Not All Heroes Were Capes
I've got some "Heroic Survivor" stories I want to share and want to hear read some from other people. I'm looking for the times you've been saved by someone as Survivor, saved another Survivor or seen a Survivor gets saved by someone else, either as a third Survivor yourself or as the Killer. I've got three stories in the first, second and fourth categories.
First story, me getting saved: I get a "Coop actions" daily and slot in a like Challenge and roll up as Dwight with Bond and Prove Thyself to hammer out some gens with people. I get in with an Ash and two Nea. We start the Trial in old Cowshed, back when it was still dark, and I'm with one of the Nea already, let's call her Nea1, and Ash is the Obsession. Nea1 and I hit a gen nearby together and all is well in the corn. Then Nea2 gets hit, and promptly steps into a bear trap.
Killer is The Trapper, noted.
She gets hooked but me and Nea1 are still busy on the gen. She's saved pretty fast though and Ash takes a hit for her, then she gets Deep Wounds not too much later but they both get away, considering neither goes down again. Me and Nea1 finish our gen and I motion for her to come with me and head for Nea2, because she ran into range of Bond and hey healing together is a coop action!
Game moves along, I flow with other people or solo as needed and somehow never run into the Killer, I hear the T.R. a few times but never actually see him. At one point Nea2 got saved and downed right away and then D.S.ed Trapper man but gets away because she doesn't go down again.
Last gen, I'm with Nea1 again and we're oh so close to getting it done. Heartbeat. I stick it out, this gen is so, so, so close to being done and I've not been hooked yet at all so I'm willing to take that risk. Nea1 isn't as foolish brave as I am however and Sprint Bursts away to safety. I get the gen done just as soon as Trapper comes around the corner and I dash for the nearby window but don't make it, hit in the back and on the ground.
NOED.
So I'm on hook and I see that Ash is on a gate and one of the Nea are on a gate with the other hiding out near me for the save. Sadly she gets found out and it was Nea2, the spider legs atwitchin. Ash breaks off his gate and starts running towards me but on the way he swerves and steps into a trap. I just sigh. He gets out after three or four attempts and comes back for me, this whole time Nea2 has been looping Trapper like a boss and Nea1 opens her gate and they both run out, no good-bye hits given.
Ash comes up to me and waits a moment, then unhooks me just as we're in the T.R. and I 'stumble' a bit to be next to Ash who tried to wait for me to go first but I run at his side. Trapper knows about B.T. of course so he tries to ignore me and go for Ash but I step in the way, take the hit and dash off. Sorry buddy, but you're on your own now, hope you can make it.
Trapper comes up on Ash and he gets hit...and doesn't go down. Mother[bad word]er has [bad word]ing Metlle of Man and that's why he stepped into the trap, to go from Healthy to Injured so NOED wouldn't skip over his extra health state. We both escape and Trapper is fake mad, more impressed. He played fair and wasn't running a Basement Build so "GG"s all around (expect for me, because I always spell it out when I say it).
Second Story, me as Hero: I get an "Escape as Bill" daily so I head in along with an Unhook Challenge and take B.T. and Deliverance with me, I'm sure some of you already know where this is going. I'm in with a Kate, a Nea, and an Adam. We get Coal Tower. Pretty soon into the match there is the sound of a distant chainsaw followed by a scream and Kate is downed.
Killer is a Bubba. Joy.
Thankfully Kate didn't go down at basement so she gets a normal hook. She has Kindred so I can see where everyone is and much to my surprise and joy Bubba isn't a camper, he heads off towards Adam on a gen far from me. That looks like BBQ to me, something to keep in mind. Nea was already moving for the save so I stuck to my gen.
Game goes along and I juke our human flesh eating friend a few times, he gets me with an M1 more than once but never can get me down. Don't know why, I'm barley better than a potato at Survivor but maybe he's just that new. He gets a down on Nea but someone else got that save.
Last gen gets finished and, you guessed it, NOED again. Kate goes down to an M1 for her second hook and Bubba goes running off towards where Nea and Adam are at an Exit, they both dipp pretty fast, not even sure Bubba Boy had a chance to even get close to them.
I don't even bother looking for the other gate, running right to Kate and wait for the heartbeat before unhooking her. Bubba comes in swinging and gets his double hit, I go down and Kate runs off. Bubba doesn't risk it and hooks me, Unbreakable is in Bill's blood after all, and goes running after Kate with his speed boost hoping to catch her. Thing is though it has been long enough now for the unhook to be "safe". Still, I wait a bit more, letting him get some distance before I Kobe off the hook with Deliverance and head off to where I saw Hatch at earlier.
Four man escape against a rank 16 Bubba with T2 BBQ and T1 NOED. Guy was a good sport about it and I stuck around to give him some Bubba tips, as I had been playing a lot of Bubba myself around that time. I made sure to complement him on not camping first off, have to encourage good behavior after all.
Third Story, me as Killer: I get a Pig Dash daily (see a trend here?) so I go grab Amada for some fun. I take in both charge time reduction add-ons along with Save, Ruin, Surveillance, and Surge. I get a lobby with a Meg, David, Kate, and Jake. We get sent to Amada's own map without any offering so that happened.
David must have got into a really bad fight before the Trial because the poor man was already Broken. But it ain't No Mither so he sucked it up and got working on gens just like the other Survivors. Meg is my Obsession though.
I'm looking around for people when a gen goes white then yellow on me, looks like someone did a Ruin Check and found out I did indeed have Ruin. Too bad they didn't know about Surveillance. (Love that combo by the way.) I find Jake on that gen and get in a dash to say "Hello". It was the gen near the chute drop so he tries to fool me by staying where you land and crouching with his Iron Will but I'm wise to that ploy and get in an M1. One Party Hat and a hook later I'm off looking for others.
I dash into Meg once but she's got Sprint-a Burst-o so I have some trouble catching her with it like I want. Kate isn't so lucky. Ruin goes down after the second gen, because Ruin. Anyways, I'm careful to balance out things so I get some good Save stacks while also making the best use of Surge that I can, getting hooks as I go, one each for everyone but Jake, who got his second. At one point with two gens left I get David down for his second hook and both Jake and Kate come in to try and body block me, with Jake also going for the sabo play. But I've got STACKS so it doesn't work out very well for them. That's not the hero story here, but good attempt on their part.
After I hook David again I can't find Jake because he's not making any noise and Kate is long gone so I don't stick around the hook. David is saved, Kate is healed and last gen gets finished, which heals Jake. Adrenaline is one heck of a drug. I heard for the nearest gate and come across poor, poor, Broken David. I go for the hit and he finally has a chance to use his more meta Perk and Dead Hards... .
Right into a wall. You see every time I had found him before he'd not been in a good position to use The Almighty E but I expected it anyways. Even so this was a poor showing so I wind up for the hit and SUDDEN MEG INTERUPT! She comes out of flipping NOWHERE and jumps in front of the hit (MY STACKS!) to give David the time he needs to get on going and he doesn't waste it, running off down the hall.
Now I'm not the type of Killer player who cares about kills, Meg isn't dead-on-hook so I'm more interested in her than in David. Also, I suspect David might be trying for an Adept and I'm more than willing to let him get alive on that alone. So I choose to go after Meg instead of David. She pre-drops a pallet and dips out of sight for a moment and when I come around the corner I see that he medkit is gone, so either Agent or Syringe and by the way she's running I'm guessing Syringe.
I chase and she starts stutter stepping, run, walk, run, walk, run and it's obvious she's trying to 99 her Sprint Burst for when I'm about to hit so she can run off and heal on the way. I take my chance and she stops dead in middle of the hall and tanks the hit. I had been fooled, it was Styptic Agent this whole time and she timed it down to the millisecond to get a speed boost off of that hit. Just as the hit boost runs out she walks a moment then BURSTS off. This beautiful [female dog] had 98ed her Sprint Burst so she could make the best use out of her "Just got hit I'm gone" boost on top of her Exhaustion Perk boost.
Gate opens as soon as she rounds the corner to it, David runs out as soon as the door is open but everyone else is there waiting. I crouch and creep closer and boops are had, I get some dash hits when I've had enough and we're off to the after game lobby.
David was indeed doing his Adept and profoundly thanks Meg for her save and thanked me for not tunneling or camping him, dude was really happy to finally be done with that, it sounded like he'd been having a rough time of it. I gave Meg great props for her play and she was kinda surprised it had worked out, she had thought the Agent timing would be off. If I had waited ever so slightly longer before going for the attack it probably wouldn't have but I told her she did a very good job of faking out the 99 for a Syringe play and I hadn't been counting the seconds. She was a Rank 1 with the rest of us scrubs being Greens (the Jake was a Purple, but lowest number for that and got it that match because he was happy about pipping) so it wasn't a big surprise she out played me like she did.
So those are my three best "Not All Heroes Wear Capes" Survivor stories. I've had some other games where some crazy things happen that had no business working out for the people involved yet did but these are the three that stick out in my mind the most and happened somewhat recently. A lot of my more recent games have been pretty standard with nothing too special in them sadly.