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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

[hidden_jedi]

"I think the voices are the books and the library talking," He said offering her his book to shelve. "And it did ask me to bring it here."

[livingmyths]

The other book opened slightly as if to touch his and Rain smiled down at them. She gently brushed off the second book and turned to find why they should go.

The obvious spot needed a bit of cleaning and the books needed a little coaxing to go back, but Rain sang a little bit of a lullaby and eventually they settled in.

She gestured to the man and led him down a little further. "Sssh. We don't want to wake them."

[hidden_jedi]

While he's not sure about books sleeping, he's got no reason to really say so and follows her down and away.

When he feels like he's possibly a good amount of distance away he asks, "Have you been here long?"

[livingmyths]

Rain shook her head. "No. I don't even know where I am. Except a library, of course. I didn't even see any other people except you."

She looked around and sighed. "This poor place. It just doesn't seem very happy. Everything is all everywhere."

[hidden_jedi]

"Apparently it's more the library of libraries, from what I've been told. There's a few others of us around though," Kale said, looking around. "The Library is dying."

[livingmyths]

"Oh no!" Rain's distress was evident as she looked anxiously around the shelves. "That can't be true! We have to help it. Libraries... they're special. Anyone can come in and use them and find things. And, and, they never laugh at you or make fun of you, even if you're different. I always feel safe in libraries."

She bit her lip. "It was the Bad Men, wasn't it?"

[hidden_jedi]

"Bad men? I haven't heard of why it's dying... I don't think it'd be bad men..." That's a strange thing to say and she did definitely look worried about these bad men. "It didn't sound like it from what I was told. Just that something was doing it."

[livingmyths]

"I bet it's them," she said, looking scared. "We'd better try and fix it so we can make them go away. They shouldn't be here, only good people should be here - people who like books."

[hidden_jedi]

"Who are these bad men?" Because Rain, that can describe a lot of people. Kale resists saying but couldn't bad people like books too?

[livingmyths]

Bad Men? Like books? Never.

Her eyes went wide at his question and she shushed him, finger to lips. "You shouldn't talk about them too much." It might draw them in like in the stories where bad things sometimes came if their names were mentioned too much.

"They're just Bad. They do Bad Things. Like... like killing my mother... Bad Things."

And clearly anyone who would do those sorts of things wouldn't hesitate to hurt a library.

[hidden_jedi]

They could! It's true.

But, Kale doesn't bring that up.

"Okay then. Well, I can tell you what I know, if you'd like?"

[livingmyths]

"Oh yes," Rain said and sat down crosslegged among the books to listen intently. Her hands absently dusted off and straightened the books as she sat.

"I'd like to know whatever I can so I can help."