Happy Birthday Jack Dancer!

One month old today!

Black Rebel Rifter Club

I joined the Black Rebel Rifter Club today.  Seems like exactly the sort of group I'm looking for.

• Rifter pilots.  Check!  
• Encourage solo PvP with few strings attached or additional responsibilities.  Check!  
• Friendly. Check!
• Willing to admit me to the club!**  Check!  

What more can a person ask?  Check us out if you're interested in finding a Rifter/Solo Piracy corporation.  Here's some background information:

Rifter hull enthusiasts.  Unwashed beards, grease, silver sunglasses, long beaded hair or shaved heads, tribal faces, armpits, earrings, chain whips, pistols and stripped-down Rifter hulls passing in formation like a burst of dirty thunder. It's Black Rebel time, baby!

Low-sec pvp, high-sec harassment and war-decs, espionage and infiltration, null-sec and wormhole expeditions, bar fights and ganks.

Recruitment is by invite or vouch only. Join public channel >> The Autocannon

• Spare drive chain parts from the Rifter's deadly autocannons have been known to be stripped down and used as 'belts' on the Rebels' clothing . . . Always at hand when a bar fight turns ugly. - - Gallente Police Training Manual.

• How they manage to do it? Last I heard they are drinking their beer from unrinsed mindflood flasks. Interesting idea come to think of it. You selling some? - Unkown Roden Shipyards welder, Egghelende.

• How did the Rebels grow to be such disliked hell-raisers? Easy, they worked overtime at being crafty, cruel and cowardly. - Serpentis chemical plant worker.

Weird Haul Found at Gang's Hideout.Four coffins, two electronic grave markers and Thukker tribe emblems were found Saturday in the headquarters of a notorious frigate flying gang where three members were arrested on narcotics charges.

The residence also contained a throne chair five feet tall, a stuffed owl, an Amarrian beheading sword and assorted frigate trophies and memorabilia. - Excerpt from a weekly news report on New Eden's known criminal gangs.

** "I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT PEOPLE LIKE ME AS A MEMBER" - Groucho Marx

Ransom Script

From a thread on Flight of Dragons came the idea of having the victim name the ransom.  Here's the script I hope to (someday!) use...

Greetings!  Interested in paying a ransom to get out of this spot with your ship in one piece?  Stop your engines, stop shooting, recall any drones, and deactivate all of your modules.  I will make you a very fair offer.

Here’s the deal.  You can make me ONE offer of a ransom amount - you know how much your ship is worth to you - and if I like your offer then you pay me and you are free to go.  If I don’t think it is enough, then I will continue with the rain of destruction, I will destroy your ship and I will attempt to capture your pod.  You can only make ONE offer. 

I will not tell you how much I think is enough, there is no bargaining, no discussion, and I will NOT make a counter-offer.  I will either take your offer or destroy your ship (NOT both!).  You have 30 seconds to make your offer from right now. 

If your guns or modules (especially your armor repper!) operate during the 30 second period then the deal is off and I start shooting.

Roamin' and Schoolin'

I roamed around with bad intentions again last night hoping to lose a ship or two (it's definitely time that I had that experience and something I need to get used to) - but had no luck finding anything less than a battlecruiser-size opponent.  That seemed like just too easy of a way to lose a ship, so I passed...  There seems to be a real absence of reasonable targets in low-sec (something that I had read about on blogs by other frigate PvPers) - several systems were totally empty and others had just one or two occupants (often resting in stations).

I also finished training Science to level IV so that I could train Thermodynamics (it's now at III).  And now I'm again back to training Small Projectile Turret V - two more days to go on that one.  Then Electronics to V (I think that might be a 4 day training period).

HALLO, CAN I VIOLENCE UR BOAT?

Best Eve Blog Ever!!!  http://ladyshaniqua.blogspot.com/

There's a link over on the right - hopefully Lady Shaniqua will continue to post these amazingly fun tales...

Jack Dancer - Millionaire

Sometime during the night Jack Dancer passed the million skill point mark.  Still young, but getting older...

WOW!

New video card (nothing special - Evga GeForce GT 430 1 GB DDR3 PCI-Express 2.0 Graphics Card) + new 23" monitor (a flat screen replacing my ancient 17" monster) = WOW!  It's like playing an entirely different game!