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Exploding billiard ball kills Angel Cartel pool hustler !

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Muck Raker
Gutter Press
#1 - 2014-01-12 16:12:20 UTC
A curious incident at a Caille billiards hall was reported to Caille police last night. A billiard ball exploded, killing 1 patron and injuring several others at the Hot Balls Billiard Hall near downtown Caille.

Eyewitnesses claim the deceased person was known as Jake the Snake, and was a notorious hustler that had served time in Caille State Prison for Angel Cartel related activities. Jake, or Jacqueline duClare, to use her real name, was pronounced dead at the scene by Caille city paramedics.

"It was awful!" said one witness, an employee for the billiard hall. "I'd just given her some coins to operate the table, and she had set the balls up and when she struck the cue ball, it blew up!"
"I tell you what" said another witness, "I heard Serpentis goons didn't like Jake. I reckon they were behind it"

Caille police investigators found that remnants of the exploding cue ball consisted of an obsolete artificial compound that was used to make artificial billard balls several centuries ago, which degraded under certain conditions to form a kinetically sensitive plastic explosive.

"It looks like an accident, with antique balls", said one police officer. "But that kind of ball hasn't been used in hundreds of years."
"Something smells fishy. And I'm not talking about the ethnic Caldari fish market", said another detective.

Gutter Press will bring you more stories, as they develop.

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Eran Mintor
Metropolis Commercial Consortium
#2 - 2014-01-12 21:14:29 UTC
Only in Gallente space would balls become a weapon.

-Eran
Felsusguy
Panopticon Engineering
#3 - 2014-01-12 21:37:32 UTC
This made me smirk. Well done, Gutter Press.

The Caldari put business before pleasure. The Gallente put business in pleasure.

Erica Dusette
Division 13
#4 - 2014-01-12 21:54:57 UTC
Eran Mintor wrote:
Only in Gallente space would balls become a weapon.

-Eran

I have heard that their balls are the most effective, known to quite often explode in the face of Achurans.

This is the first time I've heard of a cartel member being involved however.

Jack Miton > you be nice or you're sleeping on the couch again!

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Katrina Oniseki
Oniseki-Raata Internal Watch
Ishuk-Raata Enforcement Directive
#5 - 2014-01-12 21:58:28 UTC
Oh my.

Katrina Oniseki

Dani Dusette
Division 13
#6 - 2014-01-12 22:08:10 UTC
Erica Dusette wrote:
This is the first time I've heard of a cartel member being involved however.

Obviously lowering their standards.

Perhaps Caldari-Gallente relations really are improving?

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Gosakumori Noh
Coven of One
#7 - 2014-01-13 04:53:11 UTC
Low-hanging fruit picks best, doesn't it, darling?
Dani Dusette
Division 13
#8 - 2014-01-13 06:02:44 UTC
Gosakumori Noh wrote:
Low-hanging fruit picks best, doesn't it, darling?

You talkin' to me?

Why you have to be call me darling? It's condescending and makes me feel like I'm talking to my parents. Like, "Ohhh, little Dani, isn't she such a darling". Please, I still get enough of that from my sister.

Anyways, I wouldn't know. I've rarely been planet-side, never picked fruit. Hardly ever eaten it either thanks to our D-grade Anoikis menu of dried, out of date Cal navy rations. We used to have a Rokh full of the **** until Paul Clavet stole it. So, while I'm grateful for the change of menu since, I still don't have the developed palate to relate to your statement.

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σиlу ιи dαякиєѕѕ cαи уσυ ѕєє тнє ѕтαяѕ

ISD Ezwal: "Might I inform you that I am as real as it gets?"

Denak Calamari
Incorruptibles
#9 - 2014-01-13 08:29:36 UTC
The pool table must have had some really nice patterns from all the blood and guts spilling on it, if there was a pool table left.
Edgar Audeles
Cogwerx LTD.
#10 - 2014-01-13 08:33:33 UTC
Pffttttt... Hahahahahaha!

Aaaaah, i miss the homeland sometimes! Question is, did they use the mineral trick like with the holy book... uh... i forget its name. Pox nox or something? regardless, did they use 'explosive ink' or did someone set up some home chemicals with Pyroxenes and shipped out a few explosive 'balls'? Honest question!
Laria Raven
The Scope
#11 - 2014-01-13 10:57:53 UTC
Stillwater Corporation denies any involvement in Billiards, or other table-based games of skill involving balls and long poky sticks, in the Caille area.

Stillwater does not typically employ such bizarre stratagems as concealed-explosive gaming items in any of its usual activities.

Fallen from grace. And as night comes, may flights of Angels visit your sleep... shoot your ships and steal all of your stuff.

Gosakumori Noh
Coven of One
#12 - 2014-01-15 05:43:43 UTC
Dani Dusette wrote:
Gosakumori Noh wrote:
Low-hanging fruit picks best, doesn't it, darling?

You talkin' to me?


No, no dar... dea... well, let's see, anyway, no, no I was referring to Muck's salacious raking. Stories about exploding balls never fail to move print.
Dani Dusette
Division 13
#13 - 2014-01-15 06:08:33 UTC
Gosakumori Noh wrote:
Dani Dusette wrote:
Gosakumori Noh wrote:
Low-hanging fruit picks best, doesn't it, darling?

You talkin' to me?


No, no dar... dea... well, let's see, anyway, no, no I was referring to Muck's salacious raking. Stories about exploding balls never fail to move print.

Well I'm glad we got that sorted out.

But yeah, that reporter should really come interview us sometime. We've got lots of print-moving tales to tell and I'm sure my sister could even impart a few exploding-ball memories of her own to crown the article with. Cream on the cake, so to speak.

dαní ㅤㅤ

σиlу ιи dαякиєѕѕ cαи уσυ ѕєє тнє ѕтαяѕ

ISD Ezwal: "Might I inform you that I am as real as it gets?"

Erica Dusette
Division 13
#14 - 2014-01-15 06:15:22 UTC
Dani Dusette wrote:
I'm sure my sister could even impart a few exploding-ball memories of her own to crown the article with. Cream on the cake, so to speak.

That's just ..... I mean .... uhmm...

No.

You really are your father's daughter, aren't you Danika.

*Frowns*

Jack Miton > you be nice or you're sleeping on the couch again!

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Morgan Wulver
SAYR Reserve Guard
SAYR Galactic
#15 - 2014-01-15 23:06:50 UTC
Denak Calamari wrote:
The pool table must have had some really nice patterns from all the blood and guts spilling on it, if there was a pool table left.

They could sell it to some blood raiders who want to make a nice man-cave.

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Katran Luftschreck
Royal Ammatar Engineering Corps
#16 - 2014-01-19 13:32:20 UTC
Clearly her cue stick should have been fitted for armor buffering instead of tracking enhancement.

http://youtu.be/t0q2F8NsYQ0

Redpants
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#17 - 2014-01-21 02:23:29 UTC
I've spent some time over at Hot Balls. It's a well known place to hang out and have fun if you know who to talk to. So here's what's interests me. The Balls might be the sort of place people can just happen upon. The Balls isn't the kind of place where, if you're playing a table it just happens to have antique balls that were last manufactured and outlawed centuries prior. Not any old run of the mill antique game pieces mind you... the exploding kind.

So who brought them? What was the conversation like? "Hey Jake I have here in this family heirloom box I brought with me, my forefathers balls."

Absurdity of course. The fact remains that even with their morphing volatility over time, these balls caused largely major yet superficial wounds when they "activated." The damage caused to the Balls seems far to excessive and an antique pool ball far too convenient.