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You're not keen to face more of those ugly fuckers, but you see Joel's point; it's quite possible, maybe even likely, that Danny's been gone so long because he joined this new batch of infected. Or, new-to-the-area, at least -- obviously the clickers have been infected a while. If that's the case and you find him, you will have cut the trip in half. Shorter than that, even.

Joel doesn't want to ride back through there with guns blazing, though. Once you see infected, you'll stash the horses somewhere safe (or as safe as you can manage) and try to kill them quietly. Stealthily. One by one, until you find Danny... or until you don't. If you don't, it's fine -- then you'll have just performed a 'public service,' Joel says.

But of course, things never go as smoothly in reality as they do in your mind, now, do they?

The infected haven't strayed too far from that little section of town you found them in (you wonder if they'll just naturally drift back over that way, or if they'll continue on through the woods). You do find a relatively safe place for the horses -- a rest stop type place off the highway, a place Joel says people probably used to stop at to take in the view. There's a little store there, which he says is unusual for a plain old rest area so it must be a tourist-y place. You can't really squeeze the horses into the little door of the store very easily, and they don't seem to want to go in there anyway, but they're decently hidden, and you won't lead the infected back here to freak them out.

As for the stealth killing... you do pretty well when you're bow-and-arrowing. You've killed six of them, and have wounded more than that, when you run out of arrows. Joel is doing his strangle-from-behind thing.

You creep from your hiding spot to start retrieving the unbroken arrows so you can start round two, making sure to look carefully at the Runners' faces.

You hear a screech coming from Joel's direction -- shit! One of them spotted him! He must've been too close when he started choking his current victim-- you do have a split-second fleeting thought of "I'm glad it wasn't me this time" -- as in, glad that it was Joel who ended the simplicity of your easy killing, because it makes you feel like less of a failure -- before focusing solely on how to survive this. Joel is now like... a five-second sprint away from you, and the infected behind you aren't close enough to respond to their buddy's rally cry, nor have any of them detected your presence. Joel had to drop the Runner he was strangling to deal with the one lunging for him, and there are a handful of others rushing toward him now. All Runners. You don't want to shoot or launch things too close to him -- too risky, with his movements unpredictable and your good-but-not-100%-perfect aim. It's probably best not to shoot at all right now if you can help it, lest you draw the attention of all the other infected.

What should you do??? Joel is a little busy to offer advice.


If you rush in and stab the Runner that's about to join the screechy one's assault on Joel (he's a little too close for comfort), turn to page 179.

If you focus on lobbing Molotov cocktails and bombs at the outlying infected (this will make noise, yes, but it won't draw them toward you or Joel), turn to page 184.

Comments

Carlos

[(Anonymous)]

Hmm, interesting.