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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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He'll head off towards the library, though he looks back at the man when he speaks. "I... no? Librarians work in libraries and sort books and tell you how to find things."
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"The Warp is capable of many things." He's been listening to his other brother, Magnus, who had tried to defend sorcery at Nikaea. Many things. Some of them unspeakable, and abhorrent.
He had dutifully disbanded his own Librarius, but, well...he owed his life to those very sorcerers. He still hadn't figured how to square that proverbial circle.
"Oh no, that's just the lowest level of Librarians, who keep records and research. As they progress, they learn their combat skills." He should know. His Legion had a powerful enough Library.
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"Then I suppose higher level librarians don't exist where I'm from." He's pretty sure any librarian would be livid if you said that to their face, but what Sanguinius is describing simply does not exist back home, he's almost sure of that. Now whether it exists here...
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Or was he, and he was trying to protect his Sons and the Imperium?
"It's a shame. We have had to close our Librariuses, also, which is something we might have in common."
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"I just...it does not redound to my honor or skill that I was caught in this net." It's embarrassing, honestly, to have been plucked out of the war and popped here with the watery recaff and these paper plate sculptures.
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As for his honor, Kai definitely cannot help with that. "Until we know how or why it grabs us, I'm not sure it says anything about any of us at all," he says, "Maybe it wants us in specific. Maybe we were just in the wrong place at the same thing. We have no idea."
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Surely not to curate books. He's no Librarian. "I'm just concerned for my men. I'm sure they can be fine without me, but..." But maybe they wouldn't.
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"Your men? Are you a cohort leader?" That's the Arike term for it, and considering the library translates things it doesn't occur to him to try another language's term.
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The research I have to do to play this clown....
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It takes a least a year.
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"You're in a war, I take it?" That is generally how legions lose people.
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"Always. The Imperium is beset on all sides by enemies. Half of our missions are to rescue ancient colonies who have fallen in thrall of these evil xenos species." That was why he was created, after all. "And recently we may have discovered a new threat."
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"What's that?" he asks, because he's not interested in showing that he has any kind of knowledge about this. He's not good at being underestimated when it comes to his strength, but his knowledge and intelligence is another question.
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His wings rustle, unsettled. "A threat from the warp, ancient forces malign to all living things. One of my Li--ex-Librarians referred to them as 'daemons'." And he had no reason to use another term. Inaccurate, perhaps, because that was a term from mythology, but it fit well enough.
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He's quiet for a moment, thinking quickly. Curze didn't seem to recognize him as one, and he had black eyes as well- given everything here, he expects they might be different things entirely. Not that people who seem to think that murdering anyone not human would see much of a difference. He's more worried about some others in here, who presumably can die and aren't human, but it's worth getting more information.
"I don't really know what any of that means," he says after a moment, "What is the warp?"