The Sacrifice/Transcript

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This is the transcript of the dialogue in the quest The Sacrifice.

Quest description[]

A tortured vision sends the Operator on the hunt for a Warframe unlike any other.

Orbiter[]

Examine Lotus' helmet[]

Lotus: "Tenno... Tenno..." (download, history)

(TOUCH)

Cinematic (opening)[]

Ballas: "Howl all you want, it won't bring him back." (download, history)

Ballas: "(Transference) Lua brings you strength, Umbra--" (download, history)

Ballas: "--But you cannot defy your creator." (download, history)

Ballas: "Even I make mistakes. Like you." (download, history)

Back in Orbiter[]

Investigate Sentient Energy: Earth, Lith[]

Ordis: "I am not sensing any Sentients but there is something... Oh no, Ghouls! Something must has^{[sic, voiced "have"]} disturbed their incubation sacs. A disgusting lifecycle." (download, history)

Operator: "I saw this place." (download, history) (download, history) (download, history) (download, history)

Ordis: "How? Did she... did the Lotus show you?" (download, history)

Operator: "I don't know, but I think she wants me to see this. I'll scan the scene, check for Warframe traces." (download, history) (download, history) (download, history) (download, history)

Ordis: "Operator. I am just a bug-addled Cephalon, but... if you ever need to talk... Ordis would be happy to hear how depressed you are!" (download, history)

On scanning the sword

Ordis: "This blade may pre-date everything in your arsenal. Very faint traces of mineral exposure. From Lua." (download, history)

On scanning the first warframe trace

Ordis: "Remnants appear to be of Warframe composition. I am not familiar with this design." (download, history)

On scanning the second warframe trace

Ordis: "Almost crude. If you can get another scan I may be able to synthesize a partial schematic of the victim." (download, history)
Ordis: "I know what you're going through. With the Lotus I mean. Remember how you abandoned me? But look at how --angry-- happy I am now! Don't worry, Operator, we'll find her." (download, history)

On scanning the third warframe trace

Orbiter[]

Check your Foundry[]

Ordis: "I've reconstructed what I could. Check your Foundry, Operator." (download, history)

(On checking Foundry)

Explore Lua: Lua, Pavlov[]

Ordis: "Are you sure we want to build this Warframe? It could be dangerous." (download, history)

Operator: "What I saw... (hems) What the Lotus showed me... this Warframe knew Ballas. It tried to attack him." (download, history) (download, history) (download, history) (download, history)

On trying to hack the Orokin console

Ordis: "An Orokin cipher! Impossible to bypass. They use Mnemonic Code glyphs drawn directly from your memory. Perhaps search the area?" (download, history)

On finding first symbol pair

Ordis: "Curious. These markings seem fresh. Are there more?" (download, history)

On finding second symbol pair

Ordis: "Another. Is that a paired symbol there?" (download, history)

Operator: "The order may be important for the cipher." (download, history) (download, history) (download, history) (download, history)

On encountering the first Mimic

Operator: "Ordis! What are these? Some new Sentient design?" (download, history) (download, history) (download, history) (download, history)

Ordis: "An old design! Mimics! Sentient Mimics! These haven't been seen since the Old War..." (download, history)

Ordis: "How did Mimics get to the Origin system? Operator, be vigilant when approaching... uh... 'things'." (download, history)

Operator: "Things..." (download, history) (download, history) (download, history) (download, history)

Ordis: "Sorry, I can't be more specific." (download, history)

On finding the first symbol pair of the second Orokin console"

Ordis: "You found one! Memorize it. (download, history)

On finding the second symbol pair

Ordis: "Another. And look, a different marking beside it!" (download, history)

On finding the fourth symbol pair

Ordis: "That should be the last one. Now... to figure out the correct ordering." (download, history)

If player takes too long with hacking the console

Ordis: "Operator, when you found the markings, there were others near. This may help in determining the right order." (download, history)
Ordis: "You have all the codes, but the order seems wrong." (download, history)

If player takes too long

Ordis: "I think I have a partial solution, Operator. Try this." (download, history)

Upon hacking it

(EXAMINE DEVICE)

1st Vitruvian Entry[]

(ENEMY)

Ballas: "It is with the greatest of risk that I commit this recording. The codices within reveal the hidden weakness of your most feared enemy. My creations. My Frames of War." (download, history)

Orbiter[]

Connect the Vitruvian[]

(INSTALL VITRUVIAN)

Ordis: "-- Ordis, you need to learn how to stand up for yourself. To say no, and mean it, even if it is the --Oper-a- TTTORRR_OR_OR_OR--" (download, history)
Vitruvian Ordis: "I have been upgraded, Star-Child. Your Warframe blueprint now has the required data. Check Foundry." (download, history)

Cinamatic (First encounter with Umbra)[]

1st memory[]

If player takes too long)

Ballas: "(Transference) Look at your son. Do it." (download, history)

Back in Orbiter[]

2nd Vitruvian Entry[]

(BLASPHEMY)

Ballas: "What led us here? You did. You vile blasphemies. Machines... thinking... breeding... You were to bear us a new, promised land. But when you arrived at that distant world... you knew that in time, we would bring ruin to it as well. As we had to Earth. And so it was... we came to war." (download, history)

Search for Umbra: Ceres, Nuovo[]

Vitruvian Ordis: "Star-Child, are you seeking revenge for its damage to me? Will you destroy this Umbra Warframe?" (download, history)

Operator: "No. The codes are in his memory. If I can get close, I'll go in again and try to recover them. He's the key to finding the Lotus, I can feel it." (download, history) (download, history) (download, history) (download, history)

Umbra proximity

Vitruvian Ordis: "There it is, approach with caution." (download, history)

If not using Void Blast

Using Void Blast

Defenses down

2nd memory[]

Ballas: "You served with distinction, old Dax. We commissioned a portrait in your honor, there on the wall." (download, history)
Ballas: "A beautiful portrait, don't you agree?" (download, history)
Isaah: "The Sentient battle at Hull... I can't imagine... You were awarded the 'Lua Cross' for valor^{[sic, no period]}" (download, history)
Ballas: "Will you follow in your father's path?" (download, history)
Isaah: "Of course." (download, history)
Ballas: "(Transference) He will, and his children will. You see... these are the stakes of this little game. Each stone I capture will be another and another and another... culled from your subversive bloodline." (download, history)

Ballas: "(Transference) You thought you could out-play me? I've had lifetimes to plan my defection. You spied on me, intercepted my communications. But I saw your move long before you took it. And so... we come to the consequences..." (download, history) (download, history)
Isaah: "Father? You... you alright? Please! Do something for him!" (download, history)

While Playing Komi[]

(Komi ambient lines. Those are used in all Komi gameplay parts, not just in this memory segment.)

After winning

After losing

Idle

Isaah: "He loves this game. I'll never forget the time I finally beat him... but now I'm thinking he just let me win." (download, history)

Back In Mission[]

Orbiter[]

Access the 3rd Vitruvian Entry[]

(WARFRAMES)

Ballas: "Our hubris shone like a black star... for our technology, our war-machines were your kin. How easily you turned them against us. We were forced to older means. Not circuits, nor light... but flesh and disease. Our horrors past, our ravaged outer colonies... became gardens!" (download, history)
Ballas: "We cultured the Infestation, conceiving of a hybrid. Transformed, but only just. The 'Helminth' was created, born to yield these new warriors, worthy of battle against you. The great and terrible Hunhow." (download, history)
Ballas: "We took our greatest, volunteers or not, and polluted them with these cultured reagents. They transformed. They became Infested..." (download, history)
Ballas: "... but only just. Their skin blossomed into sword-steel. Their organs, interlinked with untold resilience. Yet their minds were free of the Infested madness. Or so we thought. We set them upon the battlefield, bio-drones under our command." (download, history)
Ballas: "The Warframes... All of them... failures. Surprised? They turned on us, just as you did. And so we had no choice but to commit them to grave. This is all you know, Hunhow, but there is a hidden half, a secret, that lies within a place forbidden to you and your kind. I speak of the Void." (download, history)

Vitruvian Ordis: "Star-Child, repairs continue. Allow me to test vestigial precepts for a moment. Like 'caring'." (download, history)

Pursue Umbra: Neptune, Triton[]

Ordis: "Ballas must be tracking Umbra now, I'm detecting increased Sentient presence in the area." (download, history)

Mimics spawn

Ordis: "The area is locked down. We need to take care of those Mimics." (download, history)

After clearing Mimics

Umbra proximity

Umbra escaping

If attacking without using Void Blast

Attacking with Void Blast

Ordis: "That worked! Hit him again!" (download, history)

Defense down

3rd memory[]

Ballas: "Trouble concentrating, old friend? Look at all your Komi stones I've taken." (download, history)
Ballas: "(Transference) This one, a brother. These three, his children. And on and on, all of these done to the Jade Light." (download, history)
Isaah: "Father, do you remember your Shawzin? Remember how you'd sing to us 'Smiles from Juran'?" (download, history)
Ballas: "A fine instrument." (download, history)
Ballas: "How thoughtful, to remind him of his better days. Come now, your move. Only a few stones left." (download, history)
Ballas: "Isaah... looks like your father still has his sharp wit." (download, history)

Isaah: "My father understands the game better than anyone." (download, history)
Ballas: "(Transference) Yet you couldn't understand why I'd give my secrets to our enemy. How could I betray my own kind? But you have never had to sacrifice your love for faith. Imagine. To live, forever, with only one memory: seeing the one you love, die." (download, history) (download, history)
Ballas: "(Transference) But you won't have to imagine. A lovingly cultured Infestation swarms within your blood. Your transformation has begun, reshaping you into a sacred surrogate of the unholy Tenno... A Warframe with but a Single. Burning. Memory. It is... a miracle!" (download, history)
Ballas: "But all miracles require sacrifice." (download, history)
???: "(Grunts)" (download, history)

Back in Mission[]

Orbiter[]

Access the 4th Vitruvian Entry[]

(TENNO)

Ballas: "Before the vain faith - our people held Dualism as truth. That all things were of two parts. Mind and body. Consciousness and matter. Of our world... and the Void. It was from there that our answer finally came." (download, history)
Ballas: "Distorted by vague horrors, we kept the Zariman survivors within a secret Reservoir. They were the missing half. Transference-linked: the Warframes, the body - and they, the mind. I give you now the coordinates and codes to this place. But do not underestimate these devils, Hunhow. They did what we could not. We had created monsters we couldn't--" (download, history)

Confront Umbra: Lua, Tycho[]

In Mission[]

Cinematic (4th memory)[]

In Black Space[]

Cinematic (synchronization with Umbra)[]

Ballas: "--We had created monsters we couldn't control. We drugged them, tortured them, eviscerated them... We brutalized their minds... but it did not work. Until they came." (download, history)
Ballas: "And it was not their force of will - not their Void devilry - not their alien darkness... it was something else." (download, history)
Ballas: "It was that somehow, from within the derelict-horror, they had learned a way to see inside an ugly, broken thing--" (download, history)
Ballas: "And take away its pain." (download, history)

Back in Mission[]

Orbiter[]

Return to Earth: Earth, Lith[]

In Mission[]

Ordis: "He is waiting for you, but I'm detecting powerful signals emanating from the courtyard. They are calling out for reinforcements across the entire system. You don't have long." (download, history)

At the courtyard[]

Cinematic (final confrontation)[]

Orbiter[]

Conclusion[]

Inbox message[]

More Vitruvian Secrets

Operator,

After close examination, Ordis has determined that the Vitruvian contained several more designs for Umbra related items! I have taken the liberty of constructing those items for you.

Your loyal Cephalon,

Ordis

(Attachments: Excalibur Umbra Sunder Helmet, Umbra's Courtyard Captura Scene, Excalibur Umbra Noble Animation Set, Excalibur Umbra Agile Animation Set)