On the Plains of Eidolon, the Plague Star had gone dormant again. My forces were busy chipping pieces of it off for future analysis/filling it with extra thrax toxin to keep it dormant. I never really managed to get rid of it, though, but that didn't seem to bother the Ostrons. They just seemed to get used to it popping out of the ground every six months, getting pounded by the Tenno, and then going dormant again. Apparently, this had happened for years before I had gotten here. Gameplay and Story Segregation had been in effect here, it seemed. Oh well, I could manage that. Onto other tasks.

First, though, I was going to examine Cetus again. Apparently, there was talk of a Quill giving something to Nakak. She had received an odd looking mask, presumably one of a warframe, but not one I had seen before. What its purpose was, I did not know. Perhaps I should examine it?

Hopefully, I did not cause anyone any harm by doing this.

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Arriving at the Cetus docks, it didn't take me long to reach Nakak's stall. To my surprise, Etran was already there, and it appeared he was asking Nakak about the mask. It seemed he wanted to buy it. In fact, he was in the process of handing her payment for it when they finally noticed my presence.

"Swazdo-lah, Surah! What brings you to my humble stall?"

I couldn't help but smirk - Nakak somehow managed to come off as adorable when she said that, no matter how mature she appeared. "Just a story I've heard that a Quill left something here."

Instantly, Naka grew quiet at this reply. She seemed...well, worried.

"Ah, yes, well, I'm sorry, but that one has already been sold-"

"Oh, I see..."

"-but I have another one available. One just like this one."

...What?

"You do?"

"Yes, I do...well, not exactly."

"Explain."

Instantly, Nakak's voice went down to a whisper. "You knkow about Quill Onkko, don't you? Saya's husband."

I was drinking some water when she said that, and was glad nobody saw me almost choke on it. "You know who he is?"

"Yes. He was the one who gave me that mask. He also gave me a near perfect copy, with instructions to give it to you...for a fee."

"...What fee?"

"One Cetus wisp, the same as for the one I just sold to the Tenno right next to you, offworlder."

A moment later, the sale was complete, and I was already trying to get the mask around my avatar's head. Nakak informed Etran and me that we should wear the masks when the moon shined on the plains...or just throw them into one of the lakes. She must have found this really annoying.

Well, the sun had almost set, so onto the plains we went!

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At first, nothing happened. Sure, the Eidolons came out, we hunted them, we shot down a few grineer ships, but nothing big really happened. Out of boredom, I took some time to mine out some nearby outcroppings, hunt kuaka and condrocs, even go fishing.

That's what led me to find out what the Quills wanted us to see.

See, we'd reached Gara Toht Lake, where I was trying to catch a norg, which I was planning to put in an aquarium back on my tower. It was there that I noticed something odd – there was a glowing spot on the edge of the lake. It looked…wrong almost and…was that a hand coming out of the light?!

Cautiously, we approached it, with Etran getting out of his frame and trying to grab the hand. It vanished before he could, but I got the feeling that this was going to be more important down the line. Naka, meanwhile, seemed to be going nuts, saying something about Gara and Eidolon. Apparently, this is where the mistress of glass had slain the beast, which now lived here, in some kind of netherworld. It would try to break free each night, only to be struck down by another frame that was its warden, until the warden itself was lost.

Yeah, that sounded ominous.

Anyway, Nakak said that she didn't have time to deal with this stuff and advised us to seek Konzu's aid, as well as advising us that the Grineer had been acting up over some new artifacts they had found on the plains. Maybe there were pieces of this new frame among those relics? It'd also let me expand my stable of frames, which currently included Excalibur, Frost, Oberon, Mirage and…some others. Someone had helpfully provided me with lots of warframe parts and blueprints, and it wasn't the Quills. I was pretty sure Melissa had something to do with this, but she hadn't confirmed or denied her involvement in this.

Ugh, ROBs were so annoying. Bu right now, I had warframe parts to gather.

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Halfan hour and several ruined Grineer platoons later, and we had our frame part. We quickly got to work manufacturing the part (the helmet, of all things), but it would still take some time to manufacture. While we waited, I took the opportunity to begin examining the mask. Curious, and rather bored, I studied every inch of it, but aside from the special lenses on its eye holes, I could not understand what made it so special. Unwilling to examine them further, I merely put it back on and decied to go look at the artifacts, only slightly assuming that something special might happen.

Thus, I was surprised to find my vision suddenly flickering when I stared at one of the artifacts, before promptly going dark.

When I came to, I found myself staring at a new scene. Here, an army of sentients were going into battle. Some charged down to Earth, others to spaceships. All of these machine creatures were identical, with a notable resemblance to the ones on the plains. The ones who fought on the ships, which were clearly Orokin in origin, utterly decimated their foes…until something new began to attack them. This newcomer resembled the beasts I had seen in my visions before, but was clearly a different breed, perhaps cultivated for orbital combat. Ignorant of the sentients' shields, it tore them to pieces, even using one to cut another in half. Soon, the battlefield grew silent, as the last sentient fell.

With that, the vision ended.

….Okay, what had I just seen?

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