[ The instant the shielding technology is mentioned, whatever playfulness regarding the mystery of it all evaporates as Claude listens rather seriously. It's an important task. For all his flippancy regarding most things, this topic isn't one of them. Collecting the blueprints is moving right to the top of the list. ]
Depending on the state of the cities after all of this, [ given the damage from the rifts, their departures, and the unspoken but still heard loudly in everything what if of what waits on the other side of this ritual, ] I know there's a few engineers on the workshop's list that I think you could depend on to make it happen without any... let's say, interferences. And if not, I know how to make sure to play upon their sympathies to make it happen.
[ Needless to say: he's happy to manipulate that into being without a single bit of remorse, and he nods decisively once after that. ]
No matter what, we'll look out for the miners as much as we can, even if it's from a distance.
[ One way or another, if there's a way to - though Claude hopes not as gods, it'd still be an option. Or so he hopes, again. ]
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Depending on the state of the cities after all of this, [ given the damage from the rifts, their departures, and the unspoken but still heard loudly in everything what if of what waits on the other side of this ritual, ] I know there's a few engineers on the workshop's list that I think you could depend on to make it happen without any... let's say, interferences. And if not, I know how to make sure to play upon their sympathies to make it happen.
[ Needless to say: he's happy to manipulate that into being without a single bit of remorse, and he nods decisively once after that. ]
No matter what, we'll look out for the miners as much as we can, even if it's from a distance.
[ One way or another, if there's a way to - though Claude hopes not as gods, it'd still be an option. Or so he hopes, again. ]