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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] aetherweaver 2025-11-07 05:03 am (UTC)(link)
"A natural nexus, yes..." That does make sense. "It would reduce the cost considerably if the aether flowed naturally to a point." Though that begs the question of 'why them'? Hm.

He nods along and taps a claw against the book's spine. "Added on to is a good way to put it, though that begs the question of why those facilities and not others? Did they add it on when people started showing up? And if they did, who is the 'they' that could add it so quickly?"
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[personal profile] scienceofthearcane 2025-11-08 08:24 pm (UTC)(link)
"An even more provocative question would be, were the facilities here before anyone that we recognize had been? But better yet, why are they here at all? The question of who made them is tied to the question of what our purpose in the library, in general, would be."

Viktor shook his head a little in wonder.

"There are so many more questions than answers given to explain our presence here."
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[personal profile] aetherweaver 2025-11-09 03:07 am (UTC)(link)
"There are the assistants, but other than that I don't know. ... There's too many questions and not enough data for any answers." He looks over at the other man and - ah.

"I'm Nara'a, by the way. I apologize, I got distracted by magical theory before I even introduced myself."
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[personal profile] scienceofthearcane 2025-11-09 10:34 pm (UTC)(link)
"My name is Viktor. And you need not apologize because I did the same thing and didn't think about sharing my name before I got distracted with talk of magic."

So they are both magic nerds. Of course, in Viktor's case, it is just plain nerd.

"In my experience, the library assistants do not have answers to the questions that I had."
aetherweaver: (smirk)

[personal profile] aetherweaver 2025-11-10 06:13 am (UTC)(link)
"They didn't answer many of mine though they did say that the space we are sent to once some kind of damage has occurred is ours to do with as we see fit. If there were a more reliable way to get there other than causing damage we could use it as a training area for those of us more... physically or magically inclined."