Why do you think each successive Solar Roller has been bigger than the last?
I decided to raid a megastore.
This turned out to be a very bad decision.
First off, I was going too fast when I came to the megastore, so the Solar Roller VI ended up in the store, sideways. So I ran into the middle of the store in an attempt to get the zombies away from my car.
Megastores used to be almost pure vanilla zombies. Not any more, they’ve been culturally enriched. For another thing, a whole megastore of corrosive zombies all at once is awful. On top of that, Marloss Man Reborn has been seriously nerfed. He only deals about half the damage he used to, which is the difference between leaving a corpse and exploding it with sheer force. And if you leave a corpse, a necromancer can revive it. There were five necromancers.
My strategy was to pull a pin on a grenade, drop it, teleport, then have the grenade take out some of the zombies who were previously surrounding me. It worked pretty well until I ran out of grenades. I debated burning down the store around me, since I’m fireproof, but my car was in the store and it would be wrecked. So I just did a lot of teleporting, switching between diamond broadsword and A7 rifle, and eventually whittled down the zombies until I had one final shootout, killing the last of them.
While I was butchering the zombies, they started coming back to life, because it had taken so long to kill them all. Things got a little hairy when a necromancer came back to life, revived two of his buddy necromancers, and they revived the hulk. I killed that hulk six times in total. A never-ending, challenging fight? Could have been Valhalla, but it hurt.
Oh yeah, did I mention I was at 170 pain at the end, and that I would have had broken legs without the aid of Repair Nanobots? Well, that happened. Cataclysm has gotten so challenging that Marloss Man Reborn is having problems.
So I looted a couple books that had recipes I hadn’t learned yet and skedaddled. Oh yeah, a couple of zombies had gotten stuck on the wrong side of the Solar Roller during the fight, so they bashed their way through to me. So both sides and half my crafting stations are shot, including the welding rig, which is going to make repairing this a hassle. But none of the quantum solar panels are damaged, which means everything can be replaced, even though right now I’m driving a wreck.
The reason I’m running is there’s a horde coming. But the thing is, 19 quantum solar panels means I can run forever. But I need repairs badly, and if I stop just anywhere the zombies will get in my car touch all my stuff.
I stopped by a nearby garage on my flight and picked up, luckily, a welder. So it won’t be impossible to repair the Solar Roller. It’s gotten even more battered since the megastore, especially the ram which is falling off on the left side.
And so I ran, and ran, all day at about 70 miles an hour. I think I crossed a whole map tile before I got bogged down in this town. I’m looking for a cathedral, which is absolutely impregnable with only a little bit of fortification. I can scavenge metal and parts at night and build during the day and sleep whenever I get tired. But it looks like it’s another day away. But I can make it.
edit; woo i made it
