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.