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Other than Battlefield or CoD, I tend to judge games based on what my son thinks. He wasn't really into Destiny at first, he would have rather watched me kill the "My little ponies" in Diablo 3 instead of running strikes. That being said, he was there when I started playing TTK, and immediately went nuts. He has been my shadow in the game for the last two nights, and I let him choose what mission I run. He keeps wanting me to run the starting mission on Phobos. It has really been awesome to see him soak up the dialogue and visuals, and he even started incorporating parts of it into his own stories. For my son, Bungie really nailed it with the Dimensional rifts. My son loves reading about Dark Energy and the Multiverse Theory, and the game now really plays up to that. So that being said, I have to thank Bungie for making a better game than what we had.

oooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Well that shit will be getting done tonight if I can't get a fireteam for the Petra shit

I hit 40 last night, and within a few packages I had a Purple Heavy (Ruin Wake), purple arms and legs, and a class armor. Although, I have to say the New Monarchy Legs are shit. Increased Agility after a solar Double Kill. Yea, never happen in PVP for me

Anyone going to be on tonight? apparently I need a fireteam to do the quests for Petra.

LOL Thats my sons nightstand, it is his pumpkin which keeps spiders away from his bed (It is next to his bed every day), as well as his flashlight. I never realized what that thing looked like until now.

There are a ton scattered around. when starting though, DO NOT GRAB MORE THAN ONE! Wait to grab all the others until after you talk to eris

Oh wait so all my ascendant energies (And the other shit), can be turned into Motes now?

How the hell do I get the sword? or even How the hell do I stop from getting killed by it in Crucible?

Just fought the Horn of Oryx in the Divide, that shit sucked was solo, sadly, so I didn't kill him

damn I have a ton of awesome AR's though!

How much Year 1 stuff are you guys dismantling? I did a bunch of titan armor, and then a few weapons, but damn is it hard to get rid of this stuff. Also, HARD LIGHT IS AWESOME

You don't read political threads, so just skip past this one homie

Oh shit, that ones awesome

I also forgot about FEAR I have 2 and 3 on PC, but I never finished 2. hhmm, might need to revisit them

I found these all over my house!

(Got mine last night in the Deceptive Engram) Found this early, it was relevant What's that? You don't think Monte Carlo is the tightest shit ever? You wish you'd gotten Hawkmoon from that Deceptive Engram? Well then my good sir, you need to shut up and listen. Great Stability? Check. Great Range? Check. Great magazine size? Check. Sexy as hell? Check. Oh, and let's not forget that it turns 6 of the 9 subclasses into roflstomping beasts. Gunslinger: Throwing Knife all. Fucking. Day. A few bullets and a precision hit is a kill. Takes like 2 seconds. And you can do it FOREVER with Knife Juggler equipped. But of course, sometimes you miss completely, or sometimes you hit the body, and you're now missing a Throwing Knife. MONTE CARLO TO THE RESCUE. Sunbreaker: Melting Point is your team's best friend. Anyone you punch becomes a crying baby in the face of your team's bullets. The more you can do this, the better. Oh, what's that I hear? MONTE FUCKING CARLO. Or, say you have a Cauterize build so that all your ability kills regen your health. Maybe you fucked up and didn't get a kill with Sunstrike, and want its cooldown recharged. Monsieur Monte Carlo. Defender: No Backup Plans, Relentless, Unbreakable. Your Force Barrier lasts for your entire fucking cooldown, and constantly regenerates. If your regular shield takes damage with this build, jump off a cliff, because you have infinite Force Barrier. But maybe you don't have enough Strength to max out your cooldown. Maybe some Taken asshole appears and fucks your shield up. Damn you really need Disintegrate back now. Well, you could get on your knees and pray to the Traveler or Vishnu or some shit like that or just hold the trigger down on motherfucking Monte Carlo. Stormcaller: Put on Claws of Ahamkara for two melee charges, and then spec Thunderstrike for increased range, and every Guardian will cry crocodile tears and run to their fat momma whenever you electrofuck them to death from 10 feet away. That bladed, shimmering, iPhone-looking bladegun helps you do this even fucking more. Or forget that dumb increased range. You know what you want? As many voltslaps as possible. Well then, Rising Storm, Feedback, Perpetual Charge. Your Thunderstrike will charge your Super AND ITSELF. Your grenades will charge it too. And if some stupid assclown decides to sucker punch you, you automatically get a Thunderstrike charge back with MOAR POWAH to smack his silly ass. Icing on the cake? MONTEEEEEEE CARRRRRLOOOOOOO Nightstalker: Hot damn, your Smoke is better than your grenades a bunch of the time. Envenomed and Lockdown is worse than snorting a port-a-john's shitwater. Or maybe you use Snare to just prank anybody coming down that fucking hallway. Or maybe you like being invisible and groping asses with Vanish in Smoke. You can even pass that on to your dudebros before they go into the wild and grab some hot Ogre booty. You know what's even more awesome? DOING IT MORE OFTEN THANKS TO THE ONE AND ONLY JESUS CHRIST IN GUN FORM, MONTE CARLO. Sunsinger: Claws of Ahamkara, Flame Shield, rest my fucking case here. Like you didn't figure this shit out by now. Monte Carlo is so boss you knew this would be awesome in the fucking beta.

Dying Light was a great idea, but the movement in it was weird and started giving me headaches (I had the same problem in Halo Reach oddly enough) Silent Hill is amazing, I wish I still owned them. For me though, few things beat out the original Resident Evil on PS1.

Yea, I want to get into the online component. Hopefully this makes it easier.

I am convinced that Facebook is for people that want to be passive aggressive in feeling bad about themselves

(Damn Reddit is amazing today, so many new Lore posts!) Recently, over a hundred grimoire cards were data mined, including the Books of Sorrow. The Books of Sorrow detail the origin and journey of both Oryx and his brethren, and the history of the Hive (and origin of the Vex on this plane!). It's quite an excellent read, as it details the hardships the Hive have endured. It gives the Hive a sense of relatability; that they aren't just simple, nameless horrors. It makes them seem more personal. Our story begins with Santhona, Aurash and Xi Ro, spawn of the Hive King. These three of the Hive are brethren, and were responsible for infecting the Hive with the Ahamkara (parasitic worms), who propelled the Hive from the bottom of the food chain on a fragment of a rock in a gas planet to one of the most powerful races in the universe. Aurash becomes Oryx, the Taken King. He wrote the Books of Sorrows, and this is why.[3] http://db.destinytracker.com/grimoire/enemies/darkness/calcified-fragments-insight Fleeing from Taox, usurper of the Osmium Throne and conspirator against their now-murdered father, the three Hive locate an ancient ship capable of withstanding the immense pressure of the gas planet they are located on. With time running out (Hive age very, very quickly, and they had been onboard for over two years) to prove an extinction level event is imminent - the syzygy, or the 'god wave', a gravitational disaster - they dive to the core of the planet in a bid to buy more time (immortality). On the ship, they have a dead worm: The worm — Carved in my code by Sathona — Who should be afraid — It was my father’s familiar. I ripped it from him as we fled. It is a dead white thing, segmented, washed up from the deep sea. It’s dead, but it still speaks to me. It says: listen closely, oh vengeance mine... Sound familiar? Well, it should. Every single reference to the Ahamkara, be it grimoire or gear, contains the phrase 'Oh (person) mine', be it "reader" or "bearer" or so forth. Furthermore, it washed up from the Deep Sea - from the core of the planet. More information on Ahamkara can be found here.[4] https://www.reddit.com/r/DestinyTheGame/comments/2hlzva/lets_discuss_the_ahamkara_space_dragons/ In Book of Sorrows VIII, we see Sanotha falling under the influence of the worm. She even begins to talk like it: Sisters, I have my father’s familiar. Look! It answers me in plain words. It helped me find this ship. It gives me strength when hope is lost. Who will you trust? The voice that wants us to live and suffer, as we have lived and suffered? The Leviathan that offers no hope against Taox or the world-wave? Or the plain, honest worm? Let us see where its whisper leads us, Aurash. Let us go deeper, Xi Ro! Let us dive, oh sisters mine. Now, in case anyone isn't aware, there is a very strong theory over the powers of the Hive (found here[5] ). https://www.reddit.com/r/DestinyTheGame/comments/36ekrt/hidden_lore_of_the_hive/ And this is now confirmed, with the release of Books of Sorrow IX: I am Yul, the Honest Worm. Behold my passage. Behold my vast displacement, my ponderous strength, my great and coiling length, my folded jaws and curled wings. Behold the hiving cities symbiotic with my flesh. I am fecund, Aurash. I am at the beginning and end of lives. Behold Eir, and Xol, and Ur, and Akka. The Virtuous Worms. Look upon us, and know that We are go[o]d. For millions of years We have been [trapped|growing] in the Deep. From across the stars We have called life to Fundament, so that it might contend against extinction. For millennia We have awaited you... our beloved hosts. Against you stand the cruel Leviathan and all the forces of the Sky. They would crush you down into the dark. They have arranged their moons to drown you, in fear of your potential. We want to help you, Princes. We offer to each of you a bargain... a symbiosis. Take into your bodies our children, our newborn larvae. From them you shall obtain eternal life. From them you shall gain power over your own fragile flesh: the power to make of it as you will. And should you find an imperfection in the world, an injustice or an inconvenience — you will have the power to repair it. Let no mere law bind you. We ask one thing in exchange, oh Princes. You must obey your nature forever. In your immortality, Aurash, you may never cease to explore and inquire, for the sake of your children. In your immortality, Xi Ro, you may never cease to test your strength. In your immortality, Sathona, you may never abandon cunning. If you do, your worm will consume you. And as your power grows, oh Princes, so will your worm’s appetite. But we offer eternity, Aurash. We offer you a chance at the universe. Would you deny your people infinity? Reach up to me. Let my flesh be your sacrament. The dead worm that is on the ship one of the spawn of Yul, Eir, Xol, Ur and Akka. They then rename the three Hive brethren as Auryx (Aurash), Savathun (Sanotha) and Xivu Arath (Xi Ro). But the question has remains - why would the Hive deal with literal parasites? Let's take a look at what the Hive refer to as 'The Timid Truth': The Timid Truth says that we are the smallest, most fragile things alive. The natural prey of the universe. This is what the Hive believe themselves to be. They have also stated that they live with "... thousands of other species [that] drift with us, coexisting on a vast world sea. And the tides of the Fundament move us all" (Found here[6] http://db.destinytracker.com/grimoire/enemies/books-of-sorrow/iv-syzygy )The Fundament is the gas planet in which the shattered remains of the Hive's home planet floats in. The Hive have an incredibly short lifespan - a Hive of ten years is ancient. Immortality would be incredibly tempting, and the Ahamkara offer great power. However, we don't have any confirmed, official pictures of an Ahamkara. Many people think they look like dragons, due to the many bones (Claws of Ahamkara, Young Ahamkara's Spine, Bones of Eao) found ingame. But the worms might develop into a dragon like form later in their life form - supported in Book XLV: THE DRAGONS. Our gods should be ours alone. Their smug freedom is an insult to me. I’d shut them all in cells. Bring them to me! And here is how Yul, worm-god of the Hive, describes himself. I am Yul, the Honest Worm. Behold my passage. Behold my vast displacement, my ponderous strength, my great and coiling length, my folded jaws and curled wings. Last time I checked, worms don't (normally) have wings. Perhaps we should have been considering wyrms, not worms. Here is some concept art that might be an Ahamkara. [7] http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-pAQBUUcyifs/UT5Mi55orJI/AAAAAAAANgc/txkNsHgoulY/s1600/guardians-battle-beast-destiny.jpg Note that this may be concept art detailing the Great Ahamkara Hunt. Note how the worm (that is what it is) doesn't seem much like an earthworm? It's more of an armoured, vertebrae-possessing one, with some very large teeth. Now, we have a bombshell – why the Hive hate the Traveller. Shortly after conquering the Fundament, the Hive reach stable orbit and find the fifty two moons of their planet in perfect alignment, the cause of the syzygy. Except there is one additional object in the sky... Our organs detect a fifty-third moon in orbit of Fundament. A Traveler. Divine presence of the Sky. Now we know what arranged the syzygy.[8] http://db.destinytracker.com/grimoire/enemies/books-of-sorrow/xiv-52-and-one Who is talking? This is the worm (ahamkara) within one of the three spawn of oryx. Essentially, the Ahamkara told the Hive that the Traveller was responsible for the syzygy - who knows, they could be telling the truth or lying - and set the Hive against it. The Ammonite, a species raised by the Traveller, are armed by the Traveller and involved in a war with the Hive. In their desperation, the Ammonite have begun using paracausal weapons. What are these? How do they work? Wouldn’t you like to know. Suffice to say that some powers in this universe are superordinate to mere material physics. The source of these weapons is the Traveler, the Sky’s bait star. Their effect is subtle, but devastating. The Ahamkara sparked and continued the war between the two species. They also taught the Hive how to 'eat light' Once the way is open, we’ll show you how to eat the Traveler. We also learn that Auresh/Auryx is the Oryx that we know of; King of the Osmium Throne, the First Navigator. Sayeth AURYX, this is where I went when I died. Let us establish our thrones here. For I am Auryx the First Navigator and I shall chart death. And my throne shall be carved of osmium. His speech to the Deep is not recorded here. But it is known that he returned, and he said, now I am Oryx, the Taken King. And I have the power to take life and make it my own. Oryx killed his brethren (temporarily, but only by chance did they come back) to gain their power. “I know a way,” King Auryx says. “But it will require great power. More power than any one of us can claim.” “Then kill me,” says Xivu Arath, “and use that killing logic, the power you prove by killing something as mighty as me.” So King Auryx took up his blade and beheaded Xivu Arath. “And strangle me,” says Savathûn, holding a blade behind her back. “Use that killing logic, the cunning you prove by killing something as smart as me.” But King Auryx turned with the speed and might of Xivu Arath, and beheaded Savathûn before she could move. King Auryx was the First Navigator, with the map of death. These were true deaths, for they happened in the sword world. Then he went to the Worm named Akka [Akka is the 5th worm god, the one of secrets] We then have the showdown between the Ecumene, an unknown race, and the Hive. We also learn that Oryx gains his power to ‘take’ others from Akka. He employs this tactic against the Ecumene- until this event, they were losing a war against them. The Hive entity Oryx/Aurash is deploying a paracausal ontopathogenic weapon that infects and subverts Ecumene forces. The weapon operates on individual targets. Targets are abducted and returned as compliant Hive slaves with inexplicable and physically illegal abilities. Eventually, Oryx kills his resurrected brethren again, but the ascendant Hive such as these are immortal and cannot die, only weakened. He becomes the sole ruler of the Hive for a short to,e by crippling their power (limiting their worm's food). They eventually split up[9] (who knows, we may encounter the other two siblings at a later date). And he still hates the Traveller, evident in his speech to his newborn son, Crota. http://db.destinytracker.com/grimoire/enemies/books-of-sorrow/xlvi-the-gift-mast We fight a war against false hope, Crota. We chase a god called the Traveler, a huckster god who baits young life into building houses for it. These houses are unsafe, for they cannot stand against my Hive. And these houses are a trap — for they lead young life away from the blade and the tooth, which are the tools of survival and the means of ascension. Only when the Traveler is extinguished will the universe be free to arrange itself, and assume, by ruthless contest, its final perfect shape, a shape which depends on nothing but itself. We stand against the fatal lie that a world built on laws of conduct may ever resist the action of the truly free. This is the slavery of the Traveler, the crime of creation, in which labor is wasted on the construction of false shapes. If you choose to fight us, fight us with everything you have, with all your laws and games. We will prove our argument thus. And here the Hive learn the craft of The Oversoul AND THE ORIGIN OF THE VEX IN THIS DIMENSION (holy smokes). Crota learns the art of the Oversoul from his sisters, and also accidentally unleashes the Vex from a different dimension when he attempts to make his own throne world: “We propose a method by which Ascendant souls can be detached and integrated into a tautological and autonomous thanatosphere, which we tentatively term an oversoul. Oversouls can be stored in a throne world as a mechanism of enhanced death resilience. As a side effect, new refinements to our Deathsong may be achieved, moving us closer to a generally effective paracausal death impulse.” Oryx brandished his sword. “Speak the Royal Tongue, or I’ll pin you up for Eir to eat.” “If we can separate our deaths from ourselves, and hide them, we will be hard to kill.” Oryx went to his son, Crota. “Go keep an eye on your sisters,” he said. “'You can learn cunning from them.” But while Oryx traveled to observe the Deep destroy an ancient fortress world, Crota conspired with his sisters to learn their secrets. “I too will experiment with a wound,” he said. With his sword Crota cut open a new wound, into a new space. In here he thought he might obtain a secret power. Out of this wound came machines called Vex. They invaded Oryx’s throne world. There we have it folks. When I set out to make this post, I didn't expect to find THIS. Book XXXIX[10] details the shenanigans Crota and his siblings get into. http://db.destinytracker.com/grimoire/enemies/books-of-sorrow/xxxix-open-your-eye-go-into-it The Vex then learn 'sword logic' from the Hive by spawning Qurai, Blade Transform. They also learn how to influence reality by worshipping the Ahamkara. When Oryx realizes what happens, he slays all remaining Vex in his realm, and then throws Crota into a Vex portal to grow stronger. Oryx also views the Vex as 'worthy rivals' Book XL[11] . http://db.destinytracker.com/grimoire/enemies/books-of-sorrow/xl-an-emperor-for-all-outcomes Qurai continued to study the Hive, transmitting data to all other Vex, until he is destroyed in Book XLIII[12] . http://db.destinytracker.com/grimoire/enemies/books-of-sorrow/xliii-end-of-failed-timeline It should be noted that the Vex could not simulate Oryx. We then learn why The Dreadnought exists; essentially, it is a Hive Dimension ripped through space and time and dumped smack middle in our reality: The Taken King said to his Court, the High War, “My throne world is vulnerable. I am going to move it.” ‘Where?’ asked Kagoor, World-Render. “Into a mighty dreadnaught,” said Oryx. “I shall keep my glorious mind cosmos inside a titanic warship.” Why does he do this? The Vex compromised his world once, and he needed to make his realm safer. By removing his realm from an alternate dimension, he makes himself slightly more vulnerable to threats in this world but nearly immune to ones from outside it. This is detailed in Book of Sorrow L (#50), the final one[13] . http://db.destinytracker.com/grimoire/enemies/books-of-sorrow/l-wormfood A quick summary - if he is defeated outside of the Dreadnought, he has to retreat to it; if he is defeated inside the Dreadnought, he must retreat to his throne; if he is defeated at his throne, he dies. And there we have it folks; the origin of the Hive; their rise to power; the origin of Oryx and the background of both the Vex and the Ahamkara. There is much more to learn from these cards - I could only give them a cursory read over. For instance, I am unsure if the Hive had contact with a known race(found here[14] ). http://db.destinytracker.com/grimoire/enemies/books-of-sorrow/xlv-id-shut-them-all-in-cells I would recommend anyone to read these grimoire cards; they are some of the most detailed ones to date, and give the most insight into the history behind all factions to date.

The Rasputin 5 Grimoire! So glad the story is finally coming out: (NOTE: Reading all of the Rasputin logs point to a lot of this) http://www.ishtar-collective.net/cards/ghost-fragment-rasputin-5#rasputin This is a SUBTLE ASSETS IMPERATIVE (NO HUMAN REVIEW) (NO AI-COM REVIEW) (secure/ABHOR). Stand by for CRITERIA: ... If a CIVILIZATION KILL EVENT is underway [[all flexions]] If tactical morality is built at MIDNIGHT Stand by for DECISION POINT: If available ISR and WARWATCH indicates imminent [O] departure then [O] departure compromises human/neohuman survival and epoch strategy Stand by for ABHORRENT IMPERATIVE: Activate LOKI CROWN Perform deniable authorization: full caedometric and noetic release Prevent [O] departure by any means available Stand by for effect assessment criteria: Coerce pseudoaltruistic [O] defensive action. Defer civilization kill. STOP STOP STOP V101NTS923ATS001 [O] is the Traveler. So it's pretty clear that this is the plan that the Warmind holds in the event that the human civilization will be destroyed. If human civilization is about to be destroyed, the Warmind expects the traveler to abandon our solar system and flee to another system, as many had speculated it did to the Fallen. The Warmind then activates the "LOKI CROWN" which prevents the Traveler from leaving earth. It then "coerce" a "pseudoaltruistic action" from the traveler. This is the wave that pushed back the darkness. So, what the Speaker tells us was a sacrifice to save humanity was actually the traveler having his hand forced by the Warmind. If it were up to the traveler, it would have left our system just like the previous ones. The Warmind actually "saved" us by keeping the traveler from abandoning us and forcing it to defend itself, which defended us as a side-effect. This shows us pretty clearly that the Traveler is not the actively benevolent force that the Speaker claims. It's likely an amoral entity that brings a golden age to the lifeforms it blesses, but then abandons them to be destroyed by the Darkness whenever it is pursued. Considering it attracts the darkness anywhere it goes, it dooms civilizations wherever it goes but does it anyway, it's possible that from that perspective it's an evil entity, but definitely an entity with no regard for humanity. I wonder if the Warmind is acting so secretive and going underground to avoid retaliation from the Traveler/Speaker, not from fearing the forces of Darkness.. Thoughts?

Pro-Tip!!! (from Reddit) When turning in your stuff for faction rep: Stop and pick up your package every time you level. Otherwise, it will only return one package, regardless of how many times you level up

There are a few staples I want to upgrade. sort of like how I still carry around my Vanquisher!

The TTK weapon packs need to be bought from the Vanguard Quartermaster in the Hangar. (Not going to lie, I feel duped here as I thought we got them for free.... apparently, we bought "Access" to buy them) Also, they supposedly stack up really well against Y1 weapons