{"id":4590,"date":"2012-12-21T22:10:22","date_gmt":"2012-12-21T22:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/random-average.com\/?p=4590"},"modified":"2012-12-22T14:58:38","modified_gmt":"2012-12-22T14:58:38","slug":"life-in-eve-a-funny-way-to-say-hello","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/2012\/12\/life-in-eve-a-funny-way-to-say-hello\/","title":{"rendered":"Life in EvE: A Funny Way to Say Hello"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another virtual screen snapped to life in front of me, automatically arranging itself among the flickering three dimensional headshots of Em, Dirk, CB, and the pilot we’d started calling Geed.<\/p>\n

“Guys,” Geed said, “This is Zen.”<\/p>\n

“Hi… umm…” the new pilot’s eyes tracked left, right, up and down, taking in our images on his own in-pod display. “What’s… going on?”<\/p>\n

I grinned. “Let me get you up to speed, Zen.” I pointed at one of the other displays. “About an hour ago, Em and Geed had a bit of a tussle.”<\/p>\n

“A… tussle.”<\/p>\n

“With bullets and missiles and explosions,” I explained, “which is kind of how we say hello out here, I guess.” I smiled. “Once that was done, they started talking.”<\/p>\n

“As you do,” Em said.<\/p>\n

“You do?” Zen asked.<\/p>\n

Dirk shrugged. “Sometimes.”<\/p>\n

“Anyway,” I continued, “we’ve been mostly swapping stories and explaining how things work in the war zone — the missions and objectives and such — we’re part of the Tribal Liberation Force. Geed seemed pretty keen on the whole thing and he mentioned his friend might be as well.”<\/p>\n

“Meaning you,” Geed muttered.<\/p>\n

“Nice.” Zen hesitated. “Does that mean you need to blow up one of my ships too?”<\/p>\n

“Not today.”<\/p>\n

“Excellent.” His face went deadpan. “When it comes time, maybe just shoot Geed again. He likes it.”<\/p>\n

“Well,” Em murmured. “He came in looking for a fight, and stuck it out. That’s definitely what you need out here. I kind of overthink it sometimes.”<\/p>\n

“I just shoot what they tell me,” Dirk added, as unnervingly cheerful as always.<\/p>\n

“That’s an approach I understand,” Zen said. “Not sure I get how the whole war zone thing actually works, but I make a pretty good blunt instrument.”<\/p>\n

“There’s some good folks in our alliance,” Em said. “They like explaining everything.” His eyes flickered my direction. “Especially Ty.”<\/p>\n

“Especially me,” I agreed. “You can hardly shut me up.”<\/p>\n

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Veteran combat pilots, ready to share their knowledge and experience.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“So…” Zen glanced in Geed’s basic direction. “I take you guys have been talking about us joining you?”<\/p>\n

“A bit,” I admitted, aware that surprise news could easily shut down his interest.<\/p>\n

“I’ve been reading their recruitment page,” Geed added.<\/p>\n

Em’s eyebrow rose. “We have one of those?”<\/p>\n

“Yes.<\/em>” I managed an affronted expression. “We absolutely do. It part of my job as the… person who does things like that.”<\/p>\n

“CEO.”<\/p>\n

“Right. That.” I tipped my head, frowning, then turned to Geed. “… what’s it say again?”<\/p>\n

Geed’s eyes tracked left to right, below the line of his display. “It says you’re gonna punch me.”<\/p>\n

“OH! Now I — well, hold on.” I squinted, remembering the CONCORD form I’d had to fill out. “I doesn’t say that exactly.”<\/p>\n

“‘Our recruitment policy:'” Geed read aloud, “‘Only trust people you can physically punch.'”<\/p>\n

“Right,” I said. “And we can’t physically punch you, so we won’t entirely trust you.”<\/p>\n

“I don’t even trust Ty,” CB muttered, “and I’ve known him twenty years.”<\/p>\n

“Exactly.” I grinned, turning back to Geed. “But that doesn’t mean we can’t shoot some Amarr together.”<\/p>\n

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So… yeah. It appears we’re recruiting a little bit. Merry Christmas.<\/p>\n

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Time for a roam.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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