saltburnmods | 𝐈'𝐕𝐄 𝐍𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑 𝐖𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐃 𝐓𝐎 𝐊𝐍𝐎𝐖 𝐀𝐍𝐘𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐆 ▣ the library

THE LIBRARY

The Library is OPEN
The Library is an entity with a seemingly endless reach where knowledge and collection are concerned. It's a great tool to get what you want in theory, when it feels like being useful. Oftentimes it doesn't, or will demand something else in return. If too many requests come in, the Library will close for awhile, so we can play catch up.

Additionally, mods respond to the Library requests TWICE A MONTH. Keeping that in mind, Library requests should not be time sensitive, or important for plot motion.

UPDATE 11/16: for ease's sake we've enforced these rules to keep the Library more streamlined:

1. No weapons
2. No pets
3. No vehicles
4. There is no need to request books (unless they're specialty titles from a character's world, or you want a reaction from the Library). Whatever title or topic they're looking for, the Library seems to draw them to the right shelf.

To start, have your character fill out this request card at the Library's pneumatic tube:

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[ Silco spends the better part of a day in the Library, watching people come and go — and, more importantly, cards being sent into the pneumatic tube, with results of varying degrees of relevance coming back down. It's nearing sundown when he writes a card of his own. ]

YOUR NAME: Silco
YOUR REQUEST:

[ Nothing else, just his name. It's generally best not to attract the attention of supernatural entities, but given the presence of the Sibling and the Mesial, Silco wonders if the Library isn't something similar. And besides, he just wants to see what happens to a mostly-blank card. ]

[ Despite the lack of a request, something does come down the shute — a clunky, leatherbound book entitled HOW SILCO ESCAPED by A. Carrion. Should Silco choose to read it, the novel lays out quite extensively a series of events in which Silco, through societal climbing and ascension of importance, leverages tools from all walks of Saltburntish life to wage war against the House. He seizes power from adversaries in both the guests and Balfours to become head of the house, eventually finding an interesting centermost point — something the text describes as … a beating heart? Pure exaggeration, surely. In any case, a battle commences. Lives are lost. In the end, he and his own and few others break the bounds of containment and free themselves into the wider world.

Strangely, the book is only a quarter of the way through. How long has he been reading? It seems impossible for him to stop. It seems the best kinds of books are ones that suck you right into them, like you’re really living it out. The book dives into his life post-freedom — a life lived with Jinx and Vander, amends made, a happy family. Eventually there’s a gun to Silco’s head, but no, he doesn’t die. Still, death is always chasing Jinx, and eventually it catches up to her. Things go downhill. There are excruciating chapters of his miserable life, empty and alone, spent lamenting his losses. Every glimmer of happiness is crushed to dust by his own hateful fist. After a full day of reading — though it might’ve felt like a lifetime to Silco — he eventually reaches the end, the final page ending on his return back to the last point of true happiness in his life: the doors of Saltburnt. At the door two figures greet him, Vander and Jinx. The end. ]

𝐈'𝐕𝐄 𝐍𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑 𝐖𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐃 𝐓𝐎 𝐊𝐍𝐎𝐖 𝐀𝐍𝐘𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐆 ▣ the library

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