"The Emerald Blight"
"If we cannot defeat their strengths, we will infect their weaknesses."- Born as Prey, 1st Book of Sorrow
Machine Gun

This is a Weapon of Sorrow, like Thorn. It has a frame of twisted, black spikes similar to Thorn's. The iron sight is a green triangle of the same color as Thorn's, with the same spiky aesthetic. The barrel is similar to Thorn's revolving chamber.

Exotic Perk- Emerald Blight- Upon reloading a magazine, the user has a chance to take damage. This will not occur in the first 1/4 of the magazine, but the chance of this occuring goes up the lower the magazine gets. It id 100% guaranteed to proc when the magazine is empty. The player acquires the debuff 'Blighted,' which stops all health regeneration for 30 seconds. However, while Blighted, the weapon does 25% more damage to minions of the Darkness and 10% more to Guardians. This perk may be disabled by selecting 'disable perk' in the exotic perk column.

Intrinsic-
Solar Damage- This weapon deals Solar damage.
Spinning Up- This weapon shoots faster the longer it is fired.
Infuse- Infuse weapons into this item to increase its attack value.

Drops with 300 attack
Range- Mid/Long
Imp- High
Rel- Slow
Sta- Mid/ Low
ROF- Low
Mag- 40

Quest- Blighted

The Oryx encounter in the raid has a chance to drop a 'Blighted Shard.' You can turn it into the Speaker for Vanguard rep. However, if you go to Eris (she won't have a marker over her head) she'll tell you the history of the gun that the shard came from.

"You... the Blight rejects you. You are strong... killer of Oryx, this shard respects you!"

You get a mission from her. She tells you to go to Earth, where you go through the area of the Omnigul strike. Fallen have taken up residence there. You clear them out and Eris appears in a cutscene.

She steps out a dark corner in the room, walking towards and then passing you. She stares at the ground, her back turned to you.

"The shard has bonded to your will. It is bound to those who have made great triumphs or great failures. You slayed the Taken King. Now, this shard calls into question..." she turns and takes a step toward you.

"Was that ultimately the right decision?"

Northbot pipes in. <There was no choice. Oryx would've killed us. Or Taken us.>

"I do not doubt your decision. You have given me hope when there was none. Remember what you did here, so long ago? Omnigul's shrieks... though it has been so long... they scar my mind. However, you gave me peace. The whispers of the Hive are silent to me now. This shard whispers to me in the way the Hive did. But it answers to your will. It hungers... it wishes to feed. Seek the Speaker. He shall know your path."

-the Guardian now has a waypoint on the Tower, but you can do whatever until you return to the Tower. Going there triggers a cutscene-

The Speaker: "Guardian... you have brought a shard of Oryx's power to the City! Why?"

Ghost: <Eris said you could... know our path.>

S: "Hmm... this is intriguing."

(If the Guardian has ever acquired the Thorn, Ghost says- )G: <Remember the Thorn? We can handle this.> (The rest of the dialogue does not change due to this line.)

S: "Alright, Guardian. Your abilities are to be trusted. But you will be tested at times through this journey. You may require some assistance. At any time, feel free to come to me. I will help you to the best of my ability."

-EDIT 1-

The Guardian gets a new step in the Blighted exotic quest. It reads thusly-

Ghost- "Eris sent us a transmission. According to her collaborations with the Speaker, the Shard has to be bonded with... some object before we can use it."

The Guardian has to fly to The Cauldron on the Moon in a new mission called "Bond the Shard." They arrive and must clear out Hive enemies until an ultra Ogre appears, called Holder of the Bond. You have to dunk a relic on it which appears around the map. Once you dunk the relic it is stunned and you shoot it. After 20 seconds it stands back up. Once you kill it, a cutscene is triggered.

[Ogre catches flame, and falls to the ground, roaring. A small cylinder falls to the ground, clinking and rolling away.]

Ghost- "It dropped something. Don't let it roll away."

The Guardian strolls over, and picks up the cylinder. The shard transmats into your hand.

Ghost- "Let's hope this will do it."

The shard appears to vibrate, then flies out of your hand and impacts the cylinder. It is knocked out of your hand by the hit, then it flies toward the center of the map. Your Ghost simply looks at you, and nods toward the map's center, near the puddle of water.

The scene cuts to the Guardian, standing over the pool, looking at the object seemingly absorbing energy from the pool of dark water. It appears to be on fire.

Ghost- "Reaching out to Eris. What is it doing?"

Eris- "Oh... no... it is growing in power. This piece is not interested in servitude. It seeks to control. You must conquer this power. Bathe it in the Light! Attune it to your own. Then we will continue the process."

-Mission ends-

Next Quest Steps-

Return to the Tower to pick up an infusion of light from the Speaker. He says-

"The Darkness in this object is growing. Quell it, Guardian."

The Guardian must then do the following-

Kill 100 minions of the Darkness with a Solar subclass equpped.

Kill 20 Guardians in the Crucible with Solar subclass abilities.

Kill 20 Guardians in the Crucible with Solar weapons.

Once done, return to Eris. She'll take the thing from you and the Quest halts. She holds onto it for a day.

Once a week she provides you with a weapon frame that goes in your Quest Items area. You have to get Solar kills on Hive and kill 5 Hive or Taken Hive majors/ ultras with Solar abilities.

At the 5th week, she gives you a more complete looking weapon and tells you to take it to Banshee. He tells you that you need a Hive runestone to make it function. If you have a Black Hammer runestone, you can use that, but if you don't you can kill hive until you get a Runestone item. When you get it, he says he has to make a few alterations, then he gives you a nearly completed gun.

He says- "I just need one final part. A Hive Combustor Element, which is usually found in Dreadnaughts. Be careful out there, Guardian." The item drops randomly from loot chests on the Dreadnaught. Get it, return to Banshee. He says, "Ahh, that fits in nicely. Never made a Hive weapon. Eris should tell you a bit more about it." The gun is complete. It goes into your Quest items. You go to Eris to trigger a cutscene. She then tells you that she acquired the design of the weapon from Toland's scribblings, as an early version of what he percieved to be Bad Juju. However, it was still a Weapon of Sorrow, and was powered by the Darkness regardless.

You then, after a lengthy and complex quest, acquire the Emerald Blight as a usable weapon. It drops at the DLC's cap attack, probably about 430-440.

What do you think?

But of course.... Once Bitten. MiB, if you don't know, Once Bitten is a custom gun Accolyte's character in HoS/TBW uses, made from Up For Anything, with Omolon parts in it.

In the RP, it's really just Up For Anything with a Rune of the Disciple on it. And the one in HoS/TBW only does Void damage.

Like what I did with it?

Ok, so I have thought on a raid for a looooooonnnnnnng time now, and I think that it's almost done. Please note that all of this is work in progress. And please, do come with feedback.

Forge of Gods/Armageddon

(description a work in progress)

Beginning

The team spawn in the new area on Mars, Blazing Sands. In the distance, the giant volcano of Olympus Mons can be seen, known by the Cabal as the Forge of Gods. Near the spawn, a large gate leading inside a mountain can be found. After a few seconds, two Gladiator type enemies called "Gatewatcher" will appear from Harvesters. Kill them to make two random players recieve the buff "Network Access". The players with the buff must activate two terminals on either side of the gate. The gate will open and the team can proceed into the Raid-exclusive area Melted Canyon.

The Bridge

When entering the new area, the team will find themselves inside an underground ravine, with a bridge in the middle of it, which points downwards. Once the Fireteam begins their descent, Harvesters with the black and orange livery of the Burning Legion will appear, dropping off Legionaries, Phalanxes and Centurions. As the team fights their way through to the middle of the bridge, a special Harvester will appear. This Harvester doesn't drop troops, instead, it houses a single Colossus by the name of "Kho'ogh, Watcher of the Gauntlet". Kho'ogh will fire his weapon, a large crossbow, at the Guardians. If the bolt hits, the Guardian hit by it will be given the debuff "Targeted for Destruction", which lasts for 15 seconds. After the 15 seconds, a barrage of missiles will be launched from the Harvester, aimed at the Guardian with the debuff, and Kho'ogh will fire a bolt at another player. To counter this, along the way of the bridge there are three Heavy slug thrower turrets placed out. To activate them, there is a Gatewatcher at each turret, which grants the "Network Access" to the Guardian that killed it. Activate a turret while the buff is active to cause it to fire on Kho'ogh's Harvester, damaging it. When the Harvester has lost a third of its Health, the turret will deactivate, and the team must continue on. To destroy the Harvester, all three Turrets along the bridge must be activated. When the Harvester is destroyed at the end of the bridge, Kho'ogh will jump out, arming himself with a Flamethrower. Two additional Harvesters will drop down two Gatewatchers each. To advance into the Gauntlet, all enemies including Kho'ogh must be killed, and the "Network Access" buff from the Gatewatchers must be used to open the gate. Kho'ogh is fairly easy to defeat, and has very little Health.

The Gauntlet

As the Fireteam enters the open gates, they will find themselves in what seems to be an abandoned train station underground, similar to Tharsis Junction. Directly infront of them, the Guardians can find the first Loot chest, which award materials. The team must now reach a large device in the middle of the room, which appears to be a teleporter. When entered, the Fireteam will be teleported to The Gauntlet, a gigantic armoured train speeding straight towards the Forge of Gods. Upon spawning, the team must make it from the wagon at the end of the train to the front of it, by fighting their way through hordes of Cabal, both on the outside and the inside of the train. A special enemy type will spawn on the train, called Juggernaut. A Juggernaut is a larger than normal Phalanx armed with a one-handed Forge Hammer and a smaller shield. Juggernauts have the ability to charge at Guardians, and being able to knock Guardians hit by it backwards. If they are killed, they drop a Forge Hammer relic, which can be used by Guardians. To proceed through wagons, a Forge Hammer must be used to destroy the door to the next wagon.

When the team reaches the final wagon, Galur, Solar Flayer will appear. Galur is not armed with any weapon, instead, he uses a number of different abilities. He also has a shield which grants him invulnerability. Galur's abilities include firing solar projectiles which seek out enemies, covering himself in fire and rushing towards the Guardians, and his normal Psionic Blast leaves a damaging burn field after it. However, his powerful abilities come at a cost. Whenever Galur uses any sort of ability, his shield drains a little bit. Eventually, the shield will reach zero, and the Flayer will be stunned by it. This leaves him open to attack for about 20 seconds. When Galur has lost his shield for the first time in the fight, adds will begin to spawn. When Galur has lost 33% of his Health, he will add a new attack. When his Shields are being replenished, he will float into the air and release a powerful AOE attack that can take away about half the Health of an undamaged Guardian. The only way to avoid this is to hide behind the few covers in the room. However, as the fight goes on, more and more cover will disappear. When the Flayer has lost 66% of his Health, he will add a powerful beam of energy which he fires in a wide circle clockwise. This beam insta-kills Guardians at full Health, but it can be easily avoided. As Galur places himself in the middle of the room while doing this attack, Guardians must run away from the beam. At running speed, a Guardian with decent Agility stats can outrun the beam. On Hard Mode, Galur adds a final attack when he loses 99% of his Health. He will float into the air and charge up a desperate suicide attack, in which he fills himself with energy and then detonates, wiping the Guardians. To stop this, the Fireteam must take Galur's last 1% of Health down while he charges the attack.

[Part One done. To be continued]

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All of this...Sounds amazing. Gentleman, I think we hit our Golden Age with this Forge Of Gods stuff. I'm going to rewrite the Prison of Kings Firefight with Mecher Orbikis 6, see if I can actually rewrite this decently. Wish me luck.

• tips hat*

The Eye oversees all.

It's the watcher of our faithful little prison, a prison of the lowly and the opposers of the Frontier's grand plan. It knows what's best for not just Fallen, but Cabal and even humanity as we know it. Rarran Prime faithfully serves as the warden...

..The warden, of the Prison of Kings...

Dreamweaver

(The Guardians appears in the Prison Complex of the Prison of Kings, with Prison of Elders cells surrounding the large room. Using some sort of telekinetic beam, Rarran Prime, the giant Servitor in the background, lifts a cell and places it an arena, speaking in mechanicalized Eliksni language.)

Beriks: Our Servitor demands the destruction of a lesser eye...Mecher Orbikis 6...(Hiss)...The eye was influenced by Vex, long ago, when the Wolves cried for rebellion. The eye only sees destruction of our race...Kill it dead, lightwielder. Dead.....

(The Guardians makes their way through a long hallway into a door on the right: From there, Fallen wearing spiked, black armor are seen patrolling. The Fireteam makes quick work of them, before moving on deeper into the Prison.)

Ghost: It amazing, how devout Fallen get about their Servitors...

Syrianna: Don't be too surprised. I've taken one of their bodies before for experimenting; they have mind cores in their helmets. Keeps them mindless and under the Servitor's control. (Whispering) Damn, why did I not think of that?...

Cyrus: Because I wouldn't have let you do that. I caught this thing a long time ago, had to keep it down there for so long...It was actually the first member of, and the reason we founded, the Prison of Kings.

(The Guardians fights through more Fallen, occasionally encountering Scorch Captains with a "Disciple of Mecher" title. As they keeping moving through the dungeons, Rarran Prime keeps speaking a mechanilized voice. Finally...)

Beriks: The lesser eye is within that arena....

(A different mechanilized Eliksni voice is heard, but garbled, assumed to Mecher Orbikis 6.)

Beriks: It says: The inevitable cannot be stopped. All will be burned away, until there is nothing but beautiful, black ash...And I, will lead those flames to victory...

Cyrus: Preachy, but that's not gonna happen. Guardian, I wish you luck: Chances are, that thing won't like visitors.

(The door opens to the arena, revealing a large, circular room with ledges on the walls, where Fallen snipers will reside. Looking up, a large white light brightens the room. Firstly, Vektis walks in from a door in the arena, before attacking the Fireteam. Details about Vektis' strategies later, but once done, Vektis' body will fall on the ground and be burnt into ashes.)

(The lights are broken. M.06's voice is heard as he descends onto the battlefield, with it's red, modified eye only being visible. So far, it fights almost identical to Sepiks Prime, just with a few more teleports thrown in. At 80%, lights dimly reveal M.06's full body, and his real strategies are revealed. Rapid laser blasts, a powerful Void cannon, and his Atheon-like ability to send Guardians into "the inevitable". In the inevitable, 3 Guardians are being chased by a supernova in a destroyed Tower. Meanwhile, the 3 not in "the inevitable" have to murder 3 Dregs hidden around the map to bring the Guardians back, or the entire team will wipe. Rinse and repeat until 30%, where his tactics become more like Sepiks Prime's again, except with the time travel and lasers in his routine attack. Also, the room will flood with Vandals and Captains, making the boss fight harder. Continue until death, where MO6 is sent into a paralyzed and broken state midair, like a Cyclops. Rarran Prime is revealed, when a wall is removed from the arena, and he destroys MO6 for good with a giant Arc blast of energy.)

Syrianna:...Too bad. I wanted that Servitor...

Cyrus: And, that was a win for the Frontier, and even if they don't know it yet, the City. That inevitable could've actually happened, and it had the capabilities to do just that..But you put an end to it. Big day, big rewards, Guardian.