Library [06/08]

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

Rory managed to make it into the library fairly early, dragging the damn book with her as well as her laptop, with a cup of coffee in hand and four wide-eyed, fluffy kittens firmly attached to the legs of her jeans.

The library was open, and would likely remain so for most of the day.

[If you're here for research, tag into that thread. If you're here for recruitment, go there. If you're here just to be in the library, there'll be a thread for that. OCD is coming up.]

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Re: Research!

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

Dawn waved back. "Hey Jamie. Grab a book and look for anything on...the Book of the Dead, or any variations on the theme."

Re: Research!

[multi-madrox.livejournal.com]

"Just one book?" Jamie said with a grin. He rapped his fist against the table about eight times summoning up some duplicates. "All right guys, you heard the pretty lady. Grab a book and look for a reference on the Book of the Dead. Or pudding. Maybe kittens."

Re: Research!

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"Cats were sacred in Ancient Egypt," Dawn said, a bit distractedly as she checked a hieroglyph. Damn it, still not the right one. "Maybe that's why it's kittens? You might also want to check out the Old Testament--lots of Egypty stuff in there. Maybe it's an allegory."

Yeah, she'd spent way too much time learning from Giles.

Re: Research!

[multi-madrox.livejournal.com]

All the Jamie's nodded seriously as they dove into their books.

"What about the coffee pond? Or the butterflies and the pudding? Did they have pudding and coffee back in Ancient Egypt?" One of the Jamies asked as they tried to keep a kitten off one of the books.

One of the duplicates suddenly remembered his scooby training and stood up.

"Who wants dougnuts?"

Re: Research!

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"Ooh, chocolate glazed, please," Dawn ordered immediately, "and I'm gonna go with a maybe on the butterflies and a no on the pudding? Maybe? What we really need is a nutritional anthropologist."

Re: Research!

[multi-madrox.livejournal.com]

The doughnut Jamie wandered off in the direction of J,GOB's while the others kept to their research duties.

"Hang on! We have pudding!" a Jamie said waving a book on nutritional anthropology of ancient Egypt. "Says here that the egyptians made an early form of pudding by boiling fruit down and mixing it with a batter type substance. It mentions something about a legend where it was created for some pharoh but nothing about who that pharoh was."

Re: Research!

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"So at least we know now that the random weird stuff isn't so random," Dawn said, making some notes. What was that word? She squinted and tried to determine exactly what kind of animal she was looking at. "That's good, Jamie. Anything on butterflies?"

Re: Research!

[multi-madrox.livejournal.com]

"They have green blood and the smallest butterfly has a wingspan of 1.5 cm," One of the Jamies mentions from his book on butterflies. "But I'm betting that's not what we're looking for."

Re: Research!

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

She smiled. "No, not really. But it's informative," she leaned over to look at the book, "and ooh, pretty."

Re: Research!

[multi-madrox.livejournal.com]

"Hey, look at us. Stickbugs and Meerkats working together," another Jamie said from where he's sitting.

Suddenly his face grows pale.

"OMG. It's really the apocalypse, isn't it?"

Re: Research!

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"Hopefully not," Dawn answered honestly. "Those usually involve someone getting dead, and I'd really like to avoid that."

Re: Research!

[multi-madrox.livejournal.com]

Suddenly something clicks with all of the Jamies and they suddenly look *really* scared.

They all huddle around a computer and do a google search for "En Sabah Nur".

When nothing comes back they all breath a collective sigh of relief and go back to their reseach.

Re: Research!

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"What was that about?" Dawn asked, seeing the mass exodus to the computer, then the return.

Re: Research!

[multi-madrox.livejournal.com]

"Back where I'm from there was mutant from ancient Egypt who called himself 'Apocalypse'," one of he Jamies explained. "Turns out he's not in this world's history, as far as I can tell so we don't have to deal with him."

Re: Research!

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"Oh," Dawn said, eyes wide. "I'm glad he's not here. Because a person named after a world endy event can't possibly be good."

Re: Research!

[multi-madrox.livejournal.com]

"Oh yeah. He's a nasty one," Jamie said nodding seriously. "I hope he never comes here. Find anything else?"

Re: Research!

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

Dawn frowned. "Something about past revisited and...mixed? No, that's not right. Moses...past...lightened...changed" She almost tossed the book aside in frustration, then double checked something. "Plagues!"

Dawn grinned proudly. "Ladies and gentlemen, we have plagues. Well, kinda plaguettes, but yes!"

Re: Research!

[multi-madrox.livejournal.com]

"Moses and the plaguettes? What is it? Some kind of Old testament rock band?"

Re: Research!

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

Dawn gave him a Look. And snagged a doughnut. "Yes, Jamie, we're dealing with a rock band. Don't you see?"

She said, getting up to pace, gesturing as she spoke and it all connected, "We've got a lessening of the plagues--water into pudding instead of blood, butterflies instead of locusts, kittens instead of...well, I don't know what the kittens are instead of," she frowned and stopped mid-pace, stumped.

Re: Research!

[multi-madrox.livejournal.com]

"Go on. Your on a roll. We'll figure out the kittens later," Jamie said moving a kitten away from attacking a jelly filled.

Re: Research!

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"So, if I'm thinking about this right," Dawn said, taking Jamie at his word, "we're due for another eight days of weirdo plagues, culminating in some big thing, unless we stop whatever's going on before then."

Re: Research!

[multi-madrox.livejournal.com]

"Great. More weird stuff. I personally am hoping for a river of cream to go with the coffee pond," Jamie said hopefully. "Oh wait? This will probably end badly, right? Nevermind. So if it's a plauge, what's the source?"

Re: Research!

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"I'm gonna go with whatever it was that Rory read in the common room," Dawn decided, "even though I don't know exactly what it was she said."

Re: Research!

[multi-madrox.livejournal.com]

"Well I wasn't there so I can't help you. Do we have what she read? Something we can compare it to?"

Re: Research!

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

Dawn nodded. "We've got the book, and a few reference books. The problem is that my Ancient Egyptian is very sketchy and there's a lot the dictionary doesn't cover."

"Do you read hieroglyphics?" She asked, hopefully.