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Piper wanders into the library, hoping to find what she's looking for.

"Um, excuse me. Do you have any books about restaurant management? It's for a small business project."

*Edward pokes his head in the library door.* Hullo?

"Hey," says Janet, smiling up from her book. "Restaurant management? Probably." Janet types on the computer for a moment. "We've got books on everything else." She pauses, squinting at the screen. "Everything. Honestly, I wonder about this place sometimes. Hold on a sec while I reboot. Third damned time this thing brought up the necronomicon when I was running a search on something else."

She glances up again. "So, hi, I'm Janet. I've seen you around, haven't I?"

We're open! Come on in.

"Sometimes I wonder about this entire school," Piper said with a sigh.

Piper glanced at Janet with a smile. "Yeah, I've seen you around, too. My name's Piper. Nice to meet you."

"It's weird here. Full of stuff completely outside the realm of my expertise." Janet shook her head. "But, wow, you came for a completely normal topic. It's nice. No request for 'books on taking over the planet' or 'I need to find the section on mind control, please' or 'But what do you mean, the books on building my own thermonuclear bomb with aluminum foil and some chewing gum are in Special Collections? I need them for a class project!'"

"I haven't had a chance to get to know many people, to be honest," said Janet. "Which is a shame. So what're you guys doing for that small business project, anyway?"

Piper blinks at all the weird library selections. "I really shouldn't be surprised about that."

"My room... er, sister and I are partners. We're working on a catering service project. Figured these management books could come in handy," Piper explained.

Good, I'm looking for some certain books. Mostly stuff on this '80's thing everyone is talking about for the dance, and "Treatise on Gold" by Johannes Agricolae. Oh, and "Mutagenics and Morphology" by someone named... erm... Lichtenburg, maybe?

"You'd think I wouldn't be either," said Janet dryly. "And yet every day, someone comes in here and knocks my socks off again."

"So, catering, huh? What with the new chef and all, I wouldn't be surprised if you and your sister could make a lot of money catering for the students living in the dorms." Janet snorted. "My roommates and I order groceries off the internet. Costs a fortune, none of us can cook worth a damn so it's all sandwich stuff and a lot of fruit, but it beats the cafeteria hands down."

She stopped typing and loaded up the results of her search. "Okay, so we've got three or four books on the second floor in the--" Janet leaned closer to the monitor. "Huh. One in Special Collections. A Magical Feast. Wow, and it's not even marked dangerous. Wonder what that's about."

OOC: I'm so bad. ;)

Well, the 80s books are mostly checked out. I think all we have left is Bad Fashions of the 1980s, and that's on reserve. Which basically means it's behind the desk and you can check it out to use for an hour at a time, but it can't leave the library. Personally, I think Professor Methos has a sick sense of humor.

Uh... Haven't heard of the other ones. Let me check.

(OOC: Are either of those alchemy books dangerous at all? I need to know for card catalog purposes. Thanks!)

"I haven't even gone to the cafeteria. Of all the weird stuff that goes on at this school, I think the cafeteria food is easily the scariest. That's why I cook most of my own food. Who knows, maybe I'll stop by and cook for you and your roommates one day," Piper said, smiling warmly.

Piper blinks up at the mention of A Magical Feast. "Magic, huh? ~~It's like I can't get away from it now~~ Sounds fascinating."

[OOC: Bwah!]

Gah, I knew I should have gotten here sooner. Ah well, I'll look at that one for a bit if you don't mind.

"You know, you could be right about that," said Janet. "Jack, one of my roommates, said that he found chicken in his chocolate pie." She shuddered.

"You can cook?" asked Janet eagerly. "Do you give lessons? Please, God, tell me you give lessons. I have no desire to take home ec, but I would ~~sell my soul~~ love to have cooking lessons."

"Kind of a neat name, yeah," said Janet. "I don't get that whole magic thing. Never had to deal with it before I came here, and now it seems like everyone and his brother's a magic user. You could check the book out, if you wanted. I don't think it has any world-destroying capabilities."

Sure! Got your library card? *grabs card, scribbles name down, etc.* Be warned that you may need an eye exam after. Some of the fashions are a little painful. And those other books should be in the back, off to the left.

OOC: Cool. Because Janet is actually very serious about not checking books that are dangerous out to anyone. And hooray for made up books! I make up library book names all the time in this game.

Cool, thanks! *scuttles off deeper into the library*

OOC: Janet's a seriously goody-goody white hat type, so I doubt you could get away with it with her. You might have to wait to try and get it past one of the other student librarians or Methos. Sorry!

"Oh, ew! That is just wrong. And disgusting! But mostly wrong." Piper made a disgusted face.

"I've never given lessons before, but I don't see why I couldn't. Sure, why not?"

Piper thought about the book for a moment. "You know, I'll check that book out, too. What's the harm?"

"He was sick after," said Janet. "It was his own fault, though. He knew better. Lessons would be nice. Thanks. Got any science homework you need help on? I'm pretty good at it."

She grinned. "I'm going to have to go and get the book from Special Collections." She glanced around the library. No one was there. "Wanna come with?"

OOC: *giggle*

"Wrong food combinations can have that affect on people," Piper said. "I'm not in any science classes this semester, but I know eventually I'll have to take a class. Math is the subject I really hate dealing with more than anything."

Piper glanced at Janet. "Sure, why not?"

*peeks in, because she doesn't have a library card*

*waves and whispers* Hey, hon.

*waves her inside* "Hey! Come on in! Did we get you your card yet?" *grins*

"Math? I'm good at that," said Janet. "Let me get my card and we can go."

(OOC: I'm going to start a new post "locked" to Piper and Janet, since the Special Collections visits are restricted to whoever the library staff ~~sneaks~~ takes in with them. And since Special Collections is...weird...feel free to improvise on it.)

*ducks in* Nope. Been a little busy. Was going to do it yesterday, but...you know. *grins*

I know. *grins sympathetically* *grabs an envelope and rifles through it* Here you go! Beka Valentine, blah, blah, blah. So how're things going today?

"You are? Well then I think we will get along great!"

[OOC: Sounds good. I'm also posting about this right now, but we can continue as time is all chronofluid. ;)]

Oh. Things are. *grins* Good. Got some flowers. *coughs and takes the card*

Janet grins and motions Piper towards a smallish door.

OOC: Yah, chronofluidity! I've been in three places at once some nights.

Flowers? Always good. From who? *grins*

OOC: Sick-cough or embarrassment-cough?

*looks pleased* Jack. Flowers and an invitation for tonight.

(OOC: Amused cough. ;) Shep just showed up and he's annoyed. *laughs*)

Cool. You guys seemed to get along really well.

(OOC: *snerk*)

"This is stupid," Jake said. "I'm sure there are treasure maps here somewhere, but how the hell are we going to find them?" He opened his arms wide to the entirety of the library. "Huh?"

Mmm. You might say that. ~~Wow. Janet. He's hot.~~

(OOC: he's freaking because B is being SO. DAMNED. NICE. *grins* Did you get the voicemail that said B told J you and Liz are in on it? Oh, and check out this new icon. *grin*)

"You could use the card catalog," said Janet from the desk, pointing at a dust-covered monstrosity of a cabinet. "And keep it down. It's a library, for crying out loud."

"Have you ever researched anything? Used a computer? Found yourself needing to resort to the dewey decimal system?" Krycek asked, looking around the library thoughtfully. "Or we could ask an assistant. I think the librarian has a few."

Somehow managing to give both librarian-assistant and Krycek a contemptous look at the same time, Jake folded his arms over his chest. "I feel mocked."

"Thank you," said Janet. "Dear God, you'd think the people here had never heard of systems of organization and classification. Primary. Key. To. Human. Scientific. Advancement." She sighed. "I have high hopes that some day it will catch on as a general fashion around here."

"Bright boy," said Janet dryly.

Janet grinned. ~~Are you just now noticing that? Did you just get your vision checked last night or something?~~

OOC: *snerk* This is all going to end so very badly. You know that, right? ;)

"Doubtful." Krycek shook his head sadly. "I don't think I've ever seen a place that thrived in chaos as much as this school does."

(OOC: Our timing today is awesome. *g*)

"That means there has to a base of order in it somewhere," Jake pointed out, still with his arms folded. He'd been without proper coffee for nearly a whole day now, and he was feeling the withdrawal. Which wasn't made better at all by the smell of coffee coming from his shirt. "If it's proper chaos, I mean. ...Stop looking at me."

"Don't remind me." Janet shuddered. "Sometimes I wonder if this is a school or a multidimensional riot waiting to happen. So. Treasure maps, huh? Send your friend there over to the card catalog and come on over here. What are you looking for? Pirate treasure? Wild west outlaws? Lost cities of gold? Shangri-La?" She paused. "I think King Arthur's lost treasure was found a while ago, though, so you might be SOL there."

OOC: Absolutely! Of course, I'm now going to be on and offline intermittently until 8 CST, whereupon I will be able to play with the prettyshiny fandom crack full-time. But keep posting, I'll just be slow in response time!

~~Damn, you're cute when you grin like that.~~

We had a lot of fun.

~~Never noticed before? Was looking elsewhere?~~

OOC: For whom? *dread* J and B have hit it off so well that it's already sort of ceased to be a joke. But B's willing to share. *grin*

"I'm familiar with chaos theory," said Janet. "The basics of it, anyway." She took a drink from her travel mug of coffee. "However, are you here to discuss scientific theory, or find a place to play with your metal detectors? Either is fine with me."

OOC: As Janet's also a coffee addict, I couldn't resist the torment. :) Actually, I have no idea what your coffee plotline is, but it looks too fun to play with

Jake narrowed his eyes at her. She was mocking him with her coffee! And probably her words as well, but who cared about that? Coffee. "Don't know what we're looking for. It's for the professor."

Krycek smirked, glancing at Jake to nod in agreement. "Treasure maps. He said 'You'll know it when you find it,' or something like that. I don't think he had any idea either, personally."

"The professor," said Janet. "There might be a few of them around here." He was glaring at her, which might have bothered her, except she was feeling particularly cranky today. She took another sip from her travel mug.

"You could always go to the card catalog, look in the section indexed by subject, and copy down a list of everything that's available. Be sure to check under 'treasure' and 'maps, treasure' because there might be something under one, but not the other, depending on what the previous indexers decided to do."

"Thanks," Krycek said, eyeing both of them as if believing anyone so addicted to coffee might just explode any moment. "If we need to check anything out, what's the limit?"

"Oh, great," said Janet. "So we're basically looking at everything, then? Give me strength."

(OOC: Making dinner, dealing with infant, agh! Back asap.)

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