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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!]
codeswitchcraft: (smile)

Re: Recommended Reading

[personal profile] codeswitchcraft 2025-11-13 03:52 pm (UTC)(link)
"Perhaps we could watch it together with Hikaru?" Siobhan suggests. "He would have prior experience." And would most importantly know how to make the movies go without having to consult with a goddess.
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Re: Recommended Reading

[personal profile] terraboo 2025-11-13 04:45 pm (UTC)(link)
"... True. Does make sense to me at least. Just need to skip the 'and chill' part."

Yup there's the memes flowing again. She's regaining her emotional balance!

until she watches the actual film
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Re: Recommended Reading

[personal profile] codeswitchcraft 2025-11-14 08:14 pm (UTC)(link)
"Chilling comes after dungeon crawling with Hikaru's party anyway," Siobhan says blithely. "And I told you he's a gentleman."

... Sio is going to by just as upset by the film as Laina, holy shit
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Re: Recommended Reading

[personal profile] terraboo 2025-11-14 08:19 pm (UTC)(link)
"I mean, fair enough. He seems respectful of both people and libraries, so, that's good. But... Yeah. Film. Film's gonna be a whole new thing to actually experience."
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Re: Recommended Reading

[personal profile] codeswitchcraft 2025-11-14 10:13 pm (UTC)(link)
"I'm excited about it," Siobhan says. Then abruptly switching topics, "Have you met anyone named Rin yet? We had an interesting conversation over my sendjewel after I encountered their mechanical familiar. They can talk over 'jewels using something called a feed connection.'"
terraboo: (Erm)

Re: Recommended Reading

[personal profile] terraboo 2025-11-14 10:20 pm (UTC)(link)
"Hmm. It does make sense that alternate communications could be made compatible with one another. It's sorta like how we're all speaking the same language even though that's honestly kind of weird. I haven't met Rin specifically, though. I've been working on sleep space optimization."
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Re: Recommended Reading

[personal profile] codeswitchcraft 2025-11-16 04:55 am (UTC)(link)
"Optimization?" Siobhan asks, curious about her friend's project.
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[personal profile] terraboo 2025-11-17 03:52 am (UTC)(link)
"Making sure I can somewhat comfortably crash. Very important. They're doing bunk beds, I think that officially marks this place as an extra level of cursed. Though better than 'find an empty shelf, that's your sleeping place' like I read about once."
codeswitchcraft: (smile)

[personal profile] codeswitchcraft 2025-11-19 07:11 am (UTC)(link)
"I've been in worse on the road," says Siobhan, though admittedly not very often.
terraboo: (E-he....)

[personal profile] terraboo 2025-11-19 04:55 pm (UTC)(link)
"That's still - you're not sleeping directly above or below someone with the constant fear the top bunk's gonna collapse if you don't reinforce it."

... Where'd she read about that one?

"A-anyways. I've been working on creating a bit of a space suited to my needs, since I can't exactly lug everything in one normal backpack and my Bookbag."
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[personal profile] codeswitchcraft 2025-11-22 07:09 pm (UTC)(link)
"... I didn't realize that was a hazard of bunkbeds," Siobhan says. She pauses for a moment and adds, "Our, um, mutual friend says that's only if they're not built very well."

(Yes, she just consulted with her goddess over bunkbeds. Look, if part of Thorne is stuck in her and she doesn't have any environmental systems to keep running, why not keep up a running dialog with her?)
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[personal profile] terraboo 2025-11-22 10:42 pm (UTC)(link)
"Oh. Oh, okay then. That. All right."

She still seems scared about it, but is trying to be reassured. "Please let her know, if she cannot simply hear me, that I appreciate the awareness on that. Either way... It means I have a pretty truncated space to work with. But I'm gonna make it happen. Want to take the matching top bunk for me, or have you already got someplace going?"
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[personal profile] codeswitchcraft 2025-11-24 07:45 pm (UTC)(link)
"I'll take the top bunk," Siobhan volunteers. "I hadn't claimed any other bed yet and you're my friend. If I'm sharing a bunk, I want it to be with you."
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[personal profile] terraboo 2025-11-26 07:04 am (UTC)(link)
"Sounds like a wise plan to me. Gives us a room we can work with, for one... And there is a fair bit to do with that."
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[personal profile] codeswitchcraft 2025-11-28 04:32 am (UTC)(link)
"It's two to a room, right? With the bunks? Not a bunch of bunks in one big room." Can you guess who hasn't found their living quarters at all yet?
terraboo: (E-he....)

[personal profile] terraboo 2025-11-28 07:35 pm (UTC)(link)
"Thankfully, yes, it's two to a room. I don't think I could handle a military-style barracks..."
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[personal profile] codeswitchcraft 2025-11-29 06:24 pm (UTC)(link)
"It wouldn't be my first choice either," Siobhan admits. Still, she's slept in worse on the road.
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[personal profile] terraboo 2025-11-30 11:59 pm (UTC)(link)
"Good, good. We can customize the space more that way. And I don't have to deal with as many restrictions on what I can keep in the room. That's good news, at least!"

She grins. "... Not. That I know what I'll do with that."
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[personal profile] codeswitchcraft 2025-12-03 04:04 am (UTC)(link)
"We should make a shrine to Thorne in the room," Siobhan says firmly. "And to Gnomon." Not only because the two of them were their respective gods, but it would probably help if they need to be resurrected as adventurers.
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[personal profile] terraboo 2025-12-03 05:40 pm (UTC)(link)
"Seems reasonable. Smaller shrines are easy enough to maintain!", Laina says. "... Maybe not like, right by the beds though. I uh kick in sleep sometimes."
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[personal profile] codeswitchcraft 2025-12-03 06:10 pm (UTC)(link)
"I guess that's reasonable," Siobhan says. "We can make things for it in the area with the sewing machine and the thing that Hikaru made his figure with."
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[personal profile] terraboo 2025-12-14 03:46 am (UTC)(link)
"I love this idea," Laina responded with a bit of excitement. "Build things and do stuff. A good way to advance on our work."
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[personal profile] codeswitchcraft 2025-12-22 03:06 am (UTC)(link)
"She likes it too," Siobhan adds, so that Laina will know that they've got godly approval for this.