What's Happening in YOUR Randomly-generated Apocalypse?

[Kryxx]

So 3rd level of this Lab I went into the other day. I encountered a room with crawlers, haunted somethings, and 2 shoggoth’s behind reinforced glass. One haunted thing came from the right, no idea where, but I backpedaled with the fusion blaster charged, and hit it hard. with 3 x5 charges. I didn’t have my fire extinguisher to put the fires out. I closed the doors and left that area.

Except, there’s another door out in that room, and the whole thing collasped due to that much fire… Odds the critters are dead? I’m not hearing any banging… but it’s all smoke…

Maybe I’ll just get the jack hammer ready in another direction and test out over there

edit: OKay, opened a side door into that room, tossed something inside, and heard through the smoke “TEKEL_I-LI! TEKEL_I-LI! TEKEL_I-LI!” Not sure which critter that is, it came from the area where they were behind glass. Time to vacant this area

[Kadian]

edit: OKay, opened a side door into that room, tossed something inside, and heard through the smoke “TEKEL_I-LI! TEKEL_I-LI! TEKEL_I-LI!” Not sure which critter that is, it came from the area where they were behind glass. Time to vacant this area

Shoggoth’s say Tekeli-li ; They keep repeating it because it’s a cry their old masters used. In The Cthulhu mythos, the great old one Hastur also used this cry, but so far it is not known what exactly it means.

[Kryxx]

[quote=“Kryxx, post:7561, topic:47”]edit: OKay, opened a side door into that room, tossed something inside, and heard through the smoke “TEKEL_I-LI! TEKEL_I-LI! TEKEL_I-LI!” Not sure which critter that is, it came from the area where they were behind glass. Time to vacant this area

Shoggoth’s say Tekeli-li ; They keep repeating it because it’s a cry their old masters used. In The Cthulhu mythos, the great old one Hastur also used this cry, but so far it is not known what exactly it means.[/quote]

And there’s two in that room or was. Still not sure if it was a complete collapse to open their cages or not. Too much smoke. Don’t labs have like 4 levels down? That room is the way I need to go if so.

I think I’ll make a pickaxe and mine down 1 level.

[TheWumpus]

Reinstalled metal doors in my icelab base. Found out just how dangerous bio-operators are with the new encumberance system, even with Dielectric Capacitors installed. Looted gun stores. Accidentally set a gas station on fire, ran like hell.

[Pthalocy]

LAB START

FOUND LOTS OF INGREDIENTS FOR MAKING EXPLOSIVES.

DON’T KNOW HOW TO CRAFT EXPLOSIVES.

FOUND LUPINE MUTAGEN!! YEAH FURTHERING MY BEASTY POWERS (I started with some ursine traits as an unwilling test subject)

THICK SKINNED BECOMES THIN SKINNED? That is wolf like???

GOT UGLY.

UGLY IMMEDIATELY TURNED INTO PRETTY.

BECAME PALE.

I do not understand how wolf serum turned me toward the pasty prettyboy aisle, but the generic mutagenic serum I used way too soon afterwards turned my face into a bear. I am a highly photogenic bear man now.

With bomb!

Okay, pre-bomb.

[Kryxx]

How much health do Zombie Hulks have…? the .50 Cal rifle did 178 (headshot), 88, 177 (headshot), 101. So 450+? Maybe I need a few more damage mods on this gun.

So that lab was only 3 levels deep. Driving back to my ‘base’, I drove around the other side of that town… and ran into 400 billion blobs… I started everything I could on fire to kill them. My base is only a short way away in a smaller town. Probably within the reality bubble.

Time to finish the mobile base, and to move on.

Besides that there’s like a mine, strangle temple. fungal flower, tower, 2 more labs, and a missle silo tower, all within 1 screen of that last lab. East of the blob put there’s a giant bee hive… never seen one of those. it’s… 9x9 on the map.

I wish I could blow the triple lane bridge up behind me as I cross easily.

[Azrad]

Bee hives are a nice source of wax, honey comb, and royal jelly. For the wax you either need a jackhammer or a good bashing weapons on the walls.

Also, labs with lots of nether creatures sealed in small rooms is one of the bottom levels possible in labs. No real loot to nab.

[Azrad]

Gonna move out of my current base. Hordes pop in from time to time, but they’re not too bad. Main reason is that the area I’m shacking in is pretty desolate. Nothing interesting to explore. Nearest town takes 2-3 hours on foot, etc.

Increased cooking skill to four, and thankfully it’s still cold spring weather so the human fleshes I got from those corpse piles ain’t old yet. Got enough salt and human bones to preserve them. Once that’s done I’m outta there. Only time I’ll come back is when I find a suitable place to call home, to collect the two barrels of whiskey I got.

[BigLie]

Bee hives are a nice source of wax, honey comb, and royal jelly. For the wax you either need a jackhammer or a good bashing weapons on the walls.

Or you could eat honey combs. Those leave some wax for me after eating them.

I haven’t been injecting any mutagen lately but I seem to be mutating nonetheless. ‘You have gained a mutation Pretty!’ Well… Not bad, I guess.

Wasted my scooter. There was just too much blob on the road. Good news: cut some corners through the fields, found a dented Humvee with a plastic jerrycan full of diesel in the boot. Thanks RNG.

[Azrad]

Yeah, but simply eating honeycombs doesn’t assert my dominance against the bees.

Anyways, the semi-nomadic journey begins. Found two anthills close to each other, with one leading to some sewers. Since it’s still early, the food storage areas still had food - and four mutated legs found. First gave rough skin, the second chitin skin. Third was fey eyes, and fourth removed the chitin for phelloderm. I guess my character is gravitating to elfdom no matter what.

[Random_dragon]

I guess my character is gravitating to elfdom no matter what.

Soon, you will be delicious. =w=

[Azrad]

Elves are naturally delicious. It’s due to being better than everybody at everything!

Found a pump station. Nearby public works as well. Tempted to use the pump station as a base, but I reckon that I’ll wait until morning first, so I have an idea of the surrounding area.

[Random_dragon]

Pump station, instead of a gas station? I could’ve sworn that was a sign of a necopolis…

[Lexx]

My swamp-hobo-spearman-cyborg is alive at day 71/91 of spring. Raided a few libraries. Got some decent high end books. just need to get some mid level fabrication books found and I can go crazy with crafting.Till then I’m at a sort of bottleneck for making new gear. But that hasn’t stopped me from a successful raid on the hospital across the river . Caved in a rear wall with my fireaxe to get right to the storage rooms for the drugs. Good haul of varied drugs including a stethoscope. Building up my CBMs installed. mostly a load of power ones, Joint torsion , internal furnace and adrenaline pump and cranial flashlight. God a few higher end ones that I am waiting to attempt an install of once I find higher medical and electronics books. Also found a swarm of about 20 grabbers in a field near the hospitals. Just grabbers. nothing else in that particular mob. Lured them over a minefield and mopped rest up.

Found also some fungal blossoms in the swamp far to the south near the roadside. I have no gas mask or equivalent to tackle with that up close. But as soon as summer hits and I can store up a jerry can or two worth of gasoline i plan to unleash the simple flamethrower I looted off an NPC who tried to mug me a few days prior. Adrenal pumped and then stabbed him so hard he got stunned. giving me time to kill him before he could unleash firey death. Also making molotovs just to be sure.

Also found a spawn of about 6 giant frogs. Processing the ensuing mountain of meat and hides from butchering them. So much frog jerky…

[Random_dragon]

Wow. How do you not die of boredom by then? I always seem to stabilize a character’s survival and get tired of it by then. D:

[Azrad]

Pump station, instead of a gas station? I could’ve sworn that was a sign of a necopolis…

Exactly why I considered the semi-nearby public works to become my new base. And it’s now my base, since the area doesn’t have a lot of dangerous spots, but there’s nearby cities to raid that’s near enough. Using one of the garage areas, with lockers to block out the big open area so I can get some privacy.

Pretty much time to do some makeshift organizing.

[Random_dragon]

I see. Then eventually you can move into the vault.

And spend a full in-game season organizing.

[Azrad]

Yesssssssss. All shall be organized. Even made another area for a food type; cannibal meals, in which I shall place all the jerk jerky, amoral aspic, smoked suckers, and sealed human broth I make.

[Lexx]

Wow. How do you not die of boredom by then? I always seem to stabilize a character’s survival and get tired of it by then. D:

I’ve been living on the periphery of civilisation due to starting position. But I guess I like to rp heavily over what my starting character might do in an apocalypse. So this hobo has been bumbling about. Exploring, drinking booze and generally dicking about between looting sessions. Plus I’ve had to fight tooth and nail to gear up due to how low item spawn is on my worlds. I always put it at like 0.20 at very highest. I enjoy hard scrabble starts. Tbh with the amount of early deaths and false starts. I find it hard to get bored when a winning / survival streak breakout happens on a character. As I have the world set to autodelete if I die. So I make the most of it whilst it lasts. The only backups I do are in case of game breaking experimental bugs rarely cropping up.

Also hordes always keep me busy and are a constant tax on my resources when they stray close to my safehouse. Once you get the gist of how to handle them they can be really fun as a challenge.

[Random_dragon]

Hmm. I should try hordes mode sometime. I always have that problem where the initial scramble to survive is the most fun part.

And I swear, a love of organization must be an elven trait, right along with being delicious to dragons. =w=