First safari, Raven edition

So after reading a bit about the fun people are having with safari’s, and after learning how much profit can be made, I decided that I would give it a go myself. I made a new toon and began to train him up for a gank Typhoon using torps. I know this takes a bit longer than making a one day cata ganker, but my target here was pimped mission runners, not just miners and freighters. I trained him up until he could use the phoon and had about 600 dps (about two weeks) and found a small pve/mining corp to join.

Over the course of the next five days I waited. I knew they had an orca, but they never brought it out. When I asked why they said “too dangerous, we only use it for big ops.” This was a bit discouraging, but I decided to look around for another more promising corp to join and keep my eyes open in the meantime. 

Now, during the time I was with them, I was constantly playing the noob card. Asking dumb questions, lol’ing a lot, pretending to be in awe of their skill, etc. One thing I kept saying was that I wanted to do some missions with them (they did a lot of level 4’s), but that I was a bit nervous because I had heard how hard level four missions were. I had also been asking what ships they used to mission, and they all said they used Ravens. They also used an RR Osprey, which didn’t worry me too much.

Fast forward to last night. It’s getting late and I’m thinking about heading to bed, when in the course of a few minutes three or four people log in. They immediately start talking about going to do a mission, and start telling me it’s time to “get my feet wet.” I of course respond with, “oh man, I’m nervous, lol!” and they reassure me that I will be fine. The mission system is a few jumps away, so I get on the horn and call for some reps. Luckily, my bro in a RR Abaddon is only a few jumps away from the mission system. On the way there, I’m hamming up the noob angle;

[ 2013.07.26 01:55:16 ] ashiea > I will cover any loss you may incurr during this mission, you just relax

[ 2013.07.26 01:55:32 ] Gorlonn > ok, im nervous anyway, lol

I did think it was a bit ironic (and sweet) that he guaranteed me against loss. I should also mention that they did ask about my ship and fit, so I just docked, pulled my neuts and all my mids off and sent them that, asking them not to make fun of me if it was bad. They never said a word.

I get to the mission system and my reps are already there at a planet.We are waiting on one more guy to come for the mission fleet. At this point I am trying to decide how to get them all somewhere together outside of the mission as I dont want my reps to take aggro from any rats. I decide to warp to a planet in the hopes that I can just ask them to warp to me. It turns out I don’t need to say anything because shortly after I warp, the osprey warps to me, hangs out for a second, and then warps off somewhere. About 10 seconds later a Navy Raven lands. I let my reps know on comms to warp to me and point/web/neut/dps the Navy Raven. The following is the fleet conversation as this is happening. I know it’s long but it's worth it, I especially like how after I gank two of them, I actually convinced the Osprey to come back and rep me! It took them forever to figure out what was actually happening. For some unknown reason, the second Raven I killed never said a word…

[ 2013.07.26 02:18:54 ] Shadow Asuna > Ash should we warp?

[ 2013.07.26 02:19:50 ] Shadow Asuna > Ok, lets just warp....

[ 2013.07.26 02:21:07 ] ashiea > is attacking mer

[ 2013.07.26 02:21:13 ] Tanthu > Who are we killing?

[ 2013.07.26 02:21:17 ] ashiea > gorlon is attacking me and ransom me

So, notice how he said right there that I was killing him? He didn’t seem to get through to anyone…

[ 2013.07.26 02:21:30 ] Shadow Asuna > Ash get out

[ 2013.07.26 02:21:40 ] ashiea > cant

[ 2013.07.26 02:22:09 ] Shadow Asuna > why?

[ 2013.07.26 02:22:11 ] Tanthu > What to do?

[ 2013.07.26 02:22:13 ] Urgo Drago > ???

[ 2013.07.26 02:22:15 ] Shadow Asuna > Scrambled?

[ 2013.07.26 02:22:19 ] ashiea > maybe help me?

[ 2013.07.26 02:22:21 ] Shadow Asuna > Is it that player?

[ 2013.07.26 02:22:30 ] Tanthu > TARGET???

[ 2013.07.26 02:22:31 ] Tanthu > COME ON???

[ 2013.07.26 02:22:36 ] Shadow Asuna > FUck.....

[ 2013.07.26 02:22:42 ] Shadow Asuna > we can't do shit.....

They have landed with the osprey and a Raven, both with sheild reps and start repping the Navy Raven. It should be prefectly clear whose GIANT TORPS are smashing into him, but evidently not. Also, the reps arent helping much as my dps is still chewing through him, albeit a bit more slowly. I also point and web the other Raven here.

[ 2013.07.26 02:22:46 ] ashiea > warp me

He evidently thinks a fleet warp will cancel out my point. 2007 player.

[ 2013.07.26 02:22:46 ] Urgo Drago > y?

[ 2013.07.26 02:23:10 ] Shadow Asuna > I got your shit

[ 2013.07.26 02:23:11 ] ashiea > warp on blender

[ 2013.07.26 02:23:14 ] Shadow Asuna > that fucking abbadon

She still thinks my neut RR is somehow killing them, I am starting to think they are going to try and kill it soon…

[ 2013.07.26 02:23:15 ] ashiea > he killed me

Navy Raven down. I immediately start to work on the other Raven. Killed it in under a minute. The Osprey had warped out.

[ 2013.07.26 02:23:22 ] Shadow Asuna > everyone out

[ 2013.07.26 02:23:24 ] Shadow Asuna > NOW

[ 2013.07.26 02:23:38 ] Tanthu > THE FUCK IS GOING ON?

[ 2013.07.26 02:23:44 ] Shadow Asuna > GOR get the fuck out

[ 2013.07.26 02:23:49 ] Shadow Asuna > we got some abbadon onus

Still thinks it’s my neut reps killing them

[ 2013.07.26 02:23:51 ] ashiea > thanks Gorlon

AGAIN the Navy Raven pilot is saying that it was me attacking him.

[ 2013.07.26 02:23:55 ] Tanthu > Ehm..

[ 2013.07.26 02:24:06 ] Shadow Asuna > GOR OUT

[ 2013.07.26 02:24:09 ] Tanthu > Someone mind telling me what's going on?

[ 2013.07.26 02:24:11 ] Shadow Asuna > ffs

[ 2013.07.26 02:24:18 ] Shadow Asuna > SOme Abbadon is killing us

This is getting amazing…

[ 2013.07.26 02:24:23 ] Tanthu > I was there?

[ 2013.07.26 02:24:29 ] Tanthu > But why was blender attacking ash?

Oh yeah, the second Raven I killed accidentally helped me kill the Navy Raven 

[ 2013.07.26 02:24:32 ] Shadow Asuna > I had to get out, was getting my cap sucked

[ 2013.07.26 02:24:33 ] Tanthu > No gor sorry.

[ 2013.07.26 02:24:38 ] Urgo Drago > link?

[ 2013.07.26 02:24:39 ] Shadow Asuna > Not a clue

[ 2013.07.26 02:24:51 ] Shadow Asuna > I'm warping back

[ 2013.07.26 02:24:56 ] Shadow Asuna > need to heal Gor

Unbelievable.

[ 2013.07.26 02:25:00 ] Shadow Asuna > fuck that guy

[ 2013.07.26 02:25:11 ] Tanthu > Wasn't gor the guy who attacked us?

This is the third time someone said it was me, didn't matter, still no clue. So I figured I would just start screaming for help...

[ 2013.07.26 02:25:13 ] Gorlonn > HELP

[ 2013.07.26 02:25:17 ] Shadow Asuna > OMW

[ 2013.07.26 02:25:26 ] Gorlonn > what the hell!

[ 2013.07.26 02:25:39 ] Gorlonn > GET BACK HERE

[ 2013.07.26 02:25:40 ] Shadow Asuna > Guys he's scrambkled gor

[ 2013.07.26 02:25:49 ] Gorlonn > WTF

[ 2013.07.26 02:25:55 ] Tanthu > O_O

[ 2013.07.26 02:25:55 ] Urgo Drago > im commin as fast as i can

[ 2013.07.26 02:25:56 ] Shadow Asuna > I'm healing you dw

She is now repping me. I point her but dont hit DPS yet, waiting for more to land.

[ 2013.07.26 02:26:04 ] Shadow Asuna > Urgo lol we need you especially

[ 2013.07.26 02:26:15 ] Urgo Drago > scorp inbound ... link me the ship

[ 2013.07.26 02:26:24 ] Urgo Drago > and how many

[ 2013.07.26 02:26:26 ] Tanthu > So why aren't we just smashing the abbadon?

This is an excellent question! At this point the scorp lands and gets jams on me. He is the first one I haven't actually killed to figure out that I'm the one doing the ganking. No one leaves though.

[ 2013.07.26 02:26:28 ] Tanthu > 1

[ 2013.07.26 02:26:31 ] ashiea > yeah right GOR...so why did you tell me "500 to keep it"  "decide fast"

 [ 2013.07.26 02:26:45 ] Tanthu > Like i said, gor killed ash

[ 2013.07.26 02:26:49 ] Shadow Asuna > Abaddon only 1 of them

[ 2013.07.26 02:26:57 ] Shadow Asuna > Gor killed ash?

Ding ding ding!

[ 2013.07.26 02:27:02 ] Tanthu > Uh, yeah

[ 2013.07.26 02:27:04 ] Shadow Asuna > Gor.....

[ 2013.07.26 02:27:10 ] Gorlonn > :)

[ 2013.07.26 02:27:10 ] ashiea > yup and he had an abaddon helping him

[ 2013.07.26 02:27:15 ] Tanthu > Yeah

[ 2013.07.26 02:27:15 ] Shadow Asuna > WTF HELL GOR?

[ 2013.07.26 02:27:21 ] Tanthu > That's why i didn't get anything of this

[ 2013.07.26 02:27:27 ] Gorlonn > its a beautiful day

[ 2013.07.26 02:27:31 ] Shadow Asuna > WAnt a fight bitch?

[ 2013.07.26 02:27:35 ] Urgo Drago > a what day?

[ 2013.07.26 02:27:40 ] Tanthu > Want me to warp in?

Yes please. (Was in a terribly fit Raven. Rockets ftw.)

[ 2013.07.26 02:27:42 ] Shadow Asuna > COme get me :P

[ 2013.07.26 02:27:44 ] Shadow Asuna > PLEASE

[ 2013.07.26 02:27:47 ] Shadow Asuna > kill gor

[ 2013.07.26 02:27:52 ] Shadow Asuna > KILL GOR PPL

[ 2013.07.26 02:27:56 ] Tanthu > omw

[ 2013.07.26 02:27:58 ] Urgo Drago > kk

[ 2013.07.26 02:28:18 ] Urgo Drago > link his ship

[ 2013.07.26 02:28:22 ] Shadow Asuna > A little help ppl?

Osprey down.

[ 2013.07.26 02:28:28 ] Tanthu > warping

[ 2013.07.26 02:28:36 ] Shadow Asuna > Kill him fast

[ 2013.07.26 02:28:47 ] Shadow Asuna > Grabbing my raven

[ 2013.07.26 02:28:52 ] Shadow Asuna > Urgo scrambkle Gor now

[ 2013.07.26 02:29:04 ] Tanthu > HELP HELP HELP!

Raven landed.  Pointed and dying fast, they kept Leeroying into me like this for the whole fight one at a time.

[ 2013.07.26 02:29:16 ] Shadow Asuna > Grabbing my Ravenb

[ 2013.07.26 02:29:20 ] Shadow Asuna > Hold on

[ 2013.07.26 02:29:21 ] Tanthu > Too late

[ 2013.07.26 02:29:28 ] Shadow Asuna > Seriously?

[ 2013.07.26 02:29:33 ] Tanthu > GO GO GO!

[ 2013.07.26 02:29:35 ] Tanthu > NOW!

[ 2013.07.26 02:29:55 ] Shadow Asuna > Gor.....you want a fight this bad?

[ 2013.07.26 02:29:58 ] Tanthu > COME ON!!!

[ 2013.07.26 02:29:58 ] Shadow Asuna > You got me to deal with

[ 2013.07.26 02:30:08 ] Shadow Asuna > omw

[ 2013.07.26 02:30:13 ] Tanthu > Almost dead.

[ 2013.07.26 02:30:21 ] Tanthu > cap done

[ 2013.07.26 02:30:28 ] Shadow Asuna > I can't exactly heal you, lost my logi

[ 2013.07.26 02:30:34 ] Shadow Asuna > Urgo where the heck you at?

[ 2013.07.26 02:30:45 ] Urgo Drago > in system now at stargate

[ 2013.07.26 02:30:53 ] Shadow Asuna > Warp on Gor fuck him over

[ 2013.07.26 02:31:24 ] Tanthu > 500 mill gone

Raven down. Wasn't 500 mil though. More like 250.

[ 2013.07.26 02:31:31 ] Shadow Asuna > Sorry Tanth

[ 2013.07.26 02:31:45 ] Shadow Asuna > Urgo you on Gor?

[ 2013.07.26 02:31:49 ] Shadow Asuna > I'm omw

[ 2013.07.26 02:31:54 ] Shadow Asuna > Ash grab your Tengu

Yes please! Damn Tengu was stabbed though.

[ 2013.07.26 02:31:59 ] Tanthu > He's there

[ 2013.07.26 02:32:02 ] ashiea > im in it

[ 2013.07.26 02:32:13 ] Shadow Asuna > I'm juping into ruvas

[ 2013.07.26 02:32:26 ] Tanthu > Fuck

[ 2013.07.26 02:32:29 ] Tanthu > I'm so far away

[ 2013.07.26 02:32:41 ] Shadow Asuna > Like to see him break me

[ 2013.07.26 02:32:58 ] Shadow Asuna > ash warpon gor

[ 2013.07.26 02:33:01 ] Urgo Drago > attacking now

[ 2013.07.26 02:33:03 ] Shadow Asuna > warp on gor*

[ 2013.07.26 02:33:06 ] Shadow Asuna > warping in

[ 2013.07.26 02:33:11 ] Tanthu > He's just going to warp out..

[ 2013.07.26 02:33:16 ] Shadow Asuna > Urgo jam and scramble him

[ 2013.07.26 02:33:19 ] Shadow Asuna > and keep on him

[ 2013.07.26 02:33:20 ] Tanthu > Keep me posted

[ 2013.07.26 02:33:25 ] Shadow Asuna > will do

[ 2013.07.26 02:34:13 ] Shadow Asuna > Armour tanked eh gor?

[ 2013.07.26 02:34:18 ] Shadow Asuna > Not bad :)

[ 2013.07.26 02:34:25 ] Urgo Drago > lol

[ 2013.07.26 02:34:50 ] Tanthu > So, nothing yet?

[ 2013.07.26 02:34:56 ] Urgo Drago > nah

[ 2013.07.26 02:35:02 ] Shadow Asuna > Urgo where'd you go? It's just me and Gor :P

[ 2013.07.26 02:35:07 ] Urgo Drago > his buddys are tanking

[ 2013.07.26 02:35:16 ] Urgo Drago > rechage sheilds

[ 2013.07.26 02:35:21 ] Shadow Asuna > Hey gor, drop your tank my beuty

[ 2013.07.26 02:35:27 ] Shadow Asuna > and take the beating

[ 2013.07.26 02:36:46 ] Gorlonn > you guys done?

[ 2013.07.26 02:36:55 ] Shadow Asuna > Nope

[ 2013.07.26 02:37:04 ] Shadow Asuna > stay out were getting started

[ 2013.07.26 02:37:08 ] Shadow Asuna > put*

[ 2013.07.26 02:37:22 ] Gorlonn > ill dock so you can kick me, for 500 mil

[ 2013.07.26 02:37:54 ] Shadow Asuna > lol suck it bitch your getting nothing

[ 2013.07.26 02:41:46 ] Tanthu > omw

[ 2013.07.26 02:41:48 ] Gorlonn > looks to me like i got a lot already

[ 2013.07.26 02:42:31 ] Shadow Asuna > Just one question Gor, why do this?

[ 2013.07.26 02:42:47 ] Gorlonn > you could have paid

[ 2013.07.26 02:42:53 ] Gorlonn > its how i make money

Around this point more help arrives with remote ECCM, the Scorp is still on the field just sitting there. I’m 40k away but he lets me get into point/web range. He is unable to get a jam off.

[ 2013.07.26 02:44:52 ] Gorlonn > want to keep it?

[ 2013.07.26 02:45:08 ] Gorlonn > guess not

Scorp dies.

[ 2013.07.26 02:46:48 ] Shadow Asuna > Huh? Sorry was scratching my arse

[ 2013.07.26 02:47:25 ] Gorlonn > seems like you were busy losing over a bil in ships

[ 2013.07.26 02:47:31 ] Urgo Drago > i dont care wat i lose i can always replace it but ur not gettin any isk lol

[ 2013.07.26 02:47:48 ] ashiea > you think you hurt me finacially?

[ 2013.07.26 02:47:49 ] Gorlonn > lol, aint it always the way, you didnt want those ships anyway

[ 2013.07.26 02:48:22 ] Shadow Asuna > Hey Gor

[ 2013.07.26 02:48:22 ] Urgo Drago > there all expendable  hahahaaah

[ 2013.07.26 02:48:28 ] ashiea > indeed

[ 2013.07.26 02:48:33 ] Gorlonn > well i appreciate it guys, you did better than i thought

[ 2013.07.26 02:48:35 ] Shadow Asuna > Bye bye baby

[ 2013.07.26 02:50:57 ] Urgo Drago > but hey thanks for the insurance pay out  ill just get another ship

[ 2013.07.26 02:51:17 ] Gorlonn > oh im sure you were about to self destruct for that insurance anyway right?

So, at the end of the fight they lost a Navy Raven, 2 standard Ravens, a Scorp and an Osprey. Unfortunately they stabbed the tengu that came on the field so I wasn’t able to kill it (came close). I was also unable to get them to pay me anything, but hey, I still think it was a great success.