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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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...Or they're hinting to something. [How they are all technically "aliens" from other worlds, or something that is to come?] This is a library full of unfinished works, right? [Is the subject matter related to what needs to be finished? He looks to the other to see what they were talking about. What was that they're holding?
The chair skids slightly as he gets up to walk over and get a better look. In the world he's from, hedgehogs apparently keep things in their quills, so this Shadow will pull a similar catalogue. Similar to the other Shadow, though his has [Archivist] and something [Redacted]. And "the hedgehog" to complete his name.]
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[Shadow frowns, holding out his catalogue card to compare against the other's. Scanning over the two of them, there's the obvious - Revisionist versus Archivist, a stamp of a book versus a stamp of a dragon.]
Why would these be different? [That's not without a critical glance at his other. Perhaps Shadow should be making a few less assumptions about him.]
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Doesn't really answer what any of it means. [They're just words and images on a piece of paper to him.]
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Obviously. [Two can play the snarking game.] The factions. Archivist and Revisionist - they wouldn't distinguish if there weren't a point to it.
[And they're a prime example. They're both Shadow. So what makes the difference then, why would one of them be stamped as an Archivist?]
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One to protect what's already been written, and the other to undo it. [Shadow talks like he knows what he's on about, a rumble of annoyance lining his tone. Time will tell as to whether he's at all on the right track with any of this.] There's speculation that these books may be gateways into other worlds. If that's the case, and these factions play a part, we'll be at opposite ends.
[God knows they've already shown they're willing to be at each-other's throats over literally nothing. Shadow thinks it's pretty obvious what's going to happen when they actually have something to disagree on. Luckily he does not care one single bit about anything except finding the Prism Shard and getting it home.]
I have no intention of changing my plans to suit their games. [His arms are not already crossed, so he crosses them now. Stubborn to the end. They already have a general agreement in place, Library-wise, but just to make it clear that Shadow doesn't intend for that to be a temporary truce:] I don't care what you do with these. Continue to stay out of my way, and I'll keep out of yours.
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He stares at the other, telling him to stay out of his way once more. There's a starting pattern he's seeing with there's another Shadow in these places. All he does is roll his eyes and start to walk towards the door. He's right though, there's nothing else now that they've both seen the movie.] Right, sure. But I have a feeling we don't get to make that choice. [What an ominous thing to say.]
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The other's making to leave, and Shadow won't stop him - though he's aware the DVD is still in the player. Is his other self expecting him to return it?
Arrogant much.]There is always a choice. And I've made mine. [He says that so sharply, so firm, it's clear that what his other self has said has struck some sort of nerve.
Shadow's made his stance clear, there's nothing more to be said.
--And he will, eventually, get up and sort out the return of that DVD, crossing off both their names from the waiting list. Grumpy about it the whole time.]