The Effect Of The Flow Of Time On Non-Native Prime Material Visitors

[Angel Tarragon]

Okay my homebrew has a different flow of time than most standard fantasy campaigns. My homebrew has 36 hours in a day, ten days in a week, 5 weeks in a month and 16 months in a year. The natives of this world are of course used to this and their bodies reqruire them to sleep for one-third of a day.

But lets say a native of another prime material world happened upon this world. What would br the effects upon these indivduals? I'm not quite sure how to approach this.

 

[BiggusGeekus]

My homebrew has 36 hours in a day .... But lets say a native of another prime material world happened upon this world. What would br the effects upon these indivduals? I'm not quite sure how to approach this.

They'd go violently insane.

Well, probably not. But that makes for a good story.

The increased ammount of light wouldn't be a problem. We have that in our enlightened modern age. The sleep schedule would be tough though. Very few people need little sleep. A lot of people think they need little sleep, but they're wrong and their bodies extract a toll from them.

If the alternate-primes happened on your world and they didn't take naps, they'd grow very cranky rather quickly. Headaches and fatigue would be the end result. Unless they took naps. Then they'd be fine.

 

[Angel Tarragon]

The increased ammount of light wouldn't be a problem.

I guess I should have mentioned the my homebrew has two suns. The second sun is far enough away in the solar system to not cause extra heat for the world, but does provide more illumination. Also, the world has nine moons, with one of the actually having an atmosphere capable of supporting human(oid) life. Anyway, on the rare occassion where all moons are bright in the night sky the radiance in the world is about half what it is during the day.

Just some more stuff for you to think about for me.

 

[JimAde]

I've never seen a study of something like this. The total amount of sleep someone gets over the long term is normal (about a third of their lives) but the waking and sleeping periods are both longer. I don't know if a person would adjust.

I know on submarines they often do 2 on 1 off cycles where each shift is 6 hours (IIRC). So you're up for 12 hours, then off for 6. People adjust to that, so I'd guess that you'd acclimate eventually.

 

[BiggusGeekus]

Yeah, but we have that in modern life. There's lots of light. Ever go camping in some remote area? It gets real dark, real fast.

However, your cosmology has drifted into the "it's magic" zone. Two suns and nine moons would ... to quote the band Garbage, "tear your little world apart". Way too many gravity wells for one planet to hold it together much less support complex life. So you're free to say that the gods or whatnot hold everything together and keeps things running smoothly.

 

[Angel Tarragon]

Well, my explanation for the gravity thing is this: The planet is nine times the size of Earth, with each moon having one-ninth the size of the world.

 

[Turanil]

I remember off the top of my head having read a study on that subject long ago. They sent people in an underground complex and let them atune to a new day-night cycle based on their body needs rather than the 24 hours Earth cycle. The end result that the subjects of this experiment eventually had days of 36 hours or so (or 32, I don't remember well)! So visitors from Earth would eventually adapt to this very well.

On the other hand, visitors from Earth would (almost) be crushed to death by the local gravity...

 

[werk]

But lets say a native of another prime material world happened upon this world. What would br the effects upon these indivduals? I'm not quite sure how to approach this.

Jet lag until they adjust. Fatigue is about as hard as I'd hit them..

 

[Angel Tarragon]

bump. anybody else have thoughts on this?

 

[Turanil]

bump. anybody else have thoughts on this?

bump. no.