“When you’re a gamer, you see a lot of horrible stuff. All the Games I've played, I’ve seen the absolute worst of gaming. But I’ve also gotten to see the best. 10 months ago, I saw HIM, the greatest, most mysterious hero of our time… up close, in action. I witnessed first hand what he did that day, and it changed EVERYTHING for me.
Anyone listening to this knows exactly who I’m talking about, the guy who saved us, saved earth, saved mankind, Xur, agent of The Nine whom we now know simply…The squid faced dude who sells exotics each week.
A few days ago, I was hired to do an in-depth profile on Xur, exclusive access, the whole thing, since then I’ve gotten to talk to a lot of people who claim they know the real Xur, the RNG, the pre programing, the hero… the traitor? See I’ve always known where a story was going before it started, I’d known EXACTLY the story I wanted to tell for months, the story all of us wanted to hear, glossy, inspiring, the blockbuster hero biography, that’s all this was supposed to be.
But the truth isn’t always that clean. When I pulled that first loose thread, something broke, now everything is caving in, and I find myself stuck with all these ugly questions, questions I never intended to ask, fabricated histories? Xur not selling what he's supposed to? Cover ups of cover ups? That steady drum beat of theories that used to sound insane, now they don’t seem so out there. And these disturbing rumors, reports of anomalies, something big is happening in the desticle's wallets, and I can’t even corroborate a single fact about one man’s inventory.
It’s clear to me now. I can’t fix the pretty story, but maybe I can break the ugly one. For the first time in my career, I can honestly say I don’t know the shape of where this is going, and in fact, the… the possibilities have me lying awake at night, but I believe we all deserve to know the real story. We need to know where this leads. I know I do. So I find myself back at the beginning, who is Xur agent of The Nine, where does he come from, and is BUNGiE -blam!-ing with his inventory? Join me as I #HunTHEgjallarhorn.”
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