Day 07
Well, I wasnt planning on keeping this guy around for so long, but every time I go to do something, something else happens.
^^up there I was dupped into dumping out my stock of cheap wine by the linux’s crappy color palate. Then, this time, I went into a water-related frenzy and starting drinking out of a toilet at a rest stop. rest stop toilets are perhaps the grossest kinds of toilets, and I am ashamed to have done so. While there I found an electric SUV, missing its storage battery and otherwise running with all its bitties intact.
I went to the public works area and picked up the quite rare (in my games) acetylene torch, an electric forge, and even a welder google. I have been since able to make myself a steel spear with this, and its my armor that has been lacking because of the absence of stores, military zoms, and time to train at high morale. Im detoxxing and just recently got to make myself some leather arm guards.
So, after I left the shelter, I went to the neighboring shelter. I didnt stay, but slept overnight, progressing with the help of my gin/whiskey into serious dehydration. The gas station along the road to the east was actually a rest stop, and I guzzled water from a toilet like it was a crystalline font blessed by virgin babies. I found the electric SUV there, and I made a note of it for later.
I traveled to the public maintenance area, and found the welder stuff. I have way more batteries than I need too, since Im going to be (havent yet, even in the present) using the acetylene torch for all its bang. The electronics store provided even more batteries for me, and Ive got a whole seat of them now. If I had the skill to I would be making the acidbombs right now. I traveled north to the refugee center.
The refugee center was under siege from a nearby fungal tower, meaning that due to my own minor buffing of its range, tendrils were happily spawned in plain sight of the NPCs. They of course dispatched them, and the new-spawning ones are from the Tower itself having LOS on you, but still, what a Hollywood idea… a survivor rolls into a camp to find them under siege and whatnot. actually, thats a really JRPG concept…
Trading with the NPCs for what I could I then left after doing the ‘kill the shocker’ mission. I got level 1 mechanics for that, and south of the city with the electronics store I found a humvee with a leaking gas tank and a security system.
smashing off the security system attracted some acidic zombies and a small cluster of smokers. 5 smokers and 3 acidics followed me, and while I took massive leg and torso damage, and moderate head damage I was able to use fire and the acid to kill them. I drove my prize to my nearby bus and I promptly forgot about the cool electric SUV. Part of it is that the humvee is just superior in basically every way. Except for the solar panels, but meh Ill get those if I must.
Leaving this, I went to the hospital because I was running on 5 whiskey. It was day 3 or so by then, because I had spent a little time sleeping off my damage. Backing into the hospital with the humvee I looted about half of it, finding more drugs than I could count, and so many normal zeds that at one point I was surrounded and had my head shredded into a lumpy paste. I survived, and the first aid kits and codeine I found helped supress my urge to gtfo.
Most importantly, I found some flu shots, some codeine, some antibodies, and some disinfectant. And some prozac. prozac makes it all okay…
Leaving there, I forayed into unchartered land to the west. Because why not. I found a hotel with some maps a short way off, and got to play with some spiders from a nearby web who were attracted to the sound of zombies dying. They can pierce my armor, turns out, but I did have a .22 handgun which was adequate for the task of eliminating them. Without that I would have had to run or tank the pain and start a fire. Insects are afraid of fire as part of their species definition, you see.
The hotel revealed that a major town was about 2 or 3 days travel to the south. consider that, with 14 day seasons, 3 days is about 3 weeks simulated realtime. Thats none too shabby, after all.
I found a mansion, and thats where I decided to stay for a while. The prozac wasnt enough, when combined with my bad temper trait, to defeat my DTs. But after looting the area I was able to do so by snorting some cocaine I found and/or eating a lot of bacon and melons. Codeine worked too, in a pinch, but it wasnt nearly as strong.
While sitting there, a moose busted into the mansion, and was killing some zombie or another. When I went to get a drink from the pool, that same moose charged me from down the hall, and oh boy I racked up so much pain so quickly I dropped the steel spear I had in favor of the shotgun revolver I found. And oh boy did that save my life. stupid moose.
Leaving that I found a sewer processing plant. In there I found some mutagen, and, still in heavy detox town, I shot up using the needle form the flu shot. That landed me claws, quick, and herbivore.
Fuuuiusijnisjdnsfkjndfskj’
Herbivore is the absolute last thing I want for traipsing through the wilderness. meat is so plentiful, and my survivor level is so low. Still, quick is nice, and claws arent bad, so I guess.
I was just minding my own business, barreling along with my damaged humvee, when I saw a cave. 2 thoughts.
1: they would be neat in the forest too
2: maybe its rat keeng
It was rat keeng.
Using the .22, getting in was no real problem. Getting through the horde was annoying, but by no means hard. rats, being mammals, have a racial fear of fire. Fire provides light, and kills things. Im in a dark cave. 
Not rocket science.
Down below, I just did this. I intend to really test out how well it can work, and that things not fast enough to escape.
pedit:
oh yes, it sanitized him quite handily. I did some ever-so-slight buffing of him in my mod.
But do notice how theres no items in this cave. No items for the lootingz, means this was a waste of time save the gun skill I earned.
