
I'm not a pve'er normally. Rarely, in fact. However, I've recently found myself a bit low on funds. Rather than spend real life money for PLEX this time I thought I'd do some ratting to earn isk. Alas, I set forth to prosper and make my wallet blink to the positive.
It was a lovely, quiet morning in Vale of the Silent. Certainly the early morning hours were living up to the silent part. It wasn't too terribly boring running the Forsaken Hubs. I was making some cash and was happy about that.
As is common though, an orange popped in to local. An NC. dude who loves to try and kill ratters, miners, or whatever else he can. Dimitryy is his name. As is per the usual I aligned out and waited. D-scan, nothing. D-scan, a Cynabal. Hover over the warp button, get ready get ready, Cynabal comes out of warp blazing onto my overview and POW, I'm gone into warp. Whew!
Not being a well educated pilot in the art of pve I wasn't aware that most people run Forsaken hubs and if there is one on scan that's where gankers will head straight for. There was one- mine. It is possible one of the alliance mates in local, there was only one, had me cloaky scouted and is a rat bastard spy. That's a little game we're going to have to play to be able to say for sure yet. I'm watching you buddy, in case you're reading this.
Back inside the station now Dimitryy soon left local. Not being a pve go getter I was content to sit around and have a few more drinks whilst bullshitting to my corp mates who were also on comms. I honestly wasn't keeping track of time. It seemed to be a few minutes or so when Dimittryy came back in local for a brief few seconds or so then was gone again.
It may have been 15 minutes. It may have been an hour. I don't recall now. Suffice it to say somewhere between 10 and 30 minutes is a good guess before I undocked to go finish that hub that was so rudely interrupted.
No sooner did I catch Warp Drive Active - Shit! Can't cancel warp. Dimitryy pops into local. Every gut feeling I had was that he was in warp to the same hub. He may have even logged of in the hub. As sure as there is shit in a horse pasture there he was. 15 km off me when I landed. Yellow boxed, red boxed, tackled.
Fuck my life right? I rarely ever rat. And here goes my Tengu, up in smoke, I was thinking to myself. I was telling the guys on comms that this is it, I'm going to lose this Tengu ratting. Slicing my wrists in shame was a passing thought that I had. It isn't a decked out, super expensive, faction fit Tengu. It's just a Tech II fit Tengu with resists for ratting Guristas. EM resist? ZERO
My first instinct would be to fight. However, I know a pve ship with no EM resists is not going to beat a pvp fit ship. At least not a Cynabal.
It's a giant blur to be honest. The "oh fuck" thoughts for the first 2 seconds turn to "fuck it I'm going down fighting if I'm going to lose this Tengu". And that's exactly what I did. Instead of trying to run like a bitch-bear I locked up the Cynabal, and let loose on his shields. Overheat!
My shields melted, naturally. Fuck! This isn't even going to be close.
Come on, come on. At least get him into armor a decent amount.
I'll be honest here. I already had a few fair amount of drinks. I wasn't watching anything other than his damage being taken and the damage to my ship. I wasn't really flying it. I had accepted the fact that I was going to explode all over the system. At half armor on my ratting class Tengu the Cynabal's shields finally relented. I was hoping to at least take him to structure before I exploded.
Here's where things get a bit "I don't know what the fuck happened."
It seemed as though the damage that I was taking lessened greatly, if not stop. I may have been imaging that though.
Then the unbelievable. The Cynabal melted and exploded. I was at half armor when the Cynabal entered armor. It melted like a chocolate bar dropped on the thrust ports of the engine of my Tengu.
Holy shit. I can't believe it. I won! - screaming on comms.
No EM resists. No point. Just luck.
Dimitryy too was baffled. And a great sport. I'm still like WTF today.
This is by far the best kill I have ever gotten in the game to date, since 2008. A complete and utter shocker.
GF!
Comms from local:
Name: Local
Listener: Harrigan VonStudly
Session started: 2013.04.08 03:14:38
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[ 2013.04.08 05:31:14 ] Harrigan VonStudly > gj mate
[ 2013.04.08 05:31:46 ] Dimitryy > LOOOOL
[ 2013.04.08 05:31:48 ] Dimitryy > WAT
[ 2013.04.08 05:31:56 ] Dimitryy > GF
[ 2013.04.08 05:32:07 ] Harrigan VonStudly > pve tengu wins pvp cynabal
[ 2013.04.08 05:32:09 ] Harrigan VonStudly > gf
[ 2013.04.08 05:32:25 ] Harrigan VonStudly > dude that was a gf
[ 2013.04.08 05:32:34 ] Dimitryy > that was silly, i've killed tengus in ruptures before
[ 2013.04.08 05:32:49 ] Dimitryy > Kill: Kazthor (Tengu) Like yesterday
[ 2013.04.08 05:33:43 ] Dimitryy > Oh man, thats pretty fucking funny
[ 2013.04.08 05:33:52 ] Harrigan VonStudly > dude. that was fucking wild
[ 2013.04.08 05:34:18 ] Dimitryy > Wasn't even that much rat aggro on it
[ 2013.04.08 05:34:33 ] Dimitryy > oh well, such is life i guess
[ 2013.04.08 05:34:37 ] Dimitryy > gg =)



