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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] monstrous_bride 2025-11-06 02:54 am (UTC)(link)
"Fat fucking chance of that," she replied, with a bit of a growl. She is one of nature's fighters, all things said and done.

It's probably for the best that the library has made fire a difficult possibility.
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[personal profile] bashasasdemon 2025-11-06 01:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Kai snorts, amused despite himself. "Maybe they haven't met anyone before," he says dryly; admittedly, he is also a fighter, but he can't imagine people just looking at all of this and giving up that quickly.
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[personal profile] monstrous_bride 2025-11-09 05:26 am (UTC)(link)
That thought had crossed her mind. That this is some...intelligence's attempt at creating a soothing, familiar environment. And failing.

"Possible, but ugh...I hope not. The last thing we need is some...thing that doesn't know how people work."

A slight pause.

"They tend to eventually try to figure it out." Which always, always goes badly.
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[personal profile] bashasasdemon 2025-11-09 01:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Kai had meant it more offhand; he's never actually met a sentient thing that doesn't know how 'people' work. Some demons didn't understand how 'humans' worked; many, many humans didn't understand how 'demons' worked. But they were all people, and could at least approximate some things once they'd gotten that confusion out of the way. The picture the Bride paints is... concerning.

"Spoken from experience?" he asks, because he has none in this area and he'd like to know what to expect, if that's somehow right.
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[personal profile] monstrous_bride 2025-11-11 02:59 am (UTC)(link)
"Just thinking out loud," she replied. And hoping fervently she was wrong. Human curiosity was heinous enough, given free reign and too much power.
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[personal profile] bashasasdemon 2025-11-11 03:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Kai gives her something of a side-eye, not really believing her but also not pushing it. There's plenty of things he wouldn't want to talk about, and personal experience with something that didn't understand people seems like it would be up there if he had it.

"Have you learned anything about where we are, or why we're here?" he asks instead- he suspects he knows the answer but it would be nice to be surprised.
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[personal profile] monstrous_bride 2025-11-15 01:40 am (UTC)(link)
"Nothing useful," she replies, her voice half growl. "More nonsense to pile upon the rest of it."
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[personal profile] bashasasdemon 2025-11-15 02:33 am (UTC)(link)
Kai sighs. Well, that's what he expected. "Maybe we should still complying all the useless stuff too," he says, though he doesn't sound excited about it, "Maybe if we figure out something, no matter how stupid, it'll give us a lead somewhere. Or we'll at least feel less stupid."
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[personal profile] monstrous_bride 2025-11-15 04:05 am (UTC)(link)
"Maybe," she replies, casting her eyes around. "But given where we are...they could hide everything in a book in plain sight and we might not find it until eons have passed."

It'd be a bloody clever and evil bastard of a trick, quick frankly.
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[personal profile] bashasasdemon 2025-11-15 12:56 pm (UTC)(link)
"I really, really hope that's not the case." Kai has pulled a couple of books off the shelves here and there, but he's never gotten the same book twice. He hasn't been trying, but with the way the stacks rearrange themselves he doesn't have a lot of hope of it being possible. He'd like to say there has to be something, but- there really doesn't.

He wishes there was at least someone to blame, so he could fight them and be done with it.
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[personal profile] monstrous_bride 2025-11-18 02:50 am (UTC)(link)
"Depends if they've got enough self-awareness to have an ego, I suppose," she replies thoughtfully, pulling a few off herself, deliberately shoving them back onto the shelf upside down to see what happens.