Mindfall

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Mindfall
Start date:	March 7, 2023
End date:	March 21, 2023
Number of tiers:	10
Includes content for:	Halo Infinite

Mindfall is a multiplayer event for Halo Infinite. Mindfall is being held between March 7 and 21, 2023, during Season 03: Echoes Within, coinciding with its launch, and acting as the first of two narrative events. The event and its unlocks focus on the MIRAGE IIC core, while also featuring new cinematics.

Plot summary

Cutscene transcript

{Introduction Cutscene}

The cutscene begins with Hieu Dinh lying down in a bed. Vital monitors beep around him as voices from the past begin to speak.

Marine Medic: His neural link is corrupted, ma'am.
Laurette Agryna: Eklund. What exactly did Spartan Dinh put inside his head?

The camera shows a brain monitor. The fingers on Dinh's right hand move.

Eklund: A Banished AI. The first I've ever seen.

The camera shows the back of Dinh's helmet. The AI slot glows red. Dinh's head shakes.

Iratus: (Furious roar)

The brain monitor beeps much more rapidly now. Dinh's entire body shakes, and his head violently shakes.

The scene changes to Dinh standing on a desert planet, armored, but without his helmet. A Forerunner structure stands before him. The camera moves towards Dinh's face.

Dinh: Why? Why here?

The camera shows Dinh's face, with closed eyes.

Iratus: Because you refuse to see.

Dinh opens his eyes. A UNSC-designed door appears in front of him.

Dinh: There's nothing you can show me that I haven't seen a thousand times.

Dinh walks in front of the door.

Iratus: Except the truth.

The door slides open, revealing a gray fog inside. Iratus appears behind Dinh, then hovers in front of him. Iratus: Go on. I dare you. Dinh walks through the door. He appears in front of the Forerunner structure, now at night. A flaming Razorback is in front of him.

Dinh: I told them. Go at night. Airborne. It would have been different. Dinh crouches down and picks up a VK78 Commando.

Iratus: Would it?

Iratus shows Dinh what would have happened in that scenario. He shows Dinh a Pelican being shot down by plasma shots. Dinh becomes infuriated at Iratus.

Dinh: Get Out! Get Out! (angry roar) Get! Out!
Iratus: (Cruel chuckle) But there is so much more to see.

Suddenly, Drones emerge from the sand around Dinh and they pull him under the sand.

Dinh: (Pained groan)
Dinh falls through the interior of the Forerunner structure and lands on the ground. He rises to his feet.
Iratus: I smell...(sniffs) fear. How disappointing.

The same door from the desert is in front of Dinh. Iratus once again appears beside Dinh.

Dinh: You weren't here. And I'm not gonna let you go any further!
Iratus: Ah! There's that Spartan spirit! Delicious!

The door slides open, revealing a blinding white light. Dinh is forcibly pulled into the door.

Iratus: But, in the end, pointless.

Dinh is taken into a room with dead Drones littering the floor. Dead Spartan-IVs are scattered among the corpses.

Dinh: You don't know anything.

Dinh walks to a pillar in the center of the room. A dead Spartan is against the pillar.

Iratus: Because the truth is this: it always ends the exact same way.

Dinh removes the Spartan's helmet, revealing himself, but with shorter hair. His doppelganger opens his eyes.

Doppelganger: Death for you. And triumph-

The doppelganger grabs Dinh.

Iratus, through Dinh: -for me!

Dinh rises in the bed, and the camera zooms into his helmet.

Cuts to black.

Event Pass tiers

Players can progress through the Event Pass and unlock items by completing any of the ten event challenges over the two weeks the event is available.

Tiers 1 to 10

Level	Unlocks	Images
1	Backdrop - Illusion Protocol
2	Armor Coating (Mirage IIC) - Desert SPARPAT
3	Left Shoulder Pad (Mirage IIC) - SAP/LWAS-Rev3
4	Right Shoulder Pad (Mirage IIC) - SAP/LWAS-Rev3
5	Visor - Alchemic Ratio
6	Helmet (Mirage IIC) - Tyro	File:HINF Tyro Helmet Icon.png
7	Helmet Attachment (Mirage IIC) - TAC/RS/TACCAM
8	Utility (Mirage IIC) - Tac Belt
9	Chest (Mirage IIC) - TAC/Infinity Rig
10	Wrist (Mirage IIC) - R-107 Scanman