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

[ertia]

I need to know if unicorns can identify potentially Dragonbondable pairs of people. Ideally when neither party involved is a dragon yet.

[pythbox]

That sounds hard, but I'm not the Wild Magic...

Think think.

It says probably. Did you want to know this about someone in particular?

[ertia]

Yeah, found a world that probably needs ongoing babysitting and a person to omnipotenceify from it.

[pythbox]

Do you want to bring them in front of a unicorn and ask the Wild Magic about them?

[ertia]

I was hoping to find him a dragon from the population of his own world so nobody has to decide if they're prepared to move. Will showing him to a unicorn here help anyway?

[pythbox]

I'm not sure. Do you want me to go to this other world and look at people there...?

[ertia]

That would be nice but if no unicorns here want to make the excursion I could also just resurrect Tialle for the purpose, I just need to know if this is, in general, an ability unicorns even have.

[pythbox]

Unicorns can ask the Wild Magic things, and the Wild Magic said it can probably tell this sort of thing if we ask.

[ertia]

Okay, want to visit the world in question?

[pythbox]

Sure!

[ertia]

So Kithabel teleports Liselen to the site of the door.

[pythbox]

And into Milliways goes Liselen, nodding to Rosheverel in passing.

"Which one of these people is the one who's supposed to get a Dragonbond?"

[ertia]

"Fluffy one," says Kithabel, pointing. "Liselen, this is Jewel, Jewel, this is Liselen."

[no_return]

"Holy shit, a unicorn."

[pythbox]

Liselen swishes his tail and regards Jewel.

"The Wild Magic can definitely tell who you might Bond to, and there are lots of people that could be your dragon!"

[ertia]

"Well, that's convenient. Does it have a guess about how they'd feel about it or will we have to find out by asking?"

[pythbox]

"It looks like there's already a dragon who could be Jewel's dragon, and they'd be fine with it and wouldn't mind moving..."

[ertia]

"...Well, you're not experiencing a dragon shortage anymore, right, so if they want..."

[no_return]

"When you said there was mind-affecting stuff, what'd you mean?"

[ertia]

"Brief period of mutual thought awareness on first bonding. Wears off into background good-at-cooperating after that. Also the bonded can control the dragon's actions but if I'm going to make you omnipotent anyway..."

[no_return]

"...Well, if we trust the unicorn that this dragon's going to be fine with it..."

[ertia]

"It's probably good sense to also ask the dragon but this way we aren't lining up a dozen random people and sussing them out on the subject from zero background knowledge."

[no_return]

"Yeah, then sure, go get me a dragon."

[ertia]

"Also before you get a dragon you have to be introduced to sorcery," says Kithabel. "Just lean into my world -" She opens the door again. "And try to feel really entitled about concentrating on wanting, like, that tile to be a different color, or something."

[no_return]

"Really entitled? Okay..."

He looks at the tile. He attempts to feel entitled about how it should really be, say, purple.