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It's eight in the morning on a Saturday and there's a message on my phone - "You aren't free morningish by any chance?" Three years since Destiny's launch, after more than 600 hours of playtime and countless articles on Eurogamer, one thing in the game was still eluding me: a trip to the ultra-exclusive Lighthouse. It is a location in the game reserved for Destiny's elite players - in other words, not me.
The message, however, was sent by someone definitely among that elite: Aksarian, a UK-based Destiny streamer and player of uncommon talent. His short text had also, I realised, only been sent four hours beforehand - at 4am - presumably just as he was going to bed. This weekend was the last to play Trials, ever, before the activity disappeared from Destiny. It was the last chance to visit the Lighthouse before its doors closed for good. It was now or never.
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