Waking the dead.

Well, it is that time of year, Summer. All the noobs, and younger-not-working-people fly about in space looking like a burger at the beach. Yes, hungry pirates and pvp junkies are having a blast right now... literally.

It was after bed time, and I got the text from downstairs. We have miners in the wormhole, and we love a good gank. Climbing out, and firing up the computer just to watch the miners fly away!

I was told to wait for ten minutes, just wait, they will be back. Well, it took them 15 minutes, and it was worth it. Both the retriever pilot and the venture returned, but to different locations.

We tackled the retriever together, missed the pod. I was worried the venture would evade us with the +2 warp. Neither of us had a faction point, and I wasn't willing to fall for good looking bait ships. The venture had ended up in another ore anom, so not-Ze warped in at zero and the venture was 70k out.

Since not-Ze was uncloaked we figured the game was up, he bookmarked the ventures roid and warped to the static. I warped to the fresh bookmark and nabbed the Venture and the Pod! Good times were had by all. Don't mine in a wormhole without support... seriously I should have never killed the Venture and his Pod.

The infiltration alt has not been burned, and I am on the way to the next target. Life is good.

Success by default.

Inflitration alt has successfully grabbed 545mil in ships, the arrays were locked so I skipped that. Nothing special in the fits, and zero station trades to record my activity. Fly to k-space, eject, grab waiting shuttle, return for more. I don't expect to get 'burned' from this, but time will tell.

The home hole was like a highway last night, this morning's report was just as bad. Two K162s to NS, one to LS, one to a C2, plus our static. The call was to ignore all activity until tonight, then roll everything closed.

Ge announced his master plan over dinner. Suffice to say, we have a six month window to make enough isk and gather enough resources to make it work. Putting up additional PoSs in the hole for production has been on the table for a long time, the extent of the plan is pretty grand.

Ze is out for a month, maybe two, he is travelling to the east and probably won't have a connection. Guess I can cut him some slack and not turn him into a full pirate. Maybe.

Last night we tackled a Domi in LS, and it 'Micro Jumped' away, just saying that is one slick potatoe. We congradulated him on his escape, and went about our business. Picking up my LS drug stash was rather nice, it has been nearly six months since I left Dudreda. Pretty sure the wrapper is still good.

Spy is on fire.

My inflitration alt has picked up some great intel, I just don't know who to sell it to yet. The potential for damage and mayhem is greater than the theft I could execute. Oh, time will tell. Setting up a theft, and leaving the alt in place is the current goal. Sow distrust and disgust! If and when she gets burned, I am sure there will be more than a few acceptable targets.

The recent Dev Blogs about industrials is interesting, but until CCP drops it on SiSi I don't care. Driving a freighter was pure suicide, using T2 active transports was much better. Yes, I do like the Mammoth...

Ge's secret project must be a whopper. He has drained off 3bil in material and isk, with no end in sight. He has even sold off a character to fund his madness! Sa has been very quiet about this, pretty sure he is in on the project.

Ze has taken another hiatus and left the keys with me, again. He might just come back to a -10!

Scooter Trash

Our collective weekend in EvE was pretty slow. Ge is crowing about his reverse engineering and production of sub-systems. Followed by, he needs two months to actually produce anything! Sleeper killing was at an all time low, as most of us were at the Harvest Run enjoying the rare sunny day in Washington.

Sa served his homemade chili for most of the afternoon, while I did the silent auction. Sa's bike is still in the shop, so he is a bit grumpy. The rest of the crew was out enjoying the ride and weather, a few came back with burnt noses. Maybe we should have called it the Rudolph run? Either way, money was raised for Holly Ridge and people enjoyed themselves.

Sa swears next year he will brew a double batch of sweet chili, since that was the most popular of the three chilies availble. Sunday was a complete crash day, as all of us were stuck indoors due to weather. I am sure most of us were just grateful for the rest.

While Ge was about the only person online, he managed to get a lol-kill of a newbie gasser. Appearantly Ge decided to send the victim a message, the victim's tears were shared to the entire Alliance. Yes, I still hate them, and I will kill more than a few of their active characters.

The alliance killboards look like crap, with half the kills coming from our little group. The losses are dumb... just plain dumb. The loot pinatas these people are flying make me want to activate my infiltration alt and reapply for the lolz.

Being Watched

Mornings call was to roll and gas, which did not happen. Instead, we had a visiting Rapier as we began our morning roll. The Rapier pilot talking in local for thirty minutes as we carefully moved scouts and rollers into place. Rapier pilot was joined by a highsec visitor, which collapsed the highsec hole and trapped him with us.

We aborted our roll of the K162s to focus on the new static forming, we gave up on gassing. Once the hictor came out to play, the Rapier shut-up and jumped back into his home hole. Our rolling actually trapped the Helios that had wandered in, back into highsec along with Ze. Fair trade I would say.

Ge appearant didn't need to be at work like the rest of us and closed up his production arrays for the weekend. He let the rest of us know long after we had logged out, that he had also increased our PoS's defenses after freeing up the power grid and CPU.

Ze set an auto-pilot for somewhere, and we will pick her up tonight or tomorrow. Sa was a little ticked about getting Ze locked out, and very happy the Helios was out of the home hole. Pretty sure it was a win-win in my book, Ze rarely leaves the hole for anything.

Lost cause?

Our uninvited neighbors moved out suddenly and in the middle of the night, much like they moved in. The excuse, and yes it was an excuse, "We thought your didn't want us there." Well no shit scherlock.

With the hole back under our exclusive control, Sa is back to hole rolling like a man possessed. We had univited daytrippers when we locgged in, and watched as they were decimated by another group just as we were preparing to do the same.

A close call, we then rolled the invading k162 to nearly max... and let the invaders finish it. Much cat calling and baiting occured after they realized we had critted their static. Followed by three hours of us being at a restraunt discussing the Harvest Run on saturday, Sa is cooking 10 gallons of chili.

We finished up harvesting sleeper organs this morning, considering we didn't have an accurate accounting of all the invading ships last night. Ge is happily planning his next big money maker, while the rest of us are sighing with relief over the loss of our neighbors.

With the fishes.

Update! Infiltration alt has successfully intergrated into the targets home hole. Ships are prepped and ready to raid the shit out of them this coming weekend. Assets mark up to less than 300mil, personally I think we could do better.

In other news, EvE had an emergency reboot. So we missed our window for sleeper harvesting before everyone headed to work. Ge managed to smuggle out some material to highsec, since last night we were camped in our home hole.

Got to respect the irony of camping people, and being camped in return. In other news, Fountain is exploding... who knew? Our normal buyer for sleeper material just bailed on the project, something about losing his PoS out in NS. Back to station trading I guess, I will let GK handle that.

There is rumor of an invasion coming to our home hole... I think it is -tinfoil-.

Father's Day

This weekend was a mixed one of emotion. I went to a funeral, and witnessed the majesty of a Catholic Mass. The costums and posturing, the chanting and droning of the priest. Kinda wondered if the Amarr would do things the same way.

Father's day was stressful, only as a mixed family of adopted and steps can be. Everyone knows the other's story, and no one really feels like being there, but we go through the motions. Much like that Catholic Mass.

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Wormhole news!!! Another successful character moved out of the home hole! We even provided escort service and overwatch. No, we didn't blow him up.

Ge is getting wierder, he is now openning up shop for reverse engineering of sleeper stuffs. As long as he keeps me in ISK, I don't care if he dresses in drag and dances down the street in a speedo.

GK is providing an advanced lab, and all the stuff that has not sold yet to kick start the project. Personally, I skeptical.

Stuttering EvE

First off, having enough lag to drop our op was stressful. Second, hunting a bomber while EvE kicks everyone off is worse. Whom ever is attacking EvE is either in it for the LoLz or has an agenda...

No lost ships yet, but the time is coming. Bigger risks and more hostility sprewing forth. Lets not forget summer vaccation with the kiddies, they will be invading in-mass like spawning fish. Rolling the holes and controlling the static becomes even more pressing.

The allies continue to lose ships, there was a wreck in the home hole this morning with no corrisponding kill mail. Who killed it? Where is he/she? What were they flying? No one knows, and the owner of the ship isn't on. General wierdness?

Ge continues to cackle and laugh, pretty sure he is going off the deep-end.

Watching them burn (2?)

Our esteemed allies have once again blundered, just checking the killboard makes me wince. Not once, not twice, but five times the same person loses ships to a hunter (yes, the same hunter). The hunter is sitting cloaked on their static, watching for the next target.

The J-sig shows the allies have lost ships nearly daily for a week, they finally balls up and get a fleet running. And promptly lose another t2 bomber... without bombs. Open slots make me cry. After an hour of tag, they invite a Merc along... and then they start insulting each other on coms.

Drunk merc does what a merc should and dec's us! HUZZAH! SALUTE! BACON! Eh, what ever, we live in a wormhole. There are no friends in anoikis, barely allies. Alliance diplo gets things smoothed over. The funniest thing is the merc in question, has alts in the alliance he dec'd. And the allies know who they are!!!

LR;DR Allies derp, lose ships and face.

Weekend blue-balls

This weekend was rather disappointing, a K162 openned up and out came Tengus. We like Tengus... we dont like bait. These players popped into the hole and raided the combat sites, all well and good. They then proceeded to bait at their entry for an hour.

So, in general concensus, we logged out and took a ride out to Mosimos for Lunch. The weather was good, not to warm not to cold. Ge was able to regale us with his exploits in the old c2, and the fail that the 'new' owners tried to pull.

Ge also revealed his master plan of building an x-large array in the hole and setting up production of some 2-3 Phoenix. I'm not a fan.

We ended up back on later, and found the offending K162 gone. We headed out the LS exit and ran some new data sites, I'm getting the hang of it. Then we headed out a K162 to HS and ran Guristas for a few hours, yay for sec increase. The bounties didn't make up for the loss of the sleepers, but it was better than ship spinning.

Quick update

We got home late, it was our 'off' night so we had no intention of logging on. Ge called and we quickly logged in, and warped to 100k from him. He was watching a retriever in our home system, we gang warped in ( Ge didn't get on the kill, to close for the gang warp ) and pointed, webbed and killed it. I went after the pod, and barely missed.

Dotlan history showed this guy had lost a Hulk and another guy had lost another mining ship, both pods tagged by an interceptor. This morning, we found the same guy warping into the hole while we killed sleepers in a Verk. He got away, Sa said he sent the guy a polite message. Who knows?

Either way, Odyssey has changed Grav sites in wormhole space into death traps...

Cold Shivers

We had an unauthorized user in our intel channel, Sa immediately identified and kicked. Then let us know and set up the controls for the channel to the corp. The person was from a well known highsec greifer corp, and funny that how that information got out there.

The alliance is full of 'highsec merc griefer corp' alts... Geeeee, we should have been told before we joined. I had spoken to many such merc corps in the past, little did I know we would be living with them. I came close to hiring that particular Corp from my last foray.

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Odyssey Changes. The warp gates are nice, the worm hole effects are interesting, the undock button is stupidly placed. The data sites in WH space were drastically changed, and not in a good way. The Grav sites are a f'cking death-trap now, Ge is looking for a way to make them safer... I don't think so.