Staying aboveground a lab right now. Found atomic light for a light source. Got a wheelbarrow, modified it to a wheelbarrow with trunk instead of box. The town itself is uber close, like two to three forest spaces into the next house. If I take care, I’d be safe as long as I don’t fire my gun aboveground near my hiding place.
I do have some good gear going. On one basement, I found a cache of guns to use, and there were a lot of shotgun rounds, but no shotgun, and I found one from disarming a shotgun trap. Melee wise, I found a nodachi, katana, and wakizashi on a museum raid. Armor is decent. Most of them got lined with kevlar, some chitin armor, some survivor gear. Found an optical cloak, perfect condition, off a zombie soldier on a nearby FEMA camp.
Most importantly, found light amp goggles at the start. I started the firefighter scenario, and found it on either one of the firefighter zombies or the NPC (who got killed because he gave me his ammo like a dumbass instead of a lighter). The gun he used? Automagnum. So with the goggles and the gun, I decided to wait it out at night before making a run for it. When night fell, I had set up some flammable objects on the garage gate, set it on fire, open said gates, and then exit through the other door.
It was a freaking huge city, though thankfully my starting map just showed a spot at the very northeast edge that had an evac shelter. Seriously, never got full nightvision before and these light amp goggles really do the trick. Managed to avoid groups of things than can kill me quite easily… though I had to be careful around cars, since some of those had lights on.
Anyway, I hid out in the shelter until I found the lab. Both are close to the city, real close, but at least the lab had metal doors and a forest. Plus, some distance north of the evac shelter I began to see fungaloids. I went nope, and quickly searched for a new place to hide.
So far, been collecting books, stocking up on water on whatever container I could find. Since seasons are at 91 days, I reckon I do my stocking up during spring, and not venture out too much in summer. I’ll probably take that time to cover the lab area with a log wall, and set up farm land beside it. Main goal: completely exterminate the zombie population of that city. The lab itself can wait until later.
Slowly clearing out the streets near the lab. Armor is decent, got thrown into a wall of a house by a brute, destroying said wall, but only got off with some small damage in all parts, from ||||| health to just ||||/, and 4 pain.
And there were two zombie masters. If they had a group of zombies, I’d have been in trouble, but I managed to lure them into an isolated alley and dispatch them one at a time.
One of them wore hot pants and only that. Huh.
