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abraxaslogs2022-04-09 12:13 pm
hextechhead) wrote in abraxaslogs2022-04-09 12:13 pm
There were a lot of problems to solve and of course Jayce just threw himself into the situation as soon as he got the authority to. The Council gave him that job, which was genuinely a stupid idea for someone who had no experience at all, and they'd mostly been ignoring it until then. Maybe they thought he'd change nothing substantial, only catch the people in trouble and be the end of it. As time went and he grew in power, he still had his eye on changing things, rooting out corruption. But the fact is, Jayce thought he could fix everything, and he definitely can't. One person can't. It was always going to end badly.
"I knew it was a long shot, that Piltover would be okay with the drastic change, but I felt like something had to be done. Things had to change. Progress wasn't happening fast enough. They weren't going to let the Undercity have power naturally." Humans don't live for centuries, he told Heimerdinger, before they kicked him off the Council. Jayce is young and bold and arrogant in this way, he wanted to take aciton, push what he saw as right. Now he wonders if he will ever get it right.
He messed up. His intentions had been good but he didn't act correctly. Now they're going to struggle more because of it. Jayce feels a lot of responsibility and guilt for all of it. "I know we just met, I have a tendency to latch onto people quickly, I appreciate your kindness." He has remarkable self-awareness about his flaws!
He pulls open the door to Mag's Inn and gestures inside. It's a nice place that has essentially become Summoned central. "I think it's pretty much all Summoned who live here at this point, with a few exceptions. The owner is really kind."
"I knew it was a long shot, that Piltover would be okay with the drastic change, but I felt like something had to be done. Things had to change. Progress wasn't happening fast enough. They weren't going to let the Undercity have power naturally." Humans don't live for centuries, he told Heimerdinger, before they kicked him off the Council. Jayce is young and bold and arrogant in this way, he wanted to take aciton, push what he saw as right. Now he wonders if he will ever get it right.
He messed up. His intentions had been good but he didn't act correctly. Now they're going to struggle more because of it. Jayce feels a lot of responsibility and guilt for all of it. "I know we just met, I have a tendency to latch onto people quickly, I appreciate your kindness." He has remarkable self-awareness about his flaws!
He pulls open the door to Mag's Inn and gestures inside. It's a nice place that has essentially become Summoned central. "I think it's pretty much all Summoned who live here at this point, with a few exceptions. The owner is really kind."
Goro listens to the story, and it's clear from the way Jayce tells it he's had practice doing so. Apparently he and Viktor's partnership is something of a novelty to most people. But what the Shokan finds more interesting is that it involves the two of them thumbing their noses at the dominant power in their city, and being rewarded for doing so.
"Curious that your city would fear what the Free Cities had already managed, to a certain degree." Goro replies, stroking his chin. "Why did your rulers fear it so?" In Goro's eyes, the merging of technology and magic is the only way magic should be harnessed, when it is made to obey the rules imposed upon it by technology. "I'm surprised there wasn't more backlash when you proved them all wrong. Most rulers in Outworld would not care to be so publicly shown up." Ah, but it sounds as though once perfected, Hextech increased the flow of money into the city's coffers. That would be a sufficient explanation.
Many advancements from Hextech, is it? "If we can achieve even a fraction of what Hex-Tech did for your city here, then we will all still reap great benefits." He muses. "No one ever tried to copy your success for their own homes?" Once Viktor and Jayce had proven it was possible, surely there must have been others who set out to try and replicate their journey, know that it was known to be possible. The pride of any ruler would certainly take a beating if they had to rely on an outside nation for their continued prosperity, regardless of the benefits. In Outworld, that sort of weakness could, and often did, get you killed.
"Curious that your city would fear what the Free Cities had already managed, to a certain degree." Goro replies, stroking his chin. "Why did your rulers fear it so?" In Goro's eyes, the merging of technology and magic is the only way magic should be harnessed, when it is made to obey the rules imposed upon it by technology. "I'm surprised there wasn't more backlash when you proved them all wrong. Most rulers in Outworld would not care to be so publicly shown up." Ah, but it sounds as though once perfected, Hextech increased the flow of money into the city's coffers. That would be a sufficient explanation.
Many advancements from Hextech, is it? "If we can achieve even a fraction of what Hex-Tech did for your city here, then we will all still reap great benefits." He muses. "No one ever tried to copy your success for their own homes?" Once Viktor and Jayce had proven it was possible, surely there must have been others who set out to try and replicate their journey, know that it was known to be possible. The pride of any ruler would certainly take a beating if they had to rely on an outside nation for their continued prosperity, regardless of the benefits. In Outworld, that sort of weakness could, and often did, get you killed.
"There were wars against and using magic in the past, in other places. A member of the Council said his entire race was nearly destroyed by it, and our mentor had witnessed enough of it to be fearful of what it could do." And Jayce is understanding, to a point. Those are logical reasons to fear something, but not logical reasons to refuse to ever revisit the idea again. "But progress requires pushing against what you fear." That's true of him. He may be more cautious now than ever before, but he still thinks Hextech was the right thing. He can't regret it just because it was misused (by him).
"No, they wanted it for themselves, once they saw the benefit. And they can't exactly punish the creators of what they coveted." They could, sure, but it wasn't a smart idea. So instead it was spun around, that these prize students of Heimerdinger made something incredible, and the Council could give them the funding and space and power to use it. "The benefit of it was obvious once it was proven and not a theory. Everyone agreed on that." It was stretching the mind to the possibility that was the hard part.
"They wouldn't be able to. I had gathered all known crystals at that point, and you can't work any of it without them. Which I'm guessing is true here of the New Magic, it's a natural safeguard." Jayce will have to learn more by going to the academy, but it makes sense to him. If he wants to replicate Hextech or learn what New Magic is, it'd have to be through academia and that route. Honestly, that may be one of the things Heimerdinger was correct about. Safeguards over something that powerful are necessary. "I'm sure it's the type of thing they've already thought through here, since they're ahead of us that way."
"No, they wanted it for themselves, once they saw the benefit. And they can't exactly punish the creators of what they coveted." They could, sure, but it wasn't a smart idea. So instead it was spun around, that these prize students of Heimerdinger made something incredible, and the Council could give them the funding and space and power to use it. "The benefit of it was obvious once it was proven and not a theory. Everyone agreed on that." It was stretching the mind to the possibility that was the hard part.
"They wouldn't be able to. I had gathered all known crystals at that point, and you can't work any of it without them. Which I'm guessing is true here of the New Magic, it's a natural safeguard." Jayce will have to learn more by going to the academy, but it makes sense to him. If he wants to replicate Hextech or learn what New Magic is, it'd have to be through academia and that route. Honestly, that may be one of the things Heimerdinger was correct about. Safeguards over something that powerful are necessary. "I'm sure it's the type of thing they've already thought through here, since they're ahead of us that way."
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