My Loot, Your Tears

So I'm salvaging a Mission Generic field. Actually, I'm just looting. Metal Scraps are a pain. There's a Raven there, but the mission is complete and it's just hanging around. I get a convo:

[ 2010.01.09 15:35:49 ] Paul Clavet > o/
[ 2010.01.09 15:35:53 ] fydeg > dont take my wreck, paul.
[ 2010.01.09 15:36:31 ] Paul Clavet > waaaah
[ 2010.01.09 15:36:42 ] fydeg > or i will shoot you.
[ 2010.01.09 15:36:49 ] Paul Clavet > yeah right
[ 2010.01.09 15:36:50 ] Paul Clavet > carebear
[ 2010.01.09 15:37:13 ] Paul Clavet > 1400mm Howitzer Artillery I
[ 2010.01.09 15:37:14 ] Paul Clavet > yay
[ 2010.01.09 15:37:19 ] fydeg > ypu are red in my radar
[ 2010.01.09 15:37:45 ] fydeg > you i mean
[ 2010.01.09 15:37:51 ] Paul Clavet > so?
[ 2010.01.09 15:38:33 ] fydeg > thats mean i can shoot you if you dont leave my wreck. its mine mission.
[ 2010.01.09 15:38:47 ] Paul Clavet > Mine now
[ 2010.01.09 15:39:18 ] fydeg > no

You may notice that my tone is a little different than usual with this particular carebear. Usually I go for straight wit, but for some reason I thought that a more boorish approach would work better with this guy. I'm doing my best to sound like someone with much worse bark than bite, because it seems like that's what he'll respond well to. It turns out that I'm right.

He doesn't even launch drones, but fires a cruise missile at me. I run off.

[ 2010.01.09 15:39:45 ] Paul Clavet > screw you
[ 2010.01.09 15:40:12 ] fydeg > why dont you lissen.

I close convo and grab JerkRaven. I land right on top of him and knock out his shields and cap in four volleys.

[ 2010.01.09 15:43:39 ] Paul Clavet > 200M for your ship
[ 2010.01.09 15:44:02 ] Paul Clavet > 20 seconds to comply
[ 2010.01.09 15:44:27 ] Paul Clavet > last chance
[ 2010.01.09 15:44:34 ] fydeg > what
[ 2010.01.09 15:44:43 ] Paul Clavet > you will send me 200M ISK or die
[ 2010.01.09 15:44:49 ] fydeg > ok take it

He withdraws his drones. He is now in half structure. I turn off my launchers but leave my Neuts engaged.

[ 2010.01.09 15:45:26 ] fydeg > how do i do it
[ 2010.01.09 15:45:31 ] Paul Clavet > right click my name
[ 2010.01.09 15:45:33 ] Paul Clavet > send money
[ 2010.01.09 15:45:36 ] Paul Clavet > 200,000,000
[ 2010.01.09 15:45:37 ] Paul Clavet > send
[ 2010.01.09 15:45:40 ] Paul Clavet > you have 15 seconds
[ 2010.01.09 15:46:32 ] fydeg > i dont care. i have clone. and will be wanted.
[ 2010.01.09 15:46:45 ] Paul Clavet > Your money or your ship. How much is it worth to you?
[ 2010.01.09 15:47:13 ] fydeg > my ship. 70 i think
[ 2010.01.09 15:47:23 ] Paul Clavet > I'll take 70, it'll be worth more to me than your loot
[ 2010.01.09 15:48:18 ] Paul Clavet > Send it and I'll let you go, I don't care about your crap ship
[ 2010.01.09 15:48:34 ] fydeg > do it. and i and my corp will hunt you down. i will put bounty on you.
[ 2010.01.09 15:48:41 ] Paul Clavet > fair enough

I send a single volley, and fydeg's Raven vanishes in a puff of logic.

[ 2010.01.09 15:51:51 ] Paul Clavet > Now then, what have we learned?

This entry was posted on January 9, 2010 at 10:04 AM by paul and is filed under Combat, Duffers, Ninja Salvaging.