The greatest thing ever just happened outside of Ranchito just now. So I'm a fresh spawn at the Villas. A French dude with a hunting rifle and a bow comes over and says hi, I get some basic stuff, and we take off towards Ranchito. On the way there we talk about how I have been to Paris and Reims and really bonded looting on the way. We finally get to the outskirts of town and come upon a group of 4 or 5 guys with helmets and bows who offer us some rations. They lay it down in front of us and before we even move to it (a mistake on their part) they start assaulting us with a flurry of bows. We take off in opposite directions, and I hear my French friend say, "Save you, my friend!" while the fight ensues. I hold my own against the only guy who comes after me and eventually I lose him while winding through town. The last I saw of my friend, he was sprinting back across the lake with a line of guys all waiting to put bows in his head and loot his hunting rifle. For about 20 minutes I'm on my own, looting Ranchito, and wondering about my friend's fate. I'm in one of the high rise apartments when I hear my French friend yelling and taunting at the same guys who were chasing him across the lake in the other direction. He lasted all that time and led them back to me! So I find a good sniper perch on top of the apartment complex and start laying into them with my 9 arrows I have left from the previous fight. The amount of lob I had to put on the arrows was pretty crazy. I hit one in the head and landed a couple of other body shots before everyone realized what was happening. My French friend loved it, even though he died shortly after, he refrained from respawning just so he could taunt them from the death screen saying, "Ah, my friend, he get you! He get you!!" So after I land a couple of shots, I run out of arrows they came into the apartment building looking for me. I had to hide. The tensest moment I've had in H1Z1 so far. They never found me and I live to tell the story.
AbnormalBob if you're out there-- I tried buddy, I tried.