Narc and Blackstar tried out this year's special holiday multiplayer mode, Sparrow Racing League.

The S'pht decide to give the cyborg a special reward, and this easter egg produces the first level worthy of an inclusion in Anita Sarkeesian's "Tropes vs Women" series as we're led into a pool full of nude female simulacra. Just be sure to play nice, unlike Narcogen.

We're fighting the Pfhor in Italy of the past in third party scenario Tempus Irae!

Tempus Irae can be played, like the other Marathon games, using the open source Aleph One engine which you can get here for Windows, Mac and Linux:

http://source.bungie.org

We place the final manuscript in the final receptacle and wonder aloud: is that all there is? Are we really at The End?

We're fighting the Pfhor in Italy of the past in third party scenario Tempus Irae!

Tempus Irae can be played, like the other Marathon games, using the open source Aleph One engine which you can get here for Windows, Mac and Linux:

http://source.bungie.org

Tempus Irae and other third party scenarios for the Aleph One engine can be downloaded here:

Narcogen and Blackstar talk about returning to a normal post-Taken King schedule and the games we'll be playing.

The final step for getting an exotic sword is running a Light 300 version of the Darkblade strike on the Dreadnaught. This version adds the elemental-shielded Warden knights from the Founts area to the boss fight, and requires that you kill the Knight with the elemental shield corresponding to the element of the sword you're trying for no more than 30 seconds before killing the boss.

Narcogen assembles the last materials into the weapon frame for the Touch of Malice exotic scout rifle, then gets help from Blackstar and bluerunner help Narcogen to take down a Wizard miniboss in a special version of the Fear's Embrace story mission to finally earn the weapon.

Want an exotic sword? Narcogen does. First step in A Sword Reforged is killing a special knight on the Dreadnaught. Blackstar tags along.

The last of the 45 calcified fragments is in the hands of Court of Oryx Tier 3 boss, Thalnok, who is such a big fan of Crota he wants to die the same way. Bluerunner and random stranger Podvox help out Narcogen and Blackstar take out mini-Crota.

The quest for the exotic scout rifle, Touch of Malice, requires 45 calcified fragments be collected from the Dreadnaught. With only a few remaining, Narcogen recruits Blackstar, CortanaVIII and some randoms to collect one from Court of Oryx Tier 3 boss, Balwûr.

With the help of Cougron, Midnight and Freewill, Narcogen tracks down the quest path leading to the new exotic pulse rifle, No Time To Explain. This video shows the collection of the cult ghost memory fragments from the heroic version of the Paradox story mission, as well as the special co-op and solo missions that are required for discovery of the weapon.

The next step in the Hunger Pangs quest for the Touch of Malice scout rifle requires us to do a special version of the Undying Mind strike on Mars and kill a Taken Knight.

We collect fragments and deploy runes and other consumables on the Dreadnaught. In this episode, we use: Skyburners Command Beacon Wormsinger Rune Charged Agonarch Rune Skyburners Deployment Code

Narc and Blackstar have to kill a Taken Ogre being birthed on the Dreadnaught.

We head back to Phobos to fight another Echo of Oryx.

We reenter the Black Garden to find the stem the tide of Taken on Mars.