Aaaarrrrrghhhhhh!

I was amazingly calm, I should have been punching myself in the face, I should have been smashing the keyboard over my head and putting my very foul mouth to full use. Instead I slowed my heart beat down, relaxed, got my pod and implants to relative safety and then logged and watched the Alliance Tournament for a while, before logging back on and getting my pod back home to settle into a slightly less expensive ship.

It all started with Mericus in Aspire main chat announcing WH op. Stupidly I thought "why not?" been looking for something more fun than low sec ratting or mission running, here it was.

So loaded the hold with all 4 dmg types of missile....it had been over a year since I was last in a WH, forgot what they tanked etc. so took everything including nanite paste, and mods to swap in / out depending on the circumstance. On the way out to the op start place, I had a bit of low sec to traverse, so fitted a cloak and sisters probes.

We found an occupied C3, but no-one was at home, so we went in (just the 2 of us) and cleared out the 2 anomalies. Not a single nanoribbon in the place :( We then started exploring the other exits, and found a C4 entrance from the first WH.  Now....Meri was in a Legion and I was in a Tengu, we knew that trying to do a C4 with just the two of us would be hard, so we called for re-enforcements. Yumirion and Devinaty offered to come in BSs. So we killed time and waited for them to arrive.
Eventually they were at the low sec entrance to the first WH so Meri went off to lead them down the rabbit hole. I waited at the entrance / exit of WH No.2

Now I should explain, AT8 was on, I'd missed the previous days matches and was waiting for the Final days matches to begin, anyway my mind was elsewhere and not really paying attention, as I was watching 2 screens at the same time. I had relaxed spamming the d-scan.
In hindsight....what a ridiculous place to wait. It was like sitting on a nullsec gate with a target on my ship!
I had removed the cloak and probes for more launchers, so wasn't even cloaked up.
Out of the corner of my eye, a flash of orange, Shit! too late, 4 ships had landed at the exit, 2 BSs (I think) and two frigs. Locked in seconds, scrammed and webbed and then as I hit the A/B and Shield booster my ship melted. 550 million isk worth of ship lost in seconds. Why didn't I just jump through? I don't know, I panicked at first and my first thought was get to one of the other BMs I'd made around the sys. Wrong choice! I got my pod and my Implants out of there, back through low sec and to my home.
Gutted, but Mazzy Dark et al, well done, GF. Hope next time I can make life more difficult for you.
Remember folks, be alert, especially in low sec / 0.0, your ship and your life depend upon it.
I suppose I'm grateful I've been put back on my toes.