Joe Phoenix > in and out of game i live to make a better world...

So for the last few days I have been working on my Skin Walking.  At first, I wasn't quite getting what /Emote had meant, and I lost quite a few Rifters to various things; TestBed A became one with an asteroid as I tried jamming the warp drive on, TestBeds B, C and E were all gunned down by various ne'er-do-wells and Testbed D vanished as I tried, though my pod remained in space as per normal. 

Then, not long ago, I got it.

Its wierd, it kinda seemed to work when I have ore in my hold, not to mention being out of my mind on Elite Angel Dust.  I was in this Osprey in Perimeter, trying to fit in with the locals, and nicking out of cans, and such, you know, wolf-in-carebear clothing kind of thing, when all of a sudden, I s-jumped.  For a second I felt at one with every facet of the universe at once.  I could see stars being born, I could see the complex mathematics that control why the sky is a particular colour, I could see a thousand Goons, voices raised at once, then suddenly silenced, I could see waves of Minmatar ships swarming at a shining golden beacon deep in Providence, scattering all before them.

It was pretty fucking awesome, dude.

And then -zoink-  I was in.  Who and where, I wasn't sure, but I was definately in a pod, and that pod was attached to a ship.  Zooming in I saw familiar Imperial Commonwealth markings on the hull of this particular craft.  I also noticed someone was talking to me on open comms.

"Well, what do you think?  I dont like it, no sir I dont!"

The comm panel showed me that my ship was fleeted, and an icon labelled Arabasta was flashing.  DefaultName23234 was the only other ship in our little fleet, and I guessed my name was Techiko, judging from the layout.  We hung suspended in an asteroid field, wrecks of rats all around us and curiously, a Coercer class Destroyer in front of us, asking if we wanted help towing them back to station.

"C'mon guys it would be fun, lets waste the lil puke!" laughed Default
"Seriously Tech, won't CVA take it badly if we do this?  Won't Joe kill you?!" asked Arabasta

I smiled, targetting up the defenseless ship, figuring it was fitted with salvage rigs and nothing else.
"Nah, he'll think its funny" I laughed, launching a volley of missiles.

Now, I gotta give it to the plucky DD pilot, he really did survive a lot, but just as his warp engine was spinning up, my last rocket caught him on the dorsal plate, and he detonated.  Persumably none of us were carrying webs, because the guy's pod warped off at top speed.  I took that as my cue to leave and promptly returned to my body, hoping that would at least start some thing running.
How right I was.

Two days later, I s-jumped back to Techiko to see how he was doing.  Imagine my suprise to find myself in a court room, with Joe serving as Judge, Judy and Executioner, banging his gavell and ranting about "Order in court!"-this and "You will respect the Judge!"-that.   Techiko and Arabasta were being charged with "Actions Unbecoming a Memebr of The Commonwealth", "Endangerment of the Commonwealth in Providence" and numerous other charges.  The little puke and his large CEO were also there, presumably playing the part of the prosecution.  Seems that the penalty for murdering neutrals in CVA (and not letting CVA find out) is somewhere like 80 million IsK and 6 months community service, whatever that is.  Of course, I pleaded guilty as charged, after all I was there.  Apparently Tech had been pleading ignorance of the rules and being badly led-on by Default, but hell, I decided that I should plead guilty to all charges without exception and throw my self at the Court's mercy before jumping out of Tech's body again before I suggested I be executed.

Last thing I heard, a very confused Techiko is on holiday/left/was kicked out of the IC, his POS "impounded" (i.e. confiscated) by Joe and went to work on Arabasta's tomato farm in Lonetrek.