Tarnished Mettle: Difference between revisions

|manufacturer=[[Fallen]]

|affiliation=Old Crews

'''Tarnished Mettle''' is a [[Legendary]] [[Arc]] [[Scout Rifle]] introduced in [[Season of Plunder]]. It can be obtained by completing [[Ketchcrash]] or [[Expedition|Expeditions]].

[[Vrisk]] had been lying under his crewmate's corpse for the better part of an hour. His body ached from lack of [[Ether]], but he dared not pull from his rebreather for fear of discovery.

He and [[Krilix]] had been calibrating the landing struts on the crew's [[Ketch]] when the ambush hit. A long-range [[scout rifle]] slug punched through Krilix in the opening salvo, ripping a fist-sized hole in his chest. He fell on top of Vrisk in a heap of gore as a barrage of gunfire rained down on their position.

Vrisk could have shrugged off the [[Wretch]]'s body and seized his [[Arc Spear]] to retaliate. Instead, he simply lay beneath his dying crewmate and let the battle play out.

After the shooting stopped, Vrisk listened to their assailants ransack the ship. A mix of guttural [[Cabal]] barks and familiar [[Fallen|Eliksni]] chatter marked them as a competing crew, eager to claim the bounty set forth by the reawakened [[Eramis, Kell of Darkness|Shipstealer]].

But Vrisk knew what their attackers did not: the relic they sought was not on the Ketch, or even on this planet. It was hidden in a safehouse deep within the asteroid belt beyond [[Mars]]. Once Vrisk found the courage to emerge from his hiding place, he would take the relic to Eramiskel himself and claim the reward for his own.