zauneyete: (Haughty at the aquarium)
𝗦𝗢𝗹𝗰𝗼 ([personal profile] zauneyete) wrote in [community profile] synflux 2024-09-20 02:06 am (UTC)

The industrialist is what they call me, actually.

[ He says it idly, his tone makes it sound like it's half a joke β€” and it is. There's something about Silco that doesn't give off the air of a posh businessman, he's more like sludge, or slime, slithering through every interaction like the refuse pumped out of something more prosperous. He was as much a businessman as Aventurine was unlucky.

His smile even said as much. Veneer over the rot.
]

You seem rather familiar with these sorts of things. Advanced society?

[ He asked, even as he reached out to a patch of the wall, to feel at it. See? he can play along too. ]

Where I am from, this is unthinkable. [ Compared to Piltover, where such stuff could maybe be thinkable, if not in development. He had no clue what the academy wonks did. Maybe Jinx had an idea. ]

Smooth, you said?

[ He tapped across a surface, but most of it is rough, until β€” ]

Hm.

[ He pauses. It's probably not right, but he pokes at a patch anyway. And then from another angle, trying to take a page from the aforementioned savant. ]

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