How to start and complete The Dead Man’s Tale Presage

Okay, well, I certainly didn’t expect to spend the last two hours doing an elaborate exotic mission in week 2 of Destiny 2 Chosen Season, but here we are. The Dead Man’s Tale mission is live, cultivable and ready whenever you chase a new exotic Tex Mechanica reconnaissance rifle.

I will make an overview guide in the best possible way, but some parts will be ignored because I cannot make literally every room here. But there are some parts where you can get stuck and you’ll also have to find the mission first.

Step 1. Find the Presage Exotic Search

You do this by loading the weapon dealer’s attack, which is in Nightfall, but it can be done if you start it from the director for. Kill everything in the first room and a door on your right will open. Go through it, fight a lot of towers and a Phalanx boss, then take the indicated coordinates from Distress.

Step 2: Launch the mission

Go talk to Zavala, who will send you on a mission to Tangled Shore on an abandoned Calus ship floating near the reef. You can start it from the director. You can run it alone or as a team. I think it’s possible on its own, as it’s mostly about solving puzzles and less about constant fighting and the boss battle. Although the chief was a somewhat difficult solo.

Step 3: The Presage Quest

This is a very, very long mission the first time you do it. Therefore, I will try to get all the most complicated parts right.

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

You will be introduced to the central mechanics of this mission, spores. The spores allow you to pass through strange doors of darkness that would otherwise kill you. Place your team near the spores and shoot them when they are glowing blue. This will give you a buff that allows you to go through the doors.

In general, look for switches to open doors and fuses to trip to open doors or disable barriers.

There is a segment where you fall into a trash compactor with Screebs, you have to shoot all the grids on the floor until you find one with a fuse, then shoot to stop the compactor.

There is a trapdoor that will send you back some rooms at a certain time and I am not telling you where it is because it is funny.

There is a segment that involves a labyrinth of tunnels. Once you find the door that leads back to the main room you originally came from, that part is the end. Look for a newly opened door to the left of the main screen area and use spores to get through.

Step 4: the boss

After a lot of spore puzzle rooms, you will face the final boss. He is a giant Hangman-type boss and spends most of his time underground in a furnace that will kill you. There are switches on the top level that you can use to release the coolant and cool it down, and then you can go down and damage it. If you are in a team, go down in different areas so that it will AOE kill you all at once.

Step 5: tale of the dead man

Don’t despair if you don’t get the gun at the end, you have to finish the mission and go talk to Zavala for that. Now, you can run the mission again for random tests and I think more folklore and other secrets. I’m not sure if more will be added in time.

This is a guide, but let me say that I love this mission. A Scorn ghost ship? Are you kidding me? Incredible work here at Bungie. I will have more detailed thoughts on this soon.

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