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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] starandhope 2025-11-13 01:19 am (UTC)(link)
"Thank you," Mina says quietly. "We hadn't found the monster yet, no. The hunt was only really beginning when I was brought here."
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[personal profile] aetherweaver 2025-11-13 01:23 am (UTC)(link)
"I see." He nods, thinking on that for a few moments. "If we are ever able to cross into another's world, I'll help if I can."
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[personal profile] starandhope 2025-11-13 01:41 am (UTC)(link)
"That is a very generous offer," Mina says with a small smile. "If it were possible, I'm sure Jonathan and the others would welcome any assistance that could be provided. The monster in question is very old, and very powerful. I'm honestly not sure how we will be able to stop him. He is over four hundred years old."
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[personal profile] aetherweaver 2025-11-13 01:45 am (UTC)(link)
Ah. One of those. "I've made a name for myself at home slaying monsters, so I'm sure I'd be able to lend a hand." Possibly best to not talk about the god-killing immediately.
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[personal profile] starandhope 2025-11-13 12:58 pm (UTC)(link)
"If only you and the Bride could come to my world, I'd feel much more confident about the whole thing," Mina says with a faint smile. "However, somehow I feel it won't be that easy."

Because, quite frankly, far more is riding on her own shoulders than she even realizes.
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[personal profile] aetherweaver 2025-11-14 01:30 am (UTC)(link)
"Well, you never know!" ... Though he does have his worries about world-hopping, it's still something that would be useful. "We might just have to figure out where to look."
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[personal profile] starandhope 2025-11-14 04:08 am (UTC)(link)
"Perhaps so," Mina says with a faint smile. "Perhaps, somewhere in this library, is the way to do it."

Or at least some hints that will help them in their hunt for the vampire, whether they have other-worldly help or not.
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[personal profile] aetherweaver 2025-11-15 02:42 am (UTC)(link)
"If nothing else, at least the company has been pleasant. Not always the case when I've been in a library, though in some instances it's been mostly harried students."

Noumenon was always busy at all hours, students or no.
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[personal profile] starandhope 2025-11-15 05:24 am (UTC)(link)
"It's all a bit queer," Mina says with a faint smile. "But it certainly could be far worse."

No one has outright threatened her, at least. Despite some people here having very unusual appearances.
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[personal profile] aetherweaver 2025-11-16 12:54 am (UTC)(link)
"It could be. So let's work together to make sure it isn't."

He'd prefer cooperation this time. He's very tired of fighting.