Breaking Even

Yaarr?

Anyhoo, today I was stupid and got my gate camp busted by two Bastards. They graciously offered to let me go for 25m, far below even the cost of my harbinger's hull. If there's one thing I've learnt its that sometimes you're better off to swallow your pride and pay then have to go get a new ship.

Smarting from that I set course back to our holiday home in Brin. My scout (urrm.. myself) had probed down a hurricane who was missioning. Hungry for some action I warped to the acceleration gate. Disaster! The bumbling covert ops had decloaked and my target had escaped.

But then again, missioners often come back. And come back he did, to find 'Vidi vici veni!' (Translate it) sitting there waiting for him. Now a proper pvp fit hurricane spells death for pretty much any frig outside of a dram, lucky me he's a missioner eh?

I lock him up, scramble his warp drive, disrupt tracking on his guns (medium guns can hurt) and we both launch a flight of warrior drones. My guns and drones make short work of his drones, allowing me to focus fire on breaking his tank. From the looks of it, he's fitting an active shield tank with a booster. At this juncture I open comms:

[23:46:51] von Diel > 50m

[23:47:03] Chel MocTran > Haha my shi[p isnt worth that fool

[23:47:09] von Diel > ok

[23:47:19] Chel MocTran > Try 20 and youve got a deal

[23:47:32] von Diel > 30

[23:47:41] Chel MocTran > Again, more than its worth

[23:47:54] Chel MocTran > 20 only saves me 5

[23:47:58] von Diel > mate, I want to know where you're buying your canes from lol

[23:47:59] Chel MocTran > including insurance

[23:48:06] von Diel > ah good point insurance

[23:48:09] Chel MocTran > Make em

[23:48:12] Chel MocTran > :P

Well, I don't think he's taking me seriously.

[23:48:15] von Diel > aH

[23:48:17] von Diel > well

[23:48:18] von Diel > I dunno

[23:48:24] von Diel > 20 is fairly low for a bc

[23:48:28] von Diel > no deal sorry

[23:48:31] Chel MocTran > Meh your choice

I open fire again, ripping through his armour and into the structure.

[23:49:00] von Diel > ok

[23:49:06] von Diel > 25?

[23:49:15] Chel MocTran > Haha, alright

[23:49:23] Chel MocTran > give me a sec gotta transfer funds from alt

[23:49:32] von Diel > you got 30 seconds

At this point, as seems a trend when I'm ransoming people, a couple of new people enter local. Fearing its a trap, and as the dictated 30 seconds are up I resume fire. Suddenly wallet flash:

[23:50:11] Chel MocTran > Transfered

[23:50:22] von Diel > lol just in time

[23:50:32] von Diel > have a nice day :)

[23:50:36] Chel MocTran > i wanna know where you get your clocks

[23:50:40] Chel MocTran > :p

[23:50:45] von Diel > lol

[23:50:52] von Diel > it was 49:32

[23:50:57] von Diel > and it turned 50 :P

[23:50:58] Chel MocTran > gw, saw youre probes

[23:51:05] Chel MocTran > Not sure why I warped back in

[23:51:10] Chel MocTran > : /

[23:51:17] von Diel > lol I was sure I'd missed you

[23:51:25] von Diel > cov ops hit the acc gate XD

[23:51:36] Chel MocTran > I saw

[23:51:53] von Diel > yeah, I gotta work on that lol

[23:52:11] Chel MocTran > Ah well, good hunting

[23:52:18] von Diel > fly safe o/

So it ends on relatively amicable terms. Kinda wish I'd got more, but overall it means I broke even today.

In other news I've been playing with my vengeance a bit. Had some fun duelling with the aforementioned Kaal Redum and his new Rupture. Once again, a nasty opponent for a frigate pilot. Round one I conclusively hammered him. Round 2, he was having coaching from ceo Cyber Ten and had learnt a few things from our last fight. There was a few moments where I was close to structure, but in the end I broke his tank. Then burnt my guns out 'cus I was paying more attension to micromanaging my reps and booster. But that was ok because he ran out of ammo.

I'm chalking that up as a win, despite not actually winning (if that makes sense?). The Veng isn't meant to be a solo boat, the fit I use is designed to hold down a ship and tank it until backup arrives. However, I will give that Kaal gave me a real run for my money and that he would have ripped my beloved Ishkur to shreds.

In other Ishkur related news, I finally finished Assault Ships V. I'm tempted to buy and pimp out an ishkur to celebrate... treat the old girl with some faction and complex modules. Who knows.

Also, after running some numbers whilst bored and camping I decided to buy a Dominix BPO and get back in the manufacturing game. Assuming prices hold, it should provide some reasonable income in addition to whatever else PI brings next week.

Until next time o/