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elflock public library book sale

what's up? Elflock Falls’s Public Library gets a lot of book donations every year. Residents move, estates give away remaining possessions and some people just buy books and donate them, so the library is never short on tomes. Other things, though? Yes. Frequently. To close the gap a little, every year Elflock Falls Public Library opens up the basement and has itself a sale to clear space and raise money for the library’s many other features ⁠— adult and child literacy programs, night classes, occupational assistance, translation services, the list goes on. Here, you can get some truly interesting texts for rock bottom prices. Even if you’re not the reading type, you never know what weird junk you’ll find sorting through boxes and boxes of books. Not to mention it’s kind of cool snooping through an almost two-hundred-year-old library basement.

It's cloudy and cool but otherwise lovely today. Late fall hangs heavily in the air, the crisp smell of autumn leaves carried on chilly breezes. In all but the most heavily shaded spots, the snow's gone. There's a food stand in the plaza outside serving up a variety of home-cooked fare including the controversial-even-in-West-Virginia West Virginia style hot dog. No food in the 'brary, please!

visuals!

volunteer slots! Tybalt and Uriah know what they're about. They head straight up into the encyclopedia section and find a nice secluded spot to make out. Unfortunately, the library itself has other plans and the shelves keep moving to expose them to passersby.

Trudy gets lost in the labyrinthine second floor well into the evening and needs to be rescued by Head Librarian Santos.

You're supposed to be quiet! This is a library! [CHARACTER D] gets shushed, but it's not them making all that noise. A high pitched cry of "TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSST!!!" echoes through the library as a magically propelled shoe rockets right by [CHARACTER D]'s feet and disappears between the stacks. How did THAT get in here?

how this works! 📚Fill out this form and post it to the BOOK BUYING header below:

📚 What are the sections?

REFERENCE: Academic textbooks, encyclopedias, cook books, language books
FICTION: does what it says on the tin. Prose. Short stories and novels. This is a VERY broad section so if you’re looking for something specific in ANY way you should make note in the “SOMETHING SPECIFIC” part of the form.
NON-FICTION: essays, biographies, histories.
CHILDREN’S: children’s books.
ODDITIES: particularly strange books, magical books, etc.

📚 We will give you between one and four books. Please reply stating if you decided to buy any.

📚 The database of books being RNGed is predominantly fun flavor — real titles have been mixed in with fake books. There are a small handful of pre-written items that could be useful in ongoing plots, but getting a plot relevant or metaplot item is not the goal and is not guaranteed.

📚 Feel free to be as specific as you want with what you're looking for. We may give you exactly what you need. ;)

📚 Other things being sold at the library sale include: vinyl records, a bit of visual media (VHS tapes, DVDs), old book carts and extra shelves

locations! 📚 BOOK BUYING: If you're browsing books, post your form here!

📚 IN THE LIBRARY: Elflock Falls’s public library is two very magical floors of books, books and more books. The interior is an eclectic hodgepodge of old and new, with some parts dating back nearly two-hundred years! While the entrance and circulation area are relatively modern, farther into the heart of the first floor, where the main librarian’s desk is, the floor is heavily worn stone. There are a few computers set up with internet access, a bright and colorful children's section, and twisting rows of books on both floors. The second floor is a bit more maze-like than the more open and welcoming first, which is illuminated by a sky light in the atrium. Being a magical library, everything here has a bit of personality: books might bite, shelves shift, the card catalog is desperate to be helpful, and the staircases sometimes shift while you're on them. It's warm in here. Everything smells of books and paper and dust.

📚 THE LIBRARY BASEMENT: Have you ever wanted to go shopping in a dungeon? If so, you're in luck. The library basement is a creepy network of narrow and dimly lit hallways and countless doors leading to a variety of equally eerie rooms: book binding, book processing, the rare books collection, the depository, storage, storage and more storage, and a few meeting rooms. Several storage rooms have been...sort of cleaned up for the book sale. Poke through shelves and poorly sorted boxes to hunt for weird goodies, or just disappear into one of the creepy old side rooms, never to be seen again!

📚 OUTSIDE THE LIBRARY: It's chilly, but pleasant enough in the sun. You can grab some local greasy spoon goodies at the temporary food stand that's been set up outside. There's space to sit both on the plaza and in the grass, and—Lord, there's some guy here spray painted silver pretending to be a living statue. Does he...realize this is less cool for wizards? He should've put on an Elmo costume or something.

📚 OOC - QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, CONCERNS!

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Chanel barely has to hunt Armani down at all. She knows she wants to go to the basement, and thus it stood to reason that so would her twin. It's very dark down here. The sort of place where she could get lost in the ambiance for hours. And so, it would seem, could Armani. She's the one to jump scare, this time, and approaches him maybe silently (which is a bit hard for her to gauge today, after her mishap in Symbology,but her footfalls feel gentle.) She taps him gently on one shoulder. It'll probably be a bad surprise when she's not really a ghost. But that can't be helped, just yet.

Armani shrinks into himself and lets out an unghostly squeak when he's touched. Chanel should be pleased.

He sheepishly glances over his shoulder, expecting to find a librarian who's finally come to tell him to cut that shit out but it's just Chanel. His expression shifts instantly as he grins, wide and mischievous. Two ghosts in the library.

While she doesn't really hear the extent of the squeak, she gets it, and she is pleased. She remains silent when he turns around, playing into the game just as she's done so many times. She bends her neck to the side in a slightly unnatural angle, and shoves out Exile on the Styx and the single glove at him.

Armani's movements turn eerily jerky as he snaps out his arm, then his wrist, and finally makes a claw of his hand to take the book from her. Exile on the Styx seems right up his alley, but he's not really sure what the glove is for. Maybe a collector's edition bonus item? He holds it up between his thumb and forefinger and jerks his head toward it, brow quirked, as if to ask What's this?

This is actually incredibly hard with no words, and Chanel hates it. Silence isn't something she's used to. But it's not like she's getting much use out of words anyhow, today. She mimics Armani's jerky motions as she mimes putting the glove on and opening a book, very careful to do it with one hand. She thinks he'll be able to see the words like that, or at least part of it.

It isn't too difficult for Armani to understand what his sister is pantomiming. The Fancy Magic Book is to be open with one gloved hand only. He'll try it out later, but for now he breaks character to mouth a thank you before putting it in his small black Gucci backpack. Once it slides past the opening, it seems to disappear without adding bulk to the bag. Gucci Bag of Holding.

Okay! Now! Ghost time!

His eyes roll back and his entire body convulses before he snaps back into place, rigid as a corpse, expression vacant. Then, suddenly, he throws his head back, and then his torso, bending at the waist until the falls into a back bend and starts to crabwalk slowly down the aisle.

GHOST TIME! GHOST TIME! GHOST TIME!

Edited (proximity to chanel makes him 1000x more comfortable being a freak) 2019-11-10 00:01 (UTC)

She blows a kiss as a you’re welcome, remembering in passing to remind him to tell her about the book, later. But for now. It absolutely is Ghost Time. Chanel hides an awed gasp and all of her applause, but she is not to be outdone. Quietly, she does a trick she’s practiced just an embarrassing number of time, and casts Levicorpus on herself so she’s hovering a few inches above the ground. Like this, she stays in place and lets her eyes go back.
It’s actually quite relaxing.

Edited (I’m sure this is how magic works leave me alone ) 2019-11-14 18:17 (UTC)

ELFLOCK PUBLIC LIBRARY BOOK SALE

Twin Ghosts haunt the library basement

Twin Ghosts haunt the library basement

Twin Ghosts haunt the library basement

Twin Ghosts haunt the library basement

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Twin Ghosts haunt the library basement

Twin Ghosts haunt the library basement