Darkfall’s been pretty enthralling lately since Jesse got us into Pain Train.  I’ve made a couple new friends in the alliance (though it seems like a lot of them aren’t partial to new people or girls h up their testosterone-aimed games).  My favourite so far is Dremlock StraightRocked.  We’d actually met him a couple of weeks before when Dan, Ken, and I were out on a new player hunt in Human lands.  Now, I’m not always the best shot but I’m usually quick to spot people and ninja-eyed him while we were running through the woods high-fiving each other on our last two newbie conquests.  We hauled ass over to him and started prying the top off our can of Been-Playing-A-Month Whoop Ass.  He turned around and within four minutes crushed all three of us.  He messaged me to say we’d probably picked the wrong newbie and all I could say was that at least we’d died bravely.  *grin*  Anyway, he’s an ultra cool guy and teaches me PvP tips and takes me along to sieges too.

On the PvE front, we’ve been hanging out in PnT’s city crafting and exploring the surrounding areas.  One of my favourite aspects of Darkfall is that you don’t know much about a mob unless you’ve fought it before.  It’s terribly exciting to ride up on a bear or spider or four-armed abomination and attack without knowing how difficult the fight’s going to be or what it will drop or what you’ll get from skinning.  “Oooh, let’s kill it” are currently my most uttered words (followed closely by “MotherFUCK, I died” and “Where are the Swiss Cake Rolls?”).

Travis bought me Fallen Earth to try out and that’s been taking up most of my day time.  It’s an mix of FPS-type combat and normal MMO questing and crafting.  I’ve made several Dark-Tower-themed characters and, of course, a Gankis Khan incarnation.  I’m not terribly fond of how tedious the levels are but the story has been interesting so far.  It’s hard to make the transition from Darkfall to Fallen Earth so I spend a good portion of my play time irritated that I have to keep moving out of first person mode.  It’s always fun to hang with Travis, though; we’re all about the highbrow shit talk.

Unrelatedly, my scarf knitting has come to a screeching halt as I woke this morning to find the puppies had opened a velcro-closured messenger bag (WITH WHAT THUMBS I WANT TO KNOW), shredded all eight skeins inside, chewed up (and must have swallowed ’cause I cannot find them ANYWHERE) a set of circular needles with cable, and demolished Robert’s scarf that was half knit on said needles.  I cried when I saw the mess.  Guess I’ll be starting on the puppies’ sweaters earlier than I’d meant.

Perhaps that was their plan all along.

Things have been crazy hectic lately, so I’ve been away for a bit.

The Ninja Pirates have been war decced!  Apparently Travis’ acts of ninja salvage didn’t go over well with The Leathernecks and they are ready to tan our hides.  We’re all pretty excited since the only war Ken and I have been involved in was when we were in E-UNI and we spent most of that docked.  However, these Leatherneckers may be high sec homebodies (we’re not sure what’s up just yet) and we might not see much more action down in Tama than normal.  I spent a lot of last night getting fuel and strontium topped off in the POSes so we wouldn’t have to worry about hauling stuff down while the war’s on.

I’ve also joined ENN as the Junior Editor (oh em gee, *SQUEE*)!  I really only applied on a whim; I didn’t expect to be accepted.  But I’m very excited to start work for them and I’m just loving Serious Sally.  SHE ROCKS!

Also, I hope all you Americans voted today.  Phelan ’08!

Tonight, The Ninja Pirates starred in our very own candid-camera style porn.

We were moving some ships and POS modules to Akora using our pal Travis’ shiny new Charon. As he jumped through the Reisen gate into Akora and began the excrutiatingly long align, three sparkling reds warped up to say hello. Hoping against hope, I watched Travis inch toward top speed but alas–and unsurprisingly–it was not to be. The Megathron, Navy Issue Megathron, and Phobos scrammed, webbed, and fired. In short order, the Exxon Valdez was rubble (damned stylish rubble, though!) and we retreated to Reisen to comfort ourselves.

We were all in pretty rotten moods as the Charon was expensive and so was the dropped cargo and it just rankled that those rat-bastards were going to get all that loot and possibly a salvage. Travis did try a suicide run in a cheapy Badger to see if he could grab any of the drops, but it was no use. However, in our hour of need, our prayers were answered. A mischevious Eagle pilot zoomed in from the proverbial nowhere and POPPED THE WRECK.

[ 2008.10.11 05:29:20 ] ice3 > so what was in that wreck ??
[ 2008.10.11 05:29:21 ] Stella Sinn > ghey
[ 2008.10.11 05:29:30 ] Omarvelous > ?
[ 2008.10.11 05:29:34 ] Omarvelous > what happened?
[ 2008.10.11 05:29:37 ] Blamagemeter > keep the system clean
[ 2008.10.11 05:29:39 ] Stella Sinn > eagle popped the wreck
[ 2008.10.11 05:29:41 ] Blamagemeter > don’t leave your trash everywhere
[ 2008.10.11 05:29:42 ] ice3 > really
[ 2008.10.11 05:29:44 ] PhantomLancer > the eagle popped the freighter wreck
[ 2008.10.11 05:29:45 ] Spork’d > lol
[ 2008.10.11 05:29:48 ] Stella Sinn > whos eagle pilot?
[ 2008.10.11 05:29:53 ] ice3 > ME
[ 2008.10.11 05:30:01 ] Tisni > ME
[ 2008.10.11 05:30:01 ] Spork’d > that’s alot of stuff that went bye bye
[ 2008.10.11 05:30:03 ] Stygian Knight > ME
[ 2008.10.11 05:30:05 ] Blamagemeter > me actually
[ 2008.10.11 05:30:05 ] Stella Sinn > ur going to die for that one lol
[ 2008.10.11 05:30:06 ] Dementis Prelaitor > ME
[ 2008.10.11 05:30:06 ] Gohuns Solder > ME
[ 2008.10.11 05:30:20 ] Omarvelous > I give a hoot – DONT POLLUTE!
[ 2008.10.11 05:30:22 ] Stella Sinn > lol
[ 2008.10.11 05:30:27 ] ice3 > LMAO
[ 2008.10.11 05:30:29 ] Omarvelous > <– bastard eagle pilot [ 2008.10.11 05:30:30 ] Blamagemeter > seriously guys
[ 2008.10.11 05:30:33 ] Omarvelous > btw what did I pop?
[ 2008.10.11 05:30:36 ] Spork’d > Karma
[ 2008.10.11 05:30:37 ] Blamagemeter > its out universe
[ 2008.10.11 05:30:39 ] Blamagemeter > we only get one
[ 2008.10.11 05:30:55 ] ice3 > /emote me daddy is a trash collector i want to grow up to be like him
[ 2008.10.11 05:31:23 ] ice3 > sowhat was in the wreck >>
[ 2008.10.11 05:31:26 ] ice3 > you got to tell us
[ 2008.10.11 05:31:35 ] Omarvelous > can I see your killboard?
[ 2008.10.11 05:31:43 ] Omarvelous > I really want to know what I wrecklessly destroyed
[ 2008.10.11 05:31:57 ] PhantomLancer > http://www.eve-vow.com/killboard/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=299
[ 2008.10.11 05:32:01 ] Omarvelous > thx
[ 2008.10.11 05:32:04 ] PhantomLancer > np
[ 2008.10.11 05:32:19 ] ice3 > http://eve-vow.com/killboard/?a=kill_detail&kll_id=299
[ 2008.10.11 05:32:47 ] ice3 > ouch
[ 2008.10.11 05:32:52 ] Spork’d > yeah, it hurt
[ 2008.10.11 05:33:09 ] ice3 > WELL WE FIGURED IT WAS GOOD ENOUGH TO BRING YOUR FREIGHTER IN
[ 2008.10.11 05:33:25 ] PhantomLancer > yeah
[ 2008.10.11 05:33:28 ] Stella Sinn > lol
[ 2008.10.11 05:33:32 ] PhantomLancer > all good
[ 2008.10.11 05:33:38 ] Omarvelous > honestly that was a shitty thing I did
[ 2008.10.11 05:33:44 ] Suzarn > But funny
[ 2008.10.11 05:33:46 ] Blamagemeter > deliciously shitty
[ 2008.10.11 05:33:47 ] Omarvelous >
[ 2008.10.11 05:33:49 ] PhantomLancer > it was funny yes
[ 2008.10.11 05:33:49 ] ice3 > very funny
[ 2008.10.11 05:34:03 ] Omarvelous > glad you took that instride
[ 2008.10.11 05:34:06 ] ice3 > where is al at he can pay to kill em
[ 2008.10.11 05:34:19 ] ice3 > lmao 

Har har har! The tears of the would-be thieves filled my heart with gladness. Well, that and the fact that the free insurance covered half Trav’s loss.

P.S. I am pretty sure this is the same karma that blistered the roof of my mouth and I’m terribly glad it’s found a new home.