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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

* Information shared by other passengers:

All the worlds they’d visited so far were doing well, save world #27462947582. (source: Madoka)
The previous crew is missing and could potentially be found or recovered. (source: Spider)
Two people from seemingly the same world are not from the same world, the train can only take one person per world. (source: Natsuno)
The library and cinema are meant for recreation, not information. The train pays attention to the feedback post. (source: Webmind)
Captain V was a real captain of a voidtrain and caused a lot of harm (source: Nita)
Anyone from a world that is gone, or has died will not be forced to go back to their death. (source: Mami)
The train cannot confirm where people go when they leave on the platforms, nor is their departure decided. It also cannot confirm the status of someone specific on any given world. (source: Sera)
We are missing from our worlds. The tether is the link between the train and your life. (source: Eva)
There is no end point to the mission. (source: Rich)
The train only knows about Halo what the crew has discovered. (source: Koumyou)
Large items may be available for purchase in the future, the design of the terminals is considered adequate for passenger needs and it doesn’t know why its designed this way. (source: Devero)
Another voidcraft could, in theory, take them back to the time they entered the void. It may be possible to contact their home worlds. (source: Yuume)

It would be interesting to know how the train does time travel, but it’s been especially stingy with its informational books and notes. Talking to it is a dead end. I don’t know if I can believe that Gen and I are from different worlds...it seems completely implausible, but here we are. There’s not much I can do if that’s the case, he seems completely like my world’s counterpart, so much so that although he’s from my future, everything else has been the same. I’m not sure what to make of that at all. I think...it doesn’t matter.

It appears as though Halo’s world truly has been erased, at least as far as the train is concerned and what it knows about. It’s something to keep in mind as we continue, but not necessarily something of great importance when it comes to everything.

Library

Questions Three - Part Two