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Unfinished Library Mod & NPC Account ([personal profile] libraryassistants) wrote in [community profile] unfinishedooc2026-03-20 07:15 pm
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TEST DRIVE MEME #3

[OOC Note: Hello everyone! Apps will open next week on Friday, March 27th. We’re trying something a little different with this TDM! In order to showcase people who are looking to app, we ask that current characters not toplevel in the TDM. Threads do still count for AC proofs.]

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 Tea Cart

Sometime after your arrival, you enter the lobby to find yourself greeted by what appears to be a little tea cart containing a carafe of moderately decent coffee, a pot of very strong tea, mismatched creamers and sugar packets, and scones as hard as rocks with surprisingly nice saucers and teacups. There is a sign next to them, stating:

Welcome Editors!
Please enjoy these complimentary refreshments.
Do NOT take food or drink into the stacks and please wash your hands BEFORE touching anything.


Looking around, you see that you and everyone else present have also been supplied with sticker name tags with “Hello, my name is _____.” Any attempts to rid yourself of the nametag will wind up with a replacement in short order, sometimes with a nickname or other title than before. They can be edited, at least, and there’s a little marker on the help desk for that purpose.

Do You Want To Make A T-Shirt

The Maker Space is always open, though it seems to be a bit picked over at the moment- one of those machines that lets you make custom logos and such for t-shirts is on display, but there’s very little of the iron-on vinyl left. If you want to make your own snazzy shirt, you’ll need to make do with the more wild colors- there’s no black or white, but there is hot pink and neon green. And glitter, of course. So much glitter.

Alternatively, feel free to grab some of the discarded ones- a few typos, a few cases where the machine snagged and messed up the print, and at least one that says “I stabbed a vampire in the face and all I got was this lousy t-shirt.”

Story - Moonlit Rivals

The city of Montica has been having some trouble lately, the normal tension between the resident vampire and werewolf populations now paused as they unite against a common enemy. Vampire clans who had been exiled are striking back, their aim to knock the current ruling clan out of power- but they care very little who gets hurt in the process.

There is chaos throughout the streets, as some of the rogue vampires have been using the sewer systems to set fires to the city. Given their own dislike of fire, most of the top-side vampires flee shortly after, though some at least maintain enough presence to try and take others with them, though someone is still going to need to put out these fires. Assuming you want there to still be a city after all of this.

[This prompt takes place during the end of our current Story! Replies to this prompt will not be considered canon, but feel free to play with them to get an idea of how a Story works.]
highsteaks: (point)

Re: Nabiki Tendo || Ranma 1/2 (1989 Anime) || Post-Synodiporia CRAU

[personal profile] highsteaks 2026-03-21 01:23 am (UTC)(link)
"Ugh, isn't that the story of my life," Chie says with a groan. She's not going to take issue on the familiarity. Everyone who'd been stuck in Liminal Space together long enough got pretty casual about things like given names. "I've been having to deal with all this stupid stuff since I was seventeen."
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Re: Nabiki Tendo || Ranma 1/2 (1989 Anime) || Post-Synodiporia CRAU

[personal profile] okanetendo 2026-03-21 01:29 am (UTC)(link)
“Yeah, it’s not great,” Nabiki says. “Once was too many times for me, you don’t deserve that. No one does.”

She sighs. “Got any idea where we can grab food? I’ve got some stuff from Aiya’s stashed away but can’t make more, so if someone here figured out Perfectly Nutritious, we should rely on that.”
highsteaks: (gotcha)

Re: Nabiki Tendo || Ranma 1/2 (1989 Anime) || Post-Synodiporia CRAU

[personal profile] highsteaks 2026-03-21 01:34 am (UTC)(link)
Chie nods. "There's a cart with coffee and tea and scones." (She pronounces it the British way, rhyming with buns rather than phones.) "But the scones are really hard, so you have to soak them in the tea or coffee first."
okanetendo: (:ru serious)

Re: Nabiki Tendo || Ranma 1/2 (1989 Anime) || Post-Synodiporia CRAU

[personal profile] okanetendo 2026-03-21 02:47 am (UTC)(link)
"Ah," she says. "I see we're back to our hosts being unclear on the concept of 'food.' Let's scout around and see if there's anything else, but if not, I've stashed some beef and oyakodon bowls up my sleeve."
highsteaks: (gotcha)

Re: Nabiki Tendo || Ranma 1/2 (1989 Anime) || Post-Synodiporia CRAU

[personal profile] highsteaks 2026-03-21 03:45 am (UTC)(link)
"We might not be able to get to our hammerspaces either if we can't get on the network," Chie points out. "But yeah, sure. Let's see if there's a kitchen or something."
okanetendo: (:ru serious)

Re: Nabiki Tendo || Ranma 1/2 (1989 Anime) || Post-Synodiporia CRAU

[personal profile] okanetendo 2026-03-21 03:54 am (UTC)(link)
"...that follows," she sighs. "Damn it. Good thought, but damn it. Okay, here's hoping there's a real kitchen with real food."

Fortunately, it is not hard to find, and because Hikaru used it shhh there's even a rice cooker.

"Okay. Okay good. I. Never actually learned how to cook," Nabiki admits. "I can boil WATER, at least, unlike some people... How are you at cooking?"
highsteaks: (point)

Re: Nabiki Tendo || Ranma 1/2 (1989 Anime) || Post-Synodiporia CRAU

[personal profile] highsteaks 2026-03-21 04:04 am (UTC)(link)
Chie grimaces.

"There's a reason I just use my making stuff allowance on it all the time," she admits. "Mostly I burn things. But if you can boil water, maybe there's some ramen blocks?"
okanetendo: (:smug)

Re: Nabiki Tendo || Ranma 1/2 (1989 Anime) || Post-Synodiporia CRAU

[personal profile] okanetendo 2026-03-21 05:16 am (UTC)(link)
She looks around in the cabinets - ahah.

"How do you feel about spaghetti in red sauce?" she asks. "See if there's something protein-like in the fridge that boils well."
highsteaks: (softer)

Re: Nabiki Tendo || Ranma 1/2 (1989 Anime) || Post-Synodiporia CRAU

[personal profile] highsteaks 2026-03-21 04:43 pm (UTC)(link)
"I'll take anything at this point," Chie says, before opening up the fridge and poking around. "Huh. You can boil sausages, right? I think they're more for ketchup spaghetti than red sauce spaghetti, but it'll be something."

She squints at the package. "Says they're pre-cooked," she comments, before pulling one out and immediately sticking it in her mouth plain.
okanetendo: (a job well done)

Re: Nabiki Tendo || Ranma 1/2 (1989 Anime) || Post-Synodiporia CRAU

[personal profile] okanetendo 2026-03-21 04:52 pm (UTC)(link)
"Still might be better hot," she comments. "Okay, grab those and I'll do something simple."

While she's not a great cook, she doesn't burn the sauce and knows the difference between olive oil and salad oil, and soon enough there's two passable bowls of spaghetti with red sauce, a little grated parm, and some boiled sausages on the side, along with decent coffee for being brewed properly.

"Itadikimas," Nabiki says, dryly, raising a mug to clink.
highsteaks: (gaze up)

Re: Nabiki Tendo || Ranma 1/2 (1989 Anime) || Post-Synodiporia CRAU

[personal profile] highsteaks 2026-03-21 05:27 pm (UTC)(link)
"Itadakimasu."

The pasta isn't bad and the sausages decent and overall it's not such a bad meal.

"Thanks," Chie says. "I got way too used to relying on the Aiya."
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[personal profile] okanetendo 2026-03-21 06:05 pm (UTC)(link)
"So did I, to be honest," she says. "Being nerfed sucks."

She sighs, sipping her coffee.

"A little bird told me that Raidou might be around," she says. "Our Raidou, even. Other than that, just us. The rest are new to this sort of thing."
highsteaks: (looking upward)

[personal profile] highsteaks 2026-03-21 07:34 pm (UTC)(link)

"I mean, it could be another timeline's Raidou," Chie points out. "There were so many different timelines from my world back in Liminal. Mine, Souji's... if Raidou's timeline is anything like the movie Kuzunoha, he's from Taisho 20 which shouldn't even be a year."