Uh oh…

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The past few days we’ve had some friends along in our pirating adventures.  It’s been really fun running around with our blogging friends and hanging out with them on vent.  One of my Thanksgiving thanks was for this community I found and the friends I’ve made in it.  ♥

A couple nights back, Ken had undocked from the station and lost a Megathron to a guy with whom we’d thought we were friendly.  His doofus friend, General Nelson, stole the loot outta Ken’s wreck, so we baited him into another theft and BLEW HIS ASS UP .  I opened a conversation with Mr. Isis Dea to ask what was up:

[ 2008.11.27 04:04:13 ] Gankis Khan: Guess we’re not pals any more, huh?
[ 2008.11.27 04:04:36 ] Isis Dea: since when you pals go around blinking like outlaws?
[ 2008.11.27 04:04:44 ] Gankis Khan: Since always.
[ 2008.11.27 04:05:09 ] Gankis Khan: No worries.  We’ll just note it down for next time we’re helping you in the belts.

I closed the chat and received the following EVEMail:

To which I responded, “I have no idea what you’re talking about.  Archon has nothing to do with us.  He is in another corp.  Keep your high and might to yourself, thanks.”  We noted Isis’ corp as unfriendly to us and proceeded to do what we do best.  We killed a couple of his corp members and podded them .  He began chatting up local:

[ 2008.11.27 04:56:48 ] Isis Dea: Pirates…. Nothing better…. Just like alll of them…
[ 2008.11.27 04:57:49 ] Isis Dea: What is your excuse this time? You proved your true colors.
[ 2008.11.27 04:57:54 ] Gankis Khan: Of course we did.
[ 2008.11.27 04:58:01 ] Gankis Khan: We never had an “excuse” as you put it.
[ 2008.11.27 04:58:05 ] Gankis Khan: We just thought we were pals.
[ 2008.11.27 04:58:11 ] Gankis Khan: You let us know different.
[ 2008.11.27 04:58:26 ] Isis Dea: You shoot all neutrals like that?
[ 2008.11.27 04:58:36 ] Gankis Khan: Oh, you’re not neutral.
[ 2008.11.27 04:59:30 ] Isis Dea: Hmmm, so In the name of defending the innocent, I earn a negative view. Which is reinforced u=only through the killing of my friends. They did nothing to you.
[ 2008.11.27 05:00:02 ] Isis Dea: I thought I was the one you wanted, hence I asked if you treated all neutrals that way?
[ 2008.11.27 05:00:52 ] Isis Dea: Sure, blob a neutral, someone whos never fired on you, someone who doesn’t have the skills to even. He was just ratting the belts, he didn’t hurt anyone.
[ 2008.11.27 05:01:26 ] Isis Dea: ….And you killed him out of spite for me. Is that how you treat your neutrals?If so, what makes you so different from SWIGG or VETO?
[ 2008.11.27 05:01:51 ] Lawlzer: Isis, we don’t shoot people we call friends. We thought you were out friend. End of story.

There were some real gems from him:

[ 2008.11.27 05:03:16 ] Isis Dea: Oh? Is everyone entitled to stand back and let the pirate always have the first shot? My, is that why the universe of EVE is run by them?
[ 2008.11.27 05:03:59 ] Isis Dea: By these…. pirates, worshiped on the EVE forums, rebellous of any enjoyment a lesser player might want out of the game.
[ 2008.11.27 05:03:59 ] Inara Tam: here’s a clever thought. why not shoot first?
[ 2008.11.27 05:04:37 ] Isis Dea: Why not fire first only on the pirates who not once resulted in piracy… But many times to become an outlaw.
[ 2008.11.27 05:05:11 ] Inara Tam: because this is eve and people can do whatever they like?
[ 2008.11.27 05:05:12 ] Isis Dea: Yes, that seems fair, very fair in EVE (even though I thought we were suppose to be unfair after such fairness they treat us).
[ 2008.11.27 05:05:55 ] Isis Dea: In the end, its just that. Do whatever you like no matter who takes the hit. To make yourself feel better, you’d slaughter someone else, who has done nothing to you.
[ 2008.11.27 05:06:05 ] Isis Dea: You just did it, that wasn’t a question.
[ 2008.11.27 05:06:10 ] Del Tarrent: You talk a lot…………..
[ 2008.11.27 05:06:12 ] Gankis Khan: Oh, Isis… Your tears fuel my Warp Scrambler II.
[ 2008.11.27 05:06:22 ] Inara Tam: it’s not slaughter. it’s exchanging a few bits of data and making a few pixels change color
[ 2008.11.27 05:06:23 ] Inara Tam: get over it
[ 2008.11.27 05:07:13 ] Inara Tam:
[ 2008.11.27 05:07:48 ] Isis Dea: Whose tears? I know my targets well. I’m only stunned by the poor accuracy of your weapons.
[ 2008.11.27 05:08:02 ] Isis Dea: I, myself, am relieved.
[ 2008.11.27 05:08:53 ] Inara Tam: hehe ah carebear whinging in local. it’s why i came back to eve after all this time
[ 2008.11.27 05:08:53 ] Isis Dea: You know you are doing the right thing when the rest of the world is ready to spill nonsense as an excuse.

At some point in the festivities, we found Mynxee , Hallan Turrek , ZeitGeistT iL, and Jaxxon Voers had come into Tama to play.  We decided to merge fleets and fight together.  However, I tried to pull it together while we had people in belts baiting and of course it ended in tears.  I managed to lose ships for most of us and that asshat, Isis, weaseled his way onto most of the mails with his webber.  But justice was served (thanks to our new Tama pals!): we totally got him back and it was sweet like honey.

Our blog-heavy group got a few kills under our belts and decided to adjourn for the evening but to meet up again soon.  I promised not to attempt fleet merges and Ventrilo server changes in the middle of action-fishing and hopefully we’ll see them all back.

So we decided to head out tonight in EVE to see what was shakin’.

Matt (we met him in WoW a couple years back and are just bringing him over to the New Eden dark side), Travis, Jason, Ken, and I scouted around in Sujarento looking for an elusive Condor. We wanted to help Jason and Matt get their first kill on something…squishy. Unfortunately, it remained thus. Elusive, not squishy. Well, yes, it remained squishy as well, but you know what I mean. We finally gave up and moved into Tama.

71 people in local! This didn’t look promising. Tama has been a hotbed of faction warefare activity and scares away all the nubbies for which we usually aim. However, with Ken manning the scanner, we found a lone pirate in a far-off belt.

I zoomed over and got him locked down and waited for everyone to jump to me. The Caracal pilot turned out to be pretty fast and the rest of the group had trouble keeping up with him. There were several attempts over the next four or five mintues to warp out and back to me to get the guy in range of our guns, none of which were successful for very long. In the meantime, he managed to scram Jason and blow him up.

We finally realized he was just too quick for the DPS ships with us and Ken decided to grab a Microwarp Drive for his Nemesis. I just kept flying around and around the dude, keeping him pointed. The guy was getting pretty antsy by then and opened a conversation with me. I was pretty sure he was going to ask to be let go and honestly, I’d probably have done it if he’d been a little more literate and a little less of a douchebag.

Unfortunately, though his criminal countdown showed as yellow, Ken’s ship got smoked by the gate guns. He docked at a station to wait for this invisible countdown to finish and get into his Vexor. I was getting concerned the Caracal was going to call in reinforcements so Ken hopped onto his alt and joined us with a Hyena to slow the bastard down.

So webbed, there was no hope and 22 minutes after first turning my Warp Disruptor II on to DON’T CRY!!!!!, he was toast.

P.S. He tried to argue that this was a fail on our part because of how long it took but my answer to that is: