MAT!?!

NO MAT WHAT ARE YOU DOING GET YOUR CROWBAR OUT
THAT IS A FLASHLIGHT NOT A CROWBAR

TRACTOR BOWLING

KILL THEM WITH TRACTORS.  Go watch it on YouTube and set it to 720p.  VirtualDub doesn't like 1200p resolutions very much.  I'll have to find something else, eventually.

Going on a drive

Greg found us a new ride.

Kinda beat up, but it will have to do.

Greg's kinda hot. I get turned on when women take me on drives.

HER HAND IS SO CLOSE TO MY PANTS

Shane, sitting in the back of the car with the bandit skin, looks like he's seem some shit.

A friendly bunch.

 Then he passed out.

I hope Matt doesn't mind.

That's all.

THE HUMANITY!

They just wouldn't stop.  That's what I get for ringing the dinner bell.

Taking down the truck.

So I had my fraps set to take a screenshot every 30 seconds just to get some random action shots from time to time.  Pretty cool stuff.

Dan, Dano, and I had taken the truck into Mogi to get some supplies and wait for the rest of the group.  Greg and Aaron were on the other side of town and Mat was still en route.  After Greg and Aaron met up with us, we heard a guy shooting in the middle of town.  While we were searching for him, we heard a truck roll into town.  We went into full "oh, shit!" mode.  I was posted up on a hill with an M24 watching over the whole town.  I saw the truck roll in and go the long way around Mogi, back by the church.

Eventually, it started rolling towards our side of town.  We unloaded on it.  I think Greg knocked out its tires, but the guy was still alive in the truck.  The engine was still running, too.

The truck is right behind that tree.

I lined myself up on the driver side door.  As soon as he opened the door... *BLAM*.  I nailed him.  Pretty sure Dan or someone on my left hit him, too.  He dropped like a sack of bricks.  Of course, our guns weren't silenced, or even quiet by any means, so naturally every zombie in the town was now after us.

30 seconds later.  OH LAWD.

At this point, we all started running around like chickens with our heads cut off.  Especially me.  I could not seem to shake any of the zombies that were on my tail.

Eventually someone ran them down with our truck.

Once the chaos was over, we went and looked inside the truck we "captured."  There were weapons and ammo galore.  There's probably a good chance the guy hacked the stuff in.  It happens more often than we'd like.  I think the funniest part about this is we never found the guy who first started shooting in Mogi.  I wonder if he's still there, shitting his pants after hearing our whirlwind of gunfire at the enemy truck.  *shrug*

Such is life in Chernarus.

Why you stay off roads...

First night in Cherno.

Night had fallen in Chernarus, and I was getting antsy.  I needed some action.  I loaded up a Lee Enfield rifle I found in a barn and headed south to the biggest deathtrap in the country:  Chernogorsk.

Now yeah, I know.  Cherno is pretty much certain death.  But I didn't care.  I wanted to shoot something and I needed supplies.  Two birds, etc.  So I snuck in from the north.  I was pretty good about it.  No zeds on me.  The dark helped with that.  I had never been around in the dark before.  I liked it.  Seems like I could get five feet from a zombie and it wouldn't even bat an eye at me.

I found a couple of water towers and posted up on one of them.  I'd wait here for now.  I just kept looking every direction I could, waiting for some player to wander by.  I saw one guy run by with about 5 zeds after him to the east, but I had no shot.  He disappeared behind some buildings.  Honestly, he might have been the guy that killed me later that night...

Cherno at night.  Pretty sky, ugly town.

So I continued to wait.  Finally, I saw someone running across the roof of a building across from me.  Once I felt I had a clear shot, I opened up with my Lee Enfield.  Now, normally, in a populated area, firing a Lee Enfield means you are going to draw pretty much every zombie that can hear the shot (which is a lot... it's a damn loud gun).  Luckily for me...

Lulz.

...zombies are buggy as hell and can't seem to handle any kind of buildings.  They just walked around in lines and didn't attack me.  I was cool with this.  It also seemed to confuse my prey.  I missed my first couple of shots (or maybe hit him and he's just a resilient mofo) and I could see him popping his head in and out of cover.  I wondered why he didn't fire.  I could have sworn I saw a rifle in his hands.  Once I realized I really didn't have to worry about the zeds, I continued to watch my prey like a hawk.  He finally popped up and I could tell he was trying to line up a shot.  I fired once, worked the bolt, fired twice, and he dropped.  "Russ was killed" showed up in the lower left corner.  I knew the fight was over.

After about 2 minutes, the zombies seemed to just fall off the building (lol) and I had a clear path off.  I climbed down the ladder and quietly made my way to the ladder that led to the top of the adjacent building.  On the roof, I found exactly what I was hoping for.

Looooooootz.

I had waited on that water tower for about 15 minutes before finally getting this guy.  It was especially cool for me, as it was the first kill I had gotten when I wasn't rolling with my group of buds.  This was just me vs. him.  It felt good.  The patient hunter, as they say, gets they prey.

Which is apparent, as some sniper killed me about 5 minutes after I got all the loot I wanted off the corpse.  Oh well, such is life in Chernarus.