My Loot, Your Tears

After helping Khalia and Charismatic down a fleet earlier in the evening, I was out Ninjaing and came across a Typhoon piloted by Grymmstorm, running what looked like a level 2 mission! Of course, as soon as I looted he targeted and fired upon me. Seeing his imposing dual tech I drones, I decided to skip JerkRaven and go straight for JerkTengu from the Orca.

When I landed, I thought I had hit the wrong bookmark. There were something like two Myrmidons, a Hurricane, a Drake, a Hound, and a Retriever (?!) sitting on the gate. A second look confirmed that they were all from the same corp. This was a level 2 mission, so they weren’t there to help with the rats. They were there to kill me.

Oh, !@#$.

Always bet on stupid, but use some sense when placing your bets. I got JerkTengu out of there with a quickness, and docked up to fit JerkRaven for what could be a tough fight. Off came the afterburner and one of the shield extenders, and on went a stasis webifier and target painter. If you’re going to be a tool, best to use the right tools.

I warped back to the mission and followed the enemy fleet into the mission. The Typhoon had left the field, but the rest of them remained and locked me as I entered the grid. Khalia and Charismatic entered behind me in RR boats. The Mando’a fleet had aggro on me and I had aggro on the GTFO’d Typhoon, but all that was going to run out in just a couple of minutes. They seemed to be deciding what to do. Khalia expressed boredom in local:

[05:45:10] Khalia Nestune > yawn
[05:45:14] Khalia Nestune > your move, boys

With the aggro clock running out, I decided to burn slowly (No afterburner, remember?) toward the closest wreck to loot it. I needn’t have bothered: When I was about 10km away, the Hurricane and two Myrmidons opened fire. I immediately locked the Hurricane piloted by Vongroth (primaried for being the oldest opponent) and started up all my equipment.

A funny thing happened here. The Drake pilot, possibly having gone to the bathroom or to make a sandwich or to make sweet love to his woman, returned (after his aggro on me had run out) to see his corpmates locked in combat with JerkRaven. He locked me and, presumably ignoring the CONCORD warning, opened fire. CONCORD made quick work of him, but none of us noticed until he popped. There was confusion for a moment until we saw the ships floating about. The Hound, also having waited until it was too late, decided that discretion was the better part of valor and held his fire.

Vongroth’s Hurricane went pop, and I switched my point to Weyestone’s Myrmidon. I was at about half shields, but with the ‘cane gone I was holding and rebuilding my tank with only a small effort from the Jerks’ RR. Mithrawindo, seeing the Hurricane pop and his fellow Myrm get grabbed, decided that the fight would not go his way and warped off. Agnt Orange followed suit in his Hound. I finished off Weyestone’s Myrmidon handily.

I leave you with the conversation in local after the fight:

[05:52:22] Vongroth > If CONCORD hadn’t killed one of our DPS, you’d be dead right now.
[05:52:37] Ghurthe > clearly concord takes sides
[05:52:45] Paul Clavet > ROFL
[05:52:45] Khalia Nestune > LOL
[05:52:47] Captain Charismatic > lol.
[05:52:52] Captain Charismatic > Faildrake go pop.
[05:59:24] Paul Clavet > Drake Pilot> ALLAHU ACKBAR

While not as awesome as Khalia’s Fail-Fleet, this was certainly a nice dessert.

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