thefluffyone
Big Ego for Something so Small, eh?
- Location
- Earth
So this is when Weaver accidentally one-ups Mara's long term plans by claiming Crota's Throne World...accidentally?
Paradoxical [Destiny/Worm Post-GM]
- Thread starter ensou
- Start date
- Crossover
- Location
- Finland
Another thing I want to see is QA acquiring a dead ghost (probably Toland's) to study and producing its own variant and appearing over Weaver's other shoulder beside Kali.
That's actually kinda strange. Khepri, if anything, was even better at manipulating her insect swarm then ever. She opened, like, billions of portals and suck every insects from countless world to be under her control at the height of her power. Probably fucked over thousand of Earths ecosystem in the process too.
Any change to that would have to be a new thing.
- Location
- Washington, USA
Her power increased in strength as she had more insects, sure, but Taylor's talking about individual control here. It's much easier to control an insect, but the precision of a complex map of muscles is superior.
ensou
Magical G̶i̶r̶l̶ Servant Mordred-chan
- Location
- NEW YORK CITY!??
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Article: My control began to slip. It wasn't so severe as the effect on my range, but I could feel it degrading. I was aware of my bugs in a general sense, and they were moving in reaction to my subconscious thoughts, but the end result wasn't precise. I moved them, but getting them to stop had a fraction of a second's delay.
Slipping out of my control. Slipping…
[...]
I need control, I thought.
A moment passed, and I could feel Panacea working to give me that control, changing what she was focusing on. I felt the swarm moving more in sync with what I was thinking and wanting. But this… I could sense what was happening, feel my range plummeting yet again, the guillotine coming down. My range had been cut down further.
Take an inch in one department, lose several inches in another. Lose a whole foot.
Everything was piecemeal now, slipping away.
If this continued, I'd have nothing left. A net loss operation.
Stop, Panacea, I thought. Stop, stop, stop, stop…
My swarm attacked her, and it wasn't because of any conscious command on my part. The attack was crude, more the swarming behavior of wasps drunk on attack pheromones than the calculated attack I was used to employing.
[...]
I looked at Amy, realizing the bugs were still approaching her. I pulled the swarm away, and I felt how hard it was to move them.
I was left with the ruins of my power. My range was maybe a third of what it might otherwise be, the control rough-edged at best. There were bugs in my swarm that I couldn't control, too small.
There were too many things to concentrate on. The swarm, the nuances of my power, my state of near-panic, and the fact that I no longer felt like a complete, connected human being. The other stuff, it wasn't that it wasn't important, but it was so secondary.
Taylor distinctly lost control of her insects on a fine level when her power was modified into Khepri. She became substantially more capable of handling complex organisms, like people, to the extent that she could actually read other peoples' minds as filtered through her own memories and use their powers, but it was at a trade-off.
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ensou
Magical G̶i̶r̶l̶ Servant Mordred-chan
- Location
- NEW YORK CITY!??
- Pronouns
- She/Her
KALI'S RECORD OF SHIT THAT HAPPENS WITH WEAVER
MISSION 489
LOCATION: OCEAN OF STORMS, LUNA, SOL SYSTEM AKA WHERE THE LIGHT GOES TO DIE AKA THE SCARIEST FUCKING PLACE IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM WHY THE HELL ARE WE HERE AGAIN??
PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL TIMESTAMPS ARE ACCORDING TO LOCALTIME
[15:22:58] If there is one place I never wanted to come back to, even more than Mars, it was here. I never got this close when I was searching for Weaver. I don't think any Ghost in their right mind does.
There's something about it that makes my shell-shards shudder. There's so much death, it weighs down here like a suffocating blanket.
Weaver's passenger doesn't seem to mind. …Considering how talkative it's gotten I'm sure it'll have its two cents to add to this.
[agreement|'yes!']
…oh boy.
[15:25:07] We haven't had to deal with any Hive yet, which I'm sure will change soon, but I'm definitely going to take what I can while I can. Because I can already tell this is not going to be a fun time.
Fucking Hive.
Anyway, there's five people here besides Weaver. There's Zach, Rigel, and Halley, of course. Then there's the two new guys, both Hunters: Sarah-12, and Des Rion. Exo and human, respectively.
It kind of figures that the ones crazy enough to try assaulting a god in his home court would be Hunters. Maybe that's classist, but Titans were always more focused on staying around the City and while the Warlocks were all about learning I can't imagine any who would be willing to do an assault like this with as little information as we've got. Maybe Ikora, but she's stuck as the Warlock Vanguard now.
ANYWAYS
Apparently we're going to skip the whole "trekking through hordes of Hive to the bottom of the Hellmouth" part of this adventure thanks to Eris telling us about the glyph plate that'll create a bridge thing that can… drop us straight to the bottom.
Have I mentioned this all sounds like a horrible idea?
[15:30:27] We're at the bottom now, after nearly breaking everybody's legs in the landing. Everybody's standing ankle-deep in this circular pool of water, but nobody has dared stepped out of it.
It's absolutely pitch black around us in a way that's practically suffocating, and it has this tangible weight to it that's pressing down on us, getting heavier and heavier. Our lights should be reaching farther but they just… die off, like the shadows are drowning it out. The only thing visible is this huge pedestal lamp in the distance, though judging how far it is in this darkness is practically impossible.
Eris is saying that the only way to survive this… abyss is the lamps, otherwise the darkness could literally crush us to death, or at least slow us down enough that fighting back against any Hive would be near impossible.
And there will be Hive, she says. They only haven't detected us because of the pool we're standing in.
Nothing's going to happen just standing here, though, so it's time to move.
[15:37:40] YEP THAT'S A LOT OF HIVE
[15:37:54] Weaver's passenger doesn't work on Hive. What exactly is it doing again?
[frustration|dejection|'it's not my fault!']
[nonsense|confusion|frustration|'nothing makes sense anymore!']
[15:39:12] OH GOD WHY ARE THERE SO MANY THRALL
[15:50:23] Protip: the lamps explode.
[15:54:07] THERE ARE PITFALLS. WHY THE HELL ARE THERE PITFALLS!?
[16:06:35] So the Knights would be about as bad as Vex Minotaurs EXCEPT THEIR SWORDS IGNORE OUR SHIELDS AND WE CAN'T FUCKING SEE THEM COMING IN HERE
[17:14:47] We finally made it to the plate that Eris says will create the bridge to get to the entrance of Crota's "throne world" across this giant chasm. Here's hoping she knows what she's talking about.
[17:15:02] THOSE ARE OGRES.
[17:24:44] We did it. Ogres dead, bridge made. They really do not want us crossing this. The thralls and knights keep coming, but we're already running across the bridge. They're chasing us, but we're faster, and they can't catch up.
All we can see is this blinding white light in the giant doorway in front of us, with all these weird square pillars that are tilted at every angle, like jagged teeth.
Everything is blurring together, colors and sounds and shapes and—
GEOSAT MESH UNAVAILABLE. 404 LOCATION NOT FOUND.
[17:25:20] Um. Well, we're certainly not in Kansas anymore.
Why is it that every major threat we fight seems to have their own pocket dimension? Coincidence? I THINK NOT!
Also there's a giant green not-sun with a core of darkness at the center of a small moon broken into four segments to the right of us.
[curiosity|interest|'what is that?']
Oh hey, you're still with us.
[readiness|expectation|'prepared']
…It learns. Go figure.
[exasperation]
ANYWAYS
I have no idea what the heck that thing is but it seems important.
[agreement]
Still, that isn't the most important thing. Because I don't know about the others, but I'm more worried about the absolutely gigantic fortress that blocks everything else from view and how the hell we're going to get there when there's a huge gap of nothingness separating us from it. We're standing on this balcony that has stairs down down to this court-like area. Everything around us is organic, like the keep was grown, not built. The Fortress looms over everything filling all of the horizon in front of us, and the green not-light of the sun casts shadows that feel like they'd devour us completely if given half the chance.
I think Des' summary is rather accurate here:
Well, fuck.
How tall is it? Hundreds of meters? It seems to continue to either side forever, the walls continuing into infinity.
How long will it take us to navigate this place? How long until we find Crota? How many Hive will we have to fight? Are we destined to die like Eris' fireteam in this thing that makes the Hellmouth seem small, that looks like it could be bigger than the Awoken capital by itself?
First though, we need to get inside.
Wait, Eris is saying something about… totems? Annihilator totems? Oh well isn't that just lovely.
…They're kind of obvious now that we know about them, these giant floating sharp-looking upside-down tripod things holding spheres at the top. And there's another one of those plates right in front of where it looks like a bridge would be, so we'll have to use that somehow. She says that the totems act as… firewalls to keep out anything not Hive, but with six of us we should be able to prevent the system from triggering by standing on the totems' plates.
Right now the Hive inside here aren't aware we've gotten in, but as soon as we start trying to create that bridge they'll know we're here, and they are not going to be happy.
Oh, and Eris is talking about some kind of super-powerful Knight (oh joy) that'll be coming to try and kill us. And on the other side, just in case we do get across, there's going to be an even stronger one guarding the Fortress' gate. At that point, she says, the only way to hurt them is with their own swords, so we'll have to steal the Knight's sword and use it to kill the other.
…Oh and apparently Weaver's the only one here who has any useful experience with swords.
This just keeps getting better and better doesn't it.
Well, I guess we're going to try to cross the bridge and kill one of Crota's lieutenants with their own swords.
I'll just be over here screaming and bringing Weaver back to life when we die.
[17:35:18] WHY DID WE THINK THIS WAS A GOOD IDEA AGAIN?
[17:38:33] TOO MANY KNIGHTS WHY DO THEY HURT SO MUCH
[17:40:27] AAAAAAAAAA GET ON THE PLATE GET ON THE PLATE OR WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!
[17:47:38] This is not a sword. This is a block of bone and metal duller than a butterknife. How is this supposed to kill a Knight stronger than one that took like three hundred bullets to kill?
Unrelated: I am beginning to have doubts about how sane Eris is.
[17:58:09] After three deaths, we have built our bridge (the Hive really seem to like their bridges) and killed the Knight that was way too strong and… acquired the sword. …Time to cross.
Traveler save us all.
[18:12:54] AH KILL IT WEAVER KILL IT KILL IT SLASH NO WAIT BLOCK BLOCK BLOCK
AAAAAAAAADSFJKFJIOUREOPISMXMNVKDPOI—
WARNING: DATA CORRUPTED
[18:13:43] I'm okay.
[18:24:50] Ogres are the literal worst.
[18:51:36] We're finally inside the Fortress. Now… now we just have to find the way to Crota's chamber at the center.
In a fortress with miles of hallways and mazes and things that want to kill us.
And no map.
i want to go home
[18:51:38] […comfort]
…thanks
[18:55:10] Weaver has taken up the vanguard position. Things seem to get easier and easier to kill for all of us the further we go, but for some reason the sword still seems to be the most effective. Something something their own weapons are more dangerous to them?
I could have sworn it was duller before.
[20:16:45] It's been two hours. We've been through chambers of Ogres and ones that held legions of Thrall (both normal and exploding). Large halls that Wizards hover in and ones that hold hosts of Acolytes praying before altars.
We kill everything.
[02:07:53] We've found Crota's chamber. Or at least… we think so. It's this giant… colliseum? pit? chamber really might be the best word, but it's open to the sky. Somehow, the giant blot of blackness that emits that green un-light is right above and ahead of us, when I could have sworn it should be to our right.
There are knights, supplicant around a giant block that comes out of the floor that looks like it's cupping something. Wait, is that… Light in there? How…?
They don't seem to notice us, but there's only one way forward now.
[02:08:00] There's something… sinister in the air. Like a noise that you can't hear or a song… There's a very dangerous-looking wizard that's blocked off in a room above and behind us that looks blocked off from everything else and–
…okay, okay, jeez Eris. We get it, we need to kill her. Here, I'll just transcribe what she said.
"The Deathsong! It is Ir Yût! She composes the song to unmake your very being! Quickly! You must kill her before she sings!"
Unfortunately, that's easier said than done, lady.
Because, you know, Shriekers, Wizards, and all the Knights with giant blasting guns you never needed are guarding her.
The Thrall and Acolytes are easier to kill than ever, but those Knights are still a giant pain. Thank the Machine there's no Ogr–
Nope. Not going to jinx it.
[2:09:14] …There are Ogres now.
[2:11:01] Somehow we've managed to kill everything and the force fields keeping us from the Deathsinger are go—
AAAAAAA WEAVER SHE'S SINGING
[2:12:25] Oh hey she's dead. thank god.
[2:12:30] [confusion|sword]
Yeah, there's definitely something going on with the sword.
Fucking Hive weirdness.
[2:12:37] Wait this is Crota's summoning crystal? Can we just destroy this? No?
What do you mean we have to use it to summon him, you crazy lady!?
[2:12:49] …oh. that's what those big broken pieces were.
I would swallow but I don't have a throat.
I'm not even materialized and I can feel Him.
There were these broken pieces laying around the upper levels of the court, and they sort of just… reassembled into this giant gate-looking thing and fused together. And then Crota literally formed out of the not-light of that broken planet-star of darkness behind the gate.
Weaver hasn't even blinked.
'He reminds me of Behemoth. …Except smaller. And more green.'
Have I mentioned Weaver is all sorts of crazy? Because my Risen is kind of fucking metal.
…I'm betting we can't hurt him with anything less than the swords, can we, Eris?
Oh, I'm right? Would you look at that!
Is really too much to ask that my partner was one of the ones standing at a safe distance and trying to catch the god off balance instead of the one that has to get close enough she could be turned to paste where I can't revive her safely just to try and kill him with what might as well be a dagger to him?
We can't even heal anymore because of Crota's presence. That should be impossible, but it is. That mass of Light at the center of the chamber might be the only thing that will let us fight it off enough to heal our Risen.
whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
Oh great and the Hive are going to zerg rush us now too. Greaaaaat.
[2:15:18] Crota appears happy enough to let his minions try to deal with us, though it seems he's getting more and more frustrated (at least as much as a giant Hive Knight can) as they fail to do anything to us.
Well, good. Come on over here you big bastard! Don't worry, we just want to kill you! Like that, yeah!
You know, it's never really obvious how tall a thirty foot monster is until you're standing right next to him trying to stab him.
Wait, what do you mean this isn't the first time you've done this? Weaver? WEAVER? Oh whatever.
Go for the knees!
OHSHITDUCK!
[2:15:31] Why is the not-sun suddenly a giant glowing green ball?
Weaver? I THINK WE'RE RUNNING OUT OF TIME.
At least we seem to be doing something to him.
[2:15:52] Oooh, nice dodge roll. …Yeah, a couple rockets to the face might help bring him to his knees. THANKS GUYS! Now we just have to—
Or you can just stab him in the back of his neck. That works too.
"it's only appropriate"? …I think I'm missing something.
[amusement|laughter]
Oh great, you get it, and I don't?
Ugh, whatever.
Wait, what do you mean he's not finished yet!?
[2:16:22] I have just watched my partner decapitate a god.
I have officially seen everything.
[satisfaction]
Also the edge of the sword is radioactive now. I think it's splitting atoms. Wat.
[2:16:31] The not-green star thing just imploded. …Was that supposed to somehow be Crota? How the hell does that even work?
[2:17:11] I think it's a good time to leave.
Like, now.
THANK YOU, Zach.
…Now, seriously, let's never come back here again.
Okay? Okay. Thank god.
Goodnight.
END OF FILE
[comprehension]
A/N: Anyone who plays Crota's End, especially after playing through the Scarlet Keep strike or the Pit of Heresy, or even Eleusinia would probably be massively disappointed by Crota's fortress. I imagine getting through it to Crota would be like the Hive version of the Pyramidion.
So uh, I kinda took the Scarlet Keep, combined it with the Pyramidion, and turned it up to eleven. Mostly because I imagine Hashladûn modeling it after her father's realm and Oryx's own ship was massive on a literally planetary scale.
Also, this is super rough so comments please~
MISSION 489
LOCATION: OCEAN OF STORMS, LUNA, SOL SYSTEM AKA WHERE THE LIGHT GOES TO DIE AKA THE SCARIEST FUCKING PLACE IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM WHY THE HELL ARE WE HERE AGAIN??
PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL TIMESTAMPS ARE ACCORDING TO LOCALTIME
[15:22:58] If there is one place I never wanted to come back to, even more than Mars, it was here. I never got this close when I was searching for Weaver. I don't think any Ghost in their right mind does.
There's something about it that makes my shell-shards shudder. There's so much death, it weighs down here like a suffocating blanket.
Weaver's passenger doesn't seem to mind. …Considering how talkative it's gotten I'm sure it'll have its two cents to add to this.
[agreement|'yes!']
…oh boy.
[15:25:07] We haven't had to deal with any Hive yet, which I'm sure will change soon, but I'm definitely going to take what I can while I can. Because I can already tell this is not going to be a fun time.
Fucking Hive.
Anyway, there's five people here besides Weaver. There's Zach, Rigel, and Halley, of course. Then there's the two new guys, both Hunters: Sarah-12, and Des Rion. Exo and human, respectively.
It kind of figures that the ones crazy enough to try assaulting a god in his home court would be Hunters. Maybe that's classist, but Titans were always more focused on staying around the City and while the Warlocks were all about learning I can't imagine any who would be willing to do an assault like this with as little information as we've got. Maybe Ikora, but she's stuck as the Warlock Vanguard now.
ANYWAYS
Apparently we're going to skip the whole "trekking through hordes of Hive to the bottom of the Hellmouth" part of this adventure thanks to Eris telling us about the glyph plate that'll create a bridge thing that can… drop us straight to the bottom.
Have I mentioned this all sounds like a horrible idea?
[15:30:27] We're at the bottom now, after nearly breaking everybody's legs in the landing. Everybody's standing ankle-deep in this circular pool of water, but nobody has dared stepped out of it.
It's absolutely pitch black around us in a way that's practically suffocating, and it has this tangible weight to it that's pressing down on us, getting heavier and heavier. Our lights should be reaching farther but they just… die off, like the shadows are drowning it out. The only thing visible is this huge pedestal lamp in the distance, though judging how far it is in this darkness is practically impossible.
Eris is saying that the only way to survive this… abyss is the lamps, otherwise the darkness could literally crush us to death, or at least slow us down enough that fighting back against any Hive would be near impossible.
And there will be Hive, she says. They only haven't detected us because of the pool we're standing in.
Nothing's going to happen just standing here, though, so it's time to move.
[15:37:40] YEP THAT'S A LOT OF HIVE
[15:37:54] Weaver's passenger doesn't work on Hive. What exactly is it doing again?
[frustration|dejection|'it's not my fault!']
[nonsense|confusion|frustration|'nothing makes sense anymore!']
[15:39:12] OH GOD WHY ARE THERE SO MANY THRALL
[15:50:23] Protip: the lamps explode.
[15:54:07] THERE ARE PITFALLS. WHY THE HELL ARE THERE PITFALLS!?
[16:06:35] So the Knights would be about as bad as Vex Minotaurs EXCEPT THEIR SWORDS IGNORE OUR SHIELDS AND WE CAN'T FUCKING SEE THEM COMING IN HERE
[17:14:47] We finally made it to the plate that Eris says will create the bridge to get to the entrance of Crota's "throne world" across this giant chasm. Here's hoping she knows what she's talking about.
[17:15:02] THOSE ARE OGRES.
[17:24:44] We did it. Ogres dead, bridge made. They really do not want us crossing this. The thralls and knights keep coming, but we're already running across the bridge. They're chasing us, but we're faster, and they can't catch up.
All we can see is this blinding white light in the giant doorway in front of us, with all these weird square pillars that are tilted at every angle, like jagged teeth.
Everything is blurring together, colors and sounds and shapes and—
GEOSAT MESH UNAVAILABLE. 404 LOCATION NOT FOUND.
[17:25:20] Um. Well, we're certainly not in Kansas anymore.
Why is it that every major threat we fight seems to have their own pocket dimension? Coincidence? I THINK NOT!
Also there's a giant green not-sun with a core of darkness at the center of a small moon broken into four segments to the right of us.
[curiosity|interest|'what is that?']
Oh hey, you're still with us.
[readiness|expectation|'prepared']
…It learns. Go figure.
[exasperation]
ANYWAYS
I have no idea what the heck that thing is but it seems important.
[agreement]
Still, that isn't the most important thing. Because I don't know about the others, but I'm more worried about the absolutely gigantic fortress that blocks everything else from view and how the hell we're going to get there when there's a huge gap of nothingness separating us from it. We're standing on this balcony that has stairs down down to this court-like area. Everything around us is organic, like the keep was grown, not built. The Fortress looms over everything filling all of the horizon in front of us, and the green not-light of the sun casts shadows that feel like they'd devour us completely if given half the chance.
I think Des' summary is rather accurate here:
Well, fuck.
How tall is it? Hundreds of meters? It seems to continue to either side forever, the walls continuing into infinity.
How long will it take us to navigate this place? How long until we find Crota? How many Hive will we have to fight? Are we destined to die like Eris' fireteam in this thing that makes the Hellmouth seem small, that looks like it could be bigger than the Awoken capital by itself?
First though, we need to get inside.
Wait, Eris is saying something about… totems? Annihilator totems? Oh well isn't that just lovely.
…They're kind of obvious now that we know about them, these giant floating sharp-looking upside-down tripod things holding spheres at the top. And there's another one of those plates right in front of where it looks like a bridge would be, so we'll have to use that somehow. She says that the totems act as… firewalls to keep out anything not Hive, but with six of us we should be able to prevent the system from triggering by standing on the totems' plates.
Right now the Hive inside here aren't aware we've gotten in, but as soon as we start trying to create that bridge they'll know we're here, and they are not going to be happy.
Oh, and Eris is talking about some kind of super-powerful Knight (oh joy) that'll be coming to try and kill us. And on the other side, just in case we do get across, there's going to be an even stronger one guarding the Fortress' gate. At that point, she says, the only way to hurt them is with their own swords, so we'll have to steal the Knight's sword and use it to kill the other.
…Oh and apparently Weaver's the only one here who has any useful experience with swords.
This just keeps getting better and better doesn't it.
Well, I guess we're going to try to cross the bridge and kill one of Crota's lieutenants with their own swords.
I'll just be over here screaming and bringing Weaver back to life when we die.
[17:35:18] WHY DID WE THINK THIS WAS A GOOD IDEA AGAIN?
[17:38:33] TOO MANY KNIGHTS WHY DO THEY HURT SO MUCH
[17:40:27] AAAAAAAAAA GET ON THE PLATE GET ON THE PLATE OR WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!
[17:47:38] This is not a sword. This is a block of bone and metal duller than a butterknife. How is this supposed to kill a Knight stronger than one that took like three hundred bullets to kill?
Unrelated: I am beginning to have doubts about how sane Eris is.
[17:58:09] After three deaths, we have built our bridge (the Hive really seem to like their bridges) and killed the Knight that was way too strong and… acquired the sword. …Time to cross.
Traveler save us all.
[18:12:54] AH KILL IT WEAVER KILL IT KILL IT SLASH NO WAIT BLOCK BLOCK BLOCK
AAAAAAAAADSFJKFJIOUREOPISMXMNVKDPOI—
WARNING: DATA CORRUPTED
[18:13:43] I'm okay.
[18:24:50] Ogres are the literal worst.
[18:51:36] We're finally inside the Fortress. Now… now we just have to find the way to Crota's chamber at the center.
In a fortress with miles of hallways and mazes and things that want to kill us.
And no map.
[18:51:38] […comfort]
…thanks
[18:55:10] Weaver has taken up the vanguard position. Things seem to get easier and easier to kill for all of us the further we go, but for some reason the sword still seems to be the most effective. Something something their own weapons are more dangerous to them?
I could have sworn it was duller before.
[20:16:45] It's been two hours. We've been through chambers of Ogres and ones that held legions of Thrall (both normal and exploding). Large halls that Wizards hover in and ones that hold hosts of Acolytes praying before altars.
We kill everything.
[02:07:53] We've found Crota's chamber. Or at least… we think so. It's this giant… colliseum? pit? chamber really might be the best word, but it's open to the sky. Somehow, the giant blot of blackness that emits that green un-light is right above and ahead of us, when I could have sworn it should be to our right.
There are knights, supplicant around a giant block that comes out of the floor that looks like it's cupping something. Wait, is that… Light in there? How…?
They don't seem to notice us, but there's only one way forward now.
[02:08:00] There's something… sinister in the air. Like a noise that you can't hear or a song… There's a very dangerous-looking wizard that's blocked off in a room above and behind us that looks blocked off from everything else and–
…okay, okay, jeez Eris. We get it, we need to kill her. Here, I'll just transcribe what she said.
"The Deathsong! It is Ir Yût! She composes the song to unmake your very being! Quickly! You must kill her before she sings!"
Unfortunately, that's easier said than done, lady.
Because, you know, Shriekers, Wizards, and all the Knights with giant blasting guns you never needed are guarding her.
The Thrall and Acolytes are easier to kill than ever, but those Knights are still a giant pain. Thank the Machine there's no Ogr–
Nope. Not going to jinx it.
[2:09:14] …There are Ogres now.
[2:11:01] Somehow we've managed to kill everything and the force fields keeping us from the Deathsinger are go—
AAAAAAA WEAVER SHE'S SINGING
[2:12:25] Oh hey she's dead. thank god.
[2:12:30] [confusion|sword]
Yeah, there's definitely something going on with the sword.
Fucking Hive weirdness.
[2:12:37] Wait this is Crota's summoning crystal? Can we just destroy this? No?
What do you mean we have to use it to summon him, you crazy lady!?
[2:12:49] …oh. that's what those big broken pieces were.
I would swallow but I don't have a throat.
I'm not even materialized and I can feel Him.
There were these broken pieces laying around the upper levels of the court, and they sort of just… reassembled into this giant gate-looking thing and fused together. And then Crota literally formed out of the not-light of that broken planet-star of darkness behind the gate.
Weaver hasn't even blinked.
'He reminds me of Behemoth. …Except smaller. And more green.'
Have I mentioned Weaver is all sorts of crazy? Because my Risen is kind of fucking metal.
…I'm betting we can't hurt him with anything less than the swords, can we, Eris?
Oh, I'm right? Would you look at that!
Is really too much to ask that my partner was one of the ones standing at a safe distance and trying to catch the god off balance instead of the one that has to get close enough she could be turned to paste where I can't revive her safely just to try and kill him with what might as well be a dagger to him?
We can't even heal anymore because of Crota's presence. That should be impossible, but it is. That mass of Light at the center of the chamber might be the only thing that will let us fight it off enough to heal our Risen.
whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
Oh great and the Hive are going to zerg rush us now too. Greaaaaat.
[2:15:18] Crota appears happy enough to let his minions try to deal with us, though it seems he's getting more and more frustrated (at least as much as a giant Hive Knight can) as they fail to do anything to us.
Well, good. Come on over here you big bastard! Don't worry, we just want to kill you! Like that, yeah!
You know, it's never really obvious how tall a thirty foot monster is until you're standing right next to him trying to stab him.
Wait, what do you mean this isn't the first time you've done this? Weaver? WEAVER? Oh whatever.
Go for the knees!
OHSHITDUCK!
[2:15:31] Why is the not-sun suddenly a giant glowing green ball?
Weaver? I THINK WE'RE RUNNING OUT OF TIME.
At least we seem to be doing something to him.
[2:15:52] Oooh, nice dodge roll. …Yeah, a couple rockets to the face might help bring him to his knees. THANKS GUYS! Now we just have to—
Or you can just stab him in the back of his neck. That works too.
"it's only appropriate"? …I think I'm missing something.
[amusement|laughter]
Oh great, you get it, and I don't?
Ugh, whatever.
Wait, what do you mean he's not finished yet!?
[2:16:22] I have just watched my partner decapitate a god.
I have officially seen everything.
[satisfaction]
Also the edge of the sword is radioactive now. I think it's splitting atoms. Wat.
[2:16:31] The not-green star thing just imploded. …Was that supposed to somehow be Crota? How the hell does that even work?
[2:17:11] I think it's a good time to leave.
Like, now.
THANK YOU, Zach.
…Now, seriously, let's never come back here again.
Okay? Okay. Thank god.
Goodnight.
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[comprehension]
A/N: Anyone who plays Crota's End, especially after playing through the Scarlet Keep strike or the Pit of Heresy, or even Eleusinia would probably be massively disappointed by Crota's fortress. I imagine getting through it to Crota would be like the Hive version of the Pyramidion.
So uh, I kinda took the Scarlet Keep, combined it with the Pyramidion, and turned it up to eleven. Mostly because I imagine Hashladûn modeling it after her father's realm and Oryx's own ship was massive on a literally planetary scale.
Also, this is super rough so comments please~
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- Location
- Philippines
Will Weaver get her own throneworld?
- Location
- Australia
Weaver now follows Sword Logic.
The Darkness shudders
Edit: So a Risen with Techuen augments that is captain of the Fallen and the right hand of the Awoken Queen has gained the Hive Sword that killed Crota.
Just missing out on a vex eye and a phalanx shield and you'll be finished with a collection.
The Darkness shudders
Edit: So a Risen with Techuen augments that is captain of the Fallen and the right hand of the Awoken Queen has gained the Hive Sword that killed Crota.
Just missing out on a vex eye and a phalanx shield and you'll be finished with a collection.
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- Location
- Elsewhere
That is appropriate.
Wasn't expecting that view from Kali, but yes.
Kali's log in general has a very text/discord style, not like a normal story at all. It's interesting.
ensou
Magical G̶i̶r̶l̶ Servant Mordred-chan
- Location
- NEW YORK CITY!??
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Good interesting or bad interesting?
It's very stream-of-conscious, for sure.
Teiwaz
Beloved of Adorjan.
- Location
- RUNNING AWAY
Oh well fuck me.
Queenie has figured out Sword Logic.
- Location
- Oregon, USA
What's sword logic?
- Location
- Elsewhere
Odd interesting
It breaks my usual thoughts. There's no prose. It's like reading a discord chat. I kinda like it, especially as just an interlude (and it's hilarious), but from a perspective of quality, I have no idea.
Apple/10
Only thing I can think of is her using lab rats serum on herself.
What is appropriate about cutting the back of an enemies neck?
- Location
- Elsewhere
Contessa to Eden. (& Doctor Mother)
Evil Atlas
Inspector of Details
- Location
- Denial
- Pronouns
- He/Him
I started giggling here. I haven't fully stopped yet. I have no idea what this means, but it's probably going to be beautiful.
(To clarify, I know the sword is sharpened by killing with it, but the fact that she was able to keep it and keep that going...)
Oh.... Yeah that fits but I don't think Taylor knew about it.
- Location
- Ottawa
oh
oh you poor sweet summer child
[maniacal laughter intensifies]
- Location
- Wingmaiden's Reach, the Near Roofs, Town
- Pronouns
- She/Her
- Location
- Australia
Cheer up Kali, at least your fireteam stuck together the whole trip. Mine tend to either buzz off every which way or they blow through the map like a hot fusion rifle through butter leaving me eating their smoke (at least until the game engine yeets my ancient undead ass to the boss battle). And I totally agree with Kali on the differences between Titans, Hunters and Warlocks!
And I loved Kali's observation about her Risen.
And I loved Kali's observation about her Risen.
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- Location
- Australia
So basically
According to the hive, the more things you kill with a sword, the stronger you are, and the stronger the being that is killed the stronger you become.
Beings like Crota have slaughtered millions following this logic, mostly of other hive but other species as well. He is basically unkillable except from within his own personal dimension.
Oryx, Crota's father, has killed alot more and is basically a god by most standards.
Weaver has killed Crota with a Hive Sword, gained his strength, and can now cut through most things placed in its path.
StatelessGem
Bane of the Iron Lords
For those wondering about sword logic?
Basically every time something empowered by sword logic kills something?
It gets stronger.
And the Hive been killing for thousands of thousands of years, killing off entire star systems at a time.
Suffice to say I'm surprised that sword was dull.
A Sword that ancient should be able to carve atoms right off the bat.
A property of Crota's throne world?
Edit: fucking ninja'd
Basically every time something empowered by sword logic kills something?
It gets stronger.
And the Hive been killing for thousands of thousands of years, killing off entire star systems at a time.
Suffice to say I'm surprised that sword was dull.
A Sword that ancient should be able to carve atoms right off the bat.
A property of Crota's throne world?
Edit: fucking ninja'd