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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] ultimateedgehog 2025-11-17 06:39 am (UTC)(link)
If Shadow had a middle name, 'Dramatic' would be it.

"I don't believe you." He says frankly. Though... it would be a really stupid move for the Granute to reveal himself like that if he were trying to pull something. (But then, maybe he also recognised the Black Arms in Shadow, and was looking for an ally in world subjugation/domination?) --Suffice to say, there are some mental gymnastics happening in the few short seconds where the hedgehog is glaring. (Well. It's a few short seconds to anyone who runs on a normal clock. For anyone who navigates the world at hedgehog hell speed, it's a tense pause.)

"I've never met an alien race that was out to protect anything." He sounds sceptical as hell about this, sneering the word 'protect'. but hey. Everyone's keeping their hands and spoons to themselves. That's a win, right? Also for the record, he has met a total of one (1) alien race. He is not an expert on this. "What makes you so different?"
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[personal profile] flantastic 2025-11-18 02:43 am (UTC)(link)
"As far as I'm concerned," Rakia points out, "it's everyone else that's the alien. Not all Granutes are good, not all are bad, we're just people, same as anyone." It is for the best he doesn't realize just how many mental gymnastics were jumping around in that tense pause. "I...made some human friends. It's not that hard to understand."

Shadow absolutely had not attained the necessary levels of friendship needed to unlock Actual Full Backstory, thank you very much. Dead brother? Elaborate revenge scheme? He's just going with 'adopted by friendly humans' and sticking with it.
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[personal profile] ultimateedgehog 2025-11-23 05:11 am (UTC)(link)
Rakia earns a doubtful grunt for his efforts. 'Friends', sure. And Shadow's an enchilada, thanks autocorrect echidna.

"Know that if you are lying, I will destroy you." An assertion that is, perhaps, not best made while sitting next to the tin of coffee you were eating. Shadow doesn't seem to realise this, instead raising the hand that is not holding the spoon, to clench a fist pointedly. "The Black Arms were eliminated by my hands. I won't hesitate to do the same to anyone who positions themselves as a threat."
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[personal profile] flantastic 2025-11-28 02:40 am (UTC)(link)
Rakia can only stare. Your whole look isn't super intimidating, Shadow. The coffee-eating does nothing but potentially suggest not playing with a full deck...or a deck Rakia would care to understand. "Yeah, well, I don't plan on threatening anything."
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[personal profile] ultimateedgehog 2025-11-30 08:13 am (UTC)(link)
Shadow is embarrassingly sincere about everything he does. He takes himself very, very seriously. Case in point: he meets Rakia's stare unblinkingly with a glare, because the concept of being chill is wildly unfamiliar to him.

He seems to accept the matter is sorted for now at least, a hmph his non-committal response as his fist lowers.

...........and, look, he's usually not the type to pry further. but. He's still perturbed by those fucking rocks, his glare (--it's not a real one, he just always looks like that) drifting down to them. (In fact, this look of his is positively quizzical as far as Shadow's variety of scowls goes.)

"Then I suppose that's normal fare for your kind."

it may not sound like a question but it so is.
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[personal profile] flantastic 2025-12-05 03:59 am (UTC)(link)
Well, at least they're not about to have the stupidest fight ever, that's something. "Yeah," Rakia says, "Granutes eat rocks. I'm starting to realize that most other species don't." Otherwise there would have been way more of a selection of rocks in that kitchen, less of what he privately considered 'human food.'