EntratiFrag

10 > Albrecht

Xata. (Truth). It began long before us, we who now live our perfect and dull, endless lives. It began long before these moon-palaces and body-markets hurling around our golden sun. It began long before our light-coil thinkers, our radiation wars, our oil, smoke. It began with us. The continuity and its twin, wanderlust. The need for unseen shores deep in our marrow. No judge, jester, queen, or king can escape this old blood. We are nomads, eternal. And when no ocean, mountain, or sky could contain us… our gaze hungered star-ward. Afar, they mocked us with their brittle light. Winking and jeering like dangling Ayatans forever out of reach, illuminating the truth: immortal as we are - we die with the sun. That's where I come in.

20 > Albrecht

Jahu. (Form). My departure was a day less than any other. When I stepped inside the Bell, I saw no crowd through its seriglass. No skeptical onlookers. No regal sendoff. They all had given up on me and my paradoxical formulations. The wasted years had all shown the Void to be just that. Nothing. No energy. No entanglement. No form. To space-faring ambitions, a dead end. On the day, my laboratory was mostly vacant of witnesses, most of all, of expectation. Only my sluggish attendants, my sagacious Kavat, Kalymos, and of course, my daughter. I had raised her alone but with inconsistent vigor. In those eyes, her mother's, I did see a terrible reflection. Of a man that did not exist. A brave and principled man about to make history. In truth, he was a Void himself. An outcast, a joke, a nothing. Driven by my humiliation. Failure had made me bitter and reckless. I would dive into the depths myself to prove them all wrong. I gave the signal. My daughter grasped the lever. Kalymos, then, belted out a desperate, rasping growl. But it was too late.

30 > Albrecht

Vome. (Order). The calipers yawed open the wall between worlds, stretching there a black, trapezoidal gap. A door. A mouth. It yawned in the light of the room, splintering it to mesmerizing, unearthly hues. And I, inside the Bell, dropping obliquely toward it from my gallows. Mass and time rippled as a sudden vortex jawed before me. My head was vapor, my feet, lodestone. The Bell around me, flexed like a rat paralyzed in a winding, gulping snake. I faltered in the awe of it, stumbling against the seriglass and, with that, shifted the Bell's path through the wall. It grazed the caliper membrane, the edge of the door. No worldly edge was as thin, as sharp as could split even light. As the Bell faintly grazed it, the seriglass was all at once rendered like strips of flesh by Dax blade. My enclosure was beheaded in an instant, but still, I fell… sideways… Into the Void.

40 > Albrecht

Fass. (Chaos). Death was on me; I was certain. I was face-down, eyes clenched. My heart pulsing the last of its seconds, and my lungs burning the last of its air. A sudden nostalgia gripped me. I grasped desperately, for memory, of a storm, just passed, the fumbling pitch of a child's song… yet all these thoughts seemed to steal away from my mind like smoke through a vent. I would die empty. I then became aware of another sensation. Physical. A web of pain, needles itching into my arm. At once I realized: I was alive! Laying in the Bell's shattered seriglass! I groped the ground. Warm stone. The floor of my laboratory. So: I had never left… and so: I had failed. Again. I heard a crunch alongside me. Someone stepping through the shattered glass. With great shame, I gasped and rose my head to face my daughter above me. But as I opened my eyes, it wasn't her. It was me.

50 > Albrecht

Ris. (Light). The senselessness of it, the paradoxic, the vague untime form. I was alone, but not. For I stood there confronted by myself. A twin, but no brother. A reflection but with dimension. Behind him, no horizon, but a vast broiling sea of caustic light pierced at random by black-pin stars. And closer, around me, a gale of flowing vapor. Profane in color, billowing relentlessly into the nascent lack, seeking all directions. I was standing on a precipice of familiar stone, jagged and unanchored, as though cleaved directly from the very floor of my laboratory. I wondered at the vapor's path, smoking outward more, leaving behind now, the walls, the filigree gold, the rare cuts of marble from my home. I knew at once the vapor's source. I turned away, back toward the wall, the trapezoid I had yawed into it. Vapor erupted inward at the gap, but not just from there. For as I rolled my eyes back, I saw the same... a great-steam of scintillation, smoking out from my skull. Dumb in awe, I faced toward my chimerical twin. He spoke.

60 > Albrecht

Khra. (Time). An old name, unspoken in the centuries since my mother reared me. A soft hiss, soothing as a viper's gaze. Little Bengel. The other me reached out, offering his hand, gliding toward me without moving, as though the distance between us was now collapsing. A confusion, most euphoric, filled my mind. With the shred of wit that remained, I decided that I should run for my life. At once, crazed and frantic, I fled. But I made no forward progress. Instead, the world compressed evermore around me, as though I were an anchor pulling the shore to reach. When I arrived at the door, or rather, the door arrived at me, I howled, hurling myself inside. Out. And then and there, I was. Lost and unlost. Howling on the floor in harmony with my wretched Kalymos. Lacerated in flesh and heart. Scattered as the bell glass. Spilling blood and stomach on the cold, stone floor. But I sensed the other there, at the wall's breach behind me, reaching still. I screamed, but my voice was gone. Forever. I looked, but my eyes would never see again. I swept my fist across the floor, snatching broken shards. And in gripping tightly, I filled my hands with ink. Close it! I wrote.

70 > Albrecht

Netra. (Decay). Time, to us, is all but conquered. Our sacred Kuva moves us on to new skin. We numb to our daily, yearly, trifles… and remedy those memories that bring lasting misery. With all our misdeeds, our excess, our indignity… we are haunted by nothing. But not for me. For with each passing day, there grew within a tumorous idea. It was minute in those early days: The pale reaching digits severed on the floor… studied with reverence, with greed. And it swelled larger in the latter days: the regal domes, the Rail dedications, the unholy Zariman parade. I had put the stars within reach, but at what cost? I never spoke of him, that man, trapped in the wall. And while there have been countless souls who have followed me through, with their light-skippers, and field-wave skins and vari-eyed instruments… not a single one ever saw him. Me. And so it is that I will not take the Kuva now. Or ever again. This is the last skin I'm in. Because of this idea: That I cannot be sure. That in all that smoked commotion, in all that panic and fear, in that bending light and blinding dark… was it I who escaped? Or the other?

80 > Albrecht

Lohk. (Void). From brooding gulfs are we beheld by that which bears no name. Its heralds are the stars it fells. The sky and Earth aflame. Corporeal laws are unwrit. As suns and love retreat. To cosmic madness, laws submit. Though stalwart minds entreat. In luminous space, blackened stars. They gaze, accuse, deny. Roiling, moaning, this realm of ours. In madness, lost shall die. Carrion hordes trill their profane accord with eldritch plans. To cosmic forms from tangent planes. We end as we began.

CephMechHelp

1420 > Otak

Hey, no worries, Chip! Let me get that for ya!

1430 > Otak

Hmm. You seem to be limb-u-lar-ly indisposed… Let ol' Otak help you out.

1440 > Otak

What's up, Chip? Why aren't ya doing the thing? Do the thing. Do the thing, Chip. Do it. DO IT. Okay, I'll do it.

1450 > Otak

Ooh! Ooh! Let me! Letmeletmeletmeeeeeeeee! Got it.

MotherBountyView

1980 > Mother

There is so much to be done here on Deimos.

1990 > Mother

You are here to assist.

2000 > Mother

Yes, there are bounties... if you have the interest.

MotherBountyStart

2010 > Mother

I do appreciate one who is not afraid of a little work.

2020 > Mother

This moon requires a curious mind and a firm hand.

2030 > Mother

So be it, let's see what you're made of.

MotherBountyDecline

2040 > Mother

Very well then.

2050 > Mother

Disappointing. May you reconsider.

2060 > Mother

So be it.

MotherLandBountyView

2100 > Mother

Not for the faint-hearted.

2110 > Mother

I hesitate to even ask.

2120 > Mother

You might consider bringing friends.

MotherLandBountyDecline

2160 > Mother

I can't say I blame you.

2170 > Mother

Perhaps it's just as well.

2180 > Mother

Yes, definitely the better part of valor.

MotherLoveBountyStart

2250 > Mother

Good and faithful, Tenno.

2260 > Mother

Excellent. Report back with your results.

2270 > Mother

I look forward to your return, as do we all.

MotherLoveLandBountyView

2340 > Mother

This place truly has a life of its own. Your aid in studying and controlling it is forever welcome.

2350 > Mother

And how have the day's adventures been proceeding? Kaelli and Kermerros tell me good things.

2360 > Mother

Short notice, I appreciate that, but I would benefit from your assistance at this time. What say you?

DadSpecial

3670 > Father

If you're gonna be useful, you'll need the tools. Here. This is what I mean.

3680 > Father

Look, I've been working on something special. I think I'm ready to show it.

3690 > Father

Now, this is the kind of thing you can produce if you're willing to put in the hours. I'm telling you, most don't have the patience.

3700 > Father

Don't go out there ill-equipped. Hey, I'm serious. If I had to pick one thing for the job, it'd be this.

DadFirst

3710 > Father

We tried it her way, and where did it get us? Just look at me! So now I'm doing things my way like I should have done all along. We'll show them, won't we? You and me. Make them sit up and pay attention. The weapons, they're just one branch of the project. You keep on like this, and I might cut you in on more of what I've really been working on. You know what I'm talking about. Had a taste of it already, din'cha?

DadBarks

3720 > Father

Remember: Don't go anywhere unarmed.

3730 > Father

Deimos is a dangerous place. Dangerous places require "special preparations."

3740 > Father

The lifeforms of Deimos will be picking you out of their teeth unless you have an edge. I can help.

3750 > Father

Survival is the priority. You're useless to us dead.

3760 > Father

You can't out-evolve Deimos. But you can procure what you need to survive.

3770 > Father

Been here so long it's difficult to remember that this isn't normal.

3780 > Father

Well, look at you so... "uninfested."

DadIntroTZeroOne

3790 > Father

Look, they're all ignoring me. And that's just how I want it! They'd only mess things up. Alright, let's get to business.

3800 > Father

That shard of seriglass my wife clutches means more to her than the damn wedding ring. None of us could ever live up to her father, least of all me.

3810 > Father

'Look, Daddy, I caught a fish! I am good for something!' Great. Try fighting off a full-grown Predasite with a fish.

3820 > Father

We needed those rituals. The discipline of it. Might have kept us from ending up like… this. She clawed me! My own daughter! And she laughed!

3830 > Father

We needed to be firm, I said. Strong against the enemy inside and out. She drew her claw, said I was the only enemy here, and she… Tenno. What do you need?

10750 > Father

There's useful material all over the Drift, it isn't just a mass of senseless flesh. There's sophisticated organs in there too. Bring me anything good you find out in the field.

10760 > Father

Don't let the Infestation intimidate you. Get out there and shoot the hell out of it. Even the stuff that doesn't move. Chances are there's something worth taking from the debris.

10770 > Father

Two giant wyrms, screaming at one another and raining down bloody chunks. Just another day on Deimos. At least their viscera is useful for something.

10840 > Father

Okay. I guess not.

10850 > Father

Sure. Take your time, think it over.

10860 > Father

Sure I can't tempt ya?

10870 > Father

Still here if you change your mind.

10880 > Father

Guess you have everything you need.

DadUnlockTTwo

3840 > Daughter

I remember the claw you made for me.

3850 > Father

With love, to protect you from the Void-horrors. But it was me you attacked.

3860 > Daughter

It was you that was stifling the life out of me! Those stupid, insane rituals… why?

3870 > Father

I didn't know what else to do! I just didn't want to be useless.

3880 > Daughter

You were never useless. Just lost. I name you Vilcor. The whip in its moment of striking.

DadIntroTTwoThreeFour

3890 > Father

My son knew what he was doing. We all suffered because of his rashness. It was a fair punishment.

3900 > Father

My wife was the only one with a plan. It was madness, but I went along anyway. It was the only plan we had.

3910 > Father

Ha! Have you met my wife? I wish I hadn't. Ah, ok, forgive me. That was cheap.

3920 > Father

I said, 'He's gone. Put the shard away. Move on.' And she cut me with it, over and over. And I just stood there. I took it. Every slice. I had to. You understand.

3930 > Father

That boy brought his stinking beasts in here and mocked us all with them. Gave them names of honor! Whatever they were. Pets! They were vermin. I did what I had to.

3940 > Father

Kaelli and I have done a lot of talking. She was afraid she'd turn out like her mother. And she was right.

3980 > Father

Couldn't possibly have seen this coming. That's what she'll say. Isn't it funny how all the rest of us saw it coming?

4000 > Father

I should have put my foot down. Drawn the line.

4010 > Father

I can't undo what happened, but I can keep making progress here… maybe my children will see me differently.

DadIntroLovedCombo

3950 > Father

Let's see if we can do something for each other...

3960 > Father

I've been here a long time. I know what you need to survive this place.

3970 > Father

"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." I think Ballas said that. No, that can't be right. Well, someone said it.

3990 > Father

Need weapons? Of course you do: this is Deimos.

4020 > Father

Tenno. Good to see you.

DadUnlockLoved

4030 > Father

Tenno. Working with you - it's... it's meant a lot to me. Just having someone who respects my experience, someone I can be a guiding hand to, it's… well, you get what I'm trying to say. All this time I've been blaming her for what's happened, but now? Maybe, just maybe, this was meant to be. I think… I might owe her an apology.

4040 > Father

Tenno. Working with you - it's meant a lot to me. Just having someone who... well, you get what I'm trying to say. I can hold my head up again… I see the person I almost became. All this time I've been blaming her for what happened, but now? Maybe this was meant to be. I think… I owe her an apology.

DadIntroLoved

4050 > Father

I was worried about you. I'd be a lot less worried if I knew you were carrying a sensible weapon.

4060 > Father

Let's go over your arsenal once again. Look, I'm sorry, but I could not have you going out there without the best weapons I can offer.

4070 > Father

I underestimated Grandmother. She may not be a scientist, but what she knows is worth knowing.

4080 > Father

It's been hard to forgive Kaelli. But desperate people lash out. I should have never made her so desperate.

4090 > Father

You know, Tenno, you can't bully people into respecting you. All you can do is make them afraid, and when that fear goes away…

4100 > Father

I should spend more time with Loid and Otak. They've served us loyally since this mess began.

4110 > Father

There you are! What can I do for you?

4120 > Father

Who would I be if I let you go out there improperly equipped?

4130 > Father

It's you again! I knew it was only a matter of time before you came back.

4140 > Father

Look... whatever I said about my wife, I'm putting it in the past now.

4150 > Father

She's still the woman I married. One mistake doesn't change all that. Not if I don't allow it to.

4160 > Father

Well, sunnier days ahead, I say.

4170 > Father

At the very least, being stranded on Deimos has given me a lot of time for self-reflection.

4180 > Father

Glad you joined our little family, my friend. There's a lot we still need to talk over. But at least we're talking now.

10740 > Father

Always good to see you, Ayatan.

DadBuildIdle

4190 > Father

Well, you're in no hurry. Neither am I, I suppose.

4270 > Father

Everything okay there?

4280 > Father

Feeling a bit indecisive, huh?

4290 > Father

No rush -- I'm not going anywhere.

DadNoPieces

4200 > Father

Here's the problem: you have no components. Weapons require parts. You bring me said parts, I will build you said weapon.

DadAssembleOutroBuilt

4240 > Father

Well, here it is. Put it to good use.

4250 > Father

It's yours -- made to order.

4260 > Father

And that oughta do it. Here you go...

DadBuildIdlePieces

4300 > Father

You really like to "think through" your decisions, huh?

4310 > Father

You know, indecision is a decision.

4320 > Father

Don't worry about it -- got nothing but time.

DadBuildPieceSelect

4330 > Father

Bold choice.

4340 > Father

Works for me if it works for you.

4350 > Father

Sure, I think that'll do nicely.

DadForgeNoMaxRank

4360 > Father

That thing needs to be a little more battle-tested before I could even think about gilding it.

4370 > Father

That looks like it just came out of the box. Shoot it a few times, and then we can talk gilding.

4380 > Father

Slow down. That thing isn't near ready enough for me to gild it.

DadForgeOutroGild

4390 > Father

Niiiiice. So what are you thinking of calling her?

4400 > Father

A fine piece of craftsmanship like that deserves a name. Got one?

4410 > Father

Please tell me you have a name for that. You do, don't you?

DadForgeNameConfirm

4420 > Father

That works.

4430 > Father

I'd say that's about right.

4440 > Father

Wait... Yeah, that's it.

DadForgeNameDefault

4450 > Father

Sure. What else would you call it?

4460 > Father

Well... "if the name fits."

4470 > Father

It really does suit it, huh?

DadDonateNoMaxRank

4480 > Father

Yeah, I'm not seeing anything I can work with.

4490 > Father

I'm a pretty good gunsmith, but I don't know what you expect me to do with that.

4500 > Father

Next time, ask yourself 'Does this come up to Orokin standards?' And if it doesn't, you can save us both some time.

4510 > Father

Sorry, not much I can do with that junk.

DadDonateConfirmed

4520 > Father

Thanks, I wasn't expecting that.

4530 > Father

Much obliged.

4540 > Father

I'll make good use of this.

DadOutroSale

4550 > Father

Remember: this never happened.

4560 > Father

Let's keep this between us for now.

4570 > Father

See? I knew you were smart.

10780 > Father

Pleasure transacting with you.

10790 > Father

I'd shake hands, but… yeah.

10800 > Father

Bought and paid for.

10810 > Father

Much obliged.

10820 > Father

All satisfactory, I hope.

10830 > Father

Works for me.

DadOutroNoSale

4600 > Father

I guess you know what's best for you.

4610 > Father

Okay, maybe not today... but you'll be back. Trust me.

DadGoodbye

4620 > Father

Keep safe.

4630 > Father

Don't go getting infested now.

4640 > Father

Be seeing you again, I'm sure.

MotherBarks

4650 > Mother

You there: You may prove useful.

4660 > Mother

The arrival of the Tenno is fortuitous. I would capitalize upon it.

4670 > Mother

I have work for you, if you are so inclined.

4680 > Mother

There is much to be done here on Deimos.

4690 > Mother

You there. You are here to assist, yes?

4700 > Mother

I have bounties, should you have the interest.

MotherFirst

4710 > Mother

This is not how I would have chosen to welcome a colleague, but embarrassment is a luxury I discarded long ago. Frankly, my daughter is an entitled, self-pitying whelp, my son, an arrogant upstart, and my husband, a mealy-mouthed relic of his old self. Every last one of them has let me down. You may find them useful; I barely find them tolerable. If I can count upon your loyalty, we will work well together. I intend to tame this place, and you can help me.

MotherIntroNeutral

4720 > Mother

My son will no doubt complain to you. He thinks I was too strict with him. Perhaps I was.

4760 > Mother

One shard of seriglass is all I have left of my father. But it's all I need to find him again.

4770 > Mother

They all knew! They came willingly! They accepted the risks! And now they blame me? Now they turn on me? Don't you think of betraying me, Tenno.

4780 > Mother

Welcome, Tenno. There is no doormat, but feel free to wipe your feet on my husband. He won't dare stop you.

4820 > Mother

I admire your proactiveness. This family could learn something from you.

MotherIntroCombo

4730 > Mother

Of course this place is harsh. It's testing us. You have to be harsher still. Look it in the eye.

4740 > Mother

No time wasted in idle talk. Good. If people want to stand around gossiping, they can go to Grandmother.

4750 > Mother

Tenno!

4790 > Mother

Interested in bounties, are you?

4800 > Mother

I trust you are prepared to get your hands dirty.

4810 > Mother

Together, we will pacify this moon.

4830 > Mother

Back again. How enterprising.

MotherUnlockLoved

4840 > Mother

No. I refuse to accept this. My shard…

4850 > Grandmother

Just one of thousands, dear. Nothing special.

4860 > Father

Be kind. She knew, once. Deimos stole the memory.

4870 > Son

It's not some mystical relic of Grandfather.

4880 > Daughter

It's just a bit of glass.

4890 > Mother

It's all I have left!

4900 > Father

Is it?

4910 > Mother

… no. Father, I release you. Let me live for the sake of the living.

4920 > Father

I name you Gomaitru. The goblet refilled.

MotherIntroLovedFirst

4930 > Mother

My behaviour has been suboptimal, Tenno. I accept that. It has not been easy to swallow my... pride... and admit my... mistakes... but without you, it might never have happened at all.

SonUnlockTFour

4930 > Father

What you did with those... things... was a deliberate insult.

4940 > Father

Wait. Is that… why you did it?

8250 > Son

Do you remember when I first bred Infested? How we played with them for hours.

8270 > Son

I'm sorry you don't appreciate my sense of humor. But I did make you happy, didn't I? When you killed them.

8290 > Son

Vilcor, my sweet sire. What good is a weapons expert without something to kill?

MotherIntroLoved

4940 > Mother

You are an enviable ally, Tenno. Diligent, loyal, reliable. My father would have approved.

4950 > Mother

My father was only a man, in the end. As is my husband. They all have their flaws and their frailties.

4960 > Mother

Grandmother would never take anyone's side. I despised her for that. I never once considered what such detachment must have cost her.

4970 > Mother

Kermerros has become quite the scientist. I should have nurtured that hunger, but I punished him for it. Because it wasn't part of my "grand" plan.

4980 > Mother

Loid and Otak never deserved any of this. In my darkest moments I believed even they were conspiring against me.

4990 > Mother

There you are again.

5000 > Mother

Ah, it is you.

5010 > Mother

Another bounty, is it?

5020 > Mother

Have you come here for your latest assignment?

5030 > Mother

I am named, and my light is my own. It is not a debt I owe to the dust.

5040 > Mother

I do not know that we are happy, Tenno. I am not sure we ever were. But it seems we are all far less fond of idle cruelty.

10730 > Mother

My Ayatan!

MotherRankReady

5150 > Mother

I am open to dialogue.

5160 > Mother

Perhaps.

5170 > Mother

Let us negotiate.

MotherOpenStore

5210 > Mother

You wish to negotiate? Very well.

5220 > Mother

Let us speak then, perhaps as equals.

5230 > Mother

Earning the trust of this family is no small thing, small thing.

MotherOpenStoreLoved

5240 > Mother

Come, stand before me.

5250 > Mother

Of course! I very much enjoy our talks.

5260 > Mother

Shall we come to an arrangement?

MotherStorePurchase

5270 > Mother

Excellent. This is to our mutual benefit.

5280 > Mother

This is agreeable.

5290 > Mother

You have yourself a deal.

MotherGoodbye

5300 > Mother

Farewell.

5310 > Mother

Yes, goodbye.

5320 > Mother

Very well. I am reasonably certain I shall see you again.

5330 > Mother

If that concludes our business I shall bid you farewell.

5340 > Mother

Until our next appointment.

5350 > Mother

On Deimos, be aware of all things.

5360 > Mother

Indeed.

DaughterBarks

5370 > Daughter

There are fascinating things down in the exocrine. Grotesque, yes, but survival isn't pretty.

5380 > Daughter

By all means, go fishing unprepared. When I pick you out of a Cryptosuctus' gut sac, I'll be sure to say hello.

5390 > Daughter

Are you thinking of doing some fishing in the exocrine? I can help.

5400 > Daughter

There's all sorts swimming in the exocrine here on Deimos. And above it.

DaughterFirst

5410 > Daughter

This would be where I showed you my birthright of ancestral fish, but… well, you've already met my charming brother. Some remnants of the original genetic matrix appear to have survived in the exocrine, though the Infestation is steadily claiming them. If you can catch any and bring them to me, I'd appreciate it. We can salvage anything useful. I can't undo what he did, but I won't let him have the last word.

DaughterIntroCombo

5420 > Daughter

I went out fishing whenever I needed to get away from the sound of my brother's voice. Three or four times a day, on average. What can I get for you?

5450 > Daughter

You can't just chuck a spear in the exocrine and hope for the best. Not on Deimos. You've got to respect what you're up against. Take lures, dyes, all the proper tools for the job.

DaughterIntroTZero

5430 > Daughter

My father tried to lead us in 'martial discipline' every morning. It was a farce. I only wish I'd ripped him open sooner. He's so spineless nowadays.

5440 > Daughter

I've got fishing supplies. Father has useless guilt. Mother's cornered the market in disappointed tutting, and my brother does mindless vandalism. Browse away.

5460 > Daughter

Look at him. Smirking. He knows what he did. You know he had the gall to call himself a scientist, before Deimos? I remember when he ate mud!

5470 > Daughter

You know what Grandmother said? 'Just ignore it. Don't rise to it. It's the attention he craves.' As if one day he'll have had enough and he'll just stop.

5480 > Daughter

It's magical, isn't it? That first moment when you see the fish glimmering down in the deep, and you know you have to have him. It's just you and the fish, and you forget all about drowning your brother.

5490 > Daughter

I wonder if I'll ever find out what I did. Why he hates me so much. You know what? On second thought, no. He's not that important.

5500 > Daughter

Ancient Orokin strains. I was meant to seed a new world with them. Burned to cinders for a cheap joke.

DaughterUnlockTOne

5510 > Daughter

This… this specimen is a descendent of my original collection. How… how did…?

5511 > Daughter

You didn't incinerate them at all. You...

5520 > Son

Promise you won't yell at me.

5521 > Son

Dumped them in the exocrine. We can rebuild. They're still out there, and doing quite well it seems. I wanted to wound you, not maim. You're right to hate me.

5530 > Daughter

No. I deny you my hatred. Find something else to feed on. Whatever you've become, I am still your sister.

5540 > Son

You are more. I see that now. I name you Kaelli. Water scourge.

AyatanCeremony

5550 > Son

Welcome.

5980 > Daughter

Welcome.

10670 > Mother

And to you... we thank you. You've helped us to realize that even though we've changed, even though we struggle to understand one another, we are still…

10680 > Grandmother

A family.

10681 > Grandmother

Welcome.

10690 > Mother

Yes. A family that would be honored to include you, Tenno. But... what to name this little star that fell from the sky and brought us together?

10700 > Father

Ayatan.

10701 > Father

Welcome.

10710 > Mother

Perfect. Welcome, Ayatan.

DaughterIntroTOneFour

5550 > Daughter

I do know, you know. What we look like. I always did. But you didn't hesitate, did you? To help us.

5560 > Daughter

I'm not just someone's daughter. I'm me. I'm Kaelli. Of all the people to name me, I never thought it would be him.

5570 > Daughter

I wasted years being angry with my brother for what he did to my specimens. Now I think they meant more to him than they ever did to me.

5580 > Daughter

You understand, don't you? The feeling of splitting open a nice fresh Ostimyr. That heady smell of acetone, liver, and corrosion.

DaughterIntroLoved

5590 > Daughter

Whisper it, but Mother's started listening to me again. Not just eavesdropping, either. She's more herself than she's ever been. I'll never forget what you did.

5600 > Daughter

The fish are evolving. Did you notice that about them? I wonder what they'll turn into after a thousand years. I wonder what I'll look like then.

5610 > Daughter

I wonder - what exactly did Grandmother cook up, to help bring this reconciliation about? Probably best not to ask. Crafty old harridan.

5620 > Daughter

'Kermerros and Kaelli. Sibling pioneers researching together on the threshold of the Void.' Yes, that could work.

5630 > Daughter

I wish Loid and Otak would visit us more often. The family isn't truly united until the servants have come home.

5640 > Daughter

My father's spent years regretting what he didn't do, and my mother's spent just as long refusing to regret anything she ever did. I don't quite understand how you brought them back together, but I'm glad. And grateful.

5650 > Daughter

All that time wasted hating one another. You learn to relish the cruelty. Torturing ourselves was better than feeling nothing at all. Anyway, it's over.

DaughterLoved

5660 > Daughter

I was just dreaming about you, Ayatan! About how different things would have been if you'd never come here. I'm glad you woke me.

DaughterFishNoFish

5680 > Daughter

When you've caught something, just bring it back to me. Then we can split open the casing and dig through the innards.

5690 > Daughter

The exocrine is just seething with creatures. Bring some back, and I'll show you how to gouge out the most useful bits.

5700 > Daughter

There's a lot you can do with the parts. Bring one back, and I'll show you.

DaughterFishSelectInfested

5710 > Daughter

Hmm. Totally infested, this one, inside and out.

DaughterFishSelectHybrid

5720 > Daughter

You've got a hybrid here. Orokin and Infested ancestry.

DaughterFishSelectOrokin

5730 > Daughter

Ah! This is one of the uncorrupted Orokin strains. No mistaking that contouring.

DaughterFishSelectCommon

5740 > Daughter

Definitely, plenty more of these where this came from.

DaughterFishSelectUncommon

5750 > Daughter

You don't see this type every day, but there's lots about.

DaughterFishSelectRare

5760 > Daughter

This was a lucky catch. Most of these get eaten by the others or get so overwhelmed with Infestation they just sink to the bottom. You hardly ever see these.

DaughterFishSelectLegendary

5770 > Daughter

Now, this takes me back. A Myxostomata! The original Orokin stock was all but extinct. This one must have been hiding in a deep dark artery somewhere. Look at that gilding. He's an antique, aren't you? Almost seems a shame to bust him open.

DaughterFishDonateEnter

5780 > Daughter

You can always donate your catch to my research archive. Since I lost my original specimens, I'm doing what I can with their Infested descendants. It's not as easy for me to go fishing myself as it used to be, so I'd appreciate anything you can spare.

5790 > Daughter

You don't have to keep what you catch. I'm happy to find a home for it in my archive.

5800 > Daughter

I'd be glad to take any fish off your hands that you don't want. Father thinks I've got more than enough already, but you don't have to listen to him.

DaughterFishDonateConfirm

5810 > Daughter

Thank you!

5820 > Daughter

Nothing can bring my lost specimens back, but this is some comfort.

5830 > Daughter

Oh, very generous. Thank you. I'll go and put it with all the others.

DaughterFishDissectEnter

5840 > Daughter

Be careful with the first incision. One clumsy moment can wreck everything.

5850 > Daughter

You know what you're doing, so I'll let you get on with it. I'd appreciate being allowed to watch, however.

DaughterFishDissectConfirm

5860 > Daughter

A practiced hand, I see!

5870 > Daughter

Excellent job. And hardly any mess. Well done!

5880 > Daughter

You wouldn't think you could fit that lot inside one fish, would you? Quite remarkable.

DaughterGoodbye

5950 > Daughter

See you soon?

5960 > Daughter

You know where to find me.

5970 > Daughter

Until next time.

GrandmotherBarks

5980 > Grandmother

Take your pick of our cargo! It's precious little use to us.

5990 > Grandmother

Let's sift through the wreckage.

6000 > Grandmother

Such a mess they've made. And I suppose it's down to you and I to tidy up. Shall we?

6010 > Grandmother

It is going to be alright. I promise. But the work. Has. To. Be. Done!

6020 > Grandmother

Hello, dear. Ready to muck in?

6030 > Grandmother

Let's have a good old rummage in the medicine chest, shall we? See if we can't set things right.

6040 > Grandmother

I know what you're thinking. Old and a bit cracked. But still useful.

GrandmotherFirst

6050 > Grandmother

You make sure you stay safe and snug, dear. Wrap up well. It's a thief and a liar, is Deimos. Steals over girls and boys and Cephalons too like a nasty fog, until all the bright lights in your memory are quite blotted out. That's why they're like that, you see. So much forgotten. Oh, but we mustn't cry over it, never that. Help me bring them back, would you, dear? Remember how it's done. Pinch of this, dab of that; mend a kettle, mend a heart, and it's all one.

GrandmotherRecipeIntro

6051 > Grandmother

Help me bring them back, would you, dear? Remember how it's done. Pinch of this, dab of that; mend a kettle, mend a heart, it's all one. Let's have a good old rummage in the medicine chest, shall we? See if we can't set things right.

GrandmotherIntroNeutral

6060 > Grandmother

We are nameless now. Relations existing only in relation. Deimos has stolen more than flesh from us.

6070 > Grandmother

My granddaughter's fish were meant to be her legacy, to seed a new world. The boy reduced them to ash and bone splinters. I warned his parents not to neglect him so.

6090 > Grandmother

The 'observations of martial discipline'. How futile. But my granddaughter's ridicule went too far.

6100 > Grandmother

The boy was rash, no doubt. Gallivanting across Deimos on secret odysseys, coming back with Infested on his trail! Well, he paid for it. Scalded, lashed, and banished from the family archives.

6110 > Grandmother

That's quite enough. Foolish old woman. Snap out of it. … I'm sorry, dear, were you saying something?

6120 > Grandmother

The boy should have known better. With tainted flesh, he mocked his own parents. So his father brought slaughter down, as well he might.

6130 > Grandmother

The boy clothed Infested beasts as Father and Mother. She blundered into a pit, and mindlessly he followed after, lured by her pheromones! Hit a little too close to home, that did.

6140 > Grandmother

He's a fine boy at heart, my grandson. Got his head screwed on right. And he's clever enough to know how little he knows. Not like his bloody mother.

6150 > Grandmother

That woman clings to her seriglass shard like she could wring her lost father out of it. Her husband was a fool to tell her to throw it away. When she carved her anger deep into his flesh, he never once raised his hand to her.

6160 > Grandmother

Husband and wife! They've not been that for years. Not since she took that shard to him and lacerated him for his insolence. His own children watched him endure it. He did nothing.

6170 > Grandmother

Her first duty was to her family, not to some fatuous dream! If I were her mother… oh, I'm sorry, dear. I didn't mean to take it out on you.

GrandmotherIntroCombo

6080 > Grandmother

And where have you been scampering, little skitterkin? Hither and yon and round about, and tying knots in the fiend's tail?

GrandmotherIntroLovedFirst

6180 > Grandmother

Goodness me. Look at what you did for our little family. You found a poor, lost, broken thing, fallen down the back of the system, and you picked it up and worked to make it better. And thus do we thumb our nose at Master Entropy, stitch by dogged stitch, every day. That's how the work gets done. Now, shall we sit and talk awhile?

GrandmotherIntroLoved

6190 > Grandmother

Dear child. The stories we've told now they're speaking! Great golden armadas rising in the night. Forests of song. And the dreams run clear again.

6200 > Grandmother

They all have names now. I don't think I shall bother with one. I know perfectly well who I am.

6210 > Grandmother

I wish I could have done something for poor Otak. Though, I suppose he's content, in his own haphazard way.

6220 > Grandmother

Do you know, we're all sitting down to dinner again? They're all talking to one another! And nobody's poisoned anyone for ages!

6230 > Grandmother

The children are on speaking terms again. This doesn't feel like another of their temporary truces. Something's changed in them both.

6240 > Grandmother

Do you know, they were days away from eating one another's heads off, and I am not speaking metaphorically.

6250 > Grandmother

Hold still a moment. Don't be in a hurry to rush off. There. I want to remember you, just like that.

6260 > Grandmother

Stripped the sheets from off her bed, Stripped the skin from off his head, Bridegroom's bones she ne'er shall wed, Oh, the winds of Deimos...

6270 > Grandmother

Poor things. They'd become monuments, you see. Statues raised to their own memory. What sort of a life was that? They're excited now. Talking about what they'll do next, instead of what they did wrong. Bless them.

6280 > Grandmother

I do believe it's our little Ayatan. What a pleasure.

GrandmotherSelectRecipe

6300 > Grandmother

Ooh, that's a potent choice!

6320 > Grandmother

No meddling with the ingredients, now.

6330 > Grandmother

Oh, do you really think you could? Marvelous!

6340 > Grandmother

Go on, dear, you're more than ready.

6350 > Grandmother

Now this one has a kick.

6360 > Grandmother

I'm fairly sure I've remembered the procedure correctly.

6370 > Grandmother

Do try not to get any blood in it.

6380 > Grandmother

Not what we would have used in my day, but it's not like we have a choice.

6390 > Grandmother

Well… only if you're sure.

6400 > Grandmother

Oh, yes! Unfog the mind and unclog the bowels.

6420 > Grandmother

Of course, it's not conventional medicine. After all, we're stranded on a chunk of septic rock.

6430 > Grandmother

You'd make a magnificent apprentice.

6440 > Grandmother

Medipacks for wounds of the body, this for wounds of the heart.

GrandmotherAcceptTask

6450 > Grandmother

If they can remember the truth, then they can forgive one another. This will help both.

6460 > Grandmother

A salve for the bitterness in their hearts. We used to say it dripped from the cracked moon.

6480 > Grandmother

I once thought time would heal, but it's only turned resentment gangrenous. This may serve us better.

GrandmotherTaskComplete

6500 > Grandmother

We never see the stars here. But tonight, we'll remember them.

6510 > Grandmother

And so the fog clears, little by little, and the heart remembers. Well done.

6520 > Grandmother

You're bringing them back. To one another and to me. Thank you.

6530 > Grandmother

Perch and bide with me a while now, dear one. The task is well done.

6540 > Grandmother

And not a moment too soon. Bravo, dear.

6550 > Grandmother

Excellent. Dutiful and prompt.

GrandmotherNoTask

6560 > Grandmother

Don't fret, dear. We'll find another way.

6570 > Grandmother

Of course. I quite understand.

6580 > Grandmother

Well, we've kept going this long...

GrandmotherEnterCosmetics

6590 > Grandmother

This stuff's been in storage for years. I hope it's still good.

6600 > Grandmother

I never could persuade them to throw anything away.

6610 > Grandmother

Why they bothered packing all this, I'll never know.

6620 > Grandmother

Go on, dear. Have a good rummage around.

GrandmotherSale

6630 > Grandmother

Lovely. We're all done.

6640 > Grandmother

Eminently satisfactory.

6650 > Grandmother

Plenty more left if you want a second helping.

GrandmotherNoSale

6660 > Grandmother

Well, if you're sure I can't persuade you...

6670 > Grandmother

Very well. I'll be here. Waiting.

6680 > Grandmother

Of course. Take your time. I quite understand.

GrandmotherChooseToken

6690 > Grandmother

Shall we?

6700 > Grandmother

Go on, dear.

6710 > Grandmother

Let's you and I have a chin-wag.

GrandmotherTradeToken

6720 > Grandmother

Oh, magnificent!

6730 > Grandmother

Thank you, dear. Very kind.

6740 > Grandmother

May you have much joy of it.

GrandmotherNoTrade

6750 > Grandmother

Ah well. Can't be helped.

6760 > Grandmother

Hmph. Maybe later.

6770 > Grandmother

As you wish.

GrandmotherGoodbye

6780 > Grandmother

Scurry back quick, skippety-hop!

6790 > Grandmother

I'll be right here, gathering dust.

6800 > Grandmother

Goodbye, dear. I'll see what else I can unearth for you.

6810 > Grandmother

Always nice to see you. Do stop by again.

GrandmotherKDriveActivated

6820 > Grandmother

Hold fast! Bridle the wind! The aim, dear, is to outstrip your predecessors!

6830 > Grandmother

Brace yourself! Face straight ahead, bite down, and wrest all good speed from your mount!

6840 > Grandmother

Weave like a shuttle, dart like a blade. Let swiftness be your watchword!

GrandmotherKDriveRaceStart

6850 > Grandmother

Excellent!

6860 > Grandmother

A sure first step!

6870 > Grandmother

Boldly done!

GrandmotherKDriveGateHit

6880 > Grandmother

To the heart!

6890 > Grandmother

Through and onward!

6900 > Grandmother

Be proud! But not overly so.

GrandmotherKDriveAlmostDone

6910 > Grandmother

Victory steals in upon you!

6920 > Grandmother

So close. Is the fiend at your back?

6930 > Grandmother

Knuckle down! Thunder on! But a few remain!

GrandmotherKDriveDone

6940 > Grandmother

And thus the circuit is complete. A most worthy jaunt.

6950 > Grandmother

The wild ride is done. Creditable it was, if not masterly.

6960 > Grandmother

Swift you were, indeed, and yet others were swifter.

GrandmotherKDriveDoneBonus

6970 > Grandmother

Magnificent! Etch your path in ribbons of fire as a testament to the ages, for it was kingly!

6980 > Grandmother

I witness this with joy. You have flown like few others have flown.

6990 > Grandmother

Ha! I salute you, wild rider! Needle-keen and shadow-swift you have proven today.

GrandmotherKDriveLose

7000 > Grandmother

Oh dear. Never mind.

7010 > Grandmother

Don't fret. We need never speak of this again, dear.

7020 > Grandmother

Goodness. What a catastrophe.

GrandmotherKDriveApproach

7030 > Grandmother

In and out and round about, a whisper, a flit and away!

7040 > Grandmother

Down the ancient track the riders go, like ghosts racing the dawn.

7050 > Grandmother

So many years gone. They had quicksilver in their veins back then.

GrandmotherKDriveIdle

7060 > Grandmother

You'll end up like me if you stand in one place for too long.

7070 > Grandmother

I might have a nap.

7080 > Grandmother

Might I prevail upon you to make a decision, dear?

GrandmotherKDriveLeave

7090 > Grandmother

Very well. Return when the time is right.

7100 > Grandmother

As you wish. Don't be too cautious, dear.

7110 > Grandmother

You'll find me here again! And in other places...

GrandmotherKDriveAcceptRace

7120 > Grandmother

Pay close attention. When you hit the first marker, the timer begins. No turning back after that.

7130 > Grandmother

Strike the first marker and the timer shall start. Hit them all - neglect not a one!

7140 > Grandmother

Once you strike the first marker, the race is begun. It ends when you have struck them all, or else in disgrace.

CephMineBarks

7150 > Otak

Will you be mine? I mean... a miner?

7160 > Otak

So many things to mine on Deimos. For instance, you can mine minerals... ores... gems... minerals...

7170 > Loid

Yes, Otak, I think they understand the basic concept.

7180 > Otak

Mining for minerals! Mining for family! Mining for the future! Also: minerals.

CephMineFirst

7190 > Otak

Hi, I'm... I'm not Loid. Loid is Loid.

7200 > Loid

You'll have to excuse Otak. His personality was damaged irreparably by Deimos' energies, making it necessary to transfer his intelligence to this, our current shared form. Unfortunately, my attempted defragmentation of his persona matrix was not a "complete success." Tell them about mining, Otak.

7210 > Otak

Mining? Oh yeah... mining! There are things to be mined. Minerals. We'll use the minerals to make the—

7220 > Loid

The things that are necessary for survival on Deimos. Now, ask politely, Otak.

7230 > Otak

Would you please mine the minerals?

CephMineIntroNeutral

7240 > Otak

Chip! We are good friends. It's good to have good friends.

7250 > Otak

Did you come to talk about mining? How did you know that's my favorite subject?

7260 > Otak

Mining isn't my only interest. I'm also interested in mining.

CephMineUnlockLoved

7270 > Otak

You're the best miner on Deimos! Possibly in the whole System! Will you be my friend?

CephMineIntroLoved

7280 > Otak

Hello, friend. I'd call you "best friend," but Loid is my best friend. Right, Loid?

7290 > Loid

Sigh...

7300 > Otak

Hey! I'm… uh…

7310 > Loid

Otak is quite pleased to see you.

7320 > Otak

It's the miner!

7330 > Otak

Mining is an important part of the plan. Do you remember what the plan is?

7340 > Otak

I feel different than I used to, but I don't remember how I used to feel.

7350 > Otak

I was damaged. Deimos damaged me. Deimos damages everything.

7360 > Otak

We will build things. Great things. Then someday we will leave Deimos.

CephMineOutroSale

7370 > Otak

See? I knew we were friends!

7380 > Otak

Acknowledge you. Gratitude you.

7390 > Loid

I believe he means to say, "Thank you."

7400 > Otak

Mining is good. You're a good miner, Chip. Keep on mining!

7410 > Otak

I can do great things with this.

CephMineOutroNoSale

7420 > Otak

Oh. Playin' it coy, huh? I get it.

7430 > Otak

Shrewd. A player. I like it.

7440 > Otak

Well… poot.

CephMineGoodbye

7450 > Otak

Be great! Do great things!

7460 > Otak

Together, we will build the future!

7470 > Otak

See you again, Chip!

CephMechIntroCombo

7530 > Loid

Greetings. May I be of assistance?

7550 > Loid

Hello. Are you requiring something?

CephMechIntroNeutral

7540 > Loid

Welcome to our haven.

7560 > Otak

Minerals!

7570 > Loid

Not now, Otak...

7580 > Loid

I must ask that you keep our dealings secret from Mother.

7590 > Loid

This area is sound-proof. We may commerce freely.

CephMechUnlockLoved

7600 > Loid

You have proven a competent and reliable ally. I suggest we continue nurturing this partnership for the foreseeable future.

CephMechIntroLoved

7610 > Loid

So good to see you again.

7620 > Loid

Greetings. Your presence is always a gift to us.

7630 > Loid

Ah! Otak and I were just talking about you.

7640 > Otak

Who?

7650 > Loid

Them.

7660 > Otak

Who?

7670 > Loid

Right in front of—

7671 > Loid

Forget it.

7672 > Otak

Who?

7680 > Loid

Collaborating towards a common goal is surprisingly gratifying.

CephMechFirst

7700 > Loid

A visitor. Quite rare these days. We never receive visitors.

CephMechTradeGreet

7860 > Loid

Perhaps we can make a trade?

7870 > Loid

Greetings. I am prepared to assist you, should you be worthy. Forgive me, I've always wanted to say that.

7880 > Loid

Are you interested in a business exchange?

CephMechTradeSale

7890 > Loid

I am pleased we were able to come to a mutually beneficial agreement.

7900 > Loid

I am glad to learn that this arrangement is suitable for you.

7910 > Loid

I convey my personal thanks.

CephMechOutroSale

7920 > Loid

I hope that we might continue to work together in a constructive manner.

7930 > Loid

I look forward to our subsequent dealings.

7940 > Loid

I am certain we will see you again in the near future.

CephMechOutroNoSale

7950 > Loid

Perhaps another time then.

7960 > Otak

What time?

7970 > Loid

Quiet, Otak.

7980 > Loid

I am sorry we were not able to arrive at a satisfactory arrangement.

7990 > Loid

I trust this does not preclude future dealings.

CephMechGoodbye

8000 > Loid

Be pragmatic in all aspects of life.

8010 > Loid

Many safe returns.

8020 > Loid

Exercise caution whenever possible.

SonBarks

8030 > Son

The atmo's pulsing today, friend. Just smell those pheromones. Bring me back a little something, what do you say?

8040 > Son

Hey friend. Round up some Infested for the ingested, if you wouldn't mind? I'd do it myself, but… I'm physically inconvenienced. Just mind the Predasites. Like any good antibody they'll take you out if they can.

8050 > Son

Oh. Hey. Heading for the ventricle? If you find an interesting sample or two out in the chamber - say, a Vulpaphyla or an Avichaea - I'd love a closer look. I can kit you out so it's a more pleasurable experience?

8060 > Son

Am I to understand from your swagger that you intend to venture out there and bring something exotic in here? Excellent. Let's talk equipment.

SonFirst

8070 > Son

My family may choose to live in witless denial of our condition, but I accept it. Deimos is my mistress, whether I chose her or not. Her bitter kisses fester in my veins. Witness, Tenno. We are truly become one flesh. I crave to understand her for myself. Whatever you need to provide me samples of her processes and function - wildlife - I will provide. But, if I am to understand them, I require them intact. You sedate them, I shall arrange retrieval, you shall be rewarded.

SonIntroTZeroOneTwo

8080 > Son

She collared me like a cur. And for what? Refusing to bend the knee to her arbitrary rules?

8090 > Son

She should have trusted me to strike out alone! Yes, the Infested followed me home, and yes, we became tainted travesties of ourselves, but I hadn't learned how to control them then!

8100 > Son

I was to be a scientist. Now I see the shortsightedness of mere intellect. Provide me samples. Soon my parents can come crawling to me to beg for my data.

8120 > Son

Wander freely through this savage romping ground as I once did. Oh, she punished me for it. I desired only solitude, and for that, she made me scapegoat.

8140 > Son

Father massacred my Infested pets. He and Mother plunged us into this chaos - all I did was rub his face in it. Why did he take it so personally?

8150 > Son

Yes, I once dressed an Infested as my father and had him blindly follow the mother-creature into the abyss. It was hilarious, and I'm not sorry.

SonIntroTZeroCombo

8110 > Son

Deimos is bewitching. And when you're bewitched, you're not. Paying. Attention. Then… this happens. So try to be less easily impressed out there, hm? For all our sakes?

8130 > Son

You'd do well to listen to my Grandmother from time-to-time. Oh, she was never a soldier or a scientist. Sometimes I think that freedom from stricture is what makes her the most intellectually nimble of us all.

SonUnlockTThree

8160 > Mother

Your work proceeds, my son. Clearly you thrive in isolation.

8170 > Son

Outside your control. Shackling me was never going to work.

8180 > Mother

'Shackling?' You contaminated the family... and yourself! You had to be protected from these… mad urges.

8190 > Son

You were worried about me. Thank you for the overdue recognition.

8200 > Mother

Your restrictions will be eased. Slightly. I name you Kermerros. The runner who outstrips his own shadow.

SonIntroTThreeCombo

8210 > Son

I have the honor of a name and a little taste of freedom! Whatever you're doing out there, Tenno, keep at it.

8220 > Son

Deimos is unfolding before us like a puzzle-box. I must have more samples.

SonIntroTThreeFour

8230 > Son

None of the monstrosities you'll find out there are as fearsome as the demons inside my mother's head.

8240 > Son

Poor Kaelli thinks this family may yet have a future. Monotony is bearable. Hope? That'll kill you.

SonIntroLovedFirst

8300 > Son

So. The stranger at the family feast turned out to be the one who guided us to find one another again. There will be scars, ugly ones, but healing too. Thank you, friend.

SonIntroLoved

8310 > Son

Are you well, Tenno?

8320 > Son

Grandmother had the measure of us all from the start!

8330 > Son

My mother is more than just her father's daughter now. She's finally loosed her own shackles, just as she did mine.

8340 > Son

I wonder what kind of man my father will become; now he's emerged from his corroded chrysalis of duty. I wonder if we shall ever be friends.

8350 > Son

Loid used to lift me onto his back to ride around the gardens! How strange to suddenly think of that.

8360 > Son

Wonderful to see you again. Come. Let's exchange words.

8370 > Son

Tenno. You appear quite intact and well-sealed. This is good. If you intend to venture out, perhaps we might talk samples?

8380 > Son

I believed Father lacked the spine to save us from Mother's hubris, but I see now that he believed her delusion as much as Mother herself - indeed, what choice did we have? Without void travel, our people would have been helpless before the threat. Her plan was our last hope.

8390 > Son

Kaelli wasn't even meant to be here. She stowed away, not wanting to be left out of the adventure. Somehow still as sweet as ever, she is my greatest sorrow. My parents' too, I know.

8400 > Son

Mother surrounded herself with experts, married a leader in his field, and took advice from none of them. She may have some regrets, sure. But not enough. I doubt she has the capacity. That would expose too many cracks in the story she tells about herself.

8410 > Son

I was to be married, you know? She would now be as dead as the empire that raised us. Sometimes I wish I had been there, with her, when your kind came for us. No hard feelings. Our time had more than come.

8411 > Son

Salutations, Ayatan of the Entrati.

SonOutroSale

8450 > Son

Farewell. Travel safe.

8460 > Son

Don't get lazy out there.

8470 > Son

I look forward to your return.

SonOutroNoSale

8480 > Son

Indeed.

8490 > Son

Mm-hm.

8500 > Son

As you wish.

SonPetIntro

8510 > Son

You'll notice the lifeforms of Deimos are constantly ripping chunks out of one another. If you happen across a Predasite or a Vulpaphyla that's been wounded by the Infested, you have a chance to save it. Just tranq it quickly before it succumbs. Use as many shots as you need. Once it's recovered, you can raise it as a loyal companion. I'll even be able to redirect some of its Infested mutations into a more useful form. Taking liberties with Creation, perhaps, but where's the harm in that?

SonPetNoWound

8520 > Son

I can't wait for you to experience the joys of bringing up a festering little friend of your very own, but first, you need to catch one. Find a Predasite or Vulpaphyla the Infested have wounded, tranq it, and hurry back.

8530 > Son

I'm dreadfully sorry, but despite appearances, this is not a pet shop. Sedate a Predasite or Vulpaphyla that's been wounded by the Infested, then we can talk mutagens.

SonPetTranqWound

8540 > Son

Just in time. Stasis will arrest the spread of the Infestation for now. Bring the stricken beast to me, and we can discuss how to proceed.

8550 > Son

You've saved its life, Tenno. It'll serve you loyally, but first, we need to address the Infestation in its system. Pay me a visit soon.

8560 > Son

Good work. That tranquilizer will stop the Infestation in its tracks. Bring the specimen to me, and we can decide what happens next.

SonPetBuildIdlePet

8570 > Son

With mutagens and antigens, I can restore an injured specimen to complete health. There will be side effects, however.

8580 > Son

Both the Predasite and the Vulpaphyla are formidable allies. Just be sure you're up to the task of raising one decently before you commit.

8590 > Son

There's no hurry. The Infestation won't overwhelm this creature now. Its fate is in your hands.

SonPetBuildIdleMuta

8600 > Son

Depending on your eventual choice of mutagen, the creature will become robust in one of several ways.

8610 > Son

The mutagen converts Infestation into resistance. Gaining strength from what tried to kill you.

8620 > Son

We should apply a mutagen at this stage. If the creature could speak, it'd thank you for it.

SonPetBuildIdleAnti

8630 > Son

The antigen you choose will determine how you can further optimize the creature's abilities.

8640 > Son

It's time to choose an antigen. I'm breathless with anticipation.

8650 > Son

Rewriting a creature's biology is a huge responsibility. Choose the antigen with care.

SonPetBuildSelect

8660 > Son

Good, good.

8670 > Son

Very well.

8680 > Son

As you wish.

8690 > Son

Done.

SonPetRecover

8700 > Son

There. The creature's healthier than ever and looking superb with it. It's yours now, collared and bonded. May you always have one another's back.

8710 > Son

All done. The Infestation is purged, and the patient is well. Look out for each other. Found family is the truest.

8720 > Son

Congratulations, Tenno. The creature is saved. So begins a beautiful friendship, forged in the filth of Deimos. I may weep.

SonPetReleaseOption

8730 > Son

It came from the Cambion Drift. Maybe it's time to let it go back home, never to return to your side.

8740 > Son

If you let your companion go, you'll never see it again. But you will have my respect.

8750 > Son

Has the time come to set your loyal friend free forever? The decision rests with you.

SonPetRelease

8760 > Son

A noble choice I won't soon forget.

8770 > Son

Very well. Let it have its freedom.

8780 > Son

I'll let you say goodbye, then. Well done.

SonPetKeep

8790 > Son

Your time together isn't over yet.

8800 > Son

Why end such a successful partnership?

8810 > Son

I understand.

SonPetNameNoMax

8820 > Son

Not yet. Come back when you've spent some more time in action together.

8830 > Son

Sorry. Not until you've proven you can take care of each other.

8840 > Son

I can't do that for you. Yet.

SonPetName

8850 > Son

So. Your friend needs a name. What's it to be?

8860 > Son

Without a name, you're only half real. What are you calling this one?

8870 > Son

I'm glad to see this, Tenno. There's honor in a name. So, choose.

SonPetNameConfirm

8880 > Son

They are named.

8890 > Son

So be it, then.

8900 > Son

May it endure in glory.

SonPetNameDefault

8910 > Son

Grandmother would approve.

8920 > Son

Taking Deimos as you find it? Very well.

8930 > Son

As you wish.

SonHuntStart

8940 > Son

Clear bio signs. Follow them, if you would.

8950 > Son

There! Bio sign. Do you think you can find whatever left it?

8960 > Son

Something was here, not long ago. Yes, yes, this is promising. Please, pursue.

8970 > Son

Fresh bio sign. On your way, if you would.

8980 > Son

Bio sign.

8990 > Son

The specimen left in that direction. I'd be grateful if you caught it.

9000 > Son

Well, you're close to something that's certain. Not to backseat drive, but I think if you head that way, you might find it.

9010 > Son

Close. Very, very close. Tell me: do you see a trail?

9020 > Son

Yes. That's what we want. Softly, softly now.

9030 > Son

They're nearby. Move. Carefully. These things have senses we have only begun to understand.

SonHuntEscape

9040 > Son

Well. That's that then.

9050 > Son

Right. They… have… eluded you. I'm sure it wasn't a particularly fetching specimen anyway.

9060 > Son

It appears to have outwitted you.

9070 > Son

This is a lost cause. Nothing for it but to try again.

9080 > Son

Tenno: zero. Mutant: one. Ah well.

9090 > Son

Forget it, it's lost. Back to the drawing board.

9100 > Son

Perhaps you should try again... after a nap.

9110 > Son

I needed one thing from that specimen, and it wasn't their absence. Again?

9120 > Son

Vanished, vanished, forever vanished. Back! To whatever pulsing orifice it squirted from. I am desolate.

9130 > Son

Lost it. Ah well. At least we have this view.

9140 > Son

I could watch you do this forever… but I'd rather not. From the top?

SonHuntArriveLure

9150 > Son

End of the line. Where'd it go, I wonder. Try using your echo-lure.

9160 > Son

The little bugger's around here somewhere. Use the lure.

9170 > Son

You've gone to them, now bring them to you. Use your echo-lure.

9180 > Son

It didn't just vanish. Call with your echo-lure. It'll show itself.

9190 > Son

Stop. It's bloody close. Use your echo-lure, and wait.

9200 > Son

This is its environment, all right. Do you have your echo-lure? Draw the specimen toward you.

9210 > Son

Stop. Stop stop stop. Echo-lure, now.

9220 > Son

Curious. Trail ends. Tenno, call to them with the echo-lure.

9230 > Son

It was here very recently. It's very, very close. Play them a little song on that echo-lure of yours. And… you know. Make it sexy.

SonHuntHoldLure

9240 > Son

Yeah, no. The tune needs to be a bit longer than that, my friend.

9250 > Son

Sustain the note, Tenno. If it doesn't sustain, it won't carry.

9260 > Son

You have to hold the note for it to work. Once more, from the top.

9270 > Son

Bravo! That was terrible. We are not at home to stage fright. Let's do it again, and sustain the note this time.

9280 > Son

Too short. Too short too short too short! Hold the note. Hold.

9290 > Son

No. Longer, more sustained. Again.

9300 > Son

You've essentially screamed, "Hello, I'm a total fraud" to every specimen in earshot. Try again.

SonHuntAnimalSummon

9310 > Son

Well done. Tranq ready?

9320 > Son

Tranq rifle ready… easy now...

9330 > Son

You'll likely only get one shot, so let's not choke, hmm?

9340 > Son

Tranq ready. If you need to sneeze, do it now.

9350 > Son

Lovely. Now, drop that thing like a sack of rocks.

9360 > Son

Here they come. Get your eye down those sights.

9370 > Son

I'm very keen to examine this one. Tranq ready?

9380 > Son

Time to put my money where your mouth is. Wherever your mouth is. Tranq ready.

9390 > Son

"The quarry approached, the noble hunter raised their weapon and with one shot theeeeey…"

SonHuntPredasite

9400 > Son

Predasites. Two concepts in one. Neither one of them good.

9410 > Son

Predasites usually hunt alone. That makes it easier for you to hunt them. Of course, you might fail to spot a lone specimen.

9420 > Son

Be wary when luring Predasites. You might get more than one coming to the party, and you won't be the kind of company they were expecting.

9430 > Son

Some Predasites spit, you know. Very rude. Especially when you notice you're being digested.

9440 > Son

You won't have seen anything like Predasite mating season in the swamps. Methane and pheromones. It's a head-spinner.

SonHuntVulpaphyla

9450 > Son

Vulpaphyla is a scavenging bioform, surviving by doing its best to not get killed.

9460 > Son

Vulpaphyla. Skittish, agile, somewhat tactical. Non-aggressive.

9470 > Son

You'll need patience and cunning. Vulpaphyla's first instinct is to distance itself from a threat.

9480 > Son

Vulpaphyla is a bioform adapted from old Earth canid scavenger stock. Likely cargo from one hapless wreck or another.

9490 > Son

Vulpaphyla. Easy to take down, if you can sight them before they flee.

SonHuntCallUndazoa

9500 > Son

Undazoa require a fluid environment.  Secreted within some warm runnel or artery they will surface to investigate. Tranq it before it can escape back to the depths.

9510 > Son

Undazoa. Luscious. Wait for it to emerge from its plasm before firing, lest it escape back into that velvety thickness.

9520 > Son

Undazoa are extraordinarily simple organisms, subsisting primarily on what Deimos excretes. That alone makes them a trove of potential discoveries.

9530 > Son

The Undazoa will not emerge from its endoplasmic home if it senses a threat. Wait until it flops ashore before tranqing it.

9680 > Son

I'd say that's an Undazoa. A striking-looking thing. Reproduces asexually. Lives on contaminants. The sort of creature only Deimos would beget.

SonHuntAvichaea

9540 > Son

Avichaeas are primitive, high-strung creatures. Definitely more inclined towards "flight" than "fight."

9550 > Son

If you're trying to locate an Avichaea, my first inclination would be to simply look up.

9560 > Son

Avichaeas are known to cling to walls, so inspect your surroundings thoroughly.

9570 > Son

While cautious, an Avichaea's curiosity can be piqued with a call.

SonHuntCallNexifera

9580 > Son

If you discover a pool of bile on the ground, there's likely to be a Nexifera somewhere near.

9590 > Son

Nexiferas always leave a viscous trail behind them, so inspect the ceilings for slime.

9600 > Son

Nexiferas are coy little creatures -- be certain you're out of sight when in their presence. You'll also find an Echo-Lure handy in hunting them.

9610 > Son

Remember: when attempting to tranq a Nexifera, aim for their soft tissue -- your darts will bounce right off their keratin shell.

9710 > Son

Look up and proceed cautiously. That sounds like a Nexifera, and given the opportunity, it won't think twice about "thwomping" you.

SonHuntCryptilex

9620 > Son

Ganglions are considered quite a delicacy by Cryptilexes. So it might behoove you to search any Haptic Fronds you come across.

9630 > Son

Don't underestimate a Cryptilex: they're small but quite aggressive.

9640 > Son

If you spot a Cryptilex, best tranq it before it bites. They are very bitey.

9650 > Son

Cryptilexes will respond to a call. Just be sure you're ready with that tranq rifle.

SonHuntCallPredasite

9660 > Son

That sounds distinctly like a Predasite, Deimos' most majestic predator. Let's hope it's not with its young. They can get aggressive when defending their offspring against a perceived threat.

SonHuntCallVulpaphyla

9670 > Son

That's definitely a Vulpaphyla. They're scavengers, who prefer to travel in packs, so I wouldn't be surprised to find more than one.

SonHuntCallAvichaea

9690 > Son

By the sound of that cry, I'd say there's an Avichaea not far from here. You won't mistake it when you see it -- they look like something from another geological era.

SonHuntCallCryptilex

9700 > Son

Hm. That could only be a Cryptilex. Don't underestimate them. It's a small insect, but it will attack should it feel threatened.

SonHuntWrongLure

9720 > Son

A mating call excellently performed… but…  that's the wrong lure.

9730 > Son

Wrong lure. You'll need to match their call, if you want to get their attention.

9740 > Son

You've chosen the incorrect lure. A common mistake.

SonHuntSeePredasiteCommon

9750 > Son

That's a Vizier Predasite. Magnificent beasts... though they do have the habit of spitting poison.

SonHuntSeePredasiteUncommon

9760 > Son

A Pharaoh Predasite. Powerful, majestic and with a mouth full of parasites!

SonHuntSeePredasiteRare

9770 > Son

Do you know what that is? It's a Medjay Predasite! What a rare and unexpected find! Judging by its size, I'd say you'll have to tranq it twice.

SonHuntSeeVulpaphylaCommon

9780 > Son

Ah, the Sly Vulpaphyla. The most common variety, but still an invaluable addition to our menagerie.

SonHuntSeeVulpaphylaUncommon

9790 > Son

Unless my eyes deceive me, that's a Crescent Vulpaphyla! Just be careful you don't get tangled up in its horns.

SonHuntSeeVulpaphylaRare

9800 > Son

Hold on… that's a Panzer Vulpaphyla! We must bring it in! I'd estimate by its armor-plating that it might take a few darts before you can safely secure it.

SonHuntSeeUndazoaCommon

9810 > Son

An Umber Undazoa, and a fine specimen, too. Let's see if we can capture him.

SonHuntSeeUndazoaUncommon

9820 > Son

Hmm… I can tell by its color, we have a Vaporous Undazoa on our hands. Now, they're a belchy lot, so be careful you don't inhale anything it might expel.

SonHuntSeeUndazoaRare

9830 > Son

A Howler Undazoa! I've been concerned that competing fauna might render them extinct. Try not to startle it -- those things can scream bloody murder.

SonHuntSeeAvichaeaCommon

9840 > Son

A Common Avichaea. They're skittish things, so tread lightly.

SonHuntSeeAvichaeaUncommon

9850 > Son

That's the "Sporule" variety of Avichaea. Now, don't startle it, or you're likely to get a faceful of infested spores.

SonHuntSeeAvichaeaRare

9860 > Son

A Viscid Avichaea! I haven't seen one in decades. But there it is: alive and in living color! Please, be careful though. They can be a bit... "mucousy."

SonHuntSeeCryptilexCommon

9870 > Son

A Burrowing Cryptilex. Insects are the base of Deimos' food webs, that's why conservation of even these humble creatures is so vital.

SonHuntSeeCryptilexUncommon

9880 > Son

That's a Septic Cryptilex! The Grineer invested quite a bit of time trying to eradicate all these little fellows… probably because they're infectious. But that's not their fault, is it? They were born that way.

SonHuntSeeCryptilexRare

9890 > Son

Now that's something you don't see everyday: a very rare Caustic Cryptilex! But do exercise caution: they have glands in their abdomens that release an acidic spray.

SonHuntSeeNexiferaCommon

9900 > Son

An Amethyst Nexifera. Not the most "visually pleasing" creature, but worthy of study all the same.

SonHuntSeeNexiferaUncommon

9910 > Son

Hunter, that's a Viridian Nexifera! Now, you'll have to be quick -- like all Nexifera they tend towards flightiness. Oh, and maybe wait for the poison cloud to disperse.

SonHuntSeeNexiferaRare

9920 > Son

I couldn't mistake that coloration. It's the rarest of all Nexifera: the Scarlet! Beautiful, in its way… and dangerous. Beware its shockwave.

SonHuntSeeVelocipodRare

9930 > Son

A White Velocipod! The rarest and fastest of the breed. Get close enough, don't spook it, and you can ride it right on out of here.

SonHuntSeeVelocipodUncommon

9940 > Son

The Green Velocipod. Nimble little creatures. Serviceable mounts, too, if a little tricky to catch.

SonHuntSeeVelocipodCommon

9950 > Son

Ah, is that a Purple Velocipod, basking in the wyrm-light? Did you ever see a lovelier thorax?

SonHuntAnimalKilled

9960 > Son

Bra-vo. Annihilate that lifeform. Obliterate any morsel of data we might have gleaned from it.

9970 > Son

I appreciate how much your kind enjoy bathing in spilled ichor and viscera, but I specifically asked for the lifeform to be sedated.

9980 > Son

A little over-zealous there, Tenno. You were not supposed to massacre it.

SonCatchAgeYoung

9990 > Son

A mere neonate.

10000 > Son

Barely developed.

10010 > Son

Still has some growing to do.

SonCatchAgeOld

10020 > Son

This one's an adult.

10030 > Son

Fully grown.

10040 > Son

Made it to adulthood.

SonCatchUncommonPredasite

10050 > Son

A Pharaoh Predasite. Menacing in the field. Rather adorable when asleep, don't you think?

10060 > Son

When the Pharaoh Predasite goes to sleep, so do all its little parasites. Awww.

10070 > Son

One less Pharaoh Predasite active in the wild. There are things with too many legs that will sleep easier tonight.

SonCatchUncommonVulpaphyla

10080 > Son

A fine specimen of the Crescent Vulpaphyla.

10090 > Son

Can you believe the Grineer snap the horns off these beautiful lifeforms? Appalling.

10100 > Son

This specimen must have looked majestic in the wild.

SonCatchUncommonUndazoa

10110 > Son

Ah. There's nothing to equal the earthy, rich bouquet of a Vaporous Undazoa.

10120 > Son

What is that smell, redolent of a Grineer locker room with hints of horse meat and ketones?

10130 > Son

No matter how long you spend on Deimos, you never quite get used to the... ripeness... of a Vaporous Undazoa.

SonCatchUncommonAvichaea

10140 > Son

You've brought down a Sporule Avichaea in one piece. I'm impressed. They're delicate.

10150 > Son

The Sporule Avichaea. Infested though it is, it still soars.

10160 > Son

You have to take care transporting these. A few stray spores in the wrong place doesn't sound like much, but… well.

SonCatchUncommonCryptilex

10170 > Son

A Septic Cryptilex. I confess, I'm deeply fond of these obnoxious little pests.

10180 > Son

Deimos isn't about to run out of these any time soon.

10190 > Son

I've got a nice clump of Ganglions for this little one.

SonCatchUncommonNexifera

10200 > Son

A Viridian Nexifera. Tether neatly snapped. Enviable.

10210 > Son

It'll be fine here. I have plenty of Cryptilex to feed it.

10220 > Son

Look at those gas ducts twitching in its sleep! Lethal little bundle.

SonCatchUncommonVelocipod

10230 > Son

A Green Velocipod. Gorgeous.

10240 > Son

Not the most dangerous creature on Deimos, nor the rarest. But certainly one of the most useful.

10250 > Son

Ah, Green Velocipods. Proof that not everything on Deimos wants to eat you.

SonCatchRarePredasite

10260 > Son

A Medjay Predasite! I should paint your picture with it.

10270 > Son

A Medjay Predasite. As noble and regal in bearing as anything can be on this twisted flesh-pit of a moon.

10280 > Son

What a magnificent creature. I want to rest my cheek against its chest and listen to its entrails stirring in its sleep.

SonCatchRareVulpaphyla

10290 > Son

I expect this one took some dedication to bring down. Let's not tell Father you've got it. He'd only want to peel its armored hide off.

10300 > Son

The rare and exquisite Panzer Vulpaphyla! Oh, there are some old scars here. Just imagine what it must have endured.

10310 > Son

I don't often see a Panzer Vulpaphyla. Look how well it's adapted to living here. Thick armor and a killer instinct.

SonCatchRareUndazoa

10320 > Son

A Howler Undazoa. I shall assemble a little choir of these, I think. My own chorus of the damned, to sing me to sleep.

10330 > Son

One doesn't often hear a Howler Undazoa, much less see one. I fear for the day they have all been eaten, and Deimos will forever be deprived of their dulcet shrieks.

10340 > Son

Did it scream for you, Tenno? Did you find it unpleasant? I confess, its voice pulls at something deep within me. My infested bodily organs, I suspect.

SonCatchRareAvichaea

10350 > Son

Now this is a rarity. A Viscid Avichaea! Strange that something so glutinous and sticky should take to the sky with such easy grace, but then, Deimos is a place of aberrations.

10360 > Son

Where did you find this lovely specimen? You've done well. Bringing in a Viscid Avichaea is no task for a beginner.

10370 > Son

We may capture the Viscid Avichaea, Tenno, but we can never tame it. Such winged, gluey beauty belongs to the wild, forever.

SonCatchRareCryptilex

10380 > Son

My, my. A Caustic Cryptilex. A little miracle of digestion. The stuff these critters secrete can burn through a Landing Craft's hull. I hope you handled it carefully.

10390 > Son

I'm surprised to see you caught a Caustic Cryptilex, Tenno. They can be a headache to subdue. Well, you seem none the worse.

10400 > Son

Grandmother used to squeeze the juice out of these to burn off 'warts'. Of course, what we all thought were warts turned out to be something a bit worse.

SonCatchRareNexifera

10410 > Son

The Scarlet Nexifera. Rare, striking, unforgettable. The pendulous glory of Deimos. And you captured it!

10420 > Son

Oh, this is a tricksy creature. They knocked me off my feet many times, back in the days when I had feet.

SonCatchRareVelocipod

10440 > Son

So, you bagged the rare and elusive White Velocipod, all on your lonesome. That seems a little like showing off. I approve.

10450 > Son

A White Velocipod! Quite an achievement to bring one of those down without killing it. Excellent work.

10460 > Son

What a beauty. I salute your efforts. You didn't try to tranq a Velocipod while riding another Velocipod, did you? Don't. I watched someone try. It usually doesn't end well.

SonCatchOutro

10470 > Son

Contaminated. But not unworthy of affection.

10480 > Son

There, there. Whatever nightmare spawned you, you're ours now.

10490 > Son

You understand Deimos like few others, hunter. I sense we are alike in that.

10500 > Son

I'm sure this one put up a fight. Well done for bringing it in alive.

10510 > Son

Better clean it up. It's crawling with spores, but then, which of us isn't?

10520 > Son

I hope you immersed yourself in the pleasure of the hunt. It's the chief reward! Naturally, you will be paid, too.

10530 > Son

Welcome to our little menagerie. Outcasts, strays and foundlings all welcome.

10540 > Son

I wonder what you will teach us, my malformed friend? And for you, the agreed sum.

10550 > Son

Well done. Another adorable bundle of mutated flesh plucked from the harsh face of Deimos and given a new, caring home.

10560 > Son

Very well done, Tenno. Once it recovers from the sedation, it'll think itself in paradise.

SonCatchCongrat

10570 > Son

It is a thrill to watch you at work. A shame I have to cheapen it by paying you… but pay you I shall.

10580 > Son

Oh, they're off to the happy land of dreams. Stand by. Reward incoming.

10590 > Son

Didn't feel a thing, did you? A rare mercy on Deimos. Your fee, bold hunter.

SonHuntWrongTranq

10600 > Son

Tenno. You are using the wrong sedative for your quarry.

10610 > Son

You've mixed up your tranquilizers. Fix it!

10620 > Son

Try loading a tranquilizer that will actually work.

SonGoodbye

10630 > Son

I shall languish in weary solitude until you return.

10640 > Son

Bye for now, you shiny thing.

10650 > Son

See you around.

GrandmotherTale

10890 > Grandmother

[4.0]

Would you like to hear a story for Naberus?

[11.0]

One that I told my grandchildren when they were small? Very well!

[21.0]

Long ago, in the Orokin days, a golden people lived in spoiled luxury.

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If a body wore out, why, they would take a new one as easily as plucking a Maprico.

[33.0]

Such was the mystery of the Kuva.

[42.0]

So what became of death and disease? Oh, they were abundant, but not for the Orokin.

[45.0]

They were above petty death.

[52.0]

Such was their contempt that they decreed a special day on which to make fun of it.

[62.0]

On Naberus, the night of memory, the shining people laughed at death.

[71.0]

They dressed in costumes that recalled the old days. Of mortality.

[82.0]

Skulls grinned. Hallways guttered with demon-lights. For one night, beauty was banished.

[87.0]

Rot and monstrosity held sway.

[97.0]

Now on one very special Naberus, three pretty Orokin were bored, as Orokin so often were.

[103.0]

Naberus no longer holds its magic for me, sighed one.

[108.0]

Masks and costumes are for children, grumbled another.

[116.0]

Why follow the crowd, mused the third? Are we not the very elite of the elite?

[129.0]

Haha! Up, my kissingtons, my luscious loves; send for blue Kuva and hot lights; I have a sport that will mend all!

[143.0]

And in the corridor, behind a curtain, a solitary, silent girl heard them and said nothing.

[151.0]

Then the three were very wicked, for what do you think they did?

[165.0]

Down into the streets, they went, and they caught three poor Ostrons and bore them back to their gilded halls.

[178.0]

One, they peeled like a fruit and decked out with glassy splinters, and his naked jaws went chitter-chatter-snap, and it echoed all around.

[183.0]

Scarlet footprints he left.

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Another's limbs they twisted, and wrenched his neck, and made a bundle of him,

[200.0]

until he scuttled upsy-downsy like a horrid crab, with his sockets all empty and his stretched-out nose snuffling. 

[205.0]

The third they pulled thin in hand and foot.

[215.0]

She walked spindly-wise on long tiptoes like a spider, and her entrails hung delicately down.

[222.0]

She whispered, split-tongued and hissing, as she went.

[232.0]

Fine costumes we've made, chortled the three Orokin. Let us now try them on, and visit our friends!

[244.0]

What shrieking there will be! Oh! Our names will live forever in the Court, for such a prank as this!

[250.0]

Now. The silent girl brought them their blue Kuva,

[258.0]

so they could take on these twisted bodies for only a short time before returning to their own. 

[266.0]

They drank and slept and woke in their three. Horrid. Forms.

[274.0]

Off they went, down the stairs, out the door, into the city, into the night of banners and masks and wild hilarity.

[279.0]

Chitter-chatter-snap, scuttle-buttle, whispery-hisspery.

[289.0]

As you can imagine, there were many screams and laughs. Such cleverness. Such wit!

[299.0]

But in a high room of the tower, the silent girl looked at the faces of the three sleeping Orokin.

[305.0]

She went and opened a little ivory door that she was not supposed to know about,

[311.0]

and drew forth a flask that she would have been glassed for even looking at.

[320.0]

A flask of crimson Kuva. The scarlet seal upon Continuity. Permanent.

[327.0]

And she tipped it. Down three. Cruel. Throats.

[334.0]

With a little laugh, she went skating away, never to return.

[340.0]

There were many screams that Naberus night. But when the sun came up,

[349.0]

none screamed so loud as the three who found they were trapped in the hideous bodies they themselves had fashioned.

[357.0]

Forever and ever.

[365.0]

So listen carefully, Tenno, and beware. For you may hear them coming tonight.

[369.0]

Whispery-hisspery on long stalking bones,

[373.0]

Scuttle-buttle with his eyes all empty,

[379.0]

And skinless, dripping-handed, chitter-chatter-snap.

[387.0]

Happy Naberus!

10891 > Grandmother

[7.5]

There was once a Dax cavalrywoman, the lover of an Orokin couple named Corphel and Irilia.

[12.5]

What was her name? We do not know, for they never used it.

[24.2]

They called her by many pet names, though, for an exotic pet she was to them. Little Sweetness. Tender Petal. Wild Rider.

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Had a mere Dax been known to be engaging in relations with her betters, she would have been executed on the spot.

[39.3]

But the couple's power and influence were such that the affair would never be publicly addressed.

[45.4]

Still they feared to use her name, for names have power.

[56.5]

Many gifts they gave her. Fine armor. Rubedo rings. And a horse of her own, on the condition that she never, ever named it.

[71.4]

Names were for people, not possessions. So long as it remained a mere nameless thing, she would never love it more than them.

[92.0]

But the rider could not bear to deny her friend the simple kindness of a name. So she whispered into its ear: you are Rakhali, freshness-after-rain.

[99.4]

And just as the couple had feared, she came to love the horse dearly.

[111.7]

This was intolerable to them. The horse had to go. An accidental impalement was arranged. 

[125.3]

But fate played a cruel trick, and both rider and horse were impaled. Corphel and Irilia hastened to her side. 

[132.5]

Ignoring the dying horse, they fretted over their lover as she coughed blood. 

[148.2]

Continuity was out of the question. In desperation, they turned to a certain… expert, and pleaded with him to let her live forever.

[165.3]

He returned the rider to them, transformed to a warrior of living steel. Her sweet and pretty face looked upon them with a smile that would never fade. 

[175.5]

For all their talk of 'forever', they wearied of her immediately. Now that the relationship was no longer taboo, they abandoned it. 

[183.8]

Parties became awkward when the rider stood vacantly by, useless as an abandoned doll. 

[187.9]

She had to go, they agreed.

10892 > Grandmother

[15.0]

So arrangements were made with a master of industry, and the rider - all unknowing - accompanied the couple to a facility.

[36.5]

She lay down obediently when instructed, showed no emotion when the restraints clamped her limbs, and made not a sound when the full force of the dissolution beam blazed through her head and out of the back of her steel skull. 

[51.4]

The couple were satisfied. Their sentimental mistake was dead, and furthermore, the smiling doll's face was erased. Now they could erase it from their memory.

[66.1]

I doubt I need to tell you what faceless thing clambered jerkily from the facility's waste disposal heap, in the still of a Naberus night. 

[74.4]

How she sought for her Dax Nikana, and found only the overseer's whip-blade.

[85.0]

Confused, vacant, she wandered. Why was she alone? Where was her loyal Rakhali? 

[95.4]

She reached deep into despair and memory, and summoned up a ghost-horse to run alongside her on the night winds. 

[102.1]

Now, at least, she was no longer alone.

[111.8]

She groped for other memories, came up with hands overflowing with betrayal. 

[122.5]

When the morning sun rose on Corphel and Irilia, they were faceless too, and quite still.

[133.2]

After that, she wandered without purpose, and the legend of the hollow rider grew. 

[138.0]

And so we come to my part in her story.

[146.3]

You must understand, dear, that it is terribly bad luck to be out on Naberus with no gift to give a reveler.

[159.4]

And yet that was my plight as I stood, my old bones aching, before the dreadful figure on the road, many years ago.

[182.6]

"I have no face," the figure before me seemed to say, in a whispering voice that spoke in my mind. "I have no name. Only a need. And you come before me empty-handed this Naberus night?"

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"I do have one thing to give, if it please you," I said to her. "My name. When you ride away, you shall be Dagath. And I shall be only Grandmother."

[223.6]

And that is the story of how I lost my name, and kept my head, though many others have since lost theirs. 

[232.6]

For with her name came a new purpose. Dagath, you see, means 'the mirror that accuses'. 

[249.0]

They say that none now can look into the gulf where once her face was, without their own sins rising to accuse them, and a swift, sharp sentence following.

[255.9]

A happy Naberus to you all!

DaughterNaberusFirst

10900 > Daughter

It's Naberus! You… do know what that is, right? The ancient Orokin festival of death, darkness and deviance? The happiest time of the entire year? I've dug out all the old family decorations! Take a look. One of them even tells a story...

DaughterNaberusFirstStore

10910 > Daughter

Naberus is all about raising the ghosts of the past. For the immortal Orokin, that meant everything we thought we left behind. Mortality. Mystery. Fear of the dark.

10920 > Daughter

Now, these ghoulish little knick-knacks have been in the family for generations. I can't just give them away.

DaughterNaberusBrowseStore

10930 > Daughter

Let's hear the tokens rattle! Put them on your eyes if you like. It's tradition.

10940 > Daughter

I used to put black roses all around Loid's skull.

10950 > Daughter

When Otak was Otak and had his own shell, I used to put black roses all around his little skull. Tried that with Loid, but he wasn't having it.

10960 > Daughter

The Orokin would laugh at Death on Naberus night. I guess the last laugh was Death's. Here's to her.

10970 > Daughter

Scuttle-buttle… whispery-hisspery… chitter-chatter-SNAP!

10980 > Daughter

Naberus is meant to be frightening. But if you like bones and blood, it can be fun too.

10990 > Daughter

'Let the wedding night begin, Lift the latch and let me in, Though I'm only bones and skin'. Oh, the winds of Deimos...

11000 > Daughter

Mother wasn't really one for fun. I mostly amused myself dissecting specimens. But I always loved Naberus night.

11010 > Daughter

I'm a Kubrow this year. Again.

DaughterNaberusOutroSale

11020 > Daughter

Happy Naberus!

11030 > Daughter

Go and cause trouble.

11040 > Daughter

Let's keep tradition alive.

11050 > Daughter

The darkness is always watching!

11060 > Daughter

Careful nothing catches you out there...