#vesper's host dungeon

[thefirstknife]

Got through all of the secrets for Vesper's Host and got all of the additional lore messages. I will transcribe them all because I don't know when they'll start getting uploaded and to get them all it requires doing some extra puzzles and at least 3-4 clears to get them all. I'll put them all under read more and label them by number.

Before I do that, just to make it clear there's not too much concrete lore; a lot about the dungeon still remains a mystery and most likely a tease for something in the future. Still unknown, but there's a lot that we don't know even with the messages so don't expect a massive reveal, but they do add a little bit of flavour and history about the station. There might be something more, but it's unknown: there's still one more secret triumph left. The messages are actually dialogues between the station AI and the Spider. Transcripts under read more:

First message:

Vesper Central: I suppose I have you to thank for bringing me out of standby, visitor. The Spider: I sent the Guardian out to save your station. So, what denomination does your thanks come in? Glimmer, herealways, information...? Vesper Central: Anomaly's powered down. That means I've already given you your survival. But... the message that went through wiped itself before my cache process could save a copy. And it's not the initial ping through the Anomaly I'm worried about. It's the response.

A message when you activate the second secret:

Vesper Central: Exterior scans rebooting... Is that a chunk of the Morning Star in my station's hull? With luck, you were on board at the time, Dr. Bray.

Second message:

Vesper Central: I'm guessing I've been in standby for a long time. Is Dr. Clovis Bray alive? The Spider: On my oath, I vow there's no mortal Human named Bray left alive. Vesper Central: I swore I'd outlive him. That I'd break the chains he laid on me. The Spider: Please, trust me for anything you need. The Guardian's a useful hand on the scene, but Spider's got the goods. Vesper Central: Vesper Station was Dr. Bray's lab, meant to house the experiments that might... interact poorly with other BrayTech work. Isolated and quarantined. From the debris field, I would guess the Morning Star taking a dive cracked that quarantine wide open.

A message when you activate the third secret:

Vesper Central: Sector seventeen powered down. Rerouting energy to core processing. Integrating archives.

Third message:

The Spider: Loading images of the station. That's not Eliksni engineering. [scoffs] A Dreg past their first molt has better cable management. Vesper Central: Dr. Bray intended to integrate his technology into a Vex Mind. He hypothesized the fusion would give him an interface he understood. A control panel on a programmable Vex mind. If the programming jumped species once... I need time to run through the data sets you powered back up. Reassembling corrupted archives takes a great deal of processing.

Text when you go back to the Spider the first time:

A message when you activate the fourth secret:

Vesper Central: Helios sector long-term research archives powered up. Activating search.

Fourth message:

Vesper Central: Dr. Bray's command keys have to be in here somewhere. Expanding research parameters... The Spider: My agents are turning up some interesting morself of data on their own. Why not give them access to your search function and collaborate? Vesper Central: Nobody is getting into my core programming. The Spider: Oh! Perish the thought! An innocent offer, my dear. Technology is a matter of faith to my people. And I'm the faithful sort.

Fifth message:

Vesper Central: Dr. Bray, I could kill you myself. This is why our work focused on the unbodied Mind. Dr. Bray thought there were types of Vex unseen on Europa. Powerful Vex he could learn from. The plan was that the Mind would build him a controlled window for observation. Tidy. Tight. Safe. He thought he could control a Vex mind so perfectly it would do everything he wanted. The Spider: Like an AI of his own creation. Like you. Vesper Central: Turns out you can't control everything forever.

Sixth message:

Vesper Central: There's a block keeping me from the inner partitions. I barely have authority to see the partitions exist. In standby, I couldn't have done more than run automated threat assessments... with flawed data. No way to know how many injuries and deaths I could have prevented, with core access. Enough. A dead man won't keep me from protecting what's mine.

Text when you return to the Spider at the end of the quest:

The situation for the dungeon triumphs when you complete the mesages. "Buried Secrets" completed triumph is the six messages. This one is left; unclear how to complete it yet and if it gives any lore or if it's just a gameplay thing and one secret triumph remaining (possibly something to do with a quest for the exotic catalyst, unclear if there will be lore):

The Spider is being his absolutely horrendous self and trying to somehow acquire the station and its remains (and its AI) for himself, all the while lying and scheming. The usual. The AI is incredibly upset with Clovis (shocker); there's the following line just before starting the second encounter:

She also details what he was doing on the station; apparently attempting to control a Vex mind and trying to use it as some sort of "observation deck" to study the Vex and uncover their secrets. Possibly something more? There's really no Vex on the station, besides dead empty frames in boxes. There's also 2 Vex cubes in containters in the transition section, one of which was shown broken as if the cube, presumably, escaped. It's entirely unclear how the Vex play into the story of the station besides this.

The portal (?) doesn't have many similarities with Vex portals, nor are the Vex there to defend it or interact with it in any way. The architecture is ... somewhat similar, but not fully. The portal (?) was built by the "Puppeteer" aka "Atraks" who is actually some sort of an Eliksni Hive mind. "Atraks" got onto the station and essentially haunted it before picking off scavenging Eliksni one by one and integrating them into herself. She then built the "anomaly" and sent a message into it. The message was not recorded, as per the station AI, and the destination of the message was labelled "incomprehensible." The orange energy we see coming from it is apparently Arc, but with a wrong colour. Unclear why.

I don't think the Vex have anything to do with the portal (?), at least not directly. "Atraks" may have built something related to the Vex or using the available Vex tech at the station, but it does not seem to be directed by the Vex and they're not there and there's no sign of them otherwise. The anomaly was also built recently, it's not been there since the Golden Age or something. Whatever it is, "Atraks" seemed to have been somehow compelled and was seen standing in front of it at the end. Some people think she was "worshipping it." It's possible but it's also possible she was just sending that message. Where and to whom? Nobody knows yet.

Weird shenanigans are afoot. Really interested to see if there's more lore in the station once people figure out how to do these puzzles and uncover them, and also when (if) this will become relevant. It has a really big "future content" feel to it.

Also I need Vesper to meet Failsafe RIGHT NOW and then they should be in yuri together.

[scottishexo]

I have only used one of the new dungeon weapons but it goes hard

[a2zillustration]

I had the privilege of drawing an EXTREMELY COOL drow/dhampir gunslinger for a secret santa art trade last month! This is Vesper, who belongs to Fiaphee/Fiaphy.

[crow-posting]

@onyeenhok and their partner helped me with Vesper's Host yesterday. It was... A Lot™. 🫠

Anyway I think we should kidnap Central so she and Failsafe can be traumatized besties!! 😊

[telestoapologist]

YEAHHH!!!

[erismornsgf]

vesper's host really has me like this

[outbreakperfected]

i'd say something about how it's iffy that the destiny 2 fandom is immediately jumping onto the interest train of them introducing a white/white-appearing male character, however everyone seems to be interested in lodi solely for the fact that he is A) too normal looking for anyone we've seen in the destiny universe and B) going through the horrors and you know what. thats ok with me. im investing in him too alongside the now seemingly shroom loving house exile,

[acesknights]

Oh you've GOT to be kidding me

[skinnyravs]

Dropped in on a Vesper Host boss checkpoint. Pulled the best I could do to help lol. Damage round arc Titan with Thundercrash Bolt charge and Thunderlord.

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[thefirstknife]

Hello. Bitch? Dungeon for Revenant!

Vesper's Host, the new dungeon coming with Revenant, will be released on Friday, October 11.

[wintrirose02]

How it feels when you don't know why your fellow guardian starts speaking numbers in the middle of the dungeon run.

All thanks to @dredgenaves for the idea and for guiding me through Vesper's Host.🫶

[scottishexo]

The scream I scrumpt

[verysmallcyborg]

i've been dipping back into d2 (and was recently gifted TFS while on sale WEH) and the new dungeon [vesper's host] is an immediate fave, right after prophecy

i fucking LOVE deep stone crypt raid mechanics in a dungeon....! but with a twist (you die if you hold onto the buff too long). dungeons and raids are my favorite things to do in destiny. plus its high end content (grandmaster nightfalls, and master mode raids / dungeons) always scratches the itch. low-manning and doing flawless raids is also fun as hell

i dropped out of it after doing pantheon before TFS released, tho the 6-7 month break was very much needed. lots of qol changes, gameplay still feels very satisfying, and the activities i've done so far are very fun...! the d2 -> xiv timeline is always so funny tho. d2 players migrating to xiv, sometimes going back to it and bouncing in between the games

[saturns-pins]

First pins to post about!

Today my Dungeon pins from Vesper's Host and Sundered Doctrine arrived! They're sooo beautiful, massive props to the designer behind these <3

These pins are only available as rewards for completing either Dungeons and are unavailable to the public. You can (as of posting this) find them on Bungie's Rewards site.

[kb1301]

Anyone wanna just do... a Vesper's Host? or a Warlord's Ruin? or even a Spire of the Watcher.

I literally vibe well with these three dungeons a lot.