Board Thread:Fun and Games Forum/@comment-26355186-20150630204932/@comment-24306135-20150715015302

The data drive booted up and crackled with static twice, then cleared.

The Guardians watched as Sauron was dragged through the derelict Ketch and eventually, woke up in a massive bone chair. The Hive knight who'd tortured Sauron, The Questioner, seemed relatively normal, until he plunged an acid-laced knife into Sauron's leg. At that point, the Exo's vision flashed red and changed. The Knight was replaced with a blood-covered, unhelmeted version of Avgust, whose eyes were gouged out and bloody, and whose armor leaked a pure black smoke. As the torture continued, the mutilated forms Scythe, Jackie, Arxus, Varrus, and other figures unknown to the group, wearing ancient combat armor, appeared behind and around Sauron, taunting him. These obscene cariticures became more twisted as the pain increased. At the point where Scythe had crippled the questioner and freed Sauron, the Exo's banks showed Scythe as an unknown, unshaven man, wearing a salvage suit and wielding a pre-Collapse sniper rifle, whose rifle fired beams of blinding white light. Other hallucinations, including the cycle of murdered Guardians and the Dark Avgust, also appeared. At the point where Sauron had nearly strangled Scythe, the Eyeless Avgust appeared again, gagging and choking and Sauron's hands burned with the same white light. After that, the Exo's vision remained relatively normal, excluding the repeated flash of "I WANT TO BELIEVE" written in blood upon the Ketch's walls throughout Sauron's mutiny. At the point where Avgust and the others had been freed, the shapes of most of the Guardians had shifted once again. Varrus appeared as a sort of demon, encased in fused and vitrified Titan armor covered in violet flame. As Sauron pressed the pistol to his head, the eyeless Avgust and the mutilated forms of Sara, Zand, and Arxus taunted him, and piles of the normal Platoon's bodies grew higher and higher around him, their arms reaching toward him, their dead mouths begging for him to help them, not to let them die.

There was a single gunshot, and the recording ended.