OPEN: We Vow To Keep Pressing Forward

[hextechhead]

WHO: Jayce Talis and you
WHAT: Jayce is new, come meet him!
WHERE: Cadens and the Horizon
WHEN: April, will add event stuff later





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[cryptsleeper]

You can always find a spell to keep yourself quiet for an hour.

[Alucard's tone is serious, making it harder to tell if he's kidding or not. He can be dry as the desert outside of Cadens, aftr all.]

At least you know you were an idiot in retrospect. That's worthy of some note in and of itself. [Alucard himself is too young to suggest another factor might be youth, enthusiasm, or anything else along those lines. Which is probably for the better, as he would come off as far too condescending.]

So long as your hand isn't forced. [For obvious reasons and concerns.] I've wondered how likely it is that simply existing here and functioning within their systems counts as interfering or making decisions.

[To invent is to potentially impact the world here, it seems.]

[hextechhead]

[ Viktor also has a dry sense of humor but Jayce has known him for years, so he's not entirely certain he can guess with Alucard. He thinks it's funny though, so he's going to lean toward joking. ]

I'd probably just start writing questions down.

[ His sense of humor is much more obvious, like everything about him. Jayce sombers though about the topic of his stupidity and he shrugs. ]

All I've ever really wanted to do was make our city better, it's why we started Hextech too, so when given the opportunity to try and change things on a higher level, I thought I should do it.

[ It's a wistful thought, remembering the genuine need to help people, the good intentions that drove him to where he was. But a junior politician should never have ended up the head of the council, and he walked into a war situation with no real knowledge. It was probably always going to not work out. ]

But I didn't know enough about how things work, about how to actually enact change or deal with a corrupt system. It was a naive and kind of arrogant idea that I could come in blind and fix everything that had been wrong for a century.

[ Again, Jayce is very upfront, opening a window into his past and his heart to strangers, because this is all weighing on his mind, and he wonders if there aren't lessons in there for more than him. Not that Alucard needs a lesson in anything, but Jayce never really got much of a chance to talk through it either. It all just sort of happened and spiraled out of control. He talks off the top of his head, it's a thing. ]

Sorry to ramble. Anyway, I'd like to avoid that again. But you're not at all wrong. By changing things about this city, whether it's restoration or creating new technology, it could be interfering. Maybe it's worth it if it's a net good?

Do you want to aim to wrap this so we can focus on event soon?

[cryptsleeper]

That'd probably be a little more endearing.

[Only slightly though.

Alucard is quiet as he hears the full of it. In all of that explanation, it becomes clear that what was created was always going to have political tie ups, and it would inevitably become an issue that no one could truly control. Not coming into things with a personality like Jayce's and not being able to predict some cynicism either.

There's a note of the familar there, although Alucard is loathe to poke too much at it for the time being. Helping and assuming the best. It always ends up in flames, doesn't it?

At least the man can own up to arrogance. That counts for a lot.] No need. It is enlightening, and reassuring that you can anticipate potential problems in recreating your technology here.

[As for the real crux of it, the dhampir shakes his head.] But a net good for whom? For the people here? Perhaps. For those in Thorne and Solvunn? They may not agree, and tensions continue to rise even without help. [He knows how cynical it sounds. Alucard's accepted that cynicism is where he resides now.]

absolutely we can wrap here and say that they chatted for a little while longer

[hextechhead]

My mentor was a strong believer in being cautious about big discoveries because there was no way to guarantee the consequences. We didn't see eye to eye on a lot, but I'm keeping it in mind.

[ Jayce was the catalyst for Heimerdinger's expulsion from his role on the Council and his withdrawing from Piltover entirely. It is not something he is proud of, and more things in hindsight make him regret how it all came about. Jayce still believes what he said about him, but it was easier to be angry and protect Viktor than listen. And since he doesn't think he'll see him again, they will never get any kind of closure. ]

Right now we don't have anything big to share with Cadens or anyone else, but it's something to think about when we do. Thank you for talking this out with me, Alucard.