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jacquez45 replied to your post“more goblin emperor junk”
@bomberqueen17 yeah, I have tried so many ways to make the shifts work, and they’re just…I don’t know, bad? they can’t be 12 hour shifts because they move around too much, I think they have to be longer than 8 (I’m about to look up the part that indicates that, but it’s the bit where Maia asks Csevet about Varenechibel’s friends)…..IDEK.
The shift I’m thinking of lasts over 12 hours. Telimezh and Dazhis come on duty while Maia is dressing for dinner, and are still on duty at lunchtime the next day, but explicitly will NOT be on duty by dinnertime. That seems like it’s suggesting a full-cycle shift of duty to me, which is MAD, who would do this??
I was able to make 8 hour shifts work for plotting purposes but then??? how??? survive??? nobody can live like that???
Can’t be 12 hours because they alternate who’s there at night; it would almost make real-world sense to be like ok One set of Night Guards and one set of Day Guards, but that’s explicitly Not It.
It did seem to suggest 24 hours to me too in a couple places– like the first one when he asks when they eat and they’re like oh when you’re asleep, no big, except even then they have to take turns to eat because he’s got to be constantly attended even when unconscious.
like? how could you??? live like that??? and I get that nobody poops in fantasy novels but when? would you? and how can you possibly expect to be alert enough to be a bodyguard for twenty-four full hours??????????
I had to return the book to the library today which is kind of a mixed blessing because it means I can’t look, but it also means I won’t drive myself nuts trying to look, lol.
I guess we can chalk it up to well they’re elves after all so whatever. because fantasy novel. but maia pulls a couple all-nighters over the course of the book and even as a teenager suffers for them. (i could handle all-nighters way better at 18/19 than i can now, lol.)
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jacquez45 replied to your post“more goblin emperor junk”
@bomberqueen17 yeah, I have tried so many ways to make the shifts work, and they’re just…I don’t know, bad? they can’t be 12 hour shifts because they move around too much, I think they have to be longer than 8 (I’m about to look up the part that indicates that, but it’s the bit where Maia asks Csevet about Varenechibel’s friends)…..IDEK.
The shift I’m thinking of lasts over 12 hours. Telimezh and Dazhis come on duty while Maia is dressing for dinner, and are still on duty at lunchtime the next day, but explicitly will NOT be on duty by dinnertime. That seems like it’s suggesting a full-cycle shift of duty to me, which is MAD, who would do this??
I was able to make 8 hour shifts work for plotting purposes but then??? how??? survive??? nobody can live like that???
Can’t be 12 hours because they alternate who’s there at night; it would almost make real-world sense to be like ok One set of Night Guards and one set of Day Guards, but that’s explicitly Not It.
It did seem to suggest 24 hours to me too in a couple places– like the first one when he asks when they eat and they’re like oh when you’re asleep, no big, except even then they have to take turns to eat because he’s got to be constantly attended even when unconscious.
like? how could you??? live like that??? and I get that nobody poops in fantasy novels but when? would you? and how can you possibly expect to be alert enough to be a bodyguard for twenty-four full hours??????????
I had to return the book to the library today which is kind of a mixed blessing because it means I can’t look, but it also means I won’t drive myself nuts trying to look, lol.
I guess we can chalk it up to well they’re elves after all so whatever. because fantasy novel. but maia pulls a couple all-nighters over the course of the book and even as a teenager suffers for them. (i could handle all-nighters way better at 18/19 than i can now, lol.)
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