TEST DRIVE MEME #2

[libraryassistants]

Welcome to the Library

Those who are new awake in the stacks.

You’re not sure when you fell asleep, and the memories of the last things you were doing are hazy at best. But now you’re here, and all you can see is books in every direction, the bookshelves teetering high enough above you to reach to the sky.

A helpful sign points you in the direction of the main circulation desk, and even if you try to ignore it and go in any other direction, the desk is where you will find yourself. A figure sits behind the desk, not even looking up as they sort through books and other media; they look, to your character, to be the exact picture of what they expect a Librarian to be.

Trying to ask the Librarian a question will get them shushed, but they’ll point down a hallway to the side, leading to a kitchenette and what appears to be a dorm room, where they’ll find they’re not alone in this strange place. But once they’ve looked away, when they look back, the Librarian is gone.


The Lobby

Those who are already familiar with the Library will see the Lobby change for the second time. It’s not paper plate UFOs and metal walls this time. Instead there are cheerful garlands strung about, and a stack of books shaped into a Christmas tree taking pride of place. The Help Desk is closed, the ‘Back in 5’ sign once again a bald-faced lie, but there is a menorah sat behind in the window, conveniently just out of reach of anyone who tries to get it. The candles are lit in a… somewhat sporadic fashion, the correct order but with no rhyme or reason to what ‘night’ is being represented. Either time is strange here, whoever’s in charge of it doesn’t know what day it is either, or they simply don’t care. Or some mix of the three.

Those two particular winter holidays are not the only ones represented either; characters will find a smattering of decorations or festive accessories from a great number of holidays, from their own worlds and beyond. There is what looks like a cabinet with instructions to pick your fortune from one of the many drawers. For some reason, there are a number of what looks like a child’s toy ponies placed on and around the cabinet. There are also some posters declaring in bold, decidedly upsetting typeset: “THE GOD-EMPEROR WISHES YOU A FESTIVE SANGUINALIA!” complete with a picture of a certain Library resident in all his feathered, shining glory. (The poster is not remotely shiny, but there are helpful accent lines to show that he should be shining.) And, for some reason, there is also a giant straw goat in the garden now, surrounded by festive strings of lights. Please do not set it on fire.

The Kitchens

It seems the decorations are not the only thing in the holiday spirit. The kitchens, usually bereft of anything but the most basic foodstuffs, are now full to the brim with a variety of holiday foods. There is always a tureen with hot mulled wine and a try of sweet pastries near by it, there’s ham and latkes in the fridge to be heated up, jelly doughnuts, moon cakes, pies, and an assortment of other delicious things. If your character would expect to find a certain thing within the stash, they do, regardless of how niche it may be. Christmas chili? Of course there’s christmas chili!

Oh, and that mulled wine isn’t the only alcohol around either- champagne, sake, hard cider… again, anything anyone might expect to find. Just try not to overdo it too much, alright? Everyone still has to sleep in the same room, and the Assistants aren’t going to show up to hold your hair back.

Crafts and More

What good are holidays without crafts? The Maker’s Space has been specially supplied with anything you might need to make your festive crafts- this includes everything you’d need for a gingerbread construction! (You’d think this would be in the kitchen, but don’t kid yourself- those things are not for eating.) There’s strips of colorful paper rings and instructions on how to make your own, little things of clay and paint and directions on how to craft your own dreidel, ’stained glass’ paper lanterns, and more. Oh, and glitter. Obviously there is a lot of glitter available.

There are also snow globe kits, mostly generic winter themes- trees, presents, and the like. Strangely enough, however, when they’re complete and shaken, they’ll show a memory from the person who shook it- a memory of a holiday, or snow, or generally something that invokes the feeling of the season- light, and hope, and togetherness. It’s fragmented, almost stop-motion in between the falling bits of ‘snow,’ but once it has settled the normal, basic scene inside returns.

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The Doctor | Doctor Who | new character | new player

[borntolove]

Lobby

"Blimey, what is this place?" The Doctor eyes in wonder and wonders if this is The Library, "I always wanted to go, come Rose - Rose? Rose where are you?"

The Doctor is a tall, lanky man in a blue pinstripe suit.

"Blimey, this is amazing!" "Excuse me. Don't suppose you've seen my friend? She's all - pink and yellow."

"Excuse me - don't suppose you could tell me what Library this is could you?"

Wild card

Have an idea lets do it! Also can do brackets

Lobby

[angel_of_baal]

"Her skin is pink and yellow? What pattern?" Sanguinius is willing to look. He's seen enough xenos here that the idea of a bright pattern is not surprising. "A bright pattern like that often signifies a warning."

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[borntolove]

"Yeah," The Doctor ruffles his hair, "Her skin isn't pink and yellow. Her hair is yellow and she wears a lot of pink clothing."

[angel_of_baal]

"I haven't seen someone matching that description." Though it was a little more generic, he still can't quite recall anyone matching that. "Are you certain she's here? Some people arrive, well, alone. Or at least, without their close companions." Like....most of them.

[borntolove]

The Doctor's hearts patter and he swallows hard, hoping that some place didn't take his Rose from him. His hearts are full of fury.

"And who and what are you?" The Doctor asks with puzzlement. "And more to the point what place thinks it can take her away from me?" The Doctor remarks with fire in his tone.

[angel_of_baal]

The anger is not directed at him, and Sanguinius can well-imagine the distress. But this calls for his full title, he supposes. "Sanguinius, Primarch of the IX Legiones Astartes, the Blood Angels." All twelve something feet of him with the big white wings, the name is probably fairly obvious.

"No one has been able to find the Librarian to get those answers. Yet." He's still looking. "And if you do find her, you might find she is from a different...time than you."

[borntolove]

"An angel? Really? Really, really? Wow blimey never met one of you before. I'm The Doctor." The Doctor remarks proudly, "Wat? Wut? What? How can that be possible? Do you know the amount of energy it would take for her to be a different point on her time line."

A pause and he stiffens up a bit, "Looks like I know why Im here to find the Librarian."

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[im_with_stupid]

"Certainly not the New York Public Library," she said. "Which is where I was supposed to be going. Have you seen my husband? Short little man, funny accent, wearing my face on a shirt? Kind of a dweeb?" She had no clue to whom she was speaking. Obviously. "I'd show you a photo, but my phone's quite run out of battery, not that you probably have any idea what I'm talking about, right. Never mind then. I'll... just go that way then and you can just forget I was ever here, yeah?"

[borntolove]

"Can't say I've been. Yeah, sorry can't say I've seen someone walking around with your face. Oi! I don't mind helping you if you don't mind helping me find Rose."

[im_with_stupid]

"If you're missing someone too, probably better we stick together anyway. Weird things like this happening always mean one of two people are involved and in either case you're best off with me. I'll keep you safe, best I can. You just stay close, yeah?"

[borntolove]

"Likewise," remarks The Doctor.

[im_with_stupid]

"Aw that's sweet. You're lucky I'm married," she said with a grin and a wink.

Lobby

[fellfurthest]

"Is she a sheep?"

What kind of a question is that?!

"Or I guess a flower might make more sense."

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[borntolove]

"No she's a human."

[fellfurthest]

A beat. "That's an unusual way for one human to describe another."

A head tilt. "I don't think I've seen anyone fitting that description yet, but I'll keep an eye out. I'd ask for my brothers, but there's no way you'd see them before me. And they're probably hiding. If they're even in here."

[borntolove]

"She's blonde and wearing pink. I could help you look for them. Why would they be hiding?"

[fellfurthest]

"Always? I mean I know a pink sheep, so it's not that unusual," no wait... that's still weird, but Lucifer's idea of unusual is very warped. "But I thought humans were fussy about not always wearing the same thing."

He's starting to get the idea that the Doctor is definitely not human either. Because anyone else would be asking Lucifer what is HE if not human.

"Because they're troublemakers," a shrug. "So any chance they get, they will take. They once accidentally set our library on fire, because they were too scared to admit they'd broken something I treasured." Seriously, what do you do with brothers like that? "One's even taller than me with orange hair, that's Beelz. He's the good one, he'll probably be eating something, but he causes the least amount of problems. Like I said, the good one. Asmo will be trying to find a shiny surface to look at himself. Belphie... probably wouldn't wake up until Beelz led him into trouble. Or adventure. They're twins. Fraternal, so they look nothing alike. I already looked for the astronomy section, but I'm not sure how they organize this place... anyway, that's where Belphie would be. Mammon..." Ugh. What WOULD Mammon do here? A FACEPALM. "Would try to sell you books." In. The. Library. Mammon is Mammon. Lucifer is embarrassed he even admitted this much. "Levi might be--" Lucifer closes an eye. It runs the gambit of possibilities. He looks around. "Depending on the tech, watching anime, playing video games, or screaming about the manga and light novels inadequate range for not having the latest issues or his personal curated collection." The last one is Satan. How does he describe Satan?

Lucifer drags a palm down his face.

"And Satan is blonde, angry, and loves books and cats more than Beelz loves food and Mammon loves money. A lot. So he'd be happy, and then beat the others senseless if they disrespected the books."

A SHRUG. "They're usually all together loud enough that even with music loud enough to wake the dead, I can still hear them fighting when they get too rowdy." Usually. If he's home. And the only reason Lucifer doesn't dare soundproof all his private sections. "You can just tell them their eldest brother is looking for them and they'll probably stop causing problems unless it's something monumental. Two of them are obviously less loud than all six, but all of them together can do too much damage to let loose on any dimension. Even Hell."

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[haleystarshine]

Lobby/b>

"Like I have a clue about libraries that don't have treasure? I'm looking for my party too," the stick figure girl said, one strand of hair falling over her face. "Likely V is the only one we'll find here though. If Belkar were here we'd know by the sounds of destruction. Roy.... Well who knows. Mostly looking for Elan and V, frankly. V is short, purple hair, will probably be floating somewhere trancing or reading, maybe copying spells. Elan is... well. Blond, handsome, probably being over dramatic or menacing people with his clown puppet."

[borntolove]

"Libraries treasure is knowledge," The Doctor remarks, "What do they -," She continues on to describe them, "I can't say I've seen anyone looking like that but that doesn't mean they're not around here."

[haleystarshine]

"Then I guess this is some sort of sidequest and you're the guide NPC with a mission that lines up with my own mission. Cool. Side quests usually have lots of rewards. But now, when you say the library considers books its treasure... what do you think the average resale value of these tomes would be, if say... a rogue with a good haggling skill managed to sneak a few into her entirely hypothetical bag of holding?"

Lobby

[notthatkindofanimal]

((OOC: Let me know if it's okay to spoil this person's name.))

[Congratulations, Doctor. You might be in the presence of the sole living person in the entire multiverse that dresses even weirder than you do at certain times. He dons a police hat, a ceramic cuirass with matching grieves, an 8-eyed bird skull charm around his neck, a trench coat, sweat pants, and cavalry boots.

TRIVIA (Impossible)(Failure): Yeah, I've... got nothing. But I can tell you the longest lasting library in Le Caillou is the Sylvain Patenaude Community Library. Constructed over 400 years ago, it survived many an attempt at takeover. Its current location is a prime target for many would-be corporations, hoping to steal the view of the landscape it currently resides next to.]

I have no clue where we are. I'm supposed to be in a lorry on my way to Jamrock.

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[borntolove]

^{(Yes you may just can't know his secret name)}

[The Doctor whirls around at the sound of the voice and takes in the other's presence. He wonders about the 8 eyed bird skull charm.]

Jamrock? [The Doctor pulls from his memory banks but can't seem to place that. He's been all over the universe and yet can't place a place.]

[notthatkindofanimal]

[RHETORIC: Your own technique, saying a simple word, or idea, in order to further extract information out of others. This guy's good.]

It's a district of Revachol West.

[Pronounced with a "sh", not the traditionalist "kh".]

80000 living souls reside there, and was one of the greatest districts in Revachol before the revolution. I was just on my way to an acquaintance's house after tying up the loose ends of my case.

[RHETORIC: Hunh... Is this how others feel when you do this to them?]

[borntolove]

[The Doctor puffs his cheeks.]

Can't say I've been and that's saying a lot for me. But then I can't say I've ever been to this Library either. Have you?

[Then pointing at the bird charm]

What exactly is that?

[notthatkindofanimal]

[Harry shakes his head a little.]

Before now? No.

[Harry looks down, his pointer and thumb instinctively grasping the charm.]

Oh, this? it's the Eight-Eyed Teratorn Tie. The bookstore owner gave it to me. She told me it's to help protect against curses.

[Harry only wears it because it helps boost his Inland Empire and Volition.]

It's modeled after a real Eight-Eyed Teratorn, a cryptid with a wingspan of 11.5 metres.