How to start and complete the Tale of the Dead Omen quest

Okay, well, I certainly didn’t expect to spend the last two hours doing an elaborate Exotic Quest in Week 2 of Destiny 2’s Season of the Chosen Ones, but here we are. The Dead Man’s Tale quest is live, actionable, and ready whenever you need to hunt a new Exotic Tex Mechanica Scout Rifle.

I’ll do an overview guide the best I can, but some parts will be skipped because I can’t literally do every part here. But there are some parts where you can get stuck, and you also need to find the quest in the first place.

Step 1. Find the Presage Exotic Quest

You do this by charging the Arms Dealers Strike, which is in the dark, but can be done if you start it from Headmaster to. Kill everything in the first room and a door to your right will open. Go through there, fight a group of turrets and a Phalanx boss, then collect the indicated distress coordinates.

Step 2: Start the quest

Go talk to Zavala who will send you on a mission to the Tangled Shore on an abandoned Calus ship floating near the reef. You can launch it from the director. You can perform it solo or in a team. I think it’s doable in single player as it’s mostly puzzle solving and less constant fights and boss battles. Even if the boss would be a little difficult solo.

Stage 3: The Omen Quest

It’s a very, very long quest the first time you run it. So I will try to touch all the most delicate parts.

You cannot open the main door at the start. You have to jump on the left side on some platforms that I certainly didn’t die on.

You will be introduced to the central mechanism of this mission, the spores. The spores allow you to pass through strange gates of darkness that will otherwise kill you. Have your team stand near the spores and shoot them when they glow blue. This will give you a buff that will allow you to go through the doors.

In general, look for switches to open doors and fuses to pull to open doors or deactivate barriers.

There is a segment that makes you fall into a trash compactor with Screebs, you have to shoot all the grates on the ground until you find one with a fuse, then shoot it to stop the compactor.

There is a trap door that will return you a few coins at some point and I’m not telling you where that is because it’s funny.

There is a segment that involves a labyrinth of tunnels. Once you’ve found the door that leads to the main room you’re from, that’s the end of this part. Look for a newly opened door to the left of the main screen area and use spores to go through.

Step 4: The boss

A bunch of spore puzzle rooms later you will face the final boss. He’s a giant hanged-type boss and he spends most of his time underground in an oven that will kill you. There are switches on the upper level that you can use to flush the coolant to cool it down, then you can go down and damage it. If you’re in a team, drop down to different areas for him to slam you all to death by AOE.

Step 5: Get Dead Man’s Tale

Don’t panic if you don’t get the weapon at the end, you have to complete the mission and go talk to Zavala about it. Now you can run the quest for random throws again and think more knowledge and other secrets. I don’t know if more will be added in time.

This is a guide but let me say that I like this quest. A Scorn ghost ship? Are you kidding me? Amazing work here by Bungie. I will have more detailed thoughts on this soon.

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