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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!]
aetherweaver: (rising fury)

oh no. oh well.

[personal profile] aetherweaver 2025-11-12 06:02 pm (UTC)(link)
"Mud and magma? Hm. I don't know if those would be considered elemental where I'm from. Water and earth and fire and earth respectively. And yes, pure light or darkness will shift your aether towards that end significantly, warping you until... well. You're really no longer 'you'."
bestofall: (conversational | you don't say...)

[personal profile] bestofall 2025-11-14 01:27 am (UTC)(link)
"I supposed not mud and magma, no...but Mud and Magma," says Festival, somehow pronouncing the capital letters. "Rather like--well, Ice is hardly a primary element of its own, is it? Nor lightning. Air and water for the one, air and fire for the other. Earth and water make mud, whereas earth and fire become magma."

He catches himself speaking too confidently, belatedly, and adds-- "Though I suppose I may have muddled it; I never did understand all the fine details."
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[personal profile] aetherweaver 2025-11-15 02:37 am (UTC)(link)
"I suppose it might simply work differently. I've seen elemental lightning ravage a place with my own eyes, for example. Air and fire might contribute to its spread, but it's more than two combined. But we're all from different worlds, so I'm not surprised."

His system works for him, so he'll stick with it, but it's interesting to know that there are other options.
bestofall: (smile | chinhands)

[personal profile] bestofall 2025-11-19 01:11 am (UTC)(link)
"What a strange thought," Festival points out. "For a world not only to have different kinds of people, but different kinds of natural laws. What are the laws coming to if they're not law everywhere?"
aetherweaver: (rising fury)

[personal profile] aetherweaver 2025-11-21 02:12 am (UTC)(link)
"Yes, it does seem odd. But I suppose it's something we simply have to adapt to if we're in this strange place. I know other stars have different ways of existing, but even they have aether... hm." Maybe other... universes? Like shards of whole universes? He's not sure how that would work.