GlassOne

10 > NoraNight

Heard of those cubes? You know - 'Cephalons' right? Probably got one a bit-cracked, kissin' up to you all the time?



See, in the old days, crime and punishment was all in the hands of those Orokin judges, the Seven. Mercy was a quick flash of the Jade light… But - if they wanted to make an example, they'd suck up your soul and make you a prisoner of the glass, forever.



Seems like magic to us nowadays, but dreamers… someone's got it puzzled out again. Waves are buzzing, new glass is showing up. Souls getting snapped up and trapped up.



All we've got to go on is this crime-simula I pulled from the weave. No sign of our killer and not a soul to tell us where they went…

20 > NoraNight

Well, take a look around. See if you can suss out any clues about whoever this… 'Glassmaker' might be.

30 > NoraNight

Used to be a middle-aged Ostron, but he's been… degraded. From the inside out. Glassed… but not all the way. You seeing that left hand? Burned.



Weirdest of the weird? What's left of him is… resonating. Like… singing some weird-assed song. Not diggin' this. Not. At. All.

40 > NoraNight

Looking for custom tech, but it sounds like our guy didn't have the means.

50 > NoraNight

Folklore has it these Ayatans used to hold memories. Nowadays, some Ostrons survive peddling Old War trinkets like this, harvested from the Tower.

60 > NoraNight

Community, sharing, it's ingrained in Ostron culture. Unusual that one would be looking to make a score of their own outside their commune markets.

70 > NoraNight

Not the tools of someone who works the Tower scaffolds. Was he expecting trouble?

80 > NoraNight

That's it, I guess. Hmm. That energy resonance… You see it change?

91 > Nihil

Oh. I'm so glad you're here.

92 > Nihil

Was old Shigg a mutual acquaintance? How well did you know him, really?

94 > Nihil

Fine. You talk to daffy old Shigg. If you favor the opinions of the low. Of criminals. The depraved.

95 > Nihil

Do you know what he did, old Shigg? Set out a selfish play against his clade.

96 > Nihil

Willing and able to draw blood for it too.

97 > Nihil

A foul necrocapitalist, a clear violator of the 401st and 623rd legem!

98 > Nihil

To your association I am now witness.

100 > NoraNight

Dreamer! Where did you go? Did you get anything on the Glassmaker?

110 > NoraNight

'Legem'? That's an Orokin word, means law. Ain't nobody usin' that word these days. He sounds friendly enough, but listen to that anger. Anger like that only builds.



The soul he took held a clue. My gut says the only way you're trackin' the Glassmaker is from inside that maze. Bad news is the trail's gone cold. But the bad vibe snakin' up my spine says it won't be for long. Stay in touch, Dreamer. The Glassmaker's just gettin' started. I can feel it.

GlassWeaveWrong

10 > Nihil

Ah ah ah!

20 > Nihil

It's best you go.

40 > Nihil

Goodbye.

50 > Nihil

Friends! Only.

60 > Nihil

You're not a real child... are you. Not really. None of you are.

70 > Nihil

Time to go, I think.

80 > Nihil

Braving the inside of another's mind. Takes a toll. Not for you, I think.

90 > Nihil

No no no. I should think not.

100 > Nihil

Go now.

110 > Nihil

The last person to try that now lives behind another door. In another place. Far away. Forever.

GlassTwo

120 > NoraNight

Glass is still turning up, Dreamer. But you already knew that, didn't you? Probably ran into a few 'Cephalites' yourself? Partial glass, like a Cephalon interrupted. Well, it seems they're on the move now, changing course. Why?



Here's the only lead we have. A new crime scene I managed to grab before the Taxmen moved in. Solo gig on a Corpus A-train.



You know what to do. Work the evidence. Piece it together. See how it connects. It's the only way back to that twisted weave. It's the only way to find out who's behind this and put a stop to it.

130 > NoraNight

Every day they recite that Corpus dogma. The creed of righteous greed.

140 > NoraNight

Bak Vondu - fiber jockey. If I know my Corpus script, this one had serious technical chops.

150 > NoraNight

No accident their hoods look like this. Built-in voice modulator does the rest. Just another robot to the Corpus.

160 > NoraNight

Oddly personal. What's this doing without a cipher?

170 > NoraNight

Expensive stuff. Did he see it for what it was? Corpus propaganda.

180 > NoraNight

Been nagging at me. The word 'legem', that Orokin word for law. I put the feelers out. My network, Little Duck's, the Quills.



Dreamer, I think I know who the Glassmaker is... or... who he was...  Nihil. Every Ceph you ever met was once a person, before they met him. He made them all. For them. For the Orokin. As a punishment that would never end.



Now that Vondu's built him that broadcaster? He's lookin' to graduate from murder to mass murder. Nihil's gonna go wide.

190 > Nihil

Oh dear. We meet again. I really am in the middle of something.

201 > Nihil

I find chaos… unsettling.

202 > Nihil

Corpus dogma demands self-interest. Their culture is ordered by it. Vondu here... was selfless.

203 > Nihil

Look at the chaos that spewed from that. Broken laws, black marketeering, a broken-hearted mother and a collapsed family empire.

204 > Nihil

Everyone is guilty of the good they did not do - if one only looks.

205 > Nihil

And I see everything. What to do. What to do...

GlassFissureDetect

190 > NoraNight

Hold up. Detecting glass resonance. It's close.

200 > NoraNight

Eyes open. There's glass resonance in your neighborhood.

210 > NoraNight

We've got signals singin' the same song as our victim. Careful now.

GlassFissureSpawned

220 > NoraNight

Cephalites! Time to smash some glass.

230 > NoraNight

Where are they coming from? Void, who did this to them?

240 > NoraNight

Whatever these Cephalites have become, there's no going back.

250 > NoraNight

There's less than nothing left of who they once were.

GlassFissureWeakpoint

260 > NoraNight

Dreamer, there's gotta be a way to take these things down.

270 > NoraNight

They're tough, but no glass is unbreakable.

271 > NoraNight

You gotta find out what's protecting them and then take your shot.

NoraAirSupport

310 > NoraNight

Dreamers, let's put these nightmares to sleep.

320 > NoraNight

Bedtime, baby.

330 > NoraNight

From on high here's the lowdown.

340 > NoraNight

Sweet dreams, suckers.

350 > NoraNight

Lemme drop somethin' on you.

360 > NoraNight

Mic drop.

GlassThreeIntro

370 > NoraNight

Nihil. Worse than an executioner, worse even than an Excruciator. When my tired ol' grandma didn't have time for my nonsense, Nihil was the bogeyman she said was gonna come put naughty Nora in a bottle. But Nihil was real. He's still here, somehow, after all this time… and still passing judgment. We've got another victim, crystalized in exile. This one feels different. Can't put my finger on why. Get on up now. Determine his pattern. Gather the clues and get back into Nihil's Weave. We can't find him and there ain't no lockin' him back in whatever bottle he came from.

GlassThreeInspect

380 > NoraNight

Abandoned Grineer watchpost. Not a lot of traffic these parts. He kept it up though, made it a home. Probably all he knew. Oddly peaceful. Like he was ready for it. Didn't put up a fight.

GlassThreeClueOne

400 > NoraNight

Standard issue for the Grineer… but hasn't been fired in a good long while. Chamber's clean, mag's empty. What kinda Grineer doesn't use their weapon?

GlassThreeClueTwo

410 > NoraNight

So, our boy was a reader. Somebody with questions. Not very Grineer. Goes against all their indoctrination. Like my Mama always said: nobody likes a thinker.

GlassThreeClueThree

420 > NoraNight

Kid's toy. That is messed up right there. Grineer take trophies, sure - weapons, tech, armor. But a scruffy little floof? If I didn't know better I'd say he felt something. Love? Guilt? Wouldn't have been tolerated.

GlassThreeClueFive

430 > NoraNight

Our victim found a way to eavesdrop on encrypted channels. Hm. An agent for a Solaris United whisper network? Looks like he was giving colonies advance warning of Grineer attacks. Our boy wasn't a coward saving his own skin, he was risking his life out of a sense of morality. Obligation.

GlassThreeWeave

460 > Nihil

Rarely does one encounter a lamb so eager to know the mouth of the lion. But, since you're here…

461 > Nihil

There is order, and there is chaos.

462 > Nihil

I am order. He was chaos.

463 > Nihil

His insubordination, thoughts… guilt… feelings… chaos to Grineer order.

464 > Nihil

Your persistence is disruptive to my efforts to order. Therefore you are…?

465 > Nihil

You are an infection. Chaos infects, as Gral was infected, and spreads. A lack of vigilance is the vector. Oh, we lose vigilance if not reminded. This Grineer? Now? Is an eternal reminder, has become an agent of order and so… is redeemed. You, yourself, are not beyond redemption.

GlassmakerClueThree

470 > NoraNight

That's the pattern. Nihil's a judge, working to a long-dead playbook, without a shred of mercy. Almost like he's a precept, instead of a person. Every society has its misfits - you and me included - but a guilty Grineer with a moral compass? Next level. Some go their whole lives and never do nothin' like that. Respect. You're close. Each time Nihil glasses, he reveals. We just gotta get ahead of him.

GlassFourIntro

480 > NoraNight

Dreamer, meet Cutter. This is the guy our Grineer victim was trying to contact. If Gral was part of a Solaris United whisper network then Cutter must have been his handler. So this was his bolthole. Look around, let's see what we can learn.

GlassFourInspect

490 > NoraNight

Grim. Looks like he had a moment with his killer, and he did not like it. The other victims were all taken fast, but Cutter had time to plead his case. What made him so different?

GlassFourClueOne

500 > NoraNight

Files on Shigg, Vondu and Gral - the other 3 victims. Cutter made a case for them being… used. Shigg was to invent some kind of device. Vondu built it. Gral… had the encrypted access so the device could broadcast wide. But broadcast what?

GlassFourClueTwo

510 > NoraNight

Dossiers on those Cutter suspected of being Solaris United, and closed dossiers on… the ones he confirmed. Some repoed, others used in Nef Anyo's Tribute experiments. Cutter wasn't SU - the opposite. He was being paid to identify and round up SU operatives.

GlassFourClueThree

520 > NoraNight

Looks like Cutter delivered the transmitter Shigg designed and Vondu built to… dammit. Somewhere. It's built to clone some kind of signal - holopresence maybe? - to multiple locations at once. Powerful, powerful signal. I do not like this.

GlassFourClueFive

530 > NoraNight

Looks like Cutter was assigned homework. Looking into Parvos Granum. Something about 'old ways.' Did they know each other back in the day? Nihil seems to think he and Granum might be on the same page. An ally?

GlassFourWeave

540 > Nihil

You want to know why I'm doing this. Your friend - Nora - wants to know. Naughty little Nora. Afraid I would find her all alone and put her in a bottle. Yes. Cutter and his friends have been quite helpful in opening my eyes and ears to the modern System.

541 > Nihil

Why oppose me? We both prize Justice, defend it. What justice do you imagine enacting if I have to put you in a bottle?

542 > Nihil

Do you know mercy, Tenno? I almost spared Cutter. He was a traitor, but to betray one must belong. Cutter never did. He was a nation of one, and to that he was truly loyal.

543 > Nihil

But traitor he was and for all his proud words he begged at the end. And I… killed him, I suppose. Killed what he was. But you kill, too, constantly. Doesn't put you in much of a position to judge.

544 > Nihil

I have all that I need. Order will no longer be upheld one miscreant at a time. I am amplified. Soon I shall be everywhere and with it… order.

545 > Nihil

What a fine example each and every Tenno shall make, you killers of foes, friends and family. And naughty Nora. Her role won't change terribly much, but her agenda… very different. A voice of truth and order, sermonizing tirelessly, forever. Fully aware of what she has become. Goodbye, Tenno. Our next meeting will be our last.

GlassmakerClueFour

560 > NoraNight

You got that right.

GlassFiveIntro

580 > NoraNight

Nihil's hit his endgame. Dozens are getting glassed now, systemwide, and he's just warming up. Easy to trace a signal that strong. This is where Nihil glassed thousands - maybe millions. Back in the day, this place would have been stacked with pretty glass bottles - Cephalon oubliettes. Tiny little hells, each built for one. He's hiding out. We gotta find out where - and fast.

590 > Nihil

A little late for that. I'm everywhere now. Hello. Oh, she can't hear us. It's just you and me. For now. Once I filled this chamber with filled oubliettes. That anguished choir sang a song that healed my jaded old soul. That choir shall sing again.

600 > NoraNight

Wait. Under that Infested mass… glass. Looks like we got a body after all.

GlassFiveClueOne

620 > NoraNight

Orokin laws. Legem. They had hundreds of these books. Easy to put a foot wrong when your masters change the rules as they please. Judging from their condition, I'd say when the Empire's end came, it was fast and violent. Someone saved these few - and they're all about glassing.

630 > Nihil

They were deranged children run amok. Centuries of progress - destroyed. But they never destroyed me. Never caught me. And our end only proved our correctness... that our laws had been just. Too late. But. It's never too late, is it, Nora?

GlassFiveClueTwo

640 > NoraNight

So many souls were glassed here. These shackles... logged and numbered. This place is important to him. So important, I'm startin' to think he never left it.

650 > Nihil

Butcher, barber, surgeon. These are issues of degree. Sometimes all that was needed was a little off the top... but it's the beheadings people remember. A society fails without both haircuts and hangings. Naughty Nora doesn't understand that.

GlassFiveClueThree

660 > NoraNight

This would be how Cutter got Nihil's attention. Woke him, maybe. Either way, he got a lot more than he bargained for when he connected to this abandoned part of the Weave. We all did.

GlassFiveClueFour

670 > NoraNight

These were all people once, Dreamer. Reduced to examples... to keep the rest in line. Just like Nihil is set on doing now.

GlassFiveClueFive

680 > NoraNight

Justice never lived inside these walls, only oppression.  After all this time, from whatever hell he wound up in, the Glassmaker still wants to keep a heavy boot planted on every face.

690 > Nihil

Oh please. The mob murdered the Empire. Since then, the Origin System has known nothing but conflict, chaos, and collapse. The human capacity for delusion truly is without limit. You ask why I exist? I give you this little mouthpiece for the collapse of civilization.

GlassFiveClueDone

720 > NoraNight

Dreamer! Picking up massive Weave resonance from the corpse. The Infestation can't take it… it's burning away. Look.

721 > NoraNight

The body… it's Orokin. Wait. Wait. Nooo... he wouldn't... would he?

730 > Nihil

Took you long enough.

GlassFiveWeave

740 > Nihil

The law is the heaviest of stones - a saving anchor for the righteous, a killing weight for the unjust. Prepare. For it now. Descends. Upon YOU.

GlassFiveWeaveMissClue

750 > Nihil

And to think you believed you were ready.

760 > Nihil

Oop-sie.

770 > Nihil

Hapless. Incompetence.

GlassFiveWeaveClueOne

780 > Nihil

Naughty Nora with her little shoulder to the door, thinking to keep me out. Her defenses won't last long while you, on the other hand, have no defenses at all.

GlassFiveWeaveClueTwo

790 > NoraNight

Arc-screen is down. Feedback loops broken… Dreamer! He's here, he's right on top of me, coming through the --

GlassFiveWeaveClueThree

800 > Nihil

I am with Nora now, Tenno. She's afraid. But not for long. I shall remake her in an image more appropriate to her future function…

GlassFiveWeaveClueFour

810 > NoraNight

Dreamer!... He's… stealing me… from myself… but I'm not alone.

GlassFiveWeaveClueFive

820 > Nihil

Ssh. Ssh. There. Silence. I had the strength to turn my instrument of judgment upon myself, to escape hordes of ravenous, idiot little specks like you. I have more than enough strength to shut… you… up.

GlassNihilFightIntro

830 > Nihil

[11.0]

When the barbarians are at the gate, the truly noble may choose to find an honorable way out; and so the crude and lawless find they have arrived too late.

[17.0]

And thus, the weave of history may disguise a cunning victory as a defeat.

[24.0]

I am Nihil. Glassmaker. Order. Shall be. Restored.

840 > NoraNight

We're all here… Gral, Bak Vondu, Shigg… every last glassed soul…. Find them, Dreamer… before we all join them...

GlassNihilFightClue

850 > Nihil

Found someone, have you, Nora?

GlassNihilFightHintOne

860 > Nihil

Trapped, forever separated from his little fluffy friend. Pathetic. Leave him.

870 > Nihil

The Orokin designed them to be perfect. This one's very existence spits in the face of perfection. And you would release him?

880 > Nihil

A deviant who was an affront to generations of martial greatness deserves no better than an eternity in the prison to which I have consigned him!

GlassNihilFightWrongCrystal

890 > Nihil

Irrelevant.

900 > Nihil

Motion denied.

910 > Nihil

Do you even know what you're looking for?

920 > Nihil

Haven't done your due diligence, have you?

GlassNihilFightCrystalOne

930 > Nihil

Wait. Of all the prisoners to free, you chose the doll-hugging pacifist?! This is too much!

931 > NoraNight

Big words… from someone… who crapped his toga and hid in the weave… when the Tenno kicked in his door.

GlassNihilFightDamageOne

940 > Nihil

This won't be pretty.

950 > Nihil

You presumptuous tick.

960 > Nihil

How. Dare you.

GlassNihilFightShieldRecastOne

970 > Nihil

You won't be getting any more help.

GlassNihilFightHintTwo

980 > Nihil

A lifetime of dogma and creed were not enough to prevent his… deviation… from the norms of his culture. His sentence is just.

990 > Nihil

Kindness. Charity. A violation of the social contract to which he was born. He deserves this.

1000 > Nihil

Nevermore to extend a helping hand, this one. Leave him. He should wallow in that for eternity.

GlassNihilFightCrystalTwo

1009 > NoraNight

An old friend wants to say hi.

1010 > Nihil

Damn you! Oh, Bak Vondu. You shall sing for me again!

1011 > NoraNight

Lot of info in here, Glassmaker. Legem 6-243. 'No capital sentence shall be passed without unanimous consent of the Seven, on pain of…' Oh, look at that. 'Forfeiture of all tools of office, banishment.' Huh. You're a criminal.

GlassNihilFightDamageTwo

1020 > Nihil

The Empire! Lives! Through me!

1030 > Nihil

You. HURT. ME.

1040 > Nihil

You can't win. You can't.

GlassNihilFightShieldRecastTwo

1049 > NoraNight

Glassing yourself let you escape once. Nowhere to run now. No clever way out. Time to live or die by those vaunted convictions. Glassmaker.

1050 > Nihil

So. Naughty Nora… fancies herself… a revolutionary AND a scholar. Well. I'm. The Big Dog. Here.

GlassNihilFightHintThree

1060 > Nihil

Community. Raised him. Cared for him. And he turned his back on them! Let him suffer!

1070 > Nihil

He will never again see the plains from the height of his brothers' scaffolds. I have made sure of that. That is just.

1080 > Nihil

This one will never again savor the taste of hot chimurr on a cold plains night. For his sins.

GlassNihilFightCrystalThree

1089 > Nihil

SHIGG!! You were scum when you were dragged to me… you were scum when you screamed, and you are scum now!

1090 > NoraNight

Shut up, man, we're busy.

GlassNihilFightFinalStage

1100 > Nihil

No! I will not fail again!

1110 > Nihil

This is not the end, Betrayer! Our Golden Empire dies not here!

1120 > Nihil

For you… for this… I shall create… such… hell.

1130 > Nihil

Pain! For you! Forever!

GlassNihilFightEnd

1140 > Nihil

Aaaah!

1150 > NoraNight

We ready?

1160 > Nihil

Waaaiiittt...

1170 > NoraNight

Get him.

1180 > Nihil

No! NOOOOOO...!

1190 > NoraNight

Now sing, you bastard.

GlassNihilFightNoraEmail

1210 > NoraNight

Here he is. The Terror of the Orokin: bottled up like a rich lady's bathwater. Or two-credit hooch. Do what you want with him. Prop a door open, bury him twenty feet deep. Either way, he's yours. It's up to you to make sure he never gets loose again. Hell of a day, Dreamer. Hell of a day.

GlassNihilFightDamagePlayer

1220 > Nihil

Break.

1230 > Nihil

Do you wish to make a final statement?

1240 > Nihil

Contemptible.

1250 > Nihil

On your knees!

1260 > Nihil

Disappointing.

1270 > Nihil

Manners.

1280 > Nihil

Bear up. It's nearly over.

GlassNihilFightPlayerFail

1290 > Nihil

You had to do it the hard way.

1300 > Nihil

Sentence... has been passed.

1310 > Nihil

Guilty.

1320 > Nihil

There is but one rule: the rule of the rod.

1330 > Nihil

Persistent. Your kind always were.

GlassNihilTrapped

1350 > Nihil

You made a mistake, placing me in here… whole and entire.

1360 > Nihil

Small minds die in cells. Great minds? Great minds do their finest work.

1370 > Nihil

Look at you. Strutting. Righteous. We'll exchange places soon enough.

1380 > Nihil

HmmmmMmmmmm... Can I help you?

1390 > Nihil

I had generations to plan my return. Do you think - for one moment - that I had not allowed for this eventuality?

1400 > Nihil

I glassed so many in my time. Surely you'd like to know where they are? Let me out. Let me out, and I'll show you.