Library, Thursday, 8/17

[chasingangela]

Angela comes in early and strangely alert for her next-to-last time in the library alone, at least until the new librarian starts.

And depending on who the next librarian is, it may be her next-to-last time, period. Because she's pretty much decided that if the next librarian is another one with fur, she's going to take it as a bad sign and quit before Special Collections eats her.

But today? She's mostly sorting through some new books that have come in over the summer and twirling on her stool while she waits for people to have bookish needs.

[OOC: Open, no OCD\.]

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[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

"You're right, I should say it more," he joked.

[chasingangela]

Angela buried her face in her hands and groaned. "If we do get an invasion of sentient plants that eat people or something? I hope they eat the second floor first."

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

"Plants can't eat stones!" Cameron protested.

[chasingangela]

...and yeah, Angela really doesn't get that. "Huh?"

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

"How can they eat an entire floor?" Cameron was being literal this morning.

[chasingangela]

"The people on the floor, doof," Angela said. "But actually? Plants that are the building would be kind of interesting. And WAY less fatal."

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

"Unless you're on the top floor and they eat the bottom floor and the whole thing collapses," he pointed out.

[chasingangela]

Angela shuddered. "Which is why I'm going back to voting for no invasion."

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

"But they're fun," Cameron pointed out. "If not stinky from time to time."

[chasingangela]

Angela shook her head vigorously. "No more zombies. Ever."

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

"We've had zombies and mummies already, I wonder what that means that we're getting next," he pondered it for a moment. "Do we have books on invasions?"

[chasingangela]

"Anything but vampires," Angela said vehemently. "And I'll check."

She tapped on the card catalogue computer. "I should not be surprised, but we do. Over in the 350s on the second shelf before Special Collections, with the books on wars."

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

"Cool, wanna see what kind of freak things we should be preparing for?" Cameron asked, bouncing on his feet.

[chasingangela]

"Definitiely," Angela decided. "It's better we know, you know?"

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

"Exactly because I keep facing things with the wrong weapons which is annoying," Cameron motioned to the books. "Lead the way."

[chasingangela]

"How can it be a wrogn weapon?," Angela asked, sliding out from behind the desk to walk into the stacks. "Unless it doesn't kill them."

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

"Facing a crowd of zombies with a shotgun means you're reloading half the time," Cameron replied as he trailed after her. "A sword against snow monsters? Not very effective."

[chasingangela]

"Probably not," Angela said thoughtfully. "Maybe we should just all carry flamethrowers."

She arrived at the books. "We have something called 500 Things That Want to Kill You, she said. "And, ooh, Invasions & You. Think those might help?"

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

"Sounds good, I think we might need a shopping cart or something," he said as he started pulling out books. "So You're Being Invaded, Now What?, The Monster Mash En Masse and Surviving An Invasion For Dummies. Nice."

[chasingangela]

"I like the title of Monster Mash," Angela said. "And they should give everyone who enrolls here the For Dummies book."

She craned her neck back, looking at a high shelf. "That's called Invasions: Preconceptions and Pedagogy, but it's about a thousand pages long."

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

"Whoa," Cameron stood on his tiptoes to grab the book. "Heavy. I think they wanted to make sure you can use it as a weapon too," he said as he sat down on the ground and rested the book in his lap so he could leaf through it.

"Chapter 1: Misunderstandings about Monsters and why they invade," he raised an eyebrow.

[chasingangela]

Angela groaned. "Please don't tell me it defends the monsters."

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

Cameron looked further into the book. "I think it's trying to analyse why monsters do what they do," he paused. "Chapter 16: How to negotiate with monsters, Chapter 17: What to do when negotiation fails..."

[chasingangela]

"Negotiating might actually be useful," Angela said. "I mean, if you get something that's, like, into diplomacy."

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

Cameron skimmed through the chapter. "Yeah, but the book says to send someone who's expandable in case the monsters decide to eat them."