A friend in need....

Let me give a little back history about a friend of mine... 

We worked together for a good while, he got me into wow, we played a lot of online games over the years. He started playing Eve about 5 or 6 weeks before I did yet we didn’t know it at the time and only a catch up mail later did we get to talk about what we were both playing. 

In eve we are polar opposites. 
He jumps online with the avid enthusiasm of an overactive 8 year old. 
I login and have a set routine I do first. 
He thinks quickly and then does it. 
I need to plan, think about, and research before I dip my toe into something. 

I have perseverance and he has a short attention span. 


You get the idea...  It’s amazing that we play at all.

Anyway a few month's back while messing about on eve, my mate convo'd me, we were each doing our own thing at the time. We started chatting about what was the best money maker. I talked to him about incursions and wormhole stuff. We chatted a lot about them that night. A day later he was in a wormhole corp and out running sites in a tengu.

A week or so later I got a text message on my phone:

“Lost a Tengu balls ;) come run some missions”

So knowing he had a CNR for running missions I hopped on as an alt that was close and refitted, then undocked and started the 11 jumps to where he was missioning. 

We had a bit of a chat about the WH corp getting jumped when in a site, his tengu getting smacked and  about my alts current tempest fit.  

That fit had some spare drone room. I threw in some salvage drones to fill the gap as they were handy.

He'd never seen or heard of them (he does not read patch notes..... or generally be informed...).

He was in jaw dropping awe and wanted them a.s.a.p. He bought the skill book about 4 jumps away. As I was still warping towards the mission location he had the time to go collect it. 

In doing so he went afk to go bio and get a drink. 

Although he thought he had clicked on the stargate he had miss-clicked and selected the mission's next acceleration gate… 

If you know Eve you can see where this is heading.

Sooooo what he thought was a normal jump turned out to be a warp to the next stage of the mission… 

Sooooo while he was getting his relief and a refreshing beverage, his ship got noticed, no doubt screaming in pain with the full aggro of the mission, loosing him the CNR. 

He came back to see the wreck of his ship and his pod happily bobbing in space next to it.

Many expletives followed.

A sad week for his Tengu and CNR.  

I have just gotten to the system by then and waited while he fitted out a drake he had nearby and we went back to salvage his wreck.

My alts tempest was unable to hold the full damage for long without warping, I was prepared to go on but he said it wasn’t worth it. So we canned the mission and ended the night.  

I contracted the gear I was able to pickup but it wasn’t much. At least it was insured. 

Still not much consolation. 

I'd like to say that the moral of the story is to always watch D-scan in a wormhole, and always be sure your warping to the proper place when in an expensive ship. 
But really some things just happen, when they do don't beat yourself up too much about it. Learn from it.

In eve you start with nothing and you can always get back to where you were. 
It just takes time.