cooperation

[alicornucopia]

Two girls are moving their hands through the air and speaking together in perfect parallel.

Two girls are looking expectantly at a circle of red chalk on their floor.

Two girls have done something exceptionally stupid.

with Harry (andaisq)

with Isabella (Eva)

with Arcane (kappa)

with Miles (kappa)

with Nick (Rockeye)

Comments

[alicornucopia]

"I'm a fan. At what point in the process of thinking about turning into one did you observe the problem with the idea? And how?"

[thisvorlunatic]

"I thought of the idea of trying, looked at the example dragon in front of me to see what sorts of things might happen if I got it wrong, and discovered that the mechanism of dragonhood has terrible disasters lying in wait for anybody who violates its standard assumptions. I could take years to get precise enough with rilte to be comfortable trying to copy that mechanism, and I wouldn't throw naharr at it for the yearly tax revenue of the Cetagandan Empire."

[alicornucopia]

"Reasonable of you."

[thisvorlunatic]

"I thought so, yeah."

[alicornucopia]

"So if the results vary, what subset of possible taieli did you walk away with? Well. Get summoned away with."

[thisvorlunatic]

"Results vary on the Sense, and there's some personal aptitude and preference in the equation, but in theory I'm capable of doing the same things with taieli as any other atailora with access to the same materials. Having a functionality Sense does make it a lot easier to do anything for which analyzing systems and mechanisms is a help, and I am personally pretty drawn to rilte and pretty unsettled by epru."