Extortion. The name of the game!

So it was a long day at work.  I was looking forward to hopping into my trusty Catalyst and seeing what havoc I could cause.

I flew to a system that I have frequented in the past month, where I've had quite a few ganks.  Low and behold I see a Procurer on D-Scan.  We haven't tried ganking a Procurer before, so this was really a DPS-check for us.  Could three of us take it down?  Since we fly Proc's in our mining fleets, we know they can be tough.  The toon is a little over a year old that we'd be attacking, so his tank could be good.

We try, and we fail.  Oops.  Oh well - at least we know! We came pretty close though - our target said he only had 3500 HP left.  We didn't pre-spawn CONCORD, so that was our mistake.  We were too greedy!

So, if you enjoy seeing me dead, here you go:

 

Lucky for me I have over 50 more Catalysts fit and ready to roll!

But then....I get a private convo invite from a Monoran Forevr...

 

How very, very interesting!

A little back story.  This guy's corp hangs out in the system I was at, and I've ganked at least 4 of their guys, and attempted to gank 3 or 4 more.  I haven't purposefully been targeting them, they just happened to be close targets.  Me, not being very good at these sorts of things, decide to give it my best shot.

 

So I feel like I'm being quite reasonable.  I'm also being 90% honest with him.  I didn't tell him that it's my own mining alts used to produce all of my own equipment.  I figured he didn't need to know that part.  So....how much ISK can I get?  

 

 Hmm...well this wasn't what I expected.  Since most of the ships of theirs I think I've popped were T1 barges (I've popped some exhumers, but I can't recall off hand if they were from his corp), I decide to make the first offer.  And a very generous one at that.

Well this isn't going well at all.  So this time, I begin to twist his arm a little.

Okay, so here I was a little untruthful.  I didn't actually have 100 fully fit cat's in the hangar.  BUT...I easily could.  After the above, I closed the conversation.

By this time my timer had worn off, and I was a little annoyed that we didn't get the Proc.  So, Max found a Retriever hanging out in a nearby cul de sac system.  Excellent!  We mounted up and headed on out.  I put my new test fit (a Sensor Booster in the mid with a script) to use, and we were successful!  I got both the ship and pod kills!

Not going to get rich off that, but it did plummet my sec rating from -8.5 to -8.9!

Then....I get another convo invite, but not from Elios.  Instead, it's from my buddy Monoran:

 

 !?  "Seriously!?" I thought.  

Pretty crazy!  300m ISK is probably what we've put into our month of terror in the areas we've ganked, so I split the ISK amongst my cohorts and put a little note in my calendar for September 18th.  Who can say what will happen after that...