viktor

[sacredpath]

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week 7; wednesday

[sacredpath]

[well, it is later. she will explain her brain worm, if he would like to hear it.

they are riding the ferris wheel together.]

It's a mind flayer parasite. They take over and control their host, and eventually turn them into mind flayers.

[satisficing]

[He has no choice. They are riding the ferris wheel together.

There aren't any rats thankfully - they actually belong to someone else - and there aren't any tiny wizards either.]

A parasite... [Delusional: this isn't like the hexcore at all.] Your minds are connected as well?

[sacredpath]

Theoretically, yes.

[it's sort of complicated, but...]

By complete happenstance, I happened to get infected while I was also holding onto an artefact that shielded myself and others from the control of the hivemind. But my mind is connected to the others who are also shielded by the artefact. We can share thoughts and communicate and feel each others' minds... And when I encounter others who are infected, I can feel the connection. It just can't overpower me.

[satisficing]

It is... crude. The commune was not like this, and I never forced anyone to join us. They had to come of their own volition.

[He doesn't fully understand how close he was to the force, though. Like a hair's breadth away!!!]

What kind of... artefact was it? This sounds more like the commune, in a way. Like the Hexcore. Everyone is connected - to me, the conduit of the Hexcore. We aren't connected to anything else on the outside, but we haven't run into any other collectives.

[sacredpath]

[she can just kinda thoughtshare this thing.]

It is a portal to a section of the astral plane - I think it was being used as a prison. I'm not sure I could explain exactly how it works, but there's a spirit inside and it offers its protection over us. The spirit is not trustworthy exactly, but better than assimilation.

[this isn't accurate but she is like two short rests too early to be able to explain it.]

[satisficing]

[I cannot convey how terrible jumpscared he gets here at seeing this thing.

It really renders him absolutely speechless, and for once in the whole time he has been here, there is a complete and full expression of shock on his face.

The emotionshare is very !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!]

[sacredpath]

[i'm glad he can see it even though my link broke. anyway, thoughtshares hmmm?]

What is it?

[satisficing]

[the way i just knew through osmosis what it was]

The Hexcore...

[Another one? One in another universe? Wild. Wild. Another one!

He reaches out to touch her arm. A strangely cold, primordial energy begins to stretch out to her, up her arm to her mind, and then it is overshadowed by white light in her vision which gives way to a memory, briefly.

The Hexcore...]

[sacredpath]

[oh... she's not really worried or nervous when he does this, but the memory surprises her.]

It does look very similar. Is there something inside it? Do you know where it leads?

[she's very curious, more than anything because this thing protected them for so long and also the Sharrans want it desperately.]

[satisficing]

My partner and I, Jayce, created it. It's a matrix of magical world runes. Different combinations could produce different results. That is what the matrix was for a experimentation.

[He touches his chest. In the center under his hand and the cloth is a large, rounded scar of mottled flesh. This isn't what he's indicating exactly, but it's there.]

It's a part of me now. I found out it could evolve when it consumed organic matter. Like the blood. Jayce transmuted me with it later when I was dying, thinking he had no other choice.

So I am now a conduit of its magic. This is how I heal and create the collective.

[sacredpath]

I see. [well. frowning.] It may look similar, but I'm not sure it is. I've been inside the prism. It's a whole space in there, with people trapped inside.

But there is something housed inside it with the power to resist. That is why it was a prized artefact of the githyanki. [which she stole from them lmao] And also why the Sharrans tasked me to retrieve it, though to what end, I could not say.

[satisficing]

[Ok thief.]

There is a space inside as well, the one built for the collective minds. The arcane plane. People could be there, all linked together and existing.

The Hexcore now sits at the center of it all.

Your artefact is powerful, like the Hexcore. I'm sure many would love to have the Hexcore for themselves. Especially Runeterran warmongers.

[sacredpath]

What could they use it for?

[if there's an arcane plane inside it, then maybe it is similar.]

[satisficing]

Whatever they wanted. Control, domination, conquest. The arcane was a taboo field of study.

[Nice things, of course.]

Not many people are able to wield it naturally. That is why Jayce and I created Hextech.

[sacredpath]

[listens politely like she listened politely when gale explained he accidentally made himself into a bomb. wizards, man.]

And what do you plan to do with it?

[satisficing]

[HELP ME. Wizards...]

What I had already been doing. Healing others, creating a place for them free of pain and suffering, or violence. A place of harmony and peace.

[sacredpath]

But they all join because they wish to? No one is brought in who has doubts?

[satisficing]

I believe you are overestimating the doubts people suffering badly would have about being brought into a collective.

But yes. I do not seek them out. They come to me, and they understand it means becoming a part of the commune.

[For now.....]

[sacredpath]

No, I believe you. People who are suffering always seek relief from any avenue that will grant it. [frowning.] Not that I believe you to be taking advantage. [viktor seems to genuinely want and intend to help.] But the group I was raised by, that is who we would seek out. Those grieving or in pain, looking to turn to anyone who will promise them their suffering can end.

[and that was a very evil cult, so. it's not necessarily reassuring.]

[satisficing]

[When you genuinely want to help, but you are very misguided and the execution is bad (tagline for my brand, I guess).]

The commune was for those willing, and those who became a part of the collective had an understanding of sharing and empathy.

You were also this way...? Grieving or in pain, and they brought you in?

[sacredpath]

No. I was a child, and I was abducted from my home and raised to believe I was an unwanted orphan they'd saved from the streets.

[so it wasn't really a collective of sharing and empathy for her, in this case. but she's really not trying to say it's the same. there are also plenty of groups who take needy people in whose intentions aren't so awful.]

But they nonetheless made certain I feared the outside world more than the solace they offered.

[satisficing]

I'm sorry.

[Genuinely. Even though he thinks she may have already come to terms with that being in the past. Sometimes, resentment and hurt lingers, though.]

I would never allow the commune to do such a thing. We had children, the ones I healed, but I would never allow them to be taken.

But I do understand what I offered was difficult not to take when in pain or turmoil. The collective was simply a part of the Hexcore's internal magical design.