[He isn't working at least. Not yet. There is... a pair of giant, metal legs and a torso off to the side of the room, though. It looks like whatever it may be should be about Sidon's height.]
Yes. The... revival process is... concerning and also amazing.
[You are really trying to get what you can as long as you can. Viktor glances up.]
Zaun is full of pollution--the air, the water, the ground. The farther down into Zaun you go, the worse the pollution becomes. I wanted to build something that'd breech that layer.
[ viktor wants to make the guy from one direction better
but oh... that is so soft ]
That I could only imagine an outcome where such creations were used for battle or the plundering of resources shows that I still have much to learn... It is a most admirable cause, Master Viktor. I should hope you will see this vision come to reality.
You sound like... the Dean actually. He was head of the council, and he was very critical of the arcane. He was critical of our Hextech, too... for the reasons you named. But--that's not why Hextech was made. It isn't a weapon, it's for improving lives.
[Guess what happens to all things like this when it falls into the wrong hands? Haha.]
But I understand. I still hope to help the Undercity become a better place.
Progress always has... risks. But sometimes the price is very steep.
[He laces his fingers together in order to worry them between his hands.]
The last thing I had been working on was called a Hex Core. It was... a runic matrix we had built, one that utilized an arcane core. Anyhow... I found out it potentially had the key to all sorts of things inside it, even life and death. It consumed me, my interest in it. Naturally. I am... a dying man after all.
I accidentally hurt someone else in my desire to test the Core on myself.
Pour over the notes she had left behind, realizing... the things I didn't see because all I was consumed with was the Hex Core. Telling no one, dumping her ashes into the drain waters leading to Zaun because there was nowhere else to put them. Thinking it better if I just jumped from the drain aqueducts and got it over with.
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AAAAAH ]
... Have you recovered already, Master Viktor?
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Oh--hello, Your Highness.
[He isn't working at least. Not yet. There is... a pair of giant, metal legs and a torso off to the side of the room, though. It looks like whatever it may be should be about Sidon's height.]
Yes. The... revival process is... concerning and also amazing.
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[ he will come over to give him a look over ]
Your injuries are gone then?
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[NOT SIDON AND DION GIVING HIM THE FIRST NAME BENEFITS. He's going to lose his mind as someone who is always respectful. Fucking royals, man.
He gestures to another stool. Sit, idiod.] You can help yourself to some. [Of the tea and pie. It looks like he has already eaten a lil bit.]
Yes. They're healed now.
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I am glad to hear it. [ o: ] What is it that you are building...?
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A personal project I had been doodling back home.
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Something I can put in the worst areas of the Undercity to help it. Not here, of course. It's just a prototype.
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[ puts hand on viktor's shoulder ]
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Zaun is full of pollution--the air, the water, the ground. The farther down into Zaun you go, the worse the pollution becomes. I wanted to build something that'd breech that layer.
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... For what research? Is there something there you need?
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I want to help make Zaun a better place. I want to clean the pollution, make it livable. To make it as nice of a place to live as Piltover above.
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but oh... that is so soft ]
That I could only imagine an outcome where such creations were used for battle or the plundering of resources shows that I still have much to learn... It is a most admirable cause, Master Viktor. I should hope you will see this vision come to reality.
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You sound like... the Dean actually. He was head of the council, and he was very critical of the arcane. He was critical of our Hextech, too... for the reasons you named. But--that's not why Hextech was made. It isn't a weapon, it's for improving lives.
[Guess what happens to all things like this when it falls into the wrong hands? Haha.]
But I understand. I still hope to help the Undercity become a better place.
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[ he furrows his brows ]
And yet you should not let fear halt you. You are right to press on.
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I'm not so sure. Perhaps I should tell you what I didn't before.
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If you are comfortable to do so.
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[He laces his fingers together in order to worry them between his hands.]
The last thing I had been working on was called a Hex Core. It was... a runic matrix we had built, one that utilized an arcane core. Anyhow... I found out it potentially had the key to all sorts of things inside it, even life and death. It consumed me, my interest in it. Naturally. I am... a dying man after all.
I accidentally hurt someone else in my desire to test the Core on myself.
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Did you know that would be a consequence?
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[Haha.]
It was our assistant. She came in, and then she... tried to stop me from getting hurt.
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... An unfortunate accident. [ he can easily imagine the guilt ] But you truly believed it could be beneficial to the people of your city, no?
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It... had the potential, but at the time... all I was really thinking of was myself.
The doctors... only gave me a while to live. I was dying. So I was trying... unethical ways of stopping that from happening.
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also so funny whenever he meets someone desperate to live ]
I see. [ ... ] And then? After you realized your actions had cost her life, what did you do?
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There... was nothing to do.
Pour over the notes she had left behind, realizing... the things I didn't see because all I was consumed with was the Hex Core. Telling no one, dumping her ashes into the drain waters leading to Zaun because there was nowhere else to put them. Thinking it better if I just jumped from the drain aqueducts and got it over with.
I made Jayce promise to destroy the Hex Core.
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... It is good that you resolved to destroy it. Did her family or companions ever learned what became of her?
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