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.

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Re: Researching/Mod Your Library

[wolfinthehood.livejournal.com]

"A blink of an eye, and no, I don't know," Red said in some frustration. "Everything sort of went out of focus? And then when I could notice things again, I was here, instead of there." She looked around at the library. "I was hoping I could find a book or a scholar who would know how it happened." She smiled a little ruefully, and then said, "What do you mean, your present?... oh. I forgot to ask your name."

Re: Researching/Mod Your Library

[fly-so-serious.livejournal.com]

"Jeff Moreau," Joker told her. "But you can call me Joker. I am from the twenty-second century. I'm sure you get people from all different timelines in your Fandom, too."

He patted the table in front of the chair next to him. "You came to the right place, more or less. The scholars around here don't know dick about this mess, so... sit down and grab a book. I could use the help, and pretty faces always inspire me." He gave her a grin that, welcoming as it was, looked strained and didn't touch the dark hollows of his eyes.

"The basic gist: Alternate universes are colliding and crossing. For weeks we've had people turning into slightly different versions of themselves. Now, people are starting to just... appear, like you did."

Re: Researching/Mod Your Library

[wolfinthehood.livejournal.com]

"Joker." Red smiled back, then her jaw dropped a little. "Different versions of themselves?" She drew the red cloak around herself a little closer. "Is this like those odd times when people run around as if drunk, and then are very embarrassed afterward?"

So far, she'd managed to escape that. So far.

Re: Researching/Mod Your Library

[fly-so-serious.livejournal.com]

"Very much like that," Joker agreed. "But then it doesn't go away. I've gone through a relatively minor change, myself, but other people have been... worse. A lot worse."

Re: Researching/Mod Your Library

[wolfinthehood.livejournal.com]

Red could think of much worse things she could change into. Like, say, a giant wolf who couldn't control herself at all. For instance. Her fingers dug harder into her cloak. "Right. So." She looked around at all the books, intimidated. "Reading! And finding out how to make it stop. I can do that."

Re: Researching/Mod Your Library

[fly-so-serious.livejournal.com]

At least there wasn't anyone named Peter on the island?

"Well, I certainly hope you can do that," Joker told her. "I've been at it a few days and I don't haven anything to show for it so far."

Re: Researching/Mod Your Library

[wolfinthehood.livejournal.com]

"More the reading, I meant, than anything else." Red smiled a little. "But I'm glad you were here to explain this, and working on it. Or I'd be a lot more lost."