𝐈'𝐕𝐄 𝐍𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑 𝐖𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐃 𝐓𝐎 𝐊𝐍𝐎𝐖 𝐀𝐍𝐘𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐆 ▣ the library

[saltburnmods]

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:


<div style="width:40%;padding:20px 20px; border:5px dotted #f3ab51;"><span style="font-size:12px; font-family:baskerville; text-transform:uppercase;"><b>YOUR NAME:</span></b> <span style="font-size:12px; font-family:baskerville; text-transform:uppercase;"><b>LINK TO SUBMISSION COMMENT:</b></span> only applicable for people cashing in a reward, otherwise delete this line <span style="font-size:12px; font-family:baskerville; text-transform:uppercase;"><b>YOUR REQUEST:</span></b> </div>

Comments

[ripher]

YOUR NAME: Rupert Giles
YOUR REQUEST: To whom it may concern,

My name is Rupert Giles. I've been told I should introduce myself to whomever - or whatever - is responsible for this wonderful library. I must say that your collection is very impressive, particularly the Brontë first editions, however did you manage to get so many? I imagine that I may be spending some time within these lovely stacks, if that's all right? I hope that my presence won't be too disruptive. As a former librarian myself, I appreciate how difficult it can be to keep one's space orderly.

If I can be of any help, please make your presence known.

All the best,
R Giles

[saltburnmods]

[ The pneumatic tube hums, releasing a weathered first edition of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights. As Giles opens the book, it's not marked with anything but a faint line under Heathcliff's final reflection:

"I know that ghosts have wandered on earth. Be with me always – take any form – drive me mad! Only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! It is unutterable! I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!“

Alongside it, a wooden bookmark etched with a single word: WELCOME. :) ]

[ripher]

[ Curious, Giles carefully takes the book and makes note of the passage.

A couple of days and some private consultation with his conscience later, he returns it, with a request card tucked into the same page and a simple note: ]

How can we restore your soul?

- R

[saltburnmods]

[ The pneumatic tube releases a scrap of parchment, aged and fragile. It smells faintly of ink and dust, older than it should be. Carefully unfolding it, Giles will find a typewriter-ribboned stanza in faded black ink:

It isn’t lost,
only left behind.
Shelved in silence.
Filed under forgetting.

No signature, no name. On the back, a faint imprint of a library stamp remains, mostly rubbed away. What’s left reads:

RETURNED / ____ / NEVER DUE

The blank space is torn jaggedly, as if something was forcibly removed. ]

[ Any further investigation of the Library would require a plot coin submission! ]