Library, Friday

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So there was a big mysterious island full of robots and stuff about tournaments and at first Buffy thought she'd skip out on the library to go over there again and see what needed taking care of. Then she realized that the library was exactly where she needed to be. You know, let them do the research, then figure out what needed to die. Easy.


[Research team, ho! Um, not that I just called you names or anything.]

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Re: Researcher Area

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"Any luck?" asked Hoshi, putting another book in her not-helpful pile.

Re: Researcher Area (Oh, Look, a Clue)

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Jen had gone through five or six books by the time she finally got what she thought might be a legitimate lead, which, all things considered, wasn't too bad. It was actually the phrase "red skies" that caught Jen's attention first; not that she was fixated with the color red, or had lingering twitchiness about impending disaster and the possible opening up of holes between all the different realities when the sky went all weird or anything like that, really. Except for how that had been kind of a huge thing for her, once.

Backtracking from "red skies," it was only a sentence or two before the word "crisis" caught her eye. She skimmed back the rest of the paragraph, and that was right about when she realized Hoshi was asking her something.

"Hang on," she said, holding a hand up. "I think I've got something. This chapter's been describing an island that -- the description is pretty vague, but it definitely sounds like Fandom."

She grabbed a sheet of blank paper and a pink highlighter (like this was a surprise?) and continued, "There was some kind of crisis --" She scrawled that word down in large bright pink letters on the sheet. "Then it talks about the 'time of the red skies --" She paused again for a moment to write that down, highlighter squeaking on the paper.

"And 'what was one became many.'" Jen scribbled that phrase down as well, underlining 'one' and 'many' with a little too much enthusiasm, and for no apparent reason. "It gets long-winded but all smudgy for a while about the actual crisis, but . . . I can make out the parts where it says that the crisis did get averted, and something about how afterward, the one remained."

Jen flipped to the next page, skimmed for a little bit, and narrowed her eyes. "And after that it goes off on what looks like a fifty-page tangent on the geology of the Ring of Fire."

[OOC: Getting this up now because it looks like I'm going to be mostly AFK for the next few hours, argh.]

Re: Researcher Area (Oh, Look, a Clue)

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"What was one became many, but afterward, only one remained," repeated Hoshi. "I think you may have something there. But I'll bet anything else helpful in there is buried somewhere at the end. I'll keep a look-out for anything else about the red skies, though."