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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] monstrous_bride 2025-11-15 01:48 am (UTC)(link)
"Whatever bullshit that is, it sounds terrible. God, when everybody was in denim..."

She pulls a bit of a face.
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[personal profile] terraboo 2025-11-15 07:09 am (UTC)(link)
"I'll stick to cotton and wool as best I can, personally. These uniforms keep pretty well, fortunately."
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[personal profile] monstrous_bride 2025-11-18 02:57 am (UTC)(link)
"Right," she adds, still a step back in this conversation. What other nonsense has turned up in this kid's universe?

"No uniforms for me," she adds. "I've had to kill too many assholes in them."
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[personal profile] terraboo 2025-11-18 05:53 am (UTC)(link)
"People who started fights and couldn't finish them, probably for reasons that are blunt horseshit?", she responds.

This woman just seemed the sort to have to deal with that. A lot.
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[personal profile] monstrous_bride 2025-11-23 04:17 am (UTC)(link)
"...You really do know far more than you ought to for your age," she replied, after a moments' silence.
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[personal profile] terraboo 2025-11-23 08:49 pm (UTC)(link)
"I'm from a monastic library. Even if I hadn't been reading books of other worlds, I'd have read a lot. It's the most available hobby."

Laina shrugs. "It's common enough a thing. Just, what I know is a bit different from others who were around me."
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[personal profile] monstrous_bride 2025-11-24 02:36 am (UTC)(link)
She shakes her head, with a sigh.

"Well, big axe and knows things. At least you'll probably be able to hold your own with whatever nonsense we deal with."
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[personal profile] terraboo 2025-11-24 07:49 pm (UTC)(link)
"For several distinct kinds of nonsense so far, yes. Specifically I can fight at an adventurer's level."
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[personal profile] monstrous_bride 2025-12-03 03:09 am (UTC)(link)
"Which means...?"

She prompts, waving a hand. It's a meaningless term to her.
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[personal profile] terraboo 2025-12-03 06:13 pm (UTC)(link)
"I can fight and win against an entire team of non-Enthused soldiers without killing any single one of them. 'Enthused' being 'blessed by the gods to fight at adventurer levels'."
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[personal profile] monstrous_bride 2025-12-09 01:30 am (UTC)(link)
"Well that is meaningless to me, but at least I know when you swing that thing you'll hit them and not me."
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[personal profile] terraboo 2025-12-09 08:29 pm (UTC)(link)
"Fair enough," Laina responded.

"Of course a lot of this depends on what kinds of fights we get into in a library."
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[personal profile] monstrous_bride 2025-12-13 04:49 am (UTC)(link)
"If someone brought me here, they're expecting some violence," she replied, with a casual shrug.

"People love using me to clean up their messes."
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[personal profile] terraboo 2025-12-13 10:03 pm (UTC)(link)
"And yet, they also brought me, a book handler with a side of violent capabilities. And others with entirely different talents, just out of the people I know. It's interesting to think about, but... It's hard to say if it's just random, or if it grabbed 'interesting' people, or something else."
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[personal profile] monstrous_bride 2025-12-17 03:00 am (UTC)(link)
"If it's random, that raises some interesting questions. Is it doing so purposefully, or is...whatever this is...running on loonie software, so to speak."

The last thing you want is a mad library, after all.
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[personal profile] terraboo 2025-12-18 02:54 am (UTC)(link)
"A question I'm not sure I WANT the answer to, but I'm sure we will find out, which is a bit terrifying."
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[personal profile] monstrous_bride 2025-12-21 05:41 am (UTC)(link)
She does, at least, smile a little bit at that.

"That's not something to be afraid of. That's something to encourage. Possibly with fire, if we get the chance."
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[personal profile] terraboo 2025-12-21 11:52 pm (UTC)(link)
"... That's one way to put it," Laina responded.

"I guess in time, we discover and find out. For now... I try to make the best of the immediate hand, and plan for the next."