Do not destroy it. There's so much concentrated magical power in them... even I don't know what would happen if you tried to deconstruct it somehow. It would probably level a city block. Maybe more.
You're talking to someone who can control any kind of vector, including magical ones. I'm probably the person best suited to destroy the fucking thing if it ever needed to be.
But it's a moot point right now. The brat's out. I'm not sure why, he didn't tell me, but it didn't seem like it was because he was in any kind of danger. He still thought I should get it back, though.
And I don't think we should ever try and find out.
[What if he can't control it? What if it's too fast, too sudden, too strong? What if it tears Accelerator apart, piece by piece? What if there's nothing left for Aurora to bring back?
He's not going to voice all of that, but he can't let that happen.]
We're working on a compromise. One that involves Jinx keeping it.
[He's not interested in finding out, so they're in agreement on that.]
The fuck? So what, she gets to get away with stealing someone else's work and turning it into a gun that can vaporize people, and you get to stand by and watch someone pervert your research into something ugly? How the hell is that a compromise?
["That's on you. I didn't bring a foreigner into our affairs." "If you opened your mouth and spoke too freely, then perhaps you should fix it, instead of wallowing in your own pity about how we all hate you." "I'm going to go help sort this mess. The one you created."]
[That pisses him off a little, though he wants to do the responsible thing and be mature about this whole mess instead of just getting pissed off, shutting off his earpiece, and getting the gemstone.]
That's a load of bullshit. I think you know that.
Look, if you change your mind and want my help, you can just ask for it. I'll get the gemstone back for you, and unlike Robin I'll give it back to you. You and your partner made it, right? It belongs to you two, you two understand it the best, so you should have it. It shouldn't be any more complicated than that.
There's hundreds of years of conflict culminating into this. If we take it back from the Zaunites, that's a permanent door closed between me, and half the people here that represent my world. Not only that, but they could ask for another from Aurora just as easily, and won't offer any information on how many more they bring in after that. I can't keep control of them anymore, because that's not how this world works.
[He's getting that out of the way first, telling himself that being reassuring is entirely practical and has nothing to do with him actually liking Jayce.]
It sounds to me like they closed that door when they stole it from you and Viktor, and now they're just taking advantage of you. People will do that when they have something to gain, it's why you can't let yourself be stepped on when you're a fucking leader or representative or whatever. As soon as it happens once it's going to happen a million more times.
I'm not sure what to do about them asking for more of those things. Could they, even though they weren't the ones who created it? I've never thought about whether Aurora can prohibit or deny requests.
That means no repeating this either. It's pretty easy to track back who said what, even if you don't name names.
Yeah, well...
[He knows Accelerator's right. He understands he should be taking a harder stance against this; it is his and Viktor's gemstone. It's their life's work. Jinx has no right to have it, and the fact they all know she used it to kill so many...
But it's a complex situation. He can't pretend he doesn't need the Zaunites, when their world is at stake. It doesn't matter who started it. Peace, even an uncomfortable one, doesn't happen if neither is willing to hold out their hand. Complete isolation from the Zaunites is worse than the discomfort.]
As far as I know, she hasn't hurt anyone here with it. If I can work with Jinx, get her to really understand the gemstone, maybe we can all move past this.
Have you asked for something you didn't make? I asked for metal materials for my forge, but that's a pretty simple material. If there's a limit, I don't know it.
[It's a bit frustrating, but he's decided he isn't going to act unless Jayce wants him to, so he'll manage.]
And then she can turn around and vaporize you, since there won't be any reason to keep bothering with you. People don't just steal research and build dangerous weapons for shits and giggles, Talis.
[He's putting additional pieces together in his mind, that 'Zaunites' likely means Jinx, Silco, possibly Vander. From everything he's seen and heard about all three of them, he can't see them caring about Jayce once they've gotten a handle on the gemstone's use as a weapon.
... Maybe Vander. He'd been the one wanting to build a community over the network, but if he's in line with this "Runeterrans only" bullcrap then that was a big fat lie....]
I've asked for my laptop from home. And a convenience store, which isn't mine but exists within my city. [And equipment for Harold but he's going to just gloss over that - ] At this point, I think it's worth asking her.
[Accelerator's not wrong on that front either, everything Jayce is saying is screaming against his gut feelings. But Viktor wants peace. Jayce will just have to trust this is the right decision.]
And if she does that, then you'll have my posthumous full permission to go after it. I'm done doing preemptive measures out of fear.
You could ask, but if she changes her mind on that, then we're going to have a lot of complaints, and not just from the Zaunites.
You want me to take that instruction seriously? Because I will.
[Not that he wants to see Jayce getting killed, but you know. Contingency plans and all that.]
I don't think you'd get many complaints from other people if it was just about the gemstones. Now that we're on the subject, it wouldn't be a bad idea for me to ask her about limiting requests for Academy City technology. We already keep that shit locked down back home, especially anything related to espers and espers themselves, so the rationale wouldn't be any different.
Are you sure? Because killing you - killing anyone, frankly - seems like reasonable fucking grounds to take it back.
[Like a parent taking away a child's toy because they were fighting with the other kids.]
For me, it would probably be something like, "Can you prohibit the approval of requests that include science and technology that's specific to Academy City?" That still allows for shit that has been researched elsewhere, so say if someone comes from a place that also did the R&D for nanomachine trackers they can ask for those specific ones, but they can't ask for the kind that comes from my city. It would still be technology that's problematic around here, but I'd still be able to keep a lockdown on the shit that I'm responsible for.
[He may or may not be going into parent mode at this point.]
Talis, as someone with likely one of the biggest body counts here, I can say that no matter how much you screw up, you're not the kind of person who deserves to be killed.
Good point.
"Can you prohibit the approval of requests that include science and technology that's specific to Academy City, unless the requestor is myself or someone who was involved with its development?"
That allows for researchers who won't be blocked from their own research. It opens it up to a lot of bastards who did a lot of bad shit, but if any of those people show up here they'd be dealing with me regardless.
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[You know, just normal things.]
Is this the renewable energy source you were telling me about?
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Do not destroy it. There's so much concentrated magical power in them... even I don't know what would happen if you tried to deconstruct it somehow. It would probably level a city block. Maybe more.
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But it's a moot point right now. The brat's out. I'm not sure why, he didn't tell me, but it didn't seem like it was because he was in any kind of danger. He still thought I should get it back, though.
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[What if he can't control it? What if it's too fast, too sudden, too strong? What if it tears Accelerator apart, piece by piece? What if there's nothing left for Aurora to bring back?
He's not going to voice all of that, but he can't let that happen.]
We're working on a compromise. One that involves Jinx keeping it.
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The fuck? So what, she gets to get away with stealing someone else's work and turning it into a gun that can vaporize people, and you get to stand by and watch someone pervert your research into something ugly? How the hell is that a compromise?
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I'm good at complicated. Explain it to me.
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It's Runeterran business. We'll handle it.
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That's a load of bullshit. I think you know that.
Look, if you change your mind and want my help, you can just ask for it. I'll get the gemstone back for you, and unlike Robin I'll give it back to you. You and your partner made it, right? It belongs to you two, you two understand it the best, so you should have it. It shouldn't be any more complicated than that.
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There's hundreds of years of conflict culminating into this. If we take it back from the Zaunites, that's a permanent door closed between me, and half the people here that represent my world. Not only that, but they could ask for another from Aurora just as easily, and won't offer any information on how many more they bring in after that. I can't keep control of them anymore, because that's not how this world works.
And if anyone asks, I didn't tell you this.
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[He's getting that out of the way first, telling himself that being reassuring is entirely practical and has nothing to do with him actually liking Jayce.]
It sounds to me like they closed that door when they stole it from you and Viktor, and now they're just taking advantage of you. People will do that when they have something to gain, it's why you can't let yourself be stepped on when you're a fucking leader or representative or whatever. As soon as it happens once it's going to happen a million more times.
I'm not sure what to do about them asking for more of those things. Could they, even though they weren't the ones who created it? I've never thought about whether Aurora can prohibit or deny requests.
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Yeah, well...
[He knows Accelerator's right. He understands he should be taking a harder stance against this; it is his and Viktor's gemstone. It's their life's work. Jinx has no right to have it, and the fact they all know she used it to kill so many...
But it's a complex situation. He can't pretend he doesn't need the Zaunites, when their world is at stake. It doesn't matter who started it. Peace, even an uncomfortable one, doesn't happen if neither is willing to hold out their hand. Complete isolation from the Zaunites is worse than the discomfort.]
As far as I know, she hasn't hurt anyone here with it. If I can work with Jinx, get her to really understand the gemstone, maybe we can all move past this.
Have you asked for something you didn't make? I asked for metal materials for my forge, but that's a pretty simple material. If there's a limit, I don't know it.
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[It's a bit frustrating, but he's decided he isn't going to act unless Jayce wants him to, so he'll manage.]
And then she can turn around and vaporize you, since there won't be any reason to keep bothering with you. People don't just steal research and build dangerous weapons for shits and giggles, Talis.
[He's putting additional pieces together in his mind, that 'Zaunites' likely means Jinx, Silco, possibly Vander. From everything he's seen and heard about all three of them, he can't see them caring about Jayce once they've gotten a handle on the gemstone's use as a weapon.
... Maybe Vander. He'd been the one wanting to build a community over the network, but if he's in line with this "Runeterrans only" bullcrap then that was a big fat lie....]
I've asked for my laptop from home. And a convenience store, which isn't mine but exists within my city. [And equipment for Harold but he's going to just gloss over that - ] At this point, I think it's worth asking her.
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And if she does that, then you'll have my posthumous full permission to go after it. I'm done doing preemptive measures out of fear.
You could ask, but if she changes her mind on that, then we're going to have a lot of complaints, and not just from the Zaunites.
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[Not that he wants to see Jayce getting killed, but you know. Contingency plans and all that.]
I don't think you'd get many complaints from other people if it was just about the gemstones. Now that we're on the subject, it wouldn't be a bad idea for me to ask her about limiting requests for Academy City technology. We already keep that shit locked down back home, especially anything related to espers and espers themselves, so the rationale wouldn't be any different.
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[He... does. But that feels like pettiness again.]
No. I'm being dramatic.
How would you phrase it? We'd need to be specific.
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[Like a parent taking away a child's toy because they were fighting with the other kids.]
For me, it would probably be something like, "Can you prohibit the approval of requests that include science and technology that's specific to Academy City?" That still allows for shit that has been researched elsewhere, so say if someone comes from a place that also did the R&D for nanomachine trackers they can ask for those specific ones, but they can't ask for the kind that comes from my city. It would still be technology that's problematic around here, but I'd still be able to keep a lockdown on the shit that I'm responsible for.
[He may or may not be going into parent mode at this point.]
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[He can't rule it out.]
Wouldn't that mean you couldn't get any of it yourself? Maybe add in a clause with you being the sole requestor?
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Good point.
"Can you prohibit the approval of requests that include science and technology that's specific to Academy City, unless the requestor is myself or someone who was involved with its development?"
That allows for researchers who won't be blocked from their own research. It opens it up to a lot of bastards who did a lot of bad shit, but if any of those people show up here they'd be dealing with me regardless.
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Sounds better. Let me know if it works.
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