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Life in a Wormhole: Home Security System #eveonline

2011-12-02 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers 6 comments

We’ve got some old friends/new corpmates inbound for the home system soon. Exciting. Prompted by a couple discussions we’ve had,

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Life in a Wormhole: Too Long in the Wasteland #eveonline

2011-11-29 doycet MMO & Computers 7 comments

[Good album, by the way. James McMurtry. I recommend it.] Yeah, I know it’s been a few weeks. Believe me

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Life in a Wormhole: A Flurry of Activity #eveonline

2011-11-11 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers 5 comments

Things are heating up for the madness of the coming month, and I’m not able to get on until late

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Life in a Wormhole: Run for the Rorq #eveonline

2011-11-08 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers 6 comments

The one corp in our home system that wasn’t around for the previous evening’s supply run consisted of our Oceanic

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Life in a Wormhole: War Dec…oration #eveonline

2011-11-07 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers 5 comments

I mentioned the new wardec in the last post, but I was getting a bit ahead of myself, since we

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Life in a Wormhole: Tower Tweaks #eveonline

2011-11-04 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers 4 comments

Taken all together, “wormholes” (and everything that comprises wormhole activity) are probably the best-designed things ever released for EvE. No

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Life in a Wormhole: Moa Constrictors #eveonline

2011-11-01 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers One comment

Once Em and I are back on line, she grabs her Onyx heavy interdictor and breaks several laws of physics

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Life in a Wormhole: Eager Defenders #eveonline

2011-10-31 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers One comment

Morning in the ‘hole, and with the wardec over and mining ops closing down, I’m ready to explore our connection

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Life in a Wormhole: Things that are Harder than Fighting #eveonline

2011-10-28 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers 3 comments

I log in the next morning to find most of our pilots mobilizing for some kind of major operation. After

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Life in a Wormhole, Always Smaller than You Remember #eveonline

2011-10-28 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers

There are Germans in the adjoining class two system, but since I’m really just looking for a good exit to

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Life in a Wormhole: An Embarrassment of Riches #eveonline

2011-10-25 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers

I get another message from my broker the next morning, telling me that the buyers are back online and still

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Life in a Wormhole: Frontier Real-Estate #eveonline

2011-10-24 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers 7 comments

The wardec has ended as it often does: not with a bang, but a whimper. In this case, the whimpering

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Life in a Wormhole: Dangerous When Bored #eveonline

2011-10-20 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers 12 comments

It’s less than 24 hours since I first heard murmurs about getting a Rorqual for the system, with a number

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Life in a Wormhole: Welcome to the Alliance #eveonline

2011-10-19 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers 6 comments

The war declaration I mentioned yesterday came on the last day of our month-long trial period with the Alliance, so

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Life in a Wormhole: WAR (or something like it) #eveonline

2011-10-18 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers 4 comments

I log in a few days after our last big day to find a notification of War Declaration in my

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Life in a Wormhole: Day-tripping #eveonline

2011-10-13 doycet Actual Play, Links & Resources 4 comments

A few days ago in the comments, Ko asked: Question, when day tripping, at what point do you say “thanks

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Life in a Wormhole: Payout #eveonline

2011-10-12 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers

The last couple days have been… How should I put this? Here. This: There. That. The one and only time

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Life in a Wormhole: Skipping the Boring Stuff #eveonline

2011-10-10 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers 8 comments

The title of this post is misleading; one of the things you can’t do in a wormhole is skip the

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Life in a Wormhole: Hole-crashing a Manticore #eveonline

2011-10-07 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers One comment

A new day! Albeit another day where my playtime is limited. Kate’s out of town, and while she’s taking The

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Life in a Wormhole: Orca Migration #eveonline

2011-10-07 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers

Our luck with known space connections has been uniformly bad for the last few days, making it difficult for Berke

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LotRO: Wibbly-Wobbly, Timey-Wimey

2011-10-05 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers 3 comments

One of the more interesting bits in the Lord of the Rings Online MMO is the fact that the events

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Life in a Wormhole: Weekend Coda #eveonline

2011-10-04 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers

It’s been a fairly frustrating weekend. We started off with the loss of an Orca, which we replaced by selling

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Life in a Wormhole: Orcas Require Liquid(ation) #eveonline

2011-10-03 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers

We’ve tried a couple different ways to handle the costs of living in a wormhole. Our first was probably the

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Life in a Wormhole: For Want of a Nail #eveonline

2011-09-30 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers 9 comments

It’s early in the morning, and after last night’s hauling run, I’m in a mood for a shufti and some

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Life in a Wormhole: The Refuelening #eveonline

2011-09-30 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers One comment

“You know what you should do while you’re out in that market system?” Gor asks Berke.  It’s the next evening,

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Life in a Wormhole: Orca Recon #eveonline

2011-09-30 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers

We’ve had a number of good sleeper-running evenings lately, but tonight Em is taking off early, and while Wil and

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Star Wars: The Old Republic — The Question of PvP

2011-09-28 doycet MMO & Computers, Musing 6 comments

A few days ago, Fogsong wrote: Star Wars: The Old Republic. My LoTRO guild is debating whether to go with

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Life in a Wormhole: “What Do I Need to Bring?” #eveonline

2011-09-28 doycet MMO & Computers, Musing 10 comments

We’re back to talking about living in a wormhole for the first time, the way we did with the ship

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Life in a Wormhole: It’s a Gas, Gas, Gas #eveonline

2011-09-27 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers 7 comments

It’s been a few days since our Proteus kill, and we’re done messing around in the home system for a

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LotRO: Rise of Isengard Release Day

2011-09-27 doycet Actual Play, MMO & Computers

Also known as “Thank god I lagged out, or I might have never logged off.” Okay, here are some thoughts,

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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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