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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

* Roland, Tidus and Inigo met another void traveller named Anan. Their radio was modified to pick up contact from Anan. I was looped in and said radio was shared with me. (Kazoo)

* Train announcement about future forewarning of catastrophe missions. Missions are chosen by proximity, skills needed and acceptable risk. Catastrophe missions are always accepted. The criteria include the absolute loss of life or world structure, but the outcome can be changed within the narrow parameters possible to this Voidcraft. (source: announcement – Kazoo 21)

* Contact with Anan, night (Llama 5):

She is looking for someone to help with our kidnapped situation. Chiff connected her to our SCA network through Asagiri Gen’s SCA. The broken SCA was turned over to Anan. The security of the system is much tighter than any governments. The train is not being operated remotely, but rather is some form of sentient being. What it is exactly, is hotly debated across the void. The train reacts and responds to the mood of its passengers. Expressed concern over the psychological contentment of the crew affecting our ability to gain information, as the level of open discontent seems to be low.

It’s my opinion that the crew is all too willing to be here, and if they aren’t, they’re definitely playing into what the train wants. The train may not understand discontent in this case, or perhaps, we’re in the minority.

Library

Encountering Anan - Part One