Viktor is welcome to look, though! They have so much junk, so even if he messes it up they can go scrounge for more. Endless junk.]
Just about everything, in my world. They're a little bit like the IRIS, but they're not implanted in your body. [Yet.] The average person uses it to connect to the internet--a huge network that lets you talk to people all over the world, or look up information, watch videos, write and process documents, play games... all kinds of things. Then there are specialty computers, in different work fields--you can install different programs on them for different things. So a design studio would have art programs that let people draw digital art, or edit photos that they took, for instance, while a computer in a medical center would have the technology to process body scans or track a patient's illness progression.
[THE WORLD IS THEIR OYSTER.]
Ideally, we'd be able to put together something that would let us connect to whatever network the IRIS uses, so we could communicate with the others [he doesn't like to call them the living even if that's what they are], but I don't think we can... I'm sure we can at least make something that'll let us store our notes, though. That way we can stop bothering Scien every time we want to add something.
[Digs through like a lil ratus. He won't break anything even if it wouldn't matter because it's all junk and there's MORE junk.
Computers sure can do a fucking LOT which I made you type. Viktor, unfortunately, is extremely intrigued by this. The IRIS already held a lot of his interest.]
Interesting... It's like... a highly sophisticated Hexgate, but with information.
[Hmmm. He really is going to go back to fucking Runeterra (maybe) and create a whole wild ass bunch of shit.]
[A LIL RATUS!!! Relatable though. Luke gathers up the stuff he's not looking at while Viktor rummages, then beckons for him to follow him back to the lab with the rest so they can get started!
Also it's YOUR TURN NOW]
I remember you mentioned Hextech before--can you tell me more about it?
[WTF WHY I BARELY GOT ANYTHING NOOOOOOOOOOOO MY LORE :NOOO:
He puts what he has down for the moment and follows Luke toward the back of the lab.]
It's the integration of the arcane and technology. Magic is harnessed inside of a hex crystal and then it's placed under extreme pressure to stabilize it. That crystal is then used to power... [Gestures with a hand absently.] Anything you can manage to create.
Interesting... you know, a lot of the technology I'm used to has crystals in it too. But I get the feeling we're thinking of different things. [Though 2030 tech probably seems like magic to other people, tbh]
[LMFKSDJHGK AAAAA STOP STOP YOU'LL HAVE TO FEED ME COMPUTER LORE THAT LUKE CAN REGURGITATE]
Crystal oscillators. They're pretty small. Like--[CONVENIENTLY as they are back in the lab, he dumps his stuff down and grabs some CPUs to point them out.]--right in here, there's a plate made of quartz. We use them for precision timing, mostly.
[AND DATA TRANSMISSION? HOW DO THEY TRANSMIT DATA? I HAVE NO IDEA I'M READING QUORA]
In my world, we use a lot of holographic technology--the lasers we use for those have crystals in them too.
[FEEDS YOU BITS OF COMPUTER INFORMATION FOR LUKE'S SPY ASS "he's not a spy" A SPY
Viktor leans in to look at what Luke has. His expression and his eyes are different here and now. Usually, he looks like a twig that hasn't slept in weeks, a dying man, but here, with all of this, there is a focused light in his eyes. Hungry. He's hungry for knowledge, for the workings of things.]
Quartz... [HE LOVES THIS. He's hoarding all of this info to take back with him.] That's incredible.
[Dahut is going to feed this man so many pies that he will return to the living side looking like a different person.
Luke hands the piece over!! Feel free to examine it.]
It's pretty cool. If I had a time machine, I'd love to go back and watch people discovering these things for the first time. It must've seemed like magic to them, too.
[Just don't ruin your hexcube with ads and influences, Viktor]
He will examine this piece, yes, for a long and studious moment, and then he offers it back. So he can look at other things and also at what Luke is doing, of course.]
I can remember when we discovered Hextech for the first time. It was... amazing. Nothing like we had ever seen before.
[He will take it back! And as he does, he starts. I don't know. PUTTING TOGETHER COMPUTER INNARDS?? I guess you probably have to put stuff on the motherboard first huh. I'M GOING TO SIGN UP FOR A CLASS SO I CAN TAG THIS THREAD IN PEACE]
It's pretty new, then? I remember you're not that much older than me. [Things a 24-year-old says to a 30-year-old so confidently]
Only five years, but it's advanced that much? [To do all the things Viktor described... to become a big part of society in general? That's pretty impressive, to him.]
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He has no clue what the fuck half of these words are Luke says, but he at least nay be able to parse their function after seeing them (maybe).
Once they're at the junk, he starts looking over a few things.]
What do you... use computers for?
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Viktor is welcome to look, though! They have so much junk, so even if he messes it up they can go scrounge for more. Endless junk.]
Just about everything, in my world. They're a little bit like the IRIS, but they're not implanted in your body. [Yet.] The average person uses it to connect to the internet--a huge network that lets you talk to people all over the world, or look up information, watch videos, write and process documents, play games... all kinds of things. Then there are specialty computers, in different work fields--you can install different programs on them for different things. So a design studio would have art programs that let people draw digital art, or edit photos that they took, for instance, while a computer in a medical center would have the technology to process body scans or track a patient's illness progression.
[THE WORLD IS THEIR OYSTER.]
Ideally, we'd be able to put together something that would let us connect to whatever network the IRIS uses, so we could communicate with the others [he doesn't like to call them the living even if that's what they are], but I don't think we can... I'm sure we can at least make something that'll let us store our notes, though. That way we can stop bothering Scien every time we want to add something.
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Computers sure can do a fucking LOT which I made you type. Viktor, unfortunately, is extremely intrigued by this. The IRIS already held a lot of his interest.]
Interesting... It's like... a highly sophisticated Hexgate, but with information.
[Hmmm. He really is going to go back to fucking Runeterra (maybe) and create a whole wild ass bunch of shit.]
Show me.
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Also it's YOUR TURN NOW]
I remember you mentioned Hextech before--can you tell me more about it?
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He puts what he has down for the moment and follows Luke toward the back of the lab.]
It's the integration of the arcane and technology. Magic is harnessed inside of a hex crystal and then it's placed under extreme pressure to stabilize it. That crystal is then used to power... [Gestures with a hand absently.] Anything you can manage to create.
Mining gauntlets. Hex Claws. The Hexgates.
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Interesting... you know, a lot of the technology I'm used to has crystals in it too. But I get the feeling we're thinking of different things. [Though 2030 tech probably seems like magic to other people, tbh]
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They're going to have to make the shittiest case known to man, but they will probably have to Raspberry Pi it. IT'S FINE. Motherboard time.]
What... kind of crystals exactly?
[They probably are, but look. LOOK. Is modern technology not magic.]
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Crystal oscillators. They're pretty small. Like--[CONVENIENTLY as they are back in the lab, he dumps his stuff down and grabs some CPUs to point them out.]--right in here, there's a plate made of quartz. We use them for precision timing, mostly.
[AND DATA TRANSMISSION? HOW DO THEY TRANSMIT DATA? I HAVE NO IDEA I'M READING QUORA]
In my world, we use a lot of holographic technology--the lasers we use for those have crystals in them too.
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Viktor leans in to look at what Luke has. His expression and his eyes are different here and now. Usually, he looks like a twig that hasn't slept in weeks, a dying man, but here, with all of this, there is a focused light in his eyes. Hungry. He's hungry for knowledge, for the workings of things.]
Quartz... [HE LOVES THIS. He's hoarding all of this info to take back with him.] That's incredible.
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Luke hands the piece over!! Feel free to examine it.]
It's pretty cool. If I had a time machine, I'd love to go back and watch people discovering these things for the first time. It must've seemed like magic to them, too.
[Just don't ruin your hexcube with ads and influences, Viktor]
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He will examine this piece, yes, for a long and studious moment, and then he offers it back. So he can look at other things and also at what Luke is doing, of course.]
I can remember when we discovered Hextech for the first time. It was... amazing. Nothing like we had ever seen before.
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It's pretty new, then? I remember you're not that much older than me. [Things a 24-year-old says to a 30-year-old so confidently]
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I'm... a little older, I think.
[LUKE IS A BABY. A toddler.]
We created Hextech officially about... five or six years ago, yes. We refined the crystals used to make what would be Hextech, I should say.
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Only five years, but it's advanced that much? [To do all the things Viktor described... to become a big part of society in general? That's pretty impressive, to him.]