delta v over delta t when there is no t

[ertia]

In a bar, there is a girl.

She looks like she has saved up all of her decadent and slothful impulses for a solid decade and is indulging them all at once. She is sprawled on a couch with a book she's only half-reading, and an ice cream sundae, and smiiiiiiling.

Comments

[first_and_final]

"Can it be persuaded, do you think?"

[taste_tester]

"I'm really not sure. You might be able to go around it and just sorcer yourself back into vampirehood, I don't think it'd object to that? But that's not the outcome you're looking for."

[first_and_final]

"It's a better outcome than quitting vampirism and then having to stay quit forever," he muses.

[taste_tester]

"Mm-hm. Might also, peripherally, screw around with your memory clarity."

[first_and_final]

"Yeah, it would be pretty weird all around and I'm not at all sure it's worth it just for the scaling when I can manage that myself slower," he says. "If we want to test turning vampires into no longer vampires, probably safer to hang around Milliways waiting for a better candidate."

[ertia]

"Sounds like a plan, although I don't know how reliably the place will comply."

[first_and_final]

"Well, we're not in a hurry, are we?"

[ertia]

"Suppose not."

[first_and_final]

"We can proceed pretty much as normal, except with me accelerating past you at an even more outrageously unfair rate, and then see what clever ideas we think of and what interesting opportunities Milliways throws at us," he says.

[ertia]

"Sure."

[first_and_final]

[taste_tester]

"Any last minute questions before I scamper?"

[first_and_final]

"Well, is there anything else we'd be better off knowing about vampirism?"

[taste_tester]

"Eh. Legal obligations that don't apply to you since you're from the wrong world. If you turn people who are less magical they'll be a little fucked in the head for the first while post-turning, want to drink everyone they see. I think that's it."

[ertia]

"What's the thing about memory clarity?"

[taste_tester]

"Ah - vampire memories are very sharp. Sort of displace human memories. I suppose you might want to keep a diary beforehand or something."

[first_and_final]

"Spending the entire turning process talking about my world and my childhood seems to have worked out pretty well for me," says Milan.

[taste_tester]

"There you go, if she does the painkiller version and dwells on the past for three days she should be fine."

[first_and_final]

"I'm definitely noticing the loss of comparative clarity. The diary would probably be a worthwhile investment. But I'm not in danger of forgetting about my parents or my favourite skirmish matches or anything."

[taste_tester]

"You keep everything really important." Shrug. "Will that be all?"

[first_and_final]

"Yes, thank you, have fun learning about exciting new kinds of magic, remember to warn the next person you turn into a vampire about the mating thing," says Milan.

[taste_tester]

"I'll do my best."

And she's off.

[first_and_final]

Milan plays with his intricately dancing streams of water.

[ertia]

Kithabel stops bringing Milan to Milliways with her every time, although he can come along if he likes and she'll call him over if she finds something cool. Nothing as cool as vampirism comes up.

It is not long at all before Milan can fly.

[first_and_final]

Milan is very pleased about flight.

He makes himself known to Kithabel's neighbours. He begins aggressively solving problems rather than waiting for Kithabel to take him along on things. Anything he can leave for Kithabel, he does, and anything he can accomplish with her he likewise does, because he is in absolutely no danger of losing momentum and he wants to help her out as much as possible rather than ruthlessly maximize his already staggering advantage.

His ridiculous entourage of variously manipulated objects becomes ever more vast and elaborate. When he starts being able to automate bits of it, that's his cue to start trying to add conjuration-automation-dismissal to the routines.