Rufus was probably just on edge because of the full moon or something. I've had chickens for five years and never seen a rooster that knew what he was talking about.

Wait, hold on though. I feel like that's just asking for a crash or ruining the finish in a different way. I mean slower feeds give you more control and time to react if something starts going wrong.

Oh man that NOC engineer was probably running on 2 hours of sleep and stale coffee too. Ran into a similar thing at a previous job where our backup DNS server had a bad cache file from the last admin who left in 2017. When the primary DNS took a dirt nap the secondary started serving up totally wrong IPs for half our internal apps. The whole failover test thing is like going to the dentist - everyone knows they should but nobody wants to actually do it. We finally started doing quarterly "break stuff on purpose" days where we'd kill a primary system during lunch and see what actually happened. First time we did it a backup storage array just flat out refused to take over because the replication job had been silently failing for 8 months. Now I check failover configs every time I patch anything just out of pure paranoia.

Two hundred fifty pages is barely scratching the surface in a genre built on slow burns and layered reveals. Those first few chapters are basically the prologue where the author is still setting up the dominoes, and the real payoff usually kicks in around page 400 or later. If you bail at 250, you're missing the entire point of why fantasy exists, which is to let the world sink in until you can't remember the real one.

Sometimes running it through a cold air return works better than the wall.