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Life in a Wormhole: The Unpackening #eveonline

2011-09-09 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers One comment

So the next couple days in our new wormhole pretty much go exactly like this: Okay, not really, but who

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Life in a Wormhole: Packing boxes for the new home #eveonline

2011-09-08 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers One comment

I never did get around to fixing the issues I had with my designated wormhole PvP ships, and since I

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Life in a Wormhole: A Brief Retrospective #eveonline

2011-09-07 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers, Musing 4 comments

There’s very little left to do after our marathon system take-down yesterday, which is really good news for me, since

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Life in a Wormhole: “Last one out…” #eveonline

2011-09-06 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers One comment

It’s later on the same day as the short-lived stealth bomber vs. industrial hauler death match, and I’m ready to

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Life in a Wormhole: Two Pods Escape #eveonline

2011-09-06 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers

There are wrecks in the home system when I log in, indicating violence in which I sadly had no part,

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Life in a Wormhole: “Less than Useful” #eveonline

2011-09-02 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers

I’m messing around with a couple armor-tanked builds for our PvP ships, due to some issues I have with shield-tanked

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Life in a Wormhole: Deadly Correspondence #eveonline

2011-09-01 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers 4 comments

“Regardless of whatever we decide to do with that wormhole alliance,” I say to Gor as he logs in, “we

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Life in a Wormhole: The Great Debate #eveonline

2011-08-31 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers One comment

The next couple of days feel like one very long debate about the merits of joining a new alliance. I’m

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Life in a Wormhole: Sifting through the White Noise #eveonline

2011-08-30 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers

My evemail box is brimming with messages when I log in, and for a few seconds I get excited; after

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Life in a Wormhole: “We’re like Keystone Kops out here.” #eveonline

2011-08-29 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers

I get online later than normal and it takes CB and me awhile to get organized — usually, I’ve scanned

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“What do you Get out of it?” #eveonline

2011-08-27 doycet MMO & Computers, Musing One comment

So last weekend, De asked me what it is that I get out of EVE; what the payoff is for

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Life in a Wormhole: Missed Opportunity #eveonline

2011-08-26 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers

It’s early in the morning — very early, thanks to the tiny copilot half-asleep on my lap — and the

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Life in a Wormhole: The Lulling Sounds of Laser fire #eveonline

2011-08-25 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers One comment

The home system continues to recover, new sleeper sites popping up like dandelions, and while the tasty radar anomaly beckons,

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Life in a Wormhole: Still Doing it Wrong #eveonline

2011-08-23 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers 7 comments

We’ve spent the last couple nights chasing after looters out of high-sec without being able to actually catch them —

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Life in a Wormhole: Kicking the Anthill #eveonline

2011-08-22 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers 2 comments

It’s an early Saturday morning, and the cupboard (by which I mean “our home system”) is bare. The random number

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Life in a Wormhole: What are the Odds? #eveonline

2011-08-20 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers

It’s been a few days since the Rattlesnake/Orca Debacle of Aught-leven, and things have been quiet around the home system

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Life in a Wormhole: Fall Down Seven Times, Stand Up Eight #eveonline

2011-08-19 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers 6 comments

“New rule,” says Gor. “When one of use loses over a half-billion isk in ships in one go, everyone gets

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Life in a Wormhole: “Don’t Go After the Frisbee” #eveonline

2011-08-18 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers 9 comments

This is one of those stories that makes people who don’t play EVE swear that they’re never going to play

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Life in a Wormhole: Worst Case Scenarios #eveonline

2011-08-17 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers One comment

Gor really shouldn’t feel bad about struggling with fittings for his ships in the wormhole; sleeper combat is a bit

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Life in a Wormhole: All Alone #eveonline

2011-08-16 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers 2 comments

The Germans, it appears, are moving out of the system we’ve been sharing for the last month. One of their

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Life in a Wormhole: Windfalls #eveonline

2011-08-15 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers 4 comments

I return from South Dakota to find our tower brimming with loot. None of it’s mine, but that doesn’t mean

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Life in a Wormhole: Making room and Settling In

2011-08-12 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers

Bree is back in the wormhole, albeit only with one of her Buzzard cov-ops ships and not her entire fleet,

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Life in a Wormhole: Escape from Nullsec #eveonline

2011-08-11 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers

The home system is quiet the day after the destruction of the Drake, and even two days later the sleepers

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Life in a Wormhole: Parasite EVE #eveonline

2011-08-09 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers

Sean wakes me up right after the daily downtime; I log in to email both the corp and our German

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Life in a Wormhole: the Tapeworm #eveonline

2011-08-08 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers

The interesting and wonderful thing about wormholes is that situation changes constantly. The day after Gor and I blew up

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Life in a Wormhole: “Want to Ruin His Day?” #eveonline

2011-08-05 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers

Enough moping about nullsec dissatisfaction! Yes, Bre is somewhat stuck in Curse. Yes, the rest of our alliance is moving

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Life in a Wormhole: Compare and Contrast #eveonline

2011-08-04 doycet MMO & Computers, Musing

I’m back from our first vacation of the summer, reflecting on how much nicer 95 degrees is when you don’t

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Life in a Wormhole: A Miner’s Tale

2011-08-02 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers

The next week is a whirlwind of activity, and very little of it involves EVE. We’re in Orlando for a

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Life in a Wormhole: Germans, Planets, and Gilas

2011-08-01 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers

Our relations with our German neighbors continue to improve from our original neutral baseline. We started off with an agreement

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Life in a Wormhole: Exploiting the Neighbors #eveonline

2011-07-30 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers

Wormhole systems are categorized into six classes. The differences between these classes is primarily in the relative strength of the

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Mostly actual play from online tabletop games, played on Roll20. Also random other stuff.

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"Let's try out the combat system," they said.
"What could go wrong?" they said...


2026 05 26
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
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