Rapala Armiron
Shadowland Rangers
Nihilists Social Club
10
   |
Posted - 2014.07.07 13:55:00 -
[1] - Quote
I live in lowsec directly adjacent to a highsec ice mining system. I usually like to keep an eye on the ice belt for people can mining or using mtus. One day I notice that this guy has a hookbill that he takes out of his orca to shoot at the code guys that occasionally pop up in system. I decide that im going to try to bait him in my procurer.
So there I am flying around in my procurer flipping wrecks and acting nubby. Ofc the hookbill toon leaves system. Im a little annoyed but not deterred. I decide to keep baiting to see if anybody else will take the bait. After awhile an arzu pops up. I have a friend in a pair of logi on standby and after some discussion it is decided that I probably dont have enough dps to break the arzu, so I quickly dock up and grab some medium drones (I didnt know at this point that bandwidth limitations would only allow me to fly 2 mediums from a procurer - derp), a neut and a few other things for refit from my depot if the need should arise. I go back to the icebelt and of course the arzu pilot is now mining in a barge - damn!
Well the night is still young so I continue baiting. After some time my friend in the logi gets bored and decides to try a more direct approach. He grabs a battle badger and starts shooting at me. He scrams me and I scram him and we start going at it. Well this seems to do the trick. About two thirds of the ice belt 7-10 assorted barges unload with their drones on me. My friend immediately takes off to get his logi leaving me to tank the drones and pick targets. Well, I'm holding pretty well since despite their numbers their damage is fairly underwhelming. As I look at my potential targets, I notice amongst the barges is an orca. I quickly decide that I'm going for the orca and point and web him and start shooting him with my two medium hammers.
Meanwhile, Im still taking damage from the barges (as well as the orca's drones). I'm about a 1/3 into my shields when my friends scythes land on grid and immediately start repping me, going suspect in the process. Meanwhile another friend shows up in armor logi - why did we have mixed armor and shield logi - because of derp. Anyways they start repping my procurer as it slowly chews into the orca. After about 5-7 mins some bright watt in the barge fleet decides to go for my drones. This is where the mixed armor and shield logi actually paid off, since every cycle they were able to alpha the drones shields and cause a little armor damage. Without the armor rr, eventually they would have killed the drones, but with the armor rr on the field we were able to keep the both the procurer and the drones up.
After about 10 min or so, the barges give up and leave the field. However a few of the pilots return in a mixed bag of small combat ships and start shooting my procurer. However, these pilots are unable to break the rr. Shortly there after, my suspect timer runs out. Most of the combat pilots also give up leaving me and the orca alone to shoot it out. Why no one went for the rr directly I dont know.
I settle in for a long grind and start ask for ransom in local. The orca pilot is disdainful and states that he has back up on the way. Sure enough, the orca's alliance mates start showing up in a handful of small ships which they immediately suicide on my procurer for some reason or other.
Concord says no.
Concord punishes the wicked
After some more time, the orca pilot tries to play his own rr card by getting a guardian to remote rep him. By this time as there is no incoming dps on the procurer, since I killed the orcas drones and the rest of his fleet has bailed, the rr have ceased repping and let their suspect timers run out. So the only suspect on the field is the guardian. The guardian keeps bouncing around warping in and throwing a few reps then warping out. Truth be told - he wasnt doing enough rr to keep the orca up - only prolonging the slow grind, but anyway my friends decide to go for him. One reships to a strat and tries to land on him but the guardian keeps switching locations too quickly for the strat to get into position. Well after a couple of tries my other friend realizes that he has a lachises in system and grabs that. He lands the lachises at zero on the orca and waits thinking that, the mere presents of the lachises will keep the guardian away. Well I guess they dont teach their logi pilots "ship identification" in this particular alliance because all of a sudden there the guardian is again. The guardian is pointed and quickly goes boom.
After the guardians dies, the orca pilot opens a convo and offers to pay the ransom, but instead of the 600mil I ask for he only gives me 10mil. Naturally I therefore continue the grind. At this point I have used my depot and have 2 mediums and a single light drone grinding away and a small neut in play as well.
Finally a full 50 mins later (30 of which we were suspect) the orca succumbs to the power of my procurer of doom.
The full tally in damage is about 900mil isk between the guardian, orca and the suicided ships. Now that is going to take alot of ice mining to replace.
Even funnier is that this kill spawned two troll threads with some very comical responses.
Orca troll thread
Orca troll thread pt 1
All in all, was fun, would do again. |