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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!]
Cassandra the Dust-Eater | Claymore (will match format)
Cassandra isn't surprised to find herself in a library so much as she is to find herself anywhere at all. Granted, her memory has... gaps... but she definitely remembers dying at some point. She even vaguely remembers being at peace with it. And now she's somewhere else, very much not dead, surrounded by... books? Why are there so many books? How are there so many books? If this is an afterlife, it's a very strange one. She thinks? Maybe this is just what an afterlife is like.
Cassandra doesn't think she likes it much.
II. Exploring (various locations)
For the time being, she mostly ignores the books in favor of exploring her new environment, unsure quite what to make of what she finds. The device on the desk is completely unfamiliar to her - she can't even guess what it does or how it works - so she avoids it for now. She has no idea what to make of the room that changes every time its door is opened; the very concept makes no sense to her, and the garden is the only room whose function she recognizes. (How a garden can be inside a room in a place like this is another matter entirely, of course.)
She does recognize the kitchenette as a kitchen, at least, although even here there are things that confound her: she's not sure how the iceboxes work with no ice (where would they even put the ice?), and she has no idea whatsoever what the little box on the counter does. She does at least figure out how the sinks work in both the kitchenette and the bathrooms - admittedly by trial and error - and can't help but wonder how they produce water at all, much less heated water. She's used to cleaning herself up in a stream or similar.
The bedrooms... she doesn't know how to feel about those. She can't remember the last time she slept on a bed; like most warriors, she usually slept sitting up against a tree or her sword. (A vague memory flits across her mind's eye— laying down under the stars, a beautiful face surrounded by long golden curls staring back at her as they share a pillow... —before it disappears again.) They're obviously meant to share rooms here; she'd really rather not, but she supposes needs must.
III. Ch-ch-ch-changes
Cassandra's learned to be vigilant over the years - maybe overly so - so when things in the Library start shifting, she notices immediately. Most of it's naturally lost on her, although the singing bowls are at least interesting. The silver things hanging from the ceiling are of course a complete mystery, although she's at least learned by now what paper plates are. Why they're painted silver and glued together, however, is beyond her. Why they keep multiplying is also beyond her.
The music mostly just irritates her, because she doesn't know where it's coming from and that bothers her.
IV. Recommended Reading
??? How is she supposed to read this?
ii, kitchenette
More troubling was the faint coppery smell that followed her, but Heeks was a mercenary before arrival.
He raises his fist to his mouth and clears his throat.
“If you need me to explain the technology,” says the 4-foot tall dragonfly-winged man in a cloak and wizard hat, “I’m familiar with it from home.”
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And then she learns a new word. "Technology?"
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He then blinks, and rubs his hairline, that hand covering his eye in embarrassment.
“And if that came off as condescension, I apologize.”
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She has no idea why he's apologizing, but doesn't comment on that.
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He examines her clothing, taking a sip of his hot steaming drink as he does so, and tries to think of things she may be familiar with to make the distinction.
"A knife is a tool but not a machine. A trebuchet would qualify. Miss...?"
She might not realize that's a request for her name, but he's trying to be polite.
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What an odd joke to make - as it seems to be a joke, from the elfin man's grin.
"May I have your name, miss?"
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And... oh. Right. "Cassandra."
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“I’d say it’s a pleasure to meet you, Cassandra, if it were not against our will, for which you have my sympathies. Have you had much of a look around?”
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One may surmise that Cassandra is not good with slang. One would be correct.
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As the player contemplates subtleties in catchphrase translation."It's dull. Exasperating. Kind of terrible." He shrugs. "We'd be better off if it stopped but I haven't found any speakers to try to unplug."no subject
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Also she doesn't know what either of those things are. So she just shakes her head and tries not to look too distraught.
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