Wormholes are doubleplusungood

December 7th

(day 3 of trial account, days 1&2 were spent tutorializing)

Whaoh dude, this is some crazy shit.

So I found that unstable wormhole after all, and it took me to an uncharted system.
I was rather confused, so I say hello in local chat, expecting some other people who got lost in there.
Instead, I get 3 toons who apparently live there telling me in a Mafioso kind of way: "this is our town, and it's a dangerous place"
EEP! I better be on my way back, then.
I see a wormhole way out on the map, but for some reason, I can't warp to it...so I'm stuck...shit. And the rookie help channel is of no use.
In my classy destroyer with my best lahsurs, I figured I could explore a bit, maybe.
I scan, and jump to some kind of datacore...and get obliterated by NPCs within 5 seconds of arriving...crap...there goes my destroyer.

I futilely try to get to get to the wormhole, warping close to it, but no dice, and in my pod, I can't even scan to find out what's going on.

I have no idea what I'm doing...

So hey...self-destruct seems my only option.
Self-destruct is, as you probably know, on a 2 minute timer, and ironically with about 20 seconds remaining, I get shot to bits
Well, shit happens, I lost my best ship, my best gear, and my implants...but it was all tier 1 garbage anyway, so no biggie in the long run.

So, it's 1 AM IRL by then, and I go to bed not angry, but a tad sad.

I was actually looking at officializing my EVE account, and lo and behold, some kind of bullshit special offer, I get a free destroyer when I do that, the same model I just lost in a fiery explosion of doom (in space)...well that's highly convenient! Okay, take my money, you evil CCP, damn commies (CCCP joke, ha. ha. ha.).

I log back into the game a day later and I read my ingame email...bla bla bla, insurance pays out, clone, bla bla bla, free rookie ship cuz I died...bla bla bla.
Man, this insurance company is the worst run company I've ever seen. I don't pay them anything abnd they just give me free shit when I fuck up.

Oh, what's this? An email from a player? "Told you it was dangerous in here... Sending some isk to replace your ship."
Whaoh, dude...that's really fucking awesome. He killed me because I was a tresspassing idiot, but he feels bad because I was obviously a noob. BAM! 4 million ISK.
Hahah, relatively, it's probably nothing for him, but almost doubles my total wealth.

Eve online: where being an idiot and getting killed is a winning strategy ;D

PS: I now have two rookie ships, which I can infinitely repackage, assemble, strip. So it'd only take me HALF the time to get that sweet sweet money now :P