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====== The Inanimate Bookless Library ======
**Coordinates:** N32 (North-East of AceHigh)\\ 
**In brief:** Ruined building that brings words to life. Now lends everything //but// books.

**Owner(s):** [[characters:player:clarissadunst|Clarissa Dunst]]\\ 
**Current Staff:** Clarissa Dunst (Librarian), [[characters:player:haas|Haas]] ("Assistant"/Chronic Complainer)\\ 
**Features:** Multiple rooms, story prompt generator\\ 
**Beds:** Maybe yes\\ 
**Books:** Definitely no\\ 

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==== Story Hooks ====

Feral businesses are everywhere in the jungle. Coffee shops tend to roam in packs, while carnivorous bookstores are more solitary predators. Chances are you've fought at least a couple of buildings in your time here and won - and you'd be far from the only contestant to do so.

The current residents of the Bookless Library aren't sure if it was ever alive. It had long stopped moving by the time they bought the lot off Susie, and a massive tree has since grown over the top of it. But if the building can be considered "dead", it's no wonder the staff also consider it "haunted". A lot of strange things happen there.

Text is not permitted to be brought into the Library. This includes books, but also letters, diaries, signage, receipts, and //especially// scripts. Because whenever words spend too long inside the building, they become alive.

The exact nature of how words become alive is up to the people storying there. Perhaps a book gains fur and little legs and a taste for blood, skittering around like a feral animal. Perhaps those letters you had in your bag create a ghostly duplicate of the person who sent them to you. Perhaps the book remains a book, but compels you to sit, to keep reading it, to never ever leave. It can be benign. It can be hostile. Whatever it is, it's always personal - and very, very weird to deal with.

On the rare occasions people listen to the rules, causing the library to obey the laws of physics for a bloody change, the staff are happy to loan Contestants any random knick-knacks, tools, or weapons of jungle destruction they may need to get through the day. They're always in need of donations, as well as people to test that the donations aren't going to explode on a borrower and get them sued.

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==== Solo Hooks ====

Ever a work-in-progress, most planned features of the Library have yet to be implemented. Currently available spaces include:

  * **The Lobby:** A central hub. Quick access to all other areas, and comfy couches for logging out I mean napping on.
  * **The Spookcase:** A bottomless stairwell, that contains sinister creatures and frequently defies the laws of physics. Comes with a prompt generator for horror RP. Play alone or in a group!
  * **Between the Shelves:** Type shelf numbers into the Story channel to navigate the collection. Use them as prompts for your roleplaying, or ignore the narrator's advice and get yourself in a spot of trouble.((You can pick up items, too, but they don't do anything. ...For now.))

Guests may find the Library's mood changes over time. Keep an eye on the weather - odd things happen when it rains, but not all of them are bad.((If, for some reason, you manage to cause //catastrophic damage// to the Library while the staff are offline, visit during stormy weather to reset the building.)) The Library sinks into an especially ominous mood around Halloween. Drop on by for some tasty, tasty candy.