We were carebears....

nospam@example.com (Gunnythok) — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 04:19:00 +0100

War, my favorite activity. War is my business, I enjoy my work. My desire to do this work started a very long time ago in Erila. I was in my second private corporation. I joined Apex Elite Security after my own initial corporation proved impractical for one person to run. Most of our operations were those of the mining variety. All of our other work consisted of security work for Caldari Navy. Inoue was home to all of us, it had everything we needed, but not everything we wanted. It was only a matter of time before our members grew restless and began roaming into Erila and Horkkisen.

There was always the burning curiosity for new pilots to explore the low security systems. We didn't know about the prevalence of piracy in low security, we simply knew that there were "bad" people out there, so it came as something of a surprise when one of our members' brutix was being attacked while hunting guristas. Naturally, we were all enraged, but still timid to the thought of engaging another capsuleer, one who probably knew more about what he was doing than we did. I hopped into my brand new, and poorly fitted Moa, Vlad in his caracal, and Drake in his bellicose; we tore space heading over there, just in time to see the our corpmate's pod approaching the gate back to inoue. We went to the belt where it happened, not knowing what we wanted, but definitely finding out what we didn't.

We arrived to see a rupture floating about, it's pilot, Sinickal, wasted no time in showing us what she was there for and proceeded to lock onto Drake and engage with great fervor, the kind only seen by people who really enjoy what they do (I only experienced this later). Drake, like us, had no idea how to fit a ship effectively for any purpose, we all went for the fabled "MacGuyver" fit that so many new pilots choose to go with; his bellicose didn't last long, all the while we were firing everything we had at this pirate, this person of low moral fiber. Next one on the spit was Vlad, he was the first member of our corp to have a cruiser, it's a pity that it had to go without a single kill under it's belt.

I really don't need to put very much detail into the combat because if you're reading this, you can probably imagine more or less what happened. All I need to point out is that at that time, warp core stabilizers had no penalties that would deter even a new pilot like myself from fitting them, and it saved my moa. Saved it so I could warp off, defeated. I felt demoralized, I was a director, we had just recruited a new pilot not more than an hour prior, and we got sent running with our tails between our legs. After the obligatory, "We're going to keep coming back until you're dead" type of conversation that almost always happens when young capsuleers get their first taste of combat was over, we took to decreeing that Erila was off limits for our corp, we even took such a stance as to tell our people that they shouldn't shoot each other because it wasn't good comradery. Eventually, I learned to respect what Sinickal did to us that day; she inspired me to learn more about fighting, that's for certain, but she also made such an impact as to be the first big step to being the pilot I am today. Also, yarr.

Fly Safe kids,
Gun.

Cleared for publication by: Ander

Beastoria strikes again ?

nospam@example.com (Beastoria) — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 23:18:00 +0100

I'd say that I am kindof a tattoo addict.
I got my first one in 2001 and havent stopped since ... I've got 4 now and planning number 5.

In 2004 I decided to get myself the one eve-online picture I've loved since I saw it first ... the guristas bunny.
I got it 1 week before the fan fest and let's just say that there were lots and lots of free beers for me from the CCP staff

Well ... then came the time for a new tattoo.
I wanted it made on my other calf and I wanted it to match the guristas bunny.
I searched and searched and searched but to no avail.
But then I wandered into www.eve-pirate.com and saw their ad on the site wich had this skull in it.
The moment I saw it I fell in love with the skull and I had to have it since it matched my guristas bunny in a nice way.

I immediatly sent Ander a PM, being in the same corp for over a year I thought he could get the high res for me, asking him to give me permission to use it as a tattoo.
He replied with the answer I hoped for ... the time has come =)

I contacted an old friend wich works as a tattoo artist here in Reykjavik and had him give me the details on pricing and such.
I think its safe to say that I 'LOVE' the new tattoo and I wanted you guys to see it aswell since the people here at eve-pirate.com helped me get this done.

I want to thank the designer for allowing me to use this awesome skull and I also want to thank Ander for getting me the permission
I also want to thank Don Don the tattoo artist ... he tattoo's at Tattoo69 in downtown Reykjavik

And in those words I give you teh pictures !

Oveur posing with the guristas tatt
First progress photo (first smoke break )
Eyepatch done !
The day after
The final product !

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We were carebears....

Beastoria strikes again ?