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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[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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I couldn't tell anyone... I didn't even tell Jayce.
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[ pats his shoulder ]
It is a weight you must carry, and one that will propel you to do better.