Day 3 -Time to get serious!!!

This time I was fully prepared. I'd read on the net that I could get oil.... Oh yeh, this has to be worth it.

Looking at my map and remembering how long it took me to get anywhere yesterday I realised I was in for a long night. Off I set from PA in a south easterly (more east than south) direction. After a while I noticed that I was running into bigger monsters so it wasn't long until I revived at a revival point.

This time it was a new one which luckily got me a little closer or so I thought!!
I set off from the revival point due east only to be shot down from some where by something.

I tried again, this time I spotted a red blob approaching... fast... I turned to look... saw some big mother of a robot.... and died.

This went on for a while until I realised I wasn't getting through. Just too many of the damn things.

Time for a new tactic..... The oil field is fairly close to the coast, so I thought.... right, just swim... robots can't swim (or can they). and off I set.

I eventually realised that if I hit the F3 button I could automatically move without holding the "Q" key. This was great, I could set my direction and go make a cuppa, go to the loo, watch David attenborough's animal planet that was on at the time and.... nope still not there yet. yawn....
After a fairly long time I looked at the laptop only to find I'd been killed! What? noooooooooooooo!!!! how did that happen, I'm in the water, I thought robots can't swim.... can they??

I looked at the radar and saw several red blobs round and about.... what are they? I sat and waited and eventually some small little piranha thing passed by... You have to be kidding!?!?!

So I revied my self only to find I got closer.... Thank god for that... I was on the verge of tears and think I'd have slit my wrists if I'd have been sent back to PA!

It wasn't far now, but I wasn't sure exactly where to go. Luckily there was another player at the revival point who, it turned out, had already been to the oil rig (where the oil appears!!!! apprently!) and was willing to take me.

So off we set, in convoy. We had a couple of attempts each time being killed by some big T-rex looking thing (damn they are nasty!) until eventually we made it. Horrah!!! Lets get some oil..

I'd have been happy to share it with my guide but for one thing, there we already a group of people here... one of which came running up and sent the message.... "Rig CLosed"... and so the chat then went something like...

ME: "Why?"
Her (yes it was a female!!) : Cos I want the oil.
ME: Thats not nice, I need it too <--- What for I didn't know, but hell I wasn't about to just walk off after all that!
Her: Approach and Die
ME: Now thats not nice at all... Wanna shoot it out <--- Yes I was bluffing I didn't even have a hanky let alone a weapon!!

At this point I started to approach the rig. I could see the player in front of me. All of a sudden I saw something appear in her hands.... It was long and pointy.... kind of grey.... a little shiney.... (I was getting even closer now).... BLAM I was dead!

Her: Told you
ME: Craaaaappppppp

Back to that revival point I went, this time alone, but I knew the way. So after a couple of attempts I managed to get back to the rig (Not too close this time!!!!) I looked over the ledge to find everyone being eaten by one of those T-rex things.... arrrr vengence is sweat I thought only to be disappointed that my assassin ended up killing the damn thing before it had a chance to eat her!!!
Lesson learnt there then.... Don't pick a fight with someone until you have a weapon! I had learn't my lesson the hard way, so this time I just kept my distance, watching this thing move up and down. Occasionally another player ended up with the same fate I had (Not without warning I must say). Eventually my now fairly freindly assasin had decided that the rig was open.... I rushed forward... and.....Nothing.... "Wheres the oil" I proclaimed over my ever trusty chat. "It just appears" came the reply. "Where???" I quized, "On the ground" came the almost obvious reply.

So I sat and waited.... and waited.... and waited, until.... MR T-rex appeared... I ran for my (virtual) life and hid behind a small building of some sorts hoping not to be found. Initially Mr T-rex ignored me... Probably cos I wasn't a great deal of a threat, but once everyone else had been made into lunchen meat (Including my now friendly assasin) he turned his attention to me.

I was up a bit of an incline and initally the monster stopped at the bottom... not for long... The blighter found a way up and after trying to do a Laurel and Hardy act around the building I was close to, he decided it was time to make chop suey out of me. And thats where I called it quits for the night.