Im spending the day reading by a river close to the location of a hell spire. I spent the first ten days above the river trying in vain to find books. Not even under the hood. I fled below the river for the next few days, and after finding a remote mansion I finally got UTH.
Spending a week leveling up, fixing, and reorganizing, as well as some ‘foraging’ and crafting, I had a glock with several mags, a single barreled shotgun, some adequate armor, and an appreciable mixture of drugs. I was also sober, and spent the next time period above the river at a lab, clearing it (mostly). I have no torch to carve into the locked doors, but I did loot the place to get the standard loot, tons of chem books and fish serum. yuck. I dont mind the idea of fish but I prefer other critters to fish. Like lizard, spider, alpha, or medi.
I did get my map, and am leveling up some survival and shooting. Gonna go try to raid the spire tonight. I have set the game not to spawn the most outlandish things so early, but nothing is preventing them from showing up as bosses or rare site-specific critters. lost souls are a handful for a newer character, imps can overwhelm you with bullets in numbers, but demons are pushovers. Revenants not so much, and worse lies below.
I upgraded my SBshoti to a revolver. But, Im finding out that the SB is more mod-friendly than the revolver. dissapoint, but I really would need the firepower. One of the things I hope to test is the somewhat spotty item spawning Ive noticed. though Im not sure if its my lowered spawn rates or the game janking me around. Still.
Overall Im doing ‘fine’. Due to the extreme lack of books a lot of supplies I would otherwise be using or disassembling arent available or I need more grinding because the requisite skills level noticably slower. meh.
So, with a pimped out glock, 3 spare mags, a baretta and trench knife in my shoe, a revolver shotgun and 8 extra shells, a steel spear, and a ice pick I will brave the hell citadel and hopefully do better since they have been fighting the zombies nonstop instead of me teleporting over, waiting an hour, and going in.
