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[varnish]

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.

Maybe it's just meant to represent people getting extra weak from hunger, and thus being easy prey for the zombies.

Well, it would make more sense than just dropping dead after a day or three without food.

[Zangi]

Eh, it is gameplay mechanic.  Would make more sense with water, but then cooking/chef would be fairly useless, unless food gives +morale or something.
There is also the fact that the way it is to be played, the survivors are pretty durn active the whole time, except for the very few hours that they do rest.  And don't forget the really short play time.  It is between 3 and 7 days... or something like that.

[Geen]

God save the Queen, and her magic shopping cart of guns too. Holy shit that was amazing.
...5 Urists on her being the sole survivor after we attract a shitload of zombies with these firearms.

[Pnx]

Apologies for there being no update today, I spent the day partly without power, and mostly without internet, there will probably be an update tomorrow though.

Yes, anyway, I should explain how hunger works in zafehouse. See survivors are both hungry and grumpy bastards, and the hungrier they get, the grumpier they get. When they go hungry they'll start bickering with each other more (mostly about who ate the last of the food), and will start getting grumpier and grumpier until they explode (The game splashes your screen with blood whenever someone gets injured or dies, even if that death is by starvation, so I assume this is what is going on). Starvation seems to start killing survivors within 24 hours of us running out of food, since it's really difficult to figure out who's been eating what when, so if we do run out of food it is going to be an urgent issue. Don't get me wrong, we've actually got a fair bit if we cook up the ingredients, but we really don't have as much as I'd like. Hopefully the houses around us will have plenty of food to graze off of.

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

God save the Queen, and her magic shopping cart of guns too. Holy shit that was amazing.
...5 Urists on her being the sole survivor after we attract a shitload of zombies with these firearms.

Unfortunately we cannot follow the Queen on her story. The game is called Zafehouse: Diaries, not Queen Elizabeth and Her Wonderous Trolley Adventures in Zombieland. We can only pray that such a game will be made at some point in the future.

Anyway, I was thinking that tomorrow I'd work on raiding the houses surrounding the store, going counterclockwise starting with the one to the west. Then when we reach the one to the east, maybe start working on moving up just above the school. Unless anyone else has any other plans, I am of course open to suggestions.

[Imp]

Unfortunately we cannot follow the Queen on her story. The game is called Zafehouse: Diaries, not Queen Elizabeth and Her Wonderous Trolley Adventures in Zombieland. We can only pray that such a game will be made at some point in the future.

You however, managed to involve a random, reasonless, and even jarringly unrealistic event into your story in a way that was, though not seamless, by the end of the encounter, felt awesome, interesting, intriguing, and -believable-.  Enough to trigger the urge in several of us to follow this improbable, but not unacceptable, abberation across the game world.

Hats and zombie heads off to you!

I've no specific instructions, except irl, stay as safe and comfortable as you can, and in game, keep playing and sharing.  I've delighted in your tale; you've actually made me reconsider how I play some of the more boring and faster-paced parts of my various games, and seen ways I can help myself enjoy them better (and perhaps share that joy with others too, perhaps perhaps someday).  My only suggestion is 'More please, when it's time.  I'm very willing to keep following your gaming adventure(s).'.

[Pnx]

You however, managed to involve a random, reasonless, and even jarringly unrealistic event into your story in a way that was, though not seamless, by the end of the encounter, felt awesome, interesting, intriguing, and -believable-.  Enough to trigger the urge in several of us to follow this improbable, but not unacceptable, abberation across the game world.

Hats and zombie heads off to you!

Why thank you, I do try. I was giggling myself silly when I was writing this stuff up, the only worry I have here is that now is that that will probably wind up being the highlight of the entire thing, I suspect there might not be anything else that will even come close to being as good as update 5. Still, maybe if the game throws me some good bones...

I've no specific instructions, except irl, stay as safe and comfortable as you can, and in game, keep playing and sharing.  I've delighted in your tale; you've actually made me reconsider how I play some of the more boring and faster-paced parts of my various games, and seen ways I can help myself enjoy them better (and perhaps share that joy with others too, perhaps perhaps someday).  My only suggestion is 'More please, when it's time.  I'm very willing to keep following your gaming adventure(s).'.

Well if I wasn't writing out an LP I'd probably be clicking through all of this in 5-10 minutes, as it stands it takes me a couple of hours to do an update, what with all the pausing and decision making and such. Doesn't help that I'm such an excruciatingly slow writer. Still, this is a pretty good way to brush up on some of my writing skills.

[Geen]

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

God save the Queen, and her magic shopping cart of guns too. Holy shit that was amazing.
...5 Urists on her being the sole survivor after we attract a shitload of zombies with these firearms.

Unfortunately we cannot follow the Queen on her story. The game is called Zafehouse: Diaries, not Queen Elizabeth and Her Wonderous Trolley Adventures in Zombieland. We can only pray that such a game will be made at some point in the future.

Gentlemen...(and women) I believe we have just made ALL OF THE MONEY with this game idea.

[Pnx]

Ok then, let's get this thing going.

Spoiler: Update 6 (click to show/hide)

Alright, so we've got weapons, we've got tools, we've got some supplies although we need more, we're still not any closer to rescue than we were before. I guess we should start hitting up all the buildings nearby, we have a rough idea of where the rescue helicopter is going to set down, but we need to know exactly where and hopefully when as well. We also don't know what we'll need to get them to rescue us.

Sounds like a plan.

First of all we're going to secure this place, I want somewhere we can store extra supplies while we're raiding the places nearby, this place seems pretty easy to secure, so I think we should try to secure it first before we move out. Kelli, Tracy, and Lucus are going to secure, while Nichole keeps watch.

Cool, incidentally there's only one sandwich left, and you guys should really try to save it until I have a chance to make more.

9:00 PM

Tracy, Lucus, and Kelli broke a 2 lamps and a shower into 15 barricades. They secured five entrances.

Ok, I should explain a bit about how the barricade system works.

This is the security report you can get on just about any building. Every building has a number of rooms, entrances, and traps slots, along with furniture, the report you get whenever you first scout a place tells you how many rooms and roughly how many entrances there are (in the form of doors and windows). This store has a total of seven, the average for a small building seems to be about 10-12, so this is a pretty easy to defend location, there aren't many entrances, and they're pretty quick to secure. If you set survivors to barricade they'll break furniture into barricades, and use barricades to secure entrances, if all entrances are secure, they'll fortify them. There are two settings for barricading, one is quick and loud setting where they will use whatever tools are available and try to get the job done as quickly as possible without concern for noise, the other is the quiet and slow setting where they will avoid using loud tools and try to do it with a minimum of noise. I'm using the quick and loud setting since the slow one takes several times longer.

To explain how barricades and traps work I'll have to explain how zombie attacks seem to work. See, the zombies outside of a building seem to have a random chance of trying to "wander in" based on how much noise the place is making, generally the more noise and the more zombies, the more of them will tend to "wander in". When they wander in they'll pick an entrance at random and try to go through it, if it's unsecured they'll just walk right in (though if someone is on watch they'll warn the others and help them for a defence). If it's secured then they'll bump into it, damaging it, when an entrances is damaged enough they break through, and it's the same deal with an unsecured entrance. Having barricades is great for defence because if there's lots of them out there with an interest in the building, they'll tend to break through a little at a time, rather than bum rushing you as a group. It also means we have a bit of breathing room, survivors in a secured location don't have to constantly watch/patrol for zombies if there's only a few of them around since any zombies that attack will just harmlessly bump into the barricades.

To explain traps, I need to explain rooms. Every building has a certain number of rooms, each of which will be names things like "main office", "aisles", "storeroom", you've seen some of these things crop up from time to time already, the game seems to keep track of all the seperate rooms, and it also keeps track of what traps have been positioned in what rooms, when you make a trap it gets positioned in one at random. If there's fighting in that room then the trap has a chance of going off and helping out, (if it's a good trap, then it may help a hell of a lot), the downside is that traps are kind of unreliable, there's no guarantee that the fighting will take place in the room you want it to, or that the trap will help. They're good if you're expecting a bit of a "last stand" situation though. We're probably not going to bother with traps right now.

Anyway, that's enough explanation for now. Not much else happens just yet although...

KELLI! I ATE THE LAST SANDWICH, THINK YOU COULD MAKE ME SOME MORE?

God damn it.

Kelli gets moved from barricade duty to cooking up meals.

10:00 PM

Tracy and Lucus finish securing the entrances. Although meanwhile a zombie took interest and tried to break through the door to the aisles.

So we've finished securing all the entrances.

Oh good, do you think you could go outside and take care of some of the zombies out there? One of them has been banging on the front door, and it's really distracting me from my work on this machete.

Err sure, what exactly are you doing to the machete?

Well you'll just have to wait and see, won't you?

11:00 PM
Tracy and Lucus patrol around with machetes, they find and kill two zombies.

Good news everyone, I've perfected my enhancement of this machete.

What have you done this time?

Well I decided to take my experience in making baseball bats more vicious as a child, by hammering a bunch of nails into it!

Kristopher has created a spiked machete, it is now better at close combat.

Yet another very ridiculous improvement. Are you ever going to come up with something useful?

Well hey did you see what I did to that bolt action rifle while you guys were getting more guns?

No, I... what the hell did you do to it?

I added on an extra barrel, it's now a double barreled bolt action rifle!

How... just how?

Science! Anyway, I think maybe it's time the three of you went out and tried to secure the house to the west, we've really got to get ready to move.

Oh thank god, I'm so sick of making sandwiches.

But you make absolutely delicious sandwiches.


So Kelli's spent the last couple of hours making small meals, Tracy, Lucus, and Kelli have eaten three of the meals she's made so far, the ones she makes have a very high "nourishment" stat, which I'm hoping means that they won't need to eat again for a while after having had one.

Wednesday, July 6

12:00 AM

The team makes their assault on the house at 2, Ardmore Court


The place is pretty small and things go pretty well, we brought along a couple of handguns and the "double barrelled" bolt action rifle as well as a few machetes. We see five zombies outside, we manage to take out 3 of them at a range and close in to take out the rest, then peering through the windows we see three inside, which we then easily take out. The place seems to be clear, for now.

Ok, we did the job, house should be clear for now.

Good, let's get moving then, we're travelling light, so only bring what you think will be necessary.

We bring along the machetes, as well as a silenced handgun (with thirty rounds of course), and one or two other things.

1:00 AM
The team approaches the intent of breaking in...

I thought I said only bring what's necessary.

I happen to consider this sledgehammer very necessary.

They headed to a small second-story window leading to the bathroom. When it came to getting inside, the sledgehammer proved very useful.

Ok, usual setup, Lucus and Kelli patrol, Nichole and I will clear corpses, Tracy starts searching.

2:00 AM
Lucus and Kelli attacked six zombies on patrol, they killed all of them

There seems to be more than usual.

Might be because we've been making more noise than usual, or just because we're in a more populated area.

At this point Tracy makes a find... This is also the point at which I get a little bit bored, which is why things are going a bit non-canonical for a little while, you may want to brace yourself for this.

...

...

...You ready?

...

...Good.

...

Hey gang, I found a clue!



Good work Tracy, I knew coming to this haunted mansion was a good idea, we'll solve this mystery in no time.

Two bed, one bath is hardly a mansion Kris.

Hey guys, how's it going?

We found this clue!

Hmm, according to this, the helicopter will be here on Sunday, if today's Wednesday that's in four days!

I think we all already figured that out. So how did your search outside go?

Man it was really scary, we ran into some spooks, but Kelli just tore the masks right off of them!

Masks?

By masks he means faces.

Ok, why the hell am I dog?

I'm sorry Nichole were you trying to say something? All I heard was a bunch of whining.

Ok, I think that's enough of that, the joke probably wasn't worth the amount of effort I put into it, but I saw the parallels and I thought it was funny. Anyway, back to normality before the characters start arguing about "snacks".

3:00 AM

So the next hour is pretty dull, Lucus and Tracy finish searching the house and fail to find anything of significant value, Kelli patrols outside and kills five zombies, which worries me because we seem to be drawing a lot attention. I decide that maybe it'd be best to get moving sooner rather than later, so I immediately send Kelli and Lucus to clear the house to the south... But something happens that was bound to happen sooner or later. I screw something up, I set them to breach rather than to assault so instead of clearing the zombies around the place, and maybe picking some off through the windows, they decide to break in without any kind of recon. This is troublesome because while with the sparse population around the warehouse it's unlikely they'll wind up killed, I am worried they might wind up with injuries. Injuries in my experience are something you want to avoid as much as possible.



I decide to stop Kristopher in his modification of a machete which he was very nearly done with (god damnit, and I wanted another spiked machete too), and send the whole rest of the team to try and support them at the house..



When I click the watch to proceed to the next hour the screen gets splashed with blood. I missed my chance to get a snapshot of it when it's actually on the page, but here's a picture of the stain it left behind on the page (which will actually stay right there on that page if you turn away and come back)



It was with a great sense of dread that I turned the page to see what happened.

5:00 AM

Kelli! Let us in!

What the heck are you guys doing here?

We came to help you out, why did you just charge into the building like that, you were supposed to just clear them out a little, not try to take the entire building by yourselves.

I figured the place looked quiet enough and we could probably take care of everything ourselves and have you guys a nice new place to move into. So we did.

Kelli, the entire point of this was to try make sure you stayed safe, taking on a whole building by yourselves like that was dangerous, to try avoid either of you getting hurt.

We wouldn't have been hurt if the big black guy on the team hadn't turned out to be a big black pussy.

Kelli... Where's Lucus?

He's... In the back somewhere.

Were either of you bitten?

No, we're fine, I just tripped when fighting with a zombie and cut myself up, it's just a scratch.

Just... let us in, we'll sort things out.

And I think this will make for a good stopping point.

End of Update 6.

Spoiler: Some after notes (click to show/hide)

Well that was a bit of a surprise ending wasn't it? It certainly took me by surprise and really scared me, I was worried for a second there that one of our two best team members might have gotten killed.
For those of you wondering, no, Kelli is not serious injured, though her picture now looks like this:

She should be fine as soon as we patch her up.

[FritzPL]

I lol'd at the Scooby Doo joke.

Patch Kelli up ASAP, injuries might turn into infection after a few hours.
Do you have any gasoline? If you do, light a bonfire somewhere far and preferably already secure, maybe the old shelters. Should draw them zombies away.

[Pnx]

I lol'd at the Scooby Doo joke.

At least it wasn't a huge waste of time then.

Patch Kelli up ASAP, injuries might turn into infection after a few hours.
Do you have any gasoline? If you do, light a bonfire somewhere far and preferably already secure, maybe the old shelters. Should draw them zombies away.

Distraction is definitely something I'm thinking about, I might keep going, see if things get any worse, and if they do then I'll try to make a distraction.

Anyway, I think it's about time I started working on the next update.

And here it is:

Spoiler: Update 7 (click to show/hide)

Ok, so when we left off Kelli had gotten injured, and the team made a rush move to the factory.

Ok, we gotta get Kelli patched up as soon as possible, but we need bandages for that, Nichole, you go get bandages from the store.

Right.

Eh, whatever, let's just get to work on this place.

Ok, Lucus you keep watch, the rest of us will get to work.

6:00 AM

Nichole arrives at the store, the entire place is silent, there doesn't seem to be any zombies around.

Bandages... ah, here we go, maybe I'll take some of these along with me too.

7:00 AM

Nichole arrives back at the warehouse.

Ah good, Nichole you can keep an eye out for zombies while I patch Kelli up.

Why does it have to be you?

Because I'm the only one here who has a medical background, I used to be a surgeon remember?

Let's just get this over with.

8:00 AM

Kristopher patches Kelli up with some bandages.

There you are, good as new, ok let's help the others finish the search, I'd prefer it if we could dig up some food if it all possible.

9:00 AM

Ok, so we didn't find any food.

No, mostly just empty boxes, we did find some shotgun ammo though.

Alright then, we're just going to have to move on to the house to the east and hope for the best. Kelli, it's you and Lucus on the assault again, this time I hope you guys stick to the plan.

Ugh, pussy in boots again? Can't I just go alone, you all know I carry the team.

I resent that, I tried to back you up but you just charged ahead.

Look, can you guys just avoid fighting with each other right now? We need to keep our heads together.

Guys, I'm starting to get worried, there seems to be a lot of zombies out there.

Don't worry about it, we'll be moving on soon.

10:00 AM



The house on 5 Ramada Road is a small location with around seven rooms. It has three doors and nine windows leading in from the outside.

Kelli and Lucus assault the location, they opened fire on the four zombies lurking around outside. They took them all down.

Hey what do you know, this place actually looks like it's clear of zombies.

First time for everything I suppose. Come on, let's go get the others.

Back at the house, Kristopher and Tracy have just been playing a bit of chess when they get back.

Ok, so the house looks pretty clear, I think we should be good to go for now.

Alright, let's pack up and get things going.

Ermm guys, I think a couple of the zombies are trying to follow Kelli and Lucus.

Ugh, ok guys let's beat these zombies and get a move on.

Two zombies burst through the door leading to the main storeroom, Nichole was watching at the time and gave us time to prepare.

Tracy took command of the battle and led Nichole and Kristopher to the second storeroom.

In the main storeroom Lucus blasted a zombie's head with a bolt action rifle.

Meanwhile in the office Kristopher hacked a zombie's head with a machete.

We got them all.


Nichole, where's your machete?

I er... I think I left it at the store.

Ok, nevermind that, we'll get by without it. Let's just move.

11:00 AM

The team breaks into the house without any problems, things seem to be completely silent... for now.

Well at least we don't have to do any clearing up, Kelli keep a watch for zombies, the rest of you guys search this place.

Oh hey, snacks.

Cool, I really needed my dorito fix.

Kristopher and Lucus ate 2 snacks.

12:00 PM

It's at this point that we run into our second random event, and it's a tough one.



This one makes me pause for a while... If we accept we'll wind up fighting a tough battle, and we left most of our weapons at the store. We've only got a rifle, four machetes, and a crappy silenced handgun with us right now, but if we do the event, the rewards could be pretty good.

I think about this for a long while before flipping a coin to make my decision.

Now naturally this hunter is going to need a picture, and I suppose I could just use a random American deer hunter for the picture and stenciled some crude letters underneath it, but I decided to use someone else instead, think you can guess who it is?

Hello, is there anyone home?

Err hey, who are you?

Ahh, so there is, I am a hunter, and I find myself in need of dire help.

Oh really? What kind of help?

I've been hunting zombies, one in particularr, it is much more vicious and strongerr than other ordinary zombie and makes for most worthy of prey. Howeverr things seem to have turned around on me, and now I am being hunted. I fearr he will soon be upon me, and I need help, if you will offerr it.

Well hey, how tough can one zombie be?

Excellent, we must get rready immediately, it will be soon upon us.

Not a problem, everyone get ready, Kelli you have the rifle, everyone else, grab a machete and make sure you keep your eyes open.

I warn you to be cautious, it has very good hearing, you must be verry quiet.

... Do you think you could maybe repeat that last part?

... Be verry quiet?

Yes, exactly like that! Only now pronounce the R as a W.

Be... vewy quiet?

Now say it like that, and add "I'm hunting zooombies." To the end.

Look, we don't have time forr this, it could be here any second!

Right on cue, the zombie appeared, it was faster and stronger than any we'd ever seen, it tore right through our defences and before we could react ripped into the hunter as he desperately tried to limp away.

HOLY FUCK!

It turned it's attention next to Tracy, pouncing right at her, it tore passed Kelli knocking the gun right out of her hands.

SHIT!

HELP!

For a second it looked like Tracy was a gonner, then Lucus decided to step in and be the hero of the moment. He leapt at the zombie as it was about to tear Tracy apart and hacked it with the spiked machete tearing it's eye, arms, and legs before dealing a finishing blow to the head.

Who's the pussy in boots now?

Holy shit that was close, I have to admit you kind of did save me just then.

I could have done it if I'd had the spiky machete.

Good job Lucus, is everyone alright?

Lucus and Kelli have both suffered some minor scratches, but Tracy was hit the worst, she got some bad bruises and scratches in the action.

Hey, check out what he was carrying.

Amongst the hunter's belongings we find a high powered rifle(like a bolt action rifle, but quieter and better in close quarters), and a motion sensor(this thing is a spotting tool that says it will spot all zombies around the location, and works remotely, not sure exactly what that means). We also find a walkie talkie, which is good, this is one of the two rescue items we absolutely must have to get rescued.

Not bad, maybe this was worth it after all. Come on Tracy, let's get you patched up, you guys try to find some medical supplies while I treat Tracy.

1:00 PM

The team finishes searching the house while Kristopher patches Tracy up.

Did you guys find any medical supplies?

Just some pain killers.

Damn, we really need more bandages.

Is Tracy alright?

I'll be fine, I'm just a little beat up is all.

I should explain a little about injuries. Here's what Tracy's dossier looks like right about now.



As you can see she has notably more blood on her picture than the others. She's grey just because she's not at the location I had selected at the time. Anyway, the important part is the bit at the top right, which shows what buffs and debuffs are effecting her. She has the sharper buff from playing chess (which is about to wear off), and the "weaker" debuff from being injured, bruising seems to make people weaker. I don't know if these injuries will heal at all, I assume they will if we survive long enough.

I'm not sure how exactly buffs and debuffs effect the game, presumably they make you better or worse at stuff, but I don't know if that's everything, or just some things. I'm assuming it's everything, so right now because of her injuries, Tracy is very slightly worse at everything, and there's not much we can do about it, she's been treated, but that doesn't remove the debuff, and there's not much more we can do right now.

Anyway, everyone's going back to the store now to try to recover.

2:00 PM

So everyone gets back to the store and things are looking pretty quiet right now. There's no sign of zombies though I'm sure that one or two of the ones that gathered around the house after we got there will follow.

I also have to make a tough decision here, both Lucus and Kelli have cuts, but we only have one set of bandages, which means that only one of them can be fully patched up, I decide to pick Kelli, so she's getting patched up this turn. While that's happening I decide to do something we haven't done in a while, I send Tracy and Lucus to scout the house to the east. They're both decent scouts so hopefully we'll get good results.

3:00 PM

So Kelli gets patched up, and Tracy and Lucus don't find any zombies. I think I need a little time to think about my next move and ask you guys what you think we should do next, so I think this is where we're stopping for today.

End of Update 7.

Spoiler: After Notes (click to show/hide)

So yeah, that quite go as well as I would have hoped, we went from one mildly injured person to three people with injuries, and we don't have the bandages to fix one of them (though we could try to give him some painkillers, I'm not sure it would do much good).

There's also some other concerns. Here's our rescue items so far:

As you can see we've picked up two clues and a radio. We know the rough location but we still don't know which building we need to be at. We also don't know the frequency, which is something we're going to NEED if anyone is going to make it out of here alive. Fortunately we have the radio now thanks to that hunter event, so things aren't a total loss.

Another concern is where we're going to go now.



Here's the map, it's starting to look like hitting up a larger building is going to be unavoidable, so I was thinking of hitting the school to the southeast. If we hit the house to the east, then the school, then the house just north of that one, we could sort of zig-zag towards the rescue point. Although I'm open to suggestions, we could hit up the church, or the bank, or somewhere else I guess.

EDIT: I fixed up another mixed up picture, oh and I just found this message from David, one of the creators of the game that I received early this morning (it usually takes me a while to notice PM's).

Hi, I'm Dave from Screwfly.

I'm loving your Zafehouse: Diaries Let's Play. Let me know if there are any features we can add to the game that can help you. No promises of course, but there might be some potentially useful thing we could add easily.

And if you encounter any bugs, don't suffer in silence! Just send me the details and I'll take a look at it.

Dave

I thought having one of the developers of the game complement me on my LP was pretty nice, I also thought since he's paying attention I'd take a moment to thank David and the rest of the Screwfly team for making the game and taking an interest.

[askovdk]

Great updates. Thank you. 
I've now bought the full game and is enjoying it alot.
I just lost a game today. It was absolutely fair as my heavily damaged team tried to breach the hospital to get medicine, ... 

It took me a couple of games to notice that if you right click the potraits, then you can see a bit more about their health and energy.

Well, - time to start another diary.

[BishopX]

Alright, I enjoyed the first Zafehouse game. This one looks much better. Bought.

[FritzPL]

I'd scout the school. Logically, if someone would want to tell a big amount of people about a rescue operation, that's where you would leave a message. Check it out.
Move up house by house to the Corral Way. Breach in, search for food and medicine, move up, repeat.

[Pnx]

Great updates. Thank you. 
I've now bought the full game and is enjoying it alot.

Glad to hear it!

It took me a couple of games to notice that if you right click the potraits, then you can see a bit more about their health and energy.

Hmmm I don't think I knew you could do that, I'm going to have to try it when I do the next update.

There's probably not going to be an update today, I had to get up early and do some stuff, and I'm feeling really tired. I'll probably do one tomorrow though.

[Pnx]

Ok time for another update. Today I managed to get a nasty migraine that was kind of keeping me from doing the update, and I thought I'd wind up putting this off for tomorrow, but I know from experience that putting something off usually leads to more putting it off, and I'd really like to finish this. So I'm doing an update with a headache, yay.

Update 8

Spoiler: Update 8 (click to show/hide)

So when we left off we were back in the store after getting 3/5ths of the team injured. We didn't have enough bandages to treat Lucus, and we really needed to find more supplies.

The first thing I do is try out the right clicking the portraits thing that was pointed out by askovdk. Turns out it looks something like this:

I assume "Flagging" is a typo here, anyway, everyone seems to be getting pretty tired in general, but I'm not sure we really have enough time to hang around and let them rest (they'll rest on their own when they get tired enough). So we're going to get moving.


Ok guys, let's find Lucus some bandages before one of the women has to tear off part of their clothes to fashion a bandage, that would be way to cliche... also it makes for some pretty crappy bandages.

Everyone packs up and heads for the house to the east... Going by my experience last time we're going to be a bit better equipped this time. Along with the Machetes, the two snacks we have, a little bit of medicine, and some standard tools, we're bringing two shotguns and the high powered rifle.

4:00 PM

So we breach the house without any problems and it's starting to look like equipping ourselves more heavily was a good idea. The house isn't as unoccupied as we were led to believe.

Ok, I thought you guys said you didn't see any zombies.

We didn't these ones must have moved in, in the meantime.

Either that or we just didn't see any of them. I knew it was too good to be true.

It doesn't matter, there's only a couple of them, should be a cakewalk.

Guys, I'm really not liking the look of those zombies out there.

I also discover that right clicking the portraits will also quickly show what the survivors have equipped themselves with, Kristopher and Nichole have shotguns, while Lucus has the rifle, Kelli took a plain machete, while Tracy took a spiked one, it's starting to look like they're going to see a fair bit of use next hour.

5:00 PM
In addition to the two in the house, five zombies attack us from the outside. It takes a bit of work, but they manage to clear the place with no injuries.

I think we should stick with what seemed to work so far, Lucus, think you and Kelli can patrol ok with your injuries?

We should be alright.

Good, Nichole you keep an eye out just in case, I'll work on clearing the bodies, Tracy can start searching around.

6:00 PM

While Tracy searches the house, Kristopher clears up corpses, and Kelli and Lucus patrol outside. Nichole keeps watch in the living room while deep in thought.

So let's see, it's the apocalypse, zombies walk the earth, all my friends are dead, or soon about to be, three of the people on the team have gotten themselves injured by a super-zombie, but that's ok right? Because everyone here hates me anyway (except for one guy who's the creepiest douchebag I've ever met), and worst of all, they took my Rick Astley CD, it's probably been smashed into little pieces with a sledgehammer by now. I guess all that's left is to see what kind of zombie gets me... HOLY CHRIST!

Despite Nichole being on watch, a zombie manages to catch her unaware. Nichole manages to evade the zombie, running for the Kitchen where she manages to grab a shotgun, and put a shell in it's head, killing it.

Wow... That was way too close.

Hey, I heard shots, what's going on in here?

Nothing, I just... There was a zombies, I took care of it.

Hey guys, look what I found!



Well that's good news.

Yo, what's going on?

Tracy found another clue, we know which building we're going to now.

Oh cool... We didn't find any on patrol, it's way too dark out there.

I guess you should keep trying...

Right... right...

They leave, leaving Nichole staring at the body on the floor.

I'm really not dying here.

7:00 PM

Kelli and Lucus pick off two zombies while on patrol. Before heading back.

Good news Lucus, Tracy found bandages. We're getting you patched up. I think Kelli can go alone for now.

8:00 PM

Kristopher patches up Lucus, while Tracy finishes her search of the house.

I'm all done here.

Find anything good?

Some food, but mostly it's just junk.

Guys... I've been up for like... four days. I think I need to take a break.

That's fine... I think things are quiet enough that you should be able to have a nap.

Kelli stopped work and is now resting

This is something that happens eventually. Survivors seem to be able to go really long amounts of time without rest, but eventually they'll decide they need to rest (if you're at a hotel, you can choose to let them rest, but otherwise they just do it whenever they feel like it). She picked a pretty good time for it though, all short term emergencies have been solved right now.

Ok guys, I guess if Lucus keeps watch for us, we can finish clearing out these corpses.

9:00 PM
You guys done clearing up the bodies?

Yeah, I think so... Our dear leader has retreated off somewhere to do more tinkering...

Good, because I need to get some rest, one of you two can keep watch.

So... I guess it's just you and me right now?

Yeah, I guess so... Did you want to talk about something?

I thought you didn't like me?

I don't... but I could use a talk and there's not a lot of options right now, so... yeah...

So what did you do... before all this?

I'm carpenter, I happen to be very good with my hands.

Is that supposed to be some kind of come on?

It can be... But I don't think I want to talk about that stuff...

So what... you want to hear about me?

No... I really don't think I would... Ask me another question.

Why do you hate me?

... Well it's not like I really hate you, hate you... It's just... you're kind of useless.

You're not really making a good argument for the whole "I don't hate you thing".

*sigh* Look, if I was like you when I was your age, I'd be dead.

Well I've managed to survive this whole mess pretty well so far...

No, I mean... I grew up in a poor family, and they kicked me out when I was 18. I spent three months living on the streets before someone picked me up and gave me somewhere to stay. If I hadn't worked hard, and picked up skills, I never would have made it out of that situation alive.

Ok... and you hate me because unlike you, I'm useless.

No... I hate you because you were lucky enough to have someone take care of you... Look I'm gonna go take watch, but this was a good talk. It was nice to do a bit of bonding.

... Yay for bonding...


So the next few hours are pretty boring, Kristopher attempts a whole bunch of modifications, but is determined to do useless stuff, the only one he winds up doing in the end is creating a "sharpened" machete, which seems to add nothing to it's stats. Tracy keeps watch while Nichole just idles, and not much happens until 3 in the morning when finally get attacked by something.

It's also at this point in time that I realise that somewhere along the way Kelli and Lucus woke up, so it's really about time we started moving forward.
3:00 AM

A zombie broke in through the living room, but Tracy blasted it with a shotgun...

Ok guys, I think this was a good little bit of down time, but we should keep working on the next big thing, which happens to be the school just south of here.

I suppose it's up to me and Lucus to do the first attack again?

You got it.

Fine. We'll take a look.

4:00 AM



So the school is an eerie looking place... It's also one that seems to be full of zombies... lots of them. Kelli and Lucus see 13 of them outside, which they take out pretty easily, they also spy 20 through the windows, of which they manage to shoot 4. All of this burns through their ammo pretty quickly. It's looking like this is going to be a tough nut to crack. When they get back, there's also another problem.

So... lots of zombies.

Yeah, a lot of them, I'm starting to get worried.

Ok...

Our map currently looks like this.



The little red X's denote one zombie, but the big red X right outside the school denotes a larger group. This is all starting to worry me a bit.

No biggie, we can take 'em all.

Yeah but... how much is it going to cost us. You're already pretty beat up, and that attack cost us way too much in ammo. I think we need another way to deal with this, and I think I know just how.

How?

Come on, I'll show you after we get back to the store.

The team packs things up and gets going...

5:00 AM

Back at the store...

Ok, here's the plan. Kelli, you and Tracy are going to create a distraction.

Why me and Tracy?

Because you're the two most obnoxious people here... You get to burn things while Tracy puts on some music. Bring the stereo and some gasoline.

Works for me.

Hey, I think I know where you can get some music, I spotted a CD collection behind the counter.

What have we got?

Well it's... not exactly the greatest collection ever. Let's see... we have "The Best of Vanilla Ice"... "Mozart - Chamber Music"... "Fifty Shades of Grey, ready by Becca Battoe"?

There's got to be something in there we can actually use.

Oh hey, there's a Metallica CD.

That works, we'll go with that.

You two better not waste any more time here... oh, and you'll want someone to watch your back while you set up, you've got a choice of Lucus, or Nichole, so...

Lucus!

Ok, that works, get going now...

They leave...

... Why do I always get stuck with you?

That's funny, I was about to say the exact same thing.

The sun has risen and it's seven by the time they get there.

7:00 AM

Ok, we're here, I'll start a bonfire, you start playing music.

Crap... I think we need batteries.

Ugh... Lucus, you find some batteries around here somewhere, you can help me start some fires, we gotta get this party started here.

8:00 AM

Tracy and Kelli start a bonfire using 4 chairs, it will probably draw zombies in from all over town.

I think it's drawing them in, can we get out of here now?

No, we still got to get the music playing, Lucus, you got the batteries?

You know, you'd think it wouldn't take me that long to figure out we could just take some out of a flashlight.

You'd think, yeah. Anyway, you got everything Tracy?

Sure, looks like everything's working, now I just need the CD, you still got it Lucus?

I thought you had it?

What? No, I... what?

No, I saw you put a CD in your pocket.

That's not... Oh crap, tell me that's not the only CD we've got.

Whatever, just put the CD in and start playing music there's zombies gathering outside and we don't have time for this.

What CD is that anyway... Oh... Oh this is prefect.

What?

You don't get it do you?

Get what?

Put the CD in, I'll explain as we leave.

They set up the stereo and get going.

*80's style music starts playing*

This is so fucking perfect.

I still don't get why you're so happy about this.

Think about, these zombies come to the bonfire expecting a tasty human barbeque, instead, they get... wait for it...

We're no strangers to loooovee... You know the rules, and so do I...

... We're rickrolling the motherfucking zombie horde.

My god... What have we done.

SUCKS TO BE YOU ZEDFACES!

Two hours later...

10:00 AM

They arrive back at the store safe and sound, there's no sign of any zombies still outside.

Hey guys, you make it back ok.

Sure as hell did, I think we'll be alright from here.

Ermm... hey, where's Nichole?

I think she's keeping watch up on the roof.

Ok, I'll be right back.

Up on the roof...

Hey, what you doing?

Well I was listening to Rick Astley, for a while...

Oh... you could hear that from here... I'm sorry, I don't think you're getting the CD back.

No... I think they might have smashed the stereo after it played three or four times.

Well hey, at least it was used for a good cause.

*sigh* Farewell proud Rick Astley CD, you did not die in vain.

End of Update 8

Spoiler: After Notes (click to show/hide)

So, I may have lied a little about events here... It turned out when I got there that you could only light a bonfire, OR play music, since they're two different version of the same make a distraction action. I chose the bonfire, but in my heart we rick rolled the zombies as well, so that's what I wrote down here.

It's been a pretty interesting update, I can only hope future updates are equally interesting.

Oh, and here's a little map of the zombies crowding around the old warehouse.