Escaping Rebirth

[Sonny Crocket]

Tried starting out a new game last night as 2 slaves in Rebirth. I have escaped captivity a few times in previous play-through's, but damn! Getting out of rebirth is no joke. It isn't as simple as just picking a lock and running away - which has basically been my experience previously. Starting out with a brand new character; you are simply not going to get away easily, especially surrounded by mountains and guards on all sides...

I tried out the slavery start wanting more of a challenge, even though I have never even come close to experiencing the end-game content as of yet. I dunno, call me a mascochist, but starting out from the bottom end just seems like a bigger accomplishment once you get to that point where you have a huge base, stacks of equipment and millions in cats.

So after clicking on a new game as a slave, I decided it's more challenging to play with women instead of men (because HN). I proceeded to create 2 female characters with huge over sized breasts - because immersion - and then finally, click that 'ok' button (or is it start?).

You as the player, are then taken to the opening scene of Rambo 2 where Rambo (John.J) is covered in sweat, and toiling away in Fort Leavenworth after being prosecuted for destroying a small town in the first Rambo movie. Ok, so this isn't actually the opening scene to Rambo 2, but........it's pretty similar.

Anyway getting out of this prison isn't going to be as easy as volunteering to go on a one man suicide mission into Vietnam. NO... you are going to have to kill or maim a couple dozen guards, or develop insane sneaking and athletic skills which would permit you to sneak past and outrun; or at least at last them in a chase.

So last night after staying up until 12 AM to train my 2 slaves how to sneak and steal, I eventually stole just about every sword of every guard I could find. Eventually there were only a couple guards left who I couldn't steal from because they never slept apparently.

The plan was simple....using the guards weapons against them we would start a resistance...which we designated as operation "Red Dawn". Our hope being that we could isolate and ambush smaller groups of guards whilst avoiding combat with the entire force.

At that point I tried starting a fight with the guards hoping to beat them up in smaller groups, but alas, with ♥♥♥♥ skills it still didn't go that well. The strategy worked at first, but it was too hit and miss, ultimately we couldn't keep too many other guards from being alerted and joining combat. We managed to beat up quite a few, but the numbers in the end were just too much to handle for our 2 felons. Facing a half dozen guards who were unarmed, was a win win, but facing more than a dozen was suicide.

Operation 'Red Dawn' was a failure...At that point we decide to stop playing around, what were we doing here? we were risking it all just pretend we were American teenagers who were going to stop the Russian military from taking over our homes?! No, we were a couple slaves who had incredible stealth ability thanks to sneaking around for a couple weeks on end. We decided to use that ability and managed to sneak our way right past all gate guards an onto freedom.

Our next stop is a town called "the Hub" supposedly there is some sort of resistance that thriving there, or so we are told.

[Charlatan]

"I proceeded to create 2 female characters with huge over sized breasts - because immersion -"
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[Vuyek]

KEnshi is basically hentai.... minus the sex.

[Freeasabird🕊]

Stay there for at the very least 10 to 16 days. serve this time gaining skills. toughness and somewhat your martial arts skill by attacking the guards and getting knocked out.

Strength/lock picking by constantly unlocking your cage/shackles, store the shackles in your inventory(at least four or five should be good).

Keep your characters on the sprint setting to improve Athletics the most. every night escape your cage/pole and sneak around and steal whatever food is available for you and your slave buddy.
and get in some assassin training by "assassinating" the guards it won't do anything, but you'll gain some skill for each "successful" attempt.

This last bit is mostly luck because my two characters were crossing paths when i attempted this. with a high athletics skill 31< Unlock your shackles, drop everything that isn't food. and run for the gate directly to the back of the giant statue North North western side. there will be guards of course.

But if you can serpentine your characters right before they get hit by an attack the attack will miss and just keep running. i got my two chicks out of the final gate easily that way. one of them did get shish kabobed by a harpoon and i thought it was all over (i just couldn't leave my second behind) they captured them both and patched them both up but thankfully one of the guards that remained get a bug up his butt and stood there holding the second character while the first i made stand there waiting. after a bit he dropped the second character and just..ran away. :/

i stood there confused as to what was happening for a second and then i finally picked up my second and just hoofed it in the opposite direction.

When you start the game with this start you will automatically discover a Lone shack location. This is where i headed, it was a strait shot to it (this is why the gate right behind the giant statue is the best gate to try and escape from. this lone shack is in fact a slave safe house. there's food and some clothing and weapons for you hear and some beds and matts in case your guys are injured. after this your next stop should be the Hub, naturally.

[Das Boot]

I escaped within a single business week. Here's how you do it:
1. Spend as much free time as possible picking locks. At night pick the lock on your cage, after you escape go back into your cage, pick the lock again, and so on.
2. During the day, when one of your slaves is in a chain gang mining at a rock with a few other slaves you don't control, pick the locks on their shackles. Do this until you have 2 or 3 slaves free. They should follow you.
3. Make a run for the gate. The guards can't stop all of you, and at least some of the NPC slaves running away with you will try to fist fight the guards. This will distract them so they won't chase you. It's even better if you're a scorchlander or a hiver, because then you're race will make you faster.

From here you can choose to run north or south. South is more Holy Nation settlements, bandits, and the like. North is a safehouse the Flostan Ninjas set up to aid runaway slaves like you. Further north is the Flostan Ninja village; if one of your slaves is a girl or a non-human you can seek refuge, but if your whole party is human men you can still talk your way past by either taking a vow on Okran you aren't a spy or saying "Okran is not my God!". I don't know why human men who escaped slavery can't tell the Ninjas that, but in my story I just pretended the guy who was questioned was too prideful to admit it.

[Allie Rin]

I wonder if I did it wrong, I have roughly a days worth of actual game experience but restarted and tried the slave start, we just picked locks until we had the skill then freed all the slaves and made a run for it, a few died but I got a third follower out of it. It took my two guys 4 days, 1st to figure everything out, 2nd to figure out I could get out of work by sitting in cages, 3rd sneaking at night and making a run for it, my Hive guy got knocked out with a few slaves and they thought he was dead, he made it to the shack to re arm everyone. And 4th by freeing all the remaining slaves with my Shek, all running for the Gate; a few died but we made it out in 4 days, however. We certainly don’t have any pickpocketing skills or combat skills, did I waste some good skills?

[Tiberius]

You can always learn skills later. Escaping rebirth without losing your main chars are already an achievement

[Tiberius]

Imo, athletic is one of the most important skills in kenshi. You can skip through most of obstacles once you level your athletics up to 80ish

[Fuyuno]

i hid my two slaves behind a minable rock formation outside of one of the gates and just ran past the mountains.... only for one of them to get enslaved again in a city to the east, and the other to be massacred by guards at a tower further east from that and left to rot.

point is, best way to escape on your first week that I found? go out to work on that mining node outside of the gate, sneak behind the rock so no one sees you, and wait until night fall... and just leave through the valley.
keep in mind the mountain path is a bit if a maze and you'll probably be starving or worse. so before leaving, eat some bread or something - should last you at least until you're able to sneak past the city to the east.

(sorry, forgot the city's name xD)

[Bandy]

Makes me want to try that game start (hmmmm) just wasn't interested before, 'cause so many other starts seemed brutal enough already, just saying...

[XenoxXx]

It's pretty tough start compare to other start, you even need to steal food to not die of hunger.