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Entry tags:
- !library,
- blade runner: kd6-3.7,
- bram stoker's dracula: mina harker,
- dracula: jonathan harker,
- hades: thanatos,
- original: illarion,
- sonic the hedgehog (film): shadow,
- the murderbot diaries: murderbot,
- the rising world: kaiisteron,
- the wonders of mundus: hikaru aozora,
- to be hero x: x,
- warhammer: sanguinius
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!]
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!]
Scarlet El Vandimion | May I Ask for One Final Thing? | OTA
2🌹May I Ask For More Tea?
3🌹May I Ask What These Are?
4🌹 Wildcard(catalog)
Welcome / the Kitchenette
He watches Scarlet's growing irritation with some curiosity, when he blinks, suddenly realizing what he's seeing and where he's seen it before.
"Ah, it's meant to be self-service, milady," he says, hoping that this is a suitable term of address to nobility he doesn't know the rank of. "Though I would be happy to serve you some of what I've prepared. It's quite impossible to make curry rice for one."
Re: Welcome / the Kitchenette
"I would very much appreciate that. How kind of you." She glances to the pot. "I would love some curry rice. Thank you."
She'll pause then and offer a curtsy to him.
"Scarlet El Vandimion."
Re: Welcome / the Kitchenette
He measures a portion of rice out by filling and leveling a small bowl and inverting it onto a soup plate, then starts to ladle the fragrant stew over the rice. There appear to be cubes of beef and potatoes in it, as well as discs of carrot, wedges of sweet apple, and some green peas.
"Would you prefer a fork and spoon, or a pair of chopsticks? I can already tell that a knife is quite unnecessary," he says, and he may be smiling with pride.
Re: Welcome / the Kitchenette
"Forgive me the informality: I hail from the Kingdom of Pallistan. I'm unfamiliar with Viacruz."
And her eyes move then to the curry as he prepares the dish. Yes, she looks quite pleased with the meal already.
"Please: whatever means you traditionally use to eat the dish in your home; I'm familiar with all three."
One defers to the culture of one's host and while this is not his location, this is his food. He is hosting for her.
"Though I agree, Ser Hikaru, that the dish looks as tender as it is clearly fragrant."
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At her answer about utensils, Hikaru nods, and finds a pair of chopsticks, a spoon - no Chinese style ones so he uses a soup spoon - and a paper napkin.
Rather than try to maneuver around Scarlet, he blows onto his palm, an a spectral hand in soft glowing blue appears in mid-air. It delivers her the means to eat his curry, Hikaru seemingly directing it with his gaze.
Re: Welcome / the Kitchenette
Oh. Oh the curry is gone. All of it. All of it is gone. How...
"Oh, I didn't realize that you were a former Adventurer! What rank were you, if you don't mind me asking?"
Re: Welcome / the Kitchenette
Re: Welcome / the Kitchenette
kitchens!
"I believe this should be better than what's been provided to us by our gracious hosts," she says with only a slight hint of sarcasm on that gracious bit. "Will you join me? Oh, my apologies - we haven't been properly introduced yet. I am Mina Harker."
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"Scarlet El Vandimion. A pleasure to meet you, Mina. I would love to join you for tea. Thank you."
She settles her skirts and folds her hands together thoughtfully, quite happy to let Mina put things together. She will most certainly learn at some point how to do these things for herself, but today is not that day.
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"I must admit, it's a bit of a relief to have someone else around who seems to know the basics of polite introductions. I try not to judge, but it's frightening enough to wind up in such a place, only to have our fellow kidnappees be rude about it."
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She hasn't had any rude introductions. Hence there being no new holes in any walls. She frowns and steps a little closer.
"I'm sorry you had such an experience, Mina. I've been doing my best to consider this all something of an adventure, but I've been rather lucky not to experience anyone's rudeness."
She'll find a place to sit, keeping her focus still on Mina.
"No one's been any more rude than failing to offer their name, I should hope?"
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She stirs a small amount of cream and sugar into her own tea, thoughtful. "Have you ever had an adventure before?" she asks, curious.
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May I ask what these are?
But then Scarlet started making sounds with those bowls that had shown up everywhere, and...oh. That sound is nice. It likes that.
So instead of moving on, it sort of just...stops. And listens for a bit.
Re: May I ask what these are?
She doesn't interrupt the song with a greeting but she turns her hand gently in offer if the new arrival would like to try it for themselves.
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Oh. She wants it to make the music?. Shit. It doesn't know how to do that; it doesn't have any music making education modules. That's a ComfortUnit thing, not a SecUnit thing.
It shakes its head. Uh, no thank you. She can keep at it.
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"It's an interesting instrument. Meditative."
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(But it did like the instrument.)
"...It's nice," it says. She might notice it's not looking her in the eyes; instead it looks at the bowl, using it as an excuse to look elsewhere.
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Re: Scarlet El Vandimion | May I Ask for One Final Thing? | OTA
"Miss Aphra Marsh." The only title she could claim was Gavn, 'Eldest-on-land', and that was not one she explained to strangers. (It also meant very little when the only other person of the water still on land was her younger brother.) "A pleasure to meet you... Lady Vandimion?"
Aphra is going to be polite, but Aphra's people had been living in America for centuries, and had generally tried to avoid drawing attention of nobility before that.
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"Scarlet, please," because she is hardly in Pallistan, and that means her political affiliations mean very little. She offers the introduction that way as a matter of manners, as well as to ensure no one behaves with her in a way that would upset them later should they find out. While she can be rather subtle, the strangeness of her situation makes her less inclined to such a tactic.
"And it's a pleasure to meet you, Miss Marsh." A little headtilt, still very warm. "Or would you prefer Aphra as well?"
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And it meant she would be trying to use the woman's first name, without an honorific like 'lady' or 'miss'.
Aphra does offer a rueful smile. She's grasped that the range of what people consider comfortable address varies here. Which seems like it might cause problems, but she'll try to adapt. And, if they can't get free, she might quickly find that she'll have enough familiarity to be comfortable being called Aphra.
(That is an unsettling thought and Aphra shuffles it aside.)
"How are you finding things, Scarlet?" Innocuous, but it's a good time to pick up information both practical and anything that can be used for a plan.
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"If you would be more comfortable with Miss Vandimion, you are welcome to use that. I only thought to make it clear we stand here together as equals."
A simple enough thing to allow, and certainly nothing she's unused to. Her companions comfort is important. But the question has her looking around, and that's when a bit of very human displeasure appears around her eyes.
"This place is strange, in many ways, though I see no proof of malevolence or villainous intent," and given that her own icy calm has made people read her as such, she's not inclined to paint neutrality as wickedness herself, "I do find the lack of... food service somewhat, er, awkward."
She's never cooked a day in her life. That's new. Just because she is not as delicate a flower as she appears does not mean that she knows how to do domestic work.
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Aphra knew her own mother's home cooking, and Mama Rei's adaptations of Japanese food to what she could get in American markets. It meant she was very comfortable with sea food.
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At the Tea Cart
"Laina Guthart of the Gnomonish Monastic Library of Salzberg."
... She bows a bit lower, as if having the expectation to do so for nobility drilled into her at some point.
"I doubt I'd do much better with the tea, sadly."
Re: At the Tea Cart
"I've never heard of Salzberg, but I suppose that makes this place somewhat more familiar for you, considering." She looks down at the tea. "It greatly improves the shortbread cookies, if you put one into the other."
Re: At the Tea Cart