))Desperation:
I wake up on the shore of a small coastal town that the signposts call Kamenka, waaaay west of anything. Since I only have the usual painkillers, bandage, and flashlight, I decide to raid Kamenka for everything it's got. It takes a lot longer than it should as I was run out of town several times due to my own mistakes, such as getting overconfident enough to crouch run instead of crouch-walking and making too much noise,. Once I even have to run all the way into the forest just to lose them.
That nets me lots of bandages, painkillers, an empty water bottle, a watch, a compass, and a hunting knife. I just need a matchbox to make fire, a map and an axe for being a weapon and chopping down trees. Mostly a weapon. However even with all that I find no food, no drink, and nowhere to refill my water bottle.
So as thirst was starting to set in, I set off east on the side of the main road.
Eventually, as thirst was going from setting in to desperate, I come to Komarovo, another coastal town. Seeing as I don't have much to lose now I start crouch-running. To my delight I find an axe at the main train station near the coast,,. Then at the small station house at the centre of town, finally, a full can of Pepsi! I chug that down immediately, risking being exposed. My thirst is quenched, but now I have a new problem. Hunger is starting to make itself known in earnest. I get clipped by a zombie, he hits me hard enough to make me start bleeding out. An axe to the face sorts him out and a bandage sorts me out, but that alerts more of them, and I have to run for the hills again. A comb of this place reveals a hunting knife, a revolver and ammo, and not much else. As hunger slowly starts to reach desperate levels, I resort to hunting zombies. That nets me nothing but junk, a tin can which I take should I come across a matchbox so I can boil water and not much else Then the undead spot me again, a lot of them. It's too dangerous here for little reward, so I hightail it up the side road to higher, less populated ground, hoping to see a wild animal of some sort for the meat. Higher, and I come across one house. Locked, and nothing but walkers, which I sneak past. Higher, and there's another locked house-but this time the zombie sees me first. I manage to hit it before It clips me, and out of desperation, nearing starvation, I search his body...
... I find an unopened tin of Frank and Beans, and that's soon gone in great relief.
Higher now, I come to another locked house-but I can see an open barn not far away so I head there. I find a well, which I use to refill my water bottle. That alerts a walker, and he sets me bleeding again before I deal with him. Another bandage, my health's getting dangerously low. I look around the barn, a few more Revolver rounds and nothing but useless woodpiles.
I get back down from the second level to the first level of the barn, I figure jumping off the top shouldn't hurt, it's not that far down...
*Crack*
I was wrong, the jump breaks my legs and I'm bleeding profusely again until another bandage sorts it. My vision's blurred, colourless and shakes with every heartbeat. I can't stay here like this, so I drag myself to the road to follow and try to find a city.
I don't get that far. I meet a walker who spots me on the road before my compromised vision spots him. One swipe, and this particular nightmare's over.