We wanted to improve lives. The people who suffered, the people who struggled. But... our work was being forced to go through a vetting process. The usual you would expect of new inventions. Years of testing.
...But I did not have years left to live. I was dying.
You were sick. [ the vetting process only let them offer power gloves sure that makes sense. but she looks at him and. hums. ] And so you started experiencing on yourself to bypass the vetting process?
[He looks away. Okay, well. YES. Yes. He can't really get around that. There is a peculiar feminine voice which ghostly says his name, but he doesn't acknowledge it really.]
We had a side project... the Hexcore. I was the one who worked on it mostly. Jayce had become busy with being a council member. It was a matrix of magical runes around one of our crystal cores. I realized it had abilities beyond our comprehension. Things like... regeneration.
But the plant subjects would die afterward. I could not figure out what was missing. I think... it... came into contact with some of my blood. It changed. It... evolved.
Is this one of those things where magic is... alive or something? [ like in video game genres. ] So you sort of fed the arcane by accidentally getting blood inside of it?
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We wanted to improve lives. The people who suffered, the people who struggled. But... our work was being forced to go through a vetting process. The usual you would expect of new inventions. Years of testing.
...But I did not have years left to live. I was dying.
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We had a side project... the Hexcore. I was the one who worked on it mostly. Jayce had become busy with being a council member. It was a matrix of magical runes around one of our crystal cores. I realized it had abilities beyond our comprehension. Things like... regeneration.
But the plant subjects would die afterward. I could not figure out what was missing. I think... it... came into contact with some of my blood. It changed. It... evolved.
And then I began testing on myself.
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anyway sorry he says all that and she is just. hm. ]
You fed the magic core that kills plants your blood and then tested it on yourself?
[ AT LEAST TEST IT ON RATS??????? ]
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The blood was an accident. I was ill and dying, and some accidentally got inside of it.
But afterward, I began testing its limits on myself, yes. It had become different.
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Is this one of those things where magic is... alive or something? [ like in video game genres. ] So you sort of fed the arcane by accidentally getting blood inside of it?
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[His, at least.]
It assimilated the blood and... evolved into another form. Something more organic and less technological. Flesh with the heart of a machine.
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That was always our goal.