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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

I sent a missive to the train to inquire about spaces for couples, to ask about whether or not it understood human relationships.

There was no response.

I requested more questions to be allowed by the train, and informed it that I don’t find fictional things to be fun or relaxing.

There was no response.

In Merriment, I requested respite with a beach for Tidus and a field of stars. I appealed to the train’s desire for our help. I informed it that we needed to work together, withholding information would not be helpful. I requested more materials be sent in the library. They did not appear. I mentioned finding its old crew.

It responded. Find them.

I continued to try and argue our point, but this was not fruitful in any way.

I attempted to contact the train on Poi 27, after my return to my world, disastrous as it was. Regardless of what I said or asked, I received no answer.

At the beginning of Quicksand, I finally got a response. The train confirmed that it has nothing to do with my world’s poor state. It was not an illusion, it’s an actual state of affairs, but it was not because of the train. Valuable information. My tether is not affected by the state of my body, on my world.

Later in the month we discussed my desire to become void active, due to the departure of Asagiri Gen. The train is unable and unwilling to assist with that. It feels I need to be protected from myself. I disagree. I have deep concern about the train’s admission to missing time in its data banks.

We’ve agreed to no longer be adversaries.

Library

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