Thanks.
I found two oysters today. But I resent my game because if I don't keep track of where I find what, I'll be fucked when I'm missing that last one or two.
Explosions. Are. Fun. I found myself running around on the highway, waiting for a biker to spawn behind me so I could steal his bike. Here comes a bike. Oh wait, it's a police bike. Oh wait, he's not stopping fast eno- OW!
Bike stops fast. Car behind bike stops fast. Cars coming up behind car pile up. Traffic backs up. Has to be about 10+ cars there. And one of them is smoking. The driver keeps gunning it and hitting other cars as he tries to drive away. Now it's thick, black smoke.
Punch.
Car is on fire. The driver bails, but doesn't get very far. BOOM! Other cars are close enough to be hit by the explosion. Cars catch on fire. BOOM! BOOM! More cars, over and over, going down the whole highway. It was so fucking awesome.
After a few moments of looking around, some of the burnt out shells disappear, but there is still some smoking chunks left behind. New scars spawn, trying to get past the rubble. The fire damages their cars, to the point where one is smoking black smoke, as he backs up and speeds up to hit the blown up cars out of the way. Sadly, he makes it through and drives off.
Well, I wasn't about to left that happen again. Uzi, meet Mr. Gas Tank. BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Two star warning. Apparently I can punch a car to its doom, but I can't fire a gun.
So, fuck. Two stars means active pursuit. Here's a cop car, a cop bike. Guns blazing, hitting me with their evil bullets. I run down the highway and grab the first car I see, and I drive. I drive the wrong way on the highway, going under a tunnel, into the airport. The airport is a round-about dead end, meaning I have to drive in a circle to get back out the way I came, which isn't too easy with cops chasing you.
So I get out, and since I can't remember where any bribes are, I figure my best bet is to get back to my safe house. So I'm driving towards to icon. Driving through the city. No cops. No cops? How'd I manage that? Going, going, going. I drive toward the... Whatever you call the big concrete ditch. I flip my car just as I get swarmed with about 3 or 4 cop vehicles. OK, it's not far now. Oh shit... I guess it is. About 5 or 6 more blocks. Running. With cop cars and cop bikes and cop guns. Guns shooting me. My armor is all gone, and I keep getting clipped by bullets. Life slowly depleting. Running. Running.
Getting into my gang's territory now. I see two members, and I run by them. They run interference with the cops, firing that guns at them and keeping them off my back. But not all of them. I still have some that keep hitting me. Life is almost gone. A few more hits and I'm done for.
BAM! I run past a telephone pole.
BAM! I run past a wire fence.
BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! So close to my home now. I can see the arrow in front of the door. A bullet whizzes past and blows up the wooden rail by the stairs leading to my door.
BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM!
I made it in. Clinging to a sliver of health, I made it in. I can't believe I made it in. Holy fucking shit, I saved my game.
Next time, I'll tell you about how I got access to a plane much earlier than I was supposed to.