My Loot, Your Tears

I only had a couple of hours before I had to return to work. The great thing about the Jerk lifestyle, however, is that you can get good gameplay in even if you only have a short period of time. I launched my probes, got five good hits, and got to work.

One of the hits led to a completed mission, so the wrecks were just out in deadspace. Since I primarily want carebear aggro, I skipped this hit at first to finish up the hits with missionrunners present. Once I had finished up my other four hits with no success, I returned to this one to find a salvage Cormorant on scan, hitting the other rooms. Though salvaging out from under a carebear salvage ship doesn't usually lead to epic kills, it's still worthwhile, since you know for certain that the carebear was intending to pick up what you are yoinking. I went ahead and started salvaging, making sure to leave a "Paul Clavet was here" can in case he came in after I finished. I was about two-thirds finished with the field when the Cormorant warped in, sat for a second, and warped off. This was odd: I would have expected him to at least try to grab some of the leftover cans or something. Figuring something was up, I started orbiting a wreck without salvaging to give him a chance to play his hand. Sure enough, his Raven landed well over 100km from me at the other side of the field.

I started moseying over to a can that was within his targeting range. He was approaching me at full speed. Could he really have been so blinded by his need for revenge that he couldn't see what should have been obvious as an attempt on my part to get shot at?

Sure enough, when I reached about 50km away he targeted and fired.

That's all fine and dandy, but would he stick around while I slipped into something a little more comfortable? I opened a convo with him and pretended to be butthurt to boost his confidence. In the mean time, I bookmarked a can that was close to his Raven. This is a useful trick to remember in large fields that allow you to warp in anywhere you like.

Paul Clavet > wtf dude
Burime > i only speak russian & this is my salvag & loot

I commented to some Suddenly Ninjas buddies last night that I never could get Russians to shoot at me. Since then I've killed two of their battleships.

Anyway, I grabbed JerkTengu and warped to the bookmark I had made from the can. I landed 12km on top of him. Perfect. I pointed him and started pouring Torrent Rage Assault Missiles onto his Raven:

Paul Clavet > well then
Paul Clavet > 50,000,000 ISK or your ship dies
Paul Clavet > you have 30 seconds to pay or your die
Burime > i have no 50 kk)
Paul Clavet > how much do you have?
Burime > 5 k
Paul Clavet > heh

It probably took me longer to work through his structure than it took to kill his shields and armor. I guess it speaks volumes for fitting a DCU on your combat ships.

Paul Clavet > last chance
Burime > no many )
Burime > пидарас )

None of the translators I've tried have had success with the last line. Any Russian-speaking readers that can shed some light?

Anyway, he popped.

Burime couldn't see past his need to kill that vile salvaging vigil, and was too sloth-like to GTFO after making his attempt to kill it. He paid for his lack of foresight.

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This entry was posted on May 22, 2010 at 8:00 PM by paul and is filed under Combat, Ninja Salvaging.