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Confounded - Raid 68 - Level 17

I am short funds. I should be running scav raids to get some money, but I'm eager to take another run at Reserve, to kill the last two raiders I need for the quest and to get the medical documents for a different quest.  

Raid 68 - 0 Exp

Loadout: Vityaz PP-19 with buttloads of Pst gzh (best I can afford), class 4 armor, ears, meds, the two keys I'll need in my secure container.

Spawned in the corner barracks with the far away marked room. This place. I jumped out the rear window and started to cut behind the cleavage. This time I'm going to try a different route - I cut down the gap of the cleavage and dropped into the bunker. Light on and started the crossing. No scavs down here nor Glukhar and his guards. As I entered the tunnel going up to the loading docks, the siren went off - someone had pulled the switch for the hermetic door. Great, that's all I need - for this place to be flooded with raiders.  

Wait - that's exactly what I need. I listened and double checked. If the raiders spawned somewhere it wasn't down here. I resumed. Went up and carefully peered through the doorway that leads to the outside. No sign or sound of any raiders - no sounds of anyone combatting raiders.  Huh.  I exited and jogged over to King. Went into King, the second set of doors which are normally open are closed - carefully advanced - dead body. But nothing else. I advanced. More closed doors. Someone had gone through and closed them all - except the gate leading to the basement stairs - that was open. Fine.

Descended into the bunker. Someone is moving in the big room?  I ran down the stairs, peeked the big room. No one, but there are sounds of movement - over by the D-2 switch maybe.  I have a couple of approaches - the offices which can often be a deathtrap, or the big room which lacks cover, or the white pawn stairs. I'll try those. Third (or fourth?) time is the charm, right?

I pattered up the ramp, quieted down and started going down the white pawn hallway to the stairs. Whoever was already in the bunker seemed to be moving again. As I approached the top of the stairs with maximum stealth, I heard him approach the bottom of the stairs (with minimum stealth). Hmm. This is going to be tricky.   Suddenly I heard new footsteps in the parallel white pawn hallway, bearing toward the access tunnel. Fuck - I'm about to get sandwiched.

My friend at the bottom of the stairs seemed to be still, waiting. The new interloper was approaching and I'm standing in a hall without good cover. The interloper is the bigger threat - I need to get eyes on him fast before my friend figures out what's going on.  I went back along the hallway. As I neared the access tunnel I aimed down sight, leaned right and began to squeeze around the corner to take a gander. Suddenly there was noise right behind me.  What is that? Did my friend push?  I backed away and spun - the hallway was empty. I turned back to the interloper and stepped around the corner, there he is standing in the hall in the open - but when I turned I had dropped my sight - I started firing and re-aiming down sight, which was a huge mistake. If you are aiming down sight when someone is already firing you are too late. That sort of thing will get you killed.  And it did.

Time In Raid: 7 minutes, 28 seconds.
Exp: 0
Killed By: SYmoli,   with rounds of 7.62x39 mm US.  An interesting ammo choice.   
Ammo Used: 3  - No hits

I realized immediately after that the sound I had heard behind me was fire from SYmoli's weapon hitting the wall behind me, probably going right past me as I was still behind the protective cover of the wall. But what I did not hear was the actual retort of his weapon. I've used many an AKM, and many a suppressed AKM in this game, and know their sound well. I didn't hear anything like that from his direction - just the rounds hitting the wall behind me.    The US rounds are sub-sonic, but I've never used them. I did not know they were so quiet that they couldn't be heard discharging from 3 meters away.  

Mistakes

  • forgetting to aim down sight again when I returned to the interloper
  • aiming down sight instead of just point firing once the first mistake had been made. I have a laser on that weapon - use it.
  • did not complete either quest
  • died

Successes

  • meh

PostScript

Looks like I'll be doing more scav runs.

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