A Craving for Killing

I've put this post off for too long :-p The other night I was going about my business running level 2 missions, trying to farm standing with the local agents and their faction when Ander gets on. Ander > GOD DAMMIT. I need to kill something. Ander > it's like having a morning hardon So as I haven't killed many people of late I agree to go hunting with Ander. We go on our treck, Ander in a Blaster Megathron and I in my Zealot, and search for prey to kill or ransom. We go on our usual rounds finding no-one worthwhile to kill. "Continue on", Ander says, so on we go, beyond our normal area of control. Eventually we find a system with a bunch of locals, jackpot! We shortly find out that every one of them are docked so on we go. Two jumps later and we find a larger amount of people in system and go looking for a group to kill. I stay on the gate as Ander starts the search. He went to a station and right there is a Scorpion and a rupture, as another rupture from that same corp undocks all three of them proceed to lock Ander. Upon hearing this I figure they will be firing soon so I make haste and warp to the station and arrive early, so our surprise is blown.... But local is still pretty full and shortly I pick up a scorpion on scanner. I pin down his location and Ander and I storm the belt to find the same scorpion from before accompanied by his two ruptures and another caracal. I proceed to orbit the scorpion at a distance of 50-60 kilometers as Ander approaches. The scorpion pilot gladly flags himself by firing upon me doing minimal damage to me as I have broken his rail's transersal and his missiles fell far short. Ander, now in drone range sends his drones on the scorpion issuing the command to charge. Upon this I find that the orbit command has not worked and I am fairly far away! But I managed to get in range right as Ander blows the scorpion to hell and I focus on the ruptures and caracal. One rupture makes it out alive but the other one and the caracal are both scrammed and go down with ease. After this encounter the usual local banter happens, I was a bit pre-occupied getting loot :-p. Grankor > :D Ander > good attempt Grankor > Hehehe Ander > and I didnt even have to flag myself Ander > sweetness Grankor > Hehehe Ander > btw. the last cruiser that got away Ander > did he get concordoken treatment? Tracker X > that was me Grankor > pffft Grankor > no Ander > aww Grankor > We know better than that :) Tracker X > sry guys Tracker X > that was fun Ander > gah... tech1 setup 4tl Grankor > :P Grankor > Nothing else here Grankor > Kinda limited on that setup Grankor > and I didnt lose much :D Ander > I was in a pure ganka Grankor > Nice Grankor > I was fooling around. Grankor > :) Tracker X > dude u rocked me hard Ander > only reason I decided to stay was cause my drones was ripping your shield Grankor > yup Grankor > Hahaha Grankor > Almost had a glimer of hope :) Grankor > what did I get your armor to?> Ander > 25% Grankor > woot! Ander > your cruiser support was annoying me Xanataures > i was a bit slow Grankor > I know :) Grankor > a bit? Maximus Hess > a very small glimmer it was... but bright and shinny Ander > I didnt even fight all out till the end Xanataures > the new orbit command works like shit Tracker X > thx Ander > if I had gone straight for ya in the beginning you'd not gotten past 50% Grankor > Prob not :D Xanataures > hehe After this fun encounter we set course back home and decide that we kill anything we come across on the trip back. Mostly uneventfull we jump into our neighboring system and there are locals, after a quick scan we locate a celestis and osprey in a belt. I scramble the osprey as Ander scrambles the celestis and the ransom commences. Vidette Ordos >
4 mill and we will. Ander > rgr Xanataures > rgr Ander > we'll take it Ander > send the isk to me and you'll both be free to go Xanataures > we are pirates of our word Vidette Ordos > BS, let us go and then we will.. Ander > no, we will claim the isk first and then let you go Ander > We've ransomed a lot of ships and we honour our ransoms. ZimZum > yah but whos to say that 6 doesn't get blasted allong with our ships? ZimZum > then we lose doble Vidette Ordos > No deal. You kill us you get nothing. Xanataures > you wont Vidette Ordos > Why not? Yurito > kill kill kill Ander > Cause we dont kill those who pay our ransoms. Yurito > :) Vidette Ordos > We loose about the same anyway. what you are trying to sell us is mearly convience. Ander > fine be that way then They obviously didn't take well to a ransom, so we killed them both, all during these negotiations the osprey kept flying away from his freind despite my requests. As soon as they finished their stalling a thorax shows up 40km from me and the celestis and thorax both send their drones on me. The osprey dead I head for the thorax as fast as possible. I need to kill it otherwise his mass of drones may very well kill me. Barely holding on i fire and take him down into low armor and he warps off leaving his drones for me. Following this encounter are typical threats from people we may very well never see again. Relatively satisfied we go back to our home system to empty our cargo holds full of booty, arrr. We check out another nearby system just to see whats going on and find a hauler jumping from station to station. Ander decides it must die and kills it at a station during its flight. Nothing of value survived and I got a hauler for the rest, general goods. Turns out he was hauling an improved cloak II. But its a gamble :). Was a fun filled night of ganking, thanks to people flagging themselves to or on me I only lost security status for one ship-kill as did Ander. Also, I think Ander got relieved of his hard-on for killing, if only for a short time :-p.