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More shameless pimping is a post from: Serious Thukking Business

Kalaratiri picks up her own helmet and makes a bit of a mess trying to put it on right

Katrina Oniseki  places the helmet on her head, then takes it off as she unties her ponytail, only to put the helmet back on.

Kalaratiri gets the helmet on properly, her dreadlocks making it a bit of an uncomfortable fit

Kalaratiri has a few quick attempts at forming images, managing a few bursts of colour. She tries to make something more focused, an accurate 3d image of a Rifter appearing in the air above her.

Kybernetes Moros calls to Kala, grinning. “Damnit. Couldn’t make a nice looking ship, huh.”

Kalaratiri doesn’t look at Kybernetes, but instead brings up an image of a hand with its middle finger up.

Kybernetes Moros  bursts out laughing.

Katrina Oniseki  figures out how to work the helmet, the first image appearing is a small orange melon which promptly falls and splatters into a gooey virtual mess. “Heh. Breakfast.”

Kalaratiri clears the image and closes her eyes, calling out to Kat, “Want to have a few goes yourself? It’s not that hard really.”

Katrina Oniseki  shakes her head, “No, I’ve got it. I used to read horror stories when I was a kid… I’ve got some nice monsters.”

Kalaratiri grins to herself  “Want to go first then?”

Katrina Oniseki  nods at Kala.

Katrina Oniseki  waits for the crowd to silence itself before closing her eyes and bringing up her first contestant. The ground shudders and blocks of virtual cement rip themselves up from the floor, stacking themselves atop one another. The body of a large and angry golem is formed, and it roars like an avalanche, belching magma. Slamming its massive ruinous fist against the ground, it glares balefully at Kala.

Kalaratiri smiles and sits calmly, a rushing noise growing quickly louder. A huge fountain of water erupts from behind Kala and crashes into the golem, pushing it back.

Katrina Oniseki pushes back with the golem, throwing it’s rocky limbs into the water before it explodes into a cloud of ethereal static. The smell of ozone laces the air as arcs of electricity snake down in Kala’s direction through the water.

Kalaratiri turns the water into liquid rubber, boiling hot. It seems across the floor towards cat bubbling and popping.

Katrina Oniseki  grins as the rubber approaches her. The arcs of lightning explode into little sprites and sparks that shower around Kala. Kat, meanwhile is too late raising a wall of stone in front of the rubber, and she jerks back in her seat as she’s hit.

Kalaratiri winces as a few of the sparks brush against her skin. She creates a clear bubble of a glass like material around herself and continues to push the rubber towards Kat, the hot liquid starting to ooze around Kat, surrounding her.

Katrina Oniseki  angrily yells out in reality, clenching her eyes shut as she fights off the pain. A starburst of light bellows out from her like a small nova, eating up the Rubber and giving Kat a sort of body halo. Opening her eyes, she grins at Kala. The light lances out at Kala in the blink of an eye, impacting hard against the bubble, burning and writhing and pushing itself against the bubble in an effort to break it down.

Kalaratiri flinches back then adapts the bubble, reinforcing the front by pulling material from the back. She loses control of the rubber as she is distracted and it fades into nothing.

Katrina Oniseki concentrates harder, the light coalescing into some sort of shapeless creature which begins slamming and wailing on the bubble with fists that splatter into balls of molten luminescence. It roars and makes the ground tremble with each impact.

Kalaratiri allows the outer shell of the bubble to shatter, forming razor sharp shards the dig deep into the skin of the creature.

Katrina Oniseki grows tired, and though the shards don’t affect the creature, it seems to lean back and roar again. Kat’s mind isn’t trained for this, and she’s spending too much energy too fast, and the creature sinks into the ground, fading into nothing.

Katrina Oniseki is sweating, panting in her chair.

Kalaratiri leans back herself taking the opportunity to have a small break. She lessens the bubble, so she isn’t using so much energy.

Katrina Oniseki watches Kala for a while. There’s a small buzzing sound that disappears. Then it’s heard again, a bit louder.

Katrina Oniseki smiles and winks at Kala, and a single tiny insect pops out of the ground, hovering and watching Kala too.

Kalaratiri blinks and creates a tiny Rifter in front of the insect.

Katrina Oniseki grins wider, and the insect is joined by two others. One of them bumps into another, causing them both to explode in a fireball. The third one streaks forward, under the Rifter and in Kala’s direction, slamming into the bubble. She her eyes and grunts. The moment she does, the ground heaves, the sudden unnatural roaring sound of countless millions of insects can be heard before the burst from the ground like a swelling boil bursting from skin. They swarm, blackening the arena with their numbers before streaking toward Kala, every single one slamming into the bubble if they don’t hit the Rifter first. Each one explodes, causing a tiny bit of damage… but together….concentrates as much as she can, creating an endless stream of the insects that continue boiling up from the ground as if the simulated dirt were liquid.

Kalaratiri’s bubble takes the full force of the explosions and shatters into nothing, knocking Kala backwards. Kala screws up her eyes and concentrates hard.

Kalaratiri a haze starts to spread out in front of Kala, coving the area the insects are flying through. Kala leans forward again and lights a spark.

Katrina Oniseki grins wide in joy as she gets a score, but this causes the insects to lose concentration, and they stop the elegant swarming dance around Kala, instantly turning into a blob of wild insects. As the fire rips through them, they’re gone in an instant.

Kalaratiri pants hard and wipes a hand across her face.

Katrina Oniseki chuckles slightly, and leans back in her chair. Sweat dribbles down her cheeks as if they were tears.

Kalaratiri calls out “Draw?”

Katrina Oniseki looks up and shrugs, “I’m exhausted, hah. I’d be willing to call it.”, she grins. A giant cartoonish gloved hand reaches out in expression to shake.

Kalaratiri offers her own hand, blown up in size to match Kat’s glove.

Katrina Oniseki shakes hands above the area, before reaching up in reality to take the helmet off. Her glove flickers out of view.

Kalaratiri takes her own helmet off and shakes her hair out.

Katrina Oniseki stands and stretches.. looking around at the crowd, she laughs a bit, then bows, before walking up to Kala and giving her opponent – and friend – a hug.

Kalaratiri hugs Kat back and smiles at her “Good match.”

A Mind Clash Match: Kalaratiri vs. Katrina Oniseki is a post from: Serious Thukking Business

Mind Clash Event #3 (and mailing list) is a post from: Serious Thukking Business

If I have time I may actually sit down and try to turn some of the logs into a proper IC post for once later. The match between Kalaratiri and Katarina from the first event was especially fun.

Mind Clash Event #2 is a post from: Serious Thukking Business

I’m left wondering about their choices of who to let go. I was honestly expecting CCP MaidenSteel (much <3) because as an intern that would be the first position to go, but letting go of  some very long term community representatives feels like a terrible move. Sure CCP can replace them later without much undue difficulty due to skillset, but they lose all their experience in both playing EVE and familiarity with the community which I think is way more significant than their paper qualifications. This goes especially for CCP Pann who (as far as I’m aware) has been with the company since beta.

There have been some people on forums I read seriously considering unsubbing due to the choices of layoffs. I know my knee-jerk reaction was to want to do the same, but I feel that would end up only making the situation even worse. I’m not convinced of the doomsaying about CCP’s future (unless I see some good evidence) but I would rather continue to support EVE and help keep the game that the lost 20% and remaining dev team have worked so hard to build and maintain for all of us to play in. I’m certainly sticking around to see if all the talk about big changes coming in the winter expansion will get translated into action or not.

To the 20% is a post from: Serious Thukking Business

Haven’t decided if I’m going to actually play a game yet or just watch / act as a referee, but should be fun in any case. I know I’m not the only one who could use something interesting to get back into regular RP.

Mind Clash Event #1 is a post from: Serious Thukking Business

Sat on this for a little longer than expected, but the idea of running a Mind Clash arena out of my corporation’s public IC channel, Sjalfradr Hideaway, is finally being realized.  It’ll be fun to see how much interest it gets at first. I kind of wanted to get a tournament setup for it, but to do that I would need to design some form of background game (since just relying on dice rolls sucks) to make it fair and relatively cheat proof. It would probably be another month or two at least by the time I got around to finishing that up…so needless to say I opted to not do that for now.

For my readers, if you think it’s a cool idea and want to help I could do with having some volunteer moderators to keep an eye on things while I’m not online. Unfortunately since the game can be competitive it means there is serious potential for god-modding and other issues if the players aren’t working more cooperatively to enjoy the RP.

Drop by the ‘Sjalfradr Hideaway’ channel if you want to join in or just listen in.

Mind Clash is a go! is a post from: Serious Thukking Business

Mind Clash and Corp Stuff is a post from: Serious Thukking Business

Full Text Below:

IC Description:

“The Amarr tried to ‘Reclaim’ us. They failed. Now it is time for us to reclaim who we once were. Freemen, roaming the wilds.”

- The Thukker Chronicles : Exodus

Loke’s Shadow [ROKKR] is a group of Thukker outriders who primarily operate in null-security regions beyond the tribe’s home in the Great Wildlands. As outriders the corporation works independently of the caravans that form the core of the Thukker Tribe; as such Loke’s Shadow relies on raiding and smuggling to fund its undertakings and maintain mobility.

Who we are / what we are about (OOC info):

Loke’s Shadow is a Thukker roleplaying corporation and a member of the Rote Kapelle alliance. The aim of the corporation is to have a tight-knit group of roleplayers who are committed to excellence in small gang and individual combat. As part of Rote Kapelle our main emphasis is on small gang (~6-20 pilots) roaming primarily in null-sec (currently basing out of Syndicate), although we also visit low-sec and wormhole space on occasion.  ROKKR is also involved in smuggling, both as defined by game mechanics (contraband) and as a function of players restricting access to areas of space (null-sec smuggling: i.e. shiny modules and ships). The corporation is eagerly anticipating the proposed change to smuggling gameplay which may give us yet another avenue for PvP engagements.

To facilitate PvP excellence our alliance forums and wiki have a plethora of information on ship fittings, tactics, and after action reports to help create even more pretty ship explosions for all to enjoy. Rote Kapelle is an NBSI alliance with an extremely limited blue list and is dedicated to small gang PvP in all conditions and at all times.

While Rote Kapelle is first and foremost a PvP organization, ROKKR is a roleplaying corp, and our members are expected to partake in those activities. We play with the expectation that corp chat is in-character, but accept that alliance chat will be OOC.

As self-respecting outriders we do not mine ever and will not burden ourselves with the maintenance of static infrastructure like POS towers or anything associated with sovereignty.

What Loke’s Shadow offers:

• Frequent small gang PvP.
• PvP training (both via alliance resources and corporate leadership).
• Alliance logistics for getting assets in and out of theatre.
• Smuggling operations.
• Roleplaying opportunities.
• Jump Clones.
• Active killboard and forums.

What we require of recruits:

• Self-sufficiency: all members must be capable of keeping themselves in combat ships without corporate ISK-making activities. We do help reimburse losses during gangs from loot dropped, but that does not always cover costs.
• A focus on PvP with a willingness to constantly strive to improve performance and the maturity to listen to advice and criticism when it is presented.
• Interest in roleplaying (no previous experience required).
• Consistent participation in combat operations.
• Prospects must be 18 years or over.
• Has a working microphone and Teamspeak 3 capability.

Skillpoint Requirements:

At this time there are no explicit skillpoint requirements to join Loke’s Shadow, however we do not take trial accounts and expect around one to two months experience in game prior to joining. If accepted it is expected that applicants be willing to devote training time to flying an interceptor competently, if they do not have the skills already.

Applying to Loke’s Shadow:

Interested applicants should contact Misan Pal’taek in-game via either EVE-mail or the ‘Loke’s Shadow Public’ channel with any questions or to arrange an interview at a mutually convenient time.

Player Contacts & Channels:

Misan Pal’taek – CEO

‘Sjalfradr Hideaway’ – In-character public meeting place and lounge

‘Loke’s Shadow Public’ – Out of Character public channel

Killboard – http://rotekapelle.com/killboard

Loke’s Shadow is Recruiting! is a post from: Serious Thukking Business

Otherwise slowly getting back into things and trying to kick myself to get some recruitment materials written for Loke’s Shadow. Aiming to get something semi-final done by this Wednesday since I’m starting a new job.

Scouting Guide Updated (Again)! is a post from: Serious Thukking Business