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The Division 2 might haven’t any central narrative to talk of, however that hasn’t stopped Massive Entertainment sneaking some thrilling, ARG-styled thriller tales into it. As of final week’s endgame-expanding update, gamers have been recognizing wood owls hidden round post-invasion Roosevelt Island, every guarding a candle which will be lit. Seven owls in complete, and if all seven candles are lit in the proper order, an underground passage is opened. Things solely get stranger beneath, hinting at a cult working behind the scenes in DC, with ritual-locked hideouts to be discovered. Spooky.
Upon descending to a secret brazier-lit cavern, and saluting a large statue of an owl, gamers hear an audio-log enjoying from someplace within the room. If the subtitles are to be believed, it’s a bunch of Outcasts (the enemy faction usually answerable for Roosevelt) speaking about “The Morovian Society”. You can see the work the Division 2’s gamers have finished on this thriller right here on Reddit. Right now, the path seems to have gone chilly, presumably till the subsequent massive replace due on April 25th (due so as to add a reportedly puzzle-centric raid), or the subsequent weekly cycle of recent Invaded missions.
This is certainly not the primary of The Division 2’s massive secrets and techniques. There’s ciphers and hidden messages leading to secret missions with brutal boss fights. There’s even a mysterious enemy faction or two. While many gamers have ran into them, no person fairly is aware of what the deal is with the completely silent sewer-people wrapped in chains is, however they’re undoubtedly hostile and their heavies carry chainsaws. Sometimes they even come out to the floor at evening, and seem repeatedly throughout one particularly mysterious side-mission. While nocturnal like owls, they will not be associated, being a subterranean group.
Will any of this truly lead wherever? Will there be any kind of payoff past some fancy distinctive gun? Nobody is aware of, everybody has their very own theories, and most gamers simply don’t care and are content material to run round DC, capturing poorly motivated villains. But I do know I’m going to be suspicious of any owls I see.
