[GrimGriz]

Pilot Log for Grizwald "GrimGriz" Gonzalez - 05.12.02

I heard that Spy3028 has just left Quant Core headed to Ekoo's Stop. Since he had an extremely negative Solrain PR at the time, I went looking for him. I had guessed that he'd be heading up to Oct space via Ring View and Gurge, but I checked Gurge then Ring View and didn't see him. In Ring View I triggered a swarm that had just moved in, and there was a Quant in a shuttle named K.Dax. It really slowed me down, but I told him to get out of there and towed the swarm around until he did.

Everything east of Ekoo's was blue, so I asked a Solrain I know if he had heard any bounty messages. He said that he hadn't, so I took a guess that Spy had gone up through unreg and came out in Far Point. While I was going up through unreg I received a message than another Octavian pilot, Cope had taken a bounty in Dark Gateway. By the time I got to Far Point, Spy had gone inactive again. I jumped into Dark Gateway and engaged Cope.

Bravely protecting the Octavian in a Dragon from my vicious Ranger, Targus1 of Quantars Hope downed me. While I was re-equipping I received bounty messages from near Depot. I was assured that Targus1 would be inactive by the time I got to Quant space, so I went looking for Cope. Targus1 didn't go inactive until after he fixed his Quantar PR.

It took me quite awhile to find Cope again, for although he communicated much about me and my mother over galaxy wide communications, he didn't seem to want to be found when I got back to Oct Space. Rightly so. I caught up to him in or around Dark Fork. Elmdor of Brotherhood and Munney of QSSP were with him, and after Targus1 took a bounty defending an oct, I expected the same from them. At the time I saw Cope, I also had some flux on me. He was traveling pretty slow and seemed to have less than optimal equipment. Since I expected to be engaged by the two Quants, I dumped the squid so I wouldn't have to deal with them as well.

I engaged Cope and so did the flux in sector. Seemed like Elmdor and Munney dumped their flux as well. I'm not sure exactly what happened to Cope. I saw him in deep armor, but he disappeared without an explosion. Whatever happened, he quickly became inactive and stayed that way. After Cope went down, Elmdor started shooting me. I started flying towards Great Pillars, as I thought that was where Cope would be if he returned from being inactive. After a couple of sectors Elmdor downed me. Since I was flying straight and it took a couple of sectors, I have to assume he took his time deciding whether or not to take the bounty.

I had flipped some Oct beacons green while looking for Cope, though I expected him to have the Quant bounty at this point instead of Elmdor. They let me track Elmdor as he worked his way down through Oct space to Ring View. I caught up with him in Gurge, but didn't get into firing range until Ring View. Munney was still with him. I engaged Elmdor, Munney shot me, Elmdor docked. We fought again and no one was downed, and then Elmdor went inactive.

I found Munney sometime later leaving QC, after apparently switching from FeatherFires to Ammo. He had taken it upon himself to shoot me 3 times and not finish me off while I didn't fire back and even stopped to allow him to finish what he started. I decided to see how he reacted being shot into armor. Unfortunately, I used all my flashfires getting him into armor, so when I went to disengage I was too slow and my ship was destroyed. Weary, I went inactive for the night at that point.

[Radi]

lol, hunting bounties while civ,again GG?

[GrimGriz]

Ofcourse, I'm not talented enough to take on the guy with the bounty and his 1-4 HG friends without making them risk a little sumpthin sumpthin.