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[bombzero]

1. Labs are flammable.
2. Fire can spread across Z-levels.
3. Take it as a lesson,  .
4. Was probably an ant hill with tunnels touching the walls.

[GlyphGryph]

Crossposting from Happy Thread because it's probably more appropriate here anyway...

Searching through an abandoned town in Cataclysm. Heard something coming directly THROUGH a building behind me.

Turned a corner, and miracles! A Quad bike! In working order, keys in the ignition! Hope on, start veering everywhere, I've got no clue how to drive the thing, pull onto the road, and I see what was hunting me down.

A zombie hulk. First zombie I'd seen up close - think the tanks from L4D, but meaner. And he's keeping pace with my quad bike. I could never have killed him, and I couldn't have outrun him, but with the bike, I'm so close...

Hit the gas, racing down the streets - zombies pop up out of the woodwork as I dodge between them, careening off and almost crashing into buildings - I know if I hit one I'll never be able to keep control.

My only chance is to get back through the west side - the whole west side of town is covered in thick web, and crawling with giant spiders of all sorts. If I can do that, the webs might just slow him down, and so long as I avoid the spiders I'll be fine.

But it's just. So. Awesome.

Grinning ear to ear right now.

[Tiruin]

You have a high sense of imagination GlyphyGryph. 

[Cthulhu]

If you get in an open area you might be able to do a high speed u-turn and plow through him.

[Deon]

In my experience quad bikes are faster than hulks. Just speed up to 60-70 (turn off the cruise control).

[GlyphGryph]

In my experience quad bikes are faster than hulks. Just speed up to 60-70 (turn off the cruise control).

I would have died if I had done that, I was in a section of the city with twist streets and a bunch of mooks come out of the woodwork, and my character clearly can not drive even at those speeds, judging by my stubborn insistence on attempting to veer into buildings. I had too many close calls to dare going any faster. Constant fumbles.

But I lived!

I've got it parked out in front of the lab right next to my wilderness house for the moment, but I'm famished again, so I might have to head back into the city.

Stupid bears and dears just dropping one chunk of meat when killed...

[Tiruin]

Stupid bears and dears just dropping one chunk of meat when killed...

You really need to train Survival. 

Chop em' up!

Also, the way you narrated it was spectacular! The only excitement I got was shooting zombies with my bow, on a walkable (mod) tree-tile, and they always get slowed by the forest.

Ah well, have to risk for that sort.

[GlyphGryph]

I've been chopping up everything I kill, but it's still only at 2, which means for some reason I get only a single meat from the biggest animals and none from the smallest.

Bleh.

[Tiruin]

I've been chopping up everything I kill, but it's still only at 2, which means for some reason I get only a single meat from the biggest animals and none from the smallest.

Bleh.

Strange, when I set my skill to Survival 2 (Pre-made  ), it at least gets meat from rabbit/squirrels and ~4 from deer and bears...Darkwolf's mod.

[jester]

I've been chopping up everything I kill, but it's still only at 2, which means for some reason I get only a single meat from the biggest animals and none from the smallest.

Bleh.

chop the zombies too everytime you have some spare xp.

[GlyphGryph]

Died from being so slow I couldn't drink or eat fast enough to counteract my hunger and thirst. Only got to that point because I tried cooking meat after coming down from some adrenaline, which apparently really slows you down, so it took 9 hours. Bu which point I was famished and parched. I ate the meat... which took me another hour and a half. Two monsters killed themselves on me in the process (thank you spines), and I took the 5 steps over to the lake. Was no dehydrated.

Took two sips, 3 hours later, down to parched again, but hunger is even worse.

Then a bear eats me before I ever see him.

Dumb.

Super Dumb.

[Nelia Hawk]

do we actually have to switch weapons to i.e. a combat knife to have a better chance at butchering? or does "the best in your inventory" gets used automatically or so? (probably not)

[GlyphGryph]

No tool is better than any other tool.

[The Merchant Of Menace]

Actually, the more cutting damage the weapon does, the more suitable it is. Weapons need to have a base cutting damage of something like 10 in order to be usable at all.

[GlyphGryph]

Hmm... really? I thought it was a binary thing. Well, color me wrong.

I assume it's binary for recipes though. Dunno about construction...