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[hexcope]

[So getting used to this new kind of technology was certainly an… experience. He still isn’t really comfortable with the idea of a video recording of himself, and even an instantaneous voice transmission is beyond the level of tech he’s accustomed to so text is the way to go. Unfortunately, he’s using this like some sort of magical LinkedIn, so it’s a very formal letter style he’s got going on.]

Hello,

My name is Jayce Talis. I’ve noticed there’s a few buildings here that seem to be laboratories. If any have availability to lend a room or two, I have research and device development I would like to work on. Ideally if there’s any access to a forge of some sort, that would be preferred, but not required. I have a personal reference if necessary to demonstrate good character.

[He notably does not say anywhere that there will probably be explosions.]

Thank you for your time.

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[hexcope]

[Stop enjoying being bullied, weirdo!]

I don't know how you even make time to talk to me in between the

What is it you're doing again? Kicking puppies on street corners?

[zauneyete]

[ look he can't get mad bc then you'll know it bothers him ]

Just Sevika's damnable creature, I'm afraid. It does not understand the word "no".

[hexcope]

That's poros for you.

[He's not exactly fond of them either. Heimerdinger's was keen to nip at his ankles.]

[zauneyete]

[ They have found it, their common ground. ]

One would think with all of the time and money invested into keeping them, that you topsiders would have learned to breed out the nasty traits already. I suppose there's no counting for lack of competency, is there?

[hexcope]

[Somehow. Barely.]

There's something to be said about how sometimes selective breeding brings out worse aspects that wouldn't be found in a more natural environment. Poros are meant to live in Freljord.

[Not city environments. They're too small, too curious, and no one puts them on a leash. Probably an unpopular opinion of his.]

[zauneyete]

[ How fast until they ruin it? ]

Hm. Unsuited to their environment, and yet forced to be where people place them.

[ He's thinking of all of them. Forced to work together. Ugh. ]

A not-uncommon issue, I think.

Not that I feel pity for the horrible creatures.

[hexcope]

Give them treats. They like meat-based, herb-infused hard biscuits. The really stuck-up ones prefer organic, but it's guaranteed to stop them from nipping.

[zauneyete]

I'll forward your advice to Sevika.

[ This isn't his pet, after all. ]

[hexcope]

You're the one who needs to get on it's good side.

[zauneyete]

It isn't my pet.

[ A beat. ]

Have you bribed one that hated you, then?

[hexcope]

Yes. The one that belonged to my professor. It might have gotten me some leeway on some projects.

[See, Silco? He can be a bad boy. So devious.]

[zauneyete]

By manipulating a poro.

[ jesus christ if these are the problems they deal with topside how in the hell do they not have their own sovereignty yet ]

[hexcope]

Yes?

[This is maybe not going the way he hoped.]

[zauneyete]

If your professor was that easily led astray, perhaps I should have been talking to him directly.

I could have been doing circles around him.

[ As if the world would ever let Silco near heimerdinger

the whimsy alone might have killed him ]

[hexcope]

Ha! I didn't know you had jokes. Sorry, but Heimerdinger would be doing circles around you.

[He doesn't think Silco would last ten minutes in a room with Professor Comedic Relief.]

[zauneyete]

You think so, boy?

[ Silco's fatal flaw: double down ]

Too bad we won't find out, hm?

[hexcope]

Unless he shows up.

[At this point, he's daring the universe to do it, because it would be so fucking funny.]

[zauneyete]

Given that some of these challenges involved clowns, perhaps he would fit right in.

[ noooOOOOOOOO ]

[hexcope]

Kind of you to allow him into your tent, Silco.

[Being king of the clowns, and all.]

[zauneyete]

Who am I to turn away more? A ringmaster knows how to turn all of the actors into a proper working show, after all. Someone needs to be able to keep up with you in the tent, don't you think?

[ :) ]

[hexcope]

[ >:( ]

Better a clown than "Ringmaster of the Shitshow."

[zauneyete]

Ah, is that not the luxury of someone who follows? To simply be me of many?

Being a leader means one must accept such burdens, uncomfortable or lacking as they may be. We learn to make something out of it, with time. Even when they are made up of nothing but refuse.

That's why you call in a Zaunite. Best people for the job.

[:) :)]

[hexcope]

You're right. I'm waving my magic wand right now, granting Zaunites the power to run Piltover. What's your first move?

[zauneyete]

Other than total sovereignty for all Zaunites, you mean?

[ He's always going to go there. ]

Investment in industry and resources.

After all, if we Zaunites are to not support you all from below, you'll need to have true workers.

[hexcope]

And who would those workers be?