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lelslizzylebs · 3 months ago

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Literally just ignore this because the angst is so good, but they went back down on 3/16, interacted with the Tansu party 3/22, and with Toshiro and Kabru's parties 4/3. They defeated Thistle 4/12, and everything after then moved pretty quickly. So the whole ordeal was about one month, and Namari would have been able to confirm that Chilchuck was alive as of the first week after he was overdue, and Toshiro and Kabru would have confirmed he was still alive the week after. Not that they would have told his daughters, but it's emphasized that adventurers are a close-knit community and news travels fast. Then news travelled back that he was still alive once Thistle was defeated. Which means there would have been only one week where he was fully awol (which, incidentally, is also the week we see him being the most distressed about not getting back home).

learning that getting to the red dragon only took the party 8 days has made me completely reconsider how long regular dungeon jobs would take. And also made me realize that all in all since they were down there for several months(?) (and dungeon jobs apparently actually don’t generally take more than a week or so) means that Chilchucks family 100% thinks his ass died

#using real world as a reference 10 days is pretty much the upper limit if you're carrying your own supplies.#water is taken care of though so people can probably push that a bit more #I'm thinking a comfortable 'yeah I'm gonna go to work and then take a break' pace would be up to a week #so 2-3 days down and 2-3 days back up #depending on how much you get paid you do one maybe two jobs a month #but yeah. When they were pushing themselves to get to Falin quickly they got to the 4th floor in 4 days #and we know that Dandan & most of his compatriots don't go below the 3rd floor #so Chilchuck's standard while the kids were growing up was probably like. 1 week getting ready/leaving for a job #1 week on a job #1 week returning/recovering from a job #1 week at home #start all over #which would definitely be really hard on his family but also means he would have been home + pretty involved all things considered #the fact that he joined Laios's company like RIGHT after his split is so interesting to me?#like you know. maybe he's being a little bit self-destructive #but also like. he was thinking about retiring and getting a locksmith shop #maybe he felt like it was finally okay for him to be selfish?#Start spending all of his money on /his/ goal instead of supporting his family?

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