[s]My latest character is doing quite well thus far. It’s early in the morning on Day 7, and I’m currently hauling some supplies back from town towards my base in a shopping cart.
I created a female backpacker (I alternate between male and female characters, because equal opportunity ftw.) with some skills in survival, swimming, and dodging (DF taught me that you should always put points into dodging) and selected a random name-- Tonya Corral. I started out in an evac shelter with no landmarks in sight other than a cave to the north and a bridge across a huge river to the northwest. I headed across the bridge on the first day, and managed to come across the outskirts of a town on the night of Day 1.
After backtracking on Day 2, I found a radio tower by the banks of the river. Not the ideal choice for a base, but it’s done well so far. The bridge is too clogged up with vehicles to cross back over in anything more than three tiles wide (trust me, I tried, but the self-propelled howitzer that’s smack dab in the middle of the bridge doesn’t seem like it’s going to move any time soon.) I’ve never spent any amount of time by the water in Cataclysm before, so I’m kind of scared of what could be hiding in the river. I’ve got weapons, supplies, food, and a few vehicles-- a flatbed truck I tried to cross the bridge in (lost both front wheels in the process, but the cargo spaces are still salvageable), an electric car, a hatchback, and a regular car.
The two things holding me back now are the lack of a wood saw and a book on mechanics.
I tried the bookstore and the hardware store in town on this latest trip, but no luck in either category.
I’ve started carrying out lightning-speed night raids (one backpack, no armor or protective gear, and a single melee weapon, plus basic first-aid supplies and nothing else) into town, but I haven’t mapped it all out yet and it looks like the only place the two items I need could be is in the (unmapped) northwestern part of town. Midnight cartography hasn’t been going well, so it looks like I might have to gear up for a daylight raid.
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Never mind.
Not two minutes after I posted that, Tonya got mauled by a feral predator.
;~;
Playing Mattia Cupelli’s Reminiscence (saaaaad music) and creating a new character.
Tonya needs a decent funeral.
