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Welcome Log ⬡ 03

Welcome to The Library!


Welcome, everyone, to the Library! As you wander your way in, wake up at a desk, or descend an elevator, the library's ambiance is, well... the same as it always is. Comforting-but-not. Warm-but-cold. Empty-but-populated. And, as always, there are certain things going on that just might make settling in a little easier.

Information Desk
⬡ Stationery

Once again, there will be a stack of blank notebooks and a haphazard pile of pens set out on the Information Desk. The pens will only be able to write in the notebooks, on characters' personal belongings, and on skin.

These items are entirely unlimited.

Notebooks and pens will be provided in assorted colors in shades of red, white, and pink, and are all absolutely covered in glitter.

Cafe Menu
⬡ Seasonal Menu

⬡ Creamy Tuscan Chicken
⬡ Shrimp Scampi Risotto
⬡ Cajun Butter Steak
⬡ Honey Garlic Glazed Salmon

⬡ Red Velvet Cupcakes
⬡ Brownie Batter Pancakes
⬡ Chocolate Covered Strawberries
⬡ White Chocolate-Raspberry Parfaits

⬡ Hibiscus Pomegranate Iced Tea
⬡ Pomegranate Grapefruit Frosé
⬡ Black Forest Latte
⬡ Iced Chocolate-Covered Cherries Latte

⬡ Usual Menu

The Cafe menu will also showcase more typical cafe fare, from teas and coffees, to standard hot chocolates, to pastries, donuts, and sandwiches.

The Search Bar will also bring up whatever else characters could possibly want.

Sunrise Room
⬡ Seasonal Showings

As always, movies playing at any given time are randomized, but this month there is a higher chance of romantic comedies playing on the screen.

First Floor Restrooms
⬡ Seasonal Showers

This month, all complimentary toiletries will be either rose, pomegranate, or patchouli scented.

Locker Room
⬡ Valentines??

Should anyone check inside their lockers this month, they will find a cute little friendship valentine, with a character that looks almost-familiar, professing that they are "cute" or "sweet" or "my bestest friend" or something equally saccharine.

Ocean Floor 5
⬡ Fairy Bottles

The Group Study Room on Ocean Floor 5 will once again be set up for a quick little craft. Materials may not be removed from the room, but any finished products may!

A television will be mounted on the wall, playing a video on repeat.

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Event 2 ⬡ The Master-Thief

Casting Call



The Master-Thief
The Brothers Grimm
"The young tree was bound to no post and has grown crooked"
Page 1
Name: The Thief
Casting Call: Deuce Spade, Dimitri Alexandre Blaiddyd, Felix Hugo Fraldarius, Gwendolyn, Hua Cheng, Leona Kingscholar, Lucifer, Ogata Hyakunosuke, Rorona Zoro, Ruggie Bucchi, Shang Qinghua, Shen Jiu, V, Vidar, Yan Qing, Zhongli
Physical Notes: A young adult human, aged 20-30. Dressed well.
Personality Notes: Clever. Generous, in a Robin Hood sort of way. Has no qualms with stealing, if there is a challenge in it, and if the person who he is stealing from is rich enough to handle it.
"The young tree was bound to no post and has grown crooked"
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Name: The Thief
Casting Call: Deuce Spade, Dimitri Alexandre Blaiddyd, Felix Hugo Fraldarius, Gwendolyn, Hua Cheng, Leona Kingscholar, Lucifer, Ogata Hyakunosuke, Rorona Zoro, Ruggie Bucchi, Shang Qinghua, Shen Jiu, V, Vidar, Yan Qing, Zhongli
Compulsions: To steal from the rich and give to the poor - but, failing that, to find a challenge in the things he steals, and enjoy the sport of it, and the fruits of his "labor."
⬡ Has become rich from his craft.
Objectives: To use his wits and wiles and steal the odd items which the Lord has bade him to, without being caught.
"Thou art my godson, and on that account mercy shall take the place of justice."
Page 1
Name: The Lord
Casting Call: Angela Ziegler, Claude von Riegan, Emil Västerström, Ib, Ichiban Kasuga, Mira Chambers, Misa Amane, Ochako Uraraka, Ren Amamiya, Sandalphon, Shen Qingqiu, Sylvain Jose Gautier, Wei Wuxian, Xie Lian, Yuri Leclerc
Physical Notes: An older adult human, aged 50+. Has never had to do hard labor in his life.
Personality Notes: Kind, almost to the point of being soft. Shows mercy on his god-son, the Thief, in giving him challenges rather than seeing him hanged. More prone to frustration in himself when the people around him are tricked than in them.
"Thou art my godson, and on that account mercy shall take the place of justice."
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Name: The Lord
Casting Call: Angela Ziegler, Claude von Riegan, Emil Västerström, Ib, Ichiban Kasuga, Mira Chambers, Misa Amane, Ochako Uraraka, Ren Amamiya, Sandalphon, Shen Qingqiu, Sylvain Jose Gautier, Wei Wuxian, Xie Lian, Yuri Leclerc
Compulsions: To test his god-son rather than arrest and execute him immediately - as would be his right. To give himself a reason to let the Thief go free while still having a clear conscience.
Objectives: To use every means at his disposal - wits, wealth, personell - to stop the Thief from stealing whatever esoteric items he demands as a test. To think of odd things for the thief to steal away, to make the tests more difficult.
"Would you know him again if he were to come to you?"
Name: The Tricked
Casting Call: Open
Physical Notes: Various humans. The Thief's parents, The Lord's wife, The Lord's stable hands, The Pastor, The Clerk.
Personality Notes: Easily tricked - The Thief's schemes rely on these individuals not seeing through his disguises, and falling for his lies, and they do.
Compulsions: Likely to turn a blind eye to anything the Thief does which might seem off, or amiss.
Objectives: Will, by some means, fall for whatever schemes the Thief lays out.
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Trick 1 - The Farmhouse

⬡ Common Cast

Characters most likely to originate in The Farmhouse are The Thief and The Tricked as The Thief's Parents.

⬡ Literary Description

One day an old man and his wife were sitting in front of a miserable house resting a while from their work.

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"Come into my garden with me for a while, I have still something to do there." He had dug some holes in the garden, and now wanted to plant some trees in them.


⬡ For Your Exploration

The house belonging to the old man and his wife is small, but cozy. They clearly do not have much money, but have still made a home for themselves here. The garden is similarly small, but full of holes in rows for saplings to be planted.

As there are multiple trees to be planted, they are likely fruit trees.

The Kitchen is the heart of the home, small but warm, and the old man's wife is capable of easily and comfortably making a requested "poor man's meal" for the Thief on request.

⬡ The Trick

The old man and his wife will not realize that the Thief is their long, lost, estranged child until they've been told - unable to recognize them for how much they've changed, and how they've made a fortune for themselves.

Trick 2 - The Stables

⬡ Common Cast

Characters most likely to originate in The Stables are The Thief, The Lord, and The Tricked, in the form of the Lord's Stable Hands.

⬡ Literary Description

One of the soldiers had seated himself on the saddled riding-horse, another held its bridle in his hand, a third had laid hold of its tail.

⬡ For Your Exploration

The Lord's stables are as nice as one could expect - they're well-tended, and just as well guarded. The Lord's personal riding horse the most well-guarded of all, even if it kitted out to be ridden at a moment's notice.

⬡ The Trick

The Thief will be tasked this time to steal the Lord's own horse out from under the stable hands' and guards' noses. The guards will know to be on the lookout for the Thief, so the Thief will have to use all their cunning to get in and out right in front of them.

Trick 3 - The Bedchamber

⬡ Common Cast

Characters most likely to originate in The Bedchamber are The Thief, The Lord, and The Tricked, in the form of the Lord's Wife.

⬡ Literary Description

When the countess went to bed that night, she closed her hand with the wedding-ring tightly together, and the count said, "All the doors are locked and bolted, I will keep awake and wait for the thief, but if he gets in by the window, I will shoot him."

⬡ For Your Exploration

The room itself is a lush bedroom, fitting the Lord and Lady. It is located in the upper floors of his castle, and the doors and windows will be locked initially. Moonlight will be the only light in the room.

⬡ The Trick

The Thief will be tasked this time to steal the Lord's own bedsheets from under himself and his wife while they sleep, and his wife's wedding ring off her finger at the same time. The Lord and Lady will attempt to stay awake through the night to foil the Thief's plans - though of cours they'll do their best to get in and out with their prizes safely all the same.

Trick 4 - The Church

⬡ Common Cast

Characters most likely to originate in The Church are The Thief and The Tricked, in the form of The Pastor and The Clerk.

⬡ Literary Description

When night had fallen he went with a long sack on his back, a bundle under his arms, and a lantern in his hand to the village-church.

⬡ For Your Exploration

The Church itself is small - just large enough to serve the little village it is located in, and with living quarters for the Pastor and his Clerk. It is simply decorated, with not anything worth stealing to distract the Thief from his duty. Outside, it is clear that the church itself is situated some distance outside of the village - homes are in sight, but not nearby, and there is a winding path to and from. There is also a small cemetery surrounding the church - the churchyard - with headstones in varying states of disrepair.

⬡ The Trick

The Thief will be tasked this time to steal the Pastor and his Clerk themselves whole, and bring them back to the castle without realizing anything is amiss by the next morning. They will be instructed to also do as little harm as possible to these individuals - so killing them and delivering their bodies is not an option.

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Welcome Log ⬡ 02

Welcome to The Library!


Welcome, everyone, to the Library! As you wander your way in, wake up at a desk, or descend an elevator, the library's ambiance is, well... the same as it always is. Comforting-but-not. Warm-but-cold. Empty-but-populated. And, as always, there are certain things going on that just might make settling in a little easier.

Information Desk
⬡ Maps

At the Information Desk, there will be a large stack of looseleaf graph paper and a surplus of pencils, to more easily enable anyone who wishes to draw their own map of the library. The pencils will only be able to write on blank paper given to characters by library activities, and not on any of the books.

⬡ Stationery

Next to the graph paper, there will be a stack of blank notebooks and a haphazard pile of pens. The pens will only be able to write in the notebooks, on characters' personal belongings, and on skin.

All three of these items are semi-limited; somehow characters will only be able to make one stack of items as tall as they are once they've been removed from the desk.

Notebooks and pens will be provided in assorted colors in shades of blue, purple, white (and grey) and teal.

Cafe Menu
⬡ Seasonal Menu

⬡ Slow-cooked Mac and Cheese
⬡ Butter Chicken
⬡ Apricot and Brie Stuffed Chicken Breast With Roasted Potatoes
⬡ Rainbow Vegetarian Pad Thai With Peanuts and Basil

⬡ Chocolate Cream Pie
⬡ Classic Cheesecake
⬡ Champagne Cupcakes
⬡ Moscato Cupcakes

⬡ Champagne
⬡ Mulled Wine
⬡ Irish Coffee
⬡ Chestnut Praline Latte

⬡ Usual Menu

The Cafe menu will also showcase more typical cafe fare, from teas and coffees, to standard hot chocolates, to pastries, donuts, and sandwiches.

The Search Bar will also bring up whatever else characters could possibly want.

Sunrise Room
⬡ Seasonal Showings

As always, movies playing at any given time are randomized, but this month there is a higher chance of movies playing with themes of new beginnings.

First Floor Restrooms
⬡ Seasonal Showers

This month, all complimentary toiletries will be either vanilla, blueberry pancake, or cedar scented.

Ocean Floor 4
⬡ Room 4575

Located in room 4575 on Ocean Floor 4 will be a large table with an inordinate amount of self-help books, revolving around themes of "New Year, New You" and "New Year’s Resolution Ideas And How To Achieve Each Of Them." Alongside the books will be a stack of worksheets, asking questions about characters' goals and "resolutions" - all appearing to be photocopied haphazardly from a different book entirely.

It would appear as though the intent was for there to be a somewhat therapeutic book club meeting, focused on improving oneself.

In practice, the room itself somehow has taken on a somewhat oppressive air, as though there's someone staring at you and judging your life choices, even if you're alone in the room.

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Event 1 ⬡ A Christmas Carol

Casting Call



A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens
"Bah, Humbug!"
Name: Ebenezer Scrooge
Casting Call: Felassan, Jyushimatsu Matsuno, Mira Chambers, Osomatsu Matsuno, Rufus Shinra, Shirou Emiya, Yuri Leclerc
Physical Notes: An older man, stodgy.
Personality Notes: Miserly, greedy, and cold-hearted. After being visited by the spirits, he turns joyful, generous, and kind.
Compulsions: To keep and grow his fortune.
Later, to seek redemption once he's seen the reality of his situation, and to make amends by using his wealth to spread joy.
"A Merry Christmas to us all, my dears. God bless us!"
Name: The Cratchit Family
Casting Call: Deuce Spade, Felix Hugo Fraldarius, Ren Amamiya, Sandalphon, Tseng, Yoichi Isagi
Physical Notes: Bob and Mrs. Cratchit are older, in their mid-40s-50s. Their many children can range from 15-30.
Personality Notes: All kind and loving, trying to get by, but know they can rely on one another.
Compulsions: To care for one another. Bob also cares for Scrooge, in his own way, though the rest of the family despises him on some level.
"God bless us every one!"
Name: Tiny Tim
Casting Call: Misa Amane, Shen Jiu
Physical Notes: A child, no older than 11. Very thin and small for his age. Crippled and frail.
Personality Notes: Near-angelic, forgiving and loving of everyone, having a good spirit about his frailty.
Compulsions: To keep his family in good spirits, and enjoy the time he has with them.
"I wear the chain I forged in life"
Name: Jacob Marley
Casting Call: Angela Ziegler, Ogata Hyakunosuke, Ruggie Bucchi, Yan Qing
Physical Notes: Deceased. A ghost, bound in heavy chains.
Personality Notes: Greedy and cold in life, remoresful in death.
Compulsions: To warn Ebenezer Scrooge about the fate that awaits him, should he continue on his path. To announce the coming of the three subsequent spirits.
"Your welfare! Your reclamation, then. Take heed!"
Name: The Ghost of Christmas Past
Casting Call: Aerith Gainsborough, Dirk Strider, Gwendolyn
Physical Notes: A small spirit, whose face glows brightly, simultaneously appearing very young and very old.
Personality Notes: Sprightly, caring, almost childlike, but not childish. Wise beyond their appearance.
Compulsions: To take Ebenezer Scrooge into his past, and show him visions of Christmases before he became so bitter and miserly, a reminder of happiness he once had.
"Come in! and know me better, man!"
Name: The Ghost of Christmas Present
Casting Call: Dimitri Alexandre Blaiddyd, Hua Cheng, V
Physical Notes: A larger than life spirit, wearing an oversized green fur robe.
Personality Notes: Jovial and merry, even while issuing their warning. Their existence spreads joy, and they know and relish in it.
Compulsions: To show Ebenezer Scrooge visions of Christmas merriment in the present, to show that merriment costs nothing and brings joy. To fade away once the season is ended, because his lifespan is short.
"For in the very air through which this Spirit moved it seemed to scatter gloom and mystery."
Name: The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come
Casting Call: Leona Kingscholar, Lucifer, Shen Qingqiu, Sylvain Jose Gautier, Wei Wuxian
Physical Notes: An ominous spectre, in black robes, with their face hidden. Mute.
Personality Notes: Cold and chilling, frightening by nature, deliberate in action. Forgiving, by virtue of issuing a warning rather than a condemnation.
Compulsions: To show Ebenezer Scrooge visions of what awaits him in the future, should he not change course. That he will die alone and be unmourned. That his belongings will be sold off before his body has even gone cold.
"Merry Christmas, Sir!"
Name: Ensemble
Casting Call: Itachi Uchiha, Osamu Dazai, Rorona Zoro, Xie Lian
Physical Notes: Various side and filler characters appearing in short, brief scenes. Can be varied ages, social statuses, and genders. Named Ensemble characters would be Fred, Fezziwig, Belle, Fan, and "The Portly Gentlemen," though this role is not limited to just them.
Personality Notes: Varied - though generally joyful.
Compulsions: To enjoy the Christmas season to the fullest.
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Scrooge and Marley's

⬡ Common Cast

Characters most likely to originate in Scrooge and Marley's are Ebenezer Scrooge, Bob Cratchit, and the Ensemble.

⬡ Literary Description

"The door of Scrooge’s counting-house was open that he might keep his eye upon his clerk, who in a dismal little cell beyond, a sort of tank, was copying letters. Scrooge had a very small fire, but the clerk’s fire was so very much smaller that it looked like one coal. But he couldn’t replenish it, for Scrooge kept the coal-box in his own room; and so surely as the clerk came in with the shovel, the master predicted that it would be necessary for them to part. Wherefore the clerk put on his white comforter, and tried to warm himself at the candle; in which effort, not being a man of a strong imagination, he failed."

⬡ For Your Exploration

Characters may explore the counting house in its entirety. It is small, filled with several cubicles where employees can sit and work. There will be one candlestick at each desk, and the bare minimum of supplies. The employees' room will be cold, poorly heated, and rather dark. Scrooge's office will be larger, but just as cold and just as dim.

Ebenezer Scrooge will be compelled to ensure that Bob Cratchit does not make any efforts to further warm the space, should they interact here prior to the visit of the spirits.

After the spirits' visit, the space will be warmer, brighter, like the joy put into Scrooge's heart has spread throughout the workplace.

⬡ “A merry Christmas, uncle! God save you!”

Prior to the change in Ebenezer Scrooge, his nephew(/niece), "Ensemble Character," comes to invite him to Christmas dinner the following day at their home, with their spouse, "Ensemble Character 2," and to extol the virtues of the season, and of love, on their uncle, who isn't having it at all. Bob Cratchit witnesses the exchange, and is far more pleasant to them than Scrooge.

City Streets

⬡ Common Cast

Characters most likely to originate in the City Streets are anyone human - Ebenezer Scrooge, the Cratchit family, Tiny Tim, and the Ensemble.

⬡ Literary Description

"Meanwhile the fog and darkness thickened so, that people ran about with flaring links, proffering their services to go before horses in carriages, and conduct them on their way. The ancient tower of a church, whose gruff old bell was always peeping slily down at Scrooge out of a Gothic window in the wall, became invisible, and struck the hours and quarters in the clouds, with tremulous vibrations afterwards as if its teeth were chattering in its frozen head up there. The cold became intense. In the main street, at the corner of the court, some labourers were repairing the gas-pipes, and had lighted a great fire in a brazier, round which a party of ragged men and boys were gathered: warming their hands and winking their eyes before the blaze in rapture. The water-plug being left in solitude, its overflowings sullenly congealed, and turned to misanthropic ice. The brightness of the shops where holly sprigs and berries crackled in the lamp heat of the windows, made pale faces ruddy as they passed. Poulterers’ and grocers’ trades became a splendid joke: a glorious pageant, with which it was next to impossible to believe that such dull principles as bargain and sale had anything to do."

⬡ For Your Exploration

The streets are cold and foggy, but the air of Christmas permeates the atmosphere. People are, generally, cheerful, shops are done up for the holiday, and there is a general air of celebration from everyone milling about. Carols can be heard, as well as the ringing of bells, in addition to the expected sounds of a Victorian city - horses and their carriages, shouting, the chatter of conversation. It grows dark early in the afternoon, but the daytime highlights the bright, white snow. Children play in the streets and, given the season, even adults are prone to join in on their way to or from some place or another.

Scrooge's Apartment

⬡ Common Cast

Characters most likely to originate in Scrooge's Apartment are Ebenezer Scrooge, Jacob Marley, and the Ghosts of Christmas. Ensemble Characters may originate outside, in the morning after the visions.

⬡ Literary Description

"He lived in chambers which had once belonged to his deceased partner. They were a gloomy suite of rooms, in a lowering pile of building up a yard, where it had so little business to be, that one could scarcely help fancying it must have run there when it was a young house, playing at hide-and-seek with other houses, and forgotten the way out again. It was old enough now, and dreary enough, for nobody lived in it but Scrooge, the other rooms being all let out as offices."

⬡ For Your Exploration

Scrooge's Apartment is dark and gloomy, comprised of three rooms - a sitting room, lumber room, and bedroom. Darkness is cheap, after all, so each room is only ever lit with a candle, maybe two, and the fire burns so low as to barely ward off any of the winter's chill.

⬡ The Bells

Not long after returning home from work, all the bells in the house will begin to ring, kicking off a great cacophony of noise, briefly, before all falling silent at once, to herald the dragging and clanking of chains, and the arrival of Jacob Marley.

⬡ I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future!

After the visitation of the Ghostly Collective, Scrooge will have had a complete change of heart. He'll awaken in bed, fresh from the graveyard. He'll rejoice at having a second chance, he'll throw open the window to the sound of church bells on a bright morning, full of sunshine.

It's Christmas. It's time to begin to make things right.

Your Past

⬡ Common Cast

Characters most likely to originate in Your Past are The Ghost of Christmas Past, Ebenezer Scrooge, and the Ensemble.

⬡ Literary Description

"They walked along the road, Scrooge recognizing every gate, and post, and tree; until a little market-town appeared in the distance, with its bridge, its church, and winding river. Some shaggy ponies now were seen trotting towards them with boys upon their backs, who called to other boys in country gigs and carts, driven by farmers. All these boys were in great spirits, and shouted to each other, until the broad fields were so full of merry music, that the crisp air laughed to hear it!"

⬡ For Your Exploration

The entirety of the little town may be explored, though most of the details will be hazy. Ebenezer Scrooge will recognize it as the town he grew up in. There is snow on the ground, and clearly in the midst of the Christmas holidays. It will be populated with individuals he knew in his youth, though they will be unable to notice or interact with Scrooge or the spirit.

⬡ The School-House

The spirit will show Ebenezer Scrooge visions twice over of his younger self left behind, alone, in the school-house, sitting, without friends, studying. The second vision will bring with it a sight of his younger sister, Fan, who will joyfully bring him home for the holiday.

It's revealed that she was always frail, and has since passed away, but not before having a child, Scrooge's nephew.

⬡ Old Fezziwig's

It will show him, too, a particular warehouse in the large city, after leaving with his sister. He was apprenticed there, and will remember the proprietor fondly. He was a jolly man, and generous. Quite the opposite sort of employer as Scrooge, even closing up early for Christmas, to hold a party with family and employees alike.

The Present

⬡ Common Cast

Characters most likely to originate in The Present are The Ghost of Christmas Present, Ebenezer Scrooge, The Cratchit Family and Tiny Tim, and the Ensemble.

⬡ Literary Description

"The house fronts looked black enough, and the windows blacker, contrasting with the smooth white sheet of snow upon the roofs, and with the dirtier snow upon the ground; which last deposit had been ploughed up in deep furrows by the heavy wheels of carts and waggons; furrows that crossed and re-crossed each other hundreds of times where the great streets branched off; and made intricate channels, hard to trace in the thick yellow mud and icy water. The sky was gloomy, and the shortest streets were choked up with a dingy mist, half thawed, half frozen, whose heavier particles descended in a shower of sooty atoms, as if all the chimneys in Great Britain had, by one consent, caught fire, and were blazing away to their dear hearts’ content. There was nothing very cheerful in the climate or the town, and yet was there an air of cheerfulness abroad that the clearest summer air and brightest summer sun might have endeavored to diffuse in vain.

For, the people who were shoveling away on the housetops were jovial and full of glee; calling out to one another from the parapets, and now and then exchanging a facetious snowball—better-natured missile far than many a wordy jest—laughing heartily if it went right and not less heartily if it went wrong. The poulterers’ shops were still half open, and the fruiterers’ were radiant in their glory. There were great, round, pot-bellied baskets of chestnuts, shaped like the waistcoats of jolly old gentlemen, lolling at the doors, and tumbling out into the street in their apoplectic opulence. There were ruddy, brown-faced, broad-girthed Spanish Onions, shining in the fatness of their growth like Spanish Friars, and winking from their shelves in wanton slyness at the girls as they went by, and glanced demurely at the hung-up mistletoe. There were pears and apples, clustered high in blooming pyramids; there were bunches of grapes, made, in the shopkeepers’ benevolence to dangle from conspicuous hooks, that people’s mouths might water gratis as they passed; there were piles of filberts, mossy and brown, recalling, in their fragrance, ancient walks among the woods, and pleasant shufflings ankle deep through withered leaves; there were Norfolk Biffins, squat and swarthy, setting off the yellow of the oranges and lemons, and, in the great compactness of their juicy persons, urgently entreating and beseeching to be carried home in paper bags and eaten after dinner. The very gold and silver fish, set forth among these choice fruits in a bowl, though members of a dull and stagnant-blooded race, appeared to know that there was something going on; and, to a fish, went gasping round and round their little world in slow and passionless excitement.

The Grocers’! oh, the Grocers’! nearly closed, with perhaps two shutters down, or one; but through those gaps such glimpses! It was not alone that the scales descending on the counter made a merry sound, or that the twine and roller parted company so briskly, or that the canisters were rattled up and down like juggling tricks, or even that the blended scents of tea and coffee were so grateful to the nose, or even that the raisins were so plentiful and rare, the almonds so extremely white, the sticks of cinnamon so long and straight, the other spices so delicious, the candied fruits so caked and spotted with molten sugar as to make the coldest lookers-on feel faint and subsequently bilious. Nor was it that the figs were moist and pulpy, or that the French plums blushed in modest tartness from their highly-decorated boxes, or that everything was good to eat and in its Christmas dress; but the customers were all so hurried and so eager in the hopeful promise of the day, that they tumbled up against each other at the door, crashing their wicker baskets wildly, and left their purchases upon the counter, and came running back to fetch them, and committed hundreds of the like mistakes, in the best humor possible; while the Grocer and his people were so frank and fresh that the polished hearts with which they fastened their aprons behind might have been their own, worn outside for general inspection, and for Christmas daws to peck at if they chose."


⬡ For Your Exploration

The streets will be crowded and seemingly endless, shops open and peddling wares that look especially inviting and delicious, if only because it's Christmas, and there's a certain joy in the air, brought on by the presence of the Ghost of Christmas Present - whether or not you're able to see him. Fights can be staved off with a mere mention of how it's pointless to fight on Christmas, small mistakes are easily forgiven, and even the cold seems to not bite as much as it ought to, for how much snow coats the ground.

At night, the streets will be empty, but windows will be all lit up, and warmth and the sound of merriment will ring out from every household as people gather for dinner and parties with family and friends. These houses will all appear the same on the inside, though the guests' appearances will all vary slightly, and the Ensemble cast could very well have a party of their own.

⬡ The Cratchits'

Sooner or later, the Ghost of Christmas Present will bring Ebenezer Scrooge to the Cratchits' small, four-room house. Mrs. Cratchit will be making dinner, the children will be gathered around, all of them dressed in their holiday best - though, notably, will still appear poor. They're clearly celebrating the day, and each other, despite having little.

Scrooge and the Spirit will stay for the duration of the party, and the spirit will, in time, tell him that Tiny Tim will not live through the year, if their situation does not change, before they leave the family for the night.

Your Future

⬡ Common Cast

Characters most likely to originate in Your Future are The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, Ebenezer Scrooge, and the Ensemble.

⬡ Literary Description

"They scarcely seemed to enter the city; for the city rather seemed to spring up about them, and encompass them of its own act. But there they were, in the heart of it; on ’Change, amongst the merchants; who hurried up and down, and chinked the money in their pockets, and conversed in groups, and looked at their watches, and trifled thoughtfully with their great gold seals; and so forth, as Scrooge had seen them often."

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"A churchyard. Here, then; the wretched man whose name he had now to learn, lay underneath the ground. It was a worthy place. Walled in by houses; overrun by grass and weeds, the growth of vegetation’s death, not life; choked up with too much burying; fat with repleted appetite. A worthy place!"


⬡ For Your Exploration

The setting of the future is a bit more shifting, nebulous. Scrooge may find himself on an ordinary street, surrounding by gossiping businessmen, only to take a few steps further into a dim pawn shop, or an abandoned bedroom with a corpse, or even to the Cratchits' home, with the family solemn and wondering about the state of their future, only to end in an overgrown graveyard with run down, neglected graves. Nothing in this vision is concrete, and only fleeting glimpses are offered here and there. Everyone except Ebenezer Scrooge seems to understand the reality of the situation until the very end.

⬡ Cold, isn’t it?

The Spirit will be at first inclined to show Ebenezer Scrooge visions of wealthy businessmen speaking among themselves in short pleasantries, all mentioning a particular man who has passed in distant terms - an acquaintance, more than a friend.

⬡ I wouldn’t give another sixpence.

From there, the Spirit will bring him to a pawn shop, where three individuals have brought spoils from a dead man's home, that they took while he was still lying there, as he had no friends or family to preserve his things or tend the body. They'll speak ill of the dead as well - how no one cared for him in life, so they might profit off him in death. The pawnbroker, too, will have no qualms with making the exchange, even when one individual presents the deceased bed-curtains, and even the nice shirt that he'd been laid out to be buried in.

⬡ The Neglected Grave

Further, the Spirit will show Ebenezer Scrooge a graveyard, overgrown and barely tended to, to show him who the deceased man was that was being spoken of, that was in a room shown to him just before, with his face covered, that no one mourned.

It is, of course, his own grave.

The reality should strike fear, remorse, and resolve into the man's heart, that he might be a better man in the future, to avert this future, and to do his own part in spreading Christmas to the less fortunate.

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Welcome Log ⬡ 01

Welcome to The Library!


Welcome, everyone, to the Library! As you wander your way in, wake up at a desk, or descend an elevator, the library's ambiance is, well... the same as it always is. Comforting-but-not. Warm-but-cold. Empty-but-populated. And, as always, there are certain things going on that just might make settling in a little easier.

Information Desk
⬡ Maps

At the Information Desk, there will be a large stack of paper maps of the library, to suppliment the maps found on everyone's tablets.

⬡ Stationery

Next to the maps, there will be a stack of blank notebooks and a haphazard pile of pens. The pens will only be able to write in the notebooks, on characters' personal belongings, and on skin.

All three of these items are semi-limited; somehow characters will only be able to make one stack of items as tall as they are once they've been removed from the desk.

Notebooks and pens will be provided in assorted colors in shades of red, green, blue, gold, and silver.

Cafe Menu
⬡ Seasonal Menu

⬡ Cheesy Potato Soup
⬡ Mini Garlic Toast Pizzas
⬡ Cranberry Maple Chicken
⬡ Holiday Roast

⬡ Bread Pudding
⬡ Peppermint Lava Cakes
⬡ Gingersnap Rum Apple Crisp
⬡ Pumpkin Gingerbread Pancakes

⬡ Peppermint Hot Chocolate
⬡ Peppermint Mocha
⬡ Hazelnut Mocha
⬡ Eggnog

⬡ Usual Menu

The Cafe menu will also showcase more typical cafe fare, from teas and coffees, to standard hot chocolates, to pastries, donuts, and sandwiches.

The Search Bar will also bring up whatever else characters could possibly want.

Sunrise Room
⬡ Seasonal Showings

As always, movies playing at any given time are randomized, but this month there is a higher chance of movies playing with holiday themes or simply a lot of snow.

First Floor Restrooms
⬡ Seasonal Showers

This month, all complimentary toiletries will be either cinnamon, pine, or peppermint scented.

Ocean Floor 5
⬡ Paper Craft

Located in the Group Study Room on Ocean Floor 5 will be all the materials needed to create paper from scraps. Materials may not be removed from the room, but any finished products may!

A television will be mounted on the wall, playing a video on repeat.