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central_librarymods ([personal profile] central_librarymods) wrote2015-06-06 08:38 pm
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Test Drive Meme - closed

The Central Library
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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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[personal profile] harrys_skull 2015-06-24 05:23 pm (UTC)(link)

Harry was a good guy...I hope he'll be okay without me.

[Bob chuckles.]

Beside's your work...romance novels, the sexier the better.

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[personal profile] cthulhu_ficcer 2015-06-25 04:08 am (UTC)(link)
In which case, unless he is needed elsewhere, I hope for you sake, that he finds his way here.

[A hint of color will cross his cheekbones and he'll look away modestly.]

I hope, then, that my works have pleased you, though I would be the first to admit, that I have only hinted at... the more intimate aspects of human nature.
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[personal profile] harrys_skull 2015-06-26 12:14 am (UTC)(link)

[Bob chuckles slightly.]

You have have just hinted at it but other people decided to take the ideas and run with them....and run...and run. I've read quite a few stories that make me wonder what tentacles could really do given the chance.

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[personal profile] cthulhu_ficcer 2015-06-27 03:45 am (UTC)(link)
[A hint of a somewhat embarrassed chuckle] Ahaha... I suppose... my scribblings have inspired them to imitate and elaborate on things that I might have implied... and they do say that imitation is the highest form of flattery... [Though there is the subtext that he's so very not sure what to make of this and he might be squirming a bit inwardly.]
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[personal profile] harrys_skull 2015-06-29 01:12 pm (UTC)(link)

Yeah they do say that. And you should be very flattered. I would be if people were writing monster sex stories.

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[personal profile] cthulhu_ficcer 2015-07-06 05:37 am (UTC)(link)
It doesn't seem the most seemly, at least to my senses, which could suffer from bias: the intimate moments of... even the strange and the eldritch should have the same mystery as those of the mundane and common, but that is only my word. [Awkward, what-am-I-even-saying?? look in his dark eyes, might be looking everywhere but at Bob.]
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[personal profile] harrys_skull 2015-07-06 01:03 pm (UTC)(link)

Different strokes for different folks I suppose. Sorry if I've made you uncomfortable, but when you get to be my age you don't worry about what people think.

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[personal profile] cthulhu_ficcer 2015-07-07 05:43 am (UTC)(link)
[A small smile and a slow wag of his head.] There's no worries: I seem to have a side that has not quite outgrown being the awkward young man who knew not what precisely to do with certain sensations. But I applaud your outspokenness: I can imagine it as something brought with age.
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[personal profile] harrys_skull 2015-07-08 05:07 pm (UTC)(link)

People need to loosen up a little more. Trying fit things in neat little boxes only leads to trouble.

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[personal profile] cthulhu_ficcer 2015-07-09 04:17 am (UTC)(link)
At times, it does, at other times, there are things that one needs to keep sequestered from others until the time is right to reveal it to them.
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[personal profile] harrys_skull 2015-07-10 12:26 am (UTC)(link)

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

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[personal profile] cthulhu_ficcer 2015-07-10 04:41 am (UTC)(link)
Dare I ask, who your employer might be and what he does in which you assist him? [Curious, intrigued by this being.]
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[personal profile] harrys_skull 2015-07-11 07:32 pm (UTC)(link)

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.

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[personal profile] cthulhu_ficcer 2015-07-14 03:30 am (UTC)(link)
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.
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[personal profile] harrys_skull 2015-07-17 01:27 am (UTC)(link)

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

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[personal profile] cthulhu_ficcer 2015-07-20 05:07 am (UTC)(link)
A magical... excuse me? I've not heard of this device, I regret to admit...
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[personal profile] harrys_skull 2015-07-20 12:28 pm (UTC)(link)

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.

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[personal profile] cthulhu_ficcer 2015-07-22 05:09 am (UTC)(link)
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...
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[personal profile] harrys_skull 2015-07-22 12:56 pm (UTC)(link)

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.

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[personal profile] cthulhu_ficcer 2015-07-27 03:31 am (UTC)(link)
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.
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[personal profile] harrys_skull 2015-07-27 01:04 pm (UTC)(link)

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

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[personal profile] cthulhu_ficcer 2015-07-27 11:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Zombie dinosaurs... saurians reanimated from their mere fossilized remnants? [Raised eyebrow, curious] Therein lies a tale, if I might crib from Mister William Shakespeare.
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[personal profile] harrys_skull 2015-07-28 07:52 pm (UTC)(link)

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.

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[personal profile] cthulhu_ficcer 2015-07-29 03:56 am (UTC)(link)
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...
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[personal profile] harrys_skull 2015-07-29 05:24 pm (UTC)(link)

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.