The story so far...

Since this week is HvZ week, I'll do a recap of the game so far from my POV.

But first ---

Mr Ellinger has requested us to meet him next Monday at 11.30am (i.e. 8.30pm Monday, Singapore time). Mr Lam, do drop a message if you want like, Skype together with us when we meet him (lol)

And then...

THE STORY SO FAR...

Due to a random admin error on both sides, one form of mine (the waiver, like the one Mr Lam gave us before we set off here) didn't get to Nicole, so I wasted Monday morning's sleep going to school early. No Tuesday missions either.

Generally speaking, I find the 6.30~6.45am time block a good time to go to school for HvZ purposes, because of how deserted the whole place is save for the people who're firing up the kitchen and preparing admin stuff. I (think I) saw Mr Claude Comair (I'm really horrible with faces! I should take note of him from now on) and he was pretty surprised at a student who's ostensibly much earlier than he is, I think.

No, it's just for the game unfortunately >.< the Washington morning is so hazy and chilly, I don't know if I'll have any other reason from HvZ to go early. But I'll strive to keep trying the 8am arrival timing (instead of the 9am timing) so I get a good breakfast of eggs instead of running to school on empty.

I DIGRESS.

Anyway, Wednesday night's mission was a blast. The zombies have gone half-half by this time, but we still manage to only lose like ten of us (me not included). I should really provide a picture idea of what happened, but I'll leave that to later during the weekend (which I don't think will be spent outside of Sammamish Ridge).

So, part one, we went to the back of the cafeteria, around the parking lot, on an escort-the-scientists mission. We got hit by one wave per spot we tried to "collect samples from", so it was pretty crazy as about five of us would go down per spot. I almost got tagged too, but the guy tagged me after he was shot in the stomach by Kevin.

Everything went south when (allegedly) the zombies started a respawn one minute earlier than they were supposed to, causing general chaos. That was also the reason why we lost more men at the last spot, including my project partner (oh no!).

(He's now a gleeful zombie. Herp derp >_>)

 The upside is I survived, and I got a vaccine for it. I got ONE tag too. So awesome -_-

Thursday's night mission was cancelled because of various school stuff like mid-terms (one for MAT140 is up next Thursday).

So today.

I decided to play G.I. Joe. After hitting two zombies outside the main gate (taking my tally here to 3), I got above my head. I taunted a crowd of no less than five freaking XXL-sized zombies, and realising quickly I was hopelessly outnumbered, I began to shoot the closest one, failing which I just decided to make a fast dash around the building to the front door.

Reaching the door, I managed to tag an unsuspecting zombie (taking my tally to four) and I got the zombies to crowd me around the safe zone, taunting me for my free vaccine. (side note - since when did zombies have human intelligence?!?!?!?!?!?!) So I was like, okay, gentleman's agreement:

1. They would hand me some of my darts back. Of course they didn't hand everything... But it was enough darts for one-shot-one-kill, but of course that was not going to happen

2. I would take two minutes, inclusive of reload time, after which I would be out of the safe zone and I'm free game for whoever can tag me.

I began a sprint, like some gun on a 1v6 Western-styled duel, only with one bullet cocked and everyone else just trying to catch me. I tagged the original guy who accepted the agreement on behalf of the group - then ran past a completely hapless girl zombie and dashed the way I came - back around to Pascal again!

Here's where things got panicky and hairy - I missed my chance to get in to the safe zone from the Pascal side, and I made a split-second decision not to go there - it was hopelessly overrun by zombies. So I kept running, to the zmoking - wait, I mean smoking - corner, where I quickly realised it was a horrible decision because I have to go down the stairs, and up at the other side. Nevertheless, I cleared that zone, taking out a zombie in the way, then ran all the way around the area to the cafeteria safe zone...

...where Nick (zombie) was waiting for me. I shot him before I went in, so that rose my tally to seven total. But I expended nearly all my darts in the run.

Lesson learnt -

Never try to engage zombies by the group - unless you're doing it as a bait and switch.

Always engage from a safe distance - you don't want to crash into them for both health and game reasons.

P.S. After the above, I got 5 in random skirmishes. WOOHOO
P.P.S. I got epic tagged by trickery. While I felt good earlier, this really made me look silly - think playing into a death trap -_-

Lesson learnt #2 - never trust zombies -.-