I’ve just read the act|choose|react lore entry from the Truth to Power book. I’m basically just spitballing here, and some things may seem obvious, but this entry and the whole topic is so interesting to me, I just had to make an account and write about it.
Anyway, so, at the ‘end’ of the entry, it says:
M. If you have 100 points when you read this, GO TO X
100 Points
Reading through the post initially, it seems impossible to even obtain 100 points. In Option E., you gain a single point by beating Eris Morn in a soccer match, before going back to B. and deciding your next move. However, there’s nothing stopping you from looping around a further 99 times, resulting in 100 points (or more if you so wished).
As I’m sure you can guess, I believe this is reflective of the ongoing causal loop in the Dreaming City, resetting the curse every 3 weeks. Yes, it is a bad thing in the present, but canonically, I imagine that each time we complete the cycle, we do get more and more powerful i.e. gaining ‘points’. As for the opponent being Eris Morn, I think that she’s simply representative of the Hive, and is a familiar face due to the hallucination being set in the original Tower. Something I find kinda interesting about the ‘soccer match’, though, is that we only win by 1 point, showing that it was a very close game. This potentially means that, although we’ll claim victory in the end, we will likely suffer significant losses along the way.
Where is ‘X’?
When I first started typing this, I was originally going to simply ask the Collective’s ideas on where X could possibly be found in the Destiny universe. Since thinking about this lore entry, however, I have an idea of my own I’d like to share. Put your spinfoil hats on, though, cos I think I might be reaching for something rather tenuous.
First of all, it’s all well and good beating Eris at soccer 100 times, gaining 100 points, but we need to actually be able to access Option M. to put them to (hopefully) good use, which is not possible following on from any other options. From the secretive nature of this lorebook, and similar hidden secrets already found in Destiny, it’s possible that the ‘M.’ could be Medusa. This can represent how she, assuming we can trust her, is leading us/has led us towards this secret path to victory, resulting in finding ‘X’. I think X is the true, original home of the Awoken. X marks the spot of secret treasure, after all, and Medusa stresses that finding this place is of paramount importance in the ‘Thetis Brave’ entry.
But as I said, this theory is quite tenuous and I could be looking way too much into this. Another option, though, is that M. is a coincidence, and the true way we reach it, and by extension, X, is by us Guardians making our own fate, which is another thing this lore entry goes into a bit.
I’m sure that there’s plenty more that can be taken from this entry, but that’s just my 2 cents on it. If anyone else has any other ideas regarding this entry, I’d love to hear 'em!
