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unfinishedlibrary2025-10-31 06:42 pm
libraryassistants) wrote in unfinishedlibrary2025-10-31 06:42 pm
Entry tags:
- !library,
- blade runner: kd6-3.7,
- bram stoker's dracula: mina harker,
- dracula: jonathan harker,
- hades: thanatos,
- original: illarion,
- sonic the hedgehog (film): shadow,
- the murderbot diaries: murderbot,
- the rising world: kaiisteron,
- the wonders of mundus: hikaru aozora,
- to be hero x: x,
- warhammer: sanguinius
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!]
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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And the Library itself appeared to resist damage, so the risks seemed minimal.
He shifts his gaze back to the microwave, adding thoughtfully, "Now I have questions about the other instructions.
"Do they have them, on the world you're from?"
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Mina blinks at him, then shakes her head.
"No, my world is very technologically advanced, but we don't have such machines," she adds. "This place is a strange one. Sometimes, it provides me with exactly what I am familiar with from home, and sometimes it offers up - things like that."
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It's splitting hairs, but it was an old habit of his to be precise about his motives. One he'd had cause to fall out of, in recent years, but since he's free...
He gives an absent nod to her answer. "Much the same. Some of this," he gestures around him, "is only a step beyond what I'm used to. Some, I see the principles it came from." Others -- well, he doesn't need to repeat that they're completely unexpected.
"Are the natural laws of this place like what you knew at home?"
Odd question, maybe. But it's been bothering him how unlike Nephele that is.
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She glances at him, taking in his strange appearance. "Though, I'd recently discovered there are dark powers at work in my world that I hadn't previously thought possible. So I don't suppose I can be entirely sure."
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He returns the glance, very careful not to meet her eyes directly. "Dark powers?" he inquires -- that seems worth pursuing.
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Since they were creatures born of dead eggs, back on Nephele -- though there's no reason that had to be preserved across worlds, was there.
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“Elves? I don’t believe so,” she says. “But six months ago I would’ve said the same of Un-dead.”
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"It is possible you haven't met them. We are good at not being seen if we don't wish it.
"So your vampires are -- what, born of human mothers? Or is there some other method of making them?"
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"I don't know," she says. "I had only just learned of their existence when I arrived here. I'm afraid my knowledge is very limited."
thank you for your patience! only just feeling well enough to tag again
"Won't press, then. Suppose there may be others around who also have stories of vampires, if I ask."
He glances around them -- she's done a remarkable job of tidying the place, leaving him nothing to do -- then returns his hawklike focus to her. "Is there something I might answer for you in turn?"
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She means if he has any dietary restrictions.
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He's quick to get rid of it.
"I eat meat," he says, simply. "So unless there are more opportunities for hunting here than I have seen, no. But thank you for thinking of it."
That he wouldn't restrict himself to "conventional" game does not need to be said.
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But death's robbed him of his horror, so it's merely a passing thought.
"Thinking of that, I meant to climb the fence if I couldn't get that," the microwave, "to explode. If you would excuse me...?"
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Mina blinks at him, then waves him vaguely away. "Of course. I won't keep you."
From his fence-climbing.
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But he's going to get an awfully long way up it before giving up on reaching the top and getting over it.
"Stars and saints keep you, Mina Harker. Thank you." For bothering, about his hand.
And off he goes on his way.