Still in Ackland Mall area
I’m still in the Ackland area. I’m holed up in the Mall right now. Yesterday I went out on a sort of patrol, just heading south east. My path was completely clear of zombies. I made it all the way down to Shore Hills before I crossed my first zombie. This one was wearing a flak jacket, and it blocked a lot of bullet damage. I came close to killing it, but didn’t manage to get the final blow before I had to pull back.
Over night I hid in a hospital — Maria General Hospital, I think. While I rested, one lone zombie managed to break the barracades and get in. Luckily, another survivor was able to dispatch the zombie and re-barricade the entrance. (I still haven’t quite figured out how to make a good barricade.) I couldn’t help wonder if it was the same zombie I shot at a few blocks away. Did it know where I was? How would it now?
The next morning, I went back to the same spot, but there was no zombie, but there was small group just north, gathered around the Mules Monument. I literally emptied all my remaining bullets into the group, finishing off one, and damaged another pretty badly.
Out of ammo, I headed back to Ackland. I’ve been here ever since, resting and searching the gun shop for more ammo. Either I’m getting luckier, or better at searching, but I’m finding stashes of pistol clips and shotgun shells all over the place now. I’m carrying more ammo now than I ever have before.
Radio chatter and mall conversations seem to indicate that the zombie menace has been dealth with in the Ackland area. My experience reinforces that — I had to walk six full blocks to see even a single zombie. Reports of occasional break-ins still come through, though, so you can never be too careful.
Different people are either going to or coming from the Barrville area — due east of the mall. Some people are escaping the zombie menace, others are joining the fight against the zombie hordes.
Others report that Lumber Mall is under seige. Too bad, that’s in Penny Heights, way on the other side of Malton. It would take me a few days — at least — to get over there safely.
The next mall nearest to Ackland, other than Caiger, is Nichols Mall in Stanbury Village. That’s dangerously close to the Ridleybank suburb, an area known to be completely overrun by zombies. It’d be a dangerous trek to get from here to there. Are there even any survivors over in Nichols?
