Fandom Library, Wednesday, November 12th

[afraid_of_marshmallows]

Huh. There were a bunch of music books out around the library. Arden found one for guitars, basses, drums, even keyboards. Books about music, books teaching people how to play the instruments, books about caring and maintaining them. Even books about cutting a demo and sending it around to record labels.

Arden wasn't sure if the gremlins were starting a band, or there was something else in the library that was thinking about it (possibly even the library itself?), but all afternoon she heard strains of music coming from different areas, sometimes just warmup exercises and chords, sometimes whole songs.

Couldn't find the musicians when she went looking for them, of course. But could definitely hear them.

"Hey!" she called at one point. "Seven Nation Army?"

A long moment of silence, and from over near the biographies section, the slow reverberations of a bass guitar. Bum bumbum bum bumbuuuuumbuuummm. Bum bum bumbum bum bumbumbuuummm...

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[afraid_of_marshmallows]

Enjoy some easy listening courtesy of...who knows who? But someone!

Talk to the Aide

[afraid_of_marshmallows]

As she occasionally calls out requests

Talk to the Librarian

[afraid_of_marshmallows]

He seemed like he'd have strong musical opinions.

OOC

[afraid_of_marshmallows]

A myyyyyysteryyyy where this inspiration came from.

Re: Talk to the Aide

[moreofaponchoguy]

Cal was always a little wary coming into the library, but the situation at least sounded good today as he came in. "I was just coming in for the company, I didn't know we'd be getting a concert too," he said.

Forgive him for his goofy dancing, Arden, there was a terrible lack of good bass players in galaxies far far away.

Re: Talk to the Aide

[afraid_of_marshmallows]

She could forgive his goofy dancing; she could even find it cute and charming! His love of terrible facial hair, however...That was harder to find room in her heart for.

He was lucky he was super-cute.

"It's your lucky day, then," Arden said, leaning across the desk to offer him a kiss.

Re: OOC

[my_own_advocate]

Look YOU STARTED IT WITH THE GETTING UP BECAUSE I WAS PLAYING IT AS A WARM UP

Re: OOC

[afraid_of_marshmallows]

IT'S A GOOD SONG AND I REGRET NOTHING

Re: Talk to the Aide

[napking]

"Ardennnnnnn," Gray whined whined as he came into the library with two takeout containers. "They won't let me decorate Over Easy for Christmas! And it's already almost halfway through November!" This was surely discrimination of some sort.

Re: Talk to the Aide

[moreofaponchoguy]

Hey, his real facial hair would be better than the fake stuff, if he ever managed to get it to grow. Probably. Maybe.

"Yours too, getting to have something less strange happening in here," he said, kissing her back. "Is everything going okay so far?"

Re: Talk to the Aide

[afraid_of_marshmallows]

Listen, it didn't matter whose hair it was, nobody looked good in muttonchops. But maybe a nice scruff...

"So far," Arden said. "I don't know who's playing the music, but it doesn't seem like it's any kind of creepy musical trap or faeries luring anyone away, so...I'm not going to complain."

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[afraid_of_marshmallows]

"What if you started decorating for winter," Arden suggested, biting back a smile. "You know, fake snow, icicles, snowflakes, that kind of thing. Maybe you can even sneak in some subtle Christmas stuff in there where they're not looking."

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[napking]

"But winter is cold," Gray whined. "Christmas is the only tolerable part of it. Science." He presented a takeout container to her with a flourish. "Apple pie waffles."

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[afraid_of_marshmallows]

"Ooooh!" Arden said, reaching for the waffles. "Delicious." She helped herself to a forkful of waffle. "But I'm just saying, at least you'd be decorating a little bit."

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[napking]

"Maybe," Gray allowed. "I could try." A beat. "And then Raiden might appear with a squirt bottle. Hey, where's the music coming from?"

Re: Talk to the Aide

[afraid_of_marshmallows]

"Just make sure it's winter stuff and you'll hopefully be okay," Arden said. Which, you know, might or might not be true. "Your guess is as good as mine. For awhile, the drums were coming from the children's books, but nothing was actually there when I went to check and since then, it's moved elsewhere, too."

Re: Talk to the Aide

[moreofaponchoguy]

"Is that something I should be worried about? Fairies with good musical skills luring people away to join their bands?" Cal said with a laugh. "With little tiny guitars and drums?"

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[napking]

Raiden would argue it wasn't winter yet, and that would technically be true, but it was already cold*, okay?

"Maybe the books are forming a band," Gray suggested.

*If you were named Erasmus Boone.

Re: Talk to the Aide

[afraid_of_marshmallows]

Surely Raiden would see this as a compromise that would get Gray to stop draping himself over tables and bewailing the lack of Christmas! Two weeks was a long time, Raiden.

"That's one of the least horrifying possibilities, yeah!"

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[afraid_of_marshmallows]

"Oh, faeries leading people astray with music is a whole thing," Arden said. "Or used to be, before the Detente. You hear some music, follow it, and suddenly you're in a toodstool ring or miles from home and have no memory of how you got there. You know, if they let you go at all."

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[napking]

"What are the more horrifying possibilities?" Gray wondered. "Ghosts?"

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[moreofaponchoguy]

"...does this happen a lot? Is this a here-thing or a your world-thing?" Not that Cal was suddenly worried or anything, that would be silly! "I mean, I've done the miles from home thing, and it worked out pretty well. And the not being able to leave part. Maybe it wouldn't be so bad."