Strike: Proving Ground

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#1

Name: Strike: Proving Ground
Video URL: Challenger’s Proving VII | Proving Ground | Season of the Chosen
Playlist URL: Chosen, Season of the (Story from Destiny Lore Vault)
Recorded: 2021.05.23

Transcript:

++Watcher’s Grave, Nessus, Unstable Centaur

**The Guardian arrives on the battlefield, in view of the Halphas Electus.

Zavala: Empress Caiatl – we invoke the Rite of Proving. The Vanguard sends forth its champions.

Caiatl: The challenge is met. Our blood flows together. May it lead to unity.

**The Guardian advances on the tank, fighting Cabal and Vex, and defeat Valus Ozysas. They then enter the land tank.

Caiatl: This is the Halphas Electus, the digger of graves, her mouth packed with red soil. I do not grant you safe passage.

**The Guardian advances further into the tank, fighting Cabal as they go.

++ Infantry Concourse, Nessus, Unstable Centaur

Caiatl: My war machine purrs. She hungers for battle Have you the same appetite?

Caiatl: Be reasonable, Guardians. While there is shame in surrender, I am merciful.

Zavala: You all but demanded this conflict. We will see it through to the end.

**The Guardian delves deeper into the Vehicle Bay.

++ Halphas Electus, Nessus, Unstable Centaur

Caiatl: My warriors pledge themselves to the Rite of Proving. Cut them down if you can.

Zavala: If it must be done.

**The Guardian fights multiple Cabal – including Optus Taxaat, Val Cunqu’us, and Val Trekitus – along with two Goliath tanks before moving on.

Caiatl: My champion awaits in the locus of honor! Why do you skulk through the maintenance areas.

Zavala: We will deal with your champion in due time… though we may destroy your tank in the process.

Caiatl: Ha, we are Cabal! We eat the mountains, we drink the seas!

Zavala: Yes. And we are here to stop you.

**The Guardian descends into the maintenance areas of the tank.

Caiatl: You would attack my tank directly? It is sacred to my men. They will fight as though its oil were blood.

**The Guardian disables the Halphas Electus and defeats Val Vinca’ar before taking an elevator up.

Caiatl: You take to ritual combat well, Commander. Do you enjoy it?

Zavala: There is no pleasure in killing. If this one act of barbarism will force peace… so be it.

**The Guardian passes through a long hallway with statues, purple gems, and discarded piles of Cabal armor, and reaches the door to the Proving Grounds.

Zavala: Hold strong, Guardians. One final victory is all I ask.

**The Guardian enters the Proving Grounds and use the Bell of Conquest to issue the challenge.

Caiatl: Let the Rite of Proving commence!

**Ignovun, Chosen of Caiatl, enters the arena. Ignovun fights with multiple waves of Cabal soldiers and shield defenses before he is defeated.

Zavala: Caiatl. Your champion falls.

Caiatl: You have claimed victory in the Rite of Proving. I am bound to your agreement.

Zavala: Your champion fought with honor, and you accept defeat in the same way.

#2

I feel like I should note that this dialogue normally has a time beat in between them but in the source video overlapped:

Caiatl: Ha, we are Cabal! We eat the mountains, we drink the seas!

Zavala: Yes. And we are here to stop you.

**The fireteam descends into the maintenance areas of the tank.

Caiatl: You would attack my tank directly? It is sacred to my men. They will fight as though its oil were blood.

I put it as it should be, but if it should be done as it is in the video, I’ll correct.

#3

i definitely agree and have experienced the same thing in both orders

#4

prefer just “the Guardian” here, unless something absolutely needs teamwork, for its ability to generally describe whatever the protag is up to, without being specific about social gameplay choices

maybe a bit of clarification that they advance on the tank as they fight etc etc

some use of in-game objective text would be cool here (using the bell of conquests “to issue a challenge [to Caiatl’s champion?].”)

this would make a good ++Location, as it’s got its own labelled bubble when holding up Ghost in-game

the location bubble switches to Halphas Electus, Nessus here.

i’d skip this bit because they fool around in the hallway some more before actually making it to the arena

i keep rewatching and not sure there’s gems? if this is the stuff in troughs, i sort of think that’s the weird fruits leviathan had lying around? maybe i just need to go stare at it in-game with high graphics settings…

regarding describing the armor, something like this maybe?
“The Guardian passes through a long hallway with statues, purple gems, and discarded piles of Cabal armor, and reaches the door to the Proving Grounds.”

a very brief, even 1-2 sentence, synopsis of defeating advancing troops, deactivating barriers, and defeating Ignovun, would help round this out

#5

Done, added in all your suggestions!

#6

Created Proving Ground based on this post.