voidtreckermods

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: Tidus, but originally gotten by Ash ([personal profile] bombashbunny) we're turning the old library space into the art space ok

Description: A hefty leather-bound book that seems to be hand bound lovingly. It is a lovely burgundy leather with darker ombre near the corners, which are clasped in a gold-looking metal. The cover is pressed with elaborate designs, most notably a meteor in the middle with a suggestions of magic surrounding it. There also seems to be the suggestion of circuitry along the other edges of the cover, straight lines in parallel with one another. The title of the book is not on the front, but there is the title in Hingan on the spine of the book, delicately painted. The paint looks fresh, as if it were a touch up for a well used book.

Opening the book gives the title page, just as elaborate as the front, but done in full color in a water color style. The entire page is filled with color with accents of gold and silver, truly giving lend to the nature of magic (or, however the person who designed this sees it). The acknowledgements seem to be in an ancient not-quite-Japanese type script thanking someone named Aragibal Kha, Felih Tia, Cid Garlond, and a Cocobuki. The rest of the script is Eorzean (a very stylized English), written in small, very neat cursive. The book is quite dense as it explains aether and magic and how to tie them into magitek. It will go over advanced topics including how aether can be stored, how it can be used in a magitek sense, and some creative applications of it. It then goes into advanced nitty gritty on integrating aether into magitek.

As you go through the book there are additional notes in the margin in a messy scribble of someone else's hand, adding counterpoints or extra observations for "those without aether sensitivity" (Eorzeans read: Garleans).

At the back of the book is a section blank pages, as if bound extra for some notes space, and there seems to be hasty writing between the two hands about a being called Alexander and the time properties it exhibits. Fresher ink is written about something called The Tycoon. There are theories on how to accommodate time travel based on these two beings, with sketches of devices, related complex geometries, and some extra thoughts in both hands scribbled there.

Library

Principles of Aether, Magic, and Magitek