libraryassistants: (Default)
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!]
hellandbackpack: (pic#18111192)

[personal profile] hellandbackpack 2025-11-16 01:24 pm (UTC)(link)
[While he's still worried, tense about the whole thing? Charles does feel at least a little bit steadier in the moment for being able to vent, to talk about Edwin. It won't last, he can tell that much, but even a momentary reprieve will help him keep a grip on himself at the very least. He'd been... in a complex emotional place back home, and unfortunately he hadn't seemed to leave those issues behind when he'd been brought here.]

Nah, we're investigators! [A soft huff of a laugh, fond but clearly proud.] Dead Boy Detectives! Been solvin' cases for decades now.
hellandbackpack: (pic#18111341)

[personal profile] hellandbackpack 2025-11-19 12:35 am (UTC)(link)
You'd be surprised how much we can get sorted because we're dead! [Charles laughs lightly.] Folk are... I mean they've got stories? Movies and superstitions and stuff, and if a ghost is hauntin' a place they can make themselves known sometimes. But usually they can't see us unless they're like... magic somehow, or they've been near death somehow.
hellandbackpack: (pic#18111187)

[personal profile] hellandbackpack 2025-11-21 03:56 am (UTC)(link)
Nah, if it's stuff the cops can solve, that's not usually what we handle. We take care of... like ghosts who need help with like... movin' on, or findin' someone, or like someone bein' harassed by some sorta magic monster or witch, yeah? Cops don't believe in that stuff. Just write a poor bloke off if he came into the station talkin' about how his girlfriend's crawlin' up the walls and spoutin' ancient Sumerian or sommat like that, yeah?
hellandbackpack: (pic#18111216)

[personal profile] hellandbackpack 2025-11-22 06:06 am (UTC)(link)
'Bout as useful as a screen door on a submarine at the best of times.

[Charles can't help but snort a laugh at the joke, corny or no.]

I dunno, helps to keep the spirits up, yeah?