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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

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

* The train had a previous crew, some of which were lost during a battle. One of them was named Vian, one Xela. (source: memories – Jema’grethy Island – Grasshopper)

I’m not sure what to make of this information, or how it might be relevant, considering most ships as long as they exist have multiple crews over the course of their lifetime. It sounds like they met disaster which may or may not be vitally important on this journey, that remains to be seen.

* Voidstorms appear suddenly and warp the structure of the void. It’s unknown why. It can cause unknown effects on the passengers, including seeing people in the void and being drawn to them despite that being illogical. (source: voidstorm – Horseshoe)

This particular voidstorm left me seeing and hearing from people I have no actual way of connecting with anymore. I felt drawn to the void, and looking into the void during the storm did not make my symptoms void gazing better, in fact I have the worst headache after the whole mess. The pull to look outside remained, even if I was moved away from the windows up until the storm ended.

* There was a pilot of another vessel named the Voidflash, Halo who died out in System #6416. She was from Enrara in System #1015. She reported all records of Enrara are erased and no longer exist. She went through a voidstorm and suddenly Voidflash was on the run from the Ministry. She had many questions, but no real answers in her missive. (source: Roland Crane – message on her SCA – Imagination)

Roland would be much better suited to answer specific questions. Apparently worlds can not just go missing but all records and memories can be erased. It’s peculiar because how can that be? Is that a property or trait of the void itself? Erasing a world, I can imagine, but all of the memories?

Library

Information About the Train and Void - Early Impressions