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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

"Trev was more the reader than I was. I really like mucking about with machines," he said before hesitantly asking. "Dare I ask why you wear that then?"

Because really... why...?

"Kale isn't terrible until you end up getting called Cabbage Boy by the other kids in class and end up getting into fights and breaking a kid's arm and then getting detention..."

Call him Cabbage Boy and you die.

"I was always the reader in my family. My brother...had other interests." The way she said that made it seem as though she wasn't too keen on what those interests were.

Barbara looked down at her costume - the yellow Doc Martens, the purple and black leggings, the utility belt and leather jacket. The short, scalloped cape. People may have thought her new look was ridiculous, but Barbara loved it. She could breathe easy in it. She couldn't remember the last time that had been the case.

"To fight crime," she replied. "While protecting the identities of those I care for." Her father was the police commissioner, after all. It wouldn't do to have it be known that his daughter was moonlighting as one of Batman's sidekicks.

"So, no green leafy nicknames for you. I think I can manage that, Corporal."

There is an utterly bemused look on Kale's face when she explains her reasoning. He's trying to process this but...

"Is this how all your police dress?" is the only thing he can come up with. Kale really is trying on that one. Because Superheroes? Are totally not a thing in his world.

"And thank you. I appreciate that"

"What? No, no. I'm not police. I'm...this is..." Barbara grasps for some word here that works. "Freelance? Like. I do this because it's the right thing to do." And given certain spinal injuries, she's not sure if she'd qualify to join the force anyway. Even if she did, her father absolutely wouldn't allow it.

"We're, you know. Heroes and crimefighters, doing the right thing. Because it has to be done."

"And you can't do that as a member of the police or other service? I mean... my brother ran off to join the army because he didn't like the idea of sitting around doing nothing with the war going on even though our father wished we wouldn't," Kale said. He's so confused. "Ideally he'd join the Jedi, but we're both too old for that one."

She looks perfectly healthy and okay to Kale! So he sees no reason why she couldn't!

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I love bouncing such different cultures off each other...

Ha, me too!

It's so entertaining