#we're... not gone bitches

[lazylittledragon]

so uhhhhhhhh. not to be cryptic and bitchy on main but congratulations to everyone in my messages for like 5 months on being right i guess

[thefirstknife]

Category 10 even in Rite of the Nine for me personally. There's little engrams to interact with at the start of the zone when you load in. When you load in for the first time, you only get one and then I assume when you pick up the collectibles (so 2 this week) you get another two. There's three little cutscenes in total.

The first one features the Nine giving us a message that swaps between the Emissary to start and then goes to Orin asking us for help:

The Emissary brings you a message from The Nine. The put forth a challenge to the Lightbearers - A begrudging implement, a worn tool! Guardian, please - We ask: make known your value, so divided gods may wield you in time.

We didn't even notice that it's multiple cutscenes at first, we thought we'd just be able to rewatch this one, but the second one is different. It features various landscapes with the Vex architecture and mysterious text from the Nine, including a special symbol at the end. The text formatting and the symbol are representing one of the Nine. They're finally identifying which one of them speaks in which way and with which planet they're connected. This one is Venus:

So the Nine associated with Venus speaks in all caps no punctuation (ignore the elipses, they seem to be present either way) and have this symbol. This is the entry to the Vault of Glass btw, therefore easily identified as Venus. Intrigued by what looks like the tentacles from Heresy. Maybe it's not but it looks that way to me. Full text:

CALIBRATE LET US STOKE THE EMBERS GRASP YOUR LIGHT LIKE SHADOWS ON CAVE WALLS SUMMONS UNHEARD WHY LIMIT YOURSELVES TO SUCH TRODDEN PATHS ALLOW US TO UPLIFT

The third we got was Earth:

EDZ, Cosmodrome, speaking in small caps no punctuation, this symbol: Earth Nine. Full text, elipses included for this but I think they can be ignored for the specific formatting of how this one speaks (we have to see details when they get to the Nine that use dots and pluses and minuses in their speech):

cherished...little motes...i swaddle out...of...fondness... our...symbiosis forever...conjunct...but... decay...decay...i cannot...hold... the rot...the spilling...of neutrinos...back please...come...

Very interesting differences between them! What excites me is that we'll see others. However, from what it seems it looks like we can't get all if they're unlocked through the collectibles in the dungeons, because there's only 6 collectibles. The first cutscene was for free and it didn't feature a specific Nine. So at worst we can only get 6 of them speaking. Possible others might get unlocked in some other way that isn't the collectibles? There's 9 spots where they're positioned, so all can fit, just no idea how we'll get the ones not tied to the collectibles.

What's even more interesting is that it starts with Venus. They confirmed definitively in the reveal stream that the Nine are 8 planets and the Sun. Obviously we only have 2 so far so we don't really have a pattern but it's quite the coincidence that it goes Venus and then Earth, rather than some other bizarre order.

Also, not to use merch as lore, but the Rite of the Nine shirt shows all of the 9 symbols for them and these two, for Venus and Earth are 2nd and 3rd, aka where they should be. So the 1st symbol should be Mercury and I assume the Sun will be the last. So the cutscenes starting with Venus means that the first one was skipped and like. It makes sense. The planet is gone. This would also confirm that the Nine that's missing from the Division lore tab is indeed Mercury and also that it won't have a cutscene, unless the order is completely screwed up after starting with Venus and Earth.

I'm super excited to finally being able to match all the individual Nine to their own formatting type and symbol and planet. Can't wait to see how many of these we're going to get and if we'll get all or not. Are the rest going to be in order or not? Is Mercury entirely skipped because it's missing? Are there going to be only 8 cutscenes then? I need to know this right now.

Also, for doing the collectibles you get the lore book! It's two collectibles per dungeon so first two are this week in Spire of the Watcher. However, you can just get the collectibles on each character to unlock the whole lore book. This is definitely a bug because when I got to my other character, that triumph was labelled as unfinished despite me finishing it on my main. Either way you can get the whole lore book this way. It's definitely something else. Difficult to read and process, deals with Orin and her wrestling with the Nine. A lot of chatter from the Nine.

I did not expect this much lore from this, I was cautiously optimistic, but this is incredible. After all these years, being able to properly identify all of the Nine is huge. Getting some answers about them and how they function also, as well as the question of what's going on to the Nine that's associated with a planet that was eaten by the Witness and not returned.

[astral-bish]

Canon Tom when the readers think they can fix him

[confused-spood]

dear lord give me patience not to strangle this bitch be deadnaming me so fckin much even tho I've already told her my preferred name.

[nobodybetterlookatme]

Not my mother acting like me and my dad are gonna infect her like she didn't bring this fucking plague into the house 😭😭 girl where was all this concern before you literally got us all sick 😭😭

[the-tenth-arcanum]

sooo I'm going to edinburgh in a little over two weeks. yaaay

[wammypilled]

Been living the kitty cat life (sleeping >14h a day, sipping warm milk) for the past couple of days and i must say. didn't like it as much as I thought I would :\ (might be the 39°C fever part)

[prodkeiji]

when will you stop villainizing us lol

[adustoflove]

If yall ever see me start profusely sobbing out of absolutely nowhere just always assume I randomly remembered an event where my dad called me a dumb fucking bitch for something genuinely innocent or for no reason at all actually. Just assume I'm remembering how badly my dad used to verbally assault me and tell me I was the one who ruined his marriage and got him fired when all I did was sit in my room absolutely terrified for my life most days because he was constantly yelling and throwing things

[echidnana]

not to sound like a little bitch. but the dad is so annoying. one of our main chores around the house is picking up sticks (we have a ton of pecan trees which drop sticks like crazy, they need to be picked up for the yard to be mowed) and he is SUCH a bitch about it. like he'll come in after we do it and be like "hm. are you sure you know what a stick is? I can show you what one looks like" bro it is literally impossible to pick up every fucking stick in the yard

[insertcoolnameherethanks]

My one fear is that ST5 does go back in time and no one remembers, therefore Steve is still King Steve and loses the friendships he's made with the kids and Robin

[dragonji]

its time for yet another brain game of am i like fully neurotic or was this genuinely not a cool situation . prize is jack shite and yet im playing anyways👍

[snobgoblin]

my dad keeps threatening to leave but he hasn't delivered yet. sad.

[ofconnectedsouls]

verses tag

[schuyu]

running out of options for jobs I can do that wouldn't make me miserable or have no personal life.. I just want to be able to live

[neonwizardheehee]

Little work rant:

I asked my coworker today if they could fill in tmr evening bc we had to switch things up bc some delivery didn't came and now we have to switch up the whole event (like we need to do smth at our place but the og thing is not possible) and they (we're friends actually) had the audacity to come to me with a "oh but couldn't you have planned that back in november when u knew smth was happening at yours?" .... girliepop the whole thing changed last week, my boss who usually does this is on sick leave and i have had a christmas market to run in between - girl what do u mean I could've done better, i am fucvking trying and crying over here to have our place even running next year