Scenarios with time compression

[Vaevictis]

I'm thinking about scenarios like Tail Wagging the Dog? (kalinin.scn), 10 days condensed into 5, or Fancy Meeting You Here (Teploye.scn) condensed to 4 days from an unstated number of days.

The mud discussion did get me thinking about these again, because I assume part of the reason for the time compression is the slow going in the bad weather.

I wonder, for instance, if the compression represents all movement taking twice as long as usual or rather the elision of long periods of rest/regrouping forced by the bad weather.

But I really have no idea what the compression represents, so I started this thread.