Came home from work yesterday and logged onto EVE as one does. I’d pretty much finished moving all the stuff I wanted to move to my new home with Chain of Chaos so I could join one of their gangs or… I could go climb into “new eden’s finest combat vessel” and join the first RvB GankED night [link]. The existence of said night had been pointed out to me by Fade toBlack a couple days prior. Flying a big fat Hurricane near home or a gracious Rifter in null that isn’t really even a contest since I’m totally gay for frigates. So I set off for Autaris stopping over in Jita on the way to grab two Rifters.

It’s the right thing to do.

After joining the fleet channel -seems some people actually use eve voice- and nearly going deaf because EVE apparently thinks voice should be retardedly louder then all the other ingame sounds. I was pleased to notice the general level of jolliness and intoxication was high before we left the gate, this is always a good thing, also sexy British accents all over. Joining RvB voice is not at all unlike walking into an English countryside pub.

When we headed out to M-OEE8 it was an hour later then scheduled, and comms discipline which was almost non existent an hour before had completely disintegrated by now. There were a bunch of bubbles on the in-gate and it took the fleet like five minutes to clear them, luckily the sight of 50+ Rifters had chased off the campers upon our arrival. We were told to warp to m4n1c m1n3r half of the fleets still warped strait to the out-gate and promptly got caught in a drag bubble, where we missed a tackle on Chribba’s Tengu (yes, really) because of our excellent discipline.

We stumbled on like this until we jumped into N-FK87 where to our total surprise (who needs scouts anyway right?), we found a T3 fleet. And then *magic* happened suddenly primaries and secondaries where being called and like a bunch of drunken terriers we sunk our 150mm teeth in and didn’t let go till we were all dead, but not without taking two Scimitars, a Loki, a Tengu and a Stabber Fleet Issue with us. We lost pretty much our entire fleet but it was great fun and totally worth it! [Battle Report][Youtube].

Time to reship and go again! Ship restrictions where lifted this time round and a number of people jumped into bigger ships. I jumped into my second Rifter how anyone could ever cheat on it after that last fight was beyond me.

While we were passing the wreck littered site of our previous engagement a fleet member that was trying to catch up to the main body reported he’d been exploded by a big gate camp. The FC inquired where this had happened and, with honour to be satisfied now, we headed out to avenge our fallen comrades death!

We found the mixed NC. & Raiden. camp in KLY-C0 and set to work. I need to mention Mangala here who did an absolutely superb job calling targets. Thanks to his calling and more drunken terrier antics we took down a fair number of them including four HAC’s and half a dozen or so battlecruisers. The fight was pretty intense and we did quite well for a rag tag fleet with no logistics in my opinion. All in all it was a really good and fun fight, one of those fights bitter vets claim never happen in EVE anymore, well they’re wrong I was in one just yesterday night! [Battle Report].

Thank you, RvB and Tim ‘AFK’ Pest & Mangala in particular for an excellent night of EVE fun. When RvB does another one of these I will most certainly attend and I highly recommend you, dear reader, do too. It’s buckets of fun.