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Modern Warfare 3Zombies offers a wide variety of items that players can obtain, many of which can be extracted and stored in the player’s stash for future deployments. While many ofthese items are Schematics, others are strange relics often tied to mission objectives or additionalexclusion zones known as Rifts.
Joining the long roster of mysterious items is theScience Journal, a relic that players can begin obtaining after completing the Act 4 Story Mission: Union. Unlike the Giraffe Toy, which players acquire through clear mission objectives, the process for obtaining the Science Journal is more obscure.
How To Get The Science Journal
Contrary to popular belief, players cannot obtain the Science Journal by defeating the Storm Caller. Instead, to acquire the Science Journal,players must eliminate a total of 50 Zombies within the Aether Storm.
The Aether Storm can spawn in various locations, but can always betracked on the tac map as a large purple-hazardous zone. However, simply showing up unprepared is not advisable, as the Zombies within the Aether Storm are buffed to a tier higher than the zone it occupies. Players should bring a weapon Pack-A-Punched to at least Tier 2 or higher, ora Wonder Weapon like the Scorcher, to increase their chances of success.
Once players have eliminated a total of 50 Zombies within the Aether Storm,a Reward Rift will appear nearby, containing the Science Journal. However, in its initial state, the Science Journal is relatively useless and must be upgraded before it can be used for its intended purpose.
The Science Journal can be extracted and stored within the player’s backpack or Acquisition Stash, allowing them to take it into another match.
How To Upgrade The Science Journal
Now that players have secured the Science Journal, they can progress to the Tier 3 Zone to upgrade it. The specific locationis the western side of Old Town(F4 on the tac map). Here, players will need tolocate a triangle on the ground, stand on it, andshoot three purple runes, each visible from the triangle’s position.
If the three purple runes do not appear in this location, then another player has, unfortunately, already activated them. This will mean that players will have to try again in a separate deployment.
Once players have completed this step, a muchlarger triangle will appear towards a building to the east. From here, progress north, ignoring the two bridges leading to the triangle, and insteadhead atop the stone structureoverlooking the staircase to the Pack-A-Punch. From this vantage point, look towards the triangle.
As they do, a ritual will begin, spawning both a soul box and an area of effect around the player. Endless waves of Zombies will start spawning, and players musteliminate enough within the area of effect to complete the ritual.
While players can leave the stone structure while eliminating Zombies, it’s advisable to stay put.Watch for a prompt that says “perform the summoning"while standing there. When the prompt appears,hold the interact button. Failing to do so will prevent you from acquiring the upgraded Science Journal.
The area of effect will disappear once enough Zombies are killed, and if players manage to begin the summoning, a series of Hellhounds will emerge.Defeating the Byamawl Hellhound boss will trigger a Reward Rift, one which willcontain the gold version of the Science Journal.
From here, players can either hold onto the Science Journal to use within the same game, or extract and save it for another match.
How To Use The Science Journal
The Science Journal isone of four items needed to open a Dark Aether Rift Portal(E4 on the tac map) near the Unstable Rift tied to the Story Mission: Union. To use it, players mustplace the gold variant of the Science Journal onto one of the Rift Pedestalsin the area. Additionally, they will need toplace a Giraffe Toy, a Laptop with Stickers, andan Imaginary Friend Drawingon the remaining three pedestals to build the Rift Portal.
