Among the many new things to do in Destiny 2‘s Season of Plunder are–appropriately enough for a pirate-themed season–quests that involve solving pirate riddles to hunt down buried treasure. You’ll need to rank up the Starchart seasonal vendor a fair bit before you begin getting into these, but once you do, you’ll receive a Small Treasure Beacon, which kicks off a quest called Cryptic Quatrains I. Here’s how to complete it.
How pirate riddles work and what the reward is
For better or worse, these riddles are mostly very obvious, with the possible exception of the final step. Each step of the quest will present you with a riddle, but certain words in each sentence will be highlighted in yellow–those words strongly hint at where you need to go and what you need to do. If you’re hoping for some real head-scratchers, you’re unlikely to get it, at least with this first quest, Cryptic Quatrains I.
The steps will lead you from one location to another and, ultimately, the buried treasure. It’s unclear at this point if the rewards are randomized at all, but in our case, we received glimmer, a Resonant version of one of the seasonal weapons (No Reprieve), five Map Fragments, and a Crude Cipher Fragment (the purpose of which is currently a mystery).