All goodies got sold. Anyway, this run sucked, but there was some fun involved in that sucking.
Gear: TK220 (L), 4x lvl5 amp
TT in: 1222 ped
With MU: 1289.6 ped
TT out: 926.02 ped
With MU: 1215.8 ped
Avg. MU: 131.29%
Profit/Loss:
-73.8 ped
Running total:
TT cycled: 21026 ped
Profit/Loss:
-1814.51 ped
Avg. MU: 117%
Notes:
- steep rise in MU on pyrite made me happy. If I found some more of it, that MU would probably have saved the run. Sadly, I made a bad call and changed area for last 1.5 amps. Also, some 20+ ped kanerium I found this trip helped a lot.
- I hit a nice small global in PVP4. I've been hitting lots of smallish pyrite claims in the area when I heard the trumpets. My heart got all smily only to be saddened by the chat message. I globalled on blaus, again. Also, other 2 bigger claims in the area were blaus (XII and IX).
- changing planet for the next 9x lvl5 amp run. Hopefully I'll finally hit something bigger or at least have some profit.
- don't leave friends. War story follows + some lame snuff story.
War story:
I visited Akmuul toxic zone three times during this mining run. It seems that Sun shines and purple toxic coulds cruise the sky everytime I venture there. The same goes for mulmuns, muluk-hirs and other stuff that likes to dick around the zone. Mulaak'fs were kinda serious today. I think they watched Rocky or some other motivational materials. Anyway, certain guy was globalling on mulaaks since the morning. It was irritating because I was afraid to go mine the south for pyrite. I'm sure nobody will hold it against me that I happily jumped at the chance of ganging up on the guy (lets call him Tod*). If you do, please know that .... ehm .... Tod seems to like attacking other people and he kept trying to block my claim. Anyway ...
.....
A hero of great skill and armament joined me and my gunner in the zone in the evening (at least I think it was evening already). My heroic gunner managed to shoot down few aircrafts before mutated birds told us where Tod is hiding. As all of you know, flying in the atmosphere is slow. Strange formations of vegetation and suspicious groups of mutants slowly went by. We crashed into the mountain as I was checking out a particularly sexy pink mutant female
. Then we finally arrived at Tod's location. The battle was brief. Tod's quad blew up fast. Our friend armed to the teeth jumped in. And all the ground troops got wiped out by p*ssed off mullak'f.
At this point I nearly lost it and wetted my brand new Chirpy-leather seat.
... Later on we caught up with Tod once again and did our best not to involve mulaak'f freedom fighters. Those guys can be really difficult to reason with. However, negotiations were successful. Local militia let us waste Tod's quad and VTOL and land battle of epic proportions took place. One on One, our friend smashed Tod into oblivion.
Our cheerful band of scavengers continued the journey. A lonely quad keeping its position in the sky evoked some suspicions so we tipped our groundbound friend with its location and charged in. The ferocity with which we attacked was too much for the poor pilot to handle. He broke and commited suicide - or his parachute failed to open
. Well, whichever it was, he banged up few mutants on his way down. And heroic warrior we tipped with the location of this GD got lucky. The Twitchy pilot was just an early warning system (pretty rusty though) for a hunter, hunter who got slain in battle.
All the time, mining sucked. The zone was emptier than my howling stomach. And then, I finally hit some erdorium only to be driven away by Tod. He came back from the dead to follow us around the zone in huge circle. Oh man! what a waste of fuel, but he was determined to prevent me from digging out that claim. We had to call in the cavalry again.
It was on the second pass that I managed to land at the right spot and purple dot appeared at our location to snuff Tod once and for all. A rather unbelievable thing happened. Even under heavy fire, Tod actually flew to me and tried to ninja me just so I could not dig my claim. What a rude behavior! Though, being a hero, I did not twitch. I ripped out my expensive TT excavator and made three looooooong pulls. Erdorium stones are expensive so three pulls were all I needed. And Tod died once again. Poor soul. He did not stay dead this time either. Stay tuned for last round of "Tod's Lucky Ducky".
I see heaven mommy!
Every pilot f*cks up eventually. I'm no exception. Eager to follow a nice long and fruitful vein I landed at mountainside that was a bit too steep. The formidable machine simply flipped over and I flipped my imaginary Goddess of Luck off. What a b*tch!
Just as I was about to pick the quad up and try spawning it again, GD appeared on the radar. You won't believe who it was! Actually, you will
. It was our friend Tod The Undead. Instead of picking the booty up, I hit recall. 30 peds of pyrite, 7.5ped of kanerium and about 60 ped of other random ores were safe. I made my peace with the Great Monkey, so did my gunner and we awaited Tod. Again, he went for me first which is funny considering I was the unarmed one. After a brief battle, we died, my gunner inflicting nearly fatal wounds on Tod. Poor Tod. He must have been so happy when he heard the loot from us pop-up. Finally, after so many battles, wasted time and ped, he looted me - the Fat juicy miner. Wanna know what he got my friends?
....
Well, Tod's lucky loot was 1 nova fragment from my gunner and 1 piece of common dung that I collected with love&care for occassions such as this. Congratulations mate!
*Note: Tod is not the guy's true name. I just picked it, because I watched Stargate: Atlantis lately and Tod character makes his appearance there.
All the best to you!
. Though, I've started to have some alarming ideas in presence of molisks ... 
I was sunbathing in strong midday sun the other day for over an hour .... 
wannabe who took fancy to my quad ride and obviously played GTA before taking a walk in da zone. 
. So, I told myself "F*ck this! It can't get any worse." and I flew up to F.O.M.A. 
Anyway, goodies from today's run got sold. So here are the results:
