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LIBRARY

This a double carriage. On the bottom floor there is a corridor running along one side, with a door to enter the carriage itself in the middle of the corridor. Up the stairs on either end of the carriage, the space is open, relatively.

Downstairs appears similar to a public library. The walls are painted brightly and lined with shelves, most of which are empty. Labels indicate that fiction books should be stored here. The wall facing the door is alternating windows looking out into the Void, and posters that seem to be large, blown-up book covers for the more popular fiction books in the train.

Four tables with linked chairs are spaced throughout the car, each one painted one of the team colours, and beanbag chairs similar to those found in the Games carriage can also be seen scattered in a pile in one corner.

A little wooden train with shelves built into it winds its way through the tables, its shelves filled with all of the previously-purchased Merry Little Void Train literature and the first book of several of the encountered but unpurchased MLVT series, including several colouring books. There's room on its shelves for far more than it currently contains. Kheli the rabbit is painted leaning out of the engine window, waving.

Along the far wall to the right are two scanning machines, which can do the following: register new books - as a helpful tutorial on the screen will inform you; provide summaries of books if given a specific title; or check books out if presented with a valid ticket. Passengers can have up to eight books checked out at a time; if someone walks out of the carriage carrying a book not checked out by them, the ICP speakers in that carriage will beep obnoxiously for ten seconds.

Upstairs resembles an academic library. The wall next to the stairs is a similar bank of windows as downstairs, although lacking the colourful posters, instead dotted with landscape paintings of previously visited worlds and unknown worlds both. Rows of shelves divide the space into six smaller workspaces, each with a single-person desk with lamp and bookstand and another window above, bracketed by shelves on either side. The bookshelves muffle sound, creating semi-private spaces around each desk.

The shelves are empty, with labels on each shelf indicating that non-fiction books belong up here.

We will not OOCly be tracking books being checked in and out. If a book is not being returned, please reply to that book's comment to let people know that it isn't available.

Please comment below with any books your character is registering with the library computers, using the following form, to either the fiction or non-fiction top level and under the correct genre or subsection with the book's title as the subject header:

BOOK SEARCHES ~ FICTION ~ NON-FICTION
FICTION: Merry Little Voidtrain ~ Action/Adventure ~ Crime ~ War/Epic ~ Drama/Slice Of Life ~ Horror
NON-FICTION: Void ~ Historical/Travel ~ Educational ~ Entertainment ~ Arts/Sports ~ Philosophy/Religion ~ Health
OTHER: Recipes ~ Passenger Documents

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Donor: Lea

Description: This book showcases 5 different trains that travel through the void.

~ Voidcraft called Destiny. They seem to be a species of large mice and their train looks almost like a model train. Yet they are one of the best crisis team in the multiverse. They are pretty good at subtle work but focus mostly on humanitarian aid rather than fighting. They are often the first at the site of a crisis and focus on helping people until the agents of the specific world are ready and prepared to take over.

There's quite a few pictures and examples of their good deeds. Everything from delivering food to colonists on a barren astroid to maintaining medical supply lines across a mountain range.

~ A train crewed by a pair of detectives who research unsolved crimes from other worlds. They travel in a small train, just big enough for the two of them. They were famous for working with law enforcement in different worlds.

~ A void train called 'Memory'. It is not filled with fighters or even crisis solvers. Instead it travels the worlds, recording history by speaking to the ordinary people they meet.

It is a small craft, holding only twenty travellers at any time but has been operating for three hundred years and holds what is considered the greatest library of the multiverse in it's data bases.

~ An infamous pirate Voidtrain, which caused havoc by exposing the void to non void active worlds, spreading technology and causing two whole civilisation to destroy their planets with war and bloodshed. Known only for the V emblasoned on it's side in red it was the scourge of the void until the- then very newly formed Void Ministry brought it to justice.

~ The Voidtrecker Express the first mission voidtrain to launch in voidspace. Famous for its brightly coloured crew members many worlds and people can claim to have been helped by the Voidtrecker Express, even saved for it was famous for being in the right place at the right time to prevent the worst calamities from happening as well as helping after disasters the crew were not in time to stop.

Of course, it goes on to say. There is no evidence that the Voidtrecker Express ever existed. It is the origin tale of all mission voidcraft and there have been many trains called 'Voidtrecker Express' over the years, some of which organise themselves in teams like in the stories. No one is sure where the tale originated, no origin system has ever been found, tales can be found in many of the void-active worlds such is the far-reach of the legend.

Library

Famous Voidtrains through the Ages