Wands and Warframes

Reality Check

Reality Check

"Aurora?" Aurora looks up from her diary as someone calls her name. In front of her is a clearly male Warframe with grey and black colouring. On his arms and legs appear to be bone loops, and it's face looks uncomfortably like a skull.

"I'm Digger, this is Roofie." Aurora turns to look at the other Warframe and looks up and up, this one appears to be built far larger than any of the few that she's seen, with grey skin and bulging shoulder muscles. His red surcoat falling between his legs in a pair of tails.

She squeaks, "Can I help you?"

"The Lotus asked us to be your escort to Fortuna on Venus. We have a change of clothes, and we've been told to ask you for your wand. Pandora says it's to prevent you doing anything stupid and ultimately suicidal. Pandora is The Lotus' apprentice if you weren't aware."

Aurora shivers at Diggers voice, as it reminds her of the sound of bones in a bag, "Thank you sir. Do you realise that you're more than a little intimidating?"

"It has been mentioned, given that this frame was designed after legends of necromancers, I'm not surprised."

Aurora takes the clothes from Roofie, and unfolds a one-piece armoured uniform in blue and red, "Do you have anything with a skirt or dress?"

Roofie shakes his head, "They don't wear skirts or dresses. We are trying to avoid you being taken by one of the taxmen."

Swallowing her pride, she transfigures a chair into a screen and gets changed into the outfit. When she comes out, Roofie hands her a rusty brown helmet that looks a bit like a muggle video camera.

"What's this for?"

"It attaches to your clothes and will make it look like you've had some reclamation done. You don't want to look like you're an unaugmented human that hasn't had any debt reclamation against them. In some parts you'd be lynched for parts, in others you'd be lynched for being a corpus exec out of their depth. I've been told that a lot of this won't make sense until you've been there and spoken to them."

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Aurora had to marvel at the fully enclosed helmet, it didn't restrict her ability to see or hear. This awe lasted until the three of them touched down and took the elevator to Fortuna. There, everyone she saw was sporting some sort of obvious prosthetic, from a too small head to what seemed to be a full body replacement. She shudders just looking at them.

{Roofie} Relax, you're standing out

She jumps as something in the corner of her vision blinks at her, looking down she then looks up at him reproachfully.

{Deathdigger} He's right, try to relax. Take several slow deep breaths.

Once they're happy that she's not a problem anymore, they take her over to see a Golem with no arms.

Digger waves at the Golem, "Hey legs, how's it swinging?"

"Tenno, my favourite customers. How's things, is there anything you need?"

"Not today, we've got a probie, found 'er on a ship out deep. Knowing 'em, she was prob three days from being charged rent for her own imprisonment before having a fullbod. Legs, this is Lights."

"Lights?"

"Yeh, after the northern ones on earth."

Aurora closes her mouth to the objection she was about to voice, instead she waves stiffly, "Hi."

"Hey, welcome to the stinkhole of the solar system. Not that anyone here could smell it. This is where you live if you don't own a bucket load of debt and you want to stay free. The poor sots in the outer planets? They might say they're free, or they're managing their debt, but I've watched enough index vids to know it ain't so. You couldn't pay me to run against a Tenno, but those guys do it just for the hope of wiping out the debt. 'Ere let me close up and I'll show you to the racks and pods. 'Course a couple a years ago I'd only lost me head to debt. Traded it in to make me debt manageable after me folks died in a rift on the surface. Any how, business was a bit slow so I asked a coupla Tenno to 'elp me by getting some 'salvage' from the surface I could sell. Went and run me mouth didn't I, and Nef was listening. Called all my debt in. These two, they bought me debt, what was left of it. Course, all I had left was me brain, but I'm still free. Ticker and Eudico found me this bod, and now I make MOA for anyone who wants one.