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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 05:38 pm (UTC)(link)
“Oh, I never would’ve finished my trousseau in less than six months if not for my trusty Singer,” Mina says, delighted to have met another person who seems to be from a similar cultural background. “Mine at home has a foot pedal, but you likely wouldn’t be tall enough to use it. Forgive me, I’m Mina Harker. It’s a pleasure to meet you.”

She offers her hand to shake.
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[personal profile] codeswitchcraft 2025-11-14 08:19 pm (UTC)(link)

Siobhan clasps it in greeting.

"Siobhan Greenwood. Are you Jonathan Harker's wife? Or... not exactly his wife, but." She shrugs, awkwardly. "He was very kind to me when I met him, is all."

Let's switch the topic to less dangerous waters, maybe.

"It took me years to finish my trousseau. I had to sew and embroider everything by hand and even weave some of it."

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[personal profile] starandhope 2025-11-14 09:31 pm (UTC)(link)
“We’re very good friends,” Mina says with a smile. Yes, it’s a very weird situation, and this is how she’s glossing over it. “And he is, very kind.” True of both her own Jonathan, and this one.

“I’ve never learned to weave,” she comments, interested. “And I’m afraid my embroidery often leaves something to be desired. Our initials, and a few flowers are the extent of my skill there.”
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[personal profile] codeswitchcraft 2025-11-14 10:27 pm (UTC)(link)
"My father wanted me to concentrate on my fancywork," Siobhan says, "as a way to show off our status? But I've found that plainsewing has been much more useful in my everyday life lately."

She colors, the way she always does when she can't avoid betraying how she is of high birth. (But surely there must be nobility on Earth too, shouldn't there?)
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[personal profile] starandhope 2025-11-15 02:02 am (UTC)(link)
"You're far from the first woman to be told so," Mina says easily - it hardly matters to her what social class people come from. "But you're right. My husband doesn't need his stockings adorned with silk embroidery. He does need them mended from time to time, however."
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[personal profile] codeswitchcraft 2025-11-16 04:53 am (UTC)(link)
"As much as I need to do my own mending now," Siobhan agrees. "Though here, at least, it can be made easier."
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[personal profile] starandhope 2025-11-16 06:15 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yes, there are many technological conveniences here," Mina says. "My new friend Hikaru has already explained to me some of the benefits of a three-dee printer, among other things!"
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[personal profile] codeswitchcraft 2025-11-16 06:57 pm (UTC)(link)
She laughs. "I saw him make little statues of myself and his other friends with it."
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[personal profile] starandhope 2025-11-17 03:47 am (UTC)(link)
"It's very clever," Mina says in agreement. "My world is very technologically advanced, but it's clear that some others have far surpassed even our trains and telegraphs and typewriters."
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[personal profile] codeswitchcraft 2025-11-19 07:14 am (UTC)(link)
"We didn't have any of those on Mundus," Siobhan admits. "I understand trains, though, from a book my friend read to me. There was a angry, cruel one named Blaine."
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[personal profile] starandhope 2025-11-19 01:13 pm (UTC)(link)
"I can't say I've ever heard of trains having personalities," Mina says with a faint laugh. "Maybe in children's stories."
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[personal profile] codeswitchcraft 2025-11-22 06:33 pm (UTC)(link)
"I think he was also in a children's story," Siobhan says, "so that makes sense."

(Thorne may have been reading her the Dark Tower books.)
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[personal profile] starandhope 2025-11-22 10:28 pm (UTC)(link)
"Where are you from, if I may ask?" Mina offers after a moment. "I'm from England, year 1897."

She's starting to get used to naming not just her geographical place of origin, but also her time.
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[personal profile] codeswitchcraft 2025-11-24 07:42 pm (UTC)(link)
"I'm from Mundus," Siobhan says. "Mundus-Chimera that was, the year 1547 of the new dawn. And I think the corresponding Earthly year is 2047, so we're about a century and a half apart? But I understand things are very different on Earth rather than Mundus."
Edited 2025-11-24 19:50 (UTC)
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[personal profile] starandhope 2025-11-25 02:15 am (UTC)(link)
"I've never heard of such a place," Mina says easily. "It must be a very different world, though you speak in some familiar ways."
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[personal profile] codeswitchcraft 2025-11-26 05:40 am (UTC)(link)
"It's a world that Earthly people go to visit," Siobhan explains. "Rin said it was a 'tourism planet.'"
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[personal profile] starandhope 2025-11-27 05:33 am (UTC)(link)
"What, a whole planet? I've heard of fanciful novels suggesting such things, but I can't say I ever expected to meet people from places like that," Mina says with a faint laugh.
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[personal profile] codeswitchcraft 2025-11-28 04:22 am (UTC)(link)
"Well, Europa is a tourism place at least," Siobhan says. "Ah, that's the name of the continent I'm on."
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[personal profile] starandhope 2025-11-29 03:18 am (UTC)(link)
"That sounds like Europe. The continent on my world," Mina points out.
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[personal profile] codeswitchcraft 2025-11-29 06:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Siobhan shrugs, awkwardly. "I think it might have been named after your Europe."
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[personal profile] starandhope 2025-11-30 02:38 am (UTC)(link)
"I can't imagine how that might've happened," Mina says. All this seems - very confusing! As if there are worlds within worlds, somehow, where Siobhan comes from.

(Mina is glad she doesn't come from a world like that.)
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[personal profile] codeswitchcraft 2025-11-30 02:43 am (UTC)(link)
"The people from Earth made Mundus. Or-- made Mundus how it is, anyway. It's complicated." And there was definitely a difference between Chimera-that-was and Prime, even if a lot of it was too technical for Thorne to explain properly.
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[personal profile] starandhope 2025-11-30 02:55 am (UTC)(link)
"I have to admit, even for this place, that seems a little far-fetched," Mina says with a faint laugh. Humans, with the power to create a new entire world? That's the sort of God-like power that should be beyond anyone.
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[personal profile] codeswitchcraft 2025-12-03 04:01 am (UTC)(link)
"I know it sounds that way," Siobhan says, "but it's true. You can ask Hikaru about it if you don't believe me."
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[personal profile] starandhope 2025-12-03 04:06 pm (UTC)(link)
“It’s not that I don’t believe you,” Mina is quick to respond. She wouldn’t want anyone to think she was untrusting or thought people to be dishonest!

“It’s simply very difficult to wrap my mind around the concepts you’re describing to me.”

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