Ah the smell of a new blog in the morning.  Much like the smell of socks, or the smell of the undead wafting through your bedroom window...

So I welcome you, the reader to a new blog based around the relatively new DayZ mod for ArmA 2.  I will be recanting my adventures, failures, successes, and anything else that springs to mind.

Day 1:

Starting on the coast I have watched enough videos to know that you head inland straight away, so I ran towards the hills nearby and got my head in gear.  The hillside was steep so I found that running left, then right, made me move up it faster, although I suspect I was still moving just as slowly up there, just felt faster...

Making my way inland further I spy a town, only a few buildings but maybe there's some loot.  I sidle in, keeping low, hoping no zombies see me.  I get close to the building, the door's open and I see stuff!  Getting excited as I approach I let my guard down and dart for the door...oops  I start to run away with half a dozen blood munching zomblies on my ass!

It's not long before I get caught as I keep pressing the wrong buttons, keep careering into trees and eventually they get me, eat my face and it's over.  I lasted 15 minutes!

So let's try this shit again!.  Same idea but let's do this a little more cautiously.  I spawn on the coast, no real idea where but guessing southern area.  I make my way inland and find a similar small village and there's a house which I can get in to (there's alarmingly a lot that you can't!).  This time I take more care, I roll into the house, but manage to still aggro some zombies.  I see a hatchet, and I can't pick up said hatchet... they eat me :(

Mmm this is heart rendering.  Okay, deep breaths!  I work inland, and this time I find a house surrounded by zombies BUT this time I take my time.  Moving in slowly I decide to use a flare I found, I throw it, hoping the zombies will fuck off and leave me alone.  Didn't work, they decided I looked more tasty and pounded my face in.

I just could not work out how to evade them.  Then in a pure brilliant moment of thought I realise, line of sight!  So I test the theory.  Grabbing a handful of zombies I scoot off towards the nearest tree line, dodging and weaving in and out of the trees then diving prone - they lost me and I was safe.  So now I knew how it was done I could proceed.

I head into town, move slowly to the house, get inside, find an Enfield, get attacked by a zombie, shoot said zombie and get eaten by thousands who heard my shot from the other side of the map!  The Lee Enfield is not known as the Dinner Bell for nothing.

Fook!  Okay, lesson learned.  One more go.  

Coastal spawn, inland, sneak about.  What's this?  An airbase?  Okay, interesting.  I work my way in very slow, and I stay prone all the time.  No zombie aggro.  Mooching about I find food, some water, and a can of Pepsi.  It's a good start, but still no pewpew.  It isn't long though until I find a dead player, with an Enfield...I know how he died, HA!  I take the gun, accidently drop my backpack, can't pick it up and loose some supplies...grr!  Oh but I have a gun now, and some rounds, plus fud and watter.  Important things in this game.

So what does the next day hold?  I don't know, I know I'm low on blood, with no ammo now, and no food - I still have water but really do need fud.  I think it's time to head into Cherno...