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This is a general overview of the plot of Girls' Frontline 2: Exilium.
Chapter 1[edit]
The year is 2074, ten years after the end of Girls' Frontline. In the wake of the creation of the URNC, PMCs such as Griffin & Kryuger have been forcibly downsized, and the Commander has left to take part in the rise of bounty hunting. Aboard the mobile base Elmo, they take on bounties with the Dolls Groza and Nemesis and the Elmo's mechanic Mayling. In March, the Elmo crew took a job to transport a mysterious high-tech box across Eastern Europe. The day after the welcome party of the newest member Krolik, the Elmo is ambushed by Varjagers, who take down the Dolls and seize the box. Deploying with their spare bodies, Team Groza manage to recapture the box, which opens briefly in self-defense and reveals a young girl inside. After replenishing their stock by visiting the underground broker Poludnitsa, who casts suspicion on the Commander's client, the Elmo makes way to Purification Zone W_2069_0105.
Chapter 2[edit]
In Purification Zone W_2069_0105, the Commander obtains topographical maps from the garrison commander, Warrant Officer Vladimir, who is an acquaintance. The crew is also joined by the medical Doll Colphne, gifted to the Commander by Poludnitsa. To lose their Varjagers pursuers, the Commander directs the Elmo to the contaminated region of Port Vest and set a successful ambush, but Team Groza barely survive an encounter with a Boojum-class ELID. Colphne temporarily leaves the other Dolls to save herself before coming back out of guilt, durably damaging Groza's trust in her.
Chapter 3[edit]
The box reacts to the Commander's biodata and opens, revealing the girl inside. Called Helena, her lack of ELID symptoms despite exposure to Collapse radiation indicates she's a fully-immune individual. With growing suspicions towards the client, the Commander decides to send the Dolls and Mayling to confront them at the delivery point while themselves travel to Satellite City ODE-01 with Helena to meet an old friend who will know more. When Team Groza attempts to capture the client, they are faced by the powerful third-generation Doll Sextans and are forced to pull back.
Chapter 4[edit]
Rabbit Observation Diary occurs during this story.
In ODE-01, the Commander and Helena meet Lenna and Kalina, who now work for the URNC's Non-Military Forces Administration. Though they parted on bad terms ten years prior, Kalina reveals she secretly entrusted the contract assigned to the Commander in order to investigate the client, who's suspected to work with the Girard Group. A message from Persica introduces the Commander to Pattern Remolding technology, a portable Reverse Collapse device. Helena is captured while she's scanned by Kalina's team and Team Groza breaks into a Girard lab to recover her, but they are attacked by Darture, another third-generation Doll equipped with a Reverse Collapse devices that transforms her into a giant combat mech. Groza manages to hold her off using her own Pattern Remolding device. Meanwhile, Kalina barely escapes summary execution from ODE-01's police thanks to Lenna and Leva and flees to Kyiv.
Chapter 5[edit]
After being destroyed by Darture and uploaded into a new body, Groza temporarily enters a trance where she relives memories from her lost past. With the help of Dandelion and Peritya, the Commander, Krolik, Nemesis and Colphne manage to return to the Elmo. Back in the Yellow Zone, they receives a signal from Kalina to change their meeting point from Kyiv to an abandoned Sangvis Ferri factory. On the way, they discover that Helena is not a true fully-immune individual and Team Groza are all outfitted with a Remolding Pattern. Kalina's message is revealed to be a fake by Darture, but the Dolls prevail by using their Patterns. Before she succumbs, a voice enjoins Darture to abandon Girard Group and join a new faction.
Chapter 6[edit]
After contacting Kalina, the Elmo departs for Kyiv. When Groza inquires about the Commander's motivations for helping in a matter that shouldn't concern a bounty hunter, they respond that the ongoing research about fully-immune individuals means their last target while working at G&K might still be alive. Passing near Port Vert again, they learn that Warrant Officer Vladimir was killed by the rampaging Boojum. The Elmo reaches the underground channel used by the broker Saga to replenish their resources, taking out a Varjager ambush on the way. They take in the T-Doll Vepley and help the brokers defend against a vengeful Varjagers.
Sojourners of the Glass Island[edit]
- Part 1
Punctuation of Friendship, Mysterious Message, Transcender, First Counterattack, If I Still Had a Choice, Second Farewell and Flower of the Heart are prequels to this story. Special Cinema is a sequel to this story.
The story is told through Suomi's letters to the Commander. She's now part of a Doll community born from the caravan of a bounty hunter named Allen. After Allen's disappearance, his Dolls rallied behind the T-Doll Ullrid, who leads the community to live in the Yellow Zone independently from humans. Ullrid is able to inspire hope in the community, but is not actually comfortable in her position and relies a lot on Littara, another former G&K Doll, as her strategist. However, the community is slowly dying from lack of resources. A ray of hope appears when they find the abandoned Marley thermal power station, where a lot of Doll equipment is stockpiled. Only the high concentration of ELIDs seems to be in their way.
Ullrid insists that the community decide their next objectives with votes, but more Dolls are abstaining from participating as their situation worsens. Ullrids needs to convince them to brave the ELID danger at Marley instead of going on their way and hope to find resources elsewhere. By chance, Suomi runs into the deactivated body of former elite T-Doll KSVK and brings her back to camp to repair her. After losing all memories of her past, KSVK has been wandering trying to find people who knew her. Suomi and Littara didn't know her well at G&K, but they help her remember the Commander, DP-12, and her true name: Dushevnaya. As thanks, Dushevnaya promises to help the Doll community fight the ELIDs at Marley, which tips the scales during the vote.
While investigating the station, the Dolls discover that it was actually being used by an experimental agricultural project aiming to make Yellow Zone agriculture viable by developing underground cultivation techniques. But when they try to enter the subterranean fields, they are attacked by bots and pursued by an incredibly powerful Creepy Doll. They also discover that the station's cooling towers are artificially increasing the local concentration of Collapse particles to lure ELIDs in the region. All signs point towards the fact that Marley is actually a secret but active human operation, but Ullrid skews the community's vote again by hiding some information and promising that the chances are in favor of the community taking the station by force. When investigating Ullrid's reasons, Littara discovers that the community's resources are actually nearly depleted and that their only other choices are to go to their death in the Red Zone, or abandon their freedom and return to human settlements. Despite uncovering Ullrid's lies, Littara, Suomi and Dushevnaya support her ideals of freedom and her plan to take over Marley.
The next day, the Doll community enters the cooling towers and deactivate them, causing a general attack by the bots and the Creepy Doll. After a harsh battle where Littara is nearly destroyed, the Creepy Doll is engulfed in the explosion of one of the cooling towers and only one of her previously severed arms remains. In the locket attached to the wrist, the Dolls find records revealing her true name, Lambertia, and her apparently unfruitful attempts to complete the cultivation research after the humans abandoned it. Shaken by the deadly battle that reminded her of her past as a prey in a Doll hunting ground, and the revelation that the underground fields are unusable, Ullrid is about to make amend for endangering the community by giving up her role as leader. Littara then finds more hidden reports revealing that Lambertia's efforts actually paid off, and that Marley is so isolated that she wasn't even able to contact other humans to reveal her progress, ultimately making Ullrid's gamble a success.
- Part 2
Shadow in the Snow and Deputy Leader are prequels to this story.
After the events at Marley, Suomi is sent on a resource gathering expedition and helps a bounty hunter convoy, in hopes of meeting the Commander to give them the letters she wrote. She's abandoned by the convoy and found by the Elmo, who followed the light of her lantern. By having Suomi on board, the Commander is breaching “the agreement” which prevents them from staying in contact with their former Dolls, with the exception of Groza. Two months after Suomi's rescue, the Elmo receives an ad about the “Spectrum Bubble-Cart”, a bubble-spewing toy tank. Suomi recognizes the ad as a secret message from Ullrid recalling her to the community, but she decides to wait for a proper occasion to announce her departure to the Commander. Mayling mistakes Suomi's interest in the ad for an interest in the bubble-cart and starts working on a makeshift version.
To craft a situation to announce her leave, Suomi organizes a Game of Kings with the crew, but none of the situations that emerge are what she expected. Mayling duels the Commander in a tactical command simulation, loses and gets too drunk to keep playing, Nemesis gets asked to tell a joke and Groza launches into a monologue about the proper criteria for selecting a tea set. The game ends when combat arises against ELIDs. Later, the Commander receives an ominous email warning them not to keep Suomi any longer, while Suomi prepares a letter of leave for the Commander. She walks in on Mayling preparing the bubble-cart and a mechanical issue causes the entire command deck to become covered in slippery bubbles, causing Suomi's letter to reach the Commander's hands ahead of time. Because the Doll community includes several of their former Dolls, the Commander can't escort Suomi back, but sends Groza with her along with a gift of resources, and they hope “the agreement” will end soon so they can all be reunited.
Rhapsody Quartet[edit]
Bullet Echo, Homeseeker, Coffee-Flavored Stage, Returner's Determination, In the Firelight and Home is in the Heart are prequels to this story.
As Sharkry is preparing her next concert at Zucchero Café, she accidentally exchanges a box of props while defending a delivery truck against rioting automatons. Back at the café, a Dinergate exits the box and starts rampaging in the kitchen before being hacked. Just as the Dolls discover that the box is full of illegally modified weapons, the city is put on lockdown as Public Security is searching for a weapon smuggler named Farkas. Leva asks for Springfield's help to find Farkas, unaware that Zucchero is already in possession of some of its merchandise. Sharkry decides to keep the modified Dinergate and dresses it like a lion.
The Zucchero Dolls prioritize discreetly moving the weapons away from the café so they don't get in trouble in case of a search. They elect to move them to the nearby harbor full of abandoned warehouses, but as Centaureissi is moving the box, she passes near one of the drop-off locations of Farkas' smugglers and manages to infiltrate the gang. Makiatto follows Centaureissi to the concealed ship that serves as Farkas' base, and a battle starts when Farkas realizes their intrusion. The Zucchero Dolls prevail over Farkas' Flareberus and draw the attention of Public Security to the ship with the fireworks Sharkry planned to use for her show. The incident helps Centaureissi settle on new rules for herself, as she decides that using her weapon again is necessary to protect her friends.
Chapter 7[edit]
On the way to Kyiv, the Elmo stops by Saga's settlement. There, Colphne meets an ELID sufferer named Crifium, who is claimed to have been involved with her lost regiment. Colphne deletes all her data from the Elmo and goes alone to investigate the cult Crifium has joined to cure his ailment. When they discover that Colphne disappeared, the Elmo crew also come in contact with the cult, and they discover that their beliefs are close to Paradeus. Helena and Nemesis also recognize the cultists, but can't communicate well about their past involvement with them. Vepley and Krolik infiltrate the cult and manage to convince Colphne to run away with them. Colphne doesn't understand why the Commander would want to help her, but Paradeus' involvement is a clue that could lead the Commander to settle the “unfinished business” from their time at Griffin. The Commander decides to investigate the “Lady Immore” and the “Lost Cavitas” at the center of the cult.
Chapter 8[edit]
The Elmo crew captures the leader of the cult, which the Commander identifies as a Nyto. While fending off the prisoner's attempt to hack the Elmo, Groza briefly makes contact with her virtual cognition image and learns her name: Niter No.249, a lesser form of the Nytos previously encountered by G&K. The lower technological level of the Paradeus units compared to the ones encountered in the 2060s leads the Commander to speculate that the White Faction has not significantly recovered from its fall in 2064. To continue the investigation, the Elmo allows No.249 to escape after secretly putting a transponder on her, and they follow her to a new Paradeus stronghold.
Disguised as cultists, Team Groza and Helena infiltrate the cult and take part in their “purification” ritual, where a Nyto miraculously cures an ELID sufferer. The Nyto then changes Crifium into an ELID monster to attack the Dolls. Colphne attempts to interrogate Crifium about the reason why his Varjager group went out of their way to wipe out her regiment, but can't do anything than kill him to claim her vengeance. The encounter with Paradeus leads the Commander to think that Helena is related to the “Lost Cavitas” that “Lady Immore” is searching for. Back at the Elmo, Colphne apologizes for her past behavior and the Commander gives her the welcome gift they had prepared for her: a uniform from her original regiment. Colphne finally opens up about her past, and the Commander pledges to support her. The Elmo is suddenly attacked by Sextans?, who appears to have forgotten her identity.
Amidst Wings of Gray[edit]
Growing-Up Emergency Manual, Graffiti Variation, Discordant Pitch and A Fledgling Returns are relevant to the Dolls featured in this story.
As Team Groza is struggling against Sextans?, Lenna and Dandelion contact the Commander. Dandelion remotely accesses the Elmo's systems to enhance the Remolding Pattern, which enables the Dolls to capture Sextans?, and Lenna informs the Commander that Helena must now be transported to Lviv using the intercontinental railway, in order to throw off enemy surveillance. They also make plans to assists Squad 404 in one of their future missions. The Commander and Dandelion catch up after 10 years apart, and Dandelion informs the Commander that “she” has requested that they must again take part in a plan that promises to save many lives, after leading a powerless and aimless life for 10 years. In exchange for the Commander's help, they'll slowly be reunited with more of their Dolls through so-called “chance encounters” until the “Mephisto Agreement” can be rescinded.
Leaving Team Groza aboard the Elmo to monitor Sextans?, as well as Nemesis due to her newly revealed past as a Paradeus Doll, the Commander, Groza and Dandelion (controlling a levitating Dinergate) fly by drone with Helena to the nearby railway hub. On the way, Helena hears a voice in her head and intervenes in a battle between the Mangi PMC and a Tumorhynchus Boojum. When the Commander comes to after being knocked out during the battle, Colphne has disappeared and a Collapse storm is approaching. Helena guides the Commander and Dandelion to an Underground Broker tunnel, which they find has been repurposed into a lab where Paradeus is studying the fusion of Collapse-infused plants with animals and humans.
Meanwhile, the Boojum carries Colphne to the railway hub as it attacks it. Colphne is found by Daiyan, Jiangyu and Zhaohui, who had been called there to reinforce the Commander. The Dolls follow Helena's signal into the Paradeus lab and find that she's trapped inside the wounded Boojum, which is being resuscitated by absorbing the bodies of sacrificial cultists. When Helena is liberated from the Boojum, it is revealed that it was a second Helena, designated D-68, that was guiding the Commander in the lab. In a trance, Helena calls D-68 a traitor and claims to be an entity of familiar nature to the Commander. As the Dolls, the Commander and D-68 attempt to leave, Mangi troops threaten to overwhelm them when Centaureissi and Makiatto also arrive to reinforce them.
Decanonized stories[edit]
These stories originally ran in CN as events, but were later rewritten. The rewrites were added to the story archives in CN and ran in place of the original events in other servers. Translation is only fragmentary in early EN files.
Exotic Cadence/Windborne Melody[edit]
Replaced by Amidst Wings of Gray.
Daiyan, Jiangyu and Zhaohui are wandering Dolls, taking odd jobs while traveling between Satellite Cities for Daiyan to gather musical inspiration. When they visit Satellite City CHE-02, the Commander is also there to track down members of the Girard Group on NOMFA's behalf after the Odesa incident, which authorizes them to work with the Dolls of Zucchero Café. Their mission is to capture a woman named 埃丝特 (Esther), a Yellow Zone civilian convinced by Girard's men to carry out a terrorist attack during the upcoming festival celebrating the Purification Project. Esther's men have planted explosives in the Eber, a giant mechanical beast used during the festival.
Esther's men book the restaurant where Daiyan, Jiangyu and Zhaohui work, but instead of celebrating, they start fighting over whether to abandon the attack since Esther is having second thoughts. Just before the fighting began, Daiyan started playing the song 马铃薯花开的时候 ("When the Potato Flowers Bloom"), which she learned in the Yellow Zone, but is actually from the village where Esther and her men are from. Esther takes it as a sign that Daiyan was sent by Girard to intimidate her and leaves the restaurant in a hurry. Daiyan runs after her to interrogate her about the brawl, but she's shot by 弗拉格 (Flagg), one of Girard's men, who was targeting Esther. When Esther flees, she drops her notebook, and the Commander saves Daiyan before bringing her to Zucchero Café for repairs.
The notebook informs them that Esther was from the Yellow Zone village of 乌扎马德奇 (tentatively “Uzamadezh”), which was built by generations of villagers before being destroyed by the Purification Project, leaving many of the inhabitants to die. The Girard Group infiltrated the villager's community and convinced them to attack the festival as retaliation against the URNC, manipulating the villagers as part of Girard's plans to take over the city. Daiyan, Jiangyu and Zhaohui volunteer to help the Commander find Esther and prevent the attack. When they infiltrate the villagers' hiding place, they find that Esther is trying to call off the attack, but Flagg's men are leading the villagers against her. The Dolls capture Esther, who explains her circumstances and helps them disarm most of the bombs. To identify and capture the villagers in the crowd and prevent them from activating the remaining bombs, Esther has Daiyan perform "When the Potato Flowers Bloom". Flagg retaliates by sniping Esther and remotely activating the Eber to crash the parade. Sharkry uses stage dry ice to slow down the machine and give Jiangyu time to hack it.
Meanwhile, the Commander confronts Flagg, who reveals that he once fought for the URNC and considered the Commander a hero for supporting its inception during the Battle of Frankfurt, but became disillusioned after the Commander's exile by the URNC government. He offers the Commander to join the Girard Group to take down the URNC and live a comfortable life in the White Zone, and also promises them the funds to fuel their “Doll fetishism”. The Commander replies that their exile was self-imposed, praises the loyalty of Dolls which humans like Flagg lack, then orders Makiatto, who was lying in wait, to take him and his men down. The Commander is nearly killed by Flagg during a brief close-quarters fight, but Daiyan arrives in time to save them. Flagg attempts to detonate the explosives rigged to the building, but they've already been disabled by Centaureissi while the Commander was making Flagg talk. When the Commander notices the strange color of his blood, Flagg confirms that he's in fact a Paradeus agent with an enhanced body. Before the Commander can wind down from the incident, they have to leave after Leva calls to warn that Squad 404 and Team Groza are locked in combat against the PMC Mangi Security. After a visit to Zucchero Café, Daiyan, Jiangyu and Zhaohui leave for the next leg of their journey.[1]
Datamined version[edit]
An unfinished version of the plot was found in Exilium's second beta in the form of audio files (lacking the non-voice acted narration). The biggest difference with the final version of this story is that the Commander and Flagg don't appear, so Daiyan, Jiangyu and Zhaohui instead discover the terrorists' plans and neutralize the Eber with some support from Zucchero Café and Griffin. Paradeus' involvement as the true perpetrators is only hinted at by the appearance of their symbol. The character of Esther is instead called Raymond, who fulfills the same role in the story.[2][3]