Day 4. A random dog had the misfortune of straying into the minefield near my evac shelter... and the noisy explosion summoned the nearby zombies, which triggered more explosions, and before long I had an entire horde on my hands, a mere ~35 tiles outside my front door. I hatched a cunning plan - wait until nightfall to abuse my night vision, then bait them into the half-finished wall of deep pits in front of my citadel, using my knife spear to poke them as they cross the pits. My single-shot shotgun was reserved for the lone shocker brute, which was half-damaged by the landmines already, and I had a katana ready to mop up. All I had to do was wait until darkness fell, and I had a bunch of new books to read (including First Aid and Cutting Weapon books) to pass the time.
My cunning plan was thwarted when the shocker brute got bored and circled around to the opposite side of my shelter... where I was reading. I had to desperately kite around him, blasting him with the shotgun before finding time to reload. The fight attracted more of the horde, many of which raced through my shelter to attack me (several dying to the pits at least). My knife spear served me well, impaling countless zombies, and as I moved to clear the remaining zombies I darted through the shelter and ate a few items that were about to rot.
Before long, I'd conquered the horde, and was ready to set to work butchering the remains and cleaning up the loot, and... wait a second, why am I getting messages about "being in pain"? "Fuzzy vision"?
Astute readers will note me grabbing a couple of items to eat. I completely missed the fact that I was eating
raw meat, not cooked meat. And yep, I've now got a nasty parasite infection. My pain was already somewhat high after the fight (including the shocker brute's electrocution), and this was my first character for a while - I'd assumed the random pain messages were just reminding me about my battle injuries. Nope, I've got a full-on parasitic infection, and although I have a book telling me how to craft a cure it I don't even have the Survival skill to
read the book, never mind craft the cure.
I set out into the city to try and find a doctor's clinic, or a hospital, or a random antiparasitic drop from a bathroom... but alas, all I got was an encounter with a Zombie Brute. I managed to shotgun him down, but the horde nearby had been alerted, and my speed was reduced to a pitiful 25 by the pain, so couldn't run or fight. Technically it was a zombie that killed me, but that's a technicality - I died to a microscopic parasite that I should never have risked infecting myself with.
TL;DR: Fought off a zombie horde single-handedly after being ambushed by one of the scariest zombies in the game. Accidentally ate raw meat during the fight. Overwhelmed by parasitic infection during my victory celebration.
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