Apologies to Xenos.

Don't ban me, bro!

I learned a fantastic new expletive from him.

Second place: Blackstar casually mentioned a cat that hiccuped and farted at the same time on Dexter when screwing around in patrol. I looked at the video and laughed so hard I threw up and cried.

These were kind of incidental to Destiny. The only one directly related to Destiny was getting to The Lighthouse my 4th time when I absolutely didn't expect it since we were doing awful, or possibly Bluerunner getting his Fatebringer.

Best boss fight in the game.

Maybe getting to the lighthouse on my first try? But I had almost nothing to do with that, pure carry by Unoudid and Funkmon.

Or this

Still not sure why that worked.

Plus I get to do it while sitting on the couch in my underwear! You're welcome for that mental picture, by the way ;)

"CruelLegacy Dances"

:-o

• Korny helped me with the first edition Queen's Wrath when I only had blues.
  
• Bigarm and I Running our first Crota raid
  
• All the raids with the deeply flawed raiders
  
• Staying up really late over Thanksgiving break and playing crucible until I ranked up on my 360 character (He looked like Conan OBrien. Farewell, guardian!)
  
• Draksis Queen's Wrath mission
  
• Nightfalls... All the nightfalls.
  
• When you still had to farm materials, I went to Anchor of Light on the moon and this random guardian was there too, we spent almost 45 minutes zooming around, finding chests, finding helium, waving and dancing to each other to let each other know we found something. Completely cooperatively but with no verbal communication. At the time materials were precious and I gathered more in that session than I had for weeks before hand.
  
• I really like public events
  
• Getting 10 bounties I could fulfill by going to the Rocketyard after TDB but before HoW--I loved fighting the blades of crota, taking the sword and smashing every single enemy in that area.

In the midst of all the excitement over The Taken King, I thought it would be fun to take a look back at our first year with Destiny and pick our favorite or most memorable moments:

1. The first time that I used the Nova Bomb during the Alpha, I knew that I was a Warlock 4 Lyfe:

2. The first time that I outwitted a Bladedancer.

3. Our Flawless Raider practice nights that culminated in a tense, buggy showdown with Atheon.

4. Running the Crota Raid blindly, figuring out each step as we went, starting with an epic run through the darkness (dat final stand on the plate before we learned about the cheese rocks).

5. Using the pre-weapon-tuning Hawkmoon, and getting stuff like this 16.0 K/D. Also, can't find the video for it, but acquiring the Hawkmoon by dropping into Cody's Nightfall in the last seconds was memorable, as was his reaction. :P

6. Successfully killing Crota on Hard after hours and hours of trying (with a prototype strategy that would soon become the standard).

7. The Comeback.
Us: 15,920
Them: 19,025
FORTH EORLINGAS!

8. Our very first match in Trials :P

9. Dropping Skolas in one minute after bashing our heads against the wall for hours.

10. Pulling off an epic play, only to get shut down by Shaxx...

Things were not going to plan. It was the first few weeks after Crota first reared his ugly head, and my fireteam had been sent down into the pit to deal with him. We'd passed the Lanterns, suffering a few casualties along the way but confident nonetheless. The bridge was ahead of us. A vast expanse of nothing guarded by an Ancient order of Knights. Trivial. Ir Yut was put to rest before she could utter a word. Despite our earlier losses, we were confident as we summoned him.

Our Swordsman was a veteran. His timing impeccable, he swung his stolen sword into Crota's hide once, twice, three times, four. And again. And again. Ogres slain, Crota was done for. Two more swings would sever his connection to this underworld plane and banish him for all eternity.

And then tradgedy struck.

Wedged between a wall of Thrall and one of Crota's generals, our swordsman knew his end was nigh. His rifle empty, he primed a grenade and ensured he took his foe with him. We quickly dispatched the Oversoul, but we knew - without our Swordsman we would surely fail in our mission.

"Someone grab the bloody sword", came a disembodied cry. Our fearless leader, still supporting us from beyond the veil.

I was already there, delusions of grandeur filling my head. Maybe I would save the day. But Crota had already started to move, shooting across from the right to end our existence.

"Tell me when", I called as Machine Gun fire chattered into life around me.

"Tell me when. Tell me when"

Our timing was off. Crota was already kneeling when the signal came.

Five voices cried in unison - "Go!"

I leapt across the gap, but in my panic had come up short. I swung the sword with all my might, and the momentum closed the distance. In a flash I was upon him. Vengeance for my friends who had died in the pit. Vengeance for the Guardians who failed to stop him on the moon. Vengeance for Eris and her fireteam. Vengeance for our Swordsman.

With a rumble, Crota was gone. I had done the impossible. I had slain a god.

with Chewbacca and Zero -- scorecard.

was week 2 and had arc burn. currently the #1 most memorable video game hour of my life (i'm sure i've forgotten some others... i'm old).

Bluerunner shoulder charging the rando off of A on Shores of Time. The video is around the forum somewhere. I was in that game nearby A at the time if I recall correctly.

Playing a Coop Night Nightfall with Kermit and Stabbim and being shocked by Kermit's immediate death at the first doorway. I got a good chuckle out of that one.

Killing bladedancers, titan strikers, bubble bros, gunslingers and sunsingers:)

And those few moments in Trials where I prove that I can really play.

The game just wouldn't be the same without you guys though. Most of my best experiences included DBOers and Destiny just wouldn't be as good of a game without y'all.

Oh and watching Beorn, Korny, and DPW roll to the lighthouse on Twitch.

The first time through the Abyss in Crota's End, totally unspoiled. It took us 3 days of 2-4 hours per night. The final run we got the whole fireteam past the lake to the bone hill. One died on the way up. 5 of us Took it to the top, where another fell into a pit. We got the bridge, but one was too slow and - though the 3 remaining members lay waste to as many thrall as we could, he simply wasn't fast enough. The ogre took 1 more. and so I and another guardian turned to run across the bridge, realizing, too late, that we would never make it. I told him to press on and stopped. I turned around, and with my trusty AR, I managed to buy him just... enough... time.

After that we looked up how to do it and were like "oh, dur, invisibility."

Nothing has even come close to matching the feeling of going into the Vault of Glass completely blind with the rest of team Extra Virgin and slowly solving each piece of the puzzle to eventually find and defeat Atheon himself.

I still get a chuckle out of the fact that we spent hours getting through the Gorgon maze that first time, but now get through it in less than a minute :p

-Disciple