Oh, how shameful. My survivor was repairing her vehicle, when a NPC showed up. Friendly/neutral one, didn’t really threaten my survivor, so I left him be.
Then in the middle of car repairs (which can’t be stopped unless creatures are going near/attacking), the NPC decided it would be wise to look through my survivor’s stuff. It wasn’t. The moment the repair was done, chased the NPC and used the weapon my survivor was wielding, a combat chainsaw.
Four critical hits. 150 damage more or less on each hit. NPC is still alive, so I assumed that the limbs were hit by the chainsaw and not the head or the torso. Whatever the case was, the fifth hit was the killing blow.
The things the NPC stole? A metalworking chisel.
Heh heh, whoops. Perhaps I should have let that NPC go on his way, or recruited him to become one of my survivor’s slaves. I mean, she used to kill any NPC she came across, but recently I’ve been trying to be all diplomatic and friendly to any NPC encountered out there, aside from the permanently hostile bandits and any wandering NPC foolish enough to declare a spot their territory/threaten to rob my survivor… but hey, old habits die hard.