A Heartwarming Story

BubbaDredge

Just thinking of this and decided to share it.

Played against a very aggressive group led by a Steve. Swarming, blocking, sabo, etc. I killed all but Steve, Steve's still full of vinegar and we're locked in a struggle between two stubborn players, I've already closed the hatch and I'm not going to let him open a gate.

I come around the corner and give him a smack, he's doing a glyph. I back off so it's clear he can finish it. I'm still seething to murder him, but even murderous monsters have some decency. He grabs it and just waits to let me down him. His sense of fairness trumped his "ha ha, you can't get me" playstyle, or maybe it was that moment where we weren't mortal enemies, just DBD players playing.

I gave him my respect nod, but signaled for him to take off, we fought a little more and I got him. It wasn't one of those "ha ha, I got you" wins, just two players playing out an epic trial. I did not expect to leave it liking Steve, but I did.

The moral to this story, it's ok to be evil in DBD, that's part of the fun. I came to pretend to kill you for fun. It's a better experience if we can also see what we have in common, like our hatred of glyphs.

HerInfernalMajesty

It’s stories like this that I love so much. You’re right, it’s a game where we pretend to kill other people; and despite that there is still this sense of fairness/honor code.

This was really really nice to read. Thank you ☺️

BubbaDredge

@HerInfernalMajesty said:

It’s stories like this that I love so much. You’re right, it’s a game where we pretend to kill other people; and despite that there is still this sense of fairness/honor code.

This was really really nice to read. Thank you ☺️

I actually felt a little silly about it, but your kind response made me not care.

Cool name, btw.

HerInfernalMajesty

@BubbaDredge said:

https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/discussion/comment/3573626#Comment_3573626

I actually felt a little silly about it, but your kind response made me not care.

Cool name, btw.

It truly did make my morning.

And thanks for the compliment :)

Akumakaji

Awww. Yeah, in the spur of the moment we sometimes forget that we are all players and just see the others role or function, but it's nice that we still can sometimes connect.

When I started out, I had a very rough game on one of the swamp maps and got zero hooks. Eventually I got a single hook, while the last gen was slammed out. And in this instance I just lost my killer Instinct. I could fight tooth and nail for this one single kill, but would probably lose it due to swarming the hook and just nodded to everyone, stepped aside and let them unhook that Feng, while I opened the gates.

The swarm of survivors parted and Jeff, with his long, flowing hair and long coat, stepped up to me, nodded and sat down under a hook, sacrificing himself for me. I was in tears at this gesture.

Another time I had a tough, but manageable game at the groaning storehouse, but here was this extremely good, pink Bunny-Feng that foiled my plans and escaped me time and time again. When turning a corner in a jungle gym, I saw here standing there, lunged, realised that she was communing with a Glyph and looked away in the very last second.

Feng looked at me and we kinda stared at each other for like 10s, then I smacked her and the spell was broken a I chased and finally downed her. But during that trial we would not cross weapons again, but just nid and wave at each other. Eventually all her mates were on hook and we watched the last one struggle for a couple of seconds together, before looking for hatch, exchanging our last pleasantries and parting ways forever.

And then I got a Pig match this week. I had a couple really rough matches where I suffered a lot of abuse by the survivors. I found the whole bunch, obvious a SWF and surprised them, but they all expertly eluded me with perfect use of SB and this instantly kinda broke me and I was done for this match, not being ready to deal with such players for a full match. Somehow they understood and 20s later four survivors were surrounding my hiding spot where I had retracted to wallow in self pity and they all popped my snout. Afterwards we memed around and frolicked on the desolate auto haven, filling it with laughter and joy, 8 hooks and countless smashed pallets and cute Miss Piggy 🐷 gasps.

In the postgame chat they were like "rough couple of games?" and it was all so wholesome.

EDIT: and one last heartwarming story: I once played Basement Chest defender Insidious Bubba. The survivors did their gens, someone opened the gates and one cheeky Leon came down for some last minute looting. I shook my head, he insisted, touched my chest and went down and on the hook. His duo-SWF Jill mate tried to save him, I shook my head, she insisted and went on the hook, too.

One of the survivors just left, the last one (I think it was a Nancy) came down, pointed at the two, I shook my head, she pointed at my chest, I shook my head. She nodded and walked beside me and together we watched the two fools die. Afterwards I escorted her to the gates, she waved and we parted ways.

HerInfernalMajesty

@Akumakaji said:

Awww. Yeah, in the spur of the moment we sometimes forget that we are all players and just see the others role or function, but it's nice that we still can sometimes connect.

When I started out, I had a very rough game on one of the swamp maps and got zero hooks. Eventually I got a single hook, while the last gen was slammed out. And in this instance I just lost my killer Instinct. I could fight tooth and nail for this one single kill, but would probably lose it due to swarming the hook and just nodded to everyone, stepped aside and let them unhook that Feng, while I opened the gates.

The swarm of survivors parted and Jeff, with his long, flowing hair and long coat, stepped up to me, nodded and sat down under a hook, sacrificing himself for me. I was in tears at this gesture.

Another time I had a tough, but manageable game at the groaning storehouse, but here was this extremely good, pink Bunny-Feng that foiled my plans and escaped me time and time again. When turning a corner in a jungle gym, I saw here standing there, lunged, realised that she was communing with a Glyph and looked away in the very last second.

Feng looked at me and we kinda stared at each other for like 10s, then I smacked her and the spell was broken a I chased and finally downed her. But during that trial we would not cross weapons again, but just nid and wave at each other. Eventually all her mates were on hook and we watched the last one struggle for a couple of seconds together, before looking for hatch, exchanging our last pleasantries and parting ways forever.

And then I got a Pig match this week. I had a couple really rough matches where I suffered a lot of abuse by the survivors. I found the whole bunch, obvious a SWF and surprised them, but they all expertly eluded me with perfect use of SB and this instantly kinda broke me and I was done for this match, not being ready to deal with such players for a full match. Somehow they understood and 20s later four survivors were surrounding my hiding spot where I had retracted to wallow in self pity and they all popped my snout. Afterwards we memed around and frolicked on the desolate auto haven, filling it with laughter and joy, 8 hooks and countless smashed pallets and cute Miss Piggy 🐷 gasps.

In the postgame chat they were like "rough couple of games?" and it was all so wholesome.

EDIT: and one last heartwarming story: I once played Basement Chest defender Insidious Bubba. The survivors did their gens, someone opened the gates and one cheeky Leon came down for some last minute looting. I shook my head, he insisted, touched my chest and went down and on the hook. His duo-SWF Jill mate tried to save him, I shook my head, she insisted and went on the hook, too.

One of the survivors just left, the last one (I think it was a Nancy) came down, pointed at the two, I shook my head, she pointed at my chest, I shook my head. She nodded and walked beside me and together we watched the two fools die. Afterwards I escorted her to the gates, she waved and we parted ways.

🥹 Lol oh my gosh. These stories! They’re so heartwarming lol

09SHARKBOSS

@BubbaDredge said:

https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/discussion/comment/3573626#Comment_3573626

I actually felt a little silly about it, but your kind response made me not care.

Cool name, btw.

you are a good evil person

you have my respect

BubbaDredge

@Akumakaji said:

Awww. Yeah, in the spur of the moment we sometimes forget that we are all players and just see the others role or function, but it's nice that we still can sometimes connect.

When I started out, I had a very rough game on one of the swamp maps and got zero hooks. Eventually I got a single hook, while the last gen was slammed out. And in this instance I just lost my killer Instinct. I could fight tooth and nail for this one single kill, but would probably lose it due to swarming the hook and just nodded to everyone, stepped aside and let them unhook that Feng, while I opened the gates.

The swarm of survivors parted and Jeff, with his long, flowing hair and long coat, stepped up to me, nodded and sat down under a hook, sacrificing himself for me. I was in tears at this gesture.

Another time I had a tough, but manageable game at the groaning storehouse, but here was this extremely good, pink Bunny-Feng that foiled my plans and escaped me time and time again. When turning a corner in a jungle gym, I saw here standing there, lunged, realised that she was communing with a Glyph and looked away in the very last second.

Feng looked at me and we kinda stared at each other for like 10s, then I smacked her and the spell was broken a I chased and finally downed her. But during that trial we would not cross weapons again, but just nid and wave at each other. Eventually all her mates were on hook and we watched the last one struggle for a couple of seconds together, before looking for hatch, exchanging our last pleasantries and parting ways forever.

And then I got a Pig match this week. I had a couple really rough matches where I suffered a lot of abuse by the survivors. I found the whole bunch, obvious a SWF and surprised them, but they all expertly eluded me with perfect use of SB and this instantly kinda broke me and I was done for this match, not being ready to deal with such players for a full match. Somehow they understood and 20s later four survivors were surrounding my hiding spot where I had retracted to wallow in self pity and they all popped my snout. Afterwards we memed around and frolicked on the desolate auto haven, filling it with laughter and joy, 8 hooks and countless smashed pallets and cute Miss Piggy 🐷 gasps.

In the postgame chat they were like "rough couple of games?" and it was all so wholesome.

EDIT: and one last heartwarming story: I once played Basement Chest defender Insidious Bubba. The survivors did their gens, someone opened the gates and one cheeky Leon came down for some last minute looting. I shook my head, he insisted, touched my chest and went down and on the hook. His duo-SWF Jill mate tried to save him, I shook my head, she insisted and went on the hook, too.

One of the survivors just left, the last one (I think it was a Nancy) came down, pointed at the two, I shook my head, she pointed at my chest, I shook my head. She nodded and walked beside me and together we watched the two fools die. Afterwards I escorted her to the gates, she waved and we parted ways.

That's it exactly! Sometimes during a trial it happens. We should be enemies, that's part of the fun, but we have way more in common with each other than we might realize. Those were some great moments, easier to remember than a big win.

Early phases in this game, sometimes it's so hard it makes the other team seem evil. I remember thinking "It's obvious I can't even hit you when you're standing still, do you have to make it impossible?" It feels like you're the little kid getting dunked on by the teenagers. The truth is more like they were happy get an easy win because those don't come often in DBD.

Great post! So many posts are negative, because when we get frustrated we come here to yell about it, but let's keep sharing stuff like this when it comes up. I just don't think this toxic community is as toxic as people think.

BubbaDredge

@09SHARKBOSS said:

https://forums.bhvr.com/dead-by-daylight/discussion/comment/3573652#Comment_3573652

you are a good evil person

you have my respect

Well thank you, it's mutual.

That's a big part of my love for DBD. I don't even like being evil in SP games, DBD is the only place I can have fun doing it.

HerInfernalMajesty

I have a couple of heartwarming/funny stories from last night playing on Halloween.

• For the first story I wish CountoftheFog was here to read it as it was a game with 2 Nancys and 2 Steves. So it’s Halloween and I am playing Wraith with the full intention of getting jump-scares on people. The map that spawns is The Game. I patrol the upper floor generators until I find a Nancy and Steve working on a generator. I chase the Steve first and he leads me to a couple of pallets, okay no big deal. His adrenaline is pumping, I should leave him alone to cool off since he probably won’t get scared, so I go back to the Nancy. While cloaked I just stand right next to her and like a couple of seconds go by until she notices I’ve been there the whole time. The generator pops and she tries to leave but can’t because she runs right into my character. I injure her and then cloak and leave. As I go downstairs to patrol the lower level gens I get stunned out of nowhere by a pallet. It’s the same Steve from earlier. I chase him a little bit without injuring him. I break chase to continue trying to terrorize the other players. I get to the gen right by basement and noone is there. I pass by one of the basement pallets and guess what happens? I get hit again by a pallet! IT’S THE SAME STEVE! He stands there staring at me after the stun and I stare back. At this point the pieces start coming together. It’s not me terrorizing them, it’s this Steve who is terrorizing me! I went in with the intention of scaring them, and this Steve flips the script on me and is the one doing the tricks on Halloween night. I couldn’t believe how funny it was. I ended up chasing him the whole match and when I got close to hit him I would ring the bell as a substitute hit. After they open the exit gates he just stands there staring at me, no tea bags, no head nods, nothing. He just stares and turns his head in whatever direction I am in before he escapes the trial with barely any time left on the EGC timer. It was by far a 10/10 match, it was so perfect for Halloween.

• The second match was more heartwarming. I was playing Wraith again and using the cat costume. My intention was to act like a giant cat who clings to the first Survivor I see and injure any other Survivors. I spawn into Dead Dog Saloon and immediately start looking for Survivors. The first Survivor I see is a Leon. He thinks I’m trying to kill him (and who could blame him with this giant cat chasing him) but as soon as I get close to hitting him I instead just stay as close as possible like I am physically clinging on. He catches on after a couple of pallets and windows and goes to the saloon. While there he immediately starts roleplaying bartender, jumping off the stairs and landing onto the bar top and tables etc. At this point other Survivors catch on and like the possessive cat that I was playing as, I hit any Survivor that isn’t him. I don’t put them into dying, just injury since they are cat scratches. Every time they heal each other I go and injure them. It seems they understand what is going on, that Leon is the “privileged” one lol. He goes to the piano and starts acting like he is playing the scales, I go next to him and use my bell in a rhythm, two single hits, then a double, over and over. I also make it look like I am playing the scales up and down the piano keys. Finally when the other Survivors get bored and escape I am there with the Leon in the exit gates and he is telling me to come with him. I hit the exit area to show that I can’t. I make my character cling to his and at this point omg lmao he stands still and looks deep into Cat Wraith’s eyes. He does this for literally like 5 seconds. Then as the EGC is 3/4 finished he takes us both back to the Saloon piano to play one last song LMAO!!!! He allows the EGC to kill him and I start violently shaking my character’s head back forth next to his being murdered body. Omg that was one of the funniest games I’ve had in a long time. And it fits with the Halloween theme too since technically a tragedy occurred LOL. The tragic story of a Cat Wraith and their Human lmao.

09SHARKBOSS

@HerInfernalMajesty said:

I have a couple of heartwarming/funny stories from last night playing on Halloween.

• For the first story I wish CountoftheFog was here to read it as it was a game with 2 Nancys and 2 Steves. So it’s Halloween and I am playing Wraith with the full intention of getting jump-scares on people. The map that spawns is The Game. I patrol the upper floor generators until I find a Nancy and Steve working on a generator. I chase the Steve first and he leads me to a couple of pallets, okay no big deal. His adrenaline is pumping, I should leave him alone to cool off since he probably won’t get scared, so I go back to the Nancy. While cloaked I just stand right next to her and like a couple of seconds go by until she notices I’ve been there the whole time. The generator pops and she tries to leave but can’t because she runs right into my character. I injure her and then cloak and leave. As I go downstairs to patrol the lower level gens I get stunned out of nowhere by a pallet. It’s the same Steve from earlier. I chase him a little bit without injuring him. I break chase to continue trying to terrorize the other players. I get to the gen right by basement and noone is there. I pass by one of the basement pallets and guess what happens? I get hit again by a pallet! IT’S THE SAME STEVE! He stands there staring at me after the stun and I stare back. At this point the pieces start coming together. It’s not me terrorizing them, it’s this Steve who is terrorizing me! I went in with the intention of scaring them, and this Steve flips the script on me and is the one doing the tricks on Halloween night. I couldn’t believe how funny it was. I ended up chasing him the whole match and when I got close to hit him I would ring the bell as a substitute hit. After they open the exit gates he just stands there staring at me, no tea bags, no head nods, nothing. He just stares and turns his head in whatever direction I am in before he escapes the trial with barely any time left on the EGC timer. It was by far a 10/10 match, it was so perfect for Halloween.

• The second match was more heartwarming. I was playing Wraith again and using the cat costume. My intention was to act like a giant cat who clings to the first Survivor I see and injure any other Survivors. I spawn into Dead Dog Saloon and immediately start looking for Survivors. The first Survivor I see is a Leon. He thinks I’m trying to kill him (and who could blame him with this giant cat chasing him) but as soon as I get close to hitting him I instead just stay as close as possible like I am physically clinging on. He catches on after a couple of pallets and windows and goes to the saloon. While there he immediately starts roleplaying bartender, jumping off the stairs and landing onto the bar top and tables etc. At this point other Survivors catch on and like the possessive cat that I was playing as, I hit any Survivor that isn’t him. I don’t put them into dying, just injury since they are cat scratches. Every time they heal each other I go and injure them. It seems they understand what is going on, that Leon is the “privileged” one lol. He goes to the piano and starts acting like he is playing the scales, I go next to him and use my bell in a rhythm, two single hits, then a double, over and over. I also make it look like I am playing the scales up and down the piano keys. Finally when the other Survivors get bored and escape I am there with the Leon in the exit gates and he is telling me to come with him. I hit the exit area to show that I can’t. I make my character cling to his and at this point omg lmao he stands still and looks deep into Cat Wraith’s eyes. He does this for literally like 5 seconds. Then as the EGC is 3/4 finished he takes us both back to the Saloon piano to play one last song LMAO!!!! He allows the EGC to kill him and I start violently shaking my character’s head back forth next to his being murdered body. Omg that was one of the funniest games I’ve had in a long time. And it fits with the Halloween theme too since technically a tragedy occurred LOL. The tragic story of a Cat Wraith and their Human lmao.

i love the second one but the first is very funny

BubbaDredge

@HerInfernalMajesty said:

I have a couple of heartwarming/funny stories from last night playing on Halloween.

• For the first story I wish CountoftheFog was here to read it as it was a game with 2 Nancys and 2 Steves. So it’s Halloween and I am playing Wraith with the full intention of getting jump-scares on people. The map that spawns is The Game. I patrol the upper floor generators until I find a Nancy and Steve working on a generator. I chase the Steve first and he leads me to a couple of pallets, okay no big deal. His adrenaline is pumping, I should leave him alone to cool off since he probably won’t get scared, so I go back to the Nancy. While cloaked I just stand right next to her and like a couple of seconds go by until she notices I’ve been there the whole time. The generator pops and she tries to leave but can’t because she runs right into my character. I injure her and then cloak and leave. As I go downstairs to patrol the lower level gens I get stunned out of nowhere by a pallet. It’s the same Steve from earlier. I chase him a little bit without injuring him. I break chase to continue trying to terrorize the other players. I get to the gen right by basement and noone is there. I pass by one of the basement pallets and guess what happens? I get hit again by a pallet! IT’S THE SAME STEVE! He stands there staring at me after the stun and I stare back. At this point the pieces start coming together. It’s not me terrorizing them, it’s this Steve who is terrorizing me! I went in with the intention of scaring them, and this Steve flips the script on me and is the one doing the tricks on Halloween night. I couldn’t believe how funny it was. I ended up chasing him the whole match and when I got close to hit him I would ring the bell as a substitute hit. After they open the exit gates he just stands there staring at me, no tea bags, no head nods, nothing. He just stares and turns his head in whatever direction I am in before he escapes the trial with barely any time left on the EGC timer. It was by far a 10/10 match, it was so perfect for Halloween.

• The second match was more heartwarming. I was playing Wraith again and using the cat costume. My intention was to act like a giant cat who clings to the first Survivor I see and injure any other Survivors. I spawn into Dead Dog Saloon and immediately start looking for Survivors. The first Survivor I see is a Leon. He thinks I’m trying to kill him (and who could blame him with this giant cat chasing him) but as soon as I get close to hitting him I instead just stay as close as possible like I am physically clinging on. He catches on after a couple of pallets and windows and goes to the saloon. While there he immediately starts roleplaying bartender, jumping off the stairs and landing onto the bar top and tables etc. At this point other Survivors catch on and like the possessive cat that I was playing as, I hit any Survivor that isn’t him. I don’t put them into dying, just injury since they are cat scratches. Every time they heal each other I go and injure them. It seems they understand what is going on, that Leon is the “privileged” one lol. He goes to the piano and starts acting like he is playing the scales, I go next to him and use my bell in a rhythm, two single hits, then a double, over and over. I also make it look like I am playing the scales up and down the piano keys. Finally when the other Survivors get bored and escape I am there with the Leon in the exit gates and he is telling me to come with him. I hit the exit area to show that I can’t. I make my character cling to his and at this point omg lmao he stands still and looks deep into Cat Wraith’s eyes. He does this for literally like 5 seconds. Then as the EGC is 3/4 finished he takes us both back to the Saloon piano to play one last song LMAO!!!! He allows the EGC to kill him and I start violently shaking my character’s head back forth next to his being murdered body. Omg that was one of the funniest games I’ve had in a long time. And it fits with the Halloween theme too since technically a tragedy occurred LOL. The tragic story of a Cat Wraith and their Human lmao.

I'd like to see that second one put to music.

HerInfernalMajesty

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Speaking of music. Now you have me thinking about a Dead by Daylight musical! 😆

BubbaDredge

@HerInfernalMajesty said:

I never got a notification for this comment!

Speaking of music. Now you have me thinking about a Dead by Daylight musical! 😆

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