The Library Is Open (01/12/06)

[janet_fraiser]

Janet opens the library after ACJ, sits behind the Collections Desk, and starts working.

OOC: Janet's player is extraordinarily preoccupied today and will be responding slowly.

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[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

Rory perched behind the desk near Janet, fully engrossed in a book about Egyptian art.

[swerval_zero]

Zero sat next to Rory, a musical notation notebook open in front of her as she fiddled with her pen. "What rhymes with 'gremlin?'"

[janet_fraiser]

"Zeppelin?" offered Janet.

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

"Yemin?" Rory suggsted.

[swerval_zero]

Zero considers both of these suggestions. "Kremlin?"

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

"Is that actually a word?" Rory asked.

[swerval_zero]

"It's that place. In, um. Russia?"

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

"Oh, duh. Are you writing about Russian gremlins?"

[swerval_zero]

"It's supposed to be about our gremlins. Protest song, like. I'm a little concerned about how Phoebe and now Principal Smith want to eradicate the gremlins. Yeah, they're evil squalling grinders, but I want to poke them with sharp things but they're beings too completely disregarding the massacre I led!"

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

"Exactly! That's what I said at the support group thing yesterday," Rory nodded. "Veronica was talking about killing them, and I said we should just relocate them, or give 'em to you." She tilted her head curiously. "And I heard the principal - what's with Phoebe, though? She wants to kill them?"

[swerval_zero]

"Oh, yeah, I saw one of her posters--a lot of text, and it was all about how a vote for her is a vote to kill all the gremlins or something, which, genocidey much? And she had a gun. Where the squall did she get a picture of her with a gun? There's been the weapons ban on for ages."

[notstakedyet.livejournal.com]

After Campaigning, Angel came in and looked around.

[swerval_zero]

"Hey, Angel, help a girl out. What rhymes with 'gremlin?'"

[notstakedyet.livejournal.com]

Angel thought about it.

"Tremblin'?"

[swerval_zero]

"Oooh, tremblin', that's good!" Zero scribbles a few more lines. "Thanks, Angel!"

[notstakedyet.livejournal.com]

"Welcome." Angel made a vague, lost gesture in the direction of the library. "I need to research something for class. Looking for newspaper articles going back five, ten years even. Ideally I'd love to search by keyword, like a name. We got something like that here?"

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

Parker comes in after classes, looking like her brain has melted.

"People, maing me thing while hungover... grrr."

[notstakedyet.livejournal.com]

"Hey, Parker," Angel said, absently. "You have any idea where I can research old newspaper articles (http://www.livejournal.com/community/fandomhigh/504839.html?thread=23418631#t23418631)?"

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

"We've got a couple of electronic periodical indexes (http://www.lib.duke.edu/libguide/fi_newspapers.htm) for newspapers. Some for outside dimensions. Not all of them are online, though. Do you know the name of the newspaper?" Parker looked at him sharply. "And did Jack talk to you about what happened Tuesday night?"

[notstakedyet.livejournal.com]

"Wasn't going for a specific paper, just some general information," Angel said. He made a note of the indexes. "And yeah. He did. I'm guessing he already told you who did it?"

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

"Yeah. I was there right after he got in the gate, freaked out and shaking." She hugged herself. "Someone's got to do something about her. And I'm not saying you, but...."

[notstakedyet.livejournal.com]

"No, I'm with you," Angel said. "Did he happen to mention where he saw her?"

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

"Somewhere between Caritas and here. He was pretty drunk, and she pulled the 'walk me home' schtick, and you know Jack. Even when he's not on the make, he likes girls. More than that he didn't say." She bit her lip. "He said he outran her, but that doesn't make sense. Does it."

[notstakedyet.livejournal.com]

"Could depend on where he was," Angel said. "That Sanctuary spell at Caritas doesn't work the way I - " Angel grimaced, wondering how to expalin memories that weren't his because he hadn't lived them yet " - I've heard the Furies talk about it working. Maybe this extends past the doors? Jack ran somewhere Darla couldn't follow?"

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

"He ran here. And maybe she didn't want to deal with Rover, but I have to think she could've caught him sooner than that, if they were walking together." Parker grimaced and rubbed the bridge of her nose. "Dean Zordon said they would take 'precautionary measures' but he didn't get into what those would be."