Careful of the stacks - LIBRARY LOG

[libraryassistants]

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!]

Comments

[angel_of_baal]

"Ahhh." Uh. He doesn't quite think that that sentence means that this husband is never going to be in trouble, just perhaps at the moment of questioning. He's only recently acquainted with daemons, but he has had enough verbal combat with his brothers to recognize a possible equivocation.

Still, there's no need to shatter her hope. She wanted to believe it, and it gave her solace to believe that her husband was safe however long she is here. He may be a monster, but he is not the kind to destroy a woman's hope. "I am glad to hear it, then."

True, or not.

"I recently also encountered...things beyond my understanding. Dark, evil things. We were, for a time, helpless before them." His eyes looked haunted for a moment, remembering Ka'bhanda's malign laugh, the tormented look from Meros..., 500 of his men, down at one blow. "Faith and loyalty are potent weapons, I have found."

[starandhope]

She is, indeed, choosing to believe the most generous interpretation of what was told to her. For the moment, anyway. The alternative is, what? To go mad with worry? She's believing what she needs to believe, in order to function.

"Yes," Mina says after a moment's thought. "I have to agree, on both points. If we are to defeat this monster, this Dracula, faith and loyalty will be key."

[angel_of_baal]

That is the way of it, sometimes. But sometimes, to refuse to believe evidence in front of one was fatal. He could not believe his own brother would betray him and his legion had paid a price, a high price, for his innocence.

"And surely, you can do both of those--faith and loyalty. So you are anything but helpless against this enemy." So, no more talk of helplessness.

[starandhope]

"You have a very eloquent way of putting it," Mina says with a faint smile. "It almost does give me hope, though I still don't see how, exactly. But, perhaps with time. Maybe being here will provide me with some knowledge or insight."