Library, Wednesday

[3girls-1core.livejournal.com]

Sholeh and Zeela had started a small ritual. Whenever one woke up, they would immediately confer with the other about small things. Little details chosen at random. If they agreed on what they remembered, they'd escaped whatever the latest bout of...Fandom...ness...that was currently...Fandoming. If they didn't agree, they promised not to waste time trying to figure out which one of them was 'right.' It hadn't happened yet, but it comforted Sholeh to have a plan.

Along that same vein, she was still setting out books for any researchers that decided to wander through. This week, she pulled out books about memory, memory spells and charms, and amnesia. That wasn't the same thing as whatever was happening, with people actually changing who they were (Sholeh and Zeela both agreed that Cecil hadn't been an adult when he'd started school and certainly didn't have tentacles!), but it was somewhere to start.

Comments

Researching/Mod Your Library

[3girls-1core.livejournal.com]

If anyone wants to get together and look for clues in the books.

Re: Researching/Mod Your Library

[fly-so-serious.livejournal.com]

Joker set himself up at a table, grabbed a pile of books that looked like they might be helpful, and started skimming through them.

A glowing translucent rectangle hung in the air next to him. It was a text document that he left open so he could take notes in it... but there was depressingly little of anything to write down.

Re: Researching/Mod Your Library

[wolfinthehood.livejournal.com]

"What is that?" Red had come in to find out any information about portals or world travel she could, but gotten distracted by the young man's -- light picture?

Re: Researching/Mod Your Library

[fly-so-serious.livejournal.com]

"Hmm?" Joker asked, distracted by the book in which he was still finding nothing useful. "Oh, that? It's just what computers look like in the future."

The words typed themselves into the window as he talked, and Joker flailed at the window when he realized it. "No! Stop it! I didn't mean...! Aw, crud." He managed to get the window to close, and then turned to Red. "Hi. Sorry. Okay. So... yeah. Either you were just at a Ren Faire, or you probably need 'computer' explained, too. It's a machine, that's all it is. It does all kinds of things, but I was using it just now to take notes."

He frowned at her, trying to place her face. "Are you... new?"

Re: Researching/Mod Your Library

[wolfinthehood.livejournal.com]

"Very." Red barely followed all that; 'machine' wasn't as familiar, as say, 'tool', 'device', or 'weapon.' And she'd never imagined one made up of light. "I don't know what a RenFaire is. Uh, I'm Red. Red Lucas. I just arrived yesterday."

Re: Researching/Mod Your Library

[fly-so-serious.livejournal.com]

Joker nodded at her. "Okay, perfect. You are just who I wanted to talk to. Tell me all about whatever it was that brought you here." He turned to face her with an expectant look. "I am all ears."

After a half second, he added. "...And a Ren Faire is when people hate their boring normal lives so they all dress up as knights and maidens and go off into the woods to have a party and get drunk."

Re: Researching/Mod Your Library

[pulseof_life]

Yeul didn't really think that what was going on was anything to be concerned about, but since she was in the library anyway, there was no harm in looking, even if that looking was rather haphazard and kept getting sidetracked.

"My," she murmured, "there's an awful lot of ways to change someone's memories of the past."

She wasn't really a fan? That sort of thing tended to... reflect itself in her lives.

Re: Researching/Mod Your Library

[fly-so-serious.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, and that's not even counting simply getting hit on the head," Joker told her.

Re: Researching/Mod Your Library

[pulseof_life]

Yeul looked up from her book.

"That's not the same thing at all," she said earnestly. "Forgetting your past is not equal to it being changed. One alters the world around you to adhere to the new past, the other only alters your perception of it."

Re: Researching/Mod Your Library

[fly-so-serious.livejournal.com]

Joker gave her a confused look. "Isn't that...? Okay, yeah, sorry. Miscommunication. I thought you were talking about all that memory stuff that Sholeh set out, which, you're right, isn't all that related to the problem at hand. Right now, everything's being altered, and it sucks."

Talk to Sholeh

[3girls-1core.livejournal.com]

She's still herself, thank goodness. She and Zeela are both quite certain they've been spared!

Re: Talk to Sholeh

[fly-so-serious.livejournal.com]

"Y'know, I really don't think memory's the problem, here," Joker mentioned, looking at the books she'd picked.

Re: Talk to Sholeh

[3girls-1core.livejournal.com]

"Not really," Sholeh agreed with a sigh. "But I'm hoping that if people look through them, maybe something in there will trigger an insight or a breakthrough or something useful."

Still, she picked up a few of the books to put away again. "I started looking for stuff about alternate dimensions, but the problem with living on an interdimensional nexus is that we're all alternate dimensions."

Re: Talk to Sholeh

[fly-so-serious.livejournal.com]

Joker nodded. "And I can't even find much on that, at least not anything useful. And even when the alternate dimensions are really close..."

He frowned, trying to figure out how to explain what he was thinking. "Okay, so, there are a few people here who are from my future. I'm not absolutely certain, but I'm pretty sure that if I go home and do everything opposite from the way they remember it, that's not going to change them any. Our universes are independent. But somehow, these other, evil ones are are not..."

Re: Talk to Sholeh

[3girls-1core.livejournal.com]

"Do you think that maybe someone went back and started mucking up people's pasts?" Sholeh asked, wide-eyed. "Like, deliberately trying to change things? But for what reason?"

That was the problem. It just didn't make any sense for someone to do that. At least, everything so far had seemed pretty random.

"I don't think it's evil, though," she added. "I mean, a friend of mine now remembers getting adopted and growing up in a loving family. I hardly think that counts as evil."

Re: Talk to Sholeh

[pulseof_life]

It was probably safe to say that Yeul hadn't been touched by the weirdness, given that her extreme lack of concern or worry was just like normal.

"Hello Sholeh," Yeul said cheerfully, offering her a hot chocolate. "I thought I would come visit."

Re: Talk to Sholeh

[3girls-1core.livejournal.com]

"Hi, Yeul!" Sholeh gave Yeul a pleased smile. She was feeling unsettled with all the radio news of strange people and familiar people acting strangely. Spending time with Yeul was actually a very good way to relax. "How are you?"

Re: Talk to Sholeh

[pulseof_life]

"I am well," Yeul said, smiling back. "Though Evan says I say that everytime I'm asked."

Which, well, she did.

"Are you well?" she continued.

Re: Talk to Sholeh

[3girls-1core.livejournal.com]

"It's kind of comforting to hear," Sholeh confided. "Because if there's ever a time when you are not, then I know it's time to panic."

Not that she thought there'd be anything she could do in a situation where Yeul was not well. You know. Other than panic quietly in a corner so as not to disturb anyone else who might be better suited for whatever catastrophe was occurring.

"I'm okay. Zeela and I haven't noticed anything amiss with us, so we're better off than most of the island, it seems." It was a comfort to have someone to trade notes with that way.

Re: Talk to Sholeh

[wolfinthehood.livejournal.com]

"Hello. Um. I was wondering, if I could-- look at some books?"

Red had never quite dared to enter the library while the monks were there. Even though most of them seemed good sorts of people, the possibility that they'd find out about her meant she'd avoided the castle and library whenever possible.

"About portals. And travel."

Re: Talk to Sholeh

[3girls-1core.livejournal.com]

Sholeh was still a little rocked by Yeul's confirmation of a sister named Zhahar, so it took her a few seconds to snap out of her daze and focus on the girl in front of her.

"Umm, hmm?" She blushed. "I'm awfully sorry, I didn't hear you. What did you say?"

This was what you got when you stewed, Sholeh. Ignored patrons!

Re: Talk to Sholeh

[wolfinthehood.livejournal.com]

"That's okay. Are you all right?" Red asked, a little worried. "I was looking for books on portals. Or time travel. I just arrived, and, well. I'd like to know how I can get home."

Re: Talk to Sholeh

[3girls-1core.livejournal.com]

"Oh, it's nothing, nothing," Sholeh assured her. She most certainly wasn't here to get all emotional at library patrons. At least ones she didn't know. "Hi, I'm Sholeh. Welcome to Fandom. You said you just arrived? And you're not sure how to get home?"

Sholeh wasn't an expert on the comings and goings of people in Fandom, but it seemed highly unlikely this girl would show up in the middle of the year and have it not be related to the current...crisis? Had this been updated to a crisis yet?...issues.

"We have lots of books about portals and time travel and parallel dimensions and things," she said, trying to sound reassuring. "I'll be happy to bring you right to them. And if they're not helpful, there's a Portalocity office in town that might help." Pausing, she added, "Are you here by mistake? Or just visiting? Do you even know what happened...?"

There were a lot of ways to get to Fandom island.

Talk to the Librarian

[3girls-1core.livejournal.com]

If he's around

OOC

[3girls-1core.livejournal.com]

LJ is just CHUGGING today, ugh.