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Sometimes I wander through Neomuna and just admire all the art and abstract designs and stylistic motifs. I gotta try doing studies of some of this stuff.

The ship mural in Striders' Gate (where you turn to go to Zephyr Concourse) is fascinating. What is it depicting? Why do those ships look so similar to viking vessels? Is this a figurative depiction of the original colonists coming to Neptune on the Exodus Indigo? If so, why two ships? That curving shape near the top is likely one of Neptune's rings, but what's up with the cloud right next to it that seems to be full of poukas? Something about this particular depiction of poukas feels almost angelic, which I love.

You would think a huge eyeball would be creepy, but there's something almost friendly about the one painted on a wall in Esi Terminal, or at least non-threatening. It seems like some paracausal entity that's watching, but which means no harm; maybe this vibe is from all the little human figures painted around it, clearly people relaxing and playing. Could this be the Veil, surrounded by the Neomuni citizens it (perhaps unintentionally) helps to protect? Heck, could it even be III?

The jellyfish mural in Zephyr Concourse makes me wonder what sorts of marine life Neptune might have. It could be showing a few animals from Earth, including both jellyfish and a school of actual fish, but why include a pouka? Of course, it could simply be intended to be whimsical.

There's one recurring design throughout the city that shows poukas. These have the vibe of art that the city council probably officially commissioned, but are far from soulless. One of these recurring poukas is the colors of the transgender flag, which is interesting.

It's 5:45 AM now. I should go to bed. I'm gonna examine more Neomuni art later though and I would LOVE to hear your thoughts if you have any

zalia

The giant eye mural could also be Ahsa (as a kind of Easter egg for what was to come). This is the key art for Season of the Deep.

I definitely think the trans flag colours are intentional on the Pouka murals too! If you look at the Radiosonde building in Liming Harbour from the right angle, it also has the flag colours in a way that seems intentional.

(I took this picture from the forbidden low resolution Neomuna while OOB so got a slightly better view of it than you get from playing the game properly XD).

thefirstknife

Still puzzles me that the hive and the vex never had any major interactions, like they're just coexisting. I don't know if I don't care for it or find what that implies terrifying

Lore-wise, they did! Very notably so:

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.

Crota messed up and opened a portal into Vex space, which led to the Vex invading Oryx's throne world. This led to them fighting for a long time and the Vex developing Quria, a mind designed to understand the Hive so the Vex can fight back against them. Quria was... normal for sure:

Quria captured some worm larvae and began experimenting with them. Soon Quria, Blade Transform manifested religious tactics. By directing worship at the worms, Quria learned it could alter reality with mild ontopathogenic effects. Being an efficient machine, Quria manufactured a priesthood and ordered all its subminds to believe in worship. Then it set about abducting and killing dangerous organisms so it could bootstrap itself to Hive godhood. For some Vex reason, Quria never attempted to introduce worm larvae into its mind fluid.

This also led to Oryx relocating his throne world to the Dreadnaught and to exiling Crota (which means that inadvertently, this is why most of anything in Destiny happens at all - Crota ends up on the Moon -> we kill him -> Oryx comes to the system -> we kill him, etc (and also it was Savathun who tricked Crota into opening a portal into the Vex space so in a way all of this is her fault).

Further this also led to Oryx fighting Quria again later when the Hive invaded the Harmony species, and Quria managing to simulate young Oryx, and Oryx eventually defeating Quria, taking it and gifting it to Savathun, which eventually led to Quria being a whole ass Taken menace to the Vex collectives and at the end with Savathun using it to develop the curse on the Dreaming City and to nearly destroy the Last City in Splicer.

I do think that this whole history between them is why they both kinda stay away from each other in general. The Hive almost as a rule don't want to mess with the Vex because of how viral they are and how thoroughly they convert things. Meanwhile to the Vex, the Hive are just too strange and paracausal and impossible to fight properly. The Vex did not like Quria, especially after it was Taken, and were relieved when we killed it. As of Enigma Protocol from Echoes, there are still some Taken influences left in the Vex Network due to Quria.

Other than Savathun (and Nokris!), other Hive did not really feel the need to mess with the Vex. I think it's largely because of the history they had with Oryx where the Hive learned that the Vex could very easily and very quickly overwhelm their throne worlds and infect everything with radiolaria, on top of learning their secrets via simulation.

They're officially enemies with each other, but in the same way everyone is enemies with the Vex (and honestly with the Hive). I think everything with Quria sealed that deal and had the Hive stay away from interactions, to protect themselves, and the same also works for the Vex. At least for now! I'd like to see the Hive and the Vex fight it out at some point again, it's just one of those things no matter who wins, we lose. They're probably the only two enemy factions that could go on forever if they start messing around.

eiramew

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savyir-genesizz-the-wizard

I wish I knew

satemha-the-warlock

The contrast between D2 communities in different platforms is crazy. If your main platforms are Reddit and Twitter, you’ll hate the game and probably humanity in general at some point but if you mainly hang out in places like Tumblr and use fireteam finder like a decent human being you can see how normal everything is.

#destiny 2 #meta #destiny the game

savyir-genesizz-the-wizard

No, because people who bitch and review-bomb EoF about the "power grind" piss me off. Rant below the cut.

You're telling me that you hop on Destiny, a game which has so many activities, more than it ever had at the same time, that will all reward you with loot for doing them and what you do is you actively decide to grind one activity that a YouTuber told you will give you the best rewards, so many times it makes you want to throw up, and then go to Steam review page and pretend that it's Bungie's fault for providing you with the ability to do so. Like bitch. I'm not going to pretend that everything in the new system is balanced. But. I'm almost done with the pass (because the extra 10 rewards are 5x harder to get) and I'm on power level 180. How the fuck are you on 300. This ain't normal. And mind you I grind for cosmetics, I'm known for doing it. And I'm not going to pretend that the game is forcing me to grind for them, it's giving me an option to. The same with grinding for the numbers to go up. I assure you that at 180 I can play any activity I want.

EoF has mostly negative reviews because of absolute cunts who are incapable of having fun with the game because they are so obsessed with playing it the way some YouTuber is playing it. I'm getting sick of having to play the game with people who clearly don't enjoy it.

"Destiny is just playing missions and talking to NPCs now" YES? YES IT IS. THIS IS WHY I PLAY IT. PLAY A DIFFERENT GAME IF YOU DON'T LIKE THIS ONE. DESTINY 2 IS LITERALLY FREE. Why is it so difficult for Reddit and YT people to understand that sometimes if they don't enjoy the game it doesn't mean that it's bad, it just means it's not for them.

destiny2-names

Why are you treating a game like it's a job you're being forced to do? If you aren't getting anything out of it, like fun or camaraderie, then what's the point of engaging in it? You are both an animal in a zoo and the animal's keeper– give yourself proper enrichment. Stop giving the tiger toys and snacks that are designed for a gorilla. You're driving down the happiness level of everyone in this whole damn zoo

a-driftamongopenstars

OH MY GODDDDD. just had. a thought.

now that we have Lodi, next Festival of the Lost he can tell Eido and Glint about Halloween. i mean Hall Between. oh i need this immediately-

satemha-the-warlock

Considering how Festival of the Lost is a mix of both Halloween and Dia de los Muertos, I’d love to see Lodi turning this year’s festival into a full lecture for Eido and Glint, and blow their minds.

Plus, considering Lodi lost everything in his life, making him a central figure for this year makes so much sense.

Please don’t let us down Bungie.

#destiny 2 #destiny 2 spoilers #destiny the game #destiny 2 lore #lodi destiny 2 #festival of the lost #halloween #dia de los muertos #eido #glint

bungieteam

A pile of records is gathering dust in an apartment somewhere in Portage Park.

Listen to Polyglot's Record Collection on Spotify, inspired by our new character Lodi.

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satemha-the-warlock

I made a copy of the playlist for all the Apple Music enjoying guardians out there.

Playlist · 28 Songs

#destiny 2 #destiny the game #destiny 2 edge of fate #music #apple music #playlist

nevertrustanoracle

Excuse me while I scream over this lore

satemha-the-warlock

OK let’s do some lorecrafting.

I’m not actually surprised that Saint knows Russian because having an accent means that you learned that language later.

Which means even though guardians are risen with a fresh memory, they keep the language they know. And then they learn the 12 surviving languages* to be able to communicate with everyone. I’m guessing this doesn’t take much time because of our light.

This brings us to the most important question: How?

I have two potential answers to that. Either our Ghost becomes our teacher and teaches us all these languages or one of the doors we can’t open in the tower is a language school for new guardians.

And I REALLY hope the answer is the second one.

*: This number is solely based on the number of languages supported in game with full audio. And when you look at that list, it makes sense if those languages ended up being the surviving ones, although I would expect at least five more languages would be in that list.

#destiny 2 #edge of fate #lodi #saint 14 #guardians still know their original language(s)#destiny the game #destiny 2 lore #language

crow-perch

i'm cackling rn the new dialogue from all the characters in the solo portal rituals are incredible.

satemha-the-warlock

Bungie, you need to give us:

The script of this play or a way to watch it,

A way to support The Ghost Community Theatre to increase their production budget.

You have to do it Bungie. You just have to.

#let me see the script for this play bungie #destiny 2 #destiny the game #destiny 2 lore #destiny 2 spoilers #destiny saint 14 #ghost community theater #destiny oryx

theforsakenprince

Compilation of every Xivu arath line in ghosts of the deep that made me want to throw myself off a roof

eiramew

My love. I’ve opened this log as an apology. As a scientist, I believe in record-keeping. I believe in protocols, peer review, and ethical conduct. I believe in the importance of disbelief — you know: let’s run that one more time.