 1 deer
d - 3 dogs
d - 5 skeletal dogs
d - 3 Z-9s
d - 1 fox
F - 1 fungaloid
s - 2 half worms
k - 2 krecks
& - 1 mi-go
M - 2 mooses
p - 1 opossum
r - 3 sewer rats
s - 1 sewer snake
Z - 7 skeletons
s - 1 giant jumping spider
s - 17 giant black widows
c - 1 giant black widow spiderling
s - 1 giant wolf spider
r - 3 squirrels
a - 8 giant wasps
w - 1 wolf
W - 1 giant worm
w - 3 grim howlers
B - 2 zombears
Z - 488 zombies
Z - 4 zombie brutes
Z - 2 shocker brutes
z - 50 zombie children
Z - 12 zombie cops
Z - 6 crawling zombies
d - 21 zombie dogs
Z - 6 shocker zombies
Z - 35 fat zombies
Z - 1 firefighter zombie
Z - 1 bloated zombie
Z - 8 grabber zombies
Z - 2 hazmat zombies
Z - 8 feral hunters
Z - 1 zombie necromancer
Z - 17 decayed zombies
Z - 3 zombie scientists
Z - 9 shrieker zombies
Z - 2 smoker zombies
Z - 4 zombie soldiers
Z - 29 spitter zombies
Z - 10 survivor zombies
Z - 13 swimmer zombies
Z - 1 zombie technician
Z - 31 tough zombies
M - 1 antlered horror
C - 4 decayed pouncers
Total kills: 954

Skills:
bartering: 0 (56%)
computers: 1 (16%)
construction: 3 (68%)
cooking: 4 (27%)
driving: 3 (99%)
electronics: 2 (93%)
fabrication: 5 (83%)
first aid: 2 (49%)
mechanics: 21 (70%)
speaking: 1 (39%)
survival: 6 (89%)
swimming: 0 (0%)
tailoring: 5 (98%)
trapping: 3 (95%)
archery: 6 (4%)
bashing weapons: 8 (15%)
cutting weapons: 7 (59%)
dodging: 5 (49%)
marksmanship: 6 (88%)
launchers: 0 (0%)
melee: 8 (93%)
piercing weapons: 0 (7%)
throwing: 0 (61%)
unarmed combat: 0 (4%)
handguns: 4 (0%)
rifles: 3 (48%)
shotguns: 0 (6%)
submachine guns: 0 (99%)

Traits:
Addictive Personality
Glass Jaw
Hates Vegetables
Night Vision
Parkour Expert
Police Officer
Trigger Happy
Truth Teller

Ongoing Effects:
Bite - Right Arm
Bite - Torso
Pain (132)
Bionics:
No bionics were installed.
Power: 0/0

Weapon:
& - accurized USP 9mm+++++

Equipment:
a - torn boxer shorts (fits)
c - reinforced pair of socks (fits)
d - deputy badge
g - reinforced holster (fits)
D - reinforced pair of leather armor gauntlets (fits)
I - rain hood
X - reinforced holster (fits)
" - reinforced wrist watch
E - reinforced MBR vest (kevlar plates) (fits)
U - chest rig (fits)
k - reinforced ankle holster (fits)
[ - reinforced filter mask
R - reinforced large quiver with fletched field point wooden arrow (fits) (7)
/ - reinforced pair of elbow pads (fits)
! - reinforced pair of drop leg pouches (fits)
A - reinforced wearable flashlight
J - reinforced ankle holster with reinforced trench knife (fits)
H - tool belt (fits)
( - reinforced riot helmet
u - reinforced pair of survivor gloves (fits)
i - reinforced pair of knee pads (fits)
o - reinforced pair of combat boots (fits)
s - reinforced pair of ballistic glasses
q - reinforced survivor cargo pants (fits)
e - pair of metal leg guards
v - reinforced pair of chitin arm guards
T - reinforced leather backpack

Inventory:
F - accurized Bushmaster ACR++++++
Z - recurve bow+

- 9mm (276)

t - pair of binoculars
C - pair of bolt cutters
n - crowbar
f - flashlight (off) (100)
K - hacksaw
B - hammer
y - multi-tool
l - bone needle (197)
M - refillable lighter (23)
w - screwdriver
b - soldering iron (18)
r - wrench
O - backpack
m - pair of welding goggles
P - gas mask
h - meat jerky (33)
N - 2.5L canteen of clean water (1)
p - first aid kit (11)
j - aspirin (57)

• • bandage (9)
    = - cigarette (20)
    x - .45 caliber conversion kit
    G - atomic nightlight
    z - duct tape (200)

Lifetime Stats
Distance walked: 296 squares
Damage taken: 222 damage
Damage healed: 39 damage
Headshots: 3

Game History
| Year 1, Spring 1, 8:00:00 AM | evac shelter | Jeffry Oreilly began their journey into the Cataclysm.
| Year 1, Spring 2, 12:13:00PM | mansion | Received a deep bite wound.
| Year 1, Spring 2, 2:03:42 PM | mansion | Worn rain coat (fits) was completely destroyed.
| Year 1, Spring 2, 6:13:00 PM | field | Contracted an infection.
| Year 1, Spring 2, 6:13:00 PM | field | Recovered from a bite wound.

| Year 1, Spring 3, 8:55:06 AM | house | Recovered from an infection… this time.

| Year 1, Spring 3, 4:00:00 PM | road | Caught a cold.

| Year 1, Spring 4, 9:42:42 AM | evac shelter | Became addicted to sleeping pills.
| Year 1, Spring 5, 11:40:06PM | evac shelter | Succumbed to lack of sleep.
| Year 1, Spring 6, 12:10:06AM | evac shelter | Succumbed to lack of sleep.
| Year 1, Spring 6, 12:35:06AM | evac shelter | Succumbed to lack of sleep.
| Year 1, Spring 6, 2:00:06 AM | evac shelter | Succumbed to lack of sleep.
| Year 1, Spring 6, 2:30:06 AM | evac shelter | Succumbed to lack of sleep.
| Year 1, Spring 6, 3:05:06 AM | evac shelter | Succumbed to lack of sleep.
| Year 1, Spring 6, 4:10:06 AM | evac shelter | Succumbed to lack of sleep.
| Year 1, Spring 6, 4:35:06 AM | evac shelter | Succumbed to lack of sleep.
| Year 1, Spring 6, 5:35:06 AM | evac shelter | Succumbed to lack of sleep.
| Year 1, Spring 6, 6:15:06 AM | evac shelter | Succumbed to lack of sleep.
| Year 1, Spring 6, 6:45:06 AM | evac shelter | Succumbed to lack of sleep.
| Year 1, Spring 6, 7:10:06 AM | evac shelter | Succumbed to lack of sleep.
| Year 1, Spring 6, 7:35:06 AM | evac shelter | Succumbed to lack of sleep.
| Year 1, Spring 6, 8:15:06 AM | evac shelter | Succumbed to lack of sleep.
| Year 1, Spring 6, 9:00:06 AM | evac shelter | Succumbed to lack of sleep.
| Year 1, Spring 6, 9:50:06 AM | evac shelter | Succumbed to lack of sleep.
| Year 1, Spring 6, 10:15:06AM | evac shelter | Succumbed to lack of sleep.
| Year 1, Spring 6, 10:45:06AM | evac shelter | Succumbed to lack of sleep.
| Year 1, Spring 6, 11:30:06AM | evac shelter | Succumbed to lack of sleep.
| Year 1, Spring 10, 5:30:00 AM | evac shelter | Caught a cold.

| Year 2, Summer 4, 1:20:00 AM | road | Broken left arm began to mend.
| Year 2, Summer 4, 11:00:00PM | evac shelter | Broken left leg began to mend.

| Year 2, Summer 6, 9:40:00 PM | road | Broken right leg began to mend.
| Year 2, Summer 9, 8:33:54 PM | house | Became addicted to nicotine.

| Year 2, Summer 14, 11:48:18AM | road | Jeffry Oreilly was killed.

I got forced into a corner then more came around the wall and surrounded me… Dangit! Curse you DDA!!

[Keyreper]

blame your lack of high melee and high dodge skills, not the game.