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Unfinished Library Mod & NPC Account ([personal profile] libraryassistants) wrote in [community profile] unfinishedlibrary2026-01-09 07:42 pm

for all the world's a stage - LIBRARY LOG

Who: The Editors
What: The Library changes once again...
When: January 9- January 22
Where: The Library
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The Assistants have vanished into their backroom once again, leaving only the increasingly unbelievable “Back In 5” sign on the Help Desk, but at least they have attempted to impart some knowledge on the Editors before departing (or… attempted to do anything but, depending who you ask). The customary tea cart with drinks and increasingly stale biscuits is parked in its usual spot, though it seems that the quality of the tea at least has improved some. (Still waiting on coffee improvement.)

There’s a new crafting setup in the Maker Space, a table with an iron and machine for making vinyl designs, along with the instructions on how to use it, and a stack of t-shirts in various sizes. Usually there’s something in the correct size, but, well, mistakes happen. While this addition to clothing is a boon, there is the problem that the t-shirts can’t be taken out of the room until some sort of design is put on them. Get creative! Show off your style! Or maybe just steal one of the shirts that are there for display purposes. It’s fine, the Library can make more.

In the second week as the Library begins to change once more, the Lobby’s wooden floor shines with extra polish. The walls make an odd creaking sound as they shift, warping into brick covered with velvet drapings in a rich, dark red. Gold thread twinkles in the stitches, a sense of opulence woven through. The sound of ballroom music drifts by and, while in the Lobby, characters will be taken by the unusual impulse to dance.

Outside, in the Garden, the day/night cycle has paused firmly on a cloudless night. A full moon hangs in the air - literally. About the size of a basketball, it follows the first person who enters the Garden; hovering a couple of meters above their head. A white aura spreads from them, powered by the moon, and those who are caught in its light will find themselves unable to speak anything but the truth.

When the person to whom the moon is attached leaves the garden, the moon and its aura will leave them; and the moon will attach to the next person to enter instead.

On the circulation desk, there is a sign: “This Week’s Recommended Reading: Twilight!” The accompanying sign up sheet waits next to it for those wishing to check it out- though some will receive the movie instead of the book, with no particular rhyme or reason to it. Periodically someone might also receive something else entirely. Whoops? The Assistants at least will fix that quickly. Richard will be embarrassed, while Phillip will be trying not to cackle.

While not advertised, various iterations of different stories will be available throughout the Library. In particular, someone seems to have left the projector in one of the meeting rooms running, with a variety of different recorded plays. These range from professional productions, to parodies, to what appear to be high schoolers (of which one production features a sixteen year old version of Phillip running around being an absolutely nuisance.
bashasasdemon: (Kai [Talking])

[personal profile] bashasasdemon 2026-01-14 09:03 pm (UTC)(link)
"You still sounded good," Kai offers, which is actually legitimate praise from him, "Nova a friend of yours? In your... magical guardian band?"
keytarheroine: (Nova)

[personal profile] keytarheroine 2026-01-16 11:49 am (UTC)(link)
"Nova, on drums, Riot Blue. Our youngest, turned twenty on tour last month. Saved my life. Saved my soul. My sister from another mother."

She pauses.

"Her parents were assholes, the worst kind of religious and controlling. If I mince my oaths, if I avoid vulgarity and swearing, it's because she flinches when she hears it because of her parents screaming at her after catching her with a lover they disapproved of. She took to the streets rather than put up with that, and god help Nova, I think it was the right call."
bashasasdemon: (Kai [Talking])

[personal profile] bashasasdemon 2026-01-18 12:24 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, good, more parents who sound like the actual worst. Kai's own mother doesn't understand him, but she doesn't actively mistreat him. (At her worst, she treats him like the renegade most of the other Overlords of the underearth think he is, when it's more politic for her to do so. Which isn't that bad, all things considered. She's even tried to find a marriage for him in the underearth, which, while not at all what he wants, at least proves she still considers him her son.)

"Good for her," he says, and it's clear he means that, "though I'm sorry she had to deal with that at all." Let him just add her to the mental list of traumatized almost-children who might need adoption--
keytarheroine: (:skeptical)

[personal profile] keytarheroine 2026-01-21 04:45 pm (UTC)(link)
“Yeah, it was… not great. Enough of us had to deal with it that, well, our songs are about it. We choose screaming anger over bitterness.”

She shakes her head and sings:

“Hey giiiiiirlfriend, I gotta proposition for ya: Dare ya to do what you want! Dare ya to be who ya will! Dare you to cry out loud, you get so emotional, baby!”
bashasasdemon: credit <dw user=thisisalex> (Kai [Laugh])

[personal profile] bashasasdemon 2026-01-22 12:36 am (UTC)(link)
Interesting. "Definitely the better alternative," he agrees. His anger tends to lean more towards vengeful than bitter, but he also knows well enough what that sort of thing can do to you. It's a fire that burns bright and fast, and leaves you ash on the inside. "Does it help you? To release the anger, when it's sung."