Hello again, fair ladies and scurvy sea dogs. I, Gaius Flaminius, will bring you two tales from the high space lanes of the Minmatar Republic. Your humble narrator doeth play an active part in both, so listen closely.
It was a fair day, and I was flying my trusty Rifter looking for something more worth while than frigates with cheap booty. In a system a few jumps from my home base I spied a Navitas and an Burst on the scanner, as they headed out to a belt. They where soon followed by a Vexor piloted by a characters several months older than me.
Figuring my chances to take down a drone cruiser to be close to, or equal to zero, I still wanted to give it a go. It would at least be a fun fight. I warped into the belt, and no more than thee seconds later, all three opponents warped off. I sat there for a moment wondering what just happened, but then I remembered, I was yellow and my icon had a cute little scull symbol attached to it. Perchance an opportunity for plunder would arise from this.
Then local flaired up:
Cleared for publication by: Ander, rest of story moved to extended body
Ay'Not Sivad > hey gaius
Gaius Flaminius > O/
Gaius Flaminius > Awwww :(
Ay'Not Sivad > willing to let us mine in peace? :P
Ay'Not Sivad > please?
Gaius Flaminius > Sure, for a small fee
Ay'Not Sivad > of?..
Gaius Flaminius > 500k?
Ay'Not Sivad > or i could just go back and get my stabber ;)
Gaius Flaminius > Yes, you could do that
Gaius Flaminius > Would be interesting :)
Ay'Not Sivad > i'm older than you, but not fit right now
Ay'Not Sivad > what were you flying?
Gaius Flaminius > Tempest :P
Ay'Not Sivad > normally i'd just hunt you down. and get the bounty
Gaius Flaminius > :)
Ay'Not Sivad > it's your choice, really
Gaius Flaminius > My bounty is up for grabs, as it where. If you feel up to it, give it a shot ;)
Ay'Not Sivad > wait.. how are you already flying a tempest?..
Gaius Flaminius > Hax
Ay'Not Sivad > o'rlly?
Gaius Flaminius > ;)
Ay'Not Sivad > i know you could have fundng from your alt, but still
Ay'Not Sivad > w/e.. i'll just giv eyou 500k if you leave us alone
Ay'Not Sivad > i'm not in the mood to fool around
Gaius Flaminius > Will do
Ay'Not Sivad > how will i know you leave us alone then?
Gaius Flaminius > You will know when I leave the system in about 10 seconds. Bad for business to lie to customers
Ay'Not Sivad > :P
Ay'Not Sivad > there you go...
Gaius Flaminius > Thank you. Have a nice day
Ay'Not Sivad > you too
Gazanz > lol
With that, I promptly left the system, feeling very good about myself. 500k isn't much, but I had just ransomed a guarded mining op even though I wouldn't have had the fire power to force the ransom. In the future I'll try ransoming people as soon as I enter the system. Much more efficient.
My bloodlust would have to be quenched, though, and I made my way back to Eifer only to run in to an old friend. I had killed him twice before (if you read my last story, this was the guy speaking polish) and figured three's a charm.
I found him in a belt attacking a fellow pirate. I didn't want to be so rude as to interrupt their fight, so I politely waited until it was over, then warped in and mopped up, walking off with the loot of two ships.
2006.12.17 04:03:00
Victim: IraS PL2
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Republic Military School
Destroyed: Rifter
System: Eifer
Security: 0.4
Involved parties:
Name: Szentha
Security: -1.1
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Super Cool Pirates Only
Ship: Unknown
Weapon: 150mm Light AutoCannon I
Name: Gaius Flaminius (laid the final blow)
Security: -4.0
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Republic Military School
Ship: Rifter
Weapon: 150mm Light Carbine Repeating Cannon I
Destroyed items:
200mm AutoCannon I
200mm AutoCannon I
Small I-a Polarized Armor Regenerator
Halting Phase Inversion ECM I
Basic Co-Processor
Monopropellant I Hydrazine Boosters
Small Inefficient Armor Repair Unit (Cargo)
Damage Control I (Cargo)
Small 'Knave' I Energy Drain (Cargo)
Medium Anode Pulse Particle Stream I (Cargo)
Phased Plasma S, Qty: 21
Phased Plasma S, Qty: 22
Phased Plasma S, Qty: 21
I then went back to my home base to retire for the night. Before I had a chance to do that, IraS popped into local. Seems this guy just love dying to my guns. I poked around a bit, looking for him, then he spoke in local:
IraS PL2 > lol nice loot belt 1
I warped over there and found a few wrecks and IraS sitting in a new Rifter 100 km out. He quickly warped off. After a few minutes, he made his presence known again:
IraS PL2 > lol planet planet VIII ;]
I took it to mean he wanted to duel at planet VIII, but I wouldn't take it to court. In any case, off I went, and there he was, sitting 120 km from me. I started to approach, and he veered off. I warped off to get a better approach angle, and after some trial and error I landed 5 km from him. His ship was quickly put to rubbles, and I then scrambled his pod:
Gaius Flaminius > 500k or pod
IraS PL2 > ehhhh ;[
Gaius Flaminius > 10 s
Gaius Flaminius > 5s
IraS PL2 > nie mam
IraS PL2 > 14.854
No money, so pop went his pod. I looted his wreck and had a look at the killmail:
2006.12.17 05:20:00
Victim: IraS PL2
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Republic Military School
Destroyed: Rifter
System: Gusandall
Security: 0.4
Involved parties:
Name: Gaius Flaminius (laid the final blow)
Security: -4.1
Alliance: NONE
Corp: Republic Military School
Ship: Rifter
Weapon: 150mm Light Gallium I Machine Gun
Destroyed items:
Damage Control I
Halting Phase Inversion ECM I
200mm AutoCannon I
200mm AutoCannon I
Small Armor Repairer I
Basic Co-Processor
Small 'Knave' I Energy Drain
EMP M, Qty: 100 (Cargo)
Miner I, Qty: 2 (Cargo)
280mm Howitzer Artillery I (Cargo)
Foxfire Rocket, Qty: 100 (Cargo)
Phased Plasma S, Qty: 55
The bastard had tried to jam me. I was glad I podded him. I went back to the station to log for real. But I never had the chance, because IraS was back in local again:
IraS PL2 > Gaius give me money
Gaius Flaminius > ?
IraS PL2 > 5M
Gaius Flaminius > Why?
IraS PL2 > Give me 5.000.000 M
IraS PL2 > isk
Gaius Flaminius > Why?
I didn't know what to make of this, but soon a convo invite appeared:
Gaius Flaminius > O/
IraS PL2 > ho/
IraS PL2 > ;]
IraS PL2 > you me poded ;]
Gaius Flaminius > I did yes
Gaius Flaminius > You wouldn't pay the ransom
IraS PL2 > give me 5M isk
Gaius Flaminius > What for?
IraS PL2 > as fulfilment ;]
Gaius Flaminius > For podding you? I gave you a chance to pay the ransom
Gaius Flaminius > You didn't
Gaius Flaminius > <- Pirate
IraS PL2 > I wait on planet VIII
IraS PL2 > give me money
Gaius Flaminius > No
IraS PL2 > no?
Gaius Flaminius > No money
IraS PL2 > give
Gaius Flaminius > Hehe, no
I closed the convo. Soon after my mailbox blinked. Unfortunately, as I subsequently blocked this guy, all the mails disappeared, but I will try to relate their contents:
Mail 1:
Gaius you podded me and I want 5 million isk.
Reply:
You ain't getting any money. You had a chance to save your pod, and you didn't take it.
Mail 2:
If you don't give me money, I will petition you.
Reply:
Good luck with that. Now kindly bugger off.
With that, I blocked him. I haven't seen him since and I never heard of any petition against me.
As I now train to fly bigger ships, I decided that I couldn't remain in a noob-corp any more. I promptly trained up Corporation Management and founded No Need To Fear [OhNo], and under it's black flag i will now make the space-lanes unsafe, and have many adventures and sturdy whenches on my way.
I bid you adieu for now.
Until next time,
Gaius.
7 Comments
Vruce Kori'mh·
Nice entry Gaius.
Mung Lung·
Somtimes iam an egg
5nare·
Excellent read my good man. What a star ;)
MinithJin·
Nice one ;) It's nice to have regular customers isn't it :D
Gaius·
Of course, as the entry was written when I was physically exhausted after various rum-drinking endeavours, a few errors have managed to slink in:
- Appologies for the mega-sized emoticon in the italic sections. I don't know what causes that.
- The name of my corp is not No _Need_ To Fear, but No _Reason_ To Fear. Sad to say I can't even remember the name of my own corp. At least I got the ticker right.
/Gaius
Mik·
I lol'd when he was just like "give".
Ay'Not Sivad·
haha.. wow.. i vaguely remember that.. man i was a REAL noob back then. i don't remember anything about that vexor tho? maybe one of these days we can get together, and have ourself a few nice duels. it's always fun meeting up with people you've met before.