I should have recorded last night’s game of 7 Days to Die with Max and Luke. Particularly the raid on the Shotgun Messiah factory in the wasteland. It was pretty epic.
We met while on the way. I had just dug up a buried treasure in the desert. Me on my motorcycle, them in the 4×4, when we got to the factory we had a time just clearing out the parking lot. Several zombears, many birds, and a dozen zeds. I reminded them that the respawn timer in the wasteland is 0 – for every deado we kill, another one will respawn.
We tried to follow the path through the factory but sometimes it was easier to beat a door down to see what’s around us. Sometimes the zombies did the destruction. At one point we had to swim through a flooded section and we had trouble getting out of the water. Luke and Max could pole up on frames, but for some reason I wasn’t able to get high enough in the water to get a frame under me. I had to place ladder frames on Luke’s blocks and climb up. While I was struggling with that, they were dealing with the zombies in the room above me. I did make it up in time to help them take out the zombies, though.
We reached an office space filled with cubicles and undead businessmen and cleared it out, and we were only one floor above ground level, so we jumped out to dump all the loot we’d collected in the car, then climbed back to where we were. Found a storage area and cleared it out, and there was a ramp made from the collapsed ceiling up to the next floor. It was unclear how to proceed. Nighttime was coming so we decided to hole up there. Luke tried to block off the ramp but we could hear a witch (screamer zombie who calls in another horde if she sees a player) and sure enough she saw us and we had a mini-horde on our hands. Cleared them out, and by then it was night, when the zombies get faster and meaner.
Tried to block the door to the stairwell but we had a constant line of undead coming up to us. Luke and Max started taking out the stairs so they wouldn’t see a path to us. I stood watch looking down the stairwell. At one point a bear charged up the stairs to us but we made short work of it. Luke ran out of gas for his auger so they switched to pickaxes, much slower going, while Max and I fired on the advancing army of the dead.
I tried to reach for a loot bag that dropped just beyond where we were breaking down the cement stairs, and fell almost all the way to the bottom, and had to run and jump back up to our perch with the decaying non-people right behind me.
With the dawn we proceeded upward. Hit a section of the factory where there were huge metal tanks with hatches on top and through them, surrounded by catwalks, that led out to a lower-than-the-top roof but it was a dead end (pun intended) so we had to circle around to find another way up. We gave up, though, and tried to build pillars and ladders to skip to the roof. Max fell, hurt himself, and quickly found himself surrounded by brain-eating zombies. Luke and I were way up on the very top, eyeing the loot. I went back down and saw Max limping around, sure he was going to die, chased by radioactive zombies and acid-puking zombies and dogs and everything else. If it wasn’t so dire it would have been hilarious (OK it was actually hilarious.) A cop zobmie took out our ladder up, stranding Luke. Max found a room he could barricade himself in so I ran in to bandage him up, but he still had two broken limbs.
Once we’d cleared a break in the waves of attakers, we made it to the loot on the roof. Found a chainsaw, an assault rifle, and a bunch of food, and some good schematics, among the other loot. Totally worth it. And nobody died.