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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] dovedive 2025-11-10 06:18 am (UTC)(link)
You too, huh?

[ If this time matched a few people it could possibly be a coincidence or some kind of fluke, but if most of the people here are claiming the same then something must be at play. ]

Perhaps the world seeks to be finished but it needed help...
aetherweaver: (running)

[personal profile] aetherweaver 2025-11-10 06:20 am (UTC)(link)
True, but this place is massive and seemingly ever-changing. I'm not certain how we'd finish all of these books...

[Hm.]

Unless there's something else that needs to be finished?
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[personal profile] dovedive 2025-11-10 06:45 am (UTC)(link)
Something else....

[ He trails off a little when his eyes glance back to the little saucer, Nara'a was playing with. ]

I guess if we keep interacting with the world we're bound to find more information somehow.
aetherweaver: (annoyed)

[personal profile] aetherweaver 2025-11-10 07:33 pm (UTC)(link)
I suppose so. I'm not the best at waiting, but I will be patient if I must.

[His tail flicks from side to side like an impatient cat, betraying his thoughts.]

I've been an adventurer for many years, so I'm always on the move.
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[personal profile] dovedive 2025-11-10 09:47 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Nice notices the way his tail and ears seem to flicker. They really were real and working, weren't they? Like the world believed he was catlike so he became catlike... He reached up curiously and gave the saucer near him a little tap as it sways. ]

Adventurer? That sounds rather exciting.
aetherweaver: (heroic)

[personal profile] aetherweaver 2025-11-11 12:05 am (UTC)(link)
It can be. It depends what you get into. Some travel the land, finding new and exciting places... and some stay near their homes with safer jobs such as running messages. The most often variety are somewhere in the middle, escorting merchants or assisting with odd jobs... that's about where I started.

Where I've ended up... is wrapped up in helping to save places near and far from war and existential threats. Some people call me heroic... I just see it as doing the right thing.
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[personal profile] dovedive 2025-11-11 04:32 am (UTC)(link)
[ Nice falls silent for a moment. After hearing those words, something stirs inside of him. "I just see it as doing the right thing." Like he was the perfect image of a real true born hero. He didn't want fame or glory... he just wanted to help people.]

Sorry if this seems like an odd question. What do you think of a smile?
aetherweaver: (confusion)

[personal profile] aetherweaver 2025-11-11 05:29 am (UTC)(link)
A... smile? I mean, they're nice... can I have a little more context?

[He tilts his head in confusion as he tries to understand where that question came from.]
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[personal profile] dovedive 2025-11-11 06:03 am (UTC)(link)
Ah— Sorry!

[ Nice tries to laugh it off, glancing off to the side. ]

The way you talk about yourself... it made me think of someone from back home. "You must never forget your own beliefs, even if that belief is just a simple smile. It's the biggest source of power for you to keep going."
aetherweaver: (uh oh)

[personal profile] aetherweaver 2025-11-11 06:06 am (UTC)(link)
... Oh. No, I - it was someone else who told me "a smile better suits a hero" as he was dying.

[How could he smile then? But people need him to seem put together, so he did. He's had to for a long time.]
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[personal profile] dovedive 2025-11-14 09:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Sorry, I wasn't... trying to bring up any unfortunate memories. The way you sounded though— I think your companion... and the one who came to my mind would be proud...
aetherweaver: (Default)

[personal profile] aetherweaver 2025-11-15 02:43 am (UTC)(link)
No, no, it's all right. It's been many years. I do try to smile for people... it's not like you know what kind of a day another person is having.
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[personal profile] dovedive 2025-11-16 04:41 am (UTC)(link)
Then... allow me smile for you.


[ If he's smiling for everyone else, he feels he doesn't get many doing the same for him in return.

And since they were playing around with these little saucers, Nice places his own little drawing of a creature on the saucer nearest him.
]
aetherweaver: (tilted up)

[personal profile] aetherweaver 2025-11-16 04:43 am (UTC)(link)
[He chuckles and smiles at the other as well.]

Who's that? A friend of yours?
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[personal profile] dovedive 2025-11-16 05:03 am (UTC)(link)
Not exactly a friend, more like... the "son" of a colleague.

[ You know how people call their pets their children. ]
aetherweaver: (Default)

[personal profile] aetherweaver 2025-11-16 10:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Heh. I understand.

[He points to the picture he made.]

That's someone I know. He came from another star, and his ship looked quite a bit like these...
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[personal profile] dovedive 2025-11-16 11:25 pm (UTC)(link)
That little guy is real? I just thought you were doodling something.
aetherweaver: (smirk)

[personal profile] aetherweaver 2025-11-17 12:35 am (UTC)(link)
Very real. His name is PuPu. ... Or that might be the name of his species. And yes, I know what it sounds like...

[He'd had to be polite about it, but it is funny.]
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[personal profile] dovedive 2025-11-18 03:20 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Nice gives him a smile, it was hard to tell if it was just to be nice or if he was holding back his own laugh. ]

So you've made friends with little creatures like that? Certainly an interesting guy.
aetherweaver: (heroic)

[personal profile] aetherweaver 2025-11-21 02:02 am (UTC)(link)
He was. I've met plenty of... interesting characters in my life. Some friendly, like him - others not. But I try to get along with most people if I can.
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[personal profile] dovedive 2025-11-25 04:19 am (UTC)(link)
That's probably the best way to go about living. Life is already complicated enough, why make it worse for yourself.

[ Says one making things worse for themself. ]
aetherweaver: (smile)

[personal profile] aetherweaver 2025-11-29 02:23 am (UTC)(link)
More or less. I end up with enough time where I have to fight anyway…

[No thank you.]