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unfinishedlibrary2025-10-31 06:42 pm
libraryassistants) wrote in unfinishedlibrary2025-10-31 06:42 pm
Entry tags:
- !library,
- blade runner: kd6-3.7,
- bram stoker's dracula: mina harker,
- dracula: jonathan harker,
- hades: thanatos,
- original: illarion,
- sonic the hedgehog (film): shadow,
- the murderbot diaries: murderbot,
- the rising world: kaiisteron,
- the wonders of mundus: hikaru aozora,
- to be hero x: x,
- warhammer: sanguinius
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!]
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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'Ser' is a courtesy title, Siobhan explains. If you give me the name you wish to by called, I will call you it. I myself go by 'Siobhan Greenwood.' So the drone is your familiar, then, and you are watching me through its eyes?
She is watching the drone just as closely as it is watching her and just as curiously.
I was given the sendjewel as part of my Adventurers' Rites. Hikaru and Laina have them too—and you, I suppose? Or perhaps just something very like it. I have little experience using them and it is the same with Laina, but I would not be surprised if Hikaru has had much more practice than us. He's been an adventurer longer.
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Then she starts spouting off stuff about 'Adventurers' Rites', and it starts wondering what the hell it was with this place that so many people seemed like something that had walked out of a serial, not reality.
(And then it stops thinking about that, because if it thinks about that too much it might acquire some uncomfortable existential questions about its own existence.)
What, only some people get access to the feed where you're from? That fucking sucks. It sucks here too, by the way. They don't have a feed, just the stupid books that you have to write in. Manually. You can't even share files through them.
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It takes her a moment to reply to Rin, because she has to ask Thorne a few questions, but the goddess inside her is cautiously intrigued by the things Rin is saying and after her explanations, so is Siobhan.
On Mundus, where I come from, a familiar is a small creature that is guided by your will and whose senses you might share, so I think it and your drone are much the same things with different words, like your feeds and my sendjewels. And yes, not everyone on Mundus can access it. Mostly it's the visitors from the other world, Earth, who get to—they come to Mundus to play, you see, since Earth affords them little in the same way of leisure—but if a Mundane has coin enough, they can be given the rites that make their bodies like those of the visitors and they are given sendjewels so that they can communicate in the same ways they do among themselves.
She's very much not saying which one of those she is.
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(SecUnit, meanwhile, is very quick to reply.)
A fauna? Ugh. It's not that, it's mechanical. And way better than trying to look through a fauna's eyes. Talk about a weird idea.
Right, so you come from a tourist destination planet then, it says.
And with that context, the lack of feed devices might make some sense; the Company that owns her planet must be really, really cheap. Especially if it doesn't even pay the locals enough to afford feed devices.
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Shit, they're not wrong, Thorne says, except our Other Parents were trying to do it more ethically than what they're probably thinking of. Not that it worked out that way.
Which Siobhan assumes has something to do with how Mundanes weren't made to be people and only became so by accident, so it's not as if the Adventurers' playground was really being lived in. She shivers a little thinking about it.
I do, she admits. Though not all the visitors are bad. Some of them are very good people—but the bad ones are very, very bad.
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(It sounded a lot like how it thought about humans.)
...Yeah, it says, with the heavy weight of someone who can relate. Then there's an awkward pause, for an entire 2.2 seconds. For a construct, it's a very long time. (Shit, how do humans know what to say for this kind of thing?)
Do you like media? it says in the end. It doesn't know how to relate to people, but it knows how to share media. Nothing in this stupid place is finished, but my files are still fine.
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I like books, Siobhan says, after a brief conference with her goddess. And I have a friend who thinks I would like other media and would help me play it.
(Thorne thinks as long as they don't describe her location inside of Siobhan, it's probably okay for Rin to know she has a friend who is better with tech than she is. They're just not mentioning that said friend is a piece of a god.)
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It's not going to be able to just dump on her one big media collection; humans don't have anywhere near as much storage space as a construct. Not even augmented ones. Even if it wasn't pretending to be human, it doubts she'd have enough storage anyway. But it can pick a few select media that she might like.
(That she's conferring with someone else about this doesn't register as odd at all; even humans can manage a couple of simultaneous feed conversations.)
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... I like things about people who are kind and clever, she says, and one of my friends told me the story of Childe Roland and the Dark Tower, which I liked very much. But I need to ask my friends who are more familiar with media for recommendations, because I don't think the genres of books and plays on Mundus are quite the same as you'd find in media. I will get back to you in a little? I can just talk to you on the feed, right?
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And then it sends her a data packet contains episodes of a show called Ratchet and Smith, about two station engineers that encountered an improbable number of thefts, kidnappings, and murders while working around the station. It was a bit unrealistic - not only did Station Security have a very poor track record of not letting humans die, they kept letting the engineers do the things they were supposed to do (aka: solving murders and finding kidnapped humans).
But the two engineers were both very clever. And kind. They were always very empathetic to the humans who were impacted all the murders going on. So maybe she'll like this one.
Even if it's not at all like 'Childe Roland and the Dark Tower' (but its never heard of that one, okay, so it can't find anything similar.)
If you don't like it, let me know, it says. I'll send something else.
there are two canons in WOM that don't have an expy and they're the dark tower and calvin and hobbes
Thank you! It might take a little time for my friend to help me view it, but once I watch it, I will get back to you. You are very kind yourself, Rin.
Haha well I figure MB's from so far in the future, it wouldn't even know the real canons anyway
Okay, it says. Then: Does your friend have a display surface?
If they do, maybe they'd share with SecUnit. Unless it's one of those really small, handheld ones. It's not interested in watching media on anything that small.
Oh yeah that totally makes sense
... I don't think so? she says after a quick consultation with her goddess. She said she was going to show me directly after she, um, converts the format? To something I can see, since the sendjewels weren't made to show media.
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If you don't have a display surface, and your feed device can't play media, what the hell is your friend going to convert it to? it says, sounding rather baffled. It can't think of any file format that would play on an external feed device like that. That's what Internal feed devices were for.
And she didn't have one of those, apparently. So this was...weird.
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Something she can show it to me with, Siobhan says. I haven't seen a media before, so I don't know how it works yet. Give me a little time and I'll explain it better.
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It's about the length of two episodes of Rachet and Smith later when Siobhan gets back to it.
So it turned out she made it so I could see the media as a vision.
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Are you sure you don't have an internal feed device?
Then, after a slight pause, it moves on to the important question:
Did you like it?
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I'm not sure how it works. My friend understands technological things, but she has to simplify things to explain to me, because if she didn't it would 'overload' me. Which is not the answer for if she has an internal feed device. But yes, I liked it. I'm not done with all the parts yet, but it's good.
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It's better on a display screen, it says. But the files keep getting messed up if I try to offload them to external storage.
It's not very realistic. But yeah. It's good.
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(Sadly, the only person in this body who'd be able to talk shop with SecUnit is Thorne.tcai and she wishes to remain anonymous for now.)
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I have more media, it promises. Tell me when you finish it.
end of thread for now?
Sure thing!