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I opened up Lockwood Crescent School, so that block of 5 buildings to the N is accessible again.

Broke in as a zed and GK'd at Kenefie:

http://urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=924654

Note the "Please Revive!" description. I'd say we'd rather not revive this guy, who is a Dual Naturalist at best but probably a Death Cultist.

Just logged back in and I'm still alive. Success! Going to head over to Vinetown, next door, see if I can find anything and then try to mosey on over to Chudleyton.
Will probably set up an Alt too, help get some experience...

Just looked up GK'ing, Manchu, and it said some people do it "even for no good reason at all." Hmmmm?


I assume I can search in one place multiple times btw?

Also, Grakmar, you said I should join a group - are there any in particular or benefits, or are the Dakkanauts in one?

Yeah you can pour all of your AP in to searching one location if you like.

The Dakka group is called the Augarde Irregulars. The benefits of being in a group are ... well, it's what actually makes the game fun. The game has little in the way of internal goals. It's really just what you make of it, externally.

There are a few large survivor groups and zombie hordes you can join. Our group is not one of the larger ones -- although it is large enough to show up on the game's stats page. I have three characters: my survivor in Chud, in the Augarde Irregulars, and my two older characters. One is unaligned, generally working for the well being of Vinetown and the other is a member of the Ridleybank Resistance Front.

For whatever reason, the mythology has grown up over the years that Ridelybank might have been the epicenter of the infection. Many zombies therefore consider Ridelybank to be "the Homeland" and work to keep it in ruins. It's funny because the tables are really turned there. As a survivor, you're always afraid of the zombies breaking into your safehouse and killing you. In the Homeland, you're always worried that survivors ("harmanz" in zed parlance) are going to infiltrate the burb and start -- gasp -- rebuilding things. A lighted building in Ridleybank is a total affront to zedkind.

As a survivor, you band together with others to push back the crisis and preserve/rebuild pre-infection human society. Neighborhoods like Vinetown are pretty safe thanks to committed survivors who have worked there for years. ATM, you could spend the night on the streets in Vinetown for a week and probably not get killed. Of course, some horde or another will make its way through, destroying everything. And that's fun for survivors.

If either "side" (as if it were that simple) ever won the game would be terribly boring. When I started playing again, I noticed that Malton was overrun with survivors and so went zed with my highest level character. It can be fun to have a survivor and a zed alt for this reason. But you want to keep them far apart on the map. Not only is it good manners but if your alts are close together, your chances of successfully attacking or finding items goes down.

Why the name Augarde Irregulars? And why Chudleyton?

Either way, I've just joined it with my main character. I'm already a bit bored of just wandering, so I'm gonna forget Vinetown and head on over. Feel I should probably try to help, so is there anything you guys want me to try and do/obtain on the way there? Fuel or somesuch?

I'm not really interested in the whole zombie side to be honest (that said, I love being a zombie in Halo's Infection), so my alt (I'm getting in on the lingo!) is a survivor too. I guess I might see what the deal is in Ridleytown with him, whilst my main heads on over to Chudley. So they should be pretty far apart too.

In one go, my alt (a Firefighter) has killed a (already crippled, I admit) zombie, found another radio and 2 flare guns! My main character has however shot at a zombie and missed, found a pistol clip (by repeatedly searching, thanks Manchu!) and that's it...

Thanks for the info Manchu, the wiki's not very newbie-friendly I'm finding...

When some Dakkanauts first stepped up to play, I suggested we have a group goal: take and defend the Pitman Mansion in Quarlesbank. So we all convened there, only to find that the only thing going on in town was us getting PK'd by somebody who ahd already claimed the mansion. So I further suggested we head south to see some anti-zed action -- and therefore be able to earn XP to level up. I chose Chudleyton because of Caiger Mall, which is a perennial target for any and all zombie hordes, especially because the largest active horde (the Dead) is headquartered very close by. We took our name from our first meetup/base, the Auguarde Street Police Department in Quarlesbank ... hence calling ourselves the Augarde Street Irregulars. There is a vague hope that we will one day return to Quarlesbank and drive out the PKer ... but things are a little too fun in the Chud right now, what with the mall falling every month.

Please ask any and all questions you might have. There's no point trying to search through this thread now, at 67 pages.


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*** Right -- I should clarify, the exact name of our group is "Augarde Street Irregulars"

Currently dead and just outside of Caiger...
Gonna shamble to Kenefie...

Good man. I'll get you tomorrow if we make it through the night. Zack has been knocking on the cades pretty hard all day long and yesterday night. You might do a life cultist work while your shambling.

Hey I just met you, and this is crazy, but I'm a zombie, revive me maybe?

Swaying outside of Kenefie!

Four zombies outside of kenefie, three out of cuthbert. And I think we have a death cultist in a one "lovebrainsssss" guy.

http://urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2062037

I revived mr happy socks.

Monster Rain wrote:Hey I just met you, and this is crazy, but I'm a zombie, revive me maybe?

I tried to think of a pop song that I could parody to say "I revived you" but I don't know what the kids are listening to these days.


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Melissia wrote:I think we have a death cultist in a one "lovebrainsssss" guy.

http://urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=2062037

My take? Either clueless or harmless.

Manchu wrote:

Monster Rain wrote:Hey I just met you, and this is crazy, but I'm a zombie, revive me maybe?

I tried to think of a pop song that I could parody to say "I revived you" but I don't know what the kids are listening to these days..

Well, it's the thought that counts. Thanks man.

I put Kenefie up to HB before I fell asleep again.

The Mall is largely back up and running it seems, but there is a small break in occuring - were 5 zeds, now down to 3. One corner is lit up though if anyone wants to dash in for some quick searching.

Killed off the Zed just kinda hanging out with you guys in Kenefie.

Jumped out of Kenefie.
Shot the crap out of 2 zombies (One still standing on 8 health)
One badly hurt zombie and one full health still outside.
Kenefie is at QSB so it'll need some cading.

It took like a 100 xp but I know how to put a coach in front of a door now.

A coach?
If you've figured out how to get one of those in front of a door we're pretty much set.
No zombie could get past one of those mothers...

purplefood wrote:A coach?
If you've figured out how to get one of those in front of a door we're pretty much set.
No zombie could get past one of those mothers...

Oops...I mean ya, it's one of those super high-level level ups...ya, that's it...

Well Morathi finally got cornered by Zombies. Was all good though, as she had 800xp to spend. So she can now gesture, chat, and beat up other zombies much more efficiently.

Also she got raised by a passer by so she's holed up back in Chuds, ready for her next combat.

Heh. Lots of Fallout 3 references in Shackleville; mentions of Boomers and Talon Company.

I've now got a Crowbar (and a Fireaxe), so I feel I should've named my guy after Gordon Freeman, rather than Adam Jensen...

I've still got no XP(!), but I have 2 Cubist Sculptures. So, I might not be able to contribute anything useful to Chudleyton, but I could spruce the place up a bit!

Do you still have an alt in Vinetown?

Nearby, yeah. He's actually been chopping up Zombehs quite good...

Could you pop into Gelasius and let people know that there's been big trouble in Pegton to the north, with several hospitals and police station ruined and Rowcliffe under siege. Tell them Lawrence Healy sent you.

Can do. My alt's in Greentown, so I'll head him over there when his AP restores?

Manchu wrote:Could you pop into Gelasius and let people know that there's been big trouble in Pegton to the north, with several hospitals and police station ruined and Rowcliffe under siege. Tell them Lawrence Healy sent you.

Yeah... Rowcliffe is just rubble, it's not under siege. And, the message shouldn't be "come to Pegton to help defend", it should be "stock up on needles, cuz we're all gonna die soon"

And, there's a gathering at Gelasius? Very interesting...

Rowcliffe was safe and lighted just a half hour ago ...

Also, stay out of Vinetown.

Manchu wrote:Rowcliffe was safe and lighted just a half hour ago ...

I'm not there, but I can see it from where I am. It's ruined.

Manchu wrote:Also, stay out of Vinetown.

Hey, I don't make the plans. I just break stuff and eat people.

In other news, while you're partying, harmanz are building stuff up in the Homeland. I've been banging buildings for months with little to no help.

Howard Library's been Piñata'd.

Cuthbert also needs a Gennie.

Heh. Just hot-footed it over to Gelasius like you asked Manchu, and the place is extremely heavily barricaded so I can't get in!