A Threesome Without Satisfaction

I'm trying to at least get some PvP every day currently. As I have previously mentioned on here, I got an old mate a job out here and he's staying at mine whilst he finds a place to live. This means I am being a bit more sociable than usual. Not quite Fanfest levels of drinking but close enough as I introduce him to life in the desert!

Anyway I popped on the other night to find farming squids infesting our core station systems. Condors mostly that ran at first sight, but I entered one Plex in my Kestrel to find a squid Incursus and Corax there. Whoops! I had assumed one would be friendly! 

I panicked thinking "I need to warp off quick because if they point me I'll likely die in a .... oh, never-mind they ran off". Seriously? My Kestrel verses an Incursus and a Corax????

Luckily the Corax landed on a friendly and got kersplatted and I soom got tired of chasing his mate so I jumped into a different system. I scanned the plex in turn and got a Tristan on scan at a small plex. I swapped to a Tristan myself and entered the plex. Nothing there. Quick long scan. Nothing.

Cloaky asshat! Common Caldari Militia fit. With the Tristans flight of five drones you don't need to lock the rat, your drones will agro him automatically when he fires. Therefore you can fit cloaks and stabs until your hearts content and not bother about the locking issue!

I decided to run the timer down a bit but had only been going a couple of minutes when I got a Federation Navy Comet on short scan. I had a few seconds to make a decision, I decide to stay.

The Tristan I was flying was an unusual fit. It was artillary cannon with a NOS. A 5k optimal on the guns along with web and scram means its outside the usual optimal for blasters using high-dps ammo. He's in..... bugger it, I'll give it a go, need some PvP after all this chasing around Benny Hill style! Only problem was this neutral Comet who was looking for a fight wasn't blaster fit, he was railgun. Doh.

The fight was progressing fairly evenly with a slight advantage to the Comet. I had to overheat my AAR and guns to keep up and that got us both bouncing structure. Then that bloody Tristan uncloaks some 30km away and starts slow boating over. My AAR was soon out of nanite paste and was burning cap. However, the artillery cannons don't need cap and my NOS was helping keep my tackle and repper going. My issue was the repper was badly damaged and I really needed to take the overheat off before the repper burnt out completely. I was sure once the overheat was off the Comet would kill me, but if I left it on it would burn out any time now.

That bloody squid cannot have had a prop mod. It was like Sir Lancelot charging forward in the Holy Grail to save the "princess". I'm busy with this Comet but I'm conscience of this Tristan with his drones out slowly advancing but not yet yellow boxing.

Soon enough the Squid Tristan was almost on me as the Comet slowly started losing structure properly. I assumed the repper had finally capped him out. But it appeared that he had a DCU as he was not going down fast enough. At about 8km the Tristan finally locks me and engages, why so close I wondered at the time?

I'm in structure but my repper is helping to pull some armour back every cycle and the Comet finally pops. I'm in 70% structure and turn my attention to that Tristan. Thankfully he has Warriors on me and I'm able to make range from his blasters. However my structure is dropping and I've not even got him out out of shield. At 5km his blasters are ineffective but his drones are still damaging me. I am wondering if to switch my DPS to his drones when my next artillary volley puts him into armour. Deep into armour in one shot. WTF? He then promptly warps off.

I give the Comet pilot a GF in local and just cannot think of what to post to the Caldari Miltia pilot who tried to gank me in....

..... a cloaky.....

..... shield tanked....

....twin (or more) warpcore stabbed....

.....Tristan!

Ahhhhhhhh. So that is why he had to get so close. He couldn't lock me from anything but spitting distance!

Then the ultimate insult......

HE MOANS IN LOCAL THAT IT TOOK HIM 12 SECONDS TO LOCK ME!

AAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11!!!!!!