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deernet2022-03-19 03:41 pm
mehanizovati) wrote in deernet2022-03-19 03:41 pm
video; un: viktor
[the video starts near one of the blood blisters, though by 'near' it's clear the video taker has no particular interest in getting close enough to be in a potential splash zone. the video itself is more focused on the pair of blood hounds gathered around it.
when a voice speaks it's with a heavy czech accent and only after scratching that sounds like he's writing something.] I suppose it is customary to make greetings here, as a new arrival, so hello. I am Viktor.
[he clears his throat like he's glad that's over with, onto what he apparently really wants to talk about. the video pans down to a pale finger tapping his notebook, one page blurred and off the the side with what looks like confused formulas trying to figure out how the hell an omni works in his frame of knowledge, the others with notes on the bloodhounds.
one noticeable feature to people without paleblood is he keeps drawing/referencing mushrooms on the beasts, which clearly aren't there.] I've been curious about this fungal growth, especially as I've noticed it on more than just the eh... stag dogs.
when a voice speaks it's with a heavy czech accent and only after scratching that sounds like he's writing something.] I suppose it is customary to make greetings here, as a new arrival, so hello. I am Viktor.
[he clears his throat like he's glad that's over with, onto what he apparently really wants to talk about. the video pans down to a pale finger tapping his notebook, one page blurred and off the the side with what looks like confused formulas trying to figure out how the hell an omni works in his frame of knowledge, the others with notes on the bloodhounds.
one noticeable feature to people without paleblood is he keeps drawing/referencing mushrooms on the beasts, which clearly aren't there.] I've been curious about this fungal growth, especially as I've noticed it on more than just the eh... stag dogs.
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there's a place down in the catacombs where mushrooms the size of fists will grow right out of your body if you touch the spores
maybe you're meant to be down there
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Have you been to these catacombs then?
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so many times already
i hate that place
how have you been avoiding randomly getting sucked into the ground?
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Anything I should look out for? Aside from mushrooms.
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oh. you know
reanimated corpses of people you know, water thatgets in your head makes you all confused about which way is up or down, some stupid puzzle about the patrons, some black hole thatll make you cry to anyone who'll listen about why you're a failure at life
moss king's gotcha covered for having a swell tine.
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Thank you for the information. If my luck continues I'll hope for the puzzle, I think.
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you don't get to leave the catacombs without spilling your guts as a minimum
emotional guts so there's a bright side for ya
buuuuuuuut
a resourceful guy like you?
sure you could figure something out
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Somewhat off topic but I have been trying to gather more information on certain aspects of this world. For example, have you used this 'blood magic' yet?
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but what's your interest in blood magic about, viktor?
planning on blue balling trench too?
[ well. so much for subtlety then. ]
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[oh he does, or he can guess it might have to do with hextech at the very least. what concerns him is the potential double meaning of 'blue ball,' but surely that's just his paranoia making itself known. surely.]
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so you don't have any prior experience dabbling in magic with a certain hammer boy?
[ frankly, she shouldn't be amused. shouldn't be stickpoking either. but it's not like the identities of the creators of hextech isn't public knowledge to everyone in runeterra, so. ]
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[admittedly maybe outside of that, though he doubts anyone outside of piltover would have much of a chance of knowing who he is. jayce is the one on the packaging, after all.]
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[ frankly, zaun's independence had always been silco's pet project. jinx had her own disgust for the excesses of piltover, but it hasn't become a manifesto -- a purpose. there's too much noise and clutter in her own head to manage, and it'd been easier to let other people get all defensive about what the identity of the undercity is. all jinx needed to know was who to direct violence towards.
funny then, that these nuances in semantics actually do have some value in the most unexpected places. ]
that the first time you've heard of it?
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good question, hey arcane can you be clearer about if that's a widely accepted undercity thing or a silco frothy revolution thing maybe??it does ring a bell, a long time ago when he was very young and revolution was in the air.]No, it is not, but it's been a very long time since I've heard it used.
Three of us now, including that pink haired woman. That and I'm surprised you know who I am at all, just from a video. Have we met?
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vi is talking to viktor. what does that mean? what did they talk about? vi had been asking questions about the blue stone jinx has in her possession, and now viktor is here to do -- what? potentially moralize over it being too dangerous to remain in jinx's possession? give vi reasons to suspect?
heh. looks like you're getting screwed over anyway. ]
No! [ said aloud for an audience only jinx is privy to. ] She said we were gonna start over. That all that stuff from before doesn't matter!
[ breathing hard, jinx squeezes her eyes shut and covers her ears. ]
Shut up! You don't even know what they were talking about!
[ she snatches up her omni, hastily typing out a message. ]
we haven't.
but we could change that.
[ ... your move, viktor? ]
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except
this isn't the undercity, or piltover, or even runeterra. he already risked his neck on vi and he thinks he's going to do the same thing here, because as he understands death isn't the same. on top of it he's still dying already, still coughing up blood he must hastily find ways to clean before it's scented in the air. if his lungs don't kill him the beasts will sooner rather than later once they're drawn to the trail of bloody hankerchiefs he's been leaving behind like breadcrumbs, so... why not?
if she kills him at least he'll know. if she mugs him he has nothing that valuable to lose anyway. it doesn't matter anymore is something he said to vi in regards to so many aspects of their old lives now, and he feels that keenly. it doesn't matter, he's a walking corpse more than he's ever been and either this talk of death being temporary will prove true or it will be over, just like it was going to anyway.
if she doesn't do either then... he doesn't know. she represents something familiar, and as irritating as that is he finds it comforting to know others from his world exist. more so others from the undercity.]
I have been looking for a place to set up a lab in the Willful Machine area, most likely. If you wish to meet at the lamp location.
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then again, it's not like she's asked him when in the timeline he's from. his reception to her is going to be varied depending on that alone, but at the end of the day, what's viktor going to do about it if he realizes that she's jinx, enforcer killer and hexgem thief extraordinaire? cry to the enforcers?
yeah. exactly. ]
i'll meet you there in ten.
[ that's just about long enough to get some uh.. stuff together. just in case she feels like leaving a message.
oh but speaking of messages, she'll be sure to leave one for vi on the table that reads "went to hang out with your friend viktor." short and sweet. ]
not here.
someone's afternoon is ruined. ]
Shit.
[ friend?
hers?
is this going to be a repeat of the caitlyn debacle???
she swears he means nothing to her, nothing. ]