End It With A Bang

The New Year is upon us! And before we begin another year in New Eden, I had to hop in my Rifter and get some end of the year fights!

Ishomilken
Ishomilken has proven fruitful in fights. This was one of those nights. Right off the undock, d-scan showed two Firetails at the same novice plex. Gonna grab something with a bit more oomph! I docked up, hopped into my Comet and warped off to the plex. The pair of Firetails were still there. It was weird not flying a Rifter; when I fly something else to shake things up, I have a tendency to think throughout the fight "Oh if I had a Rifter I'd do this!" so adjusting is a bit difficult. I'm just set in my ways I guess!

I land on grid and was greeted by the sounds of battle. I lock up the closest Firetail, scram web and fire the blasters! Oh yea I have drones! I let the little guys loose as my blasters tear apart the Firetail. Man these things pack a punch! The other Firetail had broke off and warped away, leaving me and the faction frigate alone to our dance. My blasters were ripping into his armor as the drones followed up with their guns. The Firetail was in deep armor already taking damage into his hull when his reps kicked in. The neut hit me and his autocannons were hitting my armor but I was tanking it comfortably. It was too little too late for this pilot. The blasters fired a few more volleys to explode the ship. Man this Comet! I was impressed with the amount of damage these blasters could do! I looted 'n scooted and docked up to repair. The other Firetail was still in space, so I switched into a Firetail of my own and met him at the novice.

I landed my webs and point on him and went in for my close orbit, but I was moving at a snails pace. I looked at my speed and saw I was dual webbed as well just as my frigate was rocked by a huge volley. Arty. Ah man! I began my evasive maneuvers as another round of artillery blasted through my shields and sent me into half armor. My plan at this point was to rely on my reps long enough to get me outside scram range and warp off, he had range on me and although I was hitting him with my autocannons, I was outgunned in this fight. 8,000 meters, 8,500 ... c'mon! At around 9,500 meters I spammed warp. I was choking out enough reps to keep my smoking and flaming Firetail together, and to my dismay I saw him closing in. You fought well my dear Firetail. You fought well. I threw a gf in local and docked up to hop into my Comet. It's a fight in Isho gentlemen! A couple minutes passed and I saw his Firetail back on d-scan. I waited outside the novice as he landed on grid. I spammed target lock and just as I was about to point him he warped off to a different plex. I chased him and he warped back to the novice as I landed on grid. Damn! The battle was now in his favor as he would be inside the plex at a favorable range for his arty's, meaning I'd have to work a bit harder to get my blasters on his ship. I took the gate and he was about 2,000 meters away. I land my scram, web and fire away. The dual webs hold me down nice and steady as he glides to a comfortable range outside my blasters. Now remember when I mentioned I have a tendency to revert to my Rifter skills/knowledge when I fly a different ship? Well I did exactly that, except times ten and with a dose of panic. I activated my reps when I was at half shields, wasting a precious amount of cycles. I continued to fire at him with anti-matter ammo, forgetting I had null in my cargo hold. I aligned to the sun and immediately began to evade, not even attempting to launch my drones. I lost my shit!

The Comet was tanking his arty volleys for a good while. When I broke out of my funk, I loaded Null and launched my drones but continued to align towards the sun. My SAAR was pumping out empty reps, but my hull was tanking very well to my surprise. The Null ammo switch had worked and my blasters were reaching out far enough to blast his ship and bring him into hull as well. Oh shit! The life in my hull was keeping me in the fight as his reppers patched up his armor. He was doing the hull/armor dance and my structure was holding strong. My blasters landed a solid blow and he joined me in deep hull. Oh man! OH MAN!! I was staying in the fight by a sliver of hull left, but me losing my shit early on cost me dearly in the later rounds. Gf!! I warped off in my pod as we chatted a bit in local:

[ 2015.12.31 07:15:51 ] Sem Skord > wow gf
[ 2015.12.31 07:16:05 ] Cosmoseal > very gf
[ 2015.12.31 07:16:23 ] Sem Skord > i burnt out all my mods
[ 2015.12.31 07:16:26 ] Sem Skord > wasted my reps
[ 2015.12.31 07:16:32 ] Sem Skord > didnt switch to null till late in the fight
[ 2015.12.31 07:16:51 ] Cosmoseal > was close
[ 2015.12.31 07:17:00 ] Sem Skord > yea
[ 2015.12.31 07:17:04 ] Cosmoseal > befor i forgot to reload my reper ^^
[ 2015.12.31 07:17:40 ] Sem Skord > haha
[ 2015.12.31 07:17:43 ] Sem Skord > well
[ 2015.12.31 07:17:46 ] Sem Skord > gf anyway man
[ 2015.12.31 07:17:54 ] Cosmoseal > u to
[ 2015.12.31 07:21:03 ] Cosmoseal > ^^

I learned a lot from that fight, and that's the key! Gotta learn something from each loss and victory to improve. Thank you Cosmoseal. I had no more faction frigs and hopped into a Rifter to see if I could do something against his Firetail, but I met the same fate even faster. Alright! Time to head outside of Isho and get some kills to end the night on a good note!

On the road again!

Uuna
One system over in Uuna, d-scan showed a Tormentor and an Executioner at a novice plex. It's been a while since I had a nice 2v1, so I overheated everything, loaded my Fusion bullets and Nova rockets, and warped to the plex. I began to go over a plan of attack in my head. Tormentor has drones, Executioner doesn't. Shoot Torm first, then Executioner. Sounds good! Both frigates were waiting for me right on the beacon as I locked up the Tormentor and charged straight at it firing everything. As my guns broke his shields, I was locked and scrammed and webbed by both parties. Lasers and drones began to redecorate my hull as I zig zagged towards the Tormentor to give my autocannons a chance to do their holy work. The Torm was in half armor as my shields broke. I activated my reps and continued my attack. The Tormentor pilot was gaining range on me but he was in deep armor! My tank was keeping me in the fight but the lasers and drones had me at half armor. The Tormentor continued to gain range as my autocannons brought him into structure. I was now into structure with a couple nanite reps left, so I made up my mind to take this Tormentor down with me! I cut my zig zag and went into a straight approach towards the Torm bringing him into a sliver of hull left as he choked out his last rep! I coughed out my last rep in hull as his Torm exploded! Oh shit! The Executioner was still nearby shooting at me, and I wasn't out of the fight yet. All my modules were close to burning out, I switched my fire to the last Amarr frigate and within a few volleys he was in half armor! I had about 1/4 of my hull left as my afterburner burnt out. Keep firing! Keep FIRING! Another volley sent him into deep armor, and Saint Wensley of Rifters was with me this day, as another volley exploded the Executioner. Oh man! Oh man! Gf! GF! I was psyched! During the fight I was calm and my nerves were steady, after the fight the shakes took a hold of me and my heart was racing! My heart's beating, my hearts beating MY HANDS ARE SHAKING!

I looted the field, returned a system over to Isho to rearm and repair. I went back over to Uuna and saw a Tristan on scan. My autocannons were spinning and my rocket launchers were ready to fly. Forgive me because I didn't record this fight and I don't recall much detail except he got outside my scram range in the beginning and pulled range forcing me to align to sun and take out his drones. As I was working on the last couple drones, with a couple nanite reps left and my Rifter in half armor, the Tristan went in for his kamikazee charge and began to neut me. I said screw the drones and focused everything on the Tristan! With some hull life left, and the help of Saint Wensley (blessed be thy name), I exploded the Tristan. Gf! Loot 'n scoot, to Isho rep and rearm, head back out!

Manjonakko
At one point in the night, an old friend returned from the abyss.

Darth Terona. The Blood Red Wolf.

Former CEO Darth Terona was back! Him and I go way back as Black Dragons, earning our Black Jackets and climbing up the ranks to run the corp. Darth did a lot for R1FTA to keep us alive in our dark days.

The Executioner and Tormentor pilots I encountered earlier were flying a Coercer and Tormentor. I asked Darth if he wanted to join and I followed them as he caught up. The duo met up with some friends, a Thrasher and a Catalyst. Ehhh .. gonna need a bigger boat. That's when R1FTA Vice Prez Amand graced us with his pretty mug!

And another Black Jacket logged in as well.

The Astero Pirate.

Nyar Darkfire, Amand, and Darth! A nice four on four! We were in different parts of Black Rise but were burning to my system to take down this gang. After some chasing and baiting up and down the Isho pipe, the Destroyer gang went back to Manjo to a novice plex. Darth and Amand had entered system as I landed on grid and took the gate, so we could gather ourselves. I checked short scan, and the gang had got Amand's Rifter. Damn! Darth made it inside as we waited for Nyar to arrive with his Jackdaw a couple jumps out. Amand went back to Isho to reship. The Destroyers were still outside, and that's when a Stay Frosty, Ciba Lexlulu, landed with his Svipul. Darkfire had just entered system and warped to our position. It's about to be a fight. The destroyer gang had warped off all save for one who got caught. Darth and I warped to a nearby celestial to get on grid with the fight outside the plex. I landed on grid just as the Nyar and the Svipul were duking it out in their T3 Destroyers. Alright, we got this. I fired away and began to work on his shields, that's when Nyar exploded. What the!! He had mentioned it wasn't a pvp fit but we weren't expecting a Svipul to show up. I held point waiting for Darth to arrive with his Rifter. I aligned towards the sun as my armor began to take damage and the Svipul's shielding were at half strength. Darth's Rifter landed on grid. My Rifter was about to go boom as I got outside scram range and warped towards the sun with Ciba at low shields. Hold on Darth! I'm coming back! I landed at the sun and immediately warped back towards the novice plex where Darth was holding down the Svipul. I landed on grid and fired away. In those seconds I was warping back and forth, Darth's Rifter had taken a lot of damage. His Rifter exploded valiantly. I held point and kept shooting, we were almost through his shields! I activated my reps to time his guns breaking through my armor, tightened down the strap on my helmet, and braced for impact. The Svipul's autocannons were peppering my hull but I was holding. My guns returned the fire as he was in the very last slivers of his shield.  Cmon baby! Cmon! I saw another Rifter on short scan. It was Amand. The Cavalry was coming! My last two nanite reps patched up my armor as the Frostian's shields fell! Amand landed on grid and I began to pull range to get outside the autocannon's falloff. I got out to 15km, projectiles zooming past my Rifter as Amand's Rifter tore up the Svipul's armor. I circled back around to help Amand finish off Ciba. His armor was falling apart and shortly he entered hull. In one glorious explosion, the Svipul was a smoking wreck in Manjo. Oh man! GF! We've encountered Stay Frosty from time to time and they always give a good fight. Be on your stuff when you fight them!

[ 2015.12.31 08:31:09 ] Ciba Lexlulu > gf

[ 2015.12.31 08:31:12 ] Sem Skord > gf

[ 2015.12.31 08:31:13 ] Darth Terona > gf gf

[ 2015.12.31 08:31:21 ] Amand Caldurik > gf

[ 2015.12.31 08:31:36 ] Ciba Lexlulu > very nice guys

[ 2015.12.31 08:31:48 ] Darth Terona > that was some tank :)

[ 2015.12.31 08:32:05 ] Ciba Lexlulu > actually i burned one of my extender

[ 2015.12.31 08:32:52 ] Sem Skord > took two of us with ya man

[ 2015.12.31 08:32:58 ] Ciba Lexlulu > Kill: Ciba Lexlulu (Svipul)

[ 2015.12.31 08:32:59 ] Sem Skord > thumbs up :)

[ 2015.12.31 08:33:04 ] Ciba Lexlulu > i jackdaw with you?

[ 2015.12.31 08:33:07 ] Sem Skord > aye :)

[ 2015.12.31 08:33:12 ] Ciba Lexlulu > ah

[ 2015.12.31 08:33:23 ] Ciba Lexlulu > gf gf

[ 2015.12.31 08:34:03 ] Nyar DarkFire > gf

BAH GAWD! High octane adrenaline pumping action tonight! We looted the field and handed back the loot to my fellow Black Jackets as I headed back to Isho for the night. Most fun I had in a good while :) Looking forward to 2016 for more explosions, more adrenaline, and of course, more good fights.

CONCORD is on! 

R1FTA Roam

R1FTA Roam!

Every now and then our trigger happy merry band of solo frigate pilots get together in the name of comradery and explosions, to spread our special flavor of love throughout low sec! Sometimes our roams end in a blaze of glory with wrecks left in our wake. Other times we wade through our own wrecks as we push on looking for another thing to shoot. Either way, we have fun shooting shit and hanging out. Our most recent roam proved to be VERY fruitful!


On the Hunt
Three of us were in Rifters, and our scout was in a Firetail. It was a good bunch! Our newest Black Jacket:                                                                                                                                   

Phontis Uta was in a Rifter ready to roll! 

Veteran Black Jacket ThunderaceNL, always a blast to fly with him!

And R1FTA's very own Vice Prez, Amand Caldurik!

And the fourth Black Jacket was myself, also FC'in this small band of outlaws. Target? Anything we deemed worthy of the Holy R1FTA's 200mm Autocannon Blessing! 

Since it was the weekend, and from prior roams in the area, we expected many gate camps and many big gangs to be out for blood as well. We undocked into the cold embrace of space and began our roam. We burned straight through Heydeiles because that system was always crowded. Full of Russians and links. We leap frogged our way along the route, scout enters first while the gang holds on the gate as he searches for targets. If we don't find anything, scout pushes on into the next system as we enter and hold on THAT gate. Twenty minutes in and no fights. We begin to chit chat on comms as we continue our leap froggin', when Amand reports a lone Catalyst in system sitting at a plex. Let's do it! We lay down a plan of attack (point it, scream, and we'll come to the rescue), eagerly gather around the gate as we wait for the word from our scout. Point! Go! Go! Go! Like a pack of hungry wolves we enter the system and warp to Amand to help him bring down the destroyer (or big moose for the purpose of the analogy). We circle the Catalyst and unleash our beautiful barrage of projectiles and rockets as the prey succumbs to its wounds. Amand reports he's real low so I tell him we got this bad boy and to warp out if he needs to. The Catalyst will not take one down with him as he exploded. Woot!! Gf! Good catch! Off to a good start! We hold his pod and hold back the blood lust just in time to make sure our brave tackle and scout gets in on the pod kill. The Catalyst pilot wanted to be sent on his way.

[ 2015.12.12 19:21:43 ] Sem Skord > gf
[ 2015.12.12 19:21:47 ] shwing shwing > gf
[ 2015.12.12 19:21:51 ] Phontis Uta > gf
[ 2015.12.12 19:21:55 ] ThunderaceNL > gf
[ 2015.12.12 19:22:12 ] shwing shwing > express?
[ 2015.12.12 19:22:15 ] Sem Skord > waiting for a friend
[ 2015.12.12 19:22:16 ] Sem Skord > 1 moment

Shwing shwing took the express home. I collected his corpse and gathered the loot, dropped it off in a station and repaired. The rest of the gang repaired and shortly after we were ready to rock 'n roll. We continued our leap frog along our route. Sam Sobati met up with us on the move as a fellow Black Jacket had something to share with us about the Catalyst we just exploded.

[ 2015.12.12 19:35:46 ] Vincent II > Kill: shwing shwing (Catalyst)  saw you guys kill him on twitch <3
[ 2015.12.12 19:36:10 ] ThunderaceNL > nice
[ 2015.12.12 19:36:14 ] Sem Skord > <3
[ 2015.12.12 19:36:31 ] Sem Skord > did he rage??
[ 2015.12.12 19:36:34 ] Sem Skord > what did he say!?
[ 2015.12.12 19:36:36 ] Sem Skord > DETAILS!
[ 2015.12.12 19:36:40 ] Sam Sobati > NOW
[ 2015.12.12 19:36:53 ] Vincent II > little bit when you were all whoring on the pod :)
[ 2015.12.12 19:37:07 ] Vincent II > and whne the RFF warped out :)
[ 2015.12.12 19:37:14 ] Sam Sobati > HAHAHA
[ 2015.12.12 19:37:16 ] Sem Skord > lol
[ 2015.12.12 19:37:20 ] Sem Skord > thats awesome
[ 2015.12.12 19:37:55 ] Vincent II > i wouldnt have even noticed untill he was like "devils tatoo hmmm"
[ 2015.12.12 19:38:06 ] Sem Skord > <3

We were having a good laugh about the ordeal, not a bad way for a bunch of frigate junkies to get a bit of free public advertisement *smile* We continued our roam as Vincent came up with a brilliant idea.

[ 2015.12.12 19:40:48 ] Vincent II > time to stream snipe his vexor i think
[ 2015.12.12 19:41:10 ] Sem Skord > lol
[ 2015.12.12 19:41:24 ] Sem Skord > wheres his vexor?
[ 2015.12.12 19:41:26 ] Sem Skord > whats his fit?
[ 2015.12.12 19:41:42 ] Vincent II > standard dual rep blaster fit
[ 2015.12.12 19:41:54 ] Vincent II > in vey just now
[ 2015.12.12 19:42:35 ] Sem Skord > beautiful we're en route

Oh EVE! You just continue to provide! Five Black Jackets, one Vexor. His drones would have to go first, and as long as he wasn't dual webbed or had a neut fitted, our frigs can circle him and get under his guns as we take out the drones. Simple plan. We did a hard U-Turn as Vey was the opposite direction we were heading.

Leap frogging went out the window as we roared through systems discussing a plan of attack and the .. ahem .. intel our agents in the field reported. Vincent was keeping us posted on the whereabouts of our Vexor friend. We passed through Vey and into Frarie, and we saw Schwing schwing in local. We spread out to look for him, shortly after Amand reported the Vexor on the Moclimund gate. With the expanded grid we could see the Vexor on the nearby gate 12,000 something km away. The gang warped to catch him, but schwing schwing had the same idea and warped to us! Fortunately Sam Sobati in his Punisher stayed behind in an attempt to get him to aggress and hold him down for us. From the distance we heard the guns rumbling and Sam inform us over comms that he returned fire. No jumping the gate for this guy now! He's ours! Immediately we warped to Sam and swarmed the Vexor. Our guns focused on the hull since there was no enemy drones out on grid and his shields were falling fast. Finally the drones came out on grid and we switched fire to it. As we began working on the drones, we noticed his armor was taking huge hits. Someone suggested we switch back to the Vexor since he was crumbling under the combined might of our 200mm's. Primary Vexor! The switch worked as the Vexor was in deep armor without a single rep. Our frigates were too fast and too accurate for his cruiser as we riddled the hull with bullets, rockets, and lasers. The Vexor began to choke out reps, but our guns were overwhelming its tank. In one glorious explosion, the cruiser became a smoldering wreck in space. R1FTA VICTOR! We whooped and cheered on comms, congratulating each other and thanking Sam for being alone and unafraid with his Punisher to hold him down. We pointed his pod, made sure everyone was on it, and sent him on his way.


[ 2015.12.12 19:49:43 ] Sem Skord > vincent
[ 2015.12.12 19:49:45 ] Sem Skord > the tears
[ 2015.12.12 19:49:48 ] Sem Skord > report the tears! :)
[ 2015.12.12 19:51:25 ] Amand Caldurik > Vincent II is he saying anything?
[ 2015.12.12 19:51:51 ] Sam Sobati > http://www.twitch.tv/shwing_shwing
[ 2015.12.12 19:52:08 ] Vincent II > ah fuck i ran afk i dunno hes gone offline
[ 2015.12.12 19:52:18 ] Sam Sobati > \o/
[ 2015.12.12 19:52:25 ] Sam Sobati > Kill: shwing shwing (Capsule)
[ 2015.12.12 19:52:34 ] Phontis Uta > Kill: shwing shwing (Vexor)
[ 2015.12.12 19:52:59 ] Vincent II > <3
[ 2015.12.12 19:53:05 ] Sem Skord > we got 'em lol
[ 2015.12.12 19:53:49 ] Vincent II > I'll keep an eye on twitch and see if it uploads the highlights
[ 2015.12.12 19:55:37 ] Vincent II > how the fuck didnt he kill any of you?
[ 2015.12.12 19:55:49 ] Sem Skord > his tank didnt hold up at a ll

I don't know if one of us should've died, or all of us, but I know we all survived and took him down R1FTA style. We docked up to repair the heat damage, reload our weapons and drop off loot. We returned to our leap frog method and our scout reported nothing but a cyno. Oh yes! Gotta do the Lord's work! We entered the system and warped to the cyno. As we got into position I informed Phontis on the art of the bounce and what to do in order to avoid death via sentry guns. Once we were in position, we counted down from three. Two. One. Fire! The cyno was blapped as we left another smoldering wreck in our wake. Love doing these drive-by's!

The gang set off to our next system, and we parked our frigates on the gate as our scout entered to take a look around. Algos at a plex. Let's do it! Algos are a tough mofo to fight, but I felt confident with the five of us we'll be fine. Amand gave the word and we jumped into system and burned towards him, knowing he didn't have much time. We landed on grid and were greeted by the sounds of battle. Our band of Black Jackets fired away as we swarmed the Algos. This moose was putting up a fight! Short scan revealed another Algos outside the gate. Uh oh. To make matters worse, Nuke Cave entered system, flashy. Oh man! Slicer on short now. We punched through the destroyer's armor as Amand called out he was going down. I told him if he needed to get out go for it since we had multiple points on the Algos. The moose was in deep hull as our barrage of guns slowly but surely punched through. Slivers of structure were left on the Algos as Amand's Firetail exploded, but the Algos followed suit moments after. Woot! We got him! We held position around the beacon waiting for the Algos and Nuke's Slicer to enter. Seconds ticked away as we waited, guns at the ready. A few more seconds. Short scan clear. Phew! I gathered the loot from Amand's Firetail and the Algos, docked up to where he was and gave him all the loot. I congratulated him for the hero tackle.

Alas I had to leave my comrades in arms! RL duties were calling! It was a very successful roam and one I was proud to FC and be a part of. Amand agreed to take over as FC and continue fighting the good fight. Later in the day, I was delighted to see that more explosions were caused. Two Thorax's!! And their pods! Bah GAWD! I love these guys!

We found the twitch stream with footage of the Catalyst and Vexor's fight from the receiving end!

http://www.twitch.tv/shwing_shwing/v/29566561
2:48:55 - 2:51:15 is the Catalyst
3:14:48 - 3:17:10 is the Vexor fight.

Till next time! Happy Hunting o7

Dance with the Devils

Ishomilken! For a few months now Black Rebel Rifter Club has called this place home. We wasted no time in ... introducing ourselves throughout the neighborhood. Now we're all settled in and making the most out of what this region has to offer. I had some time to kill before I had to pickup my kid from school, so I hopped in my Rifter and undocked.


Mushikegi

When we first arrived, it took a while for me to get familiar with the region. Which systems led where, where the gate camps usually sit, which systems had the most potential for finding fights, all that good stuff. Basically I had to know the new neighborhood.



My usual route for a quick hunt is the pipe from Isho to Manjo, which led to the constellation of Kunala. That small cluster of systems allowed for a circular route back to Isho that usually yielded a couple fights. A fellow Black Jacket, kage Huren  was looking for trouble as well. It's been a while since we've seen each other so I was excited as we exchanged greetings. One of our Prospects, Samadhi Amarata also logged on and we chatted as I roamed around. A couple jumps in I entered Mushikegi and saw a Tristan and an Incursus at a novice.


Sem Skord > hey
Sem Skord > trist and incursus at a nov in  Mushikegi
Samadhi Amarata > sorry, was reshipping - no I lost to a Tristan and ... I think a Kestrel and something else
Sem Skord > anyone nearby?
kage Huren > 1j

I aligned to the novice, loaded my nice shiny Republic Fleet Fusion ammo and Caldari Navy Rockets, and overheated everything.

I started listing the possible ways that Tristan would be fit. Long range, MWD, with rail guns? Long range with no rails? Brawling with neuts? Shield? Armor? Tristans are very versatile, but like the 'ol saying goes, "If it bleeds .. We can kill it.".

kage Huren > incursus dual rep, try to burn it?
Sem Skord > if trist is close range go for that first
kage Huren > iw
Sem Skord > if its kiting, hold the incursus and blap drones of trist

My though process behind this was the Tristan would be the most threatening and lethal since it can project its firepower from long range or close range. The Incursus is a slow frigate and a single web would allow us to operate outside its blaster range as we dealt with whatever the Tristan threw at us. Here we go!

[ 2015.12.02 22:13:44 ] kage Huren > incursus alone
[ 2015.12.02 22:13:46 ] kage Huren > 60k off
[ 2015.12.02 22:13:49 ] Sem Skord > damn

Kage hauled ass towards the Incursus. Moments later the sounds of lasers and blasters greeted my ears as my slow Rifter hobbled over to catch up and join the fight. I checked D-Scan to see if the Tristan would return.

[ 2015.12.02 22:14:05 ] Sem Skord > dd on short
[ 2015.12.02 22:14:07 ] Sem Skord > come to beacon
[ 2015.12.02 22:14:19 ] kage Huren > omw

I was 20km from the beacon when I slammed Ctrl+Space to stop my Rifter and burn back towards the warp in to catch that Daredevil. Kage made it before me with his speedy Tormentor. The Daredevil warped in and the shakes punched me in the stomach. He was about 5,000 meters from me as I landed my point and web and let loose with my barrage of bullets and rockets. I orbited him outside blaster range to give me some breathing room as his shields fell. Kage was zooming around the Daredevil firing away with his lasers as the pirate frig yellow boxed me. His blasters missed my Rifter as a Black Jacket assault of projectiles, rockets and lasers blasted him into half armor. The Incursus was 38km away closing in. Oh shit! My heart beat was up, my hands were trembling and I think I wasn't breathing for a bit. Another devastating volley ripped through his armor as his hull began to take damage. The Daredevil choked out a shield and armor rep as his structure was being redecorated. The Incursus was 27km away and began to lock me up. Some desperate shots from the DD's blasters landed but my shields were holding up. Almost there! Almost there! The Daredevil continued to rep, but our fury and relentlessness was too much. Wooo!!  I scrambled to target his pod as the Incursus drew closer at 18km but he managed to escape. I locked up the Incursus at 13km and burned towards him as Kage blasted through his shields with a volley. Before I could get my guns on him Kage's lasers were landing big hits putting our target into half armor. When my guns finally began firing the Incursus was already into structure and falling apart. My Rifter was being hit with some solid shots but my tank held comfortably. All of a sudden the smoking and flaming Incursus repped its armor back to full with 1/4 of its structure left! The gunfire continued and it overwhelmed the frigate in a satisfying explosion. Oh my goodness! The shakes! 2v2 Frigate action! R1FTA Victor!

The celebration was short lived as short scan showed some visitors outside the plex.

Sem Skord > dramiel on scan
Sem Skord > on short
Sem Skord > beacon
kage Huren > heres hoping
Sem Skord > beacon
Sem Skord > dram

The fights had moved us away from the beacon a bit. After Kage collected the loot off the battlefield we burned back towards the warp in and waited. The autocannons were still smokin' but spinning with bad intentions. Our Tristan from earlier appeared on short too. I began to think about evading as the Dramiel and Tristan might be a bit too much, but Kage .. the Crazy Englishmen settled my nerves with one command.

Keep calm, and stay!

kage Huren > stay

I stayed. Moments turned into seconds, and the duo still hadn't warped in. I checked short scan again.

Sem Skord > get out
Sem Skord > daredevil on scan too
Sem Skord > Daredevil, DD and trist on short

Needless to say we got out of there as local went up by three or four people. But something had possessed the Englishman. The lust for explosions and twisted metal? The thrill of emerging victorious after a 2v2?

Sem Skord > you out?
kage Huren > yeah
Sem Skord > nice
Sem Skord > local went up a bit as well
kage Huren > we can do this

I'm not gonna let a fellow Black Jacket fight alone!

Sem Skord > let me reload my SAAR
kage Huren > warp novice at 100km
kage Huren > when ready
Sem Skord > kk
kage Huren > hopefully drag them out some
Sem Skord > alright

My SAAR was loaded and ready to go, and we warped to the novice. The three from earlier weren't there but were still on long scan. A few moments went by and the group was replaced by a couple of Firetails in system. We sat and watched 100km away as a Firetail landed on the gate. I was unable to eye ball the guns on his ship as he warped into the plex. Shortly after a Daredevil landed at the same distance. He warped off to a large which was empty. We gave chase, but he warped back to the Novice. We turned around and went back but he escaped our grasps. Kage and I entered the novice, and we didn't have to wait long when a Firetail appeared on short.

Sem Skord > firetail short
kage Huren > sliding in

I still had Fusion loaded as the Firetail entered the plex. I figured with Kage's lasers, his shields wouldn't put up much of a fight and in case the Tristan or other pair of pirate frigs show up I'll have the proper ammo loaded and ready to rock. Kage and I locked up the Firetail and fired away. Our volleys penetrated his shield and tore apart his armor, but his shield reps kicked in as his structure began to take damage. His fire focused on me, but my shields were holding. Our gunfire was overwhelming his shield tank.

Sem Skord > DD short
kage Huren > dd short

The Firetail was putting up a stubborn fight, but it exploded just as the Daredevil warped in. The shakes came back again as we turned our fury to the pirate frig. Within two or three volleys the Daredevil had lost its shields AND its armor. It was melting under the barrage of bullets and lasers. The Daredevil wasn't able to get a single rep off as it sat there and exploded. What!!? The shakes continued to hold me as we sat there in Mushi victorious. The smoldering wrecks of our enemies hovered around us. Corp chat was something like this:

Sem Skord > kage, good shit bro :)
kage Huren > my cargos full loot
Sem Skord > lets go drop it off in isho
kage Huren > I didnt even need to rep once, you got all the abuse
Sem Skord > My tank held :)
Sem Skord > haha
kage Huren > im glad
Sem Skord > still shaking btw
kage Huren > yeah i cant breath properly
Sem Skord > lol

Good fun! We dropped gf's in local as we headed home with the spoils of war. We encountered a big gate camp, with logi cruisers and a Gnosis on both sides of the Isho gate but were able to get away no problems. The gods favored us this day! I docked up in our home station still collecting myself, thinking about what just transpired in a manner of ten minutes. Man! That was intense! RL began to knock at the door as I thanked Kage for the fun.

kage Huren > shall we go?
kage Huren > or you wanting your own thing
Sem Skord > i have to pickup my kid from school in a few
kage Huren > ahh fair enough, its like 11pm here
kage Huren > forget about timezones
Sem Skord > alright guys i gotta run. kage thanks for that intense pew pew man <3
kage Huren > <3
Samadhi Amarata > o7 Sem
Sem Skord > later guys o7