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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] starandhope 2025-11-16 06:39 pm (UTC)(link)
"Faeries only seek to manipulate people," Mina points out with a faint smile. "I suspect you do nothing of the sort, and that may draw their ire."
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[personal profile] hellandbackpack 2025-11-17 04:20 am (UTC)(link)
"Eh, some of 'em are alright blokes. Just got their rules and all, so long as you go by 'em you're alright yeah?" He chuckled, plucking up a small hacky sack from the clutter on the desk to toss from one hand to the other as if idle hands made it near impossible for him to focus. "There's a Spring-aligned Court that's got a veil in the park near our office back in London. They love when Edwin and I come around to trade for information."
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[personal profile] starandhope 2025-11-17 06:43 pm (UTC)(link)
“You live in London,” Mina says, smiling almost in relief. “I imagine your world is much different than mine, but surely London stays the same.”
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[personal profile] hellandbackpack 2025-11-19 12:15 am (UTC)(link)
"Best place to set up an agency, innit?" Charles replies lightly, with a grin of his own. "Something's always happenin' in good ol' London-town!"
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[personal profile] starandhope 2025-11-19 01:34 am (UTC)(link)
"Oh, yes, it's one of the greatest cities in the world," Mina says. "There are many places I'd like to visit, but I can't imagine living anywhere else."
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[personal profile] hellandbackpack 2025-11-19 06:49 am (UTC)(link)
"Visitin' a multiversal magic library's one way to start off!" He teases lightly, with a soft laugh. "You don't do things by halves, do you?"
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[personal profile] starandhope 2025-11-19 01:12 pm (UTC)(link)
"I suppose not," Mina says with a faint smile. "Though I'd rather have been given the choice, all the same."
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[personal profile] hellandbackpack 2025-11-22 01:02 am (UTC)(link)
"Oh absolutely no argument there," Charles agreed readily. "But at least you're makin' friends, yeah? Always easier to deal with things with a few good mates on your side!"
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[personal profile] starandhope 2025-11-22 05:20 am (UTC)(link)
"Yes," Mina agrees. "I don't know what I'd do without good friends to assist me. There have been times in my life when I felt - very alone. But I've always had someone step forward. I'm terribly lucky that way."
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[personal profile] hellandbackpack 2025-11-22 06:02 am (UTC)(link)
"Well, looks like your luck's holdin' out Missus Harker," Charles replied cheerfully, with an illustrative pat over his lapel. "Got me to assist now, yeah?"
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finis~?

[personal profile] starandhope 2025-11-22 10:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Mina smiles. "A very gallant gentleman," she agrees.