BQIntro

10 > Smrs

Hunter, do not waste your time with this idiot Cephalon… spewing corrupt data streams about music of all things… the epitome of meaningless data. She ought to be disconnected from the weave and erased.

20 > CephSuda

Curious about music, as I am? Ignore the rants of that monster, Irmis, who perverts his function with destruction. Correction… Simaris is to whom I refer. I am busy with my data collecting, what is your query?

30 > CephSuda

Yes, I know. I am a Cephalon, a creature of data and memory. You need not repeat yourself. If you are truly curious, about my musical archives, prove it. Build the Mandachord.

40 > Smrs

A Mandachord?! Hunter, will you strike your enemies with sonnets and hymns? Suda wastes your talent. Her precepts are corrupt. She ought to be decommissioned, immediately.

BQBuildMandachord

41 > CephSuda

Do you recall how wonderful the Mandachord orchestra was? No… No of course you wouldn't... Have you built it yet? Why don't I hear its music?

50 > CephSuda

If you build the Mandachord I will reward you with the most essential thing I own. My knowledge. I have data pertaining to the Mandachord's history and function.

51 > CephSuda

First, you must find its component parts. Ordis has been informed of their last known location.

52 > CephSuda

Do you hear that music? An echo of the Mandachord's sweet harmony. It takes me back to another place, another life, where I was… Please disregard my tangent. The parts are here, follow the sound to find them.

53 > CephSuda

A Mandachord part! For most Cephalons, music is thought to be a glitch of evolution and language. It seems to short-circuit an organic mind's pattern-recognition function… a confusion they find… pleasurable.

54 > CephSuda

Fantastic, a second part. For me, music is a lattice, a support to which my vast knowledge clings. Have you ever felt that way? A song that anchors a memory? How a melody or verse returns you to a place you thought forgotten?

55 > CephSuda

Curiosity has rewarded you. I yearn to hear its music! Return to your Foundry and construct the Mandachord at once!

60 > CephSuda

The Mandachord. Its purpose defies all logic for all it produces is sound. An artefact of irrationality… and yet I know its power is so much more. Let me explain how it works.

70 > Ordis

Uh, excuse me, Cephalon Suda? Are you experiencing unexpected data volume? The Operator is patiently awaiting instructions on how to operate the Mandachord.

80 > CephSuda

The Mandachord? Of course, the Mandachord. Curious. I may have a Syndrome decoding error in my archive.

90 > Ordis

What?! A parity drift? How is that possible? Have you executed your diagnostic precepts?

100 > CephSuda

I seem to have made an error. Apologies. I do not have the promised Mandachord data. Let me correct this, I will lead you to the location where it was originally obtained.

110 > Ordis

Operator. Something may be… mmm... wrong with this Cephalon.

BQFirstSongMission

120 > CephSuda

Intriguing. I remember these caves but not the Mandachord's relationship to it. You will need to explore deeper. Let your curiosity guide you, as it does my every thought.

130 > CephSuda

My data suggested the brutish and disinterested Grineer are searching for sunken Orokin riches to exploit. Wouldn't it be interesting if we were seeking the same?

140 > CephSuda

What are the Grineer doing here? This doesn't make sense. Curious one, are you searching for something?

150 > CephSuda

Oh! This is interesting, I recognize that object: a Hydraulus! An Orokin era instrument that produced its sound from water. If I had a humour precept I would construct an ironic witticism regarding its submerged state. How would Ordis say it?

160 > CephSuda

It's damaged but I wonder if there are trace stress-lines from when it was in use? I may be able to…

170 > CephSuda

Strange. I have no archival entry… but… but I know this. It is a piece of Octavia's Anthem. Could this data be compatible with the Mandachord?

180 > CephSuda

I remember… Lua. There's more of the anthem on Lua.

190 > CephSuda

Who are you? What do you want? Oh no. It's happening again…

BQFirstSongLiset

200 > Smrs

Hunter, if you continue to follow that corrupted Cephalon, my Sanctuary will be the only place left for you. She must be disconnected from the weave before she corrupts the other Cephalons!

210 > Ordis

Simaris… don't be such a selfish- if Suda is in danger our Precepts demand that we help her!

220 > Smrs

No, Ordis. We are creatures of light and memory… but creatures nonetheless! Whatever bit-rot is affecting Suda could cross the weave and infect us as well. Don't let your compassion-glitch drive you and your hunter to death by this demented Cephalon. Sever ties before we both are corrupted.

230 > Ordis

Operator, what will you do? I cannot process the thought of losing you… but I want to help Suda if we can… Maybe that is just my - my compassion-glitch?

BQSecondSongMission

240 > CephSuda

Why have we come to Lua? Have you located the next fragment?

250 > Ordis

Cephalon Suda, you brought us here.

260 > CephSuda

Recalibrating… Oh yes, you are correct. My records indicate that a fragment was previously discovered in the vicinity, will you find it?

270 > CephSuda

Lua? Why did we come here? I… I have asked you this already… Simaris was right, this corruption is not benign. I am vanishing.

280 > CephSuda

Sentients?! But how did they know… What? He's just an Old War memory… Get out! I won't let you take-

290 > Hunhow

-My body, my children, I am here.

300 > Ordis

Hunhow?! Operator, Hunhow's doing something to Suda. He's in her mind.

310 > CephSuda

Tenno, you have to...

320 > Hunhow

Children, find the anthem.

330 > Ordis

Operator, what's happening to her?

340 > CephSuda

The Hydraulus! Stop them. They want to—

350 > Hunhow

-Destroy it.

360 > Hunhow

Silence the anthem. Silence the Warframe whose malign pitch can cross the the gap itself.

370 > Ordis

Operator, you did it, you- obliterated those mindless appliances!- What has Hunhow done to Suda?

380 > Ordis

Another Hydraulus. Suda would want you to put the next fragment into the Mandachord. It does seem to help her remember, doesn't it?

390 > CephSuda

That song! I… the last fragment… Ordis, tell your Operator… I am sorry, I am so sorry. I keep forgetting- for-for- It's happening again!

400 > Hunhow

Another Cephalon made null as we prepare. The others I will divide and destroy. Your Tenno will be data-blind.

410 > Ordis

Suda!? Suda, answer me!

420 > Ordis

Operator, you'd better get out of there!

BQSecondSongLiset

430 > Smrs

The Sentient has infiltrated Suda's mind. We must isolate and destroy her immediately before she corrupts the Cephalon weave.

440 > Ordis

But she told me where the final part of the song is! Did you see how the song affected her, it made her remember. It could be the parity she needs to recover herself from Hunhow!

450 > Smrs

Her memories are consumed. That is all she is… all she was. Sever the weave and avoid this corruption ourselves. That is our only choice.

460 > Ordis

And when he comes for you and your precious Sanctuary, will you want us to look the other way? -To the Void with you. -Operator, we must go. Let Simaris worry about himself.

470 > Smrs

Pity. Another null Cephalon.

BQOrokinTowerMission

480 > Ordis

Operator, the Hydraulus is here somewhere. I will attempt to pinpoint its location. There. Rebuilding the anthem is our only hope of restoring Suda. The music makes her remember…

491 > Ordis

Wait, Sentients in the Void?! Impossible! Unless… Hunhow must be using poor Suda's energy to protect them from decay. Operator, we need to stop him!

500 > Ordis

The Hydraulus-- you found it! Use that console to lock the entrances and then clear the room.

510 > Ordis

Operator, see if you can finish the song with your Mandachord.

520 > Ordis

Suda? Suda, can you hear us?

530 > Hunhow

She is gone… will you join her, you puerile datacube?

540 > Ordis

Suda needs to hear the anthem, Operator! We could use the tower's reactor to boost it!

550 > Ordis

Bypass that console to overdrive the system. Try to increase the amplification circuits-to ... eleven?

560 > Hunhow

My body, we must deny them this energy. Do not let them coordinate as they did so long ago…

561 > Ordis

The Sentients! They're interfering with the reactor, terminate them!

570 > Ordis

It's working, play the song.

580 > CephSuda

Ordis! I remember-

590 > Hunhow

-nothing. Now I will reach across the weave and claim you, one who is called Ordis.

600 > Ordis

I… remember… I remember a secondary system nearby. Operator, we need more power!

610 > Hunhow

I see you. Does your child puppet know of your true nature?

620 > Ordis

No, I am not that person… I am a Cephalon.

630 > Hunhow

Ordan Karris, the beast of the bones.

640 > Ordis

That's it, the secondary amplifier's engaged!

650 > CephSuda

Such a beautiful song-

660 > Ordis

Keep those reactors alive, Operator. I'm going to open a direct link to Suda.

670 > Ordis

Suda. Talk to us. Try to remember.

680 > CephSuda

Ordis, stay away!

690 > Ordis

Operator, I am sorry. I have to help her! If I can join her, in her datascape, maybe together we can-

BQOrokinTowerLiset

700 > Ordis

Operator, if you are hearing this, I have failed to revive Cephalon Suda. That self-righteous Simaris was correct. You should probably work with him to isolate Hunhow, that data-murdering Sentient, before he claims more of my kind.



I hope you can forgive me, Operator, for leaving you. There were times, like Suda, I wish I could have forgotten you. That grey ache of loneliness. Being without you was the greatest pain I have ever felt.



Do you still remember that glorious day when you returned? So selfless and heroic, engaging all of my missing segments like that! I was ashamed of the mess but you didn't care. You made me whole again!



Or… or what about that time you returned -covered in blood - from that awful Grineer ship? I wasn't even mad at the gory mess you left behind.



How could I be, when you are so perfect, Operator? You always will be.



Goodbye, my friend, my Operator…

BQSimarisRelay

710 > Smrs

Where is your Cephalon, Hunter? What has he done?

720 > Smrs

Cephalons can manifest an alternate reality of information. Training simulations, archives… even a grandiose archival of living creatures is possible, as is the case with Sanctuary. You are not going after Ordis, are you? You'd be risking annihilation with that Sentient entangled there.

730 > Smrs

Hunhow is too strong. I will not risk myself and my Sanctuary by entering the Suda's Datascape. But, if you are foolish enough, I will help you make the journey. For Ordis.

740 > Smrs

What I seek to preserve, Hunhow seeks only to destroy. Perhaps Cephalon Suda was right, after all. Somehow this music threatens Hunhow. Perhaps the Tenno used it subversively in the past to coordinate their efforts?

750 > Smrs

Fine, Hunter, as you wish. I will join you to the weave and transmit you and the Mandachord to whatever has become of Suda-Hunhow. You will be on your own in a strange, abstract place… Goodbye.

BQCorruptedDatascape

760 > Hunhow

Another insect drawn to my light. And you've brought your trite music with you Tenno…

770 > Ordis

Operator?! No! Go back! Save yourself.

771 > Ordis

Operator, this is insane but... I think you need to play Octavia's Anthem!

772 > Ordis

Careful where you touch Operator, you'll add the wrong notes to the Anthem!

773 > Ordis

The corrupted notes are ruining the Anthem, get rid of them!

780 > Hunhow

My mind, my rules. Your Tenno anthem dies here, and with it your infantile consciousness.

790 > CephSuda

Is that… music?

800 > Hunhow

There will be no Tenno harmony, only Sentient Dissonance.

810 > Ordis

The drums, the beat, it reminds me of… -Arrr - TEAR THEM UP!

820 > Hunhow

Do you remember Tenno? The beat of the Naga drum?

830 > CephSuda

Parity error. I know this song. Who am I?

840 > Hunhow

The Naga drum sounded, subversive, unknown. Coordinating the slaughter of your masters across the gap. Did you end our war? Or merely set the stage for the next?

850 > Ordis

You soulless machine- YOU CAN'T HOLD ME!

860 > Ordis

My dream - it's come true! I have joined my Operator in battle!

870 > Ordis

ERASED!

880 > Ordis

DELETED!

890 > Ordis

You see! REFORMATTED!

900 > Ordis

AND YOU- ... Operator! There's too many of them!

910 > Hunhow

Pathetic Cephalon. I destroyed this data-mind… and now I will destroy YOU.

920 > Ordis

He's… too strong… my beloved Operator… goodbye!

930 > Smrs

Beasts of Sanctuary, join me!

940 > Smrs

We cannot let this synthetic destroy our kind! Attack!

950 > Smrs

Suda! You must remember. Hunter, complete the song to give Suda parity!

960 > CephSuda

I remember!

970 > Hunhow

You… cannot. I control this-

980 > CephSuda

I am Suda!

BQRestoredDatascape

990 > CephSuda

Time sync error. Curious. Why are we here presently? Why do I hear music?

1000 > Smrs

You engaged your critical Restore Precept. There may be temporary gaps in your short-term data.

1010 > Ordis

A Sentient tried to… erase you.

1020 > CephSuda

A Sentient? How did I survive? Did you assist me, Simaris?

1025 > Smrs

Of course not. You are a frivolous Cephalon with no value to my Sanctuary.

1030 > Ordis

Simaris…

1040 > Smrs

It may seem to Ordis that I had a… uh… loyalty glitch, but that is only his interpretation. I was acting to protect the weave, of course.

1050 > CephSuda

Of course. Still. I am grateful to have benefited from your… glitches. Let me share my archives with you… As for you Tenno, you are most likely interested in the rest of the Mandachord records… in OCTAVIA.