Destiny 2 - Account of a Catharsis

Wahei's head jerked up as she heard the clanging on the door to her sanctum, quickly releasing the tension in her arm, then flicking a finger at the wall. A curtain dropped to cover the space across from her, and she blinked a few times to lubricate her eyes, dried out after a long unblinking stare. She tapped her comm. "Who is it?"

"Wahei, it's me." Eris Morn. "This is urgent. Please!"

The Warlock took out her umbral rosary and tangled it in her fingers, making a few flicks across its hand-carved beads, shifting her wards down out of defense mode, and then unlocked the door. Eris did not enter as it swung open, instead looking firmly at her with her thrice-green gaze. "It is as I feared," she began. "We were too late."

Wahei did not need to ask. "Calus. He's ascended?"

Eris shook her head. "I do not believe he has yet, but the Lunar Pyramid has surged to life in spite of our efforts. It has begun resonating. I believe Calus is assuming control."

Wahei immediately turned to her equipment racks, pulling on her armor and robes. "We'll have to stop him. Do the others know?"

"Yes. If we strike now, as one," Eris continued, "at the heart of Calus's presence within the Leviathan, we may yet be able to prevent him from turning the power of the Pyramid against us."

The Warlock nodded. "I'll contact my fireteam. Morgan, Rega, and Shaman together should be able to help burn through any resistance you encounter on the Leviathan."

Eris Morn was no fool, and she noted Wahei's choice of words. "You are not coming?"

She shook her head as she considered her weapon rack. "I will be attacking from a different angle. Calus's psychic imprint is huge, and he's trying to slither out of the Leviathan like a crab grown too large for its shell. I'm going to cut him off before he can reach his new one." Wahei contemplated her weapons again, and decided that there would be a deep irony in using the trophies that the exiled emperor had given her as payment for services rendered. She holstered an Austringer on her hip, then checked the clip on an Epicurean, and examined the edge of her Death's Razor.

Eris blinked. "You're going into the Pyramid?"

Wahei slammed her sword into its sheath. "It's the only way to be sure I can catch his psychic shadow and force it into the Light. I have a few tricks up my sleeve to be sure he won't overwhelm me." She began to pack some items from her work table into her satchel as she went. She paused, and picked up a jar, one festooned with sigils and wards, iron wiring wrapped around it. Its contents shimmered faintly with a sanguine luster. "There should be enough power in this phantasmal energy I bound after a few containment rituals to kick off one final severing." She handed this to Eris, before sliding a second one into her pack. "And one for me, to use inside the Pyramid."

The Light's Witch examined the jar. "Egregore, bound and contained," she noted. She looked up again. "You've been paying attention to my work," she noted, with no small note of pride.

Wahei smirked. "You may be the foremost expert on Hive arcana, but I'm fast catching up."

"I've no doubt you'll see great things with your insights," Eris said, and clasped her forearm. "Be careful, Wahei. Going into a Pyramid always carries risks."

"I'm a Guardian," the Warlock shrugged. "Trouble follows."

Destiny 2 - Transcript of a Severing

TYPE: VANGUARD SURVEILLANCE REPORT

DESCRIPTION: Conversation between a person of interest and a phantom

PARTIES: ### [#]. One [1] Guardian-type, designate Wahei Ohr [WO] (POI #0247); One [1] Nightmare-type [u.1]; One [1] Memory-type [u.2]

ASSOCIATIONS: Calus; Crown of Sorrow; Darkness; Disciple; Egregore; Haruspex; Leviathan (Cabal Ship); Nightmares; Ohr, Wahei (POI #0247); Pyramid (Lunar); Scryer; Witness

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Destiny 2 - Transcript of a Mycelial Conversation

TYPE: H.E.L.M. INTERNAL SURVEILLANCE REPORT

DESCRIPTION: Conversation between persons of interest

PARTIES: Three [3]. One [1] Guardian-type, Class Hunter, designate Eris Morn [EM]; One [1] Guardian-type, Class Warlock, designate Wahei Ohr [WO]; One [1] Nightmare-type [u.1]

ASSOCIATIONS: Calus; Crown of Sorrow; Darkness; Egregore; Haruspex; Leviathan (Cabal Ship); Morn, Eris (ERI-223); Nightmares; Ohr, Wahei (POI #0247); Pyramid (Lunar); Scryer; Traitor's Die; Umbranomicon; Witness

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Destiny 2 - Transcript of a Haunted Conversation

TYPE: VANGUARD SURVEILLANCE REPORT

DESCRIPTION: Conversation between persons of interest

PARTIES: Three [3]. One [1] Cabal-type, designate Emperor Calus [CAL] (VIP #3801); One [1] Guardian-type, Class Warlock, designate Wahei Ohr [WO]; One [1] Nightmare-type [u.1]

ASSOCIATIONS: Calus; Crown of Sorrow; Darkness; Haruspex; Leviathan (Cabal Ship); Nightmares; Ohr, Wahei (POI #0247); Pyramid (Lunar); Savathûn; Scorn; Scryer; Witness

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Destiny 2 - Account of an Exorcism

"Wahei?" Vizier's voice interrupted her reverie as the Awoken Warlock looked up from the Traitor's Die and the cat's cradle she'd fashioned from her rosary. Wahei Ohr blinked eyes that felt raw, dry, as they would do after an unblinking, unseeing stare into probability, and the maddening tangle she kept seeing.

As she came back to awareness, the Ghost went on, "There's an incoming message from Queen Mara via the H.E.L.M."

I need to pace myself. Morgan was right, I need to sleep more frequently. Wahei pinched the bridge of her nose as she closed her eyes and let them rest a bit. "Put it through."

The comm crackled and then the Sovereign of the Awoken's voice came through. "Guardian Ohr," she began. "The time is at hand."

Now she looked up. "The exorcism?" The ritual was at the center of the tangle in the skein...

"The beacons shine bright, and the Ley Lines are set in place," Mara Sov agreed. "My Techeuns are prepared to perform the ritual that will separate Savathûn from her worm. Although she claims she will help us in our fight against the Black Fleet and the Entity that commands it," and the Queen's sneer could be heard in her voice, "she cannot be trusted."

Wahei looked down at her journal. The two open pages were covered in automatic writing scrawl, overlapping and looping, but after decades of practice, she knew how to decipher her own handwriting, even in this state. The visions she'd glimpsed through the veil, the probabilities she'd scryed, as disjointed as she could perceive them. So many had been around this very event. "Seems like we've been waiting for ages," she muttered, "and yet this feels too soon..." I need more time to see the way through. "The things that she could tell us, even with the lies woven through them--"

"You have coaxed enough information from her for my purposes," Mara Sov interrupted. Wahei frowned. You, perhaps. But there are other players on the board, O Sovereign of the Awoken. As the Warlock ruminated, the Queen was still speaking of the danger that Xivu Arath posed, concluding with, "You once swore to aid me in my plans. I call on you once more, Guardian Ohr."

Wahei sighed to herself. "I'll gather my team and head for the Dreaming City." The Queen closed connection as the Voidwalker looked down at the circle that she'd drawn around herself. Runes and markings lined the perimeter, with several nodes containing artifacts she'd hoped would help focus her visions, including the components she'd pried out of Magda-9's forecasting device-- a piece of Reef Amethyst, a Splinter of Darkness, and a Shard of the Traveler. Placed in front of her had been the Wayfinder's Compass, which glimmered in a way that only someone familiar with paracausal energies might have detected.

She collected these all and slipped them into a pocket on her satchel, then began to slowly wipe the chalk markings of the circle off the cold stone floor. Vizier watched her. "What did you see this time?" the Ghost asked quietly.

Wahei looked up and out of the entrance of the cave where she'd holed up, the shape of the Pyramid sitting ominously on the horizon, through the haze of a distant snowstorm. Again and again, details change, but the outcome seems to be the same. How do I stop the ritual from failing?

"Constants and variables," she sighed.

Destiny 2 - Seeking Foresight

Wahei : warlock : kingslayer : seeker of insight

1 : the Ley Lines converge : the worm gods roar : for the Reef : Light against Darkness : the Rachis falls : a Techeun sniped : the ritual fails--

2 : Saint has doubts : the War God smiles : the Reef defiant : I see you : the shield breaks : the Queen crushed : the ritual fails--

3 : the Hive pours forth : hold this line to the last soldier : I see you : we're being overrun : an ogre bellows : a Queen Taken : the ritual fails--

4 : the ritual holds : I see you : there's too many of them : break against my shield : Light ascendant : risen from bones : the ritual fails--

5 : I see you : none shall enter : swarm and scorn and blight : snipers duel : hammer against rage : a blighted detonation : the ritual fails--

6 : I see you : hold this line : I see you : none shall enter : I see you : reach through the veil and twist : I see you--

7 : I see you : searching through the twisting lines : seeking a path to victory : there is a way past failure : all those roads lead to me : and it is majestic : majestic--

Wahei : voidwalker : shadebinder : Haruspex 

Destiny 2 - Transcript of a Tribunal

TYPE: Transcription

DESCRIPTION: Vanguard Tribunal 3647.59

CASE #: TRIB-3647-59-POI-0480 (Magda-9)

PARTIES: Twelve [12]; One [1] Guardian-type, Class Titan, designate Commander Zavala [CZ]; One [1] Guardian-type, Class Hunter, designate Shiro-4 [S4]; One [1] Human-type, designate Sarielle Shu [SS]; One [1] Human-type, designate Valentin Anders [VA]; One [1] Human-type, designate Deputy Commander Hammon [DCH]; One [1] Eliksni-type, designate Eido [EID]; One [1] Psion-type, designate Tsacsii [TSA]; One [1] Awoken-type, designate Zahid Pan [ZP]; One [1] Guardian-type, Class Warlock, designate Magda-9 [M9]; One [1] Guardian-type, Class Warlock, designate Ikora Rey [IR]; One [1] Exo-type, designate Elsie Bray [EB]; One [1] Guardian-type, Class Warlock, designate Wahei Ohr [WO]

ASSOCIATIONS: Black Fleet; Bray, Clovis I; Bray, Elisabeth [AKA Bray, Elsie; Stranger, Exo]; Clarity Control; Clovis Bray (corporation); Consensus; Crota; Crow, The [AKA Sov, Uldren]; Darkness; Eliksni; Endless Night; Eventide; Forge Star, The [AKA 2082 Volantis]; FOTC [AKA Civic Defense]; Great Disaster; Hive; House of Light; Last City; Light; Lux Ruinas; Mahal, Aunor; Namrask [AKA Akileuks]; Ohr, Wahei; Praxic Order; Reef; Sacred Splicers; Shadows of Salvation; Shadows of Yor; Stasis; Tribunal; Vergift, Dredgen [AKA Versenne, Magdalene; Magda-9]; Vex; WoS; Xivu Arath

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