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[Pnx]

Kelli's a badass.

And go by the way of Number 4

Damn straight she is.

I say we check #4, clear it out, sit down for the night, and check the church as soon as dawn comes.

So since the only two votes are for #4, that's the way we're going. Church is also a plan, although once we've checked it out we might have to ask if it's really worth it.

This is a great read!    Thank you!
I've been considering buying this game, - now I can't wait to come home and do so.

Yeah, a big part of why I'm doing this is because I thought the game hadn't really gotten enough publicity around here. There's a demo on their website if you wanted to check it out, though I have to warn you that it's very unstable, the game had some serious stability issues before they patched it (I haven't encountered any crashes with the latest patch, it crashed all the time with earlier versions though).

PTW. Also, it's diaries, not dairies. We do not want Zafehouse milk.

Hah, yeah, can't believe I hadn't spotted that, I'll change that in a second.

Anyway, I'm glad you guys seem to be enjoying this, I was worried I was just typing out massive walls of text and fake polaroids that nobody wanted to read through. I'll get to work on the next update now.

[Fikes]

I think it is a very well handled LP. You've explained the things we won't understand and built up the characters a little bit so we can recognize them.

Also your humor is pretty good. Keep up the good work.

[Pnx]

Spoiler: Update 4 (click to show/hide)

So when we last left our survivors they had cleared a store and found a decent cache of supplies, and were trying to figure out their next line of action, an intense debate is surely soon to follow.

Kelli, you Lucas, and Tracy are going to check out the factory to the southwest, clear out as many of the zombies as you can then come back here.

Ok.

Can I come too?

No, you're staying here with me and keeping watch while I mess around with my latest invention.

The plan is followed through with.

6:00 PM

The daylight begins to fail as the night draws in on our survivors. Ordinarily on any other fourth of July there would be the flash and noise of fireworks, cheers, and the lights of parties. But instead there is only the gleam of listless eyes in the moonlight, and the shuffles and moans of- wait, is this even set in America? Eh, never mind, point is things were getting pretty dark.

Things are getting pretty dark.

Thank you captain obvious. Just keep moving well be there soon.

The assault team arrives at the warehouse, but there doesn't seem to be anything outside the factory.

There doesn't seem to be anything outside the factory?

What is this? Forrest Gump?

So we'll just have to see if we can use the handgun to shoot some of the ones inside.

Unfortunately the team can hear the shuffling of zombies inside, but they can't see anything through the windows.

Damn it, it's too dark, did anyone bring a flashlight?

... I knew there was something we were forgetting. Forget it, we'll just head back.

The team heads back after a completely useless trip. We'll just skip ahead two hours until they get back.

9:00PM

The team returns from their assault.

Well that was a completely useless waste of three hours, I hope you guys had a more productive time of things back here.

Of course we did, you should see what I taught Nichole to do. Nichole! Get in here and report.

Still just one or two shambling around out there. Nothing new to report.

That's not how I taught you to do it, now do it properly.

*sigh* Nothing new to report... Mein Führer.

Good, now go work on your goose-step.

Ok, why would you do that? Also why is she letting you do that?

To answer your first question, because I can, to answer the second, because she's lonely and impressionable, and also because outside threats such as imperialistic nations, terrorists, weapons of mass destruction, or in this case zombies, have a great way of making people controllable.

So apart from teaching Nichole the ways of the Nazi have you done anything useful?

Well there's my latest invention, the hardened baseball bat. Should be more reliable now.

Right... so what's the plan now?

I think now we make our move. It's a bit risky without more preparation, but I'd rather move now than waste more time tonight. So everyone pack up and get ready to go.

There's one little problem here, we can't carry everything with us.

So we leave most of the food.

What?

It'd probably just rot if we keep it around corpses anyway, we can come back for it later, take as much of value as you guys can and then we'll move.

The team gets ready to move, leaving behind some supplies which will hopefully still be there when they come back for them.



While they're packing things up.

Hey guys, did anyone want to play a game of chess?

After you beat Nichole in four moves, I don't think so.

You guys really don't understand chess at all do you?

Tracy tried to get a game of chess going, but nobody was interested, she's now annoyed with the rest of the team.

Tell you what, I'll teach you some tricks instead. I think you might need them.

Kelli and Tracy engaged in a group exercise.

Later...

Alright people let's move, goodbye poor store, I knew thee well.

...No you didn't.

Two hours later...

11:00 PM

Ok people this is it, let's do this.

The team breaks into the factory through a small second story window leading to the main storeroom.

They quickly take out a zombie shambling around inside.

I think we might be in luck, I think there's only a few zombies in here and I don't think there's any outside to worry about.

Cool, let's clear this place, take it slow people, also stop eating the dorritos guys, now is not the time.

Hey, we're peckish.

Nichole, Lucas, Kelli, and Tracy ate 4 snacks.

Tuesday, July 5
12:00 AM

The team cleared the warehouse, most of the fighting took place in the main storeroom... Kristopher smashed a zombie's torso with a hardened baseball bat after smashing it's right arm.

Hah, I knew this thing would work out well.

Nichole blasted a zombie in the throat with a pistol.

They got them all.

Ok, so here's the plan, Kelli you and Lucus go patrol outside make sure nobody disturbs us. I'll start cleaning up these bodies while Nichole and Tracy get to work searching through the place.

They get to work...

1:00 AM

Kelli and Lucus patrol around outside but nothing seems to be showing up.

Tracy and Nichole find a crowbar, a hacksaw, a flashlight, a screwdriver, a sledgehammer, and twenty butter knives, they found 20 butter knives, that's as many as two tens!

And that's terrible.

Is there nothing useful here at all?

Hey, at least we'll have no shortages on cutlery!

Kristopher scavenged two 12ga shells, a .223R round, and three 9mm rounds while cleaning corpses.

Just one more to go.

Hey, since there doesn't seem to be much going on outside right now, I thought I'd help you guys search around.

Good, maybe you can find something that's not a box of butter knives.

2:00 AM

Ugh, we've almost finished searching this place and it's nothing but tools, no guns, no food, nothing really useful.

Oh hey I found something.

It better not be more butter knives.

Well it's not butter knives.

... You douchebag.

While searching Tracy, Lucus, and Nichole found a drill, a fire axe, a hacksaw, a hand axe, a spanner, a welder, angle grinder, flashlight, hammer, 10 saucepans, a sledgehammer and sixteen carving knives.

Meanwhile... Kelli is eats a snack while on patrol, only to be interrupted.

No zombie, these are my nacho cheese dorritos. Do I have to use the circular saw on you? I will if I have to.

Kelli encountered a wild zombie, she used a circular saw to the head, it was super effective!

Kristopher was also supposed to be clearing up the last zombie corpse, but apparently he didn't feel like it or something.

3:00 AM
Kristopher finally clears up the last corpse inside, and the team finishes searching and finds the only thing in the entire place that looks decently useful. While Nichole is eating a snack.

Oh hey another bolt action rifle, it'd be nice if we had more ammo for these things though.

So I guess now that we've cleared this place up we should head back to the store and recover the food and stuff. We're gonna need a lot of extra hands for this so everyone except Lucus is going.

What? Why?

Because you're going to scout out the church while we're gone, and try to make sure no zombies mess up the place while you're at it.

4:00 AM


The church a 8 Union Way is a small building with around seven rooms. It has one door and 19 windows leading from the outside.

Lucus seems to feel this place makes him feel calm.

Lucus scouts out the church using a flashlight he actually remembered to bring along. He sees one zombie outside, and 10 zombies inside.

Well I guess I better just wait around for them to come back.

5:00 AM

The team breaks into the store, they have a little bit of difficulty because nobody brought along anything to break in with, while they spend a minute trying to get inside they realise there seems to be a large mob gathering outside.

Wow this neighbourhood really went downhill after I left.

Let's not stay here any longer than we have to.

The team quickly packs up and heads back before the zombies decide to attack them.

Two hours later...

7:00 AM

The sun has risen, and Lucus is munching on a snack when the others come back. Kelli decides to have one too while Nichole decides to have a game of chess with Kristopher

I should be able to beat you right... I mean if I just move these two pawns here I can...

Checkmate.

I... I really suck at chess.

The more you know.

Kristopher won as expected and both are feeling sharper for it.

End of Update 4.

Spoiler: Further notes (click to show/hide)

So there's now the question of what we do next. We can take the church, there's at least 10 zombies in there, probably more, which will make it a tough fight, but if we assault it a 2 or 3 times we should be able to thin them out enough to make it easier. But we have no guarantee that any of this will be worthwhile. It might be better to just skip the church and try to take the house or the store just below it, although those might not be worthwhile either... It's up to you guys really.

Oh here's the list of all our supplies right now, and an update map with where we are.


The grayed out stuff is just indicating that someone wants to use it to do stuff.


As you can see there's some red X's from where we saw zombies around the store, and at various other places on the way over. Right now we're still pretty clear though.

EDIT: Oh, and I just realised that I mixed up a couple of the pictures at one point, if that ever happens again and I don't catch it, feel free to tell me.

[The Darkling Wolf]

Posting to watch.

[JacenHanLovesLegos]

PTW.

[Geen]

Awesomesauce! Also, glowing flashlight FTW. I demand more modified shit!

[NRDL]

Skip the church, raid the store.

[Pnx]

So since the plan to skip the church and hit the store seems to have an overwhelming 100% majority support from the community, I guess that's what we're going with.

So where were we? Oh right.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

So, Tracy, you, Kelli, and Lucus are going to go clear the store just south of the church since that's our next spot to hit.

Wouldn't it make more sense to go to the church first, then clear the store?

Well it might, except that A) I don't like the look of this place, and B) I avoid setting foot on hallowed ground whenever I can.

I knew it.

Eh, whatever, let's just go.

8:00 AM

Hey, what's this? It's the sandwich I made for lunch yesterday then completely forgot about, well I'm sure it's still good for breakfast anyway.

Can I have a sandwich too?

Sure, but you're having one of the suspicious ready made ones we picked up at the store.

Kristopher and Nichole ate 2 small meals.

9:00 AM


(so the game bugs out a little when attacking this store, I clearly gave the team a handgun and bolt action rifle along with ammo for both, but apparently it decided otherwise because...)

Kelli, Tracy, and Lucus assaulted the location.

Ok, time to charge these fuckers.

Shouldn't we like... try to pick a few off from a distance first? I mean we brought these guns along, why not use them right?

Guns? All I see are two blunt objects and the pieces of metal they want to use to avoid a good fight, now charge!

They didn't have any ranged weapons, so they moved in for some close combat around the perimeter, killing four of them, there were no more zombies outside. Then started looking through the windows.

Ok... so I don't see anything inside the store, do you think?

Wait, I see one, OI YOU, GOOP FOR BRAINS, STAY RIGHT THERE, WE'LL BE BACK. Come on guys, let's go get the others and bust this place up.

10:00 AM

The team returns from their assault on the store.

We're back... so where's Kristopher?

He's in management office, "doing science", he said he didn't want to be disturbed.

Meh, I could use a break, I say give him some time.

11:AM

GENTLEMEN... and ladies... BEHOLD!

It's another flashlight...

Not just any flashlight! It's an INTENSE flashlight, that shines with a light of a strength that has never before been seen by me!

Kristopher has created an intense flashlight, it's now much better at spotting zombies. (This one actually is a hell of a lot better at spotting zombies, it went from 1 star in spotting to 4 stars, which considering we haven't found any binoculars or anything yet, makes it pretty useful)

Eh sure, whatever, let's just go already.

So I start moving us to the store when I notice a couple of things about our load...


So the first thing I notice is that our food supplies are starting to get low. We've actually managed to burn through them pretty fast, zombie survivors are apparently pretty hungry bastards, and we're now down to eight snacks, one small meal, and ten cooking ingredients (I don't know how many meals we can make out of these, but I guess at least three or four). The upside is that we've eaten ourselves lighter, the downside is that we manage to pick up some extra weight, and still can't take everything we want to bring with us in one trip.
But the situation still seems to be going pretty well, and hopefully the store will give us more food in our bellies.


Two hours later...

1:00 PM

The team breaks into the store by way of a window leading to the aisles. There's no zombies in the aisles but there seems to be a half dozen, maybe more shambling around the building.

This looks like it could be a tough fight, stay focused team.

2:00 PM

In the aisles they find a few odds and ends lying around, including a small meal that promptly disappears into someone's belly along with two of the snacks we brought with us. It doesn't take long for zombies to come at us, and the fight begins.

Kelli whacked two zombies in the head with a baseball bat, Lucus shot a zombie's head with a recoilless handgun, Tracy shot three zombies with a bolt action rifle, and Kristopher smashed one zombie's head with a baseball bat.

We got them all.

Ok, so I think I see one or two zombies out there, but I don't want them disturbing us, so I think we're going for the same thing we did at the factory. Kelli, you and Lucus go patrol and take care of them, Nichole, you and me are clearing out these corpses, Tracy, you search the place while we're at it.

Things go pretty similar to the way the factory clearing went, Lucus and Kelli on find one zombie, so I send Lucus to help Tracy search the place. The difference is that this place happens to be tiny, there's not a lot of ground to cover and by 4:00 PM, the entire place is cleared of both corpses and rooms to search.

4:00 PM

So I guess that's all. What have we got?

We found a bunch more cooking ingredients, a whole bunch of booze for some reason. There's the ammo you guys found off the corpses, some painkillers, a few tools... Oh and stereo, go figure.

Oooh, oh, we could play my Rick Astley CD.

Just when I think my opinion of you can't get any lower...

I keep it on me at all times, it's like my #1 most precious possession.

Let me just hold onto that for er... safe keeping.

Ok guys, time for you guys to go back to the factory and get our stuff, it's me and Nichole keeping an eye on this place again.

6:00 PM

So far this update has looked like it would be rather boring. The team gets to the factory and breaks in without any problems, and it's looking like everything is going to go smoothly with absolutely nothing of interest happening. Then something completely surprising happens.

What's that sound?

I... don't know, it sounds like...

Squeaking?

It's our first random event!



Unfortunately for you guys I don't think it's going to be convenient to pick out what options to take, the game doesn't exactly give me the option to save the game and exit when one of these comes up, and minimising the thing, and asking your opinion would just be way too awkward considering I'm not likely to get a reply for at least ten hours or so. So I think I'm probably just going to have to make my own decisions in these cases. Fortunately this one seems to be a no brainer, we're in a warehouse full of tools, and she has weapons, ones we'd probably want. So I guess we're going to trade.

For this exchange I think it'd be appropriate for her to have a picture, unfortunately she doesn't come with one, so I guess I'll just have to make my own using my mediocre GIMP skills.

...

Hello? Is anyone here?

Ok, who are you? And why do you look like Queen Elizabeth?

My husband was just looking to do some renovations in our house but we just don't have the right tools! So I thought I'd just come on by here and buy some from the hardware store, I brought along some things from the shed to trade in.

That answers neither of my questions.

I think I see a shotgun in that cart... I want it.

Guys... I think this lady might be kind of senile, and frankly we should take her offer, we've got tons of tools lying around that we don't really want, so what's the harm in seeing what we can get from her.

So fleece the senile old lady for her junk, works for me. *ahem* Hey old timer, I happen to have this nice bottle of gin here for you if you'd just give me that shotgun I see there.

Oh, you mean the old Winchester? It does make the most delightful bang when you pull the trigger.

So... Will you let me have it?

Of course dear, what kind of woman would I be to let someone like you go around at night without a good boomstick, in fact, why don't you just take four of them just to be safe.

Oh wow, ok, yeah I'm ok with that.

Ermm, why don't you take a look around and see what catches your eye.

Oh my, you do have quite a selection don't you? I suppose I'll just take a few of these, and this... and this chess set looks good, and oh my, what's this?

... It's a box full of butter knives?

But these are sterling silver antiques my dear, they're worth a fortune, I couldn't possibly take more than ten of them. Also some of these carving knives over here.

Are those valuable antiques too?

No, but I do go through so many of them. Tell you what, for all of these why don't I just empty out the trolley and you can just take it all.

WHOOAAA!

HOLY CRAP!

Are those... Kalashnikov's?

The AK-47's? Just the cheap Chinese versions I'm afraid, anyway, I'm sure you'll be able to sell these off for a decent price somewhere.

... Where did you get all this stuff?

A gentleman never asks and a lady never tells my dear, now I should really get going now, good day!

The old lady went squeaking off into the sunset leaving us with 3 automatic rifles, 4 baseball bats, 2 bolt action rifles, 5 cricket bats, 2 golf clubs, 4 handguns, 5 machetes, a pair of brass knuckles, 4 semi-automatic rifles, 4 shotguns, 3 silenced handguns, and a switchblade.

...

...

... You know, she didn't actually give us any ammo for this stuff, do you suppose if we went after her we could trade for some?

What? And be forced to trade of the last of our priceless butter knife collection? No, I think maybe we shouldn't push our luck... Also I have no idea how we're going to carry all this stuff.

The team gets ready to head back to the store.


This is what I wind up bringing along. I leave the baseball bats and such because it turns out that machetes are really awesome close combat weapons, they're both lightweight and pretty effective, having three stars in assault and close combat.

8:00 PM

Ok... so let me get this straight, I send you out to retrieve some gear we left behind, and you come back armed to the teeth?

Pretty much.

I... I am honestly speechless.

End of Update 5.

Spoiler: After Notes (click to show/hide)

... This.... this has never happened to me before. I've played this game a good 20 or so times, and inevitably it always ended in everyone dying, but then again I've never actually had an old lady come arm me to the fucking teeth like this, so I'm starting to think this might actually win this, if we can actually find the clues we need to get rescued.

Here's our current supplies:


We are unfortunately a little lower than I'd like when it comes to food, we can cook some of the ingredients up (Kelli is actually an excellent chef), but we ran out of doritos a while back (and I've been misspelling "doritos", I'm disappointed with you guys, you're supposed to be catching stuff like that) so we need to keep looking around.

Here's the map again for those of you that want to see it.

[varnish]

Man, forget these fools. I want to hear about the adventures of Queen Elizabeth and her magical shopping cart of plenty.

Is there really a risk of starving to death in the game? It doesn't seem appropriate, given the time scale you've shown us.

Also, I'm rooting for Nichole to be the lone survivor, if there are any.

[NRDL]

Kelli is a badass chef.

Just keep raiding shops and such until you get to the general evac area. 

[Solifuge]

This is fantastic so far. I'm posting to follow.

[Imp]

Posting to follow.  Really enjoyed noticing this thread tonight - keep the story going!

[Zangi]

Is there really a risk of starving to death in the game? It doesn't seem appropriate, given the time scale you've shown us.

There is a massive risk of starving to death... I think survival without food is roughly... 36 hours?  Give or take?

[The Darkling Wolf]

The usual number given for surviving without food in an average person is 3 weeks, although significantly longer stretches have been achieved.

[Zangi]

The usual number given for surviving without food in an average person is 3 weeks, although significantly longer stretches have been achieved.

Not how zafehouse plays it.