\n — @adurdin is thinking aloud

Epinephrine

So I was in the shop in Polana, scrounging for supplies. I was just picking up some tins of food, when all of a sudden, CRACK CRASH THUNK …

A bullet flies through the window and impacts the wall nearby. I instantly go prone between the shelves. My heart is pounding, I’m sweating. …

I have no idea where the sniper is, or what he can see. After lying still for five seconds, I stand up and run like hell out the back doors. …

Outside the shop, I don’t stop. I sprint between buildings, heading down into the wooded valley south of the town. Several zeds give chase. …

One zed hits me, I’m bleeding a bit. I keep running, zigzagging, until I’m about 500m south of town. I turn and shoot until the zeds fall. …

I keep running for nearly 10 minutes, changing course every few, putting as much distance between myself and the town as I can. …

Eventually, I find a pair of pine trees in the woods and drop between them. I wait, listening, waiting for my heart to slow back down. …

That is why I don’t play #DayZ while it’s daylight in the servers. The dark is so very much safer. …

(From my twitter stream)