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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.
kithabel and milan in milliways
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ertia
ertia
"Specialists are what happens if you practice a specific genre of thing. You can sort of wear a groove into your momentum. It doesn't fade for that thing as fast. So you get healers, I followed healers around a little doing what I could but I needed to go do other stuff after an hour or three every day, who can work most days but sleep in or skip a day or two if they want, and they'll still be about normal levels when they come back in. They're not as fast as a high momentum sorcerer but they're comparable to a low- or mid-level flier like me in their specialty."
ertia
"It's how you actually do the magic. Things that are well below your level, or really trivial even if you're also very low-level, you can mostly do it just by concentrating, but to do anything closer to your limits you cultivate a sort of indignation that the universe had the nerve to be in a way that does not meet your approval. And then the universe will rearrange itself in search of your approval, because mine is better than yours."
ertia
"Oh, come on, you're going to flee to my universe because yours is a murderer."
first-and-final
"Oh, lots, I just haven't adjusted to the new mindset yet so they're not coming to me in a convenient order."
ertia
"Okay. Well, while you're thinking of them, Bar over there is sapient, friendly, and will give you a free drink."
first-and-final
"I'm going to go around being unnecessarily suspicious of a lot of things, I think."
first-and-final
"Not exactly. It's just that at home, many of the possible explanations for a friendly magic bar that gives away free drinks are... unpromising. I'm not even thinking of specific examples when I say that, it's just a feeling I have."
ertia
"Well, skip it if you want, I don't think she'll be too offended. I can make beverages too if that's more comfortable. Although I took one from Bar because she could come up with things I'd never heard of to make."
ertia
"Yeah, I'm probably going to be lazing around in here for days. Longer if I accidentally let my sleep schedule slip, so I can get it back on track."
first-and-final
"I definitely think I'm going to need a better tutorial on how to go about sorcering before I try to actually enter your world, but I'm not sure what to ask for exactly."