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Thread: peeweeIoM a jedi donut tale by Ahazi.Free (a neutral BH)
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FREEKiller
Sun Aug 28, 2005 9:48 pm
#1
peeweeIoM – a jedi donut tale by Free (a neutral bh)
My mission was on Yavin IV. I put in at Mining Outpost launched an identity seeker and a tracker. Initial indicator from Arakyd is 6.5km north east of Mining (typical hunting grounds for BlackSun NPC). Once I'm about 542m (the max distance using rotation and the corner of my display) I zoom in on the overhead to get a beat on the mark. Still no name from seekers, again I submit for identity. Updates from the tracker indicate sporadic movement back and forth between two points, perhaps he’s kiting then returning to lair for another? Finally a name – “peeweeIoM”, and he’s finally stopped 550m out. I setup my /target peeweeIoM macro, so even when I double-click my bike to get off my target will move immediately amidst the choas back to the focus of my eye.
Your probe droid lost track of your target.
3 more seekers away with 10 second intervals and 2 long minutes later their precious info returns target moved 750m away. I close in just off radar again (radar at 512m). Patiently I wait to determine the mark is stationary and droid info is consistent. Only my 1 hour duration Caf and Blob Candy are still ticking away. I take Pikatta Pie (dodge) and Vayerbok (block) and a Booster Blue.
It's time to close the gap, racing in I start my targeting macro ... bummer everyone in the party just finished mounting up and starting to head out my mark is on bike ... he does a circle back toward me as I race in toward the lair peeweeIoM makes his break. I /dump the macro, to regain control. Immediately I receive "please wait for me to have some force and I'll stop and fight you". ("Excuse me Jedi sir I have your mission, would you mind taking a minute to force buff, recharge your force pool, stack your foods, and grab some assistance from the local doctor then let me know when you are ready ...). No to each of his tells I am silent, this is how I do my job.
On my Barc I close the gap, inexplicably he back, but quickly corrects, whatever his navigation error he shaved 50 precious meters off the gap gained. I'm now a precarious 28m away, not yet close enough to pop him, though I get a bit of luck as he snags briefly on geometry the gap is narrowed to 12m ... watching for a predictable path and timing potential lair agro ... I start up my targeting macro and suddenly notice terrain changes to sandy shoreline ... it’s now or never, I hop over the handlebars and land stopping shot (Woot! For first shot luck rolls). Though rooted, he slides 71m out. I swallow parawan cake and burst toward him. I slurp down a Deuterium-Pyro for accuracy and at 35m I deliver my payload.
His heals are decent for a green con, keeping pace nicely and I noticed that distinct spatial emote - he worked in a nice stim-d supplement. Tween my scatters rain of death I manage to stack a Neurotoxin dot just as his foot anchor lifts. Surprisingly, despite the damage and the loss of mind healing he runs to me. The first strike from his saber is a pleasant discovery - I’ll be afforded plenty of melee rounds for damage output instead of chasing damage with heals.
(end part 1)
(end part 1)
Part 2
Finally I’m able to get a Deuterium dot to land (5th retry) and all the damage is really taking its toll. He burst runs toward the ocean, 30m, the cooldown timer on my stopping shot still ticking (35m), I follow but two KD attempts have missed, 45m. Out of range! Hoping to pursue into the water on my pet, “Please wait 15 seconds …” … Bah! Distance widening, I mount up and ride out. He pulls out a Varactyl too and we do the /follow dance making mooring circles in the tide. All the while I keep dropping seekers to keep a bead on him. At one point a friend of his comes by and picks him up out of the ocean with a multi-passenger vehicle ride offer. I pull out my Barc store the pet and pursue. Tells come in like “I can keep this up all day” or “Do you ever speak”.
Finally I’m able to get a Deuterium dot to land (5th retry) and all the damage is really taking its toll. He burst runs toward the ocean, 30m, the cooldown timer on my stopping shot still ticking (35m), I follow but two KD attempts have missed, 45m. Out of range! Hoping to pursue into the water on my pet, “Please wait 15 seconds …” … Bah! Distance widening, I mount up and ride out. He pulls out a Varactyl too and we do the /follow dance making mooring circles in the tide. All the while I keep dropping seekers to keep a bead on him. At one point a friend of his comes by and picks him up out of the ocean with a multi-passenger vehicle ride offer. I pull out my Barc store the pet and pursue. Tells come in like “I can keep this up all day” or “Do you ever speak”.
[fast forward many sea donuts later]
If there is one skill a BH can never be without it’s patience … and whatever the jedi’s motive he suddenly makes a dash toward shore, (I start popping foods quick) his luck and my misfortune not 200m from the water’s edge he rides right through a huge contingency of rebel NPCs … of course he’s combatant status and 12 or so attackers disable his bike and melt him in a few seconds. I get a stopping shot to land but he’s deathblowed by the NPCs before his animated body strikes the ground, as for me I’m shafted out of my bounty, I check datapad and at least the mission is still good.
I stand around as his friends immediately triangulate his position, I figure one of these loyal subjects intends a rez. Seems forever I’m on my bike facing the outpost a long 935m away … and watching my marks corpse. The private tells from his buddies pouring in mostly “lol”s. Then the body flashes and is gone so I burn toward the starport and my last seeker comes back 9500m away, planetary map shows 1950m outside of the Imperial Outpost – crap all that time he was laying there it wasn’t to wait for a doc it was to find the furthest jedi shrine possible for a clone. Over the handlebars double click star terminal and I’m loading Imp outpost. Land, pop out the vehicle and burn toward that beautiful orange light from heaven – a favorite site of bounty hunters everywhere.
Not 500m from the shrine I get a tell “See ya … wouldn’t wanna be ya” followed immediately by the dreaded “peeweeIoM has gone offline *****…”. Wow this guy is a lot of fun. I arrive at the last waypoint … my 4 broken seekers happily still sending back last waypoint information despite my mark being offline. If I’ve said it once I’ve said it a thousand times, patience is the key to hunting players.
[fast forward many minutes later]
“peeweeIoM is online *****”
(end part 2)
Part 3
There 5m before me sitting on the ground is his untargetable jedi self (merciful immunity while loading into the world). I start swallowing my foods fast and the second my reticle changes to attack I target and fire my payload. Hmm I wonder if he’s surprised at all (snicker). He begins running around the biggest tree he can find, and we literally repeat this cat and mouse rotation around the tree 10 times, I missed my stopping shot, now I’m waiting for the cooldown timer again. And since maintaining LOS for even two shots back to back is impossible I simply cannot damage him. After mixing up the dance clockwise and counter-clockwise several times he pops his swoop and speeds away on the opposite side of the tree (I’m picturing the poor quality Radio Shack TRS-80 graphics in “A New Hope” movie cannon where the Death Star is attempting to get line of site on its planetary target, and laughing to myself.
There 5m before me sitting on the ground is his untargetable jedi self (merciful immunity while loading into the world). I start swallowing my foods fast and the second my reticle changes to attack I target and fire my payload. Hmm I wonder if he’s surprised at all (snicker). He begins running around the biggest tree he can find, and we literally repeat this cat and mouse rotation around the tree 10 times, I missed my stopping shot, now I’m waiting for the cooldown timer again. And since maintaining LOS for even two shots back to back is impossible I simply cannot damage him. After mixing up the dance clockwise and counter-clockwise several times he pops his swoop and speeds away on the opposite side of the tree (I’m picturing the poor quality Radio Shack TRS-80 graphics in “A New Hope” movie cannon where the Death Star is attempting to get line of site on its planetary target, and laughing to myself.
Just as I get around the trunk for a bead he has arranged a large boulder between us and then to get further out of range. Oh boy another chase! Out comes the Barc and we are off to the races again. This time radar indicates he is making a bee line for the Imperial Outpost. He’s a solid 100m ahead of me the whole time and the mostly flat terrain favors him on his swoop. As we enter the outpost I can see on the overhead he’s going straight for the terminal, I leap off run in and land a shot before he is able to launch. He runs past me through the door and starts doing the now famous donuts around the shuttle bay structure, as I’m passing the ticket droid for the 3rd time and laughing how funny this must appear to onlookers. I’m finally able to get poison in and on a 4th trip around the port I got fire to stick like napalm to his nice white jedi robe. At last stopping shot timer is ready and boom it lands, I KD and unload. Coupled with his mind being completely gone from heals and overwhelming dots and rays .. he is finally incapped! And though his body slides during the deathblow timer … it’s not quite far enough for more drama.
Then a tell comes through “Nice fight, my friends urged me to come back and log on, even though I know I could have stayed logged out for 3 days.”. Well at this point normally I’m speechless as a modus operendi, but as fun as this fight was I could not contain myself and decided to banter a bit. I said “You know that BH want respect, mostly we’ll drop your mission if you show some.” The tell comes back in essence “What do you mean?”, to which I respond “Scroll back to see the last thing you said before logging off.”. He responds “Well I have to grind now, I just hope the next BH that comes for me isn’t as full of himself as you are.” [Buzzz Wrong answer!]. I simply respond – “Wow! See you real soon.”
-The donut stops here
Sundal
Mon Aug 29, 2005 5:28 am
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When I started I thought, "Great, another self promoting BH wanting attention."
But the more and more I read, the more and more enthralled I got with the story. You did a great job Free, and one of the best accounts of a BH mission I've read in a long time. I wouldnt think twice reading another one of yourstory like this. Thanks forsharing that with us.
And you're right, good BH's dont care about money or xp lost. Just a little respect.
Huples_Cat
Mon Aug 29, 2005 5:50 am
#4
I see nothing note-worthy here. You failed to kill a mark below your combat rating with your oviously varied and powerful abilities. If you are this pretensious your mark was right to mock you.
FREEKiller
Mon Aug 29, 2005 11:28 am
#5
Huples_Cat wrote:
I see nothing note-worthy here. You failed to kill a mark below your combat rating with your oviously varied and powerful abilities. If you are this pretensious your mark was right to mock you.
Lol, each is entitled to his opinion. I know what I'm capable of, I'd love to say he was an easy mark, but in fact it was one of the more fun chases I've ever had. Take it easy Huples_Cat and may all your marks fall faster than this cat did.
iamjediptc
Mon Aug 29, 2005 11:32 am
#6
good job free on hunt , and i havent known him to be pretentious when he killed me /shrug
FREEKiller
Tue Aug 30, 2005 3:08 am
#8
Thanks Mobius I recall you told me you avoided BH quite wellconsidering yourlong careeras a pre pub 9 jedi, it was a pleasure to catch up with you and engage you (I should mention at least once Ihave dropped your mission post-pub 20/bow).
iamjediptc wrote:
good job free on hunt , and i havent known him to be pretentious when he killed me /shrug
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