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The Central Library

Test Drive Meme

You are in The Central Library… anything can happen here. In fact, the possible can become actuality while you stay here. Things are always changing. Some for the better, some for the worst… it really all depends on one thing. You.

Take a look around, visit the worlds through the book portals, and slowly bring it back to life. The more you do, the better life will get. But be wary, not everything is a fun story and not everything is harmless. Sometimes you will have your life at stake and others you will simply have to enjoy your stay.

You can use RNG to pick a scenario below… or you can pick your own! Whatever delights your fancy and makes you feel at home within the walls of The Central Library.

1. Arrival – You wake up in the main hall. The reception desk is behind you and you know you heard someone whispering “Save us” in your ear… but where are you? The hall gleams and there are many doors amongst the shelves of books. It is rather huge and a walkway circles a second floor… where are you? Well… you might want to ask.

2. Market Place – The Central Library has turned the large conference room into an open gateway to a market place. It shifts and changes along with the Library, but food is always available to those living there as long as the portal is open. Step into a Parisian market of modern day, an open market of the Dark Ages, or even a trading post in the Old West. Go shopping, take a stroll… your imagination is your only limit.

3. Go Out to Dinner – There aren’t many places to go out to eat in The Central Library, in fact, it is best to keep food to the living quarters. But when you go through portals in events, you experience whole new worlds from every era and every place. Possibly you may sit in at the Mad Tea Party or even dine in the Great Hall at Hogwarts. You pick. You decide…

4. Non-Fiction Immersion – It’s raining. Inside. You’ll find that Non-fiction has a way of ruining your day to day life in the Library. Some book in the Non-fiction section has burst open letting out a monsoon of types that only gets worse as you get to that section. Find it, close it… or we all just might float away.

5. Fiction Invasion – Sometimes things slip through. Little things or big things. After all, monsters do hide in the dark corners and in some sections of the grand structure. But this time… the problem is small, small size that is. Pixies have invaded. They are troublesome things… they love to cause problems and make life a little miserable. You need to catch them before they steal you blind… and possibly cause you too much mischief. You may need a net… but please, try not to kill them.

6. Cleaning is Necessary – You are stuck here, you might want to make it home. Being in such disrepair, it needs a little love and care. I’m sure the janitor’s closets have some tools and no harm in trying to pick up books and shelve them. Just be careful… they are rather testy about where they go.

7. A posse ad esse – Anything is possible. This is your Wild Card. Have fun with it!

This Test Drive is Closed. A new Test Drive will be posted soon.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Boy howdy do I know what that's like. My boss is the secret keeping king.

Dare I ask, who your employer might be and what he does in which you assist him? [Curious, intrigued by this being.]

My boss he's a wizard named Harry Dresden. I help him make potions, provide magical information, scout places for him once and a while when he lets me out.

Ahhh, so that would, in a sense make you his familiar, though I have an inkling that term most likely falls short of the mark.

Yeah you'd be right on that one. Familiars are almost always animals. I'm more like a magical Google or computer.

A magical... excuse me? I've not heard of this device, I regret to admit...

Oh right...sorry time is a weird thing for me. I'm like a magical notebook filled with every type of writing you can think of.

Yes, admittedly, I hail from an age still moving into the modern age, perhaps more rapidly than I concede to being able to follow.

Ahhh.... that makes things all the more transparent...

You ask me and I can help you write new stories. The things my boss has had to deal with would make an awesome novel.

I could use some inspiration from time to time: generally speaking, mine is a fertile mind, but it does turn barren and desolate more often than I care to have that happen. And at such times, I go in search of wells from which to draw waters of inspiration.

Well, my well has zombie dinosaurs in it so pick my brain all you want Mr.Lovecraft. It would be an honor.

Zombie dinosaurs... saurians reanimated from their mere fossilized remnants? [Raised eyebrow, curious] Therein lies a tale, if I might crib from Mister William Shakespeare.

Yep and it's all true. Helped my boss with the spell myself and he told me all about how it ended up working out.

And for what dire reason, dare I ask, did he raise such a creature? Spells of that nature generally come with some terrible price and should be attempted when all other alternative measures have been exhausted...

Warlocks were trying to raise the dead in Grant Park and he kinda figured it's better to fight zombies with zombies. Actually ended up working out better and worse then he thought.

Ahhh, in the manner of fighting fire with fire. I can imagine that things could easily go wrong, if the zombie saurian should turn against its summoner.

Yeah and it almost did, but Harry has a strong will so it all worked out okay.

And a testament to his prowess, no less. [Jotting more notes.] It stands clear as to why you take such pride in your keeper.

Harry's one of the strongest wizards who has ever owned me. He'd be Senior Council material if he didn't hate authority so much.

A clever man: while authorities might help to keep some semblance of order, there are times when they overstep the bounds of their appointed place. It takes a wise man to discern the times when that happens.

Ahhhh... so you have belonged to more than a few experts in the esoteric arts? At the risk of sounding like prying man, I admit that I am curious about their tales as well.

Oh I have lots. Everyone's magic is different. Some wizards are better at soul gazes, others focus on potions, and some like Harry are good at battle spells.

Soul gazes... I take it that would be reading the mind and heart of a person? That sounds like a rather intrusive ability, and one not without peril?

You'd be pretty spot on. A Wizard can only soul gaze with a person one time and it works both ways...they see you and you see them.

Ahhh, and so then it is a path that goes two ways, and not an easy path, I would hazard, if one can see into each other. We each hold tales both dark and light, and each of us holds a library containing things we would not wish others to read...

Edited 2015-08-14 06:13 (UTC)

Yep. A few people managed to trick Harry into doing it but only two cases did people actually handle it well.

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