Yesterday I ignored 10 tornado warnings to finish a Destiny 2 raid, didn't get the exotic drop, and disappointed my fiancée. Is there some sort of lesson here?

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Images from the Salvation�s Edge raid.

Last night, the city of Chicago issued10 simultaneous tornado warningsas severe storms swept through the area. I know this because 1) I live in Chicago, and 2) I was fighting The Witness, final boss of Destiny 2’s latest raid at the time. Now you might think that, as a literally late-middle-aged man, as soon as I was informed about the tornado situation, I immediately downed my rocket-powered sidearm, wished my teammates well, and disconnected. After that my partner, our irascible puppy Jelly Bean, and I huddled in the bath to avoid falling masonry, or hunkered down in the bedroom cupboard, which I was later informed is even safer. Reader, let me tell you, that is not what I did.

I kept playing and honestly I didn’t even think that hard about it.

Regular readers of this site may recall that I am a hopeless degenerate when it comes to Destiny. I have been playing for the entirety of the series' decade-long existence, racking up so many thousands of hours that I’m no longer comfortable admitting the exact number. Suffice to say that when we last ran a reader poll asking how much time people had logged in their most-played game, I had them all beaten except for a couple of Dota 2 and EVE sickos.

I wish I could even tell you that this was my first completion of the Salvation’s Edge raid, and therefore meant something special to my team. But no, according toRaid Report, it was my 11th clear and the third run of the week, hastily squeezed in before today’s weekly reset.

It’s raining, my neigbour is trying to tell me something. but I gesture sadly at my headphones, making the universal hand/phone gesture to explain I’m on a call, and go back to dunking shapes.

(For context, I had to run the Vow of the Disciple raid a whopping 69* times before looting its exotic, eventually resorting to LFG because my teammates had long-since got everything and abandoned me. *Not nice.)

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Me: “Just give the gun you smoke-headed prick.” The Witness: “No."(Image credit: Bungie)

Images from the Salvation’s Edge raid.

About 15 minutes later, having noticed some commotion outside, my fiancée bursts into my office and flips over my phone, pointing at a screenshot she’s sent me of an emergency alert from the National Weather Service. It reads: “TORNADO WARNING in this area until 10.00 PM CDT. Take shelter now in a basement or an interior room on the lowest floor of a sturdy building.” There’s some other stuff about mobile homes and flying debris, but you get the gist.

I forget exactly what she said next, I was shooting things at the time, but to paraphrase: “There are 10 tornadoes. At least one is near here. The neighbours are scared and probably going to come down to shelter.” I mutter “Okay” before gesturing to the screen and saying “I’m not stopping. Final boss.” She counters that the power is already out across a chunk of the city, to which I respond with a shit-eating grin: “It ain’t out here.”

I completely understand if you have now lost whatever scintilla of respect you might have had for me. But look, The Witness is not a hard encounter at this point, and we had been cooking all night. I’d be done in minutes.

One wipe later and the door opens again and Jelly Bean is thrust through. “Pokie is here,” says my better half. Pokie is the dog from upstairs who used to try to hump Jelly Bean but now doesn’t because she’s bigger than him and frankly loves to play rough. She’s ready to go at all times and is very much pleased to have visitors. She begins barking. It does not help my aim.

Jelly Bean, the French Bulldog

(Image credit: Tim Clark)

Jelly Bean the french bulldog

Credit to the boys, on the second attempt The Witness gets dumpstered in two phases. Was my damage competitive? Absolutely not. Did I die a couple of times due to inattention? 100%. But neither of those things are unusual for me, even without the inclement weather (which still just looks like heavy rain to me). In the couple of seconds it takes for the loot to drop, I tell myself I’m definitely going to get Euphony because it’ll make for a cool story. It doesn’t drop. Instead I get a sniper rifle that I do not need. I say, “I’m out”, hoping it sounds cool, and everyone wishes me well as I hit Alt+F4.

I don’t register shock on their faces, and if there is disgust, they’re good enough to conceal it.

That and, uh, family is what matters most etc.

Until next week, idiot.(Image credit: Bungie)

Images from the Salvation’s Edge raid.

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