[guessing based on his profile. he sounds like he's deciding whether the info exchange is worth it - there's the sense that he's fairly ill at ease talking about the runes, but also he's nosy, so he can be persuaded if he gets to learn new nerd things.]
[A bit of an amused, knowing smile lifts Viktor's lips; it's surprising he can find it in him to do this through the chronic ache, the lethargy, the emotionally sluggishness.]
[emotionshare week means he'll immediately be able to feel the piqued interest. tempting...... anyways time to see how vague he can be while still getting the info he wants (arthur stop)]
There are - forces that might prove harmful if given free reign. My family has found a way to keep them contained to only our home using a combination of wards and runes. I can show you the iconography we used if you'd like.
Hextech? My research partner and I created it. He wanted to find a way to bring the arcane to those who were not a natural conduit for it, and he had a runic shard given to him by a mage. I had the numbers and could build.
We stabilized the unrefined crystals he had made which allowed us to integrate with technology.
Waddling a bit closer to Arthur so he can peek at the sketchbook curiously.]
Hextech was created to make work and life easier for others. We made the Hexgates. A way to transport anything from one point to another. It was industrialize for Piltover's commerce system, transposing airships and zeppelins to other cities.
We had been working on creating something for miners to work more quickly and efficiently without detriment to their arms. And something for more precise cutting and etching with a laser beam.
It... depends on who you ask. Some say the draw to it by the people able to wield it can corrupt them. That terrible wars have been fought over it, and it should be abolished. Forgotten.
But others think it's something that could be used to benefit existence. Something innate that shouldn't be feared or restricted from others.
It's... world magic. Runic magic integral to the planet in some way... I've never studied it in depth. It isn't something widely known much less accepted before we made progress with it. It feels like...
[Thoughtful.]
Life. Energy. Something powerful and respected. Something capable of the impossible.
It was so misunderstood that people feared it. It was ancient magic from the rune artifacts of the planet. We simply refined a crystal of it that we can use to power tech as an energy source.
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The question makes his brows rise, and then he laughs. A huff, short and dry. He glances out of the window. Oh, to be a star.]
I believe that's a bit of an understatement. Not exactly the picture of perfect health, don't you think?
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[no he doesn't, not really, but now he feels too awkward to inquire further. after a moment:]
They - mentioned a medical bay. Soon.
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I appreciate the thought, Mr. Arthur, but I don't think a medical bay can help what ails me. It would not hurt to investigate, though.
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[accepting that readily enough, but then falling silent. awkward pause time.]
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If you'd like to look, too, don't let me stop you. If it's too much, I can leave. I have been here a while anyway.
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There's enough space.
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Arthur has chosen Suffer the Burden of Chronic Pain. Viktor regards the other man sidelong for a moment, almost in a studious way.]
What all do you know about runes, Mr. Arthur?
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I... typically use them for - binding. Why?
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Could you explain what you mean by "binding"? In exchange, I'll tell you about... Hextech.
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Hextech is something scientific?
[guessing based on his profile. he sounds like he's deciding whether the info exchange is worth it - there's the sense that he's fairly ill at ease talking about the runes, but also he's nosy, so he can be persuaded if he gets to learn new nerd things.]
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The marriage of technology and the arcane.
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There are - forces that might prove harmful if given free reign. My family has found a way to keep them contained to only our home using a combination of wards and runes. I can show you the iconography we used if you'd like.
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(Because Viktor is doing the same thing, too.)]
I would like to see it if you didn't mind, yes. The runes... control what you don't want free? A shield, you mean...? To keep it at bay?
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[he nods, though, and for the purposes of this thread i'm saying he has his sketchbook with him. time to grab a pencil.]
And yours?
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Hextech? My research partner and I created it. He wanted to find a way to bring the arcane to those who were not a natural conduit for it, and he had a runic shard given to him by a mage. I had the numbers and could build.
We stabilized the unrefined crystals he had made which allowed us to integrate with technology.
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[starts sketching some rune looking things. the book never specifies what they look like but they're symbols or glyphs, probably.]
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Waddling a bit closer to Arthur so he can peek at the sketchbook curiously.]
Hextech was created to make work and life easier for others. We made the Hexgates. A way to transport anything from one point to another. It was industrialize for Piltover's commerce system, transposing airships and zeppelins to other cities.
We had been working on creating something for miners to work more quickly and efficiently without detriment to their arms. And something for more precise cutting and etching with a laser beam.
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And - the arcane itself, divorced from technology? What does it accomplish?
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It... depends on who you ask. Some say the draw to it by the people able to wield it can corrupt them. That terrible wars have been fought over it, and it should be abolished. Forgotten.
But others think it's something that could be used to benefit existence. Something innate that shouldn't be feared or restricted from others.
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[Thoughtful.]
Life. Energy. Something powerful and respected. Something capable of the impossible.
It was so misunderstood that people feared it. It was ancient magic from the rune artifacts of the planet. We simply refined a crystal of it that we can use to power tech as an energy source.
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