After a brutal death by a Shambler's acid, I restarted the encounter with a silent arrow. I cleared the building alongside Lev, dealing with Clickers and Runners through a mix of melee and stealth. After finding a WLF letter in another building, we discovered a strange cat painting that Lev found quite weird.
The runner that I started the fight with the other time came out breaking the glass even before I attacked him. He had somehow heard the noise of us, so he didn't wait. I reacted quickly and took him down.
Then there came a clicker running towards us from the dark corner of the lobby, who I also took down using that heavy hammer. The weight of the tool was enough to crush these demons in just a few swings.
And then there came the shambler along with another infected in a tight corridor, where I took down the infected but ended up breaking the hammer in the process. That's where the shambler took me down with its acid clouds
At the restart, I changed my approach and shot the runner close to the entrance with an arrow real fast to keep things quiet. I noticed the movement inside actually stayed calm because they hadn't heard the noise yet, so they didn't come for us.
It was a much more successful beginning to the encounter, allowing me to stay in the shadows for a bit longer.
This gave us a good opportunity to clear these premises while those monsters were still unaware of our arrival in the building. I crouched low and moved between the desks while Lev stayed close behind me.
I started checking for their movements while keeping a safe distance from them to avoid being heard. Suddenly, this clicker realized we were there and let out a piercing screech that echoed through the entire floor.
The silence was broken, and I had to change my strategy from stealth back to open combat.
I had to start running around when the clicker was on our trail to avoid being cornered. This runner suddenly got close, so I had to use the axe to take him down before he could grab my arm.
Then while I was fighting the clicker in the center of the room, another runner attacked me from behind. I escaped through a hole in the wall after I had finally taken down the clicker with a heavy blow.
Then I noticed Lev took down the runner who was chasing me.
And at last there was only this shambler left, who tried to close the distance between us, but I kept my distance this time and shot it down from afar until it finally.
I noticed Lev was not scared at all in the middle of the carnage, standing tall as the last threat fell.
After coming out of the building, we found the water had picked up a lot of speed from the heavy rain. We had to be really careful while I navigated to another building where I found a dead body of a WLF soldier. Beside him was a letter that told a sad story of his final moments in the city.
Then I followed Lev into another building as he was ahead of me this time, moving quickly through the ruins. We stopped when we found this strange painting of dancing cats on a crumbling wall. Lev mentioned that people from the old time were weird for liking such things.
We'll check what happens next in another post.
Image Source: In game screenshots.
End of the post.
Peace.
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