thinking about tenno landing in cetus during a storm. walking up the stone steps to the marketplace getting battered by rain - if it somehow seeped through the metal armor, the windchill would be brutal. syandanas soaked through and clinging to their backs. earth rains like it means it and it's a slog even with the shortest of treks
tenno stepping under the huge ostron canopies and into the warmth (not just physical, but atmospheric). thinking abt ostron people taking in the sight of this seven foot tall warrior standing there silently, glimmering with rainfall and tracking puddles in and looking strangely miserable for it
thinking abt villagers just rushing this warframe with towels, blankets. rubbing the rainfall and journey-grit off of their armor as if it's something precious
taking the tenno's syandana like one would a greatcoat, returning it clean and dry
an act of service and of affection for their most esteemed surah
Anya is live and ready to show you everything. Watch her strip, dance, and perform exclusive shows just for you. Interact in real-time and make your fantasies come true.
✓ Live Streaming✓ Interactive Chat✓ Private Shows✓ HD Quality
Anya is LIVE right now
FREE
Free to watch • No registration required • HD streaming
You know, sometimes I wonder who actually cares about the Tenno.
None of the Syndicates do, they all have their own goals and agendas, the Tenno are either a tool or idols to worship to them.
Lotus? No. She pretends she does, but, even after everything we’re still a tool. Otherwise we would have a choice other than fighting. If she really does care, she has a funny way of showing it. That, or she’s misguided herself.
Fortuna... They care. I’m sure it started as us just being allies, but, they all seem to care in their own way. Especially Ticker. She’s a sweetheart, and really tries her best.
The Ostrons seem to care as well, it took a while to warm up to them, but they really do see us as family. As protectors as well, but, aside from the Quills... I can very much feel at home around some of them.
Ordis cares in what ways he can... Though, I really wish I could find away to help him, I’m afraid he might deteriorate to the point of no return someday... I think Cy cares as well, again, what he can as a cephalon.
The remaining Dax seem to care, maybe it stems from... Brothers and Sisters in arms? Varzia has a particularly personal touch, I could sit and talk to her for hours. Even if she... Can be a little risque when it comes to others like Teshin or Maroo.
Nora cares in her own way, I suppose as well. Darvo seems like he cares, but... It’s hard to tell, honestly.
I guess that really leaves us to care about each other. I know I care about the others I’ve met, I go out of my way to help the ones that let me. I even remember the names of the Tenno who gave them to me. Lily, Xiao, Auric... I could go on. I hope I’ve been a guiding hand, in some way to them. Or, if anything, some spot of positivity in all of this.
Some day, I feel like, all we’re going to have is each other... I hope that feeling is wrong.
The message that greets offworlders who arrive in Cetus is as follows:
Swazdo-lah, Tenno! Welcome to Cetus, unique among the stars! Explore the bustling market for all your practical needs! If you're looking for adventure on the Plains of Eidolon, speak to Konzu. Stay a while, and come back anytime on your journeys across the Rails.
Male Ostron
"Powders and dyes! Newly arrived at great risk from the Eurasian zone! Display your love with a streak of vermilion! Highlight those eyes with a dash of rare cerulean! Powders and dyes!"
"Swazdo-lah! Lok heb! Look here: wine! Imbued with the etheric signature of a person you wish to be rid of! Spouse? Enemy? Ah, you drink them in the evening, and expel them by morning, eh? Guaranteed results!"
"Finest masks, created by third-generation maskers! Herald your line and protect your bellows from gilding! Pride and health for the cost of a single purchase!"
"Doctor Tanak's cerebral nutrients! Available in Cetus for the first time! The product of more than ten years' study! The venerable doctor now brings his range of livers, ales, humours, tinctures and unguents to you!"
"Doh-ga, doh-ga! Temple flesh, rendered this morning! A small quantity of Temple Kuva, available for the right client! For fascia, for oils, for matters of integumentary and subcutaneous! Available to all for the right price! Gold for blood, good people, gold for blood!"
"Eight casks, old man. Five forty-weights of flesh."
"Ah, traveller. This morning by her grace, the Temple offered of herself a particularly rich find of cellular proto-essence just below the stratum germinativum."
"The blanket piece is ready for hoisting, old man!"
"Dah-dup. Lift her gently now. Flensers make ready. Airing board ready to receive her fascia."
"Hand off your scrubs to the retrievers. Know that you see and are seen."
"She gives, we live."
"Swazdo-lah, surah."
"Well met."
"You see and are seen."
"Be well."
Female Ostron
"Swazdo-lah, surah. If you will, inspect the quality of this black skin. See how it comes away beneath the fingernail? How succulent would this be on your tongue? Succulent-utz."
"Abyssal snail spawn! As served on the tables of Corpus royalty! One thousand platinum per dropper, yes?"
"Toilet bags! Handy for those on the go! Bodily waste converted to odourless crystals. Easy to dispose! Also, I have jewellery available in two colours!"
"Fresh fish to feed the family, with eyes or without! Black fish, gulper, mesopelagic, bathypelagic, from shallows and river."
"Need to stay awake? Chew some vandal bark! We also have dried ponda milk, and a wide range of charpi! Legal in several jurisdictions, reasonable prices!"
"Harpu! Melted Vobi butter and freshly brewed Chimurr. Salt and balb flour extra! Harpu! Hot Harpu!"
"I have seen the inside of the Temple, and she has taught me much. Know your future. One cut, and your path lays itself out! Your future laid bare in a drop of blood!"
"The bailer, if you would, doh-ga. Ten ampules ready for the crucible."
"Those are fine boots, but they won't last. You want leather, wooden-pegged. Her oil will rot that rubber within a week."
"Utz! You must be watchful of some offworlders."
"Swazdo-lah, surah."
"Well met."
"You see and are seen!"
"Be well."
Male Child Ostron
"Be superior to nothing but your former self. Be well, surah!"
"My father was lost at sea, surah. I now live by the lander pads. Can you spare a coin or two?"
"I can't stop to talk, Mama needs Vobi butter before the Harpu congeals!"
"Mother says I shouldn't hate them for what they did. She says that things only grow when watered. But I want to hate them."
"My father is no longer in that line of business, surah. You'll have to find another canoe to peddle."
"I have a pet Kavat. She is black and white. Her name is Wunakt. It means 'day and night'. Do you have a pet?"
"(sing-song) Leaving on the inside, tempting fate
Sitting on the outside, dead men wait!
Don't go, don't go, the wives all cry
Ha-ha-ha, ho-ho-ho, the men wave goodbye!
Well met, well met, the dead come home
Avanti, avanti, kingdom of bone!
The gate goes clack, the sun rolls back
Nothing to be done for them, a graveyard plaque!"
Anya is live and ready to show you everything. Watch her strip, dance, and perform exclusive shows just for you. Interact in real-time and make your fantasies come true.
✓ Live Streaming✓ Interactive Chat✓ Private Shows✓ HD Quality
Anya is LIVE right now
FREE
Free to watch • No registration required • HD streaming
After spending so much time on other planets, I think I forget how beautiful Earth really is. It's ironic, really, that the cradle world of humanity is so largely abandoned. But, at the same time, I feel like the lack of human hands is exactly why Earth is so beautiful. Or, at least, what parts of it have managed to flourish.
From the orbiter you can see the scars left by humanity and the Orokin, scorched Earth and Desert. Yet here she is, slowly recovering. And, the places that have recovered are breathtaking.
The Ostrons, the Grineer, and other smaller pockets of civilization; that's really all that's left of us here. At least, in permanent presence. I don't know if I would count the moon, or the relay. And, I think that's for the better. New Loka's obsession with purity is... Frankly extreme and unnerving at times, but, they're not entirely wrong in their goal to reverse the damage done.
The Grineer would see the planet burn, siphoned of all of its resources. I'm, admittedly, surprised the Corpus haven't tried to claim what resources remain. Maybe it isn't profitable enough? Whatever the reason, I'm glad they're absent, if Venus is anything to run on.
I wonder if Earth will ever become home to humanity again? Or, if us having a home again is even feasible. Sometimes I feel like the wars never end, otherwise, the Tenno wouldn't be needed. Children, cleaning up the messes left behind by adults...
What would they do if the Tenno turned on them, I wonder? And, decided to reclaim what was lost for themselves? They have to be tired of fighting, tired of losing people... I know I am. It's why I try so hard to look after the others.
