LARUNDA RELAY, MERCURY—With “The War Within” still considered a new release, XtraPop, new_game_plus, and Levarto of the Vay Kek Shadow clan met to discuss terms of acceptable Thanksgiving after-dinner topics which would not ruin other the quest experience for other members of the clan.

The guidelines, made in mind of those who would retreat to the privacy of another room to play video games on their computer or laptop, were born of a personal experience with spoilers. After suffering through spoilers for The Second Dream over Christmas break last year, Levarto, MR14, was determined to spare other members of his clan from having the surprise twists of the quest ruined and subsequent disillusionment with the new gameplay systems introduced.

“If you turn to page 8, there’s a list of approved references in regards to Ordis. Kody96 is still working on completing his Cephalon Fragment collection and doesn’t know about the hidden audio lines yet, so try to keep that to a minimum as well.” said Levarto as the clan leaders reviewed the 19-page binder which included subsections for each individual NPC and census data of each of the 23 clan members’ progress with all content related to the update. “It’d be best to stay away from the topic of companions and sentinels entirely because those still have a tangential relation to Ordis’ role in the quest as depicted in the flow chart on page 9.”

The binder included a 4-page brief on how to avoid the discussion of Riven mods and a strict set of stipulations for when it would be considered an acceptable discussion topic as well as a full-page handout covering the recently introduced “Riven Disposition” system. XtraPop, MR19, who had the incredible luck rolling a Soma V polarity Riven mod with high values of Damage, Critical Chance, and Critical Damage, had been pushing for the Riven mods to be allowed on the approved list of topics. “I’m still upset that I lost over 60% damage with the update and I can’t guarantee I won’t start drunkenly rambling about it after I have a few drinks.” The council concluded that Riven mods might not be considered a spoiler at this point due to players already seeing the mods linked in chat, but kept it on the list of topics to avoid unless someone brings it up first along with Teshin’s new voice lines and the trailer videos for the quest.

“What about the new morality system and implications for the upcoming Syndicate assassination/salvation system supposedly coming next month? I might end up getting curious to know about what choices other people made and if they had their own special endings.” asked new_game_plus, MR23, who had obviously not read the clause on page 19 subsection 3-a. “That’s a no-go. Anything currently in development can be considered a spoiler. We’re operating under the assumption that the patch notes have not been read yet so try not to talk about Kuva either.” replied Levarto. The meeting concluded with each member of the clan signing a pledge to avoid spoiler discussions, as defined by the terms of the pledge, at penalty of being temporarily banned from clan chat for 24 hours and having to be the EV Trin for the next week’s Trial mission runs.

At press time, sources report that one of the newer members of the clan asked how they were supposed to unlock Sorties again at which point a hungover XtraPop went off on a tangent about how the methods of acquiring new Riven mods is “completely unfair” and how “Kuva doesn’t make any sense from a lore perspective, because, like, why was the staff so important when we’re collecting literally hundreds and thousands of the stuff? And wtf is going on with those clouds and the weird Orokin head model they use?”