⇨ THE ATHENAEUM

[ringleaders]

Who: Everyone!
When: Day 47 - Day 58 ish
Where: The Athenaeum
What: The carnival arrives at book world. First week, they'll be performing for magical manifestations of book characters. Second week, it's time to hunt (for books, in the library.) Around Day 58 some stuff will occur.
Warnings: Reading is mandatory.

FAERIE TALES↴ Though the carnival will be performing for its guests in the first week, they are welcome to search the Athenaeum while they are off duty during that time. The manifestations of story characters will be out in full force during performance week, with animals, people, objects, and even locations growing out from various tales. Most are distracting at worst, and will be curious to check out the carnival. Some, however, can be as dangerous as they were in their stories of origin. You know what to do. ► IT'S TIME TO ROLEPLAY: The best way to deal with book ghosts is to follow their narrative to its logical conclusion - turn the tables, work the story so it ends in your favour! Naturalistic and narratively satisfying plotting will have the manifestations following your lead. However, push too hard and introduce too many plot holes, inconsistencies, or illogical plot twists, and they will reject your reality utterly, becoming quite aggressive in the process. You can also use your natural abilities and powers to fight them in a traditional sense, but in the Ringmaster's experience, it's best to fight reality benders by bending reality right back at them. If you aren't careful, it's possible to be dragged fully into a story's reality, and then things get really messed up. ► IT'S ALSO TIME TO READ: The carnival came here for a purpose, and that purpose is to research. Specifically, the Ringmaster is looking for information on the Queen's Miracles - the set of ancient fae artifacts that the Blue Rose is one of. The carnival needs these artifacts to defend itself, but nobody knows where they've been for thousands of years. That's what the books are for. However, nothing is stopping you from pursuing knowledge for personal reasons. The halls are open to your perusal, and only your heart can guide you to the book you truly seek. Check the plot post to see what's allowed, and sign up to find plot info or other important game information below.

Comments

[stillwinningthehardway]

"Probably, I don't know, the ingredients are people or character traits and then the recipe is how they go together." Scout makes a face. Her strength is not in literary analysis. "Or something. I wouldn't rule it out, anyway."

She closes this book and slots it back in where she took it from, then like Syr runs her fingers along several dusty spines and one spiral ring. It would be nice if the Force could help her here, it would be tremendously convenient, but it's never worked like that, not for her anyway. She's known several people who could probably walk on in here, pick out a book at random, and it would turn out to be the right one, but the best she's found in several days has been a couple interesting stories. Well, one good story, one that left her with a lot of unanswered questions, and several that physically conjure characters or scenes, which is a very mixed experience.

"So is - so was the Temple archive," she says, a little tense about talking about it no matter what tenses she uses. It's fine, there are plenty of temples. "What's the Priory?"

[chronosynthesis]

"An order of scholars and historians. They have a library... very much like this, actually." Not to the same scale, but large enough that from Syrlya's perspective he can hardly tell the difference.

He glances sidelong to her, repeating the same question back. "What is the temple archive?"

[stillwinningthehardway]

"I see. You're not part of it, I take it?" She makes a small gesture with her chin, indicating the vast and quiet expanse of books. "I feel like if I was a librarian I'd be pretty annoyed."

Scout tugs out the spiral-ringed book closest to hand, opens it, and without changing her facial expression closes it and returns it to its place. Armor repair with or without casual binding is unlikely to have anything in it she'll find useful.

"That was was the library closest to where I grew up," she says, though it's a little more complicated than that. The Jedi archives had also housed artifacts, and members of the Order dedicated to research and discovery. She'd been told again and again how special it was, but of course, it had only really sunk in after she was unable to return.

[chronosynthesis]

"I am not, though..." Though he could have been. It had been extremely tempting, but he felt he had far more to learn from the Vigil, when it came to preparing himself for fighting the dragons and completing his duty.

"Though I have worked with them frequently. Often they have information you cannot find elsewhere, for good reason." Only because he trusts them as the holder of much of the world's hidden information. They have only the best intentions.

"If it was in a temple, was it something religious?" That's where he's most familiar with temples. It occurs to him, he doesn't know much about Scout outside of their shared job. And, apparently, that she's familiar with openly travelling through space.