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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!]
extrasaltypotato: (sad)

Science Fiction Double Feature

[personal profile] extrasaltypotato 2025-11-16 06:10 pm (UTC)(link)
That does give me some ideas. I think they would enjoy Workbee and the classic Basil mysteries, as would you.

But it’s her other statement that makes Hikaru pause, and offer an arm to drape across her shoulder.

I suppose it began as one. Though no one would accuse it of being the theme park version of the Age of Sail, it was a place the Players visited for excitement and adventure they found lacking in life. But it was more than that to me, even before it Awakened. My FC is like family, and we would not all have met but for Mundus.
codeswitchcraft: (sad)

Re: Science Fiction Double Feature

[personal profile] codeswitchcraft 2025-11-16 06:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Because you all came there to play games with my world, Siobhan says. She makes a rueful sound out loud. I'd have been something that you'd played with if it hadn't Awakened, wouldn't I?
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Re: Science Fiction Double Feature

[personal profile] extrasaltypotato 2025-11-16 06:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Given that he has a real good idea of which “green wood” Siobhan hails from, he can’t exactly deny that, so he won’t.

That may be so, but that does not - cannot - lessen the reality that you are a Namer. Now if not then. And you are part of that family, and no one in DC/AC would disagree.

He shakes his head.

It’s stories all the way down, Sio. I can’t speak of upper or lower. It’s all maya, and we all need to find what true things we can.
codeswitchcraft: (sad)

Re: Science Fiction Double Feature

[personal profile] codeswitchcraft 2025-11-16 07:04 pm (UTC)(link)
I know, she says, leaning against him. We do. You are right that we do. But sometimes I remember that in a very real way I was only born months ago and it fucks me up.
extrasaltypotato: (i have made errors before)

Re: Science Fiction Double Feature

[personal profile] extrasaltypotato 2025-11-16 07:07 pm (UTC)(link)
He sighs, holding her, offering what physical comfort he dares.

“This might be a bad time to watch this kind of existential horror,” he says. “Given the effect it had on Laina. It probably is relevant to Editing, so I can summarize it for you?”
Edited (not even blaming my phone for that) 2025-11-16 19:10 (UTC)
codeswitchcraft: (sad)

Re: Science Fiction Double Feature

[personal profile] codeswitchcraft 2025-11-16 07:13 pm (UTC)(link)
"I should probably watch it anyway," she says, laying her head on his shoulder. "And-- I hadn't realized Laina'd already watched it without you or me. Was it bad?" She's quiet for another moment. "I'm not sure how much Laina really groks about all of that," she admits. "Or maybe she's just better at not thinking about it."
extrasaltypotato: (good lord she's pretty)

Re: Science Fiction Double Feature

[personal profile] extrasaltypotato 2025-11-16 07:16 pm (UTC)(link)
“It’s not that it’s a bad movie. Quite the opposite,” he says, turning away as the tips of his ears and his cheeks redden. “It is extremely effective at evoking both terror and horror. I just worry its themes might hit a little too close to home, as it did to her. I know for a fact she has much the same anxieties.”
codeswitchcraft: (sad)

Re: Science Fiction Double Feature

[personal profile] codeswitchcraft 2025-11-16 07:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Siobhan nods. "Of course she does. I shouldn't have doubted. She's clever too--she recognized that the world was different before I did--so I'm sure she didn't need as much explained as I did."