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Re: CDDA: Adventures in Cataclysm
« Reply #330 on: April 26, 2017, 10:18:54 pm »
Eh? Why, it wants bigger cities in the latest build? I normally turn city size down blin. D:
That had been my experience, completely anecdotal so I might be wrong.
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Re: CDDA: Adventures in Cataclysm
« Reply #331 on: April 26, 2017, 10:21:36 pm »
Last I checked, cemeteries and other overmaps have been fucky in general, so... :V

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Re: CDDA: Adventures in Cataclysm
« Reply #332 on: April 27, 2017, 03:12:50 am »
Alright, figured I'd get chargen out of the way at least, because guess who took fucking forever to get home?



This isn't going to end well, is it? Also, you smol babby, no murmillo or retiarius in this arena?



It's worth pointing out that monomolecular blade has the UNARMED_WEAPON flag, so no unarmed skill for the blade profession is kinda derp. Unless you add an override I guess. In any case yay, I only had to hit Y one extra time. o3o

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Re: CDDA: Adventures in Cataclysm
« Reply #333 on: April 27, 2017, 11:43:47 am »
Yeah, um. Fuck that noise. Turns out the gladiator start is kinda just "you versus an assload of NPCs" and I died in fucking minutes. Gonna reset world and try a different start. D:



Fuck it, decided to be a shelter knight because I'm a big lazy twat. Less likely to get mobbed and eaten by NPCs. Our dear friend has requested that we retrieve the banner of this fallen land, and provided the magic of vitamins to aid us in our quest. Which is good, because the basement had nothing but a tshirt in it.

No sign of a school or such in the area, but the town has much to explore. And thankfully it's a pleasant day outside for a bit of mucking about in armor, it's so delightfully rare to actually be COMFORTABLE in spring with my starting gear.



In the closest house we find a peculiar rarity: the refridgerated binocular. And in the basement, we find...dementia. Madness. Oh. Yep, first time I've hit an arcane basement in my first house, blyat. Thankfully, mail and a kite shield is an wonderful combination, even though I have to take off my helm in the darkness.



This however, was a more formidble foe. Nah just kidding, though he was harder to hit and managed to rip my backpack a bit, didn't get any damage. Only real loot to be found was a book dropped by one of the strange revenents in here, an odd silver knife, and even odder leather armor. Much odd, I thought the books at least would spawn.

Soon as I step outside, I'm greeted by a shocker and a spitter. Both die without much hassle, but I do suffer my first actual injuries.



Oh. I think they were fleeing from an oversized bowl of ramen. Which I took out in literally one hit. After a bit of cooking and preparing water, time to maybe hit up a grocery store for the holy grail on wheels, a shopping cart. Got that easily enough and gathered all my shit.



No zombie, it is you who will get grabbed. Still searching for one of those overpopulate-the-planet houses that tend to have flags.



I don't think I need weed, I'm already tripping balls here, penguins in random basements. Quietly noped out of there when I realized there were half a dozen down there. I've also noticed mow that spitter zombies seem to have lost the ability to hit the broad side of a barn. Twice now, one of a dozen tiles away managed to place the whole pool several tiles off from where I'm standing.

Soon enough night falls, forcing me to doff my helm again. Will want to make a balaclava for this event sometime. While checking one of the last few houses on this end of town, I notice an oddity. A house that's heavily damaged, and at least one undead I didn't kill.

Appears that I've been in this house, but some undead might've collapsed part of it. Likely the brute that just knocked me around a little bit, making me have to fumble around in the dark to find my shopping cart again. Enough reason to head back to the shelter.



And with that, well-supplied with food yet no closer to finding a flag, the second day dawns.
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Re: CDDA: Adventures in Cataclysm
« Reply #334 on: April 27, 2017, 02:42:08 pm »
Triple post.

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Re: CDDA: Adventures in Cataclysm
« Reply #335 on: April 27, 2017, 03:22:40 pm »
Mrno is a derp. <3



Meanwhile, ventured out to resume sweeping the last of the houses on the north side of town. Bunch of undead and dogs are playing in a minefield. Soon however, the last of the northern houses have been swept through. Might just keep circling the area and looting. After that the rest of the day is a fairly mundane bit of crafting stuff.

For the third day, decided I'm going to complete a sweep of all the houses in town if I can. Along the way, finally find a nope zone in a basement. After a few more uneventful houses and a small gunsmithing store, I find an interesting little basement.



At least interesting now that they aren't all over the place. The most useful part is ultimately the SKS I find there, as I'd decided if I do branch out into being a knight with a gun, 7.62x39mm is a good round to focus on. Also provides a safe place to skim the books I've found, and sleep away the end of day 3.

By now the shopping cart's full, so I'm gonna have to either dump the jugs of rotting milk, or head back to the shelter. Somehow that's a hard choice to make. I blame the fact that it won't rot away entirely in a vehicle, last I checked.



And here we have a alley you don't want to meet in a dark fellow. No wait, that came out wrong. This would be a rare time when I get some use out of the SKS, as I'm still not able to just kill everything in melee without a little pain, like with last brute I encountered.



And this is one of the other things I was searching for. My shield is getting a bit battered up. A soldering iron for my sword would be nice too, but I have a welder if I'm desperate. So ends day 4, pretty much.



I set out for the nearby craters to gather stone for something I'm working on, when the dreaded moose attacks! It...actually goes well, in that it can't harm me. In fact a few hits send it running.



And thus the prize, some extra meat and hide. Got enough rocks for now, and then along the way I encountered a deer passing by. Hit it once, it started to flee. When I realized it could outrun me, I threw my sword at it. It's super-effective. Project is a charcoal kiln and smoker, so I can try to get this milk powdered.



This...was effectively my end goal. Yesss. Only took me a whole fucking week.



Well, after a bit of exploring, what have we here? Time to see how deadly this can be. Already I somehow manage to wrap a zombie with a sword. And then, more milk! I must save the milk! D:
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Re: CDDA: Adventures in Cataclysm
« Reply #336 on: May 01, 2017, 03:00:00 am »
My sweep of the city's houses continued, and my second arcanist basement shows up. This one also finally trips me up a bit because it's rotated, which is a neat thing to see. Less neat? Three flaming eyes ohgod. Guess I'm making a beeline for the town pharmacy.

...which had literally just an empty syringe behind the counter. Fuck. Thankfully, a hurried dash back to the shelter and a good night's sleep has yet to reveal any apparent side effects from being stared at.



Really? Last house in town, and it has a Cleansing Flame basement? That makes 3 houses with arcanist basements, and with one for each faction. Oh well, time to start poking through the city interior.



First thing I see when I get in there, a tank that looks to be in almost drivable condition. Just missing some seats. It also inexplicably had a shocker zombie inside it. So now I've just about swept all the interesting spots in this town. Now a good bit of reading the books I've hoarded in all this time, and maybe soon investigating the nearby public works.

Also decided at random to fortify a church in the middle of town. Good to have something fairly secure to pop into if needed.

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Re: CDDA: Adventures in Cataclysm
« Reply #337 on: May 03, 2017, 07:41:59 pm »
Welp, another morning, this time spent in a fortified church. Soon was back up at the shelther, think I might go over to visit the town just northwest of us.



No. Bad moose. Fuck off. Fucked it up in 3 hits, took no damage. Survivor Combatives OP. Soon in town, scouting the zone a bit, doing some light looting as summer offially begins. Might call it a turn here in fact, as this is taking a while...



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Re: CDDA: Adventures in Cataclysm
« Reply #338 on: May 03, 2017, 10:04:19 pm »
"Catnip."
"Catnip, wake up."
"Can you really get her out of here?"
"Yeah yeah, Catnip, goddamnit, get up."
"If we can't, you know what will happen..."
"Yes, I know, jesus christ. Here, help me get her into this subject suit."
"They'll lobotomize her!"
"I said I know, for fucks sakes Gerrard. Help me he- wait. Stop. Did you hear that?"
"Wait. Stop. Did you hear that?"
"oh fuck. fuck fuck fuck. Block that door."
"Set power settings to three... better make it four."
*SMASH*
"Get her out of here Nathan! I'll stall it! I'll-"
*SMASH*
"Block that door. Block that door. Stop. Did you hear that? They'll lobotomize her! TEKELI-LI!"
*SMASH*
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Re: CDDA: Adventures in Cataclysm
« Reply #339 on: May 03, 2017, 11:33:34 pm »
What even have you done.

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Re: CDDA: Adventures in Cataclysm
« Reply #340 on: May 04, 2017, 06:32:49 am »
It's called a prologue, shush.

She only remembered a few things from her captivity. First, the feel of the mutagens doing their work. Second, the blank looks of the scientists as they administered it. Third, the few books she was allowed to have in her room. An educational book titled "planes, trains, and automobiles," more a childs picture book than anything else, and a book titled "under the hood" a mechanical manual that the scientists thought she was frankly too stupid to read.

"Alright Catnip, this way. Gotta get you out of here before the security measures seal the doors."

What was his name again? Nathan. Her handler. He always seemed a bit unhappy about something. Never let her outside though, requests to do so always made him upset, so she had stopped. Seemed like he'd decided that today was the day that she would get to go out though.

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Re: CDDA: Adventures in Cataclysm
« Reply #341 on: May 04, 2017, 12:12:31 pm »
I'm betting it's experiment rather than lab challenge.

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Re: CDDA: Adventures in Cataclysm
« Reply #342 on: May 04, 2017, 04:38:06 pm »
flesh angel in a basement, barely got out alive.
I'm really just a sexy skeleton in a suit.
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Re: CDDA: Adventures in Cataclysm
« Reply #343 on: May 04, 2017, 04:54:19 pm »
No screenshots, no continuation to the little opening story, no even showing your character or anything you've done this wholr? Literally just one line vaguely hinting at all the shit we're missing.

10 outta 10.

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« Reply #344 on: May 04, 2017, 08:26:55 pm »
Shush you. Shush you shushy face. LET THE SHUSHENING COMMENCE!

I'll get screenshots in a bit, nothing really worth screenshotting. As for story and events though.

It had been five days. Five days in a car. That's what it was for sure, Catnip had seen plenty of cars in one of her favorite books. She didn't think five days in a car would be so boring though. Nathan kept her wrapped up tight in a blanket so people couldn't see her. "Too much of an anomaly." He would say to himself, "Too weird for the rest of them, not that it matters much anymore." She got to try all sorts of new things though. Different foods, especially foods. She was particularly fond of chocolate. To her dismay, the chocolate melted when she left it in the sun. The sun was another thing, it hurt her eyes. It made her uncomfortable. On the second day, nathan had bought her a cheap pair of black spectacles, and the sun didn't hurt so much after that. There seemed to be a lot of panic on the radio, but a while ago the radio went mostly quiet. On the fourth day, the car went quiet and they had to walk. Nathan led her into a place full of trees. She'd seen trees through the windows in the car, but she hadn't been allowed to leave the car most of the time. Not even to look at the trees. The smells of this place were a wonder to her. The sounds too. What were all these sounds? Gone was the low drone of distance machinery and the hum of the lights in her room. Just the wide open spaces, the lonely howl of the wind, the chirping of, what Nathan assured her, were birds.

"Ok Catnip. Go." Confusion. Go? Go where? What? "You're free now Catnip. Free to do whatever you want. I'm sure you can survive out here fine, now go on. get out of here." Out here? Go? Free? "I don't understand." Said Catnip. Nathan had brought her out to the woods to... what? Abandon her? Absurd. How absurd. Yet, here they were. "Of course not. Listen. The world... The world isn't as it should be anymore. There's so much I could tell you, but you wouldn't understand a word of it. So, just go alright. Stay away from houses, stay away from people. They aren't friendly. Not anymore. If you see people and they won't talk to you, run away, got it?" Catnip got it. Simple instructions. She could do that. But she wasn't sure what to do beyond that. "But what do I do?" She asked. "I don't know Catnip. Whatever you want. What do you want to do?" Catnip thought about it. Unused to the outside world, and not well educated, her scope only extended to what she did know. What she had taught herself from the books she had been allowed to keep; trains, planes, and automobiles. "I want to build a train." Nathan smirked at that, "Catnip, you don't even know what a train is." "Yahuh! I seen pictures in books! and I learned how they work!" He wasn't smirking at her anymore, in fact he seemed a bit suspicious. The kind of suspicious that she knew usually bloomed into anger. "How do you know? How did you learn?" She backed away, "I... books?" 'Of course,' Nathan thought, 'Of course. She can't read, she must have taught herself from those outdated manuals we let her keep. I'm having a hard time believing she could learn from pictures alone... Nothing else to read but those and she...' She learned. She was probably a fairly adept mechanic at this point. Hell, she probably could have fixed the car when it broke down. Hell, it occured to him that she could have used that knowledge to escape, but either she was too stupid to make the attempt, or the thought never crossed her mind. That irritated him even more. "Just... just go Catnip. Here, this is called an 'MRE.' It won't taste great, but it'll keep you fed for at least a couple days." She looked at the silvery package he handed her. "Roast Beef In Gravy." She didn't know what "roast beef" or "gravy" was, but she knew, from what Nathan said, it was food. "Are you sure you want me to go?" She asked, not really wanting to leave, but Nathan was already disappearing into the foliage. In only a moment, she was alone in the woods with nothing but the sound of the wind and rustling leaves around her.
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I'm really just a sexy skeleton in a suit.
Fingering techniques are very important
Quote from: Six
Using guns while sober? Sounds like you're a coward.
Yes, little hats for every noodle.
Everyone is forks it seems.
"Everything is fucked forever, and ever, and ever." -Forrest 2016

 

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