The Factory Floor

dot_Sp0T

00:04

@Shalvenay a good morning to you too

Shalvenay

@dot_Sp0T how're things going?

dot_Sp0T

Also I feel the need to share random trivia about my conworld, so you gotta read this I don't care

Shalvenay

@dot_Sp0T go ahead

dot_Sp0T

A rotation of my world takes ~27 earth hours; thus a day can be divided into three 9hr parts. I've chosen this so I can easily map it to earth time, even though in the world they've got different measurements of time. Nonetheless clockfaces, etc. are divided into 3 parts.

Shalvenay

in the meantime @dot_Sp0T -- have you considered whether you want to join Hannah this weekend for D&D?

dot_Sp0T

00:10

The Early Third, the High Third and the Late Third; Activities are planned according to these thirds. Due to the fact that my conworld has normal earth humans, they have a, to us at least, weird sleeping cycle; taking inspiration from the Spanish and Italian siesta, their sleeping rhythm is divided into two parts, a short rest and a longer rest. The longer rest happens during the late part of the late third and the early part of the early third (so, during the night).

The short rest is taken depending on the region and customs, but mostly during the hours when the sun is at it's highest - as that means the most heat, etc. and has a negative impact (or originally had)

Also I just messed it up with the translating my notes and not reading them before

Early third is like our morning, Late third like our evening, and High third is actually the night. the long sleep is during high third, the short between early and late.

In more modern times two living-cycles have established themselves, distinguished by when the people do most of their work and activities; one cycle favours the early third and thus shifts sleep to the late third already; the other favours the late third and does vice versa

The origin of these cycles are disputed in the populace, some claim they go way back to the medieval-equivalent times of this world, when peasants and farmers used to work the fields in staggered shifts so as to use most of the daylight available.

another popular origin story dates the custom back more recently to the industrial revolution and the factory workers which worked either an early or a late shift and thus the factory towns would adapt so as to make most profits from the factories

@Shalvenay I must've missed that, sorry. What time would you be at it? I am unavailable on Sunday afternoon.

Shalvenay

00:53

@dot_Sp0T Saturday afternoon if Hannah is available then

dot_Sp0T

08:06

@Shalvenay sounds fine with me^^

Which means I need a character

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Secret

12:36

[Random]

I have came up a magic whoose price is the same as its effect

Imagine a dark magic that need souls as fuel, and therefore, its effect is it mass murder people

so it bootstrap itself sort of

James

14:46

@Shalvenay Wave! :D

James

15:39

Eyeballs are weird.

I asked a question about eyeballs.

Ergo I asked a weird question.

@Green @NexTerren @AndyD273 Hey.

@Secret Have you ever read the Eragon series?

Secret

Not yet, I have not read many novels yet

James

@Secret You may find the magic system described in that series of great use.

Particularly the second book in the series.

Plus...I mean...its a book about humans and elves magically bonding with dragons and riding them around, who doesn't want to read about that?

Secret

I have been mostly in the scifi genre until in 2015 where I start taking an interest in understanding magic in fiction and in historical context

but even then, I only have read 2 novels so far

James

Actually I can think of a few different magic systems that work on a "uses life force" to fuel itself idea.

@Secret Never too late to get started :)

Secret

The magic I am thinking about is something more general, in that since it needs A as fuel, it causes A

where A can be anything suitable

But indeed, I will see if I can get some time to read later. I will probably have that as a study material once I get full gear back to the magic studies

AndyD273