Sounds like you spend more time in your head than I do in mine.
[And he spends all his time in his head really.]
It's a golem, yes. An automaton. I had been fiddling with the start of blueprints back home. He won't be anything here but a rough prototype really. Not with these materials.
He wipes his hands a bit on a scrap of a rag. Glancing up at the leg pieces.]
Something that can reach the most toxic levels of the Undercity in order to help clean it up. Back home anyway. I was going to see what would happen if he was powered by a hex crystal. It could make him more efficient.
We have stuff like that in my world too. It's not perfect, though. I know a lot of scientists are still working on similar things. [Ways to improve safety, to have better control. He smiles, taking a seat on the edge of a separate desk.] Is that your area of expertise? Environmental?
[Bold of Mr. 1600 jobs to ask about areas of expertise]
[NO!!! I DON'T WANT TO SUFFER INTELLIGENCE I JUST WANTED TO TB EXPLODE KICKS THE REST OF YOU NERDS OUT OF THE GRAVEYARD]
That makes sense. [Luke was fortunate enough to live in a decent neighborhood, but he frequents North Stellis often enough, and he's seen The Horrors in other ways. He gets it. He looks over the automaton bits, thoughtful.] Hextech... is it expensive? Like, would it be hard to make a lot of these?
[Since he's guessing something called the Undercity is probably poor...]
[WOULD THESE PEOPLE STOP SEEING THE HORRORS? BEGGING.
Viktor fiddles with a tool idly while thinking.]
Well, it would be difficult to acquire the crystals perhaps, so yes. Legally. Fortunately, as one of the founders of Hextech, and as someone who resides in Piltover now, I don't have the same... lack of resources in getting them others would?
They are extremely regulated since... the arcane has always been frowned upon because of its volatile power.
I guess that makes sense. [That it's regulated, he means.] Powerful people tend to get their hands on dangerous things one way or another, but an effort has to be made nonetheless.
[To keep dangerous things guarded and keep people safe...]
Do you plan to build them all yourself? [Automaton army of Baymaxes]
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Anyway this is much more interesting than focusing on his woes, so he waves a hand, wandering in.]
Yeah. Just a little distracted. [The impending doom of their murderhands roommates...] What are you working on?
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STOP, not the distraction. He is frowning a bit as Luke wanders over.] The trial? [Look. Don't dodge around it.]
It's... something I was scribbling blueprints of back home. A side project. I decided to see if I could build a prototype with the scrap here.
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Mm. Anomalies. [Ashe not being here, there being two killers... but he CAN AND WILL DODGE talk to him nerd to nerd!!!]
Looks like the start of a robot. [Viktor is this like. A small Gundam.]
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[And he spends all his time in his head really.]
It's a golem, yes. An automaton. I had been fiddling with the start of blueprints back home. He won't be anything here but a rough prototype really. Not with these materials.
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Can I ask what he's meant for?
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He wipes his hands a bit on a scrap of a rag. Glancing up at the leg pieces.]
Something that can reach the most toxic levels of the Undercity in order to help clean it up. Back home anyway. I was going to see what would happen if he was powered by a hex crystal. It could make him more efficient.
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But, oh!! He perks up a little.]
We have stuff like that in my world too. It's not perfect, though. I know a lot of scientists are still working on similar things. [Ways to improve safety, to have better control. He smiles, taking a seat on the edge of a separate desk.] Is that your area of expertise? Environmental?
[Bold of Mr. 1600 jobs to ask about areas of expertise]
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This surprisingly makes him laugh quietly.]
I'm just an inventor. My expertise outside of building would be Hextech, I guess. Arcane technology. But... I was born in Zaun, the Undercity.
So... I have an interest in wanting to help its people.
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That makes sense. [Luke was fortunate enough to live in a decent neighborhood, but he frequents North Stellis often enough, and he's seen The Horrors in other ways. He gets it. He looks over the automaton bits, thoughtful.] Hextech... is it expensive? Like, would it be hard to make a lot of these?
[Since he's guessing something called the Undercity is probably poor...]
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Viktor fiddles with a tool idly while thinking.]
Well, it would be difficult to acquire the crystals perhaps, so yes. Legally. Fortunately, as one of the founders of Hextech, and as someone who resides in Piltover now, I don't have the same... lack of resources in getting them others would?
They are extremely regulated since... the arcane has always been frowned upon because of its volatile power.
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I guess that makes sense. [That it's regulated, he means.] Powerful people tend to get their hands on dangerous things one way or another, but an effort has to be made nonetheless.
[To keep dangerous things guarded and keep people safe...]
Do you plan to build them all yourself? [Automaton army of Baymaxes]