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MotoTsume
Gallente
Clan Black Scorpion
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Posted - 2007.09.15 20:27:00 -
[121]
Same as my post above - Cyberflayer should be coming back soon hopefully
and contnuing this great story. 
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www.mototsume.ca
It's just a game........Or is it?
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Alex V0X2
Minmatar
Royal Crimson Lancers
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Posted - 2007.09.15 21:55:00 -
[122]
what a great story...i almost cried when you abandoned that poor rifter in that cold empty station.....eh...maybe you'll put it to good use later 
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Zubenelgenubi
Interstellar eXodus
R0ADKILL
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Posted - 2007.09.15 22:12:00 -
[123]
you write well :)
You Improvise. You Adapt. You overcome!
Have a plan,
Execute it violently
Do it now.
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Velodra Gison
Caldari
East Khanid Trading
Khanid Trade Syndicate
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Posted - 2007.09.15 22:21:00 -
[124]
Edited by: Velodra Gison on 15/09/2007 22:20:49
A very well written and entertaining story. Keep up the great work.
Recruitment Thread
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Praxis1452
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Posted - 2007.09.16 03:09:00 -
[125]
bump for a great story. 
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Amarria Black
Clan Anthraxx
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Posted - 2007.09.16 04:21:00 -
[126]
Edited by: Amarria Black on 16/09/2007 04:23:45
Sir, I can only say that the post count is so low on this thread because we don't want to clutter up your excellent narrative.
I'm typically in the general vicinity of Emrayur. When you get back from your vacation, hit me up in-game. Since you seem to be allergic to ISK, we'll see what can be done about getting you a ship or some fittings. ^_^
Edit: don't think it'll be a gift. It's gonna cost you, in more posts and in a photo op.
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Mavrix Able
Black Avatar
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Posted - 2007.09.16 10:59:00 -
[127]
Like others, I feel like joining the quire of praise. This is a simple yet very interesting story that ballances great on the knifes edge which cut between too much made up roleplay and a too distanced attitude. The immersion is complete without appearing fake.
I myself found me in a stabber after getting fed up with massive fleet battles, endless gatecamps and POS hugging I experienced for months in Querious. Roaming trough hostile space looking for easy targets whilst trying to dodge the unfavorable fights, really presented itself as a nice alternative facet of EVE.
-NWS/Mav
Vababonds are too expensive to be true vagabonds..
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Cyberflayer
Vagabonds Unincorporated
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Posted - 2007.09.16 16:30:00 -
[128]
Why hello there.
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Moto's Sig
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Alex V0X2
Minmatar
Royal Crimson Lancers
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Posted - 2007.09.16 17:18:00 -
[129]
oh my he's back :D
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Die Unknown
Amarr
New Age Solutions Amalgamated
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Posted - 2007.09.17 18:50:00 -
[130]
Bump! Hope you not forgotten your story
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Cyberflayer
Vagabonds Unincorporated
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Posted - 2007.09.18 02:25:00 -
[131]
Chapter Seven: Don't Afford What You Can't Lose To Flies
ISK Balance: 998,000.00
After obtaining a new Stabber and haphazardly bolting on some rudimentary Tech One gear, I was enjoying the relative calm of the Amarrian core systems when I noticed one of those convoys of NPC industrial ships lingering far from some station or another. Like the pests of the outside world, all players notice this common flavor of white overview cross, but discard the registery of their presence to the peripherial. They're just another thing to remove from the overview filters, like sentry guns or customs officials. Ever present, they're just another overlooked facet of a high security existence.
All of this made me want to shoot them very badly.
I've always had the sense convoys are one of those things that people accept as part of EVE without really realizing what they are or what they do. But I do know that they're one of those things that have special circumstances under which you can perforate their hulls with high-caliber projectiles.
So, with my brand new Stabber, I locked the hauler that was the most distant from the sentry guns, and activated my four standard issue 220mm Vulcans. I activated my warp distruptor as well, just for the hell of it.
Shortly after this decision, a blue flash lit up the surrounding space. It was not the blue flash from the hauler. Rather, I was in my pod, bobbing gently next to the twisted hulk of metal that looked nothing like the intact Stabber it was a moment ago.
The damned thing hadn't even earned a name yet, and it wasn't insured either.
Distraught and infuriated, I rushed past the sentry guns into the station, and undocked a moment later in an Ibis decked out for revenge.
Predictably, this ship was also turned into scrap by the same, much closer, sentry guns.
Fifteen minutes of impatience later, I undocked in a new Ibis and began hammering away at the hauler with my space-particle sucking civilian railgun. I grinned devilishly as my foe's shields began to dissolve and his blaster shots glanced off my own.
Despite the slow-going whittling of the hauler's defenses, I had not been shot to pieces yet, and I studied the ranges and angles of my attack for later use.
About an hour later, my Ibis picked over the largely disappointing remains, but I was content for I had discovered the magic of this particular set of game mechanics.
I contacted Amarria Black, who mentioned earlier in this thread getting me a new Stabber - something I decided I needed very badly at the moment. We struck up a conversation, and after a day-long bout of a strange take on in-game phone tag, I had bought myself a new Stabber and returned all 91,677.27 ISKs that remained of his prior generosity.
This particular Stabber, named Yggdrasil, even had some named modules nestled in next to those of the Tech One flavor, and it reminded me of the earlier days, when I was genuinely happy to have enough ISK to throw in such a minute luxury here or there, spending half a million instead of twenty thousand. I was glad to recapture a little bit of that simple joy.
After continued convoy bashing, one of which yielded me 220 units of Spirits - joy abounds - I angled northward again, for another go at that northernmost point. Determination filled me as I gritted my teeth for the second try through that chaotic region in which I had no friends. But the heartless nature of 0.0 beckons me.
Then, southward, to frolick like an annoying schoolchild in the midst of the massive fleets that dominate the southern front of the great war.
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Moto's Sig
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Sin Meng
Gallente
Knights Of the Black Sun
Rule of Three
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Posted - 2007.09.18 02:56:00 -
[132]
I like your words, they make me warm.
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Nyphur
Pillowsoft
Total Comfort
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Posted - 2007.09.18 03:00:00 -
[133]
 Originally by: Sin Meng
I like your words, they make me warm.
This sums up exactly what I wanted to say but couldn't. Keep it up :).
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xBANDWAGONx
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Posted - 2007.09.18 03:18:00 -
[134]
Edited by: xBANDWAGONx on 18/09/2007 03:23:45
just you all wait... a month or two of stories... then an IPO... then disappear...
did you run out of money?
someone knows what I'm talking about...
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kamuflajeettgellinteee
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Posted - 2007.09.18 12:19:00 -
[135]
I love your stories.
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Andrey Souldog
Gallente
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Posted - 2007.09.18 19:26:00 -
[136]
Man good to have you back.Cant wait for some more adventures.
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Cyberflayer
Vagabonds Unincorporated
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Posted - 2007.09.19 16:07:00 -
[137]
After a short arm-flailing rampage over the accidental deletion of a nearly-finished post, I settle down for another attempt.
Chapter Seven Beta: Milliway's and the Frigid North
After waking up at eight yesterday morning, I was overjoyed to find that downtime was to end in just thirty seconds. Leaping at this unexpected opportunity, I plotted the a westward-wheeling route I felt struck a nice balance between safety and speed. I rocketed through Empire space, and had broken through into the lawlessness of of no-security space - and into space claimed by the Fallen Souls alliance.
I checked the active pilots filter of my map obsessively, watching with concern as the one station system I had to brave began to glow a brighter yellow with each refreshing. I also surprised myself some by having the foresight to check the surrounding sovereignty, and was pleased to see that Fallen Souls was arranged in a narrow east-to-west strip, meaning I might be able to lose any pursuers by passing into a neighbor's territory where the predators might tread more warily.
I threw caution to the wind in favor of speed and warped straight through the station system, passing clean through Fallen Souls' space a few sparse minutes after triggering their perimeter alarms. Pleased with myself, I laid back to enjoy the dead silence of the rest of the trip. System after abandoned system flashed by, and a 50+ jump journey that had taken hours the first time through had taken but one hour. Yggdrasil and I idled at yet another edge of the galaxy with the aptly-named Milliway's to our back, and chatted with the locals.
This northermost system, interestingly enough, is owned by Mercenary Coalition. It shouldn't be a surprised they claim it as a Province, but it is to me since I'm so used to seeing them in action against strongholds in the south. It amuses me in the same way a tropical bird stranded in the Arctic amuses me. Unfortunately, this particular tropical bird is heavily armed and frequently displeased.
It's fitting, as I plan to head south next. After exploring the heavily fractured political nature of the north where the region flails wildly without the solidity Dusk and Dawn provided, I'm ready for the battlefield of the south where I hope to see some of the military giants that define EVE ramming into each other like rhinoceroses. One of my favorite systems, FAT-6P, has been heavily besieged - seems as good a place to start as any.
Best be getting underway now, shouldn't we?
Also, I'd like to thank Tassadar Beta for the advance payment on the next Stabber I'm going to need after I inevitably lose Yggdrasil. A small spark of an idea occured to me as I rolled the eleven million ISK around in my head, though. These ships that I take to the corners of the galaxy gather history and experiences as I fly them, just like any other pilot's ship, but then I feel as through I've lost that history with each ship's destruction. In the interest of preserving a bit of that lineage, perhaps someone who's interested might buy one of these ships and the smidgin of legend they've accumulated, and further my own journey by way of their patronage.
Just a thought, not one important enough to preclude the lure of the south.
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Moto's Sig
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wapko
The Ankou
The Reckoning.
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Posted - 2007.09.20 09:07:00 -
[138]
keep doing this :)
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Sparkius
Amarr
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Posted - 2007.09.20 16:01:00 -
[139]
I have enjoyed the read so far, and, assuming my memory is up to the task, will return to read of your continuing adventures.
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Hamfast
Gallente
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Posted - 2007.09.20 21:23:00 -
[140]
Welcome back and good luck
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It takes 43 muscles to frown and 17 to smile, but it doesn't take any to just sit there with a dumb look on your face.
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34534bobalt3244
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Posted - 2007.09.21 00:09:00 -
[141]
The original way you linked pics was better.
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Cpt Branko
The Bloody Red
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Posted - 2007.09.21 00:20:00 -
[142]
Very interesting stories, keep it up
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Lance Fighter
Amarr
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Posted - 2007.09.21 00:30:00 -
[143]
you again...
Awesome, as always. I don't like however you are linking the pics though...
Oh yea, and someone remind me to send you some isk, you look like you need some more than I do :)
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Bish Ounen
Gallente
Omni-Core Freedom Fighters
Combined Planetary Union
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Posted - 2007.09.21 01:29:00 -
[144]
Originally by: xBANDWAGONx
Edited by: xBANDWAGONx on 18/09/2007 03:23:45
just you all wait... a month or two of stories... then an IPO... then disappear...
did you run out of money?
someone knows what I'm talking about...
Yeah, we all know you're talking about Innomminate Nightmare. You do know he got killed in a car accident, right? Yeah, I thought so. Now stop being a stupid troll and just shut up and enjoy the good writing.
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Cyberflayer
Vagabonds Unincorporated
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Posted - 2007.09.21 02:18:00 -
[145]
I fixed the pictures. I had been doing them that way because it was faster than deleting the IMG tags that tinypic bookends the url with, but I hadn't realized it looked that bad. Also, I discovered the last version of the tinypic url given is the right url without the IMG tags. So it is all good now.
The tale of my southward journey swells, but it is far from worthy of an update just yet.
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Moto's Sig
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Garonis
Caldari
Caldari Provisions
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Posted - 2007.09.21 09:17:00 -
[146]
Great read! the reading makes me want to set out on a grand adventure as well, however, my writing sucks, so I will instead live vicariously through your story, instead. Best of luck!
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Heckelgruber
Quam Singulari
M. PIRE
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Posted - 2007.09.21 13:03:00 -
[147]
Fantastic Eve diary, very engagingly written. My favourite thread ever. Now bookmarked as "Voyage of the Cyberflayer".
Should you ever find yourself in dire need of a Stabber in order to continue your travels (which I suspect you won't) then please mail me.
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Strife Phoenix
Acerbus Vindictum
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Posted - 2007.09.21 13:45:00 -
[148]
Just found this thread. Livened up another boring day at work and I now look forward to getting home for another night in EVE more than ever.
Good work!
ACERBUS-VINDICTUM - Revelare Pecunia! |
John McDuff
Caldari
Jovian Labs
Kinetic Maelstrom Alliance
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Posted - 2007.09.21 14:17:00 -
[149]
Really enjoying your story. You should definately open up a blog!
CCP the man earned a sticky for a while dont you think?
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"Everyone speaks of my drinking, but never of my thirst"
Everyone can now start bowing down to me in an orderly fashion...
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EvilSoldier
Caldari
Sturmgrenadier Inc
R i s e
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Posted - 2007.09.21 14:37:00 -
[150]
Great read, very fun stuff. Keep it up!
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