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Life in a Wormhole: A Somewhat More Coherent Defense #eveonline

2012-05-29 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers

Now that Tira has ably defended the wormhole from invasion with an unarmed scouting vessel and a single combat drone,

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Life in a Wormhole: Outside Input #eveonline

2012-05-26 doycet MMO & Computers One comment

I’m still traveling, so an actual blog entry is a bit difficult at the moment, but I did want to

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Life in a Wormhole: Desperate Measures #eveonline

2012-05-22 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers 9 comments

[Because I didn’t feel like waiting another day…] It’s the next morning, and our Message of the Day has been

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Life in a Wormhole: I *still* don’t even… #eveonline

2012-05-22 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers 4 comments

CB sent me an email yesterday. “For your blog.” I can only assume he intended it as a portrait of

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Life in a Wormhole: I don’t even… #eveonline

2012-05-21 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers 6 comments

“Can anyone give me some tips on how to set up Planetary Interaction colonies? I’m hoping my two alts can

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Life in a Wormhole: Administrivia and Bookmarks #eveonline

2012-05-16 doycet MMO & Computers 10 comments

First, a note. I get asked the same basic questions often enough, and find that they are answered by previous

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Briefly Topical (#eveonline)

2012-05-16 doycet MMO & Computers, Musing 2 comments

So this was on the login screen for Eve this morning: For those who are unaware, Diablo III recently released,

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“Day One, after Day Z”

2012-05-15 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers, Musing 10 comments

May15 18:40 Made it to the coast after our ship went down. Guessing I’m somewhere in Chernarus. Maybe the mountains

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Life in a Wormhole: Obviously Time to Go #eveonline

2012-05-15 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers 3 comments

“Ty, where are you?” I don’t know the speaker, but he certainly seems to know me, and he’s talking in

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Life in a Wormhole Eve: For the Republic! #eveonline

2012-05-15 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers

Our wormholes-of-note (both our class 2 and the class 6) continue to have absolutely abysmal connections — the class 2

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Life in a Wormhole Eve: Incursion Sissy #eveonline

2012-05-15 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers 2 comments

One of the options tossed around when we first left our old system was “let’s just forget wormholes for awhile

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Life in a Wormhole: Wading through the Muck #eveonline

2012-05-14 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers 4 comments

I’ve left my notebook elsewhere today, so I guess I’ll be forced to rely on my own shoddy memory of

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Life in a Wormhole: Proud Mary #eveonline

2012-05-10 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers 2 comments

We’ve left our jobs in the cities and trade hubs of known space and returned to the wild river of

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Life in a Wormhole: A Brief Critique #eveonline

2012-05-09 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers 17 comments

“Fuck everything,” mutters CB, “about this tower interface.” Two days have passed since we moved into a new wormhole, and

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Life in a Wormhole: Closing the Deal #eveonline

2012-05-09 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers One comment

Two of the three corps who used to live in our old wormhole system have moved out, with one still

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Life in a Wormhole: Experiencing Technical Difficulties

2012-05-07 doycet MMO & Computers One comment

All the energy I would normally allocate to writing a post seems to be tied up in trying to figure

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Life in a Wormhole: So Now What? #eveonline

2012-05-04 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers 3 comments

[Before I get started, some of you may know that I’ve been dealing with lots of sick kid issues that

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Life in a Wormhole: Bad Influence #eveonline

2012-05-03 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers 3 comments

A day has gone by, and I’m still terrorizing the enemies of the Minmatar Republic in my Ishkur assault frigate,

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Life in a Wormhole: …Really? #eveonline

2012-05-01 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers 12 comments

Since leaving our old wormhole, the recurring question has been “what now?” There’s been a little discussion of  non-wormhole options

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Life in a Wormhole: Manning the Barricades #eveonline

2012-05-01 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers One comment

[Something very strange happened yesterday, and because of that this post didn’t show up on the website, nor did it

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Life in a Wormhole: Shopping List #eveonline

2012-04-27 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers 6 comments

“So what are you looking for now?” “In… what? A wormhole?” I’m distracted when Em asks his question, puttering around

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Life in a Wormhole: Tipping Point #eveonline

2012-04-27 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers 12 comments

The fact of the matter is, we’ve been talking about moving to a different wormhole for awhile now. Let me

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Life in a Wormhole: Bedbugs #eveonline

2012-04-24 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers

It’s been quiet in the system for a few weeks with logins dragging downward more than a little, but pilots

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Life in a Wormhole: Surreality #eveonline

2012-04-19 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers 4 comments

I find myself in another chat with the leader of the alliance that houses the cloaky pilots who’ve camped our

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Life in a Wormhole: Catch up #eveonline

2012-04-18 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers

Okay, since there’s not much going on at the moment but Planetary Interaction, I feel like I can compress the

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Life in a Wormhole: What’s your favorite flavor of PI? #eveonline

2012-04-17 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers 5 comments

It seems like everyone in the EvE blogoverse is talking about Planetary Interaction right now, and since I’m wrestling with

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Life in a Wormhole: Back on the Horse #eveonline

2012-04-16 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers One comment

I’m going to go backwards a bit to tell a quick story that happened during the “2nd Siege” of our

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Life in a Wormhole: Bad Time to Stop Sniffing Glue #eveonline

2012-04-13 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers 2 comments

It’s a new day, and it’s clear that we’ve been penciled in for another round of “spot the invisible ship”

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Life in a Wormhole: The Simplest Answer #eveonline

2012-04-13 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers 5 comments

So there are a couple reasons why I posted the story of our last fight from the point of view

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Life in a Wormhole: Return of the Tengu #eveonline

2012-04-11 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers 6 comments

I’m on my way home for the day when I get a message from Em that our pilots have scanned

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Session 09 of our co-op playthrough of Ironsworn: Starforged.

We pause long enough to trade supplies with an old and deeply unsettling acquaintance: Anora Talin, a razor-sharp trader with too much insight and no hesitation about using it. What starts as a resupply stop turns into one of the biggest lore sessions of the campaign so far.

In this episode:

- the precursor map/tablet reveals more strange behavior
- Cole’s importance becomes clearer
- secrets about the Balefire and Cobalt Reach emerge
- a new faction concept appears: The Tethered
- Tinker risks deeper contact with the symbiote
- navigation experiments go very, very wrong
- we end with one of our favorite cliffhangers yet

Thanks for watching/listening along with our little corner of space.

2026 04 14
Sometimes, the story tells you it wants to be something else.
Timefoolery finds us once again.

2026 03 10
See the thing is, I called episode six "Crystal Snails", and then I got Vulfmon's Disco Snails stuck in my head, and then this happened. I'm so sorry.

I'm sorry if you've never heard of Disco Snails.
I'm sorry if you HAVE heard of Disco Snails.
Mostly, I'm sorry to Vulfmon.

Inside every snail shell is a tiny glowing gastropod
Precursors might be dead, or fled: transcended into spacey gods
But here they left behind these shiny slimy buggy bodies
These super freaky guards will slime and kill you as a hobby

Crystal snails, they’re on the walls and closing in on you with glowing trails
Their slime is poison that will make your nervous system FLAIL
They crawl into your suit and lick your face until you fail
To breathe! Because you cannot fight these snails

[Chorus]
Crystal what?
Crystal snails, they'rе leaving deadly trails
Crystal wherе?
Current position's in your engine
Crystal how?
They're on your ship, they've got the Drip
Crystal why?
They’re not ill-willers, they’re just killers.

There's bodies in the airlock, for the snails are on the loose
Watch your step, they're only one inch tall and they crawl right at you
They've synthesize deadly toxins up in their buggy bodies
This downright funkadelic bunch have come to start the party (P-p-p-party)

Crystal snails, they’re on the walls and closing in on you with glowing trails
Their slime is poison that will make your nervous system FLAIL
They crawl into your suit and lick your face until you fail
To breathe! Because you cannot fight these snails

[Chorus]
Crystal what?
Crystal snails, they'rе leaving deadly trails
Crystal wherе?
Current position's in your engine
Crystal how?
They're on your ship, they've got the Drip
Crystal why?
They’re not ill-willers, they’re just killers.

[Chorus]
Crystal what?
Crystal snails, they'rе leaving deadly trails
Crystal wherе?
Their location? In your station
Crystal how?
They're on your ship, they've got the Drip
Crystal why?
They’re not ill-willers, they’re just killers.
(With apologies to Vulfmon.)

Inside every snail shell is a tiny glowing gastropod
Precursors might be dead, or fled: transcended into spacey gods
But here they left behind these shiny slimy buggy bodies
These super freaky guards will slime and kill you as a hobby

Crystal snails, they’re on the walls and closing in on you with glowing trails
Their slime is poison that will make your nervous system fail
They crawl into your suit and lick your face until you fail
To breathe! Because you cannot fight these snails

[Chorus]
Crystal what?
Crystal snails, they'rе leaving deadly trails
Crystal wherе?
Current position's in your engine
Crystal how?
They're on your ship, they've got the Drip
Crystal why?
They're not ill-willer, they're just killers...

2026 03 03
Tinker and Quin engage in a time-honored spacer tradition (drinking and conspiracy theories) followed by another time-honored ironsworn tradition (fighting for your life).

2026 02 24 timebolted
We meet Quintin's daughter, and then head out on our main mission. Both of these go exactly as we expected, as usual.

2026 02 17

Music by Kevin MacLeod. Intro by kleber-kgf.
This game, man... this game....

A few notes: the audio is still uneven. I tried a few things, but I need to try a few more. Stay with us and I'll get it sorted, I promise.

2026 02 13
Kiri's symbiote saves him... from something, or for something?
Quinn pulls on the strings trailing from everyone on Providence Station.

2026 02 03
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