My Loot, Your Tears

Hello again, :)

Over the last few days some funny events have happened, first off, Khalia got his wish of a faction kill, which has been long in the making.

Yesterday, I had something rather interesting happen. I was tooling around, looting a mission that was apparently finished, when I warped into the last room to see a Myrmidon and an Incursus burning to various wrecks. Being in a fast Vigil, I could easily gauge what they were burning towards, and get there before them myself. After a few minutes, both opened fire on me.

I warped off to get the gank Raven, and started yelling into Vent, to which Khalia responded. Coming back into the last room, both were still there, along with a Brutix. Okay, so this was gonna be interesting… I pointed the Myrmidon, pinning it as the most expensive asset to lose, and started pounding on it with torpedoes and drones. Getting 1200 damage a volley or so, I knew I had picked the right type. Unfortunately, in my rush to get to the fight, I stupidly forgot to fit a web. The Myrmidon had apparently noticed this, and attempted to get out of range. I still had my point and my drones on him, but my torps were doing no damage whatsoever, having dropped out of range. The Myrmidon was getting his tank back, when suddenly, boom. I checked my log and found no absurd damage notification… Nothing I had could have taken out his entire tank in one shot… And Khalia was RR’ing me, and neuting the Myrmidon, but not providing DPS….

Okay, figure that out later. I switched my point to the Brutix, and was actually gaining on him, overheating my afterburner, my drones on him, still not in torp range, and suddenly, him too, boom.

Hmm….The Incursus had decided that this was not his fight, and bugged out before I could lock him. After docking, I checked my text logs, and noticed that both the Myrmidon and Brutix pilots had initiated self destructs of their own ships… While being at close to optimal tank – both of them. After talking to the Myrmidon pilot, I learned that he had run out of cap boosters, and considered the fight over when he could no longer repair as much as I was dealing. However, he had no idea that he was only a few KM from the end of my point range, and was slightly peeved that he self destructed with getting away being that close. I never heard from the Brutix pilot.

Near the end of that day, I had my other alt (everyone has 3 accounts, right?) out mining in his retriever. I saw a Hulk come on grid, and put out a can a few minutes later. Ninja instincts kicking in, I bookmarked the can, and warped off, and back on it, scooping his ore to my hold, and getting out. I docked, waited out the aggression timer, and did it again. This time, the hulk released a flight of light drones, which did some armor damage to my little retriever before it warped. I docked again, and waited out almost the full timer, then undocked and warped on his can again. At this point, there were only mere seconds left on the timer. The hulk targeted me, I saw drones go yellow, and then… CONCORD! Apparently, he had targeted me with the timer still there, but his drones had been slightly too slow, and engaged a second after the timer expired. Concord came to my rescue, popping the hulk in seconds. I waltzed up, grabbed his T2 strip miners that had dropped, and got myself docked again. I then proceeded to laugh for a good 10 minutes.

Fast forward to yesterday afternoon, all three of us (Paul, myself, and Khalia) were on, and Khalia happened to see a war target (Mooloomook – a pilot I had almost locked on an undock the day before) in a nearby system. Paul got into his Tengu, Khalia into his new Navy Omen, and I got into my Raven. We camped the Dodixie side of the gate to Auvergne, and got our neutral alts to watch / scan the system. Within a minute or so, Mooloomook warped right on top of our alts, and proceeded to jump through.

He decloaked on the other side seconds later, and both Paul and I had a point on him soon after. With that much DPS, Mooloomook’s Dominix crumbled, though we held off a moment until Khalia (was refitting and in warp at the time) could get in on the kill. Moo’s Dominix assploded shortly after. Moo logged after docking, and I contracted him some Spirits to ease the pain. Oh well, lesson learned – don’t ferry around your mission boat with a war going on, especially when one of the guys hunting you missed locking down your mission boat by mere seconds the day before.

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