Lucky Escapes

[DaMaGe]

Got mauled by a bear day 2 w5
I lived with 92 HHP.

[WiseZaker]

This is Zake. And here is my story.

Once upon a time I was over in the mudflats near my home back in World 4. Someone told me it was a good idea to grind teapots for LP. So I was gathering clay (DUH) then a bear came crashing out of the woods north of me.

Back then I didn't know how to even combat one or hunt from a boat. So I ran like a home as a fast as my 10-point stamina could carry me. Along the way the bear kept raking at my backside taking out my Q6 leather armor and my leather boots. Then JUST before I made the gate the bear knocked me out cold.

Naturally, I had my face glued to monitor whimpering, "OHPLZDONTDIEOHPLZDONTDIEOHPLZDONTDIE". I was down to 14HHP thinking I was just gonna get killed and reset my character AGAIN (4th).

But not that day! That day, whatever god/satan/ or luck for dumbasses decided to gimme a break. In layman's terms, I put a point into Life (in Death/Life) 5 minutes before the bear attacked. So as soon as could I ran home, zoned inside, and felt like a olympic runner who got the gold!

It didn't end there....

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Right after I made it inside I switched to my keyalt and shut the gate with the Bear just outside.

Back then I had a three nice friendly neighbors named Vargus, Kongui, and Archibald. I lived in a place at W4 61, -106 called the "Church of Mercy". I wanted warn them about bear, however, since I was only one online that was a problem. It was then I decided to strike back at my oppressor for their sakes and my own hurt pride.

...plus I wanted a bearcape.

I was a noob then but I did know that animals couldn't attack palisade walls at least. I had a Q10 sling but no stones. However, I did have a cupboard full of bones from dead rabbits, chickens, and a boar AND 20 or so logs from when I was making my Timberhouse. So I decided to make a bow and arrows to kill the bear. I made about 20 bone arrows and a Q12 bow. I went back outside and the bear was still there. After a quick safety check I started shooting.

With my MM being only 15-20 back then it was like watching a gunfight in slow motion, taking me 5 minutes between shots. I hit as often as I missed.

Of course I ran out of ammo before the bear ran out of health. Since I had no more bones to make arrows I figured I was done. Then once I was down to 2 arrows left Kongui came back on. 1st thing I did was warn him about the bear outside so he would shut his gate. With a thanks he shut his gate and stayed inside cooking. It was then the thought occurred to me and I asked for his help in taking down the bear but he had no ammo for his sling. Being a former WoW player I did get the crazy idea that since I was the one shooting it I was the one who had arrgo and therefore tanking it and said as much.

Guess he believed me since he opened his gate and ran to the nearest rock quarry to grab an inventory full of stones. I found out when I saw the first stone shot from behind his own wall.

After a few shots from Kongui and me running out of arrows I told him I was gonna brave outside and run to the nearest quarry to grab some stones for my own sling. After zoning and logout in my home I opened the gate with my keyalt and ran pass the bear to the quarry. 15 minutes I had a inventory full of stones I hearthed back home, tossed the stones in a cupboard and logged back to my Main.

With a sling and stones now I went back to shooting party! Despite this my ammo dropped 1 by 1... then with my VERY LAST STONE I shot and killed the bear!!!! With that came 9000 LP, my 1st bearcape, and sweet SWEET revenge!

So there my long-ass story. Hope it was a fun read. If he did kill me I probably would've ragequit H&H being my 4th death in my 1st month (2 from boars and 1 from a couple axe wielding scumbags).

THE END

~WiseZaker

[ninja_yodeler]

pfft, 4 deaths in one month, i died 5 times in one week,
hows that for luck.


but i love hnh, it wouldnt be the same without my W4 title, my last character was homicidal ninja the 9th. thats right nine....10 if you include the time i commited suicide to spawn off a friends h.f

[Captain_Bravo]

Killing a deer earlier today, when the game lags just as I'm hopping in the boat. No biggy, everything unfreezes, and I'm unhurt. Then I notice there's a weird knocking sound. Fucking deer destroys my boat, and dumps me into deep water, without swimming. Luckily, as I found out, you're still able to swim to shore even if you haven't bought swimming, but now there's a pissed-off deer all up in my face, doing his deer~y thing. Hit ranged attack, only have it to about 20% before he's just about to take me down, and pull off a lucky shot, sending him running away. I have 1% SHP left.

Went back, got another boat and a friend, and we murderized the shit out of that fucking deer. He was too smart to live, I couldn't risk him teaching others about our secret weakness.

[saltmummy626]

Are boats really that easy to break? even when I had lots of STR in w3 and w4 they took forever to smash.

Anyways I havent been trapped before and escaped, but I did manage to avoid being killed by a guy in bronze who was following me around for about 20 minutes.

[Chucker]

This is what happened to me once.

My alt and I were racing down the river in the same boat. We were traveling over many distances to reach a new home. Along one of the rivers, I pass by what seems like a hunting party of 4, 3 on boats. As I past them, one of them suddenly stopped hunting and started chasing after me! I clicked at the water like a madman hoping to escape!

Escaped suddenly decided to kick me in the balls.

The river my boat was going down in suddenly turned to a dead end. I reached the dead end and my pursuer trapped me at the dead end. Another boat came by with two people. They started whacking at my boat trying to destroy it. Frantically, I went to my alt and got him off the boat. Next my main. I quickly grabbed the boat, which wasn't even in the red, and hearthed the hell out of there! Did the same to my alt too.

[krikke93]

waow, some great stories here, I can only say that once in w4 I was sitting in a boat next to another guy in a boat, talking to him. The game was pretty new to me because I didn't play it much and the guy was destroying my boat without me noticing it.
I was suddenly swimming in the middle of a river with only 114 HHP, so I swam accross the river and I survived with no damage at all!! ;D Then I found where this guy lived and i stole his sword and a whole key ring which was useful later on.

[Sevenless]

I survived a attack by two dryads.

Dryads don't attack you though, thats the thing.

Wooosh

[Kirche]

Boar was chasing me and i was perfectly safe, so i get right next to my boat and then a lag spike lasting for about 5 seconds allowed the boar to get upon me and knock me out and i previously had clicked avast on my boat and somehow got knocked out and then while unconscious hopped into my boat