Feeling suicidal?

So I clone jumped back to my corp's HQ... it's the only place where I had a battleship stored at the time. I get there, and notice that there's not very many people in the system. I decided to take out my Raven and go shoot some Guristas in a small attempt to raise my security status a little. My goal is to be able to jump into high security systems again so I don't have to rely on others to get ships for me.

So there I was, warping around belts, getting bored of destroying the inferior Guristas vessels with so much ease. Warp in, fire, drink bree, warp out, fire, drink more.... I could have easily fallen asleep. I warped to the outtermost belt in the system and found a Punisher sitting 80km from the belt's center. Wearily, I engaged the Guristas in the belt... this could very well be a trap.

He approached me as I destroyed the last of the Guristas, firing his afterburner as he did so. I noticed that quite a few more pilots had jumped into system too. It felt like a trap and a half, so I warped out. I warped to a planet at 100km, and he followed in at 15, so he ended up 85km away. I align to the station and target him, and tell him simply "don't".

I'm trying to raise my security status here, but if there's going to be a fight, it's going to be where I can get away, should the encounter turn up to be a trap. So, I dock at the station and equip a Stasis Webifier, as my Raven is sporting torpedo launchers, and torps don't do a lot of damage to fast moving small ships.

When I undock, he's there waiting for me. I sit there and wait. If he's wanting a fight, he's going to have to lay the first blow... Sentry guns would fire on me if I aggressed, but since I'm an outlaw, they would turn a blind eye to his aggressions.

Moments later, he targeted me, so I returned the favor... I didn't really feel like killing him... he had balls, but he was also also die fairly easily... not much of a challenge at all, and should the 20 some-odd new people in system decided to jump in, the tables might've turned.

I watch a laser arc from his ship to mine, and engage the web and wait a moment.

"What are you trying to prove?" I asked.
"Nothing," he replied.
"Suit yourself."

I fired a full salvo of torpedos, which completely striped his small ship of it's shields. I held fire on the next one, waiting for him to retreat... I wanted this guy to live for some strange reason. He continued firing, then activated a Nosfrateu on my ship. I sighed, then set my six launchers to fire on his ship continuously. I engaged my Electronic Counter Measure and his lock broke. If he wanted a lesson, I was going to give it to him.

After the next salvo, his armor had been reduced to almost nothing, but he repaired it to about 75% by the time the next was launched. The next barrage hit his ship, and his armor was destroyed, and his ship was close to death. I stopped firing for a moment, giving him yet another opportunity to flee. He didn't, and I loosed one last flight of torps which destroyed his ship.

"Why?" I asked... here's the conversation that ensued...




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Channel ID: (('solarsystemid2', 30001398),)
Channel Name: Local
Listener: Grape Juice
Session started: 2006.11.12 21:43:18
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Sader Rykane > =)
Grape Juice > what was all that about?
Sader Rykane > why not, punishers arent expensive
Grape Juice > i know, but still... there was no chance at all for you to win
Sader Rykane > Yea well I'de like to see it for myself ya know
Sader Rykane > its not like I lose much either way
Grape Juice > ah i see
Sader Rykane > besides theres not much else to do in this game while waiting for skills to train
Grape Juice > lol, so you attack ravens in your punisher?
Sader Rykane > meh w/e i feel like attacking
Grape Juice > ok, well when you get into a battleship yourself, let me know and we'll go toe to toe again
Sader Rykane > lol i dunno if i'll last that long
Sader Rykane > theres no pvp in this game with low skillpoints
Sader Rykane > its driving me crazy
Grape Juice > sure there is
Sader Rykane > i'm about to go back to WoW
Grape Juice > you just need to work in numbers
Sader Rykane > all the guys i know are months ahead of me
Sader Rykane > this waiting shit is really tedious
Grape Juice > you do have a point... but it doesnt take too long to be able to fly a battleship
Grape Juice > hell, even in a battlecruiser, you can tank sentry guns for a while
Sader Rykane > yea i know, i was able to fly a battlecruiser on my other char
Sader Rykane > but i didnt like the way i was set up
Sader Rykane > so i restarted, figured it was only 400,000 sp
Grape Juice > yeah, i did that once... i had 1mil SP
Sader Rykane > yea well now its just waiting for so i can fly my carcal again
Sader Rykane > so its either sitting docked for weeks
Sader Rykane > or popping shots at ravens
Grape Juice > :)
Sader Rykane > both of which are boring, but one has more bright lights
Grape Juice > lol
Grape Juice > you could start a corp and wardec corps so you can kill them in hi-sec :)
Sader Rykane > dec corps?
Grape Juice > declare war on other corps
Grape Juice > then you can PvP in >0.5 without concord shooting at you
Sader Rykane > declare was on SWA
Sader Rykane > *war
Sader Rykane > i wish
Grape Juice > lol, it would be nice
Sader Rykane > i dont know this games boring me out of my damn mind, and im getting tired of fighting npc's all the time
Grape Juice > here, dock and i'll give you your modules.... it'll save you some time in getting new ones
Sader Rykane > nah they arent worth anything
Sader Rykane > i don't think i'll be getting a new pnisher for a bit anyway
Grape Juice > why not?
Sader Rykane > 'll just wait till i can fly my carcal
Grape Juice > how much longer you got?
Sader Rykane > days
Sader Rykane > 2 or 3
Grape Juice > thats not too bad
Sader Rykane > yea its so boring though
Sader Rykane > it'd be better if there was something to do in the meantime
Grape Juice > get the cruiser and missile skills up a bit and you'll be able to hit up to 100km with a Caracal
Sader Rykane > ya i know, i was able to hit up to 60km
Sader Rykane > then ... you had to go pickup the canisters
Grape Juice > true...
Sader Rykane > i dunno, WoW bored me till i was able to pve
Sader Rykane > but that was at level 20
Sader Rykane > *Pvp
Sader Rykane > having no control over my rate of progression just annoys me i guess
Grape Juice > i played WoW for a total of 6 times.... i even bought a 3 month subscription
Grape Juice > there's learning skills and implants.... aside from that, no there's not a lot you can do about it
Sader Rykane > Dood, i just want some real pvp lol
Grape Juice > go into 0.0
Grape Juice > find a good corp
Grape Juice > and go kill shit
Sader Rykane > PvP where i have a chance
Grape Juice > :)
Sader Rykane > and theres a million corps lol
Sader Rykane > meh who knows maybe this game isnt for me
Grape Juice > maybe...
Sader Rykane > 2 days 32 minutes
Sader Rykane > no reason to log on until then
Sader Rykane > cya round, but probably not
Sader Rykane > peace
Grape Juice > later man


I'll miss this guy... I've been to the land that is known as WoW, and it's quite boring and very... how should I say... things that you can do are very limited.

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