When Bungie began promoting Destiny 2’s three-week long Festival of the Lost Halloween event, an intriguing mystery put an exclamation point on it. The final week was said to hold a brand new quest. Master Ives, Cryptarch of the Reef in Destiny 1, had been murdered and it would be up to players to solve his murder. Now that October 30 is here, the Destiny 2 Festival of the Lost murder mystery is live, and it doesn’t do as much to underscore the final week of the Halloween event as players had been led to believe.
The crux of Festival of the Lost centered around the Haunted Forest, a reworking of Curse of Osiris‘ Infinite Forest. The timed horde mode provided an exciting activity for people to play, but people eagerly awaited the third week, when a whole new murder mystery would close out the event. What players found when they logged in was a simple quest. Speaking to Amanda Holliday grants a new Exotic quest step, “Journal of the Reef Cryptarch.” Players must find ten pages from the journal by killing yellow-bar enemies in the EDZ, or decrypting legendary and Exotic engrams. The quest step is extremely easy to complete legitimately in less than 30 minutes, but players have even found a way to cheese it without leaving the Tower by buying legendary engrams from Master Rahool in the Tower. After that" Well it turns out the journal is encrypted, and Amanda has to reach out to her network of associates and will contact you when there are any...