[β.s0] Food crimes

( food crimes (very short) )

[β.s0] Destiny 2 has holiday stuff going on

So I decided to log into Destiny 2 to check whether a thing I wasn't sure would work worked, namely keeping a completed clan XP bounty past its expiration deadline in order to smooth over the weekly personal cap. (It turns out it does work, which surprised and pleased me.)

But also it turns out the Tower has been decorated for their in-game Winter Holiday, the “Dawning”. And Eva Levante is over there offering Eva's Holiday Oven, which starts a little sidequest line in which the first thing you have to do is cook Gjallardoodles for Zavala, using Ether Cane, a Delicious Explosion, and Essence of Dawning. Now it's branched off into sidequests to bake more different kinds of cookies for other NPCs. The other interesting thing is that this has given me some Enhancement Cores, which I had previously thought could only be gotten from the expansions (which I hope we can pick up eventually, just we're short on cash for that sort of thing right now).

The Tower also has shiny strings of bulbs, some other kind of massive light show decoration off the side of the Bazaar, and things like a mound of snow where you can make snowballs to throw at other Guardians. Probably some other stuff I haven't explored yet.

This is all somewhat more MMO-like than I'd originally expected to get into when picking up this game, but I'm generally pleased by this sort of good-natured holiday stuff, depending on the implementation.

Update: I made Radiolarian Pudding and Eliksni Birdseed, too.