16 hours later, in the middle of the night, Gray woke up to banging against the front door. After getting up carefully and putting on his shoes, he peeked outside the window.
Outside, a few walkers were seen looking around, one of them banging his head against the front door. After going down the stairs carefully with a gun in hand, Gray opened the back door carefully. Once stepping outside, he started taking them out one by one. The moon was shining up in the sky, so he had some visibility.
After killing all the zombies in sight, he went back inside, locking everything and making sure the front door didn't break. After making sure everything was alright, he let out a sigh and went back up to get some deserved rest. I'll clean them up in the morning. I need my sleep. He said while lying on the bed again.
Before falling asleep, he glanced at the clock, which read 3:35 AM. Looking over at the alarm option, he decided to set one for 8 AM.
Once morning arrived, Gray woke up to the sound of an annoying beeping. "Nice, it works perfectly." He said, getting up and peeking outside his window, he saw just the bodies of the dead zombies, walking outside his room and eventually out of the house. He started the cleanup, at least getting them out of the driveway and putting the bodies next to some trees.
"Fucking heavy motherfuckers" Gray complained once inside the house, making way towards the shower. Once out, he noticed his clothes and saw they had some holes and looked gross. Opening the HUD to check on his saved-up gold, he started salivating at the idea of getting more upgrades.
[Status Info]
Name: Gray Ashwood
Age: 27 years old
Race: Human
Gold: 13'285
Gold per hour: 651 (543)
Gold Multiplier: 1.20x
[Clock]
8:27 AM Date: Friday 05/25/2011
"It's Friday, Friday, Gotta get down on Friday ♫" Fucking kill me haaaa, Looking over at his Gold he noticed that he was barely 3 hours away from the next upgrade, making some mental calculations, he decided that if he bought clothes it wouldn't matter and he'd still have enough gold to buy the upgrade.
{Basic Clothes Kit (Shirt, Pants, Socks)} (20 gold)
{Trunks} (4 Gold)
After stepping out of the shower, Gray was feeling great in his new clothes. "24 gold to be comfy, worth it, the system knows my size since they fit like a glove." Turning over at the clock, he started setting up an alarm for when the new upgrade would be available.
Once that was taken care of, he pulled out his gun and ejected the mag, already filling it up again since he shot that zombie yesterday and the ones he shot last night, 9 bullets shot in around 3 days, damn, I guess I am a pussy since I don't like taking unnecessary risks.
So far, Gray's strategy has been to take the least amount of risks while trying to upgrade his hourly income as much as he can. After a while, he would be making tens of thousands an hour, so the early game mattered.
After a few hours, the alarm rang in his head. Opening the upgrades tab, he went for the massive upgrade waiting for him.
[Upgrade Info]
(free) 1 Gold/Hour ✔
(10 Gold) 2 Gold/Hour ✔
(30 Gold) 5 Gold/Hour ✔
(50 Gold) 10 Gold/Hour ✔
(200 Gold) 15 Gold/Hour ✔
(500 Gold) 30 Gold/Hour ✔
(1000 Gold) 60 Gold/Hour ✔
(3000 Gold) 120 Gold/Hour ✔
(7000 Gold) 300 Gold/Hour ✔
(15000 Gold) 600 Gold/Hour ✔
(20000 Gold) 1000 Gold/Hour
(30000 Gold) 1500 Gold/Hour
(70000 Gold) 3000 Gold/Hour
{Gold Multiplier}
(200 Gold) +0.05x✔
(550 Gold) +0.05x ✔
(1150 Gold) +0.05x ✔
(2200 Gold) +0.05x ✔
(4000 Gold) +0.05x
(7200 Gold) +0.05x
(12800 Gold) +0.05x
(22600 Gold) +0.05x
(39600 Gold) +0.05x
(69600 Gold) +0.05x
Bringing his hourly income to 1371," just one more before I start buying the skills and the vehicle I will need, I wanna explore more out of this world," he said excitedly as he started scrolling through the food section since he had some leftover gold. Once more, he set up another alarm for 2 pm before continuing his search for good food.
After spending 25 Gold on his meal, he went back upstairs to play some games while waiting for the alarm to ring. At exactly 2 pm, Gray bought the next multiplier and went downstairs to get ready for today's roam.
(4000 Gold) +0.05x ✔
Gray could be seen walking south this time, "Apparently, there is a town called 'Gay' south of here, but it is around 7 miles down, and I ain't walkin' all the way over there, nuh uh, miss me with that Gay shit." Gray joked about it for a bit before looking over at what looked like a liquor store down the same highway, about 3 miles from his house.
I'm not a drinker, but maybe finding some good bottles could make a good first encounter. Just offering a bottle for some friendship doesn't sound like a bad idea, and if it saves me a few gold, even better.
After an hour of walking and killing stray zombies, he finally saw what looked like another highway and, just across from it, a few zombies. After getting ready, he pulled out his gun and went to work, killing 6 zombies that were outside. A few more popped out from inside the gas station that was across the highway. After dispatching those 3 that walked out, he went to check out the gas station.
This place is looted, but there are a few things here and there. Gray went to look for any non-perishable items, maybe some chips or candy. After looking everywhere, he went outside and straight to the liquor store. After seeing that everything was shut tight with no other way in, he gave up.
"Maybe if I had some lockpicking skills, or maybe if I hit with the axe, it could break." Without waiting around any longer, Gray took out the axe and smacked the lock on the gate a few times. When it finally broke, he smiled and went to open the store.
After carefully entering, he noticed that every shelf was empty. Still not expecting much, he kept walking around, and after looking in the drawers, he found a few cigars. Putting them in his backpack, he walked out and started making his way home.
"This time I didn't find any food or anything, it must mean the apocalypse has been going on for a while..." Picking up the pace since it was getting late, Gray made it home, but frowned upon getting closer, a few more zombies could be seen roaming around the house.
"It was fine for a few days, but it seems this place is not safe anymore." After killing the zombies, he went inside the house, checking everything before finally closing up for the day.
So I killed 9 zombies near the gas station, which, after I get a vehicle, I will check out for some free gas. After coming home, I found 3 more, counting the ones from last night, which makes it 18 zombies in a day...
After a few more moments of pondering on where to go or where to even build a base, he opened the map and started looking. After around 20 minutes, he looked at something that seemed perfect for a safe spot if it wasn't taken already.
"West Georgia Correctional Facility? Why does that sound familiar..." Gray couldn't figure out from which show it was, but was making assumptions anyway. Could it be the one from "The Walking Dead," but what if I'm still too early in the plot and the prison is overrun with zombies? God, I should've paid more attention to that show! I can't even remember dates, only some faces, names, and probably people who have died since YouTube likes to spoil the shit out of me. Only one way to find out, I guess.
Gray decided right then and there that once he had his Earthroamer, he was gonna go check out the prison, and if it was still overrun with zombies, he was going to clear out as many as possible from the roof of his truck. And if he saw any kind of big damage to it well only time would tell.
Finally taking off his shoes and lying on the bed, Gray opened the HUD to set up an alarm for the next upgrade.
[Status Info]
Name: Gray Ashwood
Age: 27 years old
Race: Human
Gold: 4611
Gold per hour: 1428 (1143)
Gold Multiplier: 1.25x
[Clock]
5:08 PM Date: Friday 05/25/2011
So for the next upgrade it should be...16'000 divided by 1428, eleven hours and some change... let's put an even 12 so alarm at 6 AM for the upgrade and after that we go sky high spending on everything before any more upgrades.
Pulling out the fully charged Game Boy, he started playing, but still peeking out the window just in case he saw a few zombies. After a few hours of doing that repeatedly, he finally fell asleep.
Waking up to the sound of his alarm, Gray stood up and peeked out the window just in case. He saw nothing and sighed in relief, opening up the upgrades tab. He bought it without hesitation afterward. His status looked like this.
[Status Info]
Name: Gray Ashwood
Age: 27 years old
Race: Human
Gold: 3175
Gold per hour: 2678 (2143)
Gold Multiplier: 1.25x
[Clock]
6:00 AM Date: Saturday 05/26/2011
[Upgrade Info]
(free) 1 Gold/Hour ✔
(10 Gold) 2 Gold/Hour ✔
(30 Gold) 5 Gold/Hour ✔
(50 Gold) 10 Gold/Hour ✔
(200 Gold) 15 Gold/Hour ✔
(500 Gold) 30 Gold/Hour ✔
(1000 Gold) 60 Gold/Hour ✔
(3000 Gold) 120 Gold/Hour ✔
(7000 Gold) 300 Gold/Hour ✔
(15000 Gold) 600 Gold/Hour ✔
(20000 Gold) 1000 Gold/Hour ✔
(30000 Gold) 1500 Gold/Hour
(70000 Gold) 3000 Gold/Hour
{Gold Multiplier}
(200 Gold) +0.05x✔
(550 Gold) +0.05x ✔
(1150 Gold) +0.05x ✔
(2200 Gold) +0.05x ✔
(4000 Gold) +0.05x ✔
(7200 Gold) +0.05x
(12800 Gold) +0.05x
(22600 Gold) +0.05x
(39600 Gold) +0.05x
(69600 Gold) +0.05x
Wait a damn minute, did I do my math wrong? fuuuuuuck If I set up that damn alarm at 4 AM instead, I would've made like 5 thousand more gold! FUCK!
Gray could be seen with a big frown on his face. "It's fine, it's whatever, I'll just be more careful next time, no worries." With that, he set up another alarm for 8 AM and went back to sleep.