This feels like such a long time ago, and my memory of the times and other details may not be entirely accurate, but it’s what I can remember. Back in Destiny 1 my clan mates and I were running Wrath of the Machine but we weren’t prepared for it at all, most of us went in blind and learned along the way, looking up things to make sure we were doing them right. We weren’t exactly prepared light-level wise either and each encounter took absolutely forever to complete but we didn’t give up. It was a Monday and it was a school night so not a fantastic time to do the raid, but we wanted to get this done. I got home at around 3PM and began raiding with them a little bit after, and we didn’t get to the final encounter until around 8PM. By this point we’re all super burnt out but we’re so so close to being done. We don’t waste time so we look up the encounters and try our best but we’re getting absolutely hammered. Right now we’re barely even able to do damage to Aksis as our light was way too low. This encounter took the longest, and we had a great run at some point but with a horrible stroke of luck one of my clan mate’s mom shut off their internet and he got disconnected...we needed everyone doing damage and losing that one person failed the attempt. It’s 9ish and a couple are understandingly calling it quits since they had more important things to do the next day than I had to. We spent half an hour getting more people off of LFG but it’s just a cycle of them leaving and us looking for more and we almost gave up. Eventually we found one more guy and he was pumped to do the encounter. He was way higher than us and was willing to help until it was done. We failed over and over for the next hour but he kept encouraging us and to not give up. Every time we got just a little bit further, dropping Axsis’s health more and more after every run. The whole time this guy is motivating us, knowing full well that it was going to take ages but he stuck with us to help out anyways. Eventually it finally happens, at around 11:30PM we’re on the final DPS phase during ”Siva density critical” and Aksis dies just as the music is about to cut out, and what was probably milliseconds before a failed run. Everyone was just overjoyed and relieved that we somehow did it, and the raid that took ages was finally over. We eventually took our other clan mates through it who had to go, but we had it down now. And whoever you are who never gave up on us, and didn’t rightfully leave what was a lost-cause, thank you, and I’ll never forget the most memorable time in Destiny.