Library, Saturday

[snipsnspecks]

You know what was really fun when the island started thumping and shaking? Having sensory organs that were highly sensitive to vibrations.

Ahsoka was not a happy little Togruta when she opened the library today.

She also set up the tables in the middle and broke into that stash of library caf in the hopes it would summon people trying to fix this.

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[snipsnspecks]

Look out for falling books.

Research!

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There's caf! Decent caf too. Let's hope that Loran guy never comes looking for it.

Re: Research!

[talentforlying]

On top of the giant rabbits, they seemed to be in the middle of fucking nowhere. The rabbits, he'd leave to those that enjoyed punching shite, but figuring out where they were? That, John could manage.

He started with the card catalog, given all the computers seemed to be fucking bricks. It was all older shite, but at least it was a starting point.

It was a good two hours into his searching and muttering to himself that he paused, taking a card out of the drawer and disappearing with it into Archives before returning with some battered, faded, archival boxes labeled in spidery, smudged handwriting.

Historical Records [Dates Unreadable]
Fandom Island
Travel: Magical, Mechanical, Other

If you were going to start at the very beginning, you might as well start at the very fucking beginning, and that usually meant archives.

Re: Research!

[talentforlying]

It was much, much later that a shout came up from where John was pouring over the files and pages and photos from the archives. "Well that explains my massive fucking headache, and why my wards didn't understand what the fuck happened..." he said, holding up a folder. "Right magical surge, but we didn't fucking land anywhere, so the spell didn't complete correctly."

"Bless fucking archivists. We got ourselves a meticulous record of the island's movements during its first impromptu vacation trip... including the magical readings for each jump and it matches. It fucking matches."

Re: Research!

[spin_kick_snap]

"Matches what?" Kathy asked, looking up in confusion from her archives stack.

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[talentforlying]

"Magic requires energy, is energy," he said, waving the folder. "Just like your microwaves or light or sound, that energy had patterns. Signatures."

Re: Research!

[spin_kick_snap]

"And the magical signature of what happened to us today matches the one from your folders?" Kathy guessed.

Re: Research!

[talentforlying]

"Not just type of magic, or same level of output, but same time," he said, tapping it on the table. "Midnight, and the spell triggered. Right time, right type, right power levels. I'll need to get into the nitty-gritty of the spell, see exactly how much my wards and such recorded before they reset, but I'd even bet it had the same star-chart coordinates plugged in, except it... misfired, for lack of a better term. Something caused the spell to terminate prematurely, which is why we're in the middle of fucking nowhere."

Re: Research!

[spin_kick_snap]

"Can you figure out where we were trying to go?" Kathy asked. "Or why the spell triggered right then?"

Re: Research!

[talentforlying]

"If I could get hands-on with the spell from last night, sure," he said, "--but I was asleep at the time, and the magical protections I have up around this place and my apartment didn't record anything besides 'magic flare' since the spell didn't complete itself."

Re: Research!

[intotheout]

On Tip's first trip outside today, she'd learned about the enormous rabbits. On her second, she'd learned that enormous rabbits were just close enough to Boov to be affected by the "comasleep" setting on her gun, though not for very long. ("Tummy trouble" did nothing, and she wasn't about to set it to "erase" without much more of a reason for it.)

On her third, she headed for the library. And went looking for books on Leporidae. She seemed to remember "lepus" as a name for giant bunny rabbits. . . .

Re: Research!

[regretiz4suckas.livejournal.com]

Kenzi was talking on her phone (http://nookiepowered.livejournal.com/707.html?thread=486083#t486083), then hanging up with a disgruntled sigh. "Bunnies, bunnies, bunnies," she said, like it was a curse. "Was anyone expecting this?" She kind of felt like they'd deserved more warning than this.

Re: Research!

[intotheout]

"If they did, they kept it real close to their chest," Tip grumbled. "I'm guessing this isn't a regular Easter thing?"

Re: Research!

[regretiz4suckas.livejournal.com]

"If it is, I slept through it the last whatever-many years." Which, not impossible if she'd been hungover, but man. "I think there were cute tiny bunnies that gave you hugs one year, but nothing like this. Ugh." She frowned at the girl and said, "I'm Kenzi, I don't think I've run into you before."

Re: Research!

[intotheout]

"Gratuity," Tip said, offering her hand. "I spend most of my time at the school. Or the post office, I guess."

Re: Research!

[regretiz4suckas.livejournal.com]

Kenzi snapped her fingers at that, and reached out to shake her hand. "Yeah, that's it, I think I saw you one time when I went in for stamps or something. I work at Caritas on Mondays. And Luke's on Wednesdays. Makes sense I haven't seen you around before." She sighed and looked at Gratuity's book contemplatively. "No luck in the books yet, hunh?"

Re: Research!

[intotheout]

"I've learned a lot more about the life style of the snowshoe hare than I ever knew before," Tip said. "And found something about a 'prince of a thousand enemies'. But no."

Re: Research!

[regretiz4suckas.livejournal.com]

Kenzi's reaction, on seeing all the bunnies-- ALL THE BUNNIES-- on the way to caffienation was to say "oh, hell no."

Because she'd seen this movie, and those knights never saw those bunnies coming.

So she decided to head to the Library, on the theory that someone there might know what was going on, and if they didn't, she could hide in the restricted section if things got even more weird than this.

Ooo, more coffee.

Re: Research!

[spin_kick_snap]

Those archival boxes that Mr. Constantine had pulled out looked like a decent place to start. Rather than poking aimlessly through the stacks, Kathy snagged one of the boxes and brought it back to the chair she'd claimed for herself. Maybe she could find something about...oh, anything really. Or at least entertain herself with history until someone else did.

Talk to Ahsoka

[snipsnspecks]

Or not, she's kind of cranky today.

Talk to the Librarian

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If he's around.

Re: Talk to the Librarian

[talentforlying]

"WHY THE FLYING FUCK ARE THERE GIANT FUCKING RABBITS?"

Yes, friends, your librarian is in.

Re: Talk to the Librarian

[regretiz4suckas.livejournal.com]

Kenzi studied him over her coffee cup. Considered saying "because of the fucking?" but decided she didn't need to know if the Library would smack her down for that in front of students. Librarians always got away with stuff other people couldn't.

"Why rabbits for Easter anyway?" Like she knew?

Re: Talk to the Librarian

[snipsnspecks]

"You will use your indoor voice," Ahsoka muttered darkly to her own cup of caf from the collections desk, because actually trying to mind trick a teacher seemed like a Bad Idea.

Tempting though.

OOC

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