Calus was a lie.
It's been nearly 4 months since we first discovered this terrible truth. He has been taunting us with replicas. Testing us. Goading us to do his bidding. It is all a game for him. He even managed to trick us into eliminating the Vex that were in his Leviathan ship like we were some sort of galactic exterminator coming over to get rid of his infestation. All I can think though is we need to keep doing his tests and see what more we can discover about him. Is Calus the enemy we thought he was? Is he even alive anymore? Could he even be.... an ally?
We've made contact with others who also wish to end the menace that is Blargh the Unkempt. Noob, who appears to be from an ascended plain of existence has joined us in our travels. I hear he is related to some sort of space pirate, so his connections may come in handy.
guardian log 4.111.j ~~~~~ jumphish
Good news, I finally found bgrishinko and shadow again and we teamed up with a few others to go check out this really cool space cruise ship thingy. Bad news, I'm super lost.. again.
bgrishinko was going on and on and on about realms and codes and RedGas extra dumb IT while I was jumping around exploring. I might have fallen off the ship a couple of times, but it really wasn't my fault... ever since I got my light back my jumps really don't carry the same momentum they used to. There was a time where I could harness the pulse of consecutive jumps and out run even the fastest hunters, now I'm slow and often miscalculate how far I can jump. Anyways, after my last failed jump I re-spawned inside a maze of industrial hallways. I swear I've explored every route, but I get the feeling I'm going in circles... oh and guess what that new map/radar I got... yeah it doesn't work here..
UPDATE - found them, though I'm still not sure why I wanted to.. Perhaps the fumes from the blue flames and purple floor had gotten to them, because the second I got there I was asked to join a dance party at the feet of a giant yet barely clothed cabal while bg lit him self on fire near the door. I never turn down a dance party though, so I obliged, and i thought fatty was about to join us as well, but no.. he stomped us.. and only moments later we found ourselves transported into a nightmare that I can't describe.
UPDATE - found them, though I'm still not sure why I wanted to.. Perhaps the fumes from the blue flames and purple floor had gotten to them, because the second I got there I was asked to join a dance party at the feet of a giant yet barely clothed cabal while bg lit him self on fire near the door. I never turn down a dance party though, so I obliged, and i thought fatty was about to join us as well, but no.. he stomped us.. and only moments later we found ourselves transported into a nightmare that I can't describe.
shadow said it was all part of the plan, a plan that I was promised included some easy loot, but we all left empty handed. Apparently the plan needs some work, If I know bg, he'll have some ideas for next time, and I'm a sucker for loot, so I'll probably join.. also I want to see fatty go down..
guardian log 4.110.b ~~~~~ bgrishinko
We entered the great beast
of a ship in search of he who controlled it. The extravagance on display was
beyond comparison. The walls of this so called Leviathan (it must have been
named after the ancient massive creature the Hive fought against with the same
name) seemed to be made of Gold at every turn. Mud baths, Gardens for their
animals, gladiator style arena games… it all felt very disconnected to the
purpose of this massive ship. Was not this ship intended to destroy planets as
it sucked them into its gaping maw? Calus taunted us over the ship's loud
speaker inviting us to be tried against a variety of challenges, but rather
than participate in the silly games that Calus intended for us, we managed to
find our way into a service corridor. Well jumphish kept falling off the edge
of the ship and couldn't find the corridor, but that's another matter. We
received an encrypted message from the IT department of a mysterious group
called "Radegast's Extra Detailed Data." I'd received good anonymous
advice from this group before when fighting the Hive general Crota.
They'd informed me
previously about the details in which the Hive's Ascendant Realm was linked to
our own. Between our dimension and the Hive's, there is a link of sort. As a
Warlock, I was familiar with the concepts of Hive Sword Logic and how these
dimensions were connected. Referencing Stijn's 3rd Law of Quantum Entanglement,
actions in one dimension have a direct link to at least one or more other
dimensions. Depending on nature of the particular quantum connection, results
may appear psychic in nature or could have real physical manifestations. In the
case of the Hive Ascendant Realms, the Hive's thought processes and physical forms
are dependent on this link existing. Even when the Hive are destroyed in our
world and retreat physically to the Ascendant Realm, their mental link remains.
Normally the Hive's mental link cannot be severed, and any attempt to do so
would just reconnect via other paths piggybacking on our own mental link
between dimensions. I believe this might have what led to Eris Morn being so….
well never mind. The advice I'd received from Radegast's IT department was that
if this mental psychic link between our realm and Crota's Ascended Realm was
severed at just the right moment when Crota was at his most vulnerable, he'd be
torn between dimensions and his mind would no longer function to control his
body correctly. The dangerous part was that I'd need to also sever my own link
between the dimensions and risk being lost forever. However, the risk was worth
it. After destroying Crota's protective barrier and he knelt to recharge, I
severed the link between our worlds just briefly including my own, the pain was
unbearable, but only lasted a short time. With effort I was able to
re-establish my own link across dimensions, but he was unable to re-establish
his psychic link. He was unable to move. It was from this experience I learned
to trust the Radegast's IT department.
Anyway, they'd provided me
a six digit code (much like they'd provided me the codes to decrypt SIVA
clusters in the past) to gain access to underground tunnels for the Leviathan.
After a few hours of wandering aimlessly in the bowels of the ship (I'll never
be able to get the soot stains off my favorite vestments…), we finally found
his "Throne Room." The floors were made of what appeared to
crystalized wine. We found Shadow continually trying to lick the floors, which…
ugh… I just can't. Anyway, as we began to do battle with the Cabal forces that
this Emperor Calus sent at us, we were all of a sudden transported to another
dimension. He must be proficient in the art of Hive Sword Logic as well! This
made me recall my experiences for being torn during my fights with Crota. If
this Calus had a psychic link to another dimension… there must also be a way to
manipulate this link between worlds to effectively sabotage his control on this
world.
Indeed there was! Radegast's Extra Detailed Data's IT department
came through again! Our fireteam would distract Calus with various awful
dancing techniques right at his feet. This would cause Calus to become angry
and destroy my companions, and while it would be painful for them I'd be
burning myself alive… so it's all fair play. As our Ghosts worked on bringing
us back from the brink, I'd utilize my knowledge of the link between
dimensions… the burning myself alive created an interesting scenario in which
my mental link was inserted into Calus's psychic link in which he'd control his
troops. I found that if I transmatted myself out of his chamber at just the
right second, the link to his troops would dissipate and as we'd confront him
the next time, he would have no reinforcements. This was a major boon for us.
Unfortunately he was still able to transport our team to his other realm. This
other realm seemed to defy all physics as we know it. It did not abide the laws
of the Hive Ascendant Realms as I knew it. It seemed to be only a shadow of the
other dimensions we'd visited before. This caused much confusion in
communication as well as movement patterns that prevented us from destroying
Calus. We decided we needed to regroup to understand Calus's other realm.
guardian log 4.109.b ~~~~~ bgrishinko
OH MAN! You shoulda seen jumphish jumping around like a damned
fool. It was amazing! Shadow and I could barely keep it together. That being
said, I was able to take some interesting notes about the movement patterns of
Titans from it, which was my real goal in the end. It is interesting the
extended float time they have despite not being trained in the mystical arts
like us Warlocks. You don't see Hunters hovering while jumping, they drop like
a rock. Yet despite the Titan's mass, it manages to stay afloat. I will have to
speak with jumphish in a non-descript way to try and gleam more information
about the subject. Anyway, Shadow's "Twitch" experiment seemed to
have failed as well. We could not efficiently remotely monitor jumphish. He's
proceeding with a beta program that has much the same capabilities of the
twitch program code named "Beam." We will have to wait and see if
that will serve as useful. In other news, I overheard some kids talking about
some man called "The Rat King" while I was doing my cardio while
taking my daily track run around the tower grounds. I'm not sure what that's
about, but apparently there's an army of some sort out there under his command.
I'd be interesting in finding the origin of this rumor, one of the kids
mentioned Titan. Another reason to speak with jumphish again.
guardian log 4.109.j ~~~~~ jumphish
I'm sitll 90% convinced
that Shadow is certifiably crazy, but he's not dumb. To assist in walking me
through getting this HUD radar figured out he boosted our party coms and found
enough bandwidth to allow me to patch through a live 3rd person video feed from
my ghost, there are connection glitches here and there, but he's pretty proud
of it and affectionately named it a "twitch feed". After breaking
down a handful of random scouts he talked me through putting the parts together
to form a MIDA scout, which basically just collects stats on its usage. Where
it gets really interesting is that the manufacturers hid an easteregg in the
telemetry module, unlocked by boosting certain stats.. really dumb stats...
like jump in the air and shoot stuff while airborne dumb. I'm almost
completely convinced that BG and Shadow never really needed twitch to walk me
through building the weapon, they just wanted to watch me, the bulky midnight
lumos "salmon pink" titan, try to stealthfully sneak up on low level
enemies and then awkwardly jump and flop around trying hopelessly to hit my
target.. After a few minutes of painfully awkward attempts, the hilarity of
the situation wore off for BG and he politely informed me that hitting my
targets while standing on any elevated object tricked the telemetry module into
counting the stat.. anyways I have a radar now, and by this time tomorrow I
should be teamed up with BG and shadow.
guardian log 4.107.j ~~~~~ jumphish
I made audio contact with Bgrishinko and Shadow today, I'm ecstatic that
they're alive, but equally frustrated and bewildered that we have light that
can literally resurrect us from death, yet we have a communication system that
struggles with even the most rudimentary failover of protocols. What good is a
coms failover if it doesn't notify you or your fireteam that you've been
relinquished to fireteam coms due to temporary interference and also fails
restore you to your primary coms when the interference has dissipated. Enough
with my ranting, we're all still separated, but shadow says he has some ideas
about how we might be able to get radar linked up to our HUDs so we can locate
eacother again.. something about collecting scout rifles.. -jumphish
guardian log 4.106.j ~~~~~ jumphish
IT WORKED... IT FREAKING WORKED!!.. I knew that if I would have any chance at
survival it wouldn't be from hiding, so I redirected my efforts towards
building up some defense. I read a while back about kessler syndrome, where
there's so much debris in orbit you can't place a satellite without it getting
demolished, so they started equipping warsats with ACD (active contact
defense).. They can obsorb energy from smaller debris, and when something
bigger gets in the way it releases a blast to clear a path. Anyways I found a
downed warsat and was able to modify its superconductor to make my own ACD in
the form of gauntlets. I think I'll call them AC-DC feedback fence. I'm still
trying to lay low, but I feel a little more comfortable engaging smaller
enemies now.
guardian log 4.105.j ~~~~~ jumphish
It turns out remaining in the shadows is much harder than I had anticipated.
I'm not a dainty hunter and I have quickly come to the realization that my hot
pink SRL midnight lumos shader was a horrible choice for this expedition. You
might be wondering why I don't change it out, well its the same reason I can't
change anything out right now, BG and Shadow had the wonderful idea of
relinquishing all of our excess inventory to our vaults in order to make room
for the "sweet loot" that we would pick up from this Raid. Now here
I am, no loot, no backup gear, trying to hide as a giant hot pink princess with
no clue on whether or not the rest of my fireteam is even alive. I can't stay
here any longer if I don't go punch something I'm going to end up wasting my
super as an anxiety bubble. wait... I have an idea... I'll get back to you
tomorrow
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