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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.

Comments

[the_head_librarian]

Angling his head curiously at that, he gave a slight nod. "It is only fair you know what is going on." Slowly moving to a spiral staircase, he descended quietly. "This is not simply a library. Consider it a catalog of doors. Doors to worlds and realities, each unique and unfazed by the other doors surrounding them. Or... that is how it has been for centuries into millenia."

Facing him from the bottom of the stairs, he motioned the room around. "There is little left that looks new and clean... much is falling into decay as so many worlds lose what is important. As they die, it infects other worlds that slowly start to fall apart in increased entropy. I have opened doors to find those willing to help restore this realm and save countless worlds that could easily collide and destroy your own. It is... no simple task that I ask of you and many others..."

[give_me_a_museum]

Barry looks around again and frowns. Now that it has been pointed out to him he can see how worn the place looks, how dingy and sad. He looks at the man talking to him and makes a decision. "What do you need me to do? I may not like being here, I might be scared but I'm the Flash and I would be horrible hero if I didn't help you."

[the_head_librarian]

Angling his head slightly, he felt a slight warmth for the way humans faced their fear to do what they deemed right. And this young man was a prime example of 'heroic' in many ways. "There will be many tasks... sometimes they will change before you know it. The menial tasks are returning books where they need to be as well as returning some creatures to their homes."

He paused at that. It was hard to predict the way the decay upset the balance here. "There are monsters here... such things can be trouble for both the books and the people here."

[give_me_a_museum]

"Monsters I can handle," Barry says brightly, "well the meta human kind anyway...real monsters might actually be a challenge. And I used to work in the Central City Library when I was a teen so shelving books is easy too. Maybe a bit too easy given I could finish a whole section in like a minute...not that I'm bragging or anything."