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Aftermath

10 > Albrecht

I wanted nothing but the ease of oblivion, at first. I floated ignorant in baths of nepenthe, a second gestation. Unseeing, unspeaking. Only rarely did my brain flicker errant light across the cave-paintings still smeared on the interior of my skull. 



At sensation's edge I knew a vague silhouette of Loid crooning motherly across the watery distances, the poetry my tongue was too blackened to recite.

20 > Albrecht

Too craven to chase death, I awaited it. The father of fears, and yet I was still afraid. 



The currents whispered coward. I clenched my body into a fist as a foetus must and blinded myself afresh.

 

Stark pain smoked the juice of my living tomb. Why did the saga not end by itself? Why must I still act?

30 > Albrecht

Steeped in solitude, I found I could no longer endure my own company. 



Disgust did the work of courage. I tore the mundane membrane, slid weak and mucosal into Loid's embrace.

40 > Albrecht

Loid nursed me then, tending first to the uprooted ruin of my eyes, then to the mouth whose grin no longer hid behind flesh. 



The agony bit deep, but it was clean. Blameless love bled up from me. 



I had decided to live.

50 > Albrecht

I felt no certainty as I donned clothes rough and strange to the touch of newgrown skin. I had none of the selfless zeal of the soldier. 



The same cursed question still pursued me as it had before: was I, even now, trapped in the rictus of the Wall?

60 > Albrecht

The apparatus of logic would never yield an answer. Only resolute action remained. If I must be a demon, let me be an honest one. Let me prove my nature by what I do next. 



Purpose. Let me leave such blazing footprints behind me as no unclean thing would dare to walk in.

ApproachGrim

10 > Tagfer

That book. I look at it and I want to spit or split. That thing's wrong. Capital W Wrong.

11 > Tagfer

If I ever see that Grimoire, I'm gonna bolt. You gotta understand, it's... a predator.

20 > Tagfer

How can you even go near that book? You're made of stronger stuff than me.

30 > Tagfer

'Papa' left some bad things behind. That book's one of 'em.

BarksOne

10 > Fib

Tagfer is the last example of his entire species. That howl... a call for a mate he knows will never respond. How I wish he would just stop.

20 > Fib

Come, Tagfer. Let's have you tidy up, hmm? Take your mind off things?

30 > Fib

Bird 3? Be a lad and distract Tagfer? I fear he's being devoured by a grief he's only just learned a name for.

40 > Fib

Tagfer. Do come along. You are needed and this melancholy is unbecoming.

50 > Fib

You. Papa's plan must not be delayed. To work! Use those legs!

60 > Fib

Thank you... Bird. Void preserve me from a newly-minted brain and a beginner on the fiddle.

70 > Fib

Bird? Be a love and look into the meaning of 'internal monologue'?

80 > Fib

Loid, when you've a moment I've prepared an efficiency optimization plan for the Cavia and I believe you'll be pleased by my conclusions.

90 > Fib

Loid, you're looking rested. Might there be anything I can assist you with? I have some thoughts on... ah, yes. Of course.

100 > Fib

Come come! We have much to accomplish!

110 > Fib

There you are. I would speak with you.

130 > Tagfer

There's something wrong with the story? Of what happened to us? Something off. Something... fishy.

140 > Tagfer

Fibonacci seems to have taken to this whole situation quite well? Better than Bird and I, at least. What do you think of him? Fibonacci, I mean.

150 > Tagfer

You're human, like Loid. Like... Papa? Does Papa have a plan? Do you think? That, someday, we'll look back and see that... this was all worth it?

160 > Tagfer

Bird... Bird 3's... sweet? I think my... mood... is scaring him. But I don't what to say, how to tell him how this feels.

170 > Tagfer

Loid doesn't think much of us, does he? What am I even doing here?

BarksZero

10 > HumanLoid

Now that you're here, Tenno, let's put you to work.

20 > Bird

That sound Mister Tagfer makes... makes me feel squinchy inside. Makes my eyes prickle. Makes me think of Minn. He misses Minn. I miss her, too.

20 > HumanLoid

Please remember to hand in any Voca you encounter. For analysis.

20 > Tagfer

(sobbing)

30 > Bird

Whaddya use these things for anyway? Mister Tagfer says they solve problems. How do they solve problems? I tried asking them how I could get a bunch of sticks so I could make a nest like I had when I lived in the green thing called a jungle, but they didn't say. Wuk. Rark. Wuk.

30 > HumanLoid

One must make the best of things.

30 > Tagfer

The bell... everything that happened? I wish I could remember. But it's all just... flashes. Horrible, horrible flashes.

40 > Bird

Oh hey! You wanna bang-make-flat? Uh, loud sleepymaker? Y'know, a make-em-go-floppy! Shouty shouty! Ugh. Words.

40 > Tagfer

Sorry. I'm... not very good company right now.

50 > Bird

Hey. I still got a bunch of that noisy metal wood you like so much. Least I'm told it's noisy. Mister Tagfer says he made it all safe. How do you make wood safe? Is wood not safe? Has Mister Tagfer made all wood safe? What about the wood I made nests from back when I lived in the green thing? Hello? Is wood my friend? Hello? Rark. Wuk.

50 > Tagfer

Oh. Hello. Don't mind me. Just... thinking? I don't like it.

60 > Bird

Hey, does the sky still exist? Mister Fish-oh-nah-chee just makes weird breathy sounds when I ask. Mister Tagfer says it does. Why can't we see the sky? Can we see the sky? When? Is it when I give you all this noisy metal wood Mister Fish-oh-nah-chee says you need? He says it's important. Why is it important? Can you take it now? Is the reason you can't take it now because you don't have enough arms? Can you get more arms? Hey. Rark. Wuk. Rark. Humph.

60 > Tagfer

Oh. Sorry. I... I didn't see you there. Can I... help you?

70 > Bird

Hmm, I wasn't me, then I was me. Will I be not me again? When I'm not me will I remember being me? Will I miss me? I think I miss being not me. When I was not me names weren't things. Things weren't things. Everything was anything. When I was not me there was nothing I wasn't. Now I'm just... me. And things are just things. Rark. Wuk. Being a person is hard. I don't feel like me fits in me. Inside me is the wrong size for outside me. Outside me is the wrong size for outside. I wonder if the other mes feel like this. Wuk. Rark. Hm. Rark. I was bigger when I was smaller.

70 > Tagfer

(Mating call)

80 > Bird

Sometimes, when I try to sleep, I hear noises. Word-noises. Word-noises saying things. Things I don't wanna hear. From the walls. An' I say SHUT UP WORDS! I'M TRYNA SLEEP! Wuk. Wuk. Stupid voices. Wuk.

80 > Tagfer

(Mournful lowing)

90 > Bird

"So... once I didn't think, now I do. Once I was a what, now I am a who. So what's don't think but whos do. That makes me me and makes you you." If my thinking makes me a who it makes everyone else a who. But I can't see what other whos think... and I'm pretty sure they can't see what I'm thinking... and when Mister Tagfer and Mister Fishonacci tell me what I'm thinking I'm pretty sure they're wrong... so when I think I know what they're thinking I'm probably wrong. So... everybody's wrong about what everybody's thinking so everybody's wrong about who everybody is. I think. So... that means... we should probably stop thinking about it... and just be nice to each other. Wuk. Rark.

90 > Tagfer

What do I do? What do I do?

100 > Bird

Rark. Rark.

100 > Tagfer

Minn... it should have been me.

110 > Bird

Rark. Wuk wuk wuk. Rark.

110 > Tagfer

(Whimper)

120 > Bird

Can I help? I can help! Let me help.

120 > Tagfer

Pull it together. Do it for her. Pull it together.

Cavia

10 > Albrecht

I employed a variety of Cavia in an attempt to unmake the adversary. 



The principle was straightforward enough, though in hindsight I abhor my naivete. My humanity had been unscrolled by the caustic Void and now smirked back at me across the divide, privy to all my unfettered malice and pettiness. In answer, I resolved to hurl into the Void minds that were not human. Let it parody them. The proximity of the bestial would force a humbling devolution, or so I thought.

20 > Albrecht

The majority of the Cavia merely died. I gave the Void living beings and it sent me back bedraggled cadavers. The dead lay stacked in pyramids around my deserted lab. I was nothing but a failed priest.



But a glass splinter of stubbornness still stuck in me. And so, I persisted. The correct combination of creatures would work.

30 > Albrecht

I realized my error as I sweated by visionary nestawood cinders, beside Loid who curled pale and sick from chewing too much of the root. The catalyst was uniqueness. That attribute was what caught the interest of the bland and undifferentiated Void. 



It was not necessary to explore queasy debates about the Oro; animal minds simply lacked the full distinction of a singular persona. My Kalymos, I was sure, was an exception, but I would not sacrifice that loyal being.



Perhaps I should have. The sin I was to commit was worse.

40 > Albrecht

The very last breeding pair of Cervulites was smuggled to me, causing Loid no small inconvenience. A species on the brink of extinction. Here was the uniqueness the Void sought. I was certain to the pit of my entrails.



I loaded the pair on to their Seriglass bridal barge, along with an expendable avian and a Norg for mental ballast. Fish, fowl and beast. A facile equilibrium.

50 > Albrecht

They did not die, save one. They came back changed. Witnesses. Pilgrims, even, chanting freakish praise to the one beyond the wall.



I knew, then, that my gambit had lost. So long as I worked through scapegoats, my guilt would only deepen. I must atone for what I had done through my own blood.

60 > Albrecht

Standard laboratory hygiene would have been to dispose of them. But some instinct stayed my hand. The Voidtongue was an enigma to me, but another - more habituated to the Void than I - might one day unravel it. Through the imposition of form upon the formless they could, perhaps, glean some meaning. 



I assigned the Cavia to Loid, for I could not bear to look upon them. Not yet.



Loid is, at heart, a good and kind man - better than I deserve. And completely oblivious to his own true worth.

ChooseKey

10 > Tagfer

[3.3]

Albrecht designed the Netracell's Keyglyphs to hobble anyone carrying them.

[9.6]

Meat for the lab's defenses. Buuut those same defenses will see you as undesirable.

[11.3]

Easy come, easy go.

[17.3]

To leave the Anchorhold, you need all four Keyglyphs. Good luck to ya.

20 > Tagfer

You or your squad need to grab all four of these Keyglyphs. Pick your poison, pal. I won't lie, there's no version a this that feels good.

30 > Tagfer

The Anchorhold, where Albrecht stored the Keyglyphs. Grab 'em. No wrong answers, they all suck. But you're not cracking a Netracell without them.

40 > Tagfer

This is gonna hurt. You need all four Keyglyphs from these pillars. Choose your pain. It's the only way to open a Netracell.

Duviri

10 > Albrecht

In Duviri, I woke every day to the voice of my daughter. I recoiled from this at first, feeling the sting of conscience. I could not confront, even in semblance, the woman I had abandoned. Instead I reinvented myself as a teacher, advising the child-King of the menace beyond his borders.



But as the days melted away, I came to recognize the strange cast of characters Euleria had created, and their purpose. I heard voices I had myself first conjured in the darkness of her childhood chambers, for no other reward than her delight. She had not only preserved this gift I had thought so trivial, she had made it an instrument of healing. More: a stronghold.

20 > Albrecht

Despite my legacy of neglect, despite my shoddy example, my needs, my demands, my daughter had triumphed in my absence. Her confidence, her warmth, shamed me. I had fled from the horror, but she? She had stood alongside the most vulnerable, those with the most to lose, and told them a different story.

30 > Albrecht

I did not perceive the significance of Euleria's stance at first. Her concern for the children was not merely pastoral attentiveness. It was a direct strike against the Indifference. She was teaching the weak to be strong in the very places where those cold fingers would reach, and through her act of compassion, spitting in the face of alienation and despair.



Could I do less?

40 > Albrecht

Shame is an inert state, but fertile. It primes the mind, bolstering it for repentance.



I had thought to make a difference in Duviri. But Duviri had made a difference in me. My own daughter's creations, reverberating and growing in the womb of the Void, had shown me another path than that of the indulgent coward. I was neither helpless nor irredeemable. Like she had, I could fight.

50 > Albrecht

I took inspiration from Euleria's example. To the people of Duviri I bequeathed a legacy of cautionary stories. In them I spoke of fears that an infinity of spirals would not, could not, erase.



I slipped away from those lands, silent and unnoticed. From their joys, their sadnesses. From the celebration in my honor. In her, they already had all they needed. My work, I now understood, must proceed from a different point.

ExtermStart

10 > Bird

RARK! Big, bad, should-not-be-in-here things in here. Make them go away? Puh-leeeeeze?

20 > Bird

No! RARK! No! RARK!  Too close to our nest. TOO CLOSE. Outie-outie!

30 > Bird

Ssshhh listen. You hear that? Things are too close. Bird snatching, jump out of nowhere and grab you things... Use the loud metal sticks... tell those things this is OUR SPOT.

40 > Bird

Those creepies got no manners, comin' back when we saw them off for comin' back. See 'em off for comin' back after we saw 'em off for comin' back. Yeah.

50 > Bird

Ok, here's my nope list. Nope the ones with crawly arms. Nope the ones that look like tasty insects but are not tasty insects. Nope the clangy ones that used to be nice but aren't anymore. Nope them. Nope them all.

HackStart

10 > HumanLoid

Convince the system to let you in and I'll send your personal Necramech to a dispenser.

20 > HumanLoid

Preparing your Necramech. Waiting for you to unlock the transit path.

30 > HumanLoid

Necramech almost ready to deploy. This next part is down to you.

40 > HumanLoid

Recalibrate the console to recognize you, and your Necramech will be with you in seconds.

IntroFirst

10 > Tagfer

[9.5]

One minute I existed only to eat? And flee? And breed? 

[15.6]

The next I was... me. 

[26.7]

But Minn... did Minn have time to be Minn, before... before...? 

[35.7]

She and I... we were the last. Did you know that? 

[44.0]

Without her... there's no more... us. No more Tagfer and Minn. 

[50.3]

No soft calls... no gentle nuzzling muzzle. 

[60.3]

No little Tagfers... no little Minns... ever. 

[69.3]

Fibonacci says we have to trust that it's all part of Papa's plan... 

[73.0]

How? Why? 

[80.4]

And now I have a purpose, so the fish says. 

[86.2]

To help you, in the ways in which I have been instructed. 

[92.5]

When all I want is to be with her! Minn...!

110 > HumanLoid

[8.4]

You've met the animals? The catastrophe Albrecht's saddled me with? Well? Any ideas? 

[14.2]

Their roles were intended to be filled by qualified personnel. 

[21.9]

People. Instead, we have... this. It's bad comedy. 

[32.4]

They're imprinted with whatever information they need to function, and an understanding of our current state of affairs - including Albrecht's absence. 

[37.8]

They were sent into the Void using a bell of the same design that Albrecht initially used. 

[43.2]

The Void got in, somehow. Again. 

[51.1]

One of the animals was lost, and the rest came back... like that. 

[56.4]

We placed them in stasis pending a proper examination. 

[62.5]

For them, the disaster, intelligence and selfhood all occurred only hours ago. 

[68.4]

They're psychological shrapnel and they're all we've got. 

[73.6]

See what you can do with them. I simply do not have the time.

280 > Fib

Ah yes. 'Operator', correct? 'Drifter', perhaps? You'll find our merry band share that unconventional relationship with their appellations. I am Fibonacci. Papa's design has uplifted me to function as the coordinating factor of this little group. You... may have heard that one of our number was consigned to Paradise before our return from the Void. Minn. Tagfer's mate. Yes. Most unfortunate. Too often it is the good and the young who forge our future, laying their lives upon Progress' unfeeling anvil. Now: let us apply ourselves to the grand work at hand, and deny our minds melancholy's frigid caress. To work!

ItemStoreIntro

10 > Bird

[4.0]

Mister Tagfer is very still and very quiet. 

[8.5]

Like a dead thing in the hot green thing I think I came from. Jungle! 

[13.3]

He must be practicing. Mister Tagfer? 

[25.2]

Wow. He's really good at that. Dead thing. Is Minn a dead thing? 

[30.4]

Can my friends be dead things? Can I be a dead thing? 

[34.5]

Papa will bring her back. Papa can do that. Papa won't let us be dead things. 

[38.1]

Papa RARK! loves us. Yes? RARK! Yes? RARK! RARK! 

[46.8]

Mr Fish-o-nah-chee... he'd know. Papa's plan Papa's plan he said. So...

MirDefIntro

10 > HumanLoid

To arms, Tenno! The Murmur are mounting a fresh attack on the lab's sensory equipment! I trust you are ready to repel them?

20 > HumanLoid

We are under attack, and you are our first line of defense. The Murmur are targeting our sensory emplacements. Fight hard. The loss of even one will spell defeat!

30 > HumanLoid

Time to do our duty, Tenno. Albrecht's laboratory is under siege, with the Murmur attacking on two separate fronts. I need you to defend every single one of them, with all your might.

MissionIntro

10 > Fib

Heat, cold, toxin, and electricity; 'the elemental forces that create our universe'. To wield them Papa invented the Crucibles, incredible devices capable of fusing these elements into the 'complex elemental forces'. Forces we require to complete Papa's vision. I have marked a Crucible. Go there now.

20 > Fib

Papa knew that the path to understanding this universe lay in mastering the elemental forces. So Papa invented the Crucibles, alchemic devices for combining the simple elemental forces into complex forces. Through the Crucibles Papa's work can live on.

980 > Fib

Your mission: attrition. The longer you hold out, the weaker the Murmur gets. Make your presence known.

990 > Fib

I will not lie, this is a risky gambit. You are here to draw out Murmur and then grind them down. Fight them out there, so we need never again battle them in here. Trigger the alarms.

RankOne

10 > Fib

Yes, yes, that's it. Gather 'round now. I have much to impart.

20 > Loid

I wanted them organized. They're organizing. Void preserve us.

30 > Fib

Now. Let us review. In our time thus far you have both done, uh... better than expected.

50 > Tagfer

Mister Confident, isn't he? Very polished. I didn't see him helping.

60 > Bird

Yeah... but then there's more for us to do!

70 > Tagfer

Right...

80 > Fib

However. Some of us are still allowing the past to exert undue influence upon our minds. Minds Papa gifted to us in order that we might aid in the fulfillment of his grand and masterful plan... ... of which our dear friend Minn's... unfortunate... passing was a... uh, tragic... component.

90 > Bird

You okay, Mister Fish-o-nah-chee?

100 > Fib

Hm? What? Yes. Please do not interrupt.

110 > Tagfer

Hmmmmm.

120 > Loid

Well. I'm sure it'll work out wonderfully.

130 > Bird

Mister Tagfer? Mister Tagfer? You look mad. Why are you mad, Mister Tagfer? Huh? Mister Tagfer? Why are you mad?

TagferTalk

10 > Tagfer

Listen. I know Loid cares for 'Papa', so if you find him and anything... goes down, do me a solid. Keep Loid away. You understand?

20 > Tagfer

Netracells... Far as I'm concerned, anything of Papa's is yours. Archon shards. Jewelry. Loose furniture. Secrets.

30 > Tagfer

Turns out Papa has a whole family upstairs. A daughter. Grandkids. None of them have any idea about any of... this. If he was hiding them, in the here and now, what was he hiding back in 1999?

40 > Tagfer

Whatever Papa touched, the Indifference, the Murmur, I think it's lonely. It wants to be a part of what we've got going on. Only, it doesn't know that. And it does its best to join in, but it's clumsy. Ignorant. So everything about it is... skewed. Half-assed. You follow?

50 > Tagfer

Settling the score with Albrecht won't bring Minn back. I'm not stupid. You gotta understand, I'm not doing it for me. Or her. Or Loid, or any of us. I'm doing it because it needs doing.

60 > Tagfer

Do you see what I see, over thataway? A monument to something taken from me, forever. When you rebuild Papa's Vessels, rip that one's head off next time.

70 > Tagfer

I've kicked dirt. Galloped through sand. But that out there, it isn't of nature. It's just, nothing. It's not natural. Sometimes it looks like Papa's Vessel is sinking in, like... quicksand? But it doesn't move. I hope you can control it.

80 > Tagfer

If there's anything in the Netracells about the Vessels, steal it.

Vessels

10 > Albrecht

I went among the denizens of the plague year like a savior, my hands filled with healing. To those who volunteered, I brought more than mere health. Their bodies were primed; it needed only the Helminth infusions, brought from my own time, to work the alchemy of transformation. They have become partial Warframes, still in possession of their free will, yet enhanced, Void-attuned, capable.

20 > Albrecht

Their humanity may not last. My deliverance may yet consume them, the human swallowed up in the sacred beast. And if my wayward disciples turn on me, what words of comfort shall I have beyond: this is the bargain we have made. Through our sacrifice, history will be saved.

30 > Albrecht

As their loyal doctor, I have taken repeated samples from them. The sight of their Technocyte-riddled cells mutating gave me fresh visions. I could take this material, work with it, forge new creations. Eagerly I brought the samples back to Deimos and began to cultivate them.

40 > Albrecht

It was Loid who pointed out the singular attributes of the Grey Strain. How it stimulates growth to monstrous dimensions. Many thoughts converged in me then. What if, through precise biochemical engineering, I could create the equivalents of Warframes, yet built to a titanic scale? Surely such a legion could stand against the Adversary... assuming, of course, that an Operator could be found.

50 > Albrecht

Not long after, the first of my Vessels took form. A giant to battle giants, merging the humanity of the man Arthur, the anatomical perfection of Ballas's Warframes, and the titanic potency of the Grey Strain. My saviors.

WeEnd

10 > Albrecht

All is in readiness. Loid will do as he is bid, though his eyes silently plead with me to choose another path.



As I await my final crossing to the past, I ponder what role a scientist may play in so spiritual a matter as 'absolution'. How in the alchemy of the soul, even repentance must necessarily be a calculated task.



I will repair what I have broken, no more and no less. The scales must balance. And in such a monstrous penitence as this, I shall take no heed of the dust that may fall upon them on either side, the dust of petty lives.



The builders of old tempered their mortar with blood, to appease the most ancient of land-spirits. We should have been so wise. Yet it is not too late to learn.



The sands fall. The circuit completes. I return to the place of the beginning.



Let witless hordes bleat their disdain for every fervent plan;

The deal is done, the die is cast. I end as I began.

CollectAmphors

30 > Fib

A Crucible. You must feed it the correct Amphors: capsules of elemental forces, compressed to a near impossible density. Volatile enough to be used as a grenade, should the need present itself. The problem? Our adversaries have taken Papa's Amphors. Be a dear and repatriate them.

40 > Fib

This Crucible requires feeding with the prescribed elemental forces. These can be found within the Amphors. Retrieve them from the Murmur and put them to use. Or, if emergency arises, hurl them at your assailants and observe the results. Stupid mineral things.

BarksThree

40 > HumanLoid

Come on. Let's at least pretend this mess can still work.

50 > HumanLoid

Tenno. Welcome to the bloody circus.

60 > HumanLoid

We've had a few setbacks. But we are going to crack on.

70 > HumanLoid

Dignity. Dignity at all times.

140 > Bird

People are talking by being quiet. Saying things with flicky glances. Everyone's hiding something? Should I hide something? Oh! Would that make them like me?

140 > Fib

Sorry... Sorry to bother. Would you have time to look at this? That is, if it's all right?

150 > Bird

I have a secret too. It's that I. Have. No. Secrets! Haha, is that a good one? Should I tell them? Would that... is that what we're doing?

150 > Fib

I... have a request. If you have the time, of course. Trying to keep busy.

160 > Bird

Wuk. Wuk. Wuk. Wuk. Rark.

160 > Fib

Oh. Hello. Might you care to work on something? Together, I mean?

170 > Bird

Wuk.

170 > Fib

Hunh. Hunh. Hunh. I'm... I'm fine. Thank you.

180 > Bird

(Smacks beak)

180 > Fib

(Exhale)

190 > Bird

(Sighs)

260 > Tagfer

nnnnnnnGAAH!

270 > Tagfer

I should have killed him!

280 > Tagfer

I can't keep feeling like this. I can't keep feeling like this. I gotta... I gotta get it out. Minn. Minn... what do I do? What do I do?

290 > Tagfer

(Labored breathing)

300 > Tagfer

(Coughs)

310 > Tagfer

What would you have told me to do? I don't know. I never met the person you became. You existed only for an instant and then... gone.

320 > Tagfer

The voices in the walls... are they getting closer?

330 > Tagfer

Maybe, those voices in the walls will solve all of this for us.

EyeAttackIntro

40 > HumanLoid

The Vitreum is under attack! Defend it, Tenno. If it is punctured, the consequences will be catastrophic. And disgusting.

50 > HumanLoid

The Murmur is targeting the Vitreum! Hurry, Tenno. An eyeball cannot defend itself!

60 > HumanLoid

Defend the Vitreum, Tenno. The Murmur knows we cannot protect the Labs if we are blind to their presence.

CrucibleUse

50 > Fib

Don't just stand there. The Crucible requires the prescribed Amphors to work!

60 > Fib

You must lob the correct Amphors toward the Crucible.

70 > Fib

Quickly now, throw the elemental Amphors at the Crucible. Well, go on!

HackComp

50 > HumanLoid

Collect your Necramech from the dispenser at your convenience. Give them hell.

60 > HumanLoid

Additional firepower authorized. If the Murmur are capable of regret, make them feel it.

70 > HumanLoid

Your Necramech is en route to you even as we speak. I look forward to the ensuing mayhem.

80 > HumanLoid

Excellent. Your Necramech is on the way. I wager you're due for some fun?

90 > HumanLoid

Your Necramech will be waiting at the designated dispenser. You may fire when ready.

KeyRemind

50 > Tagfer

Listen: You're not getting out of the Anchorhold without all four Keyglyphs.

60 > Tagfer

Take your Keyglyphs and get to it. C'mon.

70 > Tagfer

If you want to find out what Albrecht was up to in that Netracell you'll need one of each Keyglyph.

ExtermMid

60 > Bird

Ha. And don't come back!

70 > Bird

No thank you! That showed 'em.

80 > Bird

Yeeeah, I saw a few more down the hall. Figured I'd, y'knooow, go clean 'em up for ya, but thennn, y'know, I saw you're pretty into it, sooo I figured I'd leave 'em for ya. Figured you could use the practice. I'll get the next bunch, no problem.

90 > Bird

Startin' ta smell better in here already.

100 > Bird

Go get 'im friend!

EyeAttack

70 > HumanLoid

To the Vitreum!

80 > HumanLoid

Vitreum under attack!

90 > HumanLoid

Back to the Vitreum, Tenno!

100 > HumanLoid

Attackers shifting focus to... the Vitreum.

110 > HumanLoid

Defend the Vitreum! Quickly, please!

BarksFour

80 > HumanLoid

Tenno! Our work goes on!

90 > HumanLoid

Samples over here, if you please!

190 > Fib

Let us... let us to work. Time... Time waits for no-one, eh?

200 > Bird

He-ey! Blech. Okay. Better now.

200 > Fib

Oh. Hello. Forgive me. One moment. Right. Yes. Apologies. Is there something you require?

210 > Bird

Oh. Hey. Can I help? I can help. Whew. Room got spinny. Okay. Whaddya need?

210 > Fib

I say... would you care for a quick excursion? One... One could use the distraction. Shall we?

220 > Bird

[3.8]

Oo-oh. Friends and me not feeling good. 

[8.5]

But… but we get better. Right? 

[14.0]

Wuk wuk wuk. Blech. There. 

[18.9]

Better. Huh-BLECK! Ugh.

240 > Bird

(Coughs)

250 > Bird

(Breathing)

260 > Bird

Hey ho friend. Do you think maybe... Minn felt like this? Y'know... before she... ...y'know. Up and at 'em!

270 > Bird

[4.2]

Mister Tagfer says if we go with Minn that's okay. 

[7.9]

But did he mean going to the Void, 

[14.3]

or becoming dead things, or is Minn not a dead thing? 

[20.7]

I'm confused. I think I want to stay here. 

[22.1]

I just got this brain. 

[24.3]

I'm still figuring out what to do with it!

340 > Tagfer

The fish has been on his best behavior. Can't tell if he's really sorry, or just scared. Mm... What can I help with?

350 > Tagfer

Loid's been less condescending since Bird gave that speech. I'm still gonna kill Albrecht, though. If Loid makes the mistake of saving me.

360 > Tagfer

That Bird... not as dumb as the fish thinks. As far as I can see... he's the only one... really coming to grips... with what we are now. Sorry. Short of breath. Better now.

370 > Tagfer

The Murmur... the 'Great Indifference'. It doesn't seem so indifferent to me. Seems to me it knows exactly what it wants.

380 > Tagfer

Let's tackle a Netracell. Give me something to focus on other than my woes.

390 > Tagfer

Wanna hit a Netracell? Focusing seems to be good for me.

400 > Tagfer

(Coughs)

410 > Tagfer

(Pained lowing)

GasCallout

80 > Fib

This Crucible creates Gas. Feed it Heat and Toxin Amphors.

90 > Fib

Gas elemental force! Heat and Toxin Amphors required.

LeaveHold

80 > Tagfer

Ready? To leave Anchorhold access that terminal.

90 > Tagfer

You got ya glyphs, so hit the terminal to exit into the labs.

100 > Tagfer

Only one way out of the Anchorhold. Use that terminal.

HackFail

100 > HumanLoid

These consoles are so dreadfully finicky.

110 > HumanLoid

Ah. Not to worry. Maybe next time.

120 > HumanLoid

I'm afraid the Necramech will have to wait.

Radiation

100 > Fib

A Radiation Crucible. Key Amphors are Heat and Electricity.

110 > Fib

This Crucible craves Heat and Electricity. Together they will yield Radiation.

120 > Fib

Combine Electricity with Heat to make Radiation.

ExtermComp

110 > Bird

I guess that's all of them? Welp! Time to head back to the nest!

120 > Bird

Mmm. Gross. Okay all done!

130 > Bird

Yeah! They were like "Grr!" and you were like "Pow!" and they were like "Aaagh!" and you were like "That's cool" and I was like "Whoa."

140 > Bird

Those boomies really boom, huh. I'm startin' to think maybe I shouldn't be makin' a nest outta some a that stuff.

150 > Bird

That was more fun than checking Mister Tagfer for fleas. And, to be clear, I really enjoy doing that.

FindCell

110 > Tagfer

The Netracell is hidden somewhere in these labs. Sniff it out yourself or get control of Terminals - they'll tell you where it is.

120 > Tagfer

The Netracell is deep in this lab-maze. Get control of a few terminals. That'll help you zero in on 'em.

130 > Tagfer

That was the easy part, now you have to find the Netracell. Albrecht left terminals coded with partial coordinates in these halls. Yeah, even he got lost down here.

InteractGrim

110 > Tagfer

Aaaand it's out. You let it out.

120 > Tagfer

Listen! It's not you. It's... wearing your skin but it's not you. Kill it!

130 > Tagfer

What kinda moron lets a starving predator out of a trap? Well, now you gotta deal with... whatever that is.

BarksTwo

120 > Fib

Tagfer? Oh. Yes. Best left to his own devices for now I suspect.

130 > Fib

Hello. Sorry to bother, but... has Tagfer, um, said... anything... to you? About me? No? No. No particular reason. A good leader keeps abreast of the spirit of the team. Thank you. Carry on.

180 > Tagfer

I think I'm starting to understand how brains work. The things you remember, the things you don't... until someone says something that brings it all rushing back...

190 > Tagfer

You need something?

200 > Tagfer

I feel sorry for Bird. He deserves better than to be stuck with us.

210 > Tagfer

Do you think... do you think Loid knew? The bell I mean. What would happen. To us. Down there. Do you think Papa told him?

220 > Tagfer

Do you think Loid stood by, while Papa pulled the lever? On those screens... do you think he watched?

230 > Tagfer

Do you think Papa saw the moment Minn became a person? The exact same moment she realized she was going to die? The only moment I ever really had with her?

240 > Tagfer

I like you. You're not like the others here. Are you?

EarAttackIntro

120 > HumanLoid

They're attacking the Auricle. Keep it intact! We need to hear every whisper the Indifference utters!

130 > HumanLoid

The Murmur are shifting to the Auricle! We must hear them, whatever the cost to our sanity.

140 > HumanLoid

They're trying to destroy the Auricle! Beneath the bone, the eardrum is fragile. All too easy to rupture.

IntroZero

120 > HumanLoid

I have a small battery of tasks to complete, and once they are done, I shall repeat them.

130 > HumanLoid

I wouldn't bother going mad, Tenno. It may be dreadfully tempting but it really does not help.

140 > HumanLoid

"Tis better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all."

150 > HumanLoid

The backroom boys have been beavering away in your absence. Slow progress is still progress.

160 > HumanLoid

I was trained to assist Archimedeans, not warriors, or animals, but I shall do my best.

170 > HumanLoid

And how may this relic make himself useful to you today?

180 > HumanLoid

Ah, Tenno. I forget what one is meant to do with company.

190 > HumanLoid

Welcome, once again, to the chaotic waltz that is my life.

200 > HumanLoid

I'm never alone down here, Tenno. It's always watching from behind the walls. Flattering, I suppose.

1230 > Tagfer

Oh. Hello.

1240 > Tagfer

Uh, yes?

1250 > Tagfer

Who, me?

1260 > Tagfer

Do you need me?

1270 > Tagfer

Are we heading out, then?

Mag

130 > Fib

Magnetic Crucible: The forces of electricity and extreme cold are required for this alchemy.

140 > Fib

A magnetic force can be created by electrical stimulation of an intensely cold subject.

150 > Fib

Unlike conventional science, Alchemy produces Magnetic energy by blending cold and electricity.

CellReached

140 > Tagfer

That's the Netracell. Open it.

150 > Tagfer

Using the Keyglyphs will open the Netracell. So be ready.

160 > Tagfer

This is it. Use the Keyglyph and... get ready for whatever happens next.

ForceToOp

140 > Tagfer

It's not dead! You have to kill the... the smell of it. Understand?

150 > Tagfer

It's still hunting. Find the burrow it winters in. Kill that.

160 > Tagfer

Not safe. It's still out there. You have to kill all of it. Not just the skin.

RankTwo

140 > Bird

Mister Fish-o-nah-chee? Mister Fish-o-nah-chee? Mister Fish-o-nah-chee? Mister Fish-o-nah-chee! Mister Tagfer's been bumping his head against that pipe a LOT. I mean... a LOT a LOT. Mister Fish-o-nah-chee? Why is Mister Tagfer bumping his...

150 > Fib

I DON'T BLOODY KNOW! I don't know, Bird 3. I... Tagfer? One couldn't help but notice your behavior taking on an... idiosyncratic? Bent? Of late? Is... is everything quite all right? Tagfer? Tagfer?

160 > Tagfer

What reason would I have to think everything isn't 'quite all right'?

170 > Tagfer

Should I rephrase?

180 > Fib

I merely wish to comfort you. To... aid you... if I can... in this, the moment of your gr...

190 > Tagfer

NNNNNNNNOT!

200 > Tagfer

...another word.

210 > Fib

Oh I've had quite enough of this! You are not the only one here dealing with the horrors that besieged us in that accursed bell! The fears? The nightmares? The guilt...!

220 > Tagfer

What would any of us have to feel guilty about. 'Fibonacci'.

230 > Bird

Rark?

EarAttack

150 > HumanLoid

Auricle, Tenno! Now!

160 > HumanLoid

Collating sensory reports, determining next target... it's the Auricle.

170 > HumanLoid

They're targeting the Auricle. Hurry!

180 > HumanLoid

Attackers shifting focus to... the Auricle.

190 > HumanLoid

I need you at the Auricle. Post-haste.

Corrosive

160 > Fib

To produce Corrosion you'll require Amphors of Toxin and Electricity.

170 > Fib

Take Toxin and Electrical amphors, mix well, and presto, Corrosion shall result.

180 > Fib

Corrosive force results from the interplay of electricity and toxicity.

EnterTheLabs

161 > Loid

If these fragments were to unite... Destroy them swiftly, Tenno!

WrongKey

170 > Tagfer

Wrong Keyglyph. Try another one.

180 > Tagfer

That wasn't the right Keyglyph. Try again.

190 > Tagfer

Right door, wrong keyglyph. Try a different one.

Blast

190 > Fib

Within this crucible heat and cold birth a Blast force.

200 > Fib

Bring hot and cold together. It's a blast.

210 > Fib

The Crucible creates Blast Force. Gather Heat and Cold Amphors.

CollectReminder

200 > HumanLoid

Don't forget to gather up those Vosphene Glyphs when you can. A bit of automated security never goes amiss.

210 > HumanLoid

If you need assistance, try to focus on gathering the Vosphene Glyphs. It'll trigger the security system I put in place for just such an eventuality.

220 > HumanLoid

I didn't install that security system just to have it gather dust! Collect Vosphene Glyphs to bring it online.

230 > HumanLoid

Tools are there to be used, Tenno. Scoop up the Vosphenes and fire up the backup Defenses.

240 > HumanLoid

I'm confident you can handle the Murmur by yourself, but if you need a spot of backup, gather the Vosphene Glyphs and the lab can do some of the work of defending itself.

KillEnemies

200 > Tagfer

Security's freaking out. The Netracell doors won't open 'til you get clear out the uglies around the entrance.

210 > Tagfer

We ain't done. Local threats are triggering a security override. Clear out the uglies to pop the door.

220 > Tagfer

I was afraid of this. Netracell's security system won't open up with all the uglies around. Clear 'em out. And make sure the system can see you doing it.

IntroFiveReached

210 > HumanLoid

When the grandchildren were still very small, Kalymos fell sick. I did what I could, but there seemed to be no hope.



Albrecht took Kalymos away, out of our sight. He told us she was recovering, and mustn't be disturbed. And one bright morning, Kalymos came running up to greet us, all better.



I often wondered if he simply cloned her, and the original had died. If he did, he never gave any sign of it. So far as Albrecht was concerned, Kalymos was Kalymos. 



I'm glad the Cavia made it, Tenno. I couldn't help Kalymos. But we saved them, didn't we?

660 > Bird

 Listen. I only been thinkin' for a little while, and I think I mighta been dead there for a bit? So maybe I'm not doin' it right, but I know I'da been dead for more than a bit if it wasn't for you. So anytime you wanna go in that chamber and get irradiated and then killed and then come back as a rainbow like we did I'll ask Mister Loid to put it back together and I'll be the one pullin' the lever on ya. That's what they call 'returnin' a favor'. I think. Anythin' for you, pal. You're a regular Bird 4.

BarksFive

220 > Fib

A well-oiled machine is truly a thing of beauty.

230 > Fib

Well done, lads! Well done! I daresay the Murmur is quaking in its ambulators, what with the hiding our friend has dispensed it - slap!

240 > Fib

With your courage and our expertise, we hold the line. Your fish needs you.

250 > Fib

A new day dawns! Let us to work.

260 > Fib

Ah! I have here a toothsome conundrum which I believe you will find quite engaging.

270 > Fib

Ahoy-hoy! Might you have time for a quick run? You're a biped that's a pun.

280 > Bird

He-ey!

290 > Bird

Come and get it.

300 > Bird

Boomies sorta scare me. Kinda glad I don't have hands. Wuk. 'Hands.' Wuk. Who needs 'em.

310 > Bird

Hey, buddy!

330 > Bird

Hey! How's it goin'? Are we winning?

340 > Bird

Lemme know if I can he-elp!

350 > Bird

Bird 3 at your service.

370 > Bird

[4.5]

I'm glad to be here, but Mister Loid wants to be somewhere else. 

[8.6]

Where I am he wants to go from. 

[14.9]

But when I was where I was, I think this is where I wanted to get to. Rark. Wuk. 

[18.8]

Maybe everyone's here is a there someone else wants. 

[22.8]

Maybe everyone's there is a here someone wants to leave. 

[27.5]

Maybe that's what all those voices are murmuring about all the time WILL YOU SHUT THE HELL UP!

420 > Tagfer

Yeah. Love you too, baby.

430 > Tagfer

You in the mood for a little Netracell action?

440 > Tagfer

(Happy lowing)

450 > Tagfer

I was thinking: maybe we can be de-volved. Back to what we were. Maybe... maybe I could live with that. Simplicity, y'know? Nothing complicated upstairs. No demons.

460 > Tagfer

Bird 3. What I wouldn't give for some of that optimism.

470 > Tagfer

Another day another Netracell another poke in the eye for the motherhugger that consigned us to this mess. C'mon. Let's roll.

480 > Tagfer

Murmur or no Murmur, I've been sleepin' better since comin' back from the dead. Try it sometime.

ForceToOpRepeat

220 > Tagfer

Okay. You have to hunt it now. Find what it doesn't want you to find.

230 > Tagfer

You can't. Kill. A shadow! Find what's casting it!

240 > Tagfer

It's running. Growing a new skin. If you're quick and ballsy you can finish it. Maybe.

IntroFive

220 > HumanLoid

If enough people bang their heads on the same brick wall for long enough, it will fall down.

230 > HumanLoid

I am going to see him again, one day, Tenno. It is decided.

240 > HumanLoid

It's wonderful to see you, Tenno.

250 > HumanLoid

When what was left of my Albrecht came crawling back from the Void, I swore I would take care of him forever. I will be honored to do the same for you.

260 > HumanLoid

I do wish my Albrecht could have met you.

270 > HumanLoid

I helped chart mankind's path to the stars, and now I am half zookeeper, half shopkeeper. How perverse fate can be.

280 > HumanLoid

Fibonacci cheats at Komi, you know. He thinks I haven't noticed. Inferior human brain, and all that.

290 > HumanLoid

I talk and talk of changing the past, but Tagfer has swallowed his own unthinkable grief for the sake of our common survival. That creature is a better man than I.

300 > HumanLoid

What news of the family, Tenno? I miss them all so very, very much.

480 > Fib

We have our work cut out for us!

490 > Fib

"Once more unto the breach", wot?

500 > Fib

Together again.

500 > Tagfer

Hey. Listen. Thanks for... well, giving us a purpose. Stopping us breaking apart. Better to be alone together, right? The last little while has been the... well, 'happiest' is a stretch, but 'least miserable' I've been since all this happened. We all owe you, for saving what little we had left. But, just so we're clear, when we find Albrecht the old man is mine. Even if I have to go through Loid to get to him.

510 > Fib

Splendid.

520 > Fib

The enemy shall not find us wanting.

530 > Fib

The threat persists, and we stand ready.

600 > Bird

I knew you'd come back!

610 > Bird

How may I be of assistance? Rark. Crap. Rark.

620 > Bird

I may not be able to see sky blue no more, but it makes me feel good to help you protect it.

630 > Bird

Help me help you.

640 > Bird

We all got somethin' to do. Mr Fish-o-nah-chee's got his thing, Mister Tagfer's got his thing, I got my thing. It's so nice.

650 > Bird

Hope you're havin' a luv-erly day. Rark. Wuk.

Viral

220 > Fib

Viral Elemental. Hmm. You'll require Toxin and Cold Amphors.

230 > Fib

Papa's darkest Alchemic texts direct us to combine Cold with Toxin; a Viral elemental force shall surely result.

240 > Fib

Viral energy is extremely dangerous. Mingle your Toxin and Cold Amphors with caution.

DestroyDrones

230 > Tagfer

Necramites are slowing us down. Find 'em, smash 'em.

240 > Tagfer

Albrecht's damn Necramites are reinforcing the Netracell. Your hands are tied until you knock 'em out.

250 > Tagfer

Something's going on with...Necramites. Trying to lock this thing down. Take 'em out. We ain't got all day.

RankThree

240 > Fib

STOP HIM! STOP HIM! ANYONE! HE'S LOST HIS MIND!

250 > Fib

MY TANK! BY THE VOID HE'S KILLED ME!

260 > Loid

STOP! Stop.

270 > Fib

I'm leaking, I'm leaking...

280 > Loid

You're fine. What in blazes... ?

290 > Tagfer

WHAT THE HELL DO YOU CARE?! You put us in that bell! You watched as she...!

300 > Loid

I. SAVED. YOUR. LIVES! Do you really think Albrecht thought to freeze you? To preserve you? That was me. In the hope that we might find a cure for...

310 > Tagfer

For void exposure.

320 > Fib

Then that means...

330 > Tagfer

The clock's still ticking. We're gonna die.

340 > Loid

I'm... I'm working on it.

350 > Tagfer

I don't care. I want the fish.

360 > Loid

What?

370 > Tagfer

He did it. He killed her. He killed Minn.

380 > Loid

What, I just told you that you're going to...?! Hold on a minute. The spec... Minn... was lost to the Void.

390 > Tagfer

Vented to the Void! By him!

400 > Loid

Why would...?

410 > Tagfer

To save himself! Or so the coward thought! Tell them. Tell them what you did!

420 > Tagfer

The Void had penetrated the bell. It was in there with us. Before it started talking, though, it made us smart enough to understand it. And that's when Fibonacci here lost his shit. Panicked. Tried to get it out by blowing the seal. Minn was closest when it popped.

430 > Loid

After the monitors failed Albrecht wondered how you all came to be exposed to that degree. Fibonacci?

440 > Tagfer

His name isn't 'Fibonacci'. Of the four of us he's the only one without a name. Aren't you, mate? Weren't even part of the group. Didn't even get a label. A late addition is all he was. An afterthought. A fish. Why name something too stupid to hold a memory for longer than fifteen seconds?

450 > Loid

I want to hear what...

460 > Tagfer

"He's killed me!" YOU'VE KILLED US! ALL OF US!

470 > Fib

Papa...

480 > Tagfer

Forever kissing the fist that beats you. 'Papa'? 'Papa' is a stinking liar. Minn and I were the last Cervulites. But Albrecht didn't see our species as having worth. We were just one more component in one more experiment and Papa didn't think much of the results. So... 'tag for disposal'. That was us. Both of us were 'Tagfer' But I won't let her go on with that. I gave her something better. She's. Minn. We were never meant to be here! We only ever had each other! And now? Not even that. 'Papa'? 'Papa'? Spineless Void-damned Albrecht? I want to find him as bad as you do. And you'll know when I do, because his head's going right in your stinking tank.

490 > Fib

I... I never meant... Loid. You can't imagine what it was like. To suddenly exist is horror enough, but to suddenly exist - to comprehend so much - only to be faced with extinction... I... I'm sorry.

500 > Bird

Wuk. Wuk. Wuk. Wuk. Wuk. Wuk. Wuk.

ReturnFrameInit

250 > Tagfer

Ah. It grew a new shell. Now you have to crack it again.

260 > Tagfer

That thing is back. Walking around in a new body. You gotta finish it off for good.

StayGo

250 > HumanLoid

The automated defenses can probably handle it from here. Unless you'd prefer to fight on?

260 > HumanLoid

Your strength has made all the difference. We can hold the line without you now, if we must.

270 > HumanLoid

We can take it from here, so you can rest. But if you still have some fight in you, keep at it!

VentStart

250 > Fib

Now for the Alchemy. Manage the venting system to keep pressure within the desired range.

260 > Fib

On your toes! We must keep the pressure in range.

270 > Fib

Crucible: under pressure. Let's keep the system cooking, shall we?

280 > Fib

Now the tricky part: pressure management. Stay limber, biped. You know, with your limbs!

KillMidWay

260 > Tagfer

Keep thinning them out.

270 > Tagfer

Security level dropping. Hit 'em til they stop moving.

280 > Tagfer

It's working. You gotta keep going.

290 > Tagfer

Security level dropping. Don't quit now. I gotta know what's in that Netracell.

ReturnFrameRep

270 > Tagfer

You know it's playing with you, right? You can't kill it like this!

280 > Tagfer

Every time it does this because it's leading you away from something. Find the thing!

290 > Tagfer

It's gonna kill you, isn't it? I don't wanna watch that.

MirDefComplete

280 > HumanLoid

That's seen them off for now. Stand down, Tenno.

290 > HumanLoid

It seems they've had enough. Well, there's more where that came from next time they come slinking back.

300 > HumanLoid

Splendid work, Tenno. No wonder Albrecht thought you were worth waiting for.

CinWakeLoid

281 > EntratiDrone

Norg status: fully alert. Brain function: exceptional. Checking nutrients.

282 > Tagfer

(moan)

283 > EntratiDrone

Cervulite status: extreme depression. No substitute mate available. Species extinction: imminent.

284 > Bird

Zek? Aba! Zek? Zek?

285 > EntratiDrone

Avian status: overstimulated. Sedative recommended. Revival process ongoing.

286 > Loid

Tenno? That colorless antique there - use it.

287 > HumanLoid

This isn't right. The Transference stream... it's being diverted!

288 > Fib

Yara mig!

321 > Arthur

Aoi? Feels like there's someone in my head...

IntroOne

290 > Fib

I... I do hope Tagfer understands what occurred was... Oh! Yes yes what what?

300 > Fib

Do I have your complete attention?

310 > Fib

Let us see if we cannot find something suited to your... competencies.

320 > Fib

One has no choice but to entrust you with this. Please, be worthy of it.

330 > Fib

Papa saw promise in you. I shall strive to do the same.

340 > Fib

You... understand what is required of you, yes?

350 > Fib

I have attempted to explain your task as simply as possible. No big words.

360 > Fib

Yes yes good good.

370 > Fib

Your attention please.

380 > Bird

Rark!

380 > Fib

Eyes front! We begin.

390 > Bird

Wuk.

400 > Bird

Mister Fish-oh-nah-chee said I had to hold these for you.

410 > Bird

Like 'em?

420 > Bird

Heyo!

430 > Bird

How many and where do I send 'em?

440 > Bird

So, you collect these or what?

450 > Bird

When I find things I like I keep 'em. So... if we're not keeping these then they must not be very good? But if you need 'em then your stuff must be worse. I am happy to help give you better stuff by handing you our garbage!

460 > Bird

Fingers are weird. They're just there, on you, doin'... stuff. Gross.

470 > Bird

Ooh! Conversation! Who goes first?

480 > Bird

Y'ello!

490 > Bird

What do these do?

490 > Tagfer

Papa's plan, the fish says. All of this to his design. But... how could Papa have known it would go down like this, us getting smart, Minn... unless he had some hand in it? But Papa's trip to the Void went bad as well, right? That wasn't planned, or else he wouldn't be so rushed, and... panicked? Maybe Papa screwed up. Maybe this was all an accident. Loid put me in charge of getting you into the Netracells. I'm thinking maybe... maybe there's something in there that might give us a clue. To why this all had to happen. Or at least smash or steal something the dirtbag that did this to us cares about. A Cervulite's gotta have some hope, right?

VentHigh

290 > Fib

Release valve pressure now.

300 > Fib

Shoot the valve to release pressure.

310 > Fib

Should pressure exceed mandated tolerances your work shall be for naught. Hit the release valve.

320 > Fib

The process will not succeed if pressure continues to rise. Open the release valve.

CellOpen

300 > Tagfer

You're in. Grab and go. Can't wait to see what you got when you get back here.

310 > Tagfer

Take whatever Albrecht was hiding and get back to Sanctum.

320 > Tagfer

Albrecht didn't want anyone in here. I want to know why.

FoundActGrim

310 > Tagfer

Yes. That. There. The book. That's its real body. Kill it!

320 > Tagfer

You found it! Kill it, fast!

330 > Tagfer

Okay, now's your chance. Destroy. The. Book.

ItemStoreRankZero

310 > HumanLoid

We truly have accumulated a bewildering quantity of... stuff.

320 > HumanLoid

My Albrecht did his best to prepare the stockrooms for your arrival.

330 > HumanLoid

I'm quite content down here, I assure you. A chap has to have his space.

340 > HumanLoid

Sometimes I wonder how much of this Albrecht saw coming. And then I try not to think about it.

350 > HumanLoid

'Arcanes'. The very name smacks of sorcery. Asking for trouble, in my view.

360 > HumanLoid

So much of what we do resembles magic. No wonder we found demons in the forbidden spaces.

370 > HumanLoid

Be patient with me, Tenno. I am still adjusting to this era.

380 > HumanLoid

I hear his voice sometimes, when I walk these halls alone. Quiet, entreating. Insistent.

670 > Bird

Like 'em?

680 > Bird

Whaddya think?

690 > Bird

Take that one! Ooh! No. That one! Or... hm. I'm helping!

700 > Bird

You got it!

710 > Bird

Ooh! Ooh! I love this bit.

LootPickedUp

330 > Tagfer

I wonder what Albrecht planned on doing with that?

340 > Tagfer

Not what I was looking for, but if you're happy I'm happy.

350 > Tagfer

Bet you can make use of that.

360 > Tagfer

Not what I was hoping for, but... that could still come in handy.

370 > Tagfer

Nothing about Albrecht? Okay. Next time.

VentChange

330 > Fib

Our pressure target is shifting!

340 > Fib

New pressure band identified!

350 > Fib

Pressure calibration changing.

360 > Fib

We have a new pressure target.

CinIntro

341 > TVAnnouncer

It's comin' up to midnight, folks! Is YOUR PC ready for the new millennium? Orrrr... are YOU one of the switched-on thinkers who can tell this so-called Y2K event is just a bunch of bullpucky? Stay tuned. Here's where we find out!

HubTwo

360 > HumanLoid

So, Albrecht made it to 1999 in one piece. But that thing is still on his heels. Albrecht rarely smiled, after his return from the Void. And never like that. I smashed the casket for nothing. It followed him anyway!

370 > Fib

YARA MIG! URU URU YARA MIG!

380 > Tagfer

ZEK! ZEK! ABA? ZEK! ZEK! ABA?

390 > Bird

MIG? MIG? RE-UN?

400 > HumanLoid

SILENCE, CREATURES! It seems the Murmur overloaded your connection. Unfortunately for Albrecht's cherished Pom-2. Not as 'future proof' as the label claimed, alas.

410 > HumanLoid

The Murmur. They're attacking the sensory network I installed, our eyes and ears! To arms, Tenno - play the warrior, and leave the tactics to me!

420 > HumanLoid

Construct - I'm awake. Your one responsibility is fulfilled. Be with the family. They must be kept in the state of ignorance to which my Albrecht so wisely consigned them.

430 > Loid

But I - Yes. I see. Until we meet again, Tenno.

440 > TwinA

I'd crawl away in shame too if I'd done what LOID did. Doesn't that Grimoire feel a little - light?

440 > TwinB

I'd crawl away in shame too if I'd done what LOID did. Doesn't that Grimoire feel a little - light?

440 > TwinC

I'd crawl away in shame too if I'd done what LOID did. Doesn't that Grimoire feel a little - light?

440 > TwinD

I'd crawl away in shame too if I'd done what LOID did. Doesn't that Grimoire feel a little - light?

ElementCreated

370 > Fib

Success! A new complex element has been created. Locating the next Crucible.

380 > Fib

Would you look at that, the purity! Do it again!

390 > Fib

Shazam! What a gorgeous samp... who's a pretty sample? You are, you're a pretty sample aren't you? Create another.

400 > Fib

Why... I do say. It's perfect. Make another.

410 > Fib

Ah, progress. But we require more. Again!

IntroThree

390 > Fib

Thank you. Here you go.

400 > Fib

These are all I have, I'm afraid.

410 > Fib

What do you think?

510 > Bird

He-ey.

520 > Bird

Hi.

530 > Bird

Mmmmmm.

1280 > Tagfer

What.

1290 > Tagfer

Yes?

1300 > Tagfer

You wanna head out I guess.

1310 > Tagfer

Sure, let's go. It'll take my mind off things.

1320 > Tagfer

Ok now what?

OutroSaleRankZero

390 > HumanLoid

There we are, then.

400 > HumanLoid

Will there be anything else, Tenno?

410 > HumanLoid

Splendid.

720 > Bird

Rark!

730 > Bird

Wuk wuk wuk.

740 > Bird

Ooh! That's a good one.

750 > Bird

Pretty.

760 > Bird

Whatcha gonna do with that?

GrimDestroyed

400 > Tagfer

You woke up a bad thing, but then you killed it, so uh, I guess you did okay.

410 > Tagfer

I told you not to mess with it! I'm glad you're okay.

Extraction

420 > Fib

Formidable progress. I urge you: keep the crucibles firing, should opposition grow too great of course, return home.

430 > Fib

Papa's vessels move one step closer to completion, huzzah! Should you feel the need to withdraw, the path to the Sanctum is open to you, naturally.

440 > Fib

When need arises you may return to the Sanctum. Until then, give the murmur hell.

1200 > Fib

If you wish, you may return to the Sanctum. But I think you have more fight in you than that.

1210 > Fib

When you are ready to return, the Sanctum is waiting for you.

1220 > Fib

You can come home now. No need to be a hero on my account. Unless of course, you want to be.

IntroFour

420 > Fib

We have our work cut out for us!

430 > Fib

"Once more unto the breach", wot?

440 > Fib

Together again.

450 > Fib

Splendid.

460 > Fib

The enemy shall not find us wanting.

470 > Fib

The threat persists, and we stand ready.

1330 > Tagfer

What ya need?

1340 > Tagfer

Hey.

1350 > Tagfer

Hi.

1360 > Tagfer

What'll it be?

1370 > Tagfer

Yo.

OutroNoRankeZero

420 > HumanLoid

Oh I'll pop off and find something to dust, shall I?

430 > HumanLoid

Very good, Tenno.

440 > HumanLoid

I'll just put this all back, then.

790 > Bird

Rark?

800 > Bird

Wuk.

810 > Bird

Okay!

820 > Bird

Aw.

830 > Bird

Are they too good?

BrowseExchange

450 > HumanLoid

I know what it must have cost you to bring me these.

460 > HumanLoid

Remain of stalwart mind, Tenno, even in the face of madness.

470 > HumanLoid

The debris of monstrousness. Let us learn from it.

480 > HumanLoid

Ah, a fresh opportunity to continue my Albrecht's work!

490 > HumanLoid

To do what you do would vex my sanity, Tenno.

MissionTwo

450 > HumanLoid

The Murmur presumes to destroy our auditory and visual sensors. In all the time I have been asleep, they have never ONCE been so bold!

460 > Tagfer

IIRE! SHOGRUN UKUL!

470 > HumanLoid

Ignore the Cavia, Tenno. If Albrecht ever understood their babble, he never bothered to share that knowledge with me.

480 > HumanLoid

Here they come. After all those years of creeping, silent encroachment... something has changed them. Stirred them up.

490 > HumanLoid

They're shifting focus! Get to the Vitreum! Look at them. 'The Indifference.' He could have given lessons in indifference.

500 > Fib

KOMEK! UTEH KOMEK!

510 > HumanLoid

Albrecht once thought the Cavia should have been destroyed. Failures, all. But he briefly showed reluctance. And I saw no reason to punish them for his negligence.

520 > HumanLoid

They're back at the Auricle! Look at them. 'The Indifference.' He could have given lessons in indifference.

530 > HumanLoid

I saw off Granum's thugs. I beat back the Infested. And by the Void, I shall see the end of these monstrosities.

540 > HumanLoid

Oh Void, is there no end to them? Defend the Auricle, Tenno. If it falls… the best we can hope for is a speedy cessation of existence.

550 > HumanLoid

And now the Vitreum again! Why didn't he prepare for this? Always poring over that Grimoire… traipsing off to the forgotten past, leaving devoted Loid to clean up in his wake… and when I wanted more time with him, duplicating me, for Void's sake! Like an implement!

560 > HumanLoid

Dust yourself down, Tenno. We are still alive. Rejoin me, and the Kalymos Sequence may proceed.

570 > HumanLoid

There is a defense system, of sorts. Gather enough of the floating Vosphene Glyphs, and they should reinvigorate the organs you're here to protect. A fallback system, in case... the promised Operator never showed.

ProbeIntro

450 > Fib

The Murmur's envoy lurks somewhere within the Great Indifference. To find it, administer a visionary serum to our Vitreum scanners.

460 > Fib

The Great Indifference spreads desolation via the mechanism of its fearsome, many-armed Envoy. Vitreum scanners shall aid in locating it.

FirstDispenser

470 > Fib

Ah, the Atropos Probes! Take one, and fill the waiting eyeball full of visionary juice.

480 > Fib

Equip yourself with an Atropos Probe that you may pierce the Vitreum with it.

490 > Fib

The Vitreum may not gaze into the abyss without Atropos Serum! Acquire a probe, quickly!

500 > Fib

Atropos Serum. A drug that opens perception to other realms, causing madness. Fortunately the Vitreum lacks a mind to lose.

ExchangeSuccess

500 > HumanLoid

This ought to keep the group cohesive for a little longer...

510 > HumanLoid

We appreciate it, Tenno.

520 > HumanLoid

Research keeps the Cavia busy, and that keeps them off my back.

Dispenser

510 > Fib

Acquire a fresh probe, Tenno.

520 > Fib

Atropos Probes in your vicinity.

530 > Fib

Hurry! You require more Atropos serum!

540 > Fib

Fresh serum. Take it, it's yummy.

NetracellIntro

510 > Tagfer

Papa never wanted anyone to know what he was up to. That's why he built the Netracells. Little hideaway vaults. Not even Loid knows what he got up to in there. I want to know. I can get you into the Anchorhold, where Albrecht stored all his Keyglyphs. They're on a rotation timer, only one Netracell can be opened at any given time, and before you can do that, you've got to find the Netracell and neutralize any opposition. Impossible for a guy like me, but maybe not for someone with a working pair of opposable thumbs? What do you say?

RankFour

510 > Loid

Alright. Tagfer. Fibonacci.

520 > Tagfer

Listen. I can work with the fish. The Murmur has to be kept in check.

530 > Fib

Tagfer, I...

540 > Loid

Hmp.

550 > Tagfer

Like it or not the fish is more clued-in to Albrecht's diseased brain than I could ever be. If I'm gonna find that prick I need the fish.

560 > Fib

Tagfer! You won't regret this. I promise.

570 > Tagfer

Goes to show, Fish: you ain't as smart as you'd like and your promises are shit. I already do.

580 > Fib

He made you a widow, but he made me a murderer!

590 > Bird

HEEEEY!

600 > Bird

HEY! HEY HEY HEY HEY HEEEEEY!

610 > Fib

Uuh...

620 > Bird

If this is smart I wanna be dumb. Yell yell yell yell yell! Hit and hit and hurt and hurt. We lost it all. We lost green and run and food want and smell follow. And sky blue. And Minn. And all we got for all that losing... are these big brains. Big brains and each other. And you wanna lose that too. Brains by being dumb and each other by throwing us away. We're all we got! Nobody knows what it's like being us. Nobody but us. You're not mad at each other. You're mad at you.

630 > Bird

You can't hurt everything that hurt you. Sometimes things just hurt. Sometimes things not wrong, sometimes things just are. We're all we have left, and you want that to die, too. KNOCK IT OFF!

640 > Fib

"The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out."

650 > Tagfer

What's that?

660 > Fib

Something from Pa... from Albrecht's library.

670 > Tagfer

No. I mean what's that? You don't look right. Shit. Neither do I. Loid?

680 > Loid

Your color... the Void sickness is advancing. Remaking you the way the Murmur remakes everything.

690 > Tagfer

Loid...

700 > Loid

I'm close to a means to reverse the process. I think.

710 > Fib

You "think"?!

720 > Loid

I need to return to my instruments. Forgive me.

730 > Tagfer

Bird 3.

750 > Tagfer

Bird? Hey... Bird?

ViewMissRankOne

520 > Tagfer

Go with the herd, you know. You'll get eaten if you go alone in a Netracell.

521 > Tagfer

IMO solo's a no-go. Have at it but I'm tellin' ya: Albrecht wasn't messin' around with his security. Bring friends.

522 > Tagfer

In my humble opinion you'll last longer with a few warm bodies to soak up the damage. Albrecht's security's no joke.

530 > Tagfer

I know you can take a punch, but crackin' a Netracell's serious business. Keep ya friends close.

540 > Tagfer

Don't wanna tell you your business, but if I was trying to get into a Netracell, I'd go with a pack.

550 > Tagfer

Maybe... maybe there's some clue to where Albrecht went? Down there? In those Netracells?

560 > Tagfer

Papa kept his treasures down there. Nothing you can eat, though. Or build a nest with. But it sounds important.

570 > Tagfer

Okay. I'm ready. We off?

580 > Tagfer

It's so weird, this 'owning' thing. Papa really thought all this was his. Like... like his hands are his? Was his brain broken?

590 > Tagfer

Okay. So, what do you think? Ready to head out?

600 > Tagfer

These Netracells were important to Albrecht. Maybe there's answers down there? I... I could use some answers.

NoExchange

530 > HumanLoid

Yes, I'm sure we've all got better things to do.

540 > HumanLoid

Maybe I'll just take another little nap?

550 > HumanLoid

Oh. No matter, I suppose.

BountyTakeOne

540 > Fib

Honour Papa's plan.

550 > Fib

We trust in Papa's wisdom.

560 > Fib

Very well.

570 > Fib

You have your orders.

580 > Fib

So be it.

DespRankThree

540 > Bird

Rark.

550 > Bird

Rark. Rark.

560 > Bird

Wuk.

570 > Bird

Wuuuuuk.

580 > Bird

(Sighs low)

590 > Bird

(Sigh)

Inject

550 > Fib

There! A Vitreum! Administer the Atropos serum, and defend the boggling eye as it searches.

560 > Fib

Inject the Vitreum, Tenno, and keep it intact. We require it to see on our behalf.

570 > Fib

The Vitreum awaits. Administer the serum! Do not allow the vision to be interrupted by anything! And don't talk to it, even if you die!

580 > Fib

Open that waiting eye unto the Abyss, Tenno, and defend it whilst the serum does its potent work.

NoValidArcanes

560 > HumanLoid

I would be delighted to dissolve your Arcanes for you, if you had any.

570 > HumanLoid

Ah. It would appear that you have neglected to bring the Arcanes.

580 > HumanLoid

Oh, it's always so awkward when you fancy a spot of Arcane Dissolution, but then you realize you've left all your Arcanes at home.

HubThree

580 > TwinA

You're right, Fish. Loid could never figure things out. We have nothing to worry about.

580 > TwinB

You're right, Fish. Loid could never figure things out. We have nothing to worry about.

580 > TwinC

You're right, Fish. Loid could never figure things out. We have nothing to worry about.

580 > TwinD

You're right, Fish. Loid could never figure things out. We have nothing to worry about.

590 > HumanLoid

If the Cavia have been babbling our secrets to the Murmur I shall immolate the lot of them, promise or no promise.

600 > HumanLoid

It seems Albrecht said more than we heard. Despite the signal becoming corrupted, his words to you are preserved in the Transference buffer. We should extract them... but for that the Pom-2 requires a replacement "board", and those are all hidden away in the Netracells. You do understand that accessing a Netracell without a Keyglyph is completely impossible?

610 > Tagfer

Mara lohk! Mara lohk!

620 > HumanLoid

A Keyglyph. So. The Cavia have provided the very item we require. Very well: proceed to the Netracell at your own risk, Tenno. That babbling oddity may be sending you into a trap, and if you do end up in one, I'm afraid you are on your own.

BountyTakeThree

590 > Fib

Thank you. I am grateful for the distraction. Begin.

600 > Fib

Very kind. I find it helpful to have work to focus upon. Let us begin.

610 > Fib

Thank you very much. I am ready.

EnemiesNear

590 > Fib

Attackers. Keep them clear of the Vitreum.

600 > Fib

The Vitreum cannot see with the Murmur atop it!

610 > Fib

Do not allow anything near our Vitreum!

620 > Fib

Keep them away! The Vitreum cannot see with those things around it. I mean what on Earth are you thinking?

630 > Fib

Does that look like a happy eyeball to you? Keep it clear of obstructions, lest our work be for naught!

640 > Fib

Place yourself between the Vitreum and the enemy! Stop them!

650 > Fib

We cannot expect the Vitreum to perceive anything whilst being poked at in such a manner! What if I poked you?!

660 > Fib

We are losing the signal. Protect the Vitreum scanner.

670 > Fib

The search is being hampered. Something is blinding the Vitreum.

SelectArcans

590 > HumanLoid

Good condition. Shouldn't take long to dissolve.

600 > HumanLoid

Say the word, and I shall break your Arcanes down into Vosfor.

610 > HumanLoid

Make your selection, and the Vosfor shall flow.

ViewMissRankThree

610 > Tagfer

Yeah?

620 > Tagfer

Go, don't go, I don't care.

630 > Tagfer

Fine.

BountyTakeFour

620 > Fib

Thank you. Do excuse me.

630 > Fib

On... Onward. Ah. What a bother.

640 > Fib

We have an ac an ac... an accord. I'm fine, I'm fine. Thank you.

DistilledSingle

620 > HumanLoid

And here's the yield.

630 > HumanLoid

Dissolved as requested.

640 > HumanLoid

Your Vosfor, Tenno.

MissionThree

630 > HumanLoid

Keyglyphs are a heavy burden for living beings to bear. Each type will impede you in its own way.

635 > HumanLoid

I must say, watching you smash those Murmur into little bits is extremely cathartic. Keep it up, Tenno. Those bastards have it coming.

640 > HumanLoid

The Necramechs could never be compelled to attack the Murmur. Albrecht suspected they could no longer distinguish between the Indifference... and himself. A theory he was reluctant to confirm.

650 > HumanLoid

Cold stone. Sardonic aloofness. I was a fool not to see the resemblance before.

651 > TwinA

(laughter)

651 > TwinB

(laughter)

651 > TwinC

(laughter)

651 > TwinD

(laughter)

655 > TwinA

Look at these things. Lying around. ABANDONED. Like you, Loid.

655 > TwinB

Look at these things. Lying around. ABANDONED. Like you, Loid.

655 > TwinC

Look at these things. Lying around. ABANDONED. Like you, Loid.

655 > TwinD

Look at these things. Lying around. ABANDONED. Like you, Loid.

657 > HumanLoid

You are his demon. Not mine! I won't listen!

658 > HumanLoid

My apologies, Tenno. I shall refrain from further outbursts.

660 > HumanLoid

There. A Netracell. Albrecht stored all manner of sentimental old junk in these. Insert the Keyglyph.

665 > HumanLoid

The Netracell's security apparatus is diligent. That door won't open while it can sense The Murmur nearby. So. Eliminate them.

666 > HumanLoid

Necramites! The lab's automated systems are trying to lock down the Netracell. Your only option is to destroy them.

670 > TwinA

You shoulda left well enough alone, kiddo! It'll NEVER get BETTER if you KEEP. ON. PICKING. AT. IT!

670 > TwinB

You shoulda left well enough alone, kiddo! It'll NEVER get BETTER if you KEEP. ON. PICKING. AT. IT!

670 > TwinC

You shoulda left well enough alone, kiddo! It'll NEVER get BETTER if you KEEP. ON. PICKING. AT. IT!

670 > TwinD

You shoulda left well enough alone, kiddo! It'll NEVER get BETTER if you KEEP. ON. PICKING. AT. IT!

680 > HumanLoid

Excellent. Return to me with the board, Tenno.

ViewMissRankTwoFourFive

640 > Tagfer

I gotta believe there's some clue to where Albrecht went in those Netracells.

650 > Tagfer

The old man kept a lot of weird crap down here.

660 > Tagfer

For an old guy to build all this, just to have somewhere to keep goodies. They gotta be worth something to him - and I don't mean money.

670 > Tagfer

Netracells. Let's go.

680 > Tagfer

How long someone has to live to get his hands on this much stuff... I dunno. Too long, that's for sure.

690 > Tagfer

Let's go.

BountyTakeFive

650 > Fib

Excelsior!

660 > Fib

Our noble struggle continues.

670 > Fib

The enemy does not rest, nor do we.

680 > Fib

We hold the line.

690 > Fib

We are the threshold the Great Indifference shall not cross.

DistilledMultiple

650 > HumanLoid

Ah. A splendid result.

660 > HumanLoid

Out with the old, eh, Tenno?

670 > HumanLoid

A wealth of Vosfor, and all of it yours.

GoodbyeRankZero

680 > HumanLoid

I wait upon your pleasure.

690 > HumanLoid

All satisfactory, I trust?

700 > HumanLoid

Our service is but a shadow of yours.

710 > HumanLoid

To better times ahead.

720 > HumanLoid

Company is always welcome, down here.

950 > Bird

Rark!

960 > Bird

Wuk.

970 > Bird

(Whistle)

980 > Bird

Have fun!

990 > Bird

I'll miss you!

1000 > Bird

Bye bye now.

GrabGreenEye

680 > Fib

The Murmur stares back at us. Take its eyes, they will lead you to your target. Quickly now.

690 > Fib

Can you feel that? The Murmur's eyes gaze upon you. Pluck them out.

700 > Fib

The eyes, the eyes! They're everywhere! Grab them whilst you can.

710 > Fib

Take the eyes, whilst we can still see them.

720 > Fib

This is your chance, go for the eyes.

730 > Fib

Ah! Quickly! The eyes! Grab 'em and run!

HubFour

690 > HumanLoid

Thank you. A moment, please.

700 > HumanLoid

Would you do the honors?

710 > Albrecht

[5.9]

Arthur? Tenno? Forgive me. 

[14.3]

I need Loid to understand why I had to leave. Without him. 

[20.5]

Why I forced him to destroy the device after I had gone. 

[26.1]

And why I could never say the words he so needed to hear.

720 > Albrecht

[12.7]

If I had remained in the Deimos laboratory, Loid would never have been safe from... Him. 

[15.5]

You know of what I speak. 

[24.5]

And so I retreated to the only place in history where that entity could not easily follow. 

[28.8]

To draw His greedy eye away from Loid.

730 > Albrecht

[7.5]

Tenno - I require your trust. 

[12.4]

Craft the little curio whose blueprints you will find in the computer's memory. 

[17.0]

Complete the Kalymos Sequence. Repair. Rebuild. 

[23.2]

When the time is right, find me.

740 > HumanLoid

The skin of a martyr doesn't suit you, Albrecht! If something mattered... he'd have found a way. It's too late. You heard him, Tenno! He requires your trust. So craft the bloody thing.

BountyNotOneTwo

700 > Fib

What do you mean, "no"?

710 > Fib

Weh? Wah? Bluh! Blabawaghawagh!

720 > Fib

One struggles to fathom your priorities. Bloody biped.

730 > Fib

Oh. Well. Don't let me hold you.

740 > Fib

One does not wipe one's arse with the Grand Design!

TakeMissRankOne

700 > Tagfer

Okay.

710 > Tagfer

Right. Right.

720 > Tagfer

Now?

730 > Tagfer

Okay. I think I'm ready.

740 > Tagfer

Yep. Okay. Let's... let's go?

750 > Tagfer

What, right now? Right, right, okay.

IntroPostLabs

730 > Loid

Tenno. Is all well... down below? In the lab!

740 > Loid

I am no longer troubled by my dreams, Tenno. It is my waking hours that are filled with dread.

750 > Loid

How is my... counterpart? If you can endure his bitterness, Tenno, and honor the man within, he will be your friend for life. Just as I am.

760 > Loid

Otak is none the worse for his forced slumber. Perhaps it was wrong to keep the truth of the Labs from him... but that truth might have wounded him, and I will not see him hurt.

770 > Loid

How goes the Kalymos Sequence?

ArmTurret

740 > Fib

The hand of violence conceals the eye of indifference. Destroy it! Seize what lies within!

750 > Fib

Observe! The Murmur places a hand over its eye. Swat it away. Naughty hand!

760 > Fib

Observe. The Murmur seeks to protect its eyes. I've got a Tenno!

BountyNotThree

750 > Fib

Of course, of course. Oh dear.

760 > Fib

Are you quite sure? I mean... the threat, you know?

770 > Fib

Well if there is anything one can do to change your mind...

Intermission

750 > TwinA

Tick tock, kiddo! You don't wanna be late again, do you?

750 > TwinB

Tick tock, kiddo! You don't wanna be late again, do you?

750 > TwinC

Tick tock, kiddo! You don't wanna be late again, do you?

750 > TwinD

Tick tock, kiddo! You don't wanna be late again, do you?

760 > HumanLoid

The Jahu Gargoyle. Bring it back here and we shall... examine what 'Form' will do to help us.

RankFive

760 > Loid

The chamber is sealed. Prepare for saturation. I've done all I can.

770 > Loid

Increasing saturation.

780 > Loid

Their levels of decay aren't shifting. Pushing to maximum.

790 > Loid

I... I...

800 > Loid

I'm sorry. I tried. I daren't open the chamber. The radiation... in you... I don't know what...

810 > Fib

Is... is there nothing...?

820 > Tagfer

We're done, Fish. No point in howling about it.

830 > Bird

Just... just gonna sit down. Will... will we be like Minn, now?

840 > Tagfer

We'll all get to meet her, Bird. Don't you worry about nothin'. You can talk her ear off and she'll love you for it. Bird? Bird?

850 > Fib

Tagfer...

860 > Tagfer

It's not your fault, Fib. We just played the hand we were dealt. As best we could. Not your fault. None of our fault. Fib? So long, Fish.

870 > Loid

(exhale)

880 > Tagfer

Loid, you did good.

890 > Loid

(sobbing)

900 > Loid

Bad comedy. Their void contamination levels are dropping. Of course. Huzzah. At least I'll be able to bury...

910 > Loid

Agh! Their... their contamination levels haven't dropped... they've...

920 > Loid

Alchemized.

930 > Loid

You were dead.

940 > Tagfer

I guess it didn't take. But there is definitely some weird crap going on with us right now. You wanna explain this? We're...

950 > Loid

Incandescent. Some kind of... chromatic volatility? A side-effect of Void and anti-Void and something I can't quite identify... a reaction that saved your lives but... did that.

960 > Fib

I look ridiculous.

970 > Bird

Hahahaha. We look bee-yootiful!

980 > Fib

We look purple.

990 > Bird

Not me. I wanna be yellow.

1000 > Fib

Good grief.

1010 > Loid

How did he do that?

1020 > Tagfer

I wanna be... red.

1030 > Bird

Whoa!

1040 > Loid

Amazing. Amazing!

1050 > Fib

I am still purple!

1060 > Loid

Everything's green, so everything's clean. Let's... let's get you out of there!

1070 > Fib

Everything is not 'green'! Oh Void. I'm green. I'm green!

TakeMissRankThree

760 > Tagfer

Whatever.

770 > Tagfer

Okay okay let's get this over with.

780 > Tagfer

Sure sure. C'mon.

790 > Tagfer

Not. A good time. Fine. Maybe I could use the distraction.

HubFive

770 > HumanLoid

Albrecht may have told you to build that thing, but given how he used people and threw them away, he may not have cared for your safety. If that gargoyle is a threat you must take it from the Sanctum immediately. Now, activate it.

780 > Gargoyle

AT LAST. IF IGNORANCE IS BLISS THEN YOU, TENNO, MUST BE ECSTATIC. COME ON THEN. BRING IT CLOSER! WAKEY WAKEY!

790 > HumanLoid

Where did that come from? Identify yourself!

800 > Gargoyle

PLEASE, LOID, LET THEM FIGURE IT OUT.

820 > Gargoyle

THAAAT'S IT. ALMOST THERE.

830 > Gargoyle

YES, YES, VERY GOOD. KEEP GOING.

840 > Gargoyle

THAT'S THE RIGHT DIRECTION! WHO'S A GOOD BIPED?

850 > Gargoyle

THAT'S THE RIGHT DIRECTION! WHO'S A CLEVER LITTLE AIR-BREATHER? YOU ARE, YES YOU ARE!

860 > Gargoyle

NOOOO. THIS WAY.

870 > Gargoyle

NO! I... WE'RE GOING TO BE HERE ALL DAY, AREN'T WE?

880 > Gargoyle

[3.2]

...AND NOW IT'S WANDERING OFF AGAIN. HELLO!

[9.2]

WRONG. WAY. Bipeds.

885 > Gargoyle

OH, BY ALL MEANS STAND AROUND CATCHING SNOWFLAKES ON YOUR TONGUE. IT'S NOT LIKE WE HAVE AN UNFOLDING CRISIS OR ANYTHING.

886 > Gargoyle

HELLOOO? WAKE UP, TENNO. YOU NEED TO FIND ME.

890 > Gargoyle

HERE! IN THE JAR! "WHA? THE FISH WITH THE BIG BRAIN?" YES THE FISH WITH THE BIG BRAIN! CAN WE PLEASE, FINALLY, GET THIS INTERMINABLE PROCESS OVER WITH?

900 > HumanLoid

Albrecht used you to give the Cavia a voice, just as he used me to keep them alive. Such a resourceful man.

910 > Fib

So here we are then: the best of what's left. Clearly Papa's plan was countered. Color me surprised. Right, then. We may proceed with the Sequence.

920 > HumanLoid

You animals have observed us all this time, have you not? You've given yourself a ROLE in the Sequence?

930 > Fib

Indeed we have - come, Loid, it's named after Papa's favored pet! Spared the rod and spoiled. We know the Fragmented Ones are heralds of the Indifference. We know the Chosen Operator must summon and destroy them. And regrettably, you, Loid, have made this impossible.

940 > HumanLoid

Choose your words carefully, fish.

950 > Fib

Tenno: the Grimoire is incomplete, the final page hidden away. By Loid. Be a darling and retrieve it. That's all. Run along.

955 > HumanLoid

So be it - the gift of decency was clearly not bestowed upon the Cavia, Tenno, but I cannot deny the page's current status is lost.

960 > Bird

Talk? Talk! I can talk! Hey! Hey! Ooh! Ooh! Mister Loid! Mister Loid! Where is Papa? Why did Papa leave us? Mister Loid?

970 > Tagfer

Papa is gone. We could all be gone too. In an instant. Like... like... We have to keep quiet.

980 > Bird

Okay!

NewProbe

770 > Fib

We have seen all that we may from this vantage. I have marked a new Atropos Probe.

780 > Fib

The Vitreum is spent, but we must see more. Locate another Probe.

790 > Fib

Adequate, but not enough. Acquire more serum and stimulate another Vitreum!

800 > Fib

Nnngh. Our quarry evades detection. More serum! More visions!

810 > Fib

Insufficient! We must outstare the Murmur! Fetch a probe and narcotize another Vitreum!

820 > Fib

This Vitreum's tormented visions have undoubtedly helped, but our work is not yet complete. Repeat the process.

BountyNotFourFive

780 > Fib

If I may: do not tarry overlong.

790 > Fib

Well... I mean... if you're sure?

800 > Fib

Oh, you are called away?

810 > Fib

The enemy does not sleep, Operator.

820 > Fib

If you deem that best.

OutroSaleRankThree

780 > Bird

Okay.

TakeMissRankTwoFourFive

800 > Tagfer

Nice.

810 > Tagfer

Perfect.

820 > Tagfer

Works for me.

830 > Tagfer

Alright. What's his is ours.

840 > Tagfer

Let's rob the old fart blind.

850 > Tagfer

Be with you in five.

860 > Tagfer

Let's crack that thing.

BossReady

830 > Fib

Success! The Vitreum beholds swarm!

831 > Fib

Success! The Vitreum beholds swarm! Attack now, if you keep searching you risk discovering a purer, more virile foe.

840 > Fib

We... We have a lock. The Vitreum stares down our target.

841 > Fib

We... We have a lock. The Vitreum stares down our target. Press the attack now, if you keep searching I cannot be responsible for what horrors the Vitreum may find.

RankOnePoss

830 > Fib

Gather the others. I have something to say to all of you.

OutroNoRankThree

840 > Bird

(Pffft)

RankTwoPoss

840 > Fib

You have proven yourself worthy of trust. Stick around for a while, will you?

CustomOpen

850 > Bird

New plumage?

860 > Bird

Oh! Feathers changing? What season is it now?

870 > Bird

Ooh! Ooh!

960 > Tagfer

Just... promise me you won't laugh.

970 > Tagfer

A change is as good as a bender. Whatta we got.

980 > Tagfer

Time for a new me, maybe.

1060 > Fib

You think so? Oh, very well. Spruce me up.

1070 > Fib

By all means, improve upon perfection.

1080 > Fib

What tremendous designs do you dream of? I think I'd look rather spiffing with a moustache.

HardReady

850 > Fib

What charming arrogance. I do hope you are ready for what must now be unleashed.

860 > Fib

You allowed the Vitreum to locate the beast's most powerful form. Well, get on with it then.

RankThreePoss

850 > Fib

You. You are my ally, yes? A... friend? You understand the tortures of the soul? The manner in which a crisis reveals character, yes? How... how one might... might be ashamed of what a calamity reveals? About oneself? Yes? Please. Prove to me you are an ally. Stand with me?

RankFourPoss

860 > Fib

You have stood with us. Within this benighted valley, besieged and friendless as we are, you have stood with us. Thank you. Tagfer has requested we gather. I hope you will be there.

ArenaReached

870 > Fib

The beast sleeps here. Wake it!

880 > Fib

Summon the tide now.

890 > Fib

Now or never. Challenge it.

LeaveRankOne

870 > Tagfer

Ah. Okay then. Maybe later.

880 > Tagfer

Are... are you sure? Is everything okay?

890 > Tagfer

Oh. Okay. Should I be doing something different?

RankFivePoss

870 > Fib

Loid... Loid is prepared for us to undergo treatment. Hoo... As we are the only creatures to have fallen afoul of this particular affliction it will be quite an achievement should we survive. Perhaps you'd join us, for the big event? You never know it may actually work. And if not, be a love and ensure the silly old thing doesn't flagellate himself for the failure. You know how he is. This way.

CustomComp

880 > Bird

If I do this too much am I gonna molt?

890 > Bird

Ooh. Me like.

900 > Bird

SHIINEEE!

910 > Bird

Hee hee!

920 > Bird

Spiffy.

930 > Bird

I'm fancy!

940 > Bird

Hey! Hey! Lookit! Hey!

1030 > Tagfer

Might take some gettin' used to, but... I like it.

1040 > Tagfer

If she could see me now.

1050 > Tagfer

Not bad!

1130 > Fib

Ah. Glorious.

1140 > Fib

A consummate triumph... look at the fins on this.

1150 > Fib

I daresay I shall... grow used to it. Eventually.

RewardsOneTwo

880 > Fib

I suppose you deserve a little something for your efforts. Only little though.

890 > Fib

I do not consider this an effective use of resources, but what do I know? Have at it. Don't listen to the fish.

900 > Fib

Papa has... set aside certain things for you.

DefeatTide

900 > Fib

Here comes the tide. Let it break itself against you.

910 > Fib

Defeat the tide, to face the One.

LeaveRankThree

900 > Tagfer

Fine by me.

910 > Tagfer

Don't let me keep you.

920 > Tagfer

You're the boss, boss.

DefeatOne

920 > Fib

It manifests as one! Steel yourself and attack!

930 > Fib

There! The demon finally takes form! At last, it can be destroyed!

LeaveRankTwoFourFive

930 > Tagfer

C'mon. Who am I gonna ask? Bird?

940 > Tagfer

You really got something better to do?

950 > Tagfer

Okay. You're the boss.

Extract

940 > Fib

The Murmur weeps. My, my. You are quite something. Return to the Sanctum.

950 > Fib

As it was written, so has it come to pass. The awaited Operator has slain the many armed envoy. 'Vashtav, Mara Lohk.'

RewardsFourFive

940 > Fib

Behold.

950 > Fib

Cor-nu-copia.

960 > Fib

Spoilt for choice, I'd say.

ExtractHard

960 > Fib

The harder won the victory the greater the spoils. Return to the Sanctum and collect your bounty.

970 > Fib

Do you always do this, pick the hardest path? One of these times, you may not be so lucky. Until then, enjoy the fruits of your wrath.

ClaimOneTwo

970 > Fib

Now take your sweetie and run along.

980 > Fib

Papa must believe this aids in conditioning, I suppose.

990 > Fib

All right! There you go! Back to work!

CustomOngoing

990 > Tagfer

Decisions, decisions...

1000 > Tagfer

So? Whadda we think?

1010 > Tagfer

I mean, I could get used to it.

1020 > Tagfer

Feels like me, but is it me me, y'know?

1090 > Fib

Hmm. Meretricious.

1100 > Fib

You may wish to accentuate the brain. After all, that's what they look at.

1110 > Fib

Are you afflicted with choice paralysis?

1120 > Fib

One must be bold, but not gaudy.

MissionFourExterm

990 > Fib

Allow me to boil this down for you: should the Indifference's corrupting touch reach us and take back our speech? We would be screwed. So: be a love and eradicate the Murmur in this patch before the big bad gets word that Loid's awake and the fish is talking.

1000 > HumanLoid

Tenno... there is some truth to what the... fish... says. That page was the last thing my Albrecht ever wrote. Meant for me. Since I had no interest in reading his endless self-justifications, I hid it away instead. But with all this chaos, it's undetectable.

1010 > Fib

So long as the Indifference is missing a digit, it is confined to the strands of Khra. Don't ask, your tiny mind would likely pop under the strain of understanding. This limitation is our one hope.

1011 > HumanLoid

Do not patronize the Tenno, fish. The strands of Khra are merely Void-renderings of the chains of cause and effect. Conceptually embodied timelines, if you will.

1012 > Fib

Papa's daughter excelled at explaining complicated concepts in childish terms. I see now where she learned it.

1020 > HumanLoid

Tenno...

1030 > Fib

A fell hand raps upon the Untime Door, and sans Grimoire we are undone! We've been rumbled.

1040 > Fib

Arousing as I'm sure this is for you, the rest of us are moments away from an extinction grim. Black! And FINAL! So. If you would be so kind. Finish up. So I can point you. Toward. That. Sodding. Page.

1050 > HumanLoid

This is all my fault…

1060 > Fib

Yes it is, Loid. Yes it is.

1070 > Fib

Bravo. It was a long walk toward competence, but here you are. Now, please, the page.

1080 > TwinA

How about you give me the page instead, Kiddo? Consider it part of our deal.

1080 > TwinB

How about you give me the page instead, Kiddo? Consider it part of our deal.

1080 > TwinC

How about you give me the page instead, Kiddo? Consider it part of our deal.

1080 > TwinD

How about you give me the page instead, Kiddo? Consider it part of our deal.

1090 > HumanLoid

There. It's done. Keep it to yourself, Tenno. I'm damned if I'm giving Albrecht the last word.

1093 > HumanLoid

Tenno? Are you there? Thank Void! Listen. The Murmur diverted your Extraction-jump. We need you back at the Sanctum, now! Hurry!

1095 > HumanLoid

It takes and it takes. It took my future, it's taking the Labs inch by inch... well, I won't let it take his bloody Cavia!

SupportCut

1000 > Fib

The Murmur aims to choke you out. Not today, preparing a life support capsule.

1010 > Fib

Our foes have compromised the habitation systems. How predictable. Standby for life support.

SupportInc

1020 > Fib

Life Support approaching.

1030 > Fib

Capsule incoming. Use it well. They're expensive.

ClaimFourFive

1030 > Fib

I do hope you find that useful.

1040 > Fib

And well-earned, I might add.

1050 > Fib

With my compliments.

IntCapsule

1040 > Fib

Sending another capsule. These don't grow on trees you know.

1050 > Fib

Looks like you could use a bit of life support.

ByeOne

1060 > Tagfer

Okay.

1070 > Tagfer

Bye?

1080 > Tagfer

(Sigh)

1090 > Tagfer

Yeah.

1100 > Tagfer

So... that's all?

1110 > Tagfer

Yeah, okay.

1120 > Tagfer

I understand.

1160 > Fib

Off you trot.

1170 > Fib

Yes yes.

1180 > Fib

Run along.

1190 > Fib

Very good.

1200 > Fib

As you were.

1210 > Fib

Indeed.

1220 > Fib

Mm.

SupportAct

1060 > Fib

Breath well... Tenno.

1070 > Fib

Like a fish back in water. But with air.

SupportRem

1080 > Fib

Papa always outfitted the labs with emergency life support kits, but our adversaries have taken them. Take them back.

FirstRaidSuccess

1090 > Fib

Look what this fish just caught. You keep fighting, and I'll keep finding.

1100 > Fib

They're so distracted by your attack that I'm able to siphon valuables from murmur strongholds. They will never see this fish coming.

MissionFive

1100 > Fib

The sodding Indifference seeks a path through the walls, and then, Tenno, through you. Keep it at bay!

1110 > ManInTheWall

VOULL NE XATA VOK, MARA LOHK?

1120 > Fib

The strand holds. The Indifference approaches. Soon... it will take on mass.

1130 > HumanLoid

Get out! There is nothing for you here! Get out! OUT!

1140 > Fib

Tenno, the Grimoire must speak with its own voice!

1150 > Albrecht

[2]



[10.1]

Loid... you gave me back my sight, but I would not spare you a glance.

[17.7]

You gave me back my voice, but I never spoke to praise you as I should have.

[21.9]

For you were my right hand.

[27.8]

My strength, my support, my sanctuary.

[31.7]

Even when the galleries hurled scorn upon me,

[38.9]

your sole desire was to suffer it in my stead.

1160 > Albrecht

[2]



[4.9]

On your first day of service,

[9.4]

you aspired to be worthy of me.

[17.1]

I only wish that I could have been worthy of you, my Loid.

1170 > HumanLoid

He wasn't running away to a new life without me. He was going to his death! And he knew it! He wasn't saving the world, he was saving me. Oh, Albrecht…

1190 > HumanLoid

TENNO!

IntRaidSuccess

1110 > Fib

Your hard work is really paying off.

1120 > Fib

I do not think the Murmur will miss this, do you?

1130 > Fib

I shall put this one on the pile. We're going to need a bigger Sanctum.

ByeThree

1130 > Tagfer

(Exhales)

1140 > Tagfer

Any. Time.

1150 > Tagfer

Yyyep.

1230 > Fib

Goodbye.

1240 > Fib

Oh. Ah. Thank you. For your time.

1250 > Fib

Lovely to see you. As always.

SixtySeconds

1140 > Fib

Tick tock. Time and oxygen are running out.

1150 > Fib

Sixty seconds.

1160 > Fib

You have but sixty seconds of life support remaining.

ByeFive

1160 > Tagfer

Later.

1170 > Tagfer

Yep.

1180 > Tagfer

No problem.

1190 > Tagfer

You got it.

1200 > Tagfer

Mmhmm.

1210 > Tagfer

Done.

1220 > Tagfer

All right.

ThirtySeconds

1170 > Fib

Only thirty seconds left.

1180 > Fib

Thirty seconds before this area is lost to the Murmur for good.

1190 > Fib

Thirty very short seconds left to save your hide.

HubSix

1201 > HumanLoid

This stillness... Tenno. No. Operator.

1210 > Fib

The strand of Khra has been cut while the Indifference remains undeterred. I foresee a grim and continuing struggle to safeguard Papa's laboratory from its fell and ruinous grasp.

1220 > HumanLoid

Indeed. I shall not waver.

1230 > Fib

In the version of the past we saw, Papa said help came too late. The solution, obviously, is to arrive on time, next time. You keep the Murmur at bay, I shall fulfil the Cavia's role in the Kalymos Sequence. Punctuality.

1240 > HumanLoid

'Protect the Vessels. Repair. Rebuild.' So runs the Kalymos Sequence, and such is our task. In the version of the past we saw, My Albrecht said we were too late. The solution, naturally, is to arrive on time, next time. You keep the Murmur at bay, I shall fulfil my role: Punctuality. The Entrati family never could arrive on time without my help. And so... here I am, back to my old role. The diligent servant. Albrecht would have smiled at that, I think.

1245 > HumanLoid

He said...

1246 > HumanLoid

...do not let it see you weeping, Loid.

1247 > HumanLoid

...my last sight of your face must not be marred by tears.

1248 > HumanLoid

...how do I still deserve your tears after all I have done?

1249 > OperatorVoiceA

1249 > OperatorVoiceB

1249 > OperatorVoiceC

1249 > OperatorVoiceD

1250 > TwinA

We had a deal. The deal was shook.

A little handshake, all it took!

Though from the deal the wee child ran...

1250 > TwinB

We had a deal. The deal was shook.

A little handshake, all it took!

Though from the deal the wee child ran...

1250 > TwinC

We had a deal. The deal was shook.

A little handshake, all it took!

Though from the deal the wee child ran...

1250 > TwinD

We had a deal. The deal was shook.

A little handshake, all it took!

Though from the deal the wee child ran...

1260 > EvilAlbrecht

[2.5]

Yet still...

[7.8]

WE END AS WE BEGAN.

[9.3]

ExtractUrgent

1230 > Fib

Get out now!

1240 > Fib

That area has been permanently compromised. Extract!

1250 > Fib

You are out of options. Retreat to the Sanctum.

ByeFour

1260 > Fib

Do not stay away overlong. Our enemy does not tire.

1270 > Fib

Farewell.

1280 > Fib

Until the next.

1290 > Fib

Good day to you... I love you.

MultiPrompt

1260 > Fib

Multiple Vitreum scanners can be Probed simultaneously. A gamble, a risk. But, worth considering to get this over with faster!

1270 > Fib

This can all be over quickly if you want to risk probing multiple Vitreum scanners at once. Potentially a valuable case study in risk assessment.

1280 > Fib

Were you to assign colleagues to administer serum to multiple scanners at the same time, it would speed up the process while adding to the, ah... excitement.

1290 > Fib

Don't feel you have to inject the Vitreums one at a time. By all means, make this a group project! Plenty of eyeballs to go around! But do be careful. Go bipeds!

QuestComp

1270 > HumanLoid

Tenno, the Warframe Qorvex was designed by my Albrecht's own hand, to protect the chosen Operator from the hazards of his laboratory. This design is yours by right. I intend to keep the promise I made to him. When the time is right and the equipment repaired, I will assist you to travel back to the past, to the pivotal year of 1999. Perhaps, between us, we may change history.



Loid

1280 > Fib

[9.4]

Chosen Operator. A friendly suggestion: you could do so much more with those Melee weapons of yours.

[15.3]

I donate my wisdom on both tool and technique.

[27.0]

Listen well. TENNOKAI, a fighting technique fusing Void and Beastial instinct. Raw power.

[37.4]

While I have never used Tennokai, I understand it perfectly. Somewhat of a mind master.

[45.3]

Enough so that lost materials pertaining to Tennokai have been stored just out of my reach in the Sanctum.

[53.9]

Tools. Papa was not one to rest, use this segment to unlock more potential for your Arsenal.

[67.9]

The Arcane was an art and science that Papa studied well - the convexity of my bowl a magnifying glass on his research, and now your gain.

[80.7]

Install this segment, acquire Melee Arcanes, find Tennokai Modules, and observe the results: a swift deletion of your foes.

Released under the MIT License.