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

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

* Missing crew members: Vian Tail, Xela Istrola, Ave Sill, Kiel Tretin. (source: ICP – Videos shared Nebula 14, still available.)

* The mission from Nebula 21 was a ruse. It took place on system #903849 and was a test by the Ministry to see how we would act and adapt. Unknown what the consequences of this will be. The train left rather quickly once it realized. I did not encounter the Inspectors myself.

* The train opens itself up to questions on Orchestra 14.

Questions asked:

1. What is making our tether unstable?
2. If we had a stable tether, could we not uncouple and return home?
3. Why do you control what information we have access to?
4. What qualifies as a catastrophe?
5. Why does my world not qualify as a catastrophe?
6. You know I’d be a lot less apprehensive helping you if things were settled at home, don’t you?
7. How did you come to pick us up?
8. What makes you think those we know aren’t actually from the same place?
9. What scientific information do you have to back up those claims?
10. What is your point of origin?
11. What’s stopping you from returning there/our origin points to refresh our tethers to head off voidsickness?
12. Are we not at risk the longer we’re in the void?
13. The time in the train is based on your origin point, is it not?
14. Why is the engine room inaccessible?
15. What harm would it do to allow us access?
16. What would you do if we decided not to participate in your missions?
17. Why can’t we have documentaries in the cinema?

Information shared: It will note my objections to the entertainment available. It is not omnipotent. It does not necessarily have access to things we want. Time and space works within my world because of my tether to it. The train only knows what I have shared about my life and situation. It’s listening all the time. The tether is confirmed to be a three point tether and non-travelling self is left where it was. It is not in the care of void technicians. The train is concerned for the non-travelling selves of the passengers.

Based on the interactions with the train thus far, I’m skeptical these questions will ever be answered, but on the off chance they will be, I asked as many as I could think of, things that were lingering for me, loose ends that haven’t yielded any results. It should be noted the train is only one single source, like Anan is one single source. The veracity of anything in this book is to be questioned.

Library

An Open Chance For Questions