Because the madness needs more reach.
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New blog entry announcements
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Nothing’s changing here on the blog—you’ll still get the full stories, permadeath chaos, and survival ramblings like always. Threads is just another place for the madness to spread.
Here’s What’s Coming This Week – June 9th – June 14th Preview
Survival, stunned rabbits, fishing horrors, and a lot of undead. Here’s what’s scheduled for this week on Survivor Incognito.
The Week Ahead
We’re keeping the survival streak alive with another full lineup of chaos, questionable decisions, and more permadeath fun. Here’s what’s coming your way:
🐇 Monday: Survivor’s Shorts — The One Involving The Stunned Rabbit
You’ll see. It involves a rabbit, a stone, and my general lack of coordination.
🌊 Tuesday: Dark Waters – Day 2
The sea grows darker, the fish get weirder, and the Madness meter keeps rising. Day 2 of Dark Waters: A Dredge Survival goes live.
❄ Wednesday: The Cold Chronicles – Day 6
The Long Dark journey continues. More cold, more danger, and probably more bad choices.
🗡 Thursday: Sneak, Snipe, Repeat – Day 7
The Argonian’s Skyrim Survival Mode adventure rolls into Day 7. Expect more sneaking, more sniping, and definitely more repeat.
🧟♂️ Friday: Day One Diary – Zombie Army Trilogy
The undead rise just in time for Friday. It’s a Day One Diary entry for Zombie Army Trilogy, and let’s just say the welcome committee was enthusiastic.
See You in the Wild
As always, stay tuned across the week as each new post goes live — and feel free to place bets on which run falls apart first.
Here’s What You Missed This Week – June 1st Week Recap
Catch up on this week’s survival chaos: bears, zombies, Customloper runs, permadeath hubs, and one very questionable Interloper experience.
This Week in Review
Another week of survival, panic, and the occasional questionable decision. Here’s what went live across the blog:
🐻 Monday: Bear Meets Panic Rifle
Sometimes you bring a rifle to a bear encounter. Sometimes the rifle just brings panic. This week kicked off with a new Survivor’s Shorts entry where I learned that even with a firearm, bears remain terrifying.
The One-Shot Wonder: Bear Meets Panic Rifle
🌊 Tuesday: Dark Waters: A Dredge Survival – Day One
The boat launched, the paranoia began. My permadeath Dredge run officially set sail with the start of Dark Waters. The ocean may look calm, but we both know it isn’t.
Dark Waters: A Dredge Survival – Day 1
❄️ Wednesday: Customloper – Day One
The Customloper experiment is underway. A bit Interloper, a bit Voyageur, a lot of me desperately hoping I don’t freeze to death before leaving Mountain Town. So far, so… technically alive.
Customloper Diaries Day 1: A Woollen Windy Welcome to Milton
Side note, The Cold Chronicles and Customloper Diaries will be alternating weeks for the foreseeable. Until one of them ends of course. So next week will be the next entry The Cold Chronicles
🗡 Thursday: Skyrim Survival – Sneak, Snipe, Repeat – Day Six
The Argonian saga continues. Day Six saw more stealth, more arrows, and the usual healthy amount of questionable life choices while wandering Skyrim’s frozen wilderness.
Sneak, Snipe, Repeat: Skyrim Suvival Day Six
🪓 Friday: Grounded Permadeath Hub Goes Live
The hub page for The Backyard Trials: Grounded Permadeath is officially up and running! Rules, info, and upcoming entries are all ready for you.
I also teased what’s coming next Friday: a special Day One Diary for Zombie Army Trilogy—fittingly set for Friday the 13th.
The Backyard Trials: Grounded Permadeath
Zombie Army Trilogy – Day One Diary Coming This Friday the 13th
💀 Saturday: The Desolation Point Debacle
Today’s Survivor’s Shorts took us into Desolation Point on Interloper. It didn’t go well. (Shocking, I know.)
Survivor’s Shorts: Interloper — The Desolation Point Debacle
What’s Coming Next
The backlog grows stronger. Next week, expect more from Dark Waters, Customloper, Skyrim Survival, and our first look at Zombie Army Trilogy. More danger, more chaos, more very avoidable mistakes.
Zombie Army Trilogy – Day One Diary Coming This Friday the 13th
What better day to dive headfirst into Nazi zombies than Friday the 13th?
The latest Day One Diary arrives this Friday as I take my first steps into Zombie Army Trilogy. Expect undead soldiers, occult seals, suicidal zombies, and my usual mixture of panic, bad aim, and questionable survival instincts.
Character: Hermann Wolf
Chapter: The Berlin Horror – Village of the Dead
Difficulty: Marksman
Safe rooms reached? Yes.
Ammo well managed? Debatable.
Mental stability? Slipping.
Zombie Army Trilogy – Day One Diary goes live Friday the 13th. Consider it a very fitting start.
In the meantime, check out my other Day One Diaries | Survival Game Playthroughs & First-Day Survival Challenges
The week after Friday the 13th, begins my Grounded Permadeath adventure. Check out what is going to involve here: The Backyard Trials: Grounded Permadeath
👉 The Backyard Trials Has Officially Begun: Grounded Permadeath Arrives!
The backyard is officially open for business — and survival!
I’m excited to announce that both The Backyard Trials hub page and the full Grounded Rules of Survival are now live on Survivor Incognito.
In this permadeath run through Grounded, I’ll be taking on the full backyard, one day at a time, where every ant, spider, and angry bug can bring the entire run crashing down. One life. No second chances.
✅ You can now check out:
The Backyard Trials Hub: [The Backyard Trails]
Grounded Rules of Survival: [Grounded Rules of Survival]
The first day of the run will be launching soon — and from there, we’ll see just how far I can make it before something inevitably goes horribly wrong.
As always: survival is optional. Panic is guaranteed.
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Survivor Incognito Weekly: The Long Dark, Skyrim Survival, Dredge Permadeath & More (June 2nd – June 8th)
Another week of survival, chaos, and questionable decision making is upon us — here’s what you can expect across the blog in the next seven days:
🧸 Monday – Bear Meets Panic Rifle (Survivor’s Shorts)
It starts with a bear. It ends with panic. Somewhere in between, a rifle is involved. You can probably guess how well that goes.
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🌊 Tuesday – Dark Waters: A Dredge Survival – Day 1
We set sail on our brand new permadeath adventure through Dredge. The waters may look calm… but don’t let them fool you.
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❄️ Wednesday – Customloper: Day 1 – Mountain Town Start
The Customloper run officially kicks off! I spawn in Mountain Town and try my very best not to freeze, starve, or get eaten before I even leave Milton.
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⚔ Thursday – Skyrim Survival: Day 6
The trek through Skyrim’s frozen wilderness continues. More frostbite, more danger, and almost certainly another regrettable encounter with something that bites.
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🔥 Friday – A Voyageur’s Tale (The Long Dark): Day 6
Back to the familiar cold of The Long Dark as the Voyageur run marches on into day six. Wolves, weather, and the never-ending quest for coffee.
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🦌 Saturday – Survivor’s Shorts: The Interloper Moose Incident
I try Interloper mode in The Long Dark. I spawn. I panic. The moose arrives. That’s pretty much the plot summary.
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Follow along for The Long Dark guides, Skyrim Survival Mode playthroughs, Dredge permadeath runs, and Customloper challenges. New survival game content posted weekly — with humor, tips, and plenty of questionable life choices.
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The Cold Chronicles Day Five: A Voyageur’s Tale of The Long Dark
Survival Switch-Style
Day 5 – Mapping Coastal Highway, Finding a Revolver, and Prepping for Pleasant Valley
Today’s mission was simple on paper: lighten my pack, loot like a professional, and avoid becoming a decorative frozen lump in a snowbank. The first step was Quonset Garage inventory triage. I dumped food, meds, spare clothes, and every non-essential item into my storage stash — keeping just enough to keep me alive. Travel light, loot heavy. The survivor’s paradox.
First stop: a nearby building that greeted me with the holy grail of kitchenware — a cooking pot and a skillet. Outstanding finds. Unfortunately, they also weighed roughly the same as my survival hopes, so back to Quonset I trudged, muttering about my endless loop of “find loot, dump loot, repeat.”
With the weight off my shoulders (literally), I decided today was going to be about exploration — specifically, mapping Coastal Highway like a cartographer with too much time on their hands. I hopped between fishing huts, pausing every so often to scribble charcoal marks on my map like an artist who only draws squares. The wind bit at my face, ice groaned under my boots, and somewhere in the distance, a wolf howled just to keep me humble.
Loot highlights of the hut-hopping adventure included: a book on fishing (because nothing says “immersive reading” like reading about fishing while fishing), a hunting knife that immediately earned its keep on a nearby deer carcass, and — drumroll, please — a revolver.
Yes, an actual revolver. Even better — it had one round chambered, and earlier in my fishing crawl I’d picked up two loose bullets. That’s three shots. In The Long Dark, that’s not just self-defense; it’s a small-scale munitions miracle. Of course, in my infinite wisdom, I’d left the rest of my ammo back at Quonset, so for now it’s more of a moral support weapon.
While the deer meat cooked in one of the huts, I dashed over to a nearby trailer to drop off the hide and gut for curing. Nothing says “I’ve made it” like casually starting your own rabbit and deer leather collection. Resource management, baby.
By evening, the weather had shifted from “brisk” to “why are you outside, you fool?” A blizzard swept in just as I reached the edge of the lake. I wasn’t about to attempt a hero’s march back to Quonset in that, so I ducked into the nearest house. The place was cold, abandoned, and smelled faintly of damp socks — but it had loot, so it met my standards.
Looted the place, harvested some extra clothes (accidentally shredded a perfectly good hat, but we don’t talk about that), and collapsed into bed before the fatigue meter could nag me into a penalty.
End of Day 5: One revolver, three bullets, a map full of fishing huts, and the creeping suspicion that Coastal Highway might just be my new favorite spot — assuming the wolves don’t hold a vote on the matter.
Continue the journey:
◀ Day 4 – Into the Wind and the Wolves
Day 6 – To Pleasant Valley ▶
More from The Long Dark:
🏠 The Long Dark Hub
📘 Survive Your First Week in The Long Dark
📜 Customloper Diaries
⚙ Customloper Settings
Sneak, Snipe, Repeat: Skyrim Survival Day Five
I return to Shroud Hearth Barrow to face a “ghost,” discover it’s just a deranged frost mage, clear out undead, remember how to zoom with a bow, and miss Lydia more than I expected.
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The Ghost Isn’t Real, But the Frostbite Is
The day begins with a voice echoing through the ruins of Shroud Hearth Barrow, telling me to turn back. I don’t. Obviously. If I turned back every time a disembodied voice told me to, I wouldn’t have left Helgen.
Inside, I find frost-covered halls and a frost-wielding “spectre” who turns out to be a man in a robe with a superiority complex. I resist the urge to shout, “You’re not even undead!” and settle for fire spells and potions instead. Frost resistance does most of the work. A few spells later, he’s dead—and not the kind that gets up again.
Turns out he snapped from isolation and decided to LARP as a ghost. His journal’s full of ramblings, paranoia, and bad decisions. I should probably relate, but instead I loot his body and move on.
I can’t help thinking Lydia could’ve handled the distraction while I circled behind. She was good for that—charging in recklessly while I fired off spells and arrows from the shadows. It hits me again that she’s gone. Permanently. Not resting in Breezehome. Just gone. And for the first time, that feels like more than an inventory loss.
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A Quick Detour to Town
I return to the inn with the ghost-faker’s journal. The innkeeper’s relieved to learn the place isn’t haunted and rewards me with the Sapphire Dragon Claw—because apparently the correct response to surviving a haunted dungeon is to send someone deeper into it.
Not one to refuse free ancient loot access, I eat some food, warm up, and head back in.
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Back to the Barrow
The second half of the barrow is more undead and more danger. I find a sleeping bag tucked beside some barrels and take the opportunity to rest. One hour’s enough to regain stamina and level up. I put the point into Health and choose Light Armor for the perk—mainly because I’m tired of dying in three hits.
The claw fits the puzzle door and grants access to the barrow’s inner sanctum. I shift into stealth mode and start clearing the area with arrows and fire spells. It’s during one of these fights that I finally remember: I can zoom in with my bow. (Hold ZL to aim, click right stick for zoom.) This information would’ve been helpful literally four days ago, but better late than dead.
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New Magic, New Words, Same Cold
Along the way, I find an Oakflesh spellbook. Boosted armor without metal? Yes, please. It pairs well with my current sneaky-bow-mage playstyle, especially since I’ve yet to find decent armor that doesn’t clank.
At the very end of the dungeon, I’m greeted by a Word Wall. I approach and learn Kyne’s Peace, which… sounds like something the Greybeards might want to chat about. I haven’t seen them since I shouted at a mountain goat near Whiterun, so I imagine they’re still waiting patiently on their high stone perch.
Before I leave the crypt, I rest again and hit another level up. Health gets another boost (cold and axes both hurt), and I drop a perk point into Sneak. Because what’s better than being hard to kill? Being hard to find in the first place.
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Day 5 Summary
Defeated fake ghost in Shroud Hearth Barrow
Acquired and used the Sapphire Dragon Claw
Cleared out all skeletons and draugr
Remembered I can zoom while aiming with a bow (finally)
Picked up Oakflesh for magic armor buffs
Learned Word of Power: Kyne’s Peace
Leveled up twice: +2 Health, Light Armor +1, Sneak +1
Missed Lydia more than expected
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The barrow’s empty, the loot is mine, and the Greybeards are probably wondering if I’ve died in a ditch. They’ll get their answer tomorrow—assuming I don’t freeze to death first.
Check out the full series here: Sneak, Snipe, Repeat: Skyrim Survival
Day 1 Diary – The Long Dark Customloper – Cold Coast, Hard Start
Day 1 of a Customloper survival test in The Long Dark. Spawned in Coastal Highway. Made gloves out of scraps, got hit with a blizzard, and somehow didn’t freeze to death.
I put in the Customloper settings, picked my character, set the spawn to random, and named the file Day One. I spawn in Coastal Highway – specifically right next to the path leading to The Ravine.
I think about going that way for all of five seconds, I choose life instead and head toward the Train Unloading Trailer I know is nearby
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Inside I grab what I can, including a second pair of socks. Then hit the tunnel corpse – and score a hatchet.
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From there, I billy goat my way down a nearby cliff, grabbing sticks while the temperature plummets.
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I find another trailer. It’s warmer, but still not warm enough. And I didn’t spawn with gloves, so my hands are freezing.
I cut across the road, stop at a car, then head toward the Fishing Camp.
Note: I had to double-check the name using my own Map Hub — I knew where I was, just couldn’t remember what it was called. Proof the hub’s not just for readers.
I loot what I can — some food, but not enough to carry me far. In the first house, I grab cloth and craft handwraps. It helps, barely. In the second, third and fourth houses, I scrape together enough to make a makeshift hat.
Then I step outside.
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I retreat and sleep for three hours to warm up. When I wake, the blizzard has cleared. I push toward Jackrabbit Island and manage to snag three rabbits — finally, a win.
Inside the house, I raid the fridge and score water. I harvest the rabbits for meat as the sun drops.
Then I head outside, light a fire on the first try, and cook everything. I even remember I have herbal tea, brew it, and drink it to recover some condition — which was down to about 50%.
Back inside, I scavenge the place and find a pair of wool mittens, climbing socks, and a pair of boots.
I go to bed warm, full, and genuinely surprised I made it through Day One.
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Next week, I start my actual Customloper run. I start in a new area, and will attempt to explore the whole island before I succumb to The Long Dark.
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If you want to know more about Customloper, why not check out The Long Dark Customloper Settings: Easier Interloper Survival Mode
If you enjoyed this entry, why not check out my other Day One Diaries
Day One Diary Customloper Drops – Tomorrow
The Day One Diary of Customloper is coming—and no, I didn’t freeze to death immediately.
Spawned in with Interloper-level weather and a backpack full of questionable decisions.
There were snacks. There were was lots of snow. There was looting in the dark like a confused burglar. Find out what happens tomorrow at 1pm GMT.
For information on what Customloper is, read here: The Long Dark Customloper Settings: Easier Interloper Survival Mode
Catch up with my other Day One Diaries here: Day One Diaries
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