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Illarion Albireo ([personal profile] unsheathedfromreality) wrote in [community profile] unfinishedlibrary2026-04-01 09:38 pm

[log] Chopped: Link's Exploded Backpack Edition

Who: Anyone who wants to salvage the Unreasonably Large Food Pile left in the kitchen ... and elsewhere ... by Link's departure.
What: An Unreasonably Large Pile of delicious fresh food!
When: April 1st
Where: The kitchen and surrounding areas in the Lobby. The bugs and lizards might spread ...
Content warnings: Contains live insects!! Potential insect-eating. Should be pretty tame otherwise!

It starts with a hurried post on the bulletin board in Illarion's efficient script:

There is an enormous pile of food in the kitchen that needs to be saved.

Anyone who can prepare or preserve it welcome.


After an hour or two, a tidy little inventory appears beneath the initial message, along with an attempt to track -- by name or description -- who's taken what, and how it's been used. There are some inventive descriptions on there for the items Illarion doesn't recognize.

(It doesn't look exactly like this -- because Illarion doesn't know the names of everything in the pile, or everyone who stops by, and certainly wouldn't make a spreadsheet -- but the poor digital substitute will have to stand in for his glorious real list.)





Those who do respond to the urgent missive will find the kitchen exactly as described: Absolutely full to overflowing with fresh produce that could've grown in the Library's garden, alongside a veritable market wagon of fresh fish, meat, and more produce. (Along with ... rocks and wood?)

Oh, and there's also a minor infestation of live bugs and reptiles actively escaping into the stacks.

Illarion's right in the thick of it for hours, first tirelessly triaging the mass into what should be cooked or preserved first, what will store well in the icebox, and what can be kept around on the shelves. Then he turns his hand to preparing the meat and fish for drying (and saving the fat from the richest cuts).

Once he's certain the most perishable items are taken care of, he sets aside some of the fat, honey, and berries for himself. Then he goes out hunting, pursuing the bugs and lizards loose in the Lobby and stacks. He's got no shame whatsoever about chasing them under furniture or up bookshelves, and soon has his sabertache full of squirmy tidbits.

Then it's back to the kitchen, to render the fat and make crunchy insect pemmican from his prizes.

(He's enough of a magpie he can't resist making off with some of the gems. There's someone out there who will look stunning in rubies and amber...)

((OOC: Feel free to use this as a jumping-off point for whatever you wanna do with your top levels! No need to tag Illarion -- go wild.

The spreadsheet above is fully editable -- feel free to put in what your guys take on tab 2 & I'll eventually get some automation going to track the item inventory and tab 1 will do inventory for us. Have fun!!))
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[personal profile] codeswitchcraft 2026-04-07 04:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Siobhan is quiet for a moment. "Another person inside your body or another physical person?" she asks.
aetherweaver: (frustrated)

[personal profile] aetherweaver 2026-04-07 04:52 pm (UTC)(link)
“Well.” He sighs. “I can pull a manifestation of it out of my body if I have my Dark Knight crystal, but I can’t do it now. And that’s not even really him, it’s more of a… construct?”

It’s complicated. “But yes, I can feel what he’s feeling, because he’s me and I’m him.”
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[personal profile] codeswitchcraft 2026-04-07 05:41 pm (UTC)(link)
"My lady wonders if he might be something she calls an 'alter,' another person who was once you, still sharing a body with you. I confess I don't know such things very well," Siobhan says.
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[personal profile] aetherweaver 2026-04-08 12:13 am (UTC)(link)
"No, that's more like Ardbert. He was - we were both part of one soul." As for Fray... he just rubs his forehead.

"It's crowded in here, unfortunately."
codeswitchcraft: (smile)

[personal profile] codeswitchcraft 2026-04-08 01:18 am (UTC)(link)
She gives him a rueful smile. "It is. But at least neither of us can be lonely."
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[personal profile] aetherweaver 2026-04-08 02:16 am (UTC)(link)
"True." He reaches out a hand. "And you won't be alone if I'm around, if I can help it."
codeswitchcraft: (smile)

[personal profile] codeswitchcraft 2026-04-11 12:51 am (UTC)(link)
She takes it and places her own hand upon his. "Nor you if I am around."

(Even if she is no longer in love with him, Nara'a really is such a dear friend. She is glad she met him.)