Inspired by Patriot's awesome Skyrim character journals--which I'm still getting caught up on right now (got distracted by playing Eve yesterday)--I thought I would take a stab at something similar. I picked Dust514 back up, and it made me want to play Eve Online more than ever. Much like my Dust514 character journal, this will be for the professional and personal logs of my Eve toon, Kai Jager. He is the cousin to Hinotan Jager (my Dust514 character) and his still-unnamed brother.
In accordance with my efforts to make impulse buys, I haven't re-sub'd my Eve account. This character is on a trial account, and I'm using the trial to help me decide if subbing will be worth my money. In light of this, I only plan to play the toon for the two weeks of the trial, and I've already figured out how I'm going to deal with this in role-played narrative.
I'll be posting character logs here and on the newly created category of my blog found here. I've also created a Twitter account for the character. Because Twitter is cool and stuff, right?
Kai Jager is of the Gallente/Intaki faction/subfaction with no significant ties at the moment other than his graduation from the University of Caille.
While Hinotan is meant to capture the driven, never-say-never side of my nature, Kai more so captures the inquisitive and easily excited side of me.
Without further delay, the first entry:
Personal Log YC115.05.08
Well, it’s been a long while coming, but I’m finally free. Yes, I graduated from the University of Caille, but that’s not the freedom I’m talking about–I actually rather like the University. I’m talking about the freedom that comes from being a true capsuleer, from piloting my own ship, from owning my own ship.
I used to be so content without this freedom. I never thought I really needed it. Now that I have it, though, there are literally whole new worlds of opportunity for me. I couldn’t be more excited. I’ve always loved how much there is to see, study, and explore in space–how anyone could be disinterested in space is beyond me–but now I can go experience it all for myself.
And that’s exactly what I did. I wasted no time as I hurriedly followed the guidance given by my AI trainer, Aura. I admit that my piloting is still a bit clunky, but I’m getting there. In fact, after learning a few flying and combat essentials, I quickly got to the Trossere system. It was there that a few career experts offered to lend me some guidance of their own.
In time, I would like to take whatever training any of them will offer me. This morning, though, I didn’t hesitate to take Potillot Mumnier up on his exploration training first. With a few more tips from Aura and a lot of helpful information from Rulie Isoryn–a helpful and highly knowledgeable woman from the Sisters of EVE–I was taken to a few special training areas to learn the art and science of scanning spatial anomalies and signatures. They helped me develop rudimentary skills in finding and gathering resources from the depths of uncharted space.
This is so very exciting. This is what I signed up for when I joined the University.
I know that exploring space can be dangerous, though; my instructors today were keen on reminding me of said dangers. I would rather not fight, but I should probably return to the Trossere system sooner than later to learn some military fundamentals from Berlimaute Remintgarnes. Like it or not, I’ll need to be able to protect myself out there.
For now, though, I just arrived in the Jolia system. I decided to use my new freedoms to pay Hinotan, my cousin, a visit. I will have to ask him for any ship security tips he might be able to give me when he gets back from battle. He did just spend the last few months helping his brother with security in his new ship, after all.
-Kai
In accordance with my efforts to make impulse buys, I haven't re-sub'd my Eve account. This character is on a trial account, and I'm using the trial to help me decide if subbing will be worth my money. In light of this, I only plan to play the toon for the two weeks of the trial, and I've already figured out how I'm going to deal with this in role-played narrative.
I'll be posting character logs here and on the newly created category of my blog found here. I've also created a Twitter account for the character. Because Twitter is cool and stuff, right?
Kai Jager is of the Gallente/Intaki faction/subfaction with no significant ties at the moment other than his graduation from the University of Caille.
While Hinotan is meant to capture the driven, never-say-never side of my nature, Kai more so captures the inquisitive and easily excited side of me.
Without further delay, the first entry:
Personal Log YC115.05.08
Well, it’s been a long while coming, but I’m finally free. Yes, I graduated from the University of Caille, but that’s not the freedom I’m talking about–I actually rather like the University. I’m talking about the freedom that comes from being a true capsuleer, from piloting my own ship, from owning my own ship.
I used to be so content without this freedom. I never thought I really needed it. Now that I have it, though, there are literally whole new worlds of opportunity for me. I couldn’t be more excited. I’ve always loved how much there is to see, study, and explore in space–how anyone could be disinterested in space is beyond me–but now I can go experience it all for myself.
And that’s exactly what I did. I wasted no time as I hurriedly followed the guidance given by my AI trainer, Aura. I admit that my piloting is still a bit clunky, but I’m getting there. In fact, after learning a few flying and combat essentials, I quickly got to the Trossere system. It was there that a few career experts offered to lend me some guidance of their own.
In time, I would like to take whatever training any of them will offer me. This morning, though, I didn’t hesitate to take Potillot Mumnier up on his exploration training first. With a few more tips from Aura and a lot of helpful information from Rulie Isoryn–a helpful and highly knowledgeable woman from the Sisters of EVE–I was taken to a few special training areas to learn the art and science of scanning spatial anomalies and signatures. They helped me develop rudimentary skills in finding and gathering resources from the depths of uncharted space.
This is so very exciting. This is what I signed up for when I joined the University.
I know that exploring space can be dangerous, though; my instructors today were keen on reminding me of said dangers. I would rather not fight, but I should probably return to the Trossere system sooner than later to learn some military fundamentals from Berlimaute Remintgarnes. Like it or not, I’ll need to be able to protect myself out there.
For now, though, I just arrived in the Jolia system. I decided to use my new freedoms to pay Hinotan, my cousin, a visit. I will have to ask him for any ship security tips he might be able to give me when he gets back from battle. He did just spend the last few months helping his brother with security in his new ship, after all.
-Kai
