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Unfinished Library Mod & NPC Account ([personal profile] libraryassistants) wrote in [community profile] unfinishedlibrary2025-10-31 06:42 pm

Careful of the stacks - LIBRARY LOG

Who: EVERYONE!
What: A bunch of Editors walk into a library...
When: October 31st - November 13
Where: The Unfinished Library
Content warnings: Please add them as needed in the comment titles!

Welcome to the Library, Editors.

As the new residents drop into the Library, they are bound to have questions. Unfortunately it seems no one (except perhaps someone on the phone) appears to have any answers. But there is a nice little cart with a carafe of too weak coffee, a pot of too strong tea, assorted creams and sugar packets, and what appear to be leftover boxed shortbread cookies. There’s a sign inviting people to help themselves but reminding them not to take any food or drinks into the stacks, or touch any of the books with their grubby cookie hands. But aside from this little display and the nametags they’re all given, which do reappear whenever removed for the first week (where do they keep coming from?), the Editors are more or less left alone.

The Library is eternal, or at least it seems that way, unbothered by its new inhabitants. It certainly does not seem like this is anything unusual within its operation. Are there other sections of the Library with Editors, tucked into a different part of the stacks? Have there been Editors here before, and the ones here are simply a replacement? It’s impossible to say, just that the Library seems quite prepared for them. The refrigerators are stocked with appropriate (if generic) foodstuffs, any tantrums in front of the circulation desk are completely ignored, and attempts to set the Library on fire fizzle out before anything can even catch.

However, after a few days, some of the scenery in the Library seems to be changing. Little singing bowls and white noise makers pop up on various shelves and counters, yoga mats appear tucked under the bunk beds (plenty for everyone, somehow), and some of the rooms have started playing relaxing, meditative music over unseen speakers. More confusingly, there are also small UFOs hanging by string from the lower ceilings of the contained rooms, which on closer reflection are revealed to simply be two paper plates glued together and painted silver. In the beginning they’re quite sparse, but by the end of the second week they are everywhere and impossible to ignore.

At the start of the second week, there is a possible hint as to why, for at least part of it. On the table by the circulation desk there is a sign: “This Week’s Recommended Reading: Invasion of the Body Snatchers!” Next to it, there is a sign up sheet: a waitlist to check-out the ‘reading.’ (There is no explanation or apology for it actually being a movie.)

[ooc note: The Library prompts from the TDM can be considered canon to the game. Remember any of the locations listed in the setting are fair game. Have fun!]
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[personal profile] extrasaltypotato 2025-11-03 10:29 pm (UTC)(link)
And there are still people in his time from his Earth who don't get that far.

"Good," he says. "If a mantle must be heavy, let it also be comfort and warmth to the one that wears it. And Gods know masculinity and femininity both are heavy mantles to wear."

A strange sentiment even in his time, especially since he seems to be speaking from personal, hard earned experience.
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[personal profile] starandhope 2025-11-04 12:51 am (UTC)(link)
Mina isn't sure she understands what he means about masculinity and femininity being burdens - she's never thought about it, never had difficulty aspiring to her own ideal of womanhood, and has always been lucky enough to be surrounded by people who value and respect her as she is.

But she knows hardship.

"Life is full of difficulties," she says after a moment. "There's no avoiding it. If it's not financial, then it's a devastating illness, or an accident of fate, or something else which can't be foreseen. But truly a burden shared is a burden halved. That's why Jonathan and I share everything."

Well, nearly everything. And her soul does indeed feel particularly burdened about that.
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[personal profile] extrasaltypotato 2025-11-04 12:58 am (UTC)(link)

For a moment, it seems like this diminutive man wants to say something.

He closes his eyes and says something else.

“I would like to exchange recipes with you while we’re here, madam Harker. I’m a bachelor, at present, of limited means; if I’m to have good food I must often make it myself.”

Besides, he has access to something resembling a proper kitchen now.

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[personal profile] starandhope 2025-11-04 02:41 am (UTC)(link)
"I'm more than happy to," Mina says warmly. "And, as I always make far more food than I need myself, you can always share my meals."

She is frankly incapable of cooking only for herself. There will always be plenty to go around when she prepares a meal.
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Scene?

[personal profile] extrasaltypotato 2025-11-04 02:50 am (UTC)(link)
"We'll have to make a habit of switching off," he suggests, the smile on his face subdued, but quite clear.
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Scene!

[personal profile] starandhope 2025-11-04 03:25 am (UTC)(link)
"Agreed," Mina says. "We must all endeavor to look out for each other, whilst we're here."