The Man Out of Time

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The Man Out of Time
Game:	Destiny 2: The Edge of Fate
Reward(s):	3X Fated Ciphers AION Renewal Suit piece/Kepler weapon

The Man Out of Time is a side quest in The Edge of Fate expansion. In it, The Guardian and Lodi investigate various scars in time on Kepler.

Steps

"And my vanquisher will read that book, seeking the weapon, and they will come to understand me, where I have been and where I was going."The following is a verbatim transcription of an official document for archival reasons. As the original content is transcribed word-for-word, any possible discrepancies and/or errors are included.

Step 1

Investigate the time scars Lodi has located.

• Aionian Campus time scar investigated
• Curtilage Divide time scar investigated

Lodi wants to know if any of the scars in time are traversable. He's seen things he can't explain, and he's hunting for answers.

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• Ghost: Scans show this ship is semi functional. It will need some work, but we could get it home.
• Lodi: It's gorgeous. Always dreamed of flying something like this. Guardian, I had a… vision? I don't… I don't know what to call it. And not just that; I saw these time scars around the planetoid. I saw people I recognized. They were… around a table. They were laughing. It smelled like a holiday. I know this sounds foolish, but I was wondering if any of them… are a door instead of just a window. If they are a door to pass through, I might be able to get back to where I came from. Guardian, can you check if any of those time scars are two-way? Will you help me leave?

The Guardian heads to the first time scar.

• Lodi: Observe. Connect. Conceal. Conform. Comply. Return. Return with your life if possible, with evidence if not. Damnit. Back in the DEO, we had guidelines in the event of extraterrestrial abduction — we each carried a coin with the steps, just in case. They called it "Odysseus Protocol". Guess I was the first to use it. Didn't work great.

The Guardian interacts with the first time scar.

• Ghost: A time scar. Lodi, like this?
• Lodi: Yes, that's it. I'm in the ship you found, just seeing what's in here. I haven’t been on Earth in a while. What's it like these days?
• Ghost: The Last City is doing well, almost back to normal now.
• Lodi: The LAST City?

The Guardian finds and interacts with the second time scar.

• Ghost: No luck on this time scar, Lodi, just one way. Are you at the ship?
• Lodi: I used to crew something like this. My vision gave out. Thought they were gonna sack me, but boss realized I had brains, so they sent me to school instead. Service is probably different for you, Guardian. You're a lot older than we were.

Step 2

Investigate the next time scar Lodi has located.

• Caldera time scar investigated

Lodi has another lead. Perhaps the time scar he's gotten wind of in the Caldera may reveal something more.

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• Lodi: Thanks for checking out that time scar, Guardian. Still goes one way. Someone left a-a book on the ship. You people not know how to use bookmarks anymore? Damn. No publishing date. Meet me back at the ship. Onwards and upwards.

Step 3

One time scar remains to investigate.

• Final time scar investigated

Although hope is waning, Lodi still wants to be thorough. Investigate the last of the promising time scars he's found.

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• Lodi: The things you can learn from one ship alone. Little details. The labels on the readouts. The placement of the screens. But I'm a details guy. The bigger picture is usually someone else's bag. Wonder what the higher-ups would make of this… That ship shouldn't take much more to get running. Maybe Mr. Drifter knows for sure. These aren't like the birds we have back home. I can handle one of those no problem. Er this is a little more complicated. [sighs] Anyway. There might be more to do here, but knowing there's someplace to go when it's done helps, right?

Lodi transmats away.

• Lodi: That thing that dragged me here—that Nine—I don't think it can send me back. Way I see it, I've got two options. I can stay here feeling sorry for myself, waiting for the Nine to wear me like a rented tux. Or I can come back to Earth with you and figure out what I'm supposed to do with what I've got left. 'Course… the place I'm going isn't the Earth I remember. Guardian, do you wanna learn to salsa? Play football? Write cursive? You wanna speak Welsh? I'll name a dozen dead things, and you tell me which one you wanna learn. Then you teach me how to fly my spaceship.