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unfinishedlibrary2025-10-31 06:42 pm
libraryassistants) wrote in unfinishedlibrary2025-10-31 06:42 pm
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!]
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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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She kept it internal but she definitely threw a good number of f-bombs around because what the fuck what the fuck what the fuck who's ass was she kicking? All the same-
"Please do feel free to call on me should anyone trouble you further, however. One good turn deserves another, after all." And she lifts her cup in reference to the kindly provided tea which yes, is quite an improvement.
As to the question, she nods.
"I suppose that depends up on what you consider an adventure," she says thoughtfully. "I have been brought to the realm of the god who blessed me at birth, but never have I been bodily removed to an entirely new place like this, far from anyone or anything I know. But I have been involved in some activities that others might consider unbefitting of the daughter of a duke."
Her tone says, quite clearly, that she gives exactly zero fucks what those people might think and that she is quite pleased with her choice of activities. As she's told Nanaka before: kicking the asses of people who piss her off is extremely ladylike.
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Perhaps she can be forgiven. Her God is a rather distant one, and she’s only recently learned that magic - dark, unholy magic - exists in her world, let alone all of this other stuff.
“I think women should direct their own lives, regardless of whose daughter they happen to be,” she says after a moment.
Of course, she’s thinking this girl wants to have a career or choose her own husband or something similar.
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But the conversation starts elsewhere, so she merely nods.
"Chronoa, the God of Time and Space," which isn't something she'd normally mention in polite conversation with another young lady, but to be fair, things have not been normal since she showed up. "He is something of a patron deity to the country of Pallistan." A protector, certainly. Which was part of the reason they were in trouble of late.
"I couldn't agree more on the other topic, however."
To be fair to her parents, it is the very blessing from that god that she'd received at birth that makes her marriage into the royal line rather important.
...which to her mind is why they should have reigned in their stupid asshole of a second son so she didn't want to murder him for a decade.
And maybe the first one. Julius is a troll as well even if he can be quite charming."Is that a matter of some contention where you're from?"
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But Mina is far too polite to say things like that aloud, to a near-stranger. And besides, another topic of conversation is one that she actually has opinions on.
"Perhaps there's a bit of contention, yes," she says - an understatement, really. "In the modern world - where I come from - women have been asserting themselves much in recent decades. Pursuing education and careers, even arguing for the right to vote!"
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But she is a little baffled at 'modern world'. What does that mean, exactly?
"I'm glad to hear that women elsewhere have been asserting themselves, as they should," let it never be said that she's not a girl for girls, "but... vote for what, exactly?"
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"I've never heard of such a thing," and she means that. No offense, that's a whole wonderful new thing. "What a wonderful idea. How revolutionary. I might have to bring the idea to Prince Julius when I return. I'm sure he'll find it fascinating."
He finds most things fascinating, the ratfink.
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