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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 permitted the asking of questions, limited to three per passenger, on Imagination 21.

Question asked: How is it that people can be resurrected if they die on a mission?

Answer: Because passengers are tethered to the Voidtrecker Express.

Question asked: Keep in mind I’m a scientist and would like as complete answers as possible. How does time work aboard the Voidtrecker Express, in comparison with how it works with Earth’s twenty-four hour clock?

Answer: Time in the void is not comparable to time out of it. Time is only measured in the void because of those travelling within it. There are places of colour and places of darkness and a craft is programmed to travel within these spectra to simulate a day-night cycle comparable to a world with which passengers are familiar.

Question asked (Asagiri Gen): How does time progress outside of the train relative to us – to the people we visit or even at home?

Answer: Time is complex but passes consistently for those outside the void. For those within the void they can only exit into a point in time that is later than the point at which they entered. The Voidtrecker Express can move to previous points in a limited fashion only to respond to catastrophes. Time on your worlds and the worlds you have visited progresses as it should for those worlds, regardless of interaction with the void.

Question asked (Asagiri Gen): How long are we unconscious for when we’re forced into our beds every night?

Answer: Time is relative. But in terms of the hours that you understand. Six.

Question asked: Considering that we want to help you, and that we’ve heard rumours that people believe we’ve stolen this voidtrain, what are the repercussions should someone with authority catch us?

Answer: You would be arrested and the Voidtrecker Express confiscated. Unknown what the result of such a trial would be but it would not be in your interests. This would not be a desirable outcome.

Question asked (Asagiri Gen): How can we learn more about the void and voidcraft like you?

Answer: There are some useful books in the library. Your fellow passengers have found success purchasing informative literature from the central database.

We’re not thrilled by the fact that time is moving without us. I’ve been gone a long time and while I trust my companions, my Generals, I’m worried about what I’ll come back to. My world is in a state of disaster. It’s unnerving to know how much time we’ve been missing too. I thought I was falling asleep and waking in moments. Six hours is a lot of missing time. I’d like to see if I could break through that and stay awake, but I have yet to find a way to do that.

Library

Questions Three - Part One