A group of players narrate and react while progressing through a complex, puzzle-filled mission inspired by Destiny 2, encountering combat challenges, narrative revelations, and interactions with key characters. The session is marked by teamwork, humor, navigation of in-game mechanics, and a major story development involving "the Nine".

Mission Progression and Challenges

• The group initiates a timed reactor sequence, encountering environmental hazards and combat obstacles.

• Players solve various puzzles including destroying nodes, activating mechanisms, and transporting "balls" (in-game objects) to progress.

• Combat escalates with powerful enemy encounters, including hydras, minotaurs, and boss fights requiring strategy and coordination.

• Navigational challenges, platforming, and timed sequences create high tension and frequent restarts after failures.

Narrative and Character Interactions

• Story elements unveil as Ikora sacrifices herself and "the Nine" are introduced as significant cosmic entities.

• The players encounter and communicate with NPCs like Drifter, Emissary, and Lodi, interpreting cryptic messages and instructions.

• A dramatic confrontation occurs resulting in the death of one of the Nine, raising existential stakes for the universe.

• The party receives instructions to "bind the Nine" to prevent extinction, and discusses implications for Earth.

Gameplay Mechanics and Solutions

• Puzzle tasks involve using "Matter Spark", "Avocado", and shooting specific nodes/cubes to unlock progression.

• Team members coordinate roles for simultaneous objectives, including platform movement, shield-breaking, and defeating enemies.

• The session showcases new or changed game mechanics, including portals, object manipulation, and transformation abilities.

Major Story Revelations

• The Nine manipulated events to send a warning to humanity via the players.

• One of the Nine sacrifices themselves, triggering a potential chain reaction threatening extinction.

• Binding the Nine is presented as the key to averting disaster for Earth and its inhabitants.

Player Reflections and Reactions

• The group frequently expresses surprise, humor, and frustration at unexpected events and game logic.

• They reflect on character motivations, the depth of the game’s story, and the complexity of puzzles and boss fights.

• Positive feedback is given on the mission's design; comparisons are made to other games like Metroid and Banjo-Kazooie.

Decisions

• Players agree to pursue the task of binding the Nine as indicated by the narrative to save Earth.

Action Items

• TBD – Team: Speak to Lodi to continue the questline "Project Graviton".

• TBD – Team: Prepare for follow-up missions related to binding the Nine and establishing a bridge with extra-dimensional entities.

Questions / Follow-Ups

• How will binding the Nine be accomplished in future missions?

• What are the long-term consequences of Three’s death and the chain reaction?

Destiny 2 Mission Summary

Oh no. Wait, there is a reactor meltdown? Mmm, 1999. Get out of here, servitor. I'm the fighting leader. Yes, you are.

Can you just start it? No, don't even arrest me. You bitch!

Oh my god, I would have died. I didn't even see that thing. Diloco used to save me from the second shank.

Oh no! What do you mean "Oh no"? You're such an asshole.

It would be funny. But funny. Swallow spit!

Were you swallowing like... Oh, we have a timer, we have a timer! Uh, do-do-do-do-do.

No, I gotta do it right? Shoot again, that way. Yeah, yeah, shoot again.

Oh my god, there actually is a full-on timer. Crazy train The thistle mind it's got a big shield I Gambit. Coolant, 10 seconds. Oh.

Okay, I like this mission. The caldera. Oh, no.

Damn it. This thing's hammered in coolant like a severed head. I'll kill the enemies to keep the timer up. Did you just hear that? What?

Ikora's gonna let herself be in the reactor to keep getting rezzed. You were right, 1999. Are we gonna lose Ikora? I hope not. Plagiarism! I won't lie, it is a little bit close to the exact thing.

You didn't never finish that story, though, right? No, but I got to see the bat part. Okay, so we're supposed to do what we did before, I'm gonna guess, right? There's, uh, things in there, dude. Blow-up things.

Oh, oh, oh, that's a bane. That's a bane. Oh, my.

That is... Yeah, but it's not a darkness zone yet. Why can't we kill it?

I don't know. I'm scared. Something's wrong.

It... Oh, nope. Not this way.

Not this way. Flashes. It's on fire.

Is this... Oil and rain? People don't know it's irradiated. Um... Oh shit!

It's just showing me things! Where's Spark? Where's Spark?

Right here! In a tundra? A bear boiling in mud? In a forest of ash? Keep going!

The reactor is melting down! We need you to help us! Shit! Watch out on that little corner!

No! Oh, I made it! I made it! Talk to me!

Gavin, why are you showing me this? Why won't you help? I'm the connection!

No, I fell down at the end! Oh god, oh god, oh god, oh god, oh god. There's so much shit.

Oh, there's another thing we need to do. Yeah, we're, we're, uh... We really are.

Um, we just gotta solve... Oh, I gotta square. We must destroy all squares.

There's another one. There we go. And there's another one.

There we go. And we destroy that. There we go.

And what did that do? Uh, it should open that, but it's still closed. Do we miss one? We're missing disruptors.

Oh, crap. Yeah, follow the cord. Come on, please, tell me.

No, that's... No, you got that. It's...

There's another wire... This way. It's in there. We need a big ball. Ball.

Ball. I got ball. I got ball.

Do you need any additional powers? No, they got the ball. No, just ball.

Open, open, open. Got it. Show yourself. Nice.

One node left, hero. Time to show us disasters. Something more reliable than a god. Oh, we need a thinker. Guardian.

There, got it. My faith lies with you, man. Oh, no.

Drifter? Yeah, hell yeah, you got it. While she's in agonizing pain. You did?

Oh, you got the middle. That's the middle. All right, we cleared the area so now that way There now shoot the know that that one for somewhere Squidward to help it work.

Oh, we did But I will not play it passively The Korra really likes binges. Holy flip. Oh, here we go. Oh.

Holy crap, okay. Okay, so, um... We need, uh, matter...

Oh, over there. I just jumped on top of the hydra. I just did it like this.

Well, it's not immune anymore, so you... My goodness gracious is immune let me guess yep, we need to Okay, we're fine what nothing there was in fanatics and there's a matter of your finger Didn't mean to click that God There we go wait is it oh we got to press the button first point The obstacle line what's about to be offline? Never mind, I'm still alive Will the altar still hold It's not a permanent solution, but our efforts should have given the Ionians generators a serviceable amount of juice. I keep getting garbage on that one hand cannon.

Hurry. The nine want to talk formally, and they're not too keen on waiting. Tell them to wait longer. Yes.

What are they doing? Light shining. Bond is bald. They're emissary bows.

Let them in. Oh, they are. They're here. I have a minute on this Matterspark.

Damn. He starts to form into Starhorse. Okay, that's nine.

Oh, okay. Okay. Your captured audience dissembles. Invitation to notarize transfer tonight, the weapon answered.

B-4-8 has spoken. Quiet your clods and gases! We all have hostiles to be, but only one right now. I hold the vessel.

Old... And new. This quitter is an outcast, but still connected.

This beautiful boy is the emissary to be. He's a beautiful boy. Guardian. You are the weapon we chose by right and trial.

Oh, because then the trials are the nine. The edge of its paracausality to shroud this chain sequence to fail and carry prediction. Be us. Kneel. Kneel.

And let your knobby quarks press the hadron. Fuck you! You all present here ratified this contract.

I, Rene... You do know what the quark is, right? No, no. My Hero Academia! My vote is "I", obviously.

In a very acquaintment, declination, weaponized flesh tool, atlas. Those are quirks! And you sustain us! I don't like the 9. Yay! Yay!

I laugh of accidentally like Xur got on the call like he didn't mean to. That's not how democracy works. You are charged with seeking the final gold.

It would be funny if it's the brother bands of the Nine. Oh no! Like they just like, "Ew, it's that guy again." Oh, they're real!

I knew it! He like, he never even met him, like he's like, "Oh my god!" I am gonna throw up. Seek three at the altar.

All paths converge, guardian weapon. Okay, where's that? Let me guess, a ball? In ball?

Message completed. There. Goddammit. Oh my god, that's hilarious.

This- that puzzle was fun. Or funny as well. What is it? It's another egg. Oh, we're gonna go through that portal thing, aren't we?

Yep. Wee! Whaaa! Hit the drifter!

I know folks speculate about my haul behind my back. But what they don't realize is... I don't know a damn thing about it either.

All you know is moats. I've recorded an engine of pure potential. But potential for what? I never knew or cared.

Long as I fed it dark moats, it kept spittin' out prime evils. And that was good enough for me. But since we arrived here, that old hall's been actin' real squirrely.

I had to re-pick it up because I bugged it out by falling down. Oh, you did? Of course, all the baddies you dusted probably felt some kind of way about it. Oh.

Maybe that's why Gambit's not in the portal yet. Why are they so tiny? I was about to ask that. Baby wings!

Oh, he's got little baby chicken wings. Why is this? I think they glitched it then. It was not like that before. It was way larger.

Have to go through a hole and open it. But I'm too lazy. Before we get further, the woman you knew, what was her name? Are you sure you need to know that?

Looks like we're going to need a Maddox perk at some point. I want to know who I'm fighting for. Never mind. I thought that was one of the lights. You're fighting for the most fearless person I know.

And when we get to that god... You're going to ask them why they killed... Dr. Nella Davis. I think we have put up these nuts, yo, there.

It was these... These what? These nuts got him.

You just hear a Nova Bomb go off, Edlo. I thought this was something. Look at this rock, doesn't it look suspicious?

Hmm. Sucks. It's a shit.

I remember I know why. Hey idiots! Who shot my grenade? You have your chance. Oh, no, I don't know.

Use it. Who touched my grenade? Where do we...

Where do... Here. It was tickling the rim of the hole for a moment. Do you still have the mother spark? No, I lost.

Oh, no, you can... Oh. You can use mother spark there. I wrote less.

It was trap mmm, but I think portals trap cuz I'm trapped here I don't know if I don't have things. How did you wait? How did you get over there Vaughn?

Oh? With the matter spark is still hard. Oh, you're supposed to oh you're supposed to only problem I have now is that I don't have a Bonner green. Wait, how did you wait?

But how did you get over there? Where's the hole to get over there? That there was something to shoot.

It's on the floor. Oh, I see it now Please I believe it's a back and forth thingy because the shot a lift up So I'm gonna think that we have to use that yeah, we have to throw a thing and then Okay, then we need to go back. We need to go back We do need to go back now.

Yeah, I think now the portal shot left floor where we died What's the name get the green thing I have the avocado Avocado. An avocado! Oh no! Oh, we opened that.

And then... Oh, this way. The fucking mantel. Here.

Wait, wait. Chicken. Wait, wait.

Door is open. What was the new soft cap? That's a great question. I have no idea. It was 200 or something, right?

Is it? That's the power cap. Yeah, that's the power one. Oh, it's crits get up up there Mike I will test it if it's a trap It's fine.

It is not a trap. Oh we oh we need a green Avocado should the one close to you one should the one close to you? We go up up.

Oh, we should that oh You need to not suck with it shut your goddamn mouth. Oh But see, you stopped sucking with it and then you go to the other side. Wow, that's crazy.

See, look, now we go up there. See, I was right. Oh, and I see a lot of platform things. I'm not ready. I'm not ready.

What do you mean you're not ready? Crazed mind touched by the singularity. Oh, it's a big Minotaur.

Oh, it's me. Crazy mine. Okay, it's immune.

I think we need the Matter Spark for that one. Oh, God. There's a cranium in there, too, in that spinning blade of doom.

Is there a cannon anywhere? Maybe after we kill the Hydra. That's what I'm trying to do.

Cannon. Yep, cannon. And it's only... No, never mind. It's not only one.

Uh... Oh, oh, oh, oh! I know what to do! I know what to do! How- where's the- where- did you get it?

Did you get the cranium? Okay! We're at singular- uh, green!

Green, green, green, green! You're gonna have to shoot that thing that had the shield! Up there! On my way. I missed it.

I missed it again. Oh, never mind, it's already open. Got it.

Uh... Open the other one. Where's the other one? I think that's already open?

Uh... No, it's not open. That one's the other one.

What?! It's a killed! I think you got the crush, then the Minotaur hit you. No, I don't know what happened.

Maybe I hit like an invisible wall? You- Yep, yep. There was an invisible wall.

Okay, we were- yeah, we were just ridiculous. Is there a square there? Yeah. Yep.

I can destroy those two on, uh... Yep. I missed. Okay, he's weakened.

No, of course that doesn't count as a melee. Weakened. But they're not as close as I thought they were.

Gee, why are you up there? Why are you not hit reaching back here? Because I don't want to. Oh, there's another, uh... Oh, there's two of them now.

Never mind. Yeah, I'm one of the big... I'm dead! I don't have a res.

Get to loco. I do. I'm the closest one to you.

Leave! Thank you, dude, it would be nice of those gosh darn Yeah, maybe it's a one in C front now you think Oh No, no look yeah, there is there On the right side the cannon thing and then the cube is on the on the front now I don't even need to get close to them. That's, yeah, that's why. There's a death barrier because you don't need to. Damage.

Why is there a chicken here? Oh, shit, I see. Where'd it go?

Where'd it go? Behind us, right below us. There is harpies as well, so I will say kill wyvern, kill harpies.

I got the wyvern. There might be more, though. Spin! I love my friends with recluse.

Okay. Oh, I almost took myself out. Oh shit.

Bro is getting stung like crazy from off the fire and your freaking super. Yo, I got all the things. Drifter, you need to bring your ship close. I'm remembering part of the message I was meant to deliver. Ready the derelict?

Bring the haul. Why? What? What?

What? Oh no. This is gonna be a lot of Deloco's motes. Remember this if we're back at the one room.

The rubber room. Suddenly marauders. Mobile on. Become a spark I see a book I don't avocado maybe avocado then spark Me too. Oh, that's a lot A lot of jetpacks a lot of yellow bar server.

They're still holy. Oh God day! Exiles, take down the deathless ship!

No, not the ship! No, don't destroy Gambit! No, Drifter! That's not good.

They're gonna die just like the beginning of last season. No! We need an avocado.

Oh, you gotta time on getting on that platform. I see it. I see it. I see it.

Got to wait, got to wait, got to wait, got to wait, got to wait. Got to wait now. Nice.

I need the thing it's over there and Oh, yeah, you need And I break this and I got the avocado I bring the avocado and now you shoot that thing No, it was not all right shoot shoot shoot This this not that this And now that opened in there. Oh, great. There's another step. Oh, now this is moving. Oh, I know what to do.

All right, watch this. This is a big brain. All right, you ready?

Ready? No, you gotta time it. You gotta time it a little bit.

Oh. Actually, never mind that. Nope.

Where the fuck? Well, you know. Great.

A banner- Oh, this is where we're supposed to go? Wait a minute. Yes.

And what about that chest? Did you see that there's a chest over there? Right here. Oh, you could just open it.

Yeah, you can just open it. I'm an idiot. No, play for me! No! No!

Tube. Fury of Archon. It's Saber, but not Saber.

Probably have to take out this captain, and then maybe it's like the one thing where the shield goes down somewhere, or... Oh, I see the little Metroid holes on the sides. I see Metaspark here.

I see the shield generators. Ooh! With the flip! Wait a minute. I know.

I know. This is gonna be fun. Alright, watch this. There's no shot.

Cannonball! I missed. I think you're supposed to... Yeah, dad! And now we do that again.

There's a resilient captain Bane over here. Yeah, there's one on each side. I can see the Locust a little weird, even though he's in spirit mode. Wee! I did it!

That's a lot of dudes. There was. Everybody oh I'm not as scared of them you're fucking terrified I hear wiggles Nice Outside our cards not bluffing can't get close to whatever the hell that is. I'm taking too much fire No Wait, huh? Why no air?

Oh, we fall down here. It's like we're unlocking the next level of Banjo-Kazooie's. Um...

Why does that look like a giant butthole? I fell. One, three is dead.

The nine that invited us here is dead? I'm so sorry. It was like a block in my mind. I think we need to go left there.

The nine wouldn't let me remember until now. They brought us here to tell us something. They rearranged our entire lives. For what? There has to be a reason.

What type of message are we supposed to hear from the dead? We're gonna need a different kind of way of talking to them, but we have to do like a seance or something Oh they're widening the butthole! Wait that's the nine?

That's the black hole? That's three. Why does it look like that?

Why does it look like a squid? Because it has a black hole? Well, I know that, but it's just all tentacle things.

I'm so confused. It's a goddamn squid. Oh.

It's a fucking squid. Can I cook it? Eldritch living planet god? That's a leg fish. That's a satellite.

Oh my god. Wow. I wonder how many channels you can get on that. Three.

Three? Well, we're clearly gonna go on that catch. We were clearly going to go inside that thing. Oh, is that?

Wait a minute. Hello, Archon Priest kind of level. Oh, yeah.

Someone's taking a nap. Someone's being cringe. Actually, it's the Archon himself, isn't it? Yes, it is. So he freaking killed a nine.

One of the nine to become what exactly? No wonder he was in prison. Alright, Pinhead Larry, now you get yours.

Where'd all my shots go? You know I have this! Okay, let me go knock on it. Come on out!

What? Wait, we have to go on the catch of the... Yep. Oh, yep.

Come on, bow. Yo, it's like, it's like when we played the pirate ship. We're raiding their catch.

Oh, there's a mana spark thing. Bow. Bow. I don't want to talk about it. You missed it.

I didn't know where to go. Parkour. Oh, God, it is parkour. Oh, God, this is so finicky.

Oh. I'm just following you, Vaughn. Yeah, just don't jump.

Oh, Spiral of Death! What? What is that?

OH MY GOD! NOOOOO! Oh, you saw the Spiral of Death?

Yes. When you said that, I was confused. Yeah, you're supposed to like, launch yourself...

Wait, actually, what? I went above it. You can do that. I mean, I jumped above it.

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, I know where to go, but I fucked it up! Ka-boom! I knew it! We were playing golf with friends! Or everybody's golf.

Friends with golf. You've never played it? It was like a PlayStation 2 game, you think?

I think I've heard of it, but I don't think I've ever played it. I played Mario Golf. Hi. No! He put down a trap!

No! No! That's right, you get up. Was you seeing a microcosm of...

I saw Blee. Yeah, that's a... That's me. That was a kill's reach.

Oh, we gotta go to the holes. Yay! Where the hell am I? Oh, there's two.

There's another one on the other side. Don't worry, I got it. Let me guess, you followed me.

What happened? Did you forget to get out? I did!

What is that? Oh, we're straining from the catch. I want to look at it.

Why do I have a feeling this is a Metroid situation where you have to run out of it before it explodes? Riding the miracles of the event horizon home. Because they said it's like Metroid. That would be way too cliche to be copying, you know, full-on Metroid where we also have a timer.

So the whole place goes kaboom. Yeah, it has no timer. That's it.

All right. They just don't have a timer. Why is it just so... There we go.

yeah it does have a cool down I saw that you landed on a bunch of stuff all right what do you what you do my favorite reused balls for being sure for the side There's a pain up there and it hurts! Here we go. Oh, that guy almost killed me in one shot.

Never mind, he got you. Oh my god. Why do you get to make me go up multiple times?

Goodness, let me guess We have to become ball. Yep, and we got to do that thing like we break its shield for the right one Okay, I'll go left. No, I missed mine.

Oh, they're going to kill me again Who is suspending me? Him, the boss! He's got infinite suspend!

Alright, going up there And weeeee Gosh why? This is why mom doesn't fucking love you. Oh my god Listen I'm it should be like subjugator logic where I'm strand and you're strand so I do a lot of damage to you Yes, clearly Are you gonna do the same sign?

Oh, it's the back ones. Oh shit, what? Oh no. Oh no no no no no, let's not fall.

Oh, you're right! Shit. What do you mean the back ones?

The back, uh, it's not the same ones. I see them now. I died. You died?

Yeah, I should've just gone out of Metaspark there. Alright, come in. Oh no.

No, don't have me fall as well. Yeah, I would've been able to grab that if I just got out of Metaspark. Bless you. Got it. Those Corsairs are way back there.

Oh, you got both? Nice. I'm still gonna go off it because I want to.

Doesn't fall down. I didn't. I made it through. There we go, shield down. Yeah, there's two out there.

That's from dead. Oh, shanky shanks! Yeah, I don't like that.

Straight fight! Straight fight! Because you suck? Bye, idiot. Now I'm gonna become the super powerful Archon priest.

I will go inside. That's the craziest idea I've ever had in my life. What if we can wake it up?

Okay. Ohhhh. I worked really hard to get those motes. Make it worth it. Do you know how many of those butthole servitors I had to kill to get to this point?

Ooh, wow, what a really nice, you know, you know, yeah. You got us here, Guardian. Where do we go? We're just waiting. Oh, we're just waiting.

For the cutscene. Cutscene? Yeah, I guess I don't see where we're going now.

Yeah, I was gonna say, like, I don't see, like, a portal. We're here, so... Oh, yeah, it's for sure a cutscene. That felt like a dungeon!

We might as well have made that into a dungeon. That was actually really fun. Yeah, that was.

Alright, time for book one. Oh, no, new character's going to die! Kidding Here comes the butt plug You just gonna wait is he just gonna like Like that is it literally Oh my god, he's looking really yeah, he's getting like old Or was that just how he looks?

I don't know. Jesus! Freaking jump scare! Oh, he fixed his glasses. What the fuck?

You stand here that I would not die alone again. Oh, oh. God damn this woman!

If you do not give me what I want, what can you do? Still I die afraid at your sister's command. You are a being who bends all rules. Why do you fear breaking this one? A death ensures extinction.

Listen carefully, children of my earth. To survive, you must bind the Nine. It cannot be done. Let's do it. Of course.

Strike true weapon. Goodbye, Ambassador. Goodbye, Commander.

Oh no. Come, coward. No!

He farted! Did she kill it? Yeah.

That's a neat little trick. Thanks, friend. I'm fine.

Pocket Dark Matter, go! I'm dead again. Three is dead again. God damn it, there goes all the emotes. The Nine can't exist here.

Same as we can't exist in a painting. Three said their death starts a chain reaction that leads to extinction. Oh. But if they went through all the trouble to get us here, to send a message to the children of their Earth... Then it must be a warning, not a promise.

Three gave us instructions to prevent extinction. Bind the Nine. Oh.

To save Earth. What the fuck am I as the rain how the fuck did she even kill that thing wait is it like our sparrow? Let me get let me get yeah, it's our sparrow We could be ball whenever we want Multiple thing is here now. Huh?

It doesn't oh Those are just like portals. Oh, yeah, they're portals. Wait, are they portals to like the different zones or something? Do we have to talk to somebody? Yeah, the Lodians.

Oh, yep, they're down here. On threat of universal extinction. All three of our lives altered by the nine to bring us here to receive the message. Guardian, Weapon, Ambassador Lodi, and me.

Hello? That's how we'll trap the Nine, yeah! No! I- don't- don't step backwards! He flies like he went on a balloon.

Oh, thank goodness you're alive. Oh, he is older, look! We're not out of the game yet. Don't worry!

We will figure this out. No. I'm kidding. What? Oh, okay.

Met with Lodi. Me, Lodi... in the caldera. Oh, right here. Oh, that was quick.

Three spoke through me. I think I saw time the way they do. Flat. Like I was high up and could see my life all at once.

It was hard to make out where I came from. It was so far away. I could see where I am. I fit here. Like three knew I was the best agent to poach.

What can I say? I bring that special something you won't find for another thousand years. From that vantage way up high, I saw that I don't go back.

And someday that'll be okay. Because I'm needed here. I can be the emissary humanity needs.

Create a bridge between us and the extra-dimensional suits. Find the nine. That'll be dangerous. Sounds fun.

Ooh! Wow that was mean Hmmmm Is it gonna gun? Is it gun?

Or maybe it's the exotic? It's... What's a quest? Speak to Lodi...

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