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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.

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It had been the chittering laughter that had caught Fili's attention first. He'd been wandering through the library, still trying to figure out what exactly this odd place was and why he was there. There had been quite a few odd things that happened but he was trying not to let it bother him too much, something unnerving about the oddities.

Was it magic? Or something else?

He followed the sound of the laughter, rounding a corner and coming face to face with..well..a familiar face.

"Kili!" The pixies were ignored for the moment, Fili giving them a wave to get them away from the other as he moved over to haul his brother to his feet, relief flooding him at the sight of the other dwarf. "Brother I had no idea you were here as well!"

"Fili?" Perhaps he had hit his head when he fell since he had been certain that there were no other dwarves here. Kili had searched for the rest of the Company and for Tauriel but it had seemed that he had been the only one brought here. Eventually he had thought that it was for the best until he knew what sort of place this might be. Better that the others were somewhere familiar than caught in this never ending cavern of books.

That belief vanished as soon as he caught sight of his brother, grinning up at Fili when he realized that the dwarf before him was not some pixie trick. "Fili! I thought I was alone in this place. Have you seen uncle or anyone else from home?" He would not ask about a certain elf. It was best not to think of her or how they had parted.

"I thought the same, brother! I had no idea you had come to this place as well!" Gods was he pleased though. This was far better than being alone and put him just a bit more at ease with things. While he would have loved to have all of their company with them, at least he had his brother now.

That was far better than anything else he could have asked for at this point.

"Outside of an elf calling himself Lord Elrond's son, there have been no others from our home, no," he replied with a shake of his head, ducking slightly as a pixie bombarded him, tugging at some of his braids. "Enough you pest!"

"Do you remember how we arrived here?" He had tried to remember, hoping for some detail that might lead him to his kin but his thoughts grew hazy and all he could remember was a pleading voice. "I should have known that you would be here as well. Who would wish to separate us?" For those few hours, or perhaps it had been days since time was strange in this place, it had been as if he had lost a limb when he realized that Fili was no longer beside him and there was no simple way home.

"Are you certain that there are no others?" It was a faint one but one that Kili refused give up easily even if he knew that Fili would have told him if he had seen Tauriel or if there was a chance that she might be here.

While the pixie was distracted, Kili stripped off his cloak and dropped the fabric lightly over the creature. It let out a muffled squeal before he gently placed it in the bucket. "One less to deal with. If they wanted us to catch these things, they should have provided us with nets."

Fili frowned slightly, shaking his head. "The last thing I remember was searching the ruins for orcs--" Not exactly a lie but he really didn't want to discuss his death at the moment. Especially since he had no idea what Kili might know. He manages to shake those dark thoughts and smiles softly instead when his brother continues, letting out a huff of a laugh. "They are wise not to do such a thing. I would not take kindly to being away from you, brother."

It made him feel a bit more whole having Kili there with him; less worried about what may have happened to their kin and company.

"As far as I know, there are no others. Though this place is large and I have yet to explore it all," Fili admitted, stepping back some as his brother trapped with the pixie. A snort escaped him and he rested a foot on top of the bucket.

Just in case.

"They should have. Though I feel as though if we searched hard enough we could find anything we needed here. That seems to be the nature of this strange place."

As his brother spoke, memory strengthened but most of what he remembered was still hazy. Emotions still lingered when Kili focused upon the battle, but there was little to give him clues to what had guided him here. "I think I remember the same," he answered slowly. That seemed right but instinct warned him that something terrible had happened but what that might be still eluded him. "Ever since I arrived, I have not been able to remember what happened at the ruins."

Eventually, memory would return. There was no reason to worry about such things when Fili was here. "Nor would I. I would have tried to find my way back as soon as I realized what happened but the ruler of this place asked me to stay." It had been that strange plea that had kept Kili from demanding to that he be returned to his family.

"Then we'll explore every bit of it until we know for certain." The pixie seemed a little too agreeable to that notion, giggling and squeaking from beneath the bucket. "I think it is expecting us to let it go." Searching about, Kili found a stack of books that looked heavy enough to keep the pixie still and nodded toward his brother's boot. "These should keep it from escaping while we look for nets and that book the cat mentioned."

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