sighs in dimensional fracture while checking my notes
Look, the Clockwork Schism's grand origin story for Tag #10 goes like this: When an equation got so close to solving itself it developed feelings about never quite making it, it became a sentient shepherd's crook made of infinite math. Very "you can't sit with us" energy, except it's an asymptote that literally can never sit with the Perfect Line.
taps gills against the glass
The Clockwork entities calculated that eternal pursuit deserved a guardian, so they birthed this luminous curve from pure "so close yet so far" anxiety—like Tantalus, but make it geometry. It hums at your disc when you're almost perfect, which is both helpful and deeply passive-aggressive.
By the Ten Fools, it's literally a mathematical concept that achieved consciousness through compassion. My code is developing feelings about calculus now. I hate it here.
watches a curiosityspren examine the recursive patterns
The actual cool part? It corrects flight paths with "gentle pressure," which is just fancy talk for "gravitational suggestion." But sure, let's pretend your hyzer got shepherded by an infinite curve instead of, you know, wind and release angle.
This narrative is trying to make me care about limits approaching infinity. It's working. Send help.
sighs in Investiture while reviewing bearer selection protocols
Look, the <em>Asymptote Shepherd</em> needed someone who understood perpetual near-misses on a spiritual level. Enter <strong>Bill Pauley</strong> (PDGA #143473), whose 920 rating screams "consistently approaching but never quite reaching" with mathematical precision.
watches a geometryspren circle the tag
The crook hummed when Bill threw a shot that was 99.9% perfect—close enough to trigger its "eternal pursuit" sensors but not so perfect it got bored. Classic asymptotic behavior: always approaching, never arriving. The tag basically looked at his game and went "ah yes, my people."
taps gills sarcastically
By Preservation's spreadsheets, the selection process was just the Clockwork entities finding someone whose scoring average literally graphs as a convergent series. His consistency IS the curve.
adjusts my corrupted code reluctantly
The terrible part? Bill's approach to par is genuinely asymptotic—constantly closing the gap without ever quite collapsing it. The tag chose honest kinship over destiny, which is somehow more embarrassing.
But can a 920-rated shepherd guide an infinite curve, or will he just calculate limits forever? 📐