#rift asks

ANYWAY. This was so much better than what I imagined but oh my god. The funny cute banter between Scar and Mumbo that is like barely inches from flirting. The teasing. The little jokes. Scar's fascination with "human stories." His excitement over the most mundane of memories, the minecart ride and the discoveries AND THEN WHAM, HURT!! ANGST!! NO COMFORT!! "WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?!" AND THE RUNNING AND THE SHEER PANIC OF IT ALL OHHFDSHHAH-

Okay. Okay lemme back it up. Man the cute domesticness at the start, the little signs of Mumbo warming up to Grian (my dear readers that scene originally went very different and as good as the original was I am delighted by the change). I still can't get over the mental imagine of "Scar! :D And Grian :|" but he's warming up and he's becoming fond of the bird boy and aaaaaa I love them and they love each other <3 Helping Mumbo do something as boring and domestic as make item frames and just mmmm <3

"We have guns" YEAH WELL GUESS WHAT SCAR THAT'S NOT GONNA FUCKING HELP-

The minecart ride.... you should totally post the whole thing as an aside on tumblr or something, the long 700-ish word version was very fun :) But you summarized it very nicely here <3 I just love Scar tripping as he gets out and Mumbo ZOOMING over to help him, like honey I think you cut some of Grian's hair there LMAO

Just the whole arguing about the chorus fruit. "I'll go first, no I'LL go first you could get hurt, no ME-" Then Grian just fucking peaces out and immediately injures himself SORRY that SENT me I love them so much. I wonder how Mumbo and Scar react to that. "No I'll go first you're accidEEEGRIAN-"

Grian batting Mumbo away from the flame with his wings and Scar floating his staff away LMAO. Mumbo just Causing Problems On Purpose. Grian and Scar fighting to keep him Away From The Torch and him just being like having no self preservation cares BUT THEN TWO SECONDS LATER JUMPING AWAY WHEN THE TORCH GETS TOO CLOSE ON ACCIDENT LMAO. I'm sorry I love him so much, turns out a wet cat is still a cat indeed-

And Grian getting lost in his memories. Like he was in two places at once, in his head and physically (that is such a mood ngl, me every time I walk across my grandmother's farm jkgfdkj). The concern Mumbo and Scar have about him getting lost in thought and Scar's excitement over him getting a little flash of a mundane little memory aaaaa <3

THE ONES WHO CAME BEFORE I LOVE IT. I mean you know me you know I love a good ancestors and city ruins plot. AN ANCIENT MOB FARM KJFJKSJKFSJK at least they get the idea to dig around it. My god Mumbo's immediate "No you are not building a bridge here" and trying to be Intimidating™ and Firm™ and Scar just looking him dead in the eyes and lighting the torch to send him scuttling back like the wet cat he is under his vampirism HJKFSJLFKJSL I LOVE THEM SO FUCKING MUCH also the "I'm not as flammable as Scar says I am" WHY DO I GET THE FEELING YOU ARE LYING MR. JUMBO HUH?? HUH????

Anyway Grian just SEEING the purple light in the distance and knowing it's the Rift and immediately being mesmerized by it, drawn forward. God I want to see that scene from Scar and Mumbo's pov, Grian just running past them and flying and just jkfgkjdkj. AND THEN. THEN THE RIFT????? PUTS HIM IN A MEMORY???? I legit thought for a moment that Grian was remembering his home falling apart and then it just turned out to be an accident and then Mumbo and Scar's voices and words just melded with the memory?? dream?? and he had no idea what was really happening AND ALMOST WALKED STRAIGHT INTO THE RIFT I AM SOOO JKDSJKFJKS

AND SCAR SCREAMING. SCAR REALIZING WHAT'S HAPPENING AND SCREAMING AND GRABBING GRIAN IN POSSIBLY THE MOST PAINFUL WAY SO HE CAN DRAG HIM BACK WHILE THE RIFY TRIES TO EAT GRIAN?!?!?! THE RIFT REACHING OUT FOR THEM AND INJURING THEM??? OR ONE OF THEM IDK HOW MUCH I CAN SAY BC GRIAN IS DISASSOCIATING AND THE FEAR AS HE REALIZES WHAT'S HAPPENED AND THAT THE RIFT LURED HIM IN AND EVERYONE SCREAMING WONDERING WHAT'S HAPPENING AND SCAR YELLING AT MUMBO TO STAY AWAY FROM IT AS HE BODILY DRAGS GRIAN AWAY AND THEY RUN AND DON'T STOP AND THEY JUST RUN AND RUN BECAUSE THEY NEED TO GET AWAY (ARE THEY BEING CHASED TOO??? IF SO BY WHAT SCAR SCRAMBLED AWAY FROM THE HOLE AND MUMBO SEALED IT IMMEDIATELY JKSLK) AND OH MY GOD THEY HAVE CHOSEN THE WORST POSSIBLE OPLACE TO PUT A VAULT-

BUT. The first time, when Grian went through the first time it showed him grassy fields........ it didn't lure him in with a memory/dream IT TEMPTED HIM IN. BUT IT DIDN'T CONSUME HIM THEN. WHAT'S HAPPENING. But god imagine seeing grass and sunlight only to walk through INTO A FUCKING CAVERN. AND THE THOUGHT THAT HE WAS BEING CHASED I AM WONDERING NOW AND I AM. SO FEARFUL. STITCH. S T I T C H. WHAT IS HAPPENIIING EVERY TIME I THINK I KNOW YOU THROW A WRENCH IN IT HHJSDJHJKFSKJ

Anyway so obviously if you could not tell by my unhinged screaming this chapter was amazing and I am DYING holy shit. Thankyou for this it's wonderful <3

HI I WOULD LIKE EVERYONE TO KNOW THAT I HAVE BEEN THREATENED WITH THAT MIDNIGHT UPDATE FOR WEEKS AND IT WAS DESERVED. RATTLE YOUR BARS, YOU CANNOT STOP ME

I am clapping from my glass lil box of emotions though bc have the two of us in our dms last night while we freaked out about each other stories was the most fun I’ve had w writing in ages and genuinely so much joy in my heart. Could not have been a better night. AND YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES I ‘m glad the panic got across. I was typing, VERY fast.

- Sincerely,

Your local Caliban main

hi byte welcome to the rift nonsense zone!! gxghb

can't touch me if i hide in my special pocket dimension

How do you think Verica would react to Luscinia? You think she'd go green like a certain playwright?

How would a standard Pule and Brusier interaction regarding science look like? And also, have Vince and Pule interacted before?

And say, how would potentially Vince and Pule react to meeting a certain operator/drifter duo who like to research and do wacky experiments respectively?

(Apologies for no more questions rn, if i think of any i'll send a second ask. Also, if me lumping my ocs in there as a question was a bit too gratuitous of me, youre free to just skip that one, i dont mind)

hi! apologies for not getting around to this for A While. i did let you know that the prediction for mgayrch was gonna be spotty on availability and it turns out i was right! anyway, the blorbos are back in my brain, so

In the meantime I can recommend trying to get more comfortable with the Zariman missions and Elite Sanctuary Onslaught if you wanna keep climbing up in levels, and moving on to Arbitrations after if that's your cup of tea (Galvanized mods from Arbies are a huge boon for Steel Path as well!)

Oops, sorry this got wordy. I see myself in everyone getting smacked by a difficulty spike D:

If you would like weapon/build recommendations, I'm sure I'm not the only Tenno around who'd love to help either! Good luck, wherever your journey across the Origin System takes you next :)

HI HELLO yes i will ABSOLUTELY stay the fuck away from SP for a good while yet lmao. thank you so much for the advice and where to get better stuff!!! i appreciate it very much bc i feel like yesterday was my first foray into True Warframe Endgame and it was VERY clear i'm not quite there yet lmao

i very much appreciate your stance on games of "have fun even if it's not endgame/skills-based". very refreshing sometimes and 100% in agreement with my own views on videogame difficulty and fun

i've been trying to fill out my prime arsenal and i've been buying up Baro's stock in primed mods every time he pops his head out of the void so far - but I see now that that is an intermediate step into the next thing, which is... rivens? the arbitration things? god i have no idea please feel free to infodump on me. i will appreciate it very much even if it sometimes is a refresher for things for me. god knows i need it. same for the recs - hit me with them. cmon. i'm double dog daring you or whatever the americans say. whats your fav. how do you start constructing a build i have No Clue.

We don't know how long the Drifter spent on the Zariman before ending up in Duviri (I feel like Quite A While since Duviri seems to be overall timeloopy and "death works differently" there, so I'm extrapolating that all the aging that Drifter has done they did on the Zariman)

Melica is comparable to a ghost or someone with dementia, repeating old patterns they aren't aware no longer match the world around them. Your task during Zariman bounties is to treat her with kindness and match your reality to hers, so to say, and it seems to be a standard procedure for the Holdfasts

I feel like these two things together could've led to Drifter treating Ordis in a much more human way and Ordis responding in kind (of course assuming Drifter's Zariman also had a surviving but damaged Melica)

Okay that's all I've got but now I'm just rotating in place about Cephalons and the Ordis-Drifter dynamic and how Operator And Ordis Should Be More Friends Than This, Dang It

(This is space-ninja-fashion-show btw, sideblogs just do be doing sideblog things)

OAGH i love where your brain is going... canonically vaguely-douchy operator (anyone who isn't nice to ordis to me is like... why? why do you not like this broken warrior-machine-abomination... /half-joking i love him but i can see how he gets on people's nerves sometimes)

i haven't gotten around to do zariman bounties since That One Fateful Night... but god that sounds so nice. i've worked a tiny bit with people with dementia once and it (the disease, the thought that it could happen to me, not the people) scares the hell out of me but lowkey teaching the players that is very nice of warframe

okay taking your idea for a spin - dyou reckon the drifter would have at first been like oh shit. this cephalon sounds mildly borked. i better treat him nice like melica. and it took them a while to realize that ordis isn't as borked as she is? and how one night they just go. wait. you're actually like more than halfway fine aren't you. and ordis- yeah the idea is spinning wildly out of control thank you for the contribution to my brainworms. they will feed off of this for a Good While.

in my universe i think i've decided that they do need sleep, mostly because i think it'd be nice if they did. this gives me narrative freedom & tools, you see, but i have actually come up with Lore Friendly Reasons Why

mechanically, since the orbiter does not Have Sleeping Places & since warframes are fucking awesome from a biological perspective, warframes can either go into a deep hibernation - for this they need to lay down like a human or risk falling over and looking silly - or a lighter, perfectly warframe-sleep-needs-fulfilling going-slightly-offline state they can get into while sitting/kneeling (like on the login screen). it looks like deep meditation & they're still partially there, just also.. not entirely. i don't think they dream outside of deep hibernation.

my reasoning for this (beyond Yay Narrative Tool) is that sleepiness & sleep does stuff with chemicals in your human brain, right. being awake for too long gets you buildup of certain stuff in your head that makes you feel tired & it gets cleared out while you sleep. i am of the opinion that the warframe equivalent of a human brain has the same functional debuff.

the deeper hibernation would be for things like long periods of waiting, or having to heal without the help of a helminth infestation. since warframes do not have mouths but still perform actions that expend energy, i think they do a kind of cosmic background radiation/void fuckery photosynthesis to generate their own energy. this can obviously happen whether a warframe is active, slumbering or dormant, so that gives them the same refreshed feeling after a good night's sleep that humans get.

-Operator Sam

Hi Operator Sam!! I'm afraid you are at completely the wrong address here as i have literally never done that content. Oops.

I bought the parts off of the warframe market (run void fissures and sell the parts for plat, is the quickest guide to doing that), and if you want to do bounties that you're not sure about yourself, what i usually do is read the wiki real quick and then hop into public matchmaking and hope for the best. which might be a little bit rude but people tend to be chill about it, until they aren't

i'm activating an emergency help line here @space-ninja-fashion-show knows More about it than i do, which isn't hard, because i know Nothing about this