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7/22/2017 5:39:49 AM
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Purple Ball: A eulogy.

What can one say about the purple beach ball from the Tower? It has been there since the very beginning possibly since the alpha but definitely since the beta. Once a plain purple beach ball until it was given a cosmetic upgrade in year two that made it go all glittery & glowey when you booped it. Many believed you could see the constellations swirl in its squidgy mauve depths & theorized it may contain its own little microcosm, like the galaxy on Orion's belt from Men in Black. Others suspected that it was a listening device placed there by a member of Prince Uldren Sov's spy network the Crows or that it WAS one of his Crows, some A.I. drone back when nobody knew if the legendary spy network consisted of humans, awoken or artificial life forms like the robotic frames that populate the Last City as vendors, janitors & postmasters. Or an agent of Oryx, stealing a little bit of our light with every boop. Some even thought it was a baby Servitor that was lulling us into a false sense of security for some nefarious purpose known only to the Fallen heirarchy. Whatever the case it's been our companion for over 3 years. Watching from its spawn points beside Master Rahool's cryptarch stall, amidst the boxes by Berg 99-40's bounty tracking noticeboard & amidst the crates in the Travellers Walk area of the Tower which once hosted Lord Saladin & Petra Venj during the early Iron Banner events & the two Queen's Wrath events respectively. We've booped it from one end of the Tower to the other, over the ledge prompting many to suggest the bottom of the Tower is a mass of broken Guardian corpses & purple balls meters deep. We've jumped on it, balanced on it &, before Bungie fixed one of the most popular glitches in the game, even danced & run on it. It's been our little violet companion for over 36 months, silently watching as we got our first Gjallarhorn or our hundredth Crest of Alpha Lupi. Always there to welcome us home after a victorious or less than successful raid & always ready for a good booping be it day or night, in snow or whatever that glittery stuff in the air was during the second Festival of the Lost. Omnipresent, omniscient perhaps even omnipotent but always our little mulberry mate & our periwinkle pal. Rest in peace purple ball, you were too... good for this... world. *sobs uncontollably*

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  • I heard a tower announcement saying something like "refrain from kicking the entertainment sphere of the tower" even the speaker lady loved the ball. rip in pepperoni

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    Purple ball taught me: How to shave. How to drive stick shift. How to throw a perfect spiral. How to climb a tree. How to bake a cake. But most importantly, the purple ball taught me how to live.

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    • Can we start an official petition for Bungie to have a clip the first time you land at the farm that someone is unloading the purple ball from a ship, and now it is at the farm? I mean, they gave us the broom sparrow during festival of the lost (which was amazing!), I totally think we could get them to do this! Bump to save our purple friend!!!

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      • I'm going to kill every last cabal and turn Gauls face into a paperweight

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        • I actually felt a little sympathy

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        • Hello....my name is JeremyFryar06.....you kill my purple ball....prepare to die.

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          • Rest in peace purple ball. We will miss the times we glitched you out...kicked you around to see how high you'd get and even fell to our deaths chasing you when you were kicked off the tower RIP oh great purple ball

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          • Purple ball lives on in the form of the Nova Bomb.

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          • Edited by CIKiller: 7/23/2017 4:19:07 AM
            Don't worry, when the purple ball was popped, its power was released to every voidwalker in existence. Now, with every nova bomb you fire, you tap into the limitless power of the purple ball, and direct it to harm those that popped it. Show the Cabal that they should have gathered a little more intelligence on our tower.

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          • Edited by zNapSack: 7/23/2017 12:32:39 AM
            I think they should create a monument to the purple ball at the Farm. Perhaps something like a simple concrete tower with a Purple sphere on top would suffice. No inscription would be necessary.

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          • Gary really is a monster smh

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          • My brother Gaul.. this is too much! You will pay one day for your treason against the purple ball! I will not defend you when the Emperor hears this.

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            • Where is the soccer ball? Did they take it as well?

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              • I was starved of heavy ammo, and kept trying to go pick it up off the steps. That slight purple glow had me thirsty for the launcher to reload. It just kept reminding me of the memories. Everytime I would look around in search of green, or purple ammo glow. I kept getting gary trolled by the deflated ball. I would just return to Zavala's orbs that he continued to poop out like a rabbit on x-lax. That dude sure can charge his super fast.

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              • RIP, the purple galaxy ball that brought random guardians together to play in between all of the grind

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              • Purple ball: Servitor

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              • that purple ball now is the nova bomb, same speed, size and color, I see what you did bungo

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                • Goodbye purple ball, i'll never forget the day we booped you all the way down to the speaker and used you to push him down the stairs. It was magical.

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                • by the travaler i never realized how much it meant to me, rip my old majestic friend

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                • IM GONNA KILL YOU GARY AND IM GONNA ENJOY EVERY SECOND OF IT!!!!!

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                • Long may he reign!!

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                • Purple ball it has been a pleasure playing with u science the alpha of Destiny and I hope ur up there in purple ball heaven waiting for us to get revenge on the people who did this to u it has been an absolute pleasure playing with u #destinycommunity #LOVEPURPLEBALL

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                • Hail our Lord and Savor, Lord Purple Ball!!! May he live a long floating glittering life!!! We shall smite the foul evil space rhino Gary for the death of our Lord Purple Ball. DEATH TO THE SPACE RHINOS!!!!!

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                • [quote]What can one say about the purple beach ball from the Tower? It has been there since the very beginning possibly since the alpha but definitely since the beta. Once a plain purple beach ball until it was given a cosmetic upgrade in year two that made it go all glittery & glowey when you booped it. Many believed you could see the constellations swirl in its squidgy mauve depths & theorized it may contain its own little microcosm, like the galaxy on Orion's belt from Men in Black. Others suspected that it was a listening device placed there by a member of Prince Uldren Sov's spy network the Crows or that it WAS one of his Crows, some A.I. drone back when nobody knew if the legendary spy network consisted of humans, awoken or artificial life forms like the robotic frames that populate the Last City as vendors, janitors & postmasters. Or an agent of Oryx, stealing a little bit of our light with every boop. Some even thought it was a baby Servitor that was lulling us into a false sense of security for some nefarious purpose known only to the Fallen heirarchy. Whatever the case it's been our companion for over 3 years. Watching from its spawn points beside Master Rahool's cryptarch stall, amidst the boxes by Berg 99-40's bounty tracking noticeboard & amidst the crates in the Travellers Walk area of the Tower which once hosted Lord Saladin & Petra Venj during the early Iron Banner events & the two Queen's Wrath events respectively. We've booped it from one end of the Tower to the other, over the ledge prompting many to suggest the bottom of the Tower is a mass of broken Guardian corpses & purple balls meters deep. We've jumped on it, balanced on it &, before Bungie fixed one of the most popular glitches in the game, even danced & run on it. It's been our little violet companion for over 36 months, silently watching as we got our first Gjallarhorn or our hundredth Crest of Alpha Lupi. Always there to welcome us home after a victorious or less than successful raid & always ready for a good booping be it day or night, in snow or whatever that glittery stuff in the air was during the second Festival of the Lost. Omnipresent, omniscient perhaps even omnipotent but always our little mulberry mate & our periwinkle pal. Rest in peace purple ball, you were too... good for this... world. *sobs uncontollably*[/quote] Purple ball we will miss u

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                • Did you know it was nerfed to a soccer ball!!!!! How exciting is that!!!!!!!

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                • I hope there is a new and improved ball to kick. around

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