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Kaya: Drifter, the Tenno tell me that Baro Ki'Teer will be visiting Larunda Relay soon and he doesn't take höllars.

Drifter: He'll take your höllars as long as you have Ducats too.

Kaya: That's the problem. No Ducats. Apparently the Tenno will trade me "prime junk" to get them, but I have nothing to trade.

Kaya: Wait. I do have something to trade.

Kaya: Jinymon cards!

Drifter: Be careful with that. The Tenno take "gotta catch 'em all" to a new level.

(A few weeks later)

Kaya: Oh, fuck, you weren't kidding. I need more cards!

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Random Hollvanian citizen observing me and my friends run Hex bounties...

"Yes, I live near Hollvania Central Mall's parking garage. Near enough that the Hex keep the worst of the Techrot and Scaldra away. Near enough that I could make a run for it if I had to."

"And also near enough that all day, all night, I hear those sol-damned atomicycles."

*revving engine noises*

*four atomicycles rip roar past, the Doppler effect of their modded engines only amplified by the narrow streets*

"Go on, look out the window at the first intersection just down the street."

kaboom Kaboom Kaboom KABOOM

*wailing car sirens and distant screams*

"Every Sol-forsaken day. Lua wept. Do they think new atomicycles grow on trees?!"

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I MADE SQUARE SPAGHETTI PART 2

I ordered some cube-shaped molds, tripled the amount of gelatin, and increased the sauce:pasta ratio. And just like in canon, they’re completely inedible AND they bounce.

The most edible cube by a mile is the one that only had one packet of gelatin in it. In contrast, I could only make myself take one bite of the two-packet cube, and the one made of blended up spaghetti felt like eating rubber with sand mixed into it. I didn’t even try the three-packet cube (it is the bouncing cube pictured above).

None of them had much flavor beyond a vague impression of tomato sauce, and I could actually taste the gelatin in the two-packet cube. Compared to my previous square spaghetti attempt (which yielded shockingly edible results), I think this round is a rousing success at recreating the cubes Arthur probably made.

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Given recent events, I'm starting to regret naming my panzer vulpaphyla "The Stock Market"

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MomToxicated: Anyone but Scaldra, I said. It's not that I didn't trust them. *They* didn't trust *me.*

MomToxicated: So no, Drifter. I’m not sharing classified intel with you either.

(Chapter 6 of Marriage Counseling, or Major Neci Rusalka and the Missing, Missing Reasons)

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"Welcome home"

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Something a little less dramatic. My favorite thing about their relationship is honestly how tragic it is. But I also like to imagine what things were like before they got bad... I think there were always issues, but they love each other goddammit!!!!

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Marriage Counseling, or Major Neci Rusalka and the Missing, Missing Reasons

Velimir had been a big man, even before the protoframe process turned him into the Warframe Frost. Now, he came with heavy swordsteel and built-in ice packs. He smelled powerfully of cigar smoke and wool sweaters, and being hugged by him was like being hugged by a polar bear.

Chapter 5

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Encore

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Drifter in the Void Pocket: Alright, kiddo, I'mma take a nap. Wake me up if someone texts on KIM.

Operator in the Void Pocket: Who taught you to mod? What is that fashion frame? My eyes are bleeding! Oh, say hi to Space Mom for me. By the way you should try Atlas now that his fists are exalted weapons. Give them the old one-two. Don't Helminth off Protea's Temporal Anchor, what are you doing, noooooo!

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Marriage Counseling, or Major Neci Rusalka and the Missing, Missing Reasons, Chapter 4:

Drifter rubbed his face, head in his hands. “Look, after orphaning myself at fifteen, I realize I probably have a skewed view of the romantic notion of ‘child rescued from terrible situation and adopted by random people,’ but seriously?”

“Are things really so different in 1999 that you can just pick a kid out of a bombed out building and adopt her off to another country?”

Chapter 4

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This pic gave me flashbacks to playing Skyrim with mammoths falling from the sky.

Me: Trying to farm for arcanes

Warframe:

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Marriage Counseling, or Major Neci Rusalka and the Missing, Missing Reasons, Chapter 3: Drifter adds Eleanor to the group chat.

PapaPolar: look, maybe if you knew why it was important that we're here.

PapaPolar: and why we were looking for our little neci.

MomToxicated: Who is this “Salem”?!

Salem: Eleanor Nightingale. I’d say, “at your service.” But I’m not, not until you behave better.

MomToxicated: I’m not discussing this with a journalist in the chat.

Chapter 3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/64206721/chapters/164923492

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Difficult adults

How do your Operators handle their Drifters? :D