melodiesofeternity | Cram Week [Player Plot]

The Great McGard library is a vast, majestic, and above all else sprawling library. Visible from miles away, the dozens of wings of the gigantic building spill over the Min'to countryside like a slumbering giant. Going inside does little to diminish the library's grandeur, the gilded architecture and the weight of all the knowledge contained within the shelves is breathtaking.

Tyzias, however, appears to care very little for any of that. If anything, it seems to be making her more angry. Steam is practically shooting out of her ears as she slams her fist on the desk of the quaking head clerk--although the effect of her shouting is somewhat diminished by how she keeps her voice low out of respect for the library staff. Nerds will be nerds, after all. "What do you mean there aren't any ruins?"

"T-t-t-they were razed a long, long time ago!" the lalafell squeaks, holding her hands up. "Before the library was even built! We just used the foundations, I swear!" Tyzias opens her mouth to give an incoherent groan of bottomless despair, but the librarian interprets the gesture as the precursor to more yelling and interrupts the troll. "Bu-but wait! I, um, we might have something that can help. There's this, uh, this book called The Tantarian that we recovered from the ruins it's in the eidolon section it can probably help you please don't hurt me!"

Tyzias blinks owlishly, then shrugs. "...aight. Let's get moving."

Ah, so it was a treasure hunt, was it! Well, in that case, Papyrus switched to his Chemist asterisk for now so that he could tap into his Treasure Hunter ability. Surely it would at least aid them somewhat in terms of finding the necessary treasure!

Nonetheless, he glances around, taking in the endless sea of books surrounding them. So massive, and so full if incredible secrets, no doubt! Even those unrelated to their quest.

He'd have to pay it another visit later.

"WELL THEN! I, THE GREAT PAPYRUS, AM PRIMED TO UNCOVER THIS ELUSIVE BOOK! LET'S ALL LEAVE NO PAGE UNTURNED!!!"

He points dramatically to the shelves, regardless of impracticality.

"Tyzias! Papyrus! Behave yourselves!" Minimus hisses at the two, careful not to raise the volume of his vocal box above the enforced threshold. He holds a servo up stiffly, pointing at them in succession. "If you are escorted out of the premises due to disruptive behavior, I will not vouch for you." The had a lead from the library attendant, and the rest of the party members could continue the work.

It wouldn't have to take long, considering that this was a library. Minimus approached the spooked Lalafell with his arms resting at his sides. "I apologize if we have caused you distress. Where would the library catalog be kept?"

Corrin is likewise taken completely aback by the sheer size of the library. Up until this point, the only libraries she's ever seen were the ones in the Northern Fortress that provided most of her leisure activities growing up, and the much larger one in Castle Krakenburg that served as the royal family's personal library (and where Leo could usually be found if he wasn't busy attending to other matters). Neither of them come close to approaching the Great Library however.

She's definitely coming back here when she has a week's end or so to spare and Vaikuntha doesn't currently require saving.

As Minimus works to calm the librarian, she places a reassuring hand on Tyzias' shoulder as she can see her frustration is getting the better of her. "Try to relax, Tyzias." She says encouragingly, also keeping her voice low (it seems that will only really be an issue for Papyrus, really). "We'll get it done."

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Finn, already in his Chemist gear with a similar idea to Papyrus, scratches the back of his head in thought. "The Eidolon section... Ramuh's shrine is in here, too. That might be a good place to start. He might even know something if we asked, but I think he would have mentioned it already."

Who knew, though. Ramuh didn't talk much.

Feeling like it's never too soon to start looking, he activates Treasure Hunter and skims the shelves around them for anything useful.

Nozomi can't help but feel awed at the massive size of the library. She just hopes there's no monsters jumping out of nowhere. Sadly, she doesn't have Chemist herself, so she'll have to go about it the old fashioned way.

"Where do we start, though?" she asked. "I mean, outside of the location they gave us..."

Uendo and company are pretty familiar with the library already, having visited Ramuh all those months ago when they first became a Summoner. Goodness, has it really been almost a year? Still, the place never gets any less impressive.

Patches is fronting this time around to let his headmates rest up. It's just been one trip after another lately.

"I could try asking Ramuh, buuuut... Leviathan was pretty insistent about making us figure out the Mad'ni Shrine ourselves, remember? I can't see the old man just handing us the answer either." He gives an impish grin. "I've been to the Eidolon section before though! C'mon, let's go have a looksie!"

Naoto hadn't gotten Ramuh due to discovering she could only summon so many Eidolons and already had Leviathan, Shiva, and Ifrit. A quick check, and she had noted she'd only be capable of summoning five max - so when the book revealed more Eidolons than just her three, Ramuh, Titan, and the questionable Typhon, she was trying to leave those spaces still open.

The rules on Legendary...? Well, there were just five. Back out of her thoughts after most of the discussion going on, following Uendo sounded like the best course of action.

"Alright. After you, Toneido-san."

Asriel basically... skipped all of school, but he's read about an entire library of books before getting bored before.

That one was puny compared to this mess.

"How does anyone find anything in this hedge maze of books??" He says, scanning along the shelves for the section names.

Oh boy this is a lot of books. Castor looks somewhat uncomfortable at the sheer size of the library, but is quick to trot after Uendo. "It might save us some lookin' if ye ask him anyways. No harm, no foul if he keeps his lips shut, but even if he can give us a startin' place..." she trails off to have another look around and - nope. The library is still enormous. "Well. 'S is a big place."

Tyzias grumbles something under her breath as Corrin pats her back and Minimus chastises her. It wasn't that she was angry at the librarian, per se, it was more like she felt like she was about to implode from the sheer force of the existential weight she placed upon herself by deciding to lead this mission and that manifested as outward frustration. "Catalogue's on the library linkshell. It's open if you want to take a look," she says to Minimus as the party marches down the rows of shelves. "I know the way to the eidolon section, at least. Might take a while to get there, though." She pauses. "Like. At least an hour. Hoped you packed snacks, everybody, because we are in for a long fuckin' hike."

Klonoa nods, and holds up the Wind Ring, activating its power to empty out the contents--

He deposits an entire picnic basket with a checkered blanket on the ground, smiling with sheer resolve. Of course. He brought snacks for everyone.

"You guys are ok with hamburgers, right?"

Just being in his Presence, the whole group feels Inspired. +5% defense!

“Thank you,” Minimus sighs and pulls out his Mognet Slate. “Mosuna, direct me to the linkshell.”

He would rather not waste his energy by wandering around the library. He is a robot or direct action, of looking up the facts before rushing into a task. He’d catch up with the rest of the group once he had found the catalog page for the mentioned tome.

As soon as they'd entered the library, Sephiroth had left Tyzias et al. to deal with the librarian while he took a long lingering look around the various shelves and passageways sprawling out in all directions. The building had looked impressive enough on the outside, but this was something else.

Once he overheard 'linkshell' being used, Sephiroth took out his Slate and started to look for an option on the device which might have opened up now that they were inside the library itself. Having a reference available would cut down any time-wasting significantly. Of course, the eidolon section is what they were looking for but who knew if there might be other sections which he'd make a note to perhaps come back and visit privately at a later date.

In this company, despite Klonoa's presence, Sephiroth was already keeping himself a controlled distance from the others. At best, he figured they'd all be a distraction; the thought of having to spend an hour just to travel to the correct section was irritating enough.

For now, he'll just stand back and somewhat lazily look through his Slate.

"Ah, a library. Such treasures as the world has never seen, if only one could make sense of the catalog." Kuja pulls up the reference on his Slate, joining Asriel. "The eidolon section. Well, this ought to be fun. Now. Where's the eidolon section?"

Cor's not much of a talker, in this big group of fellow explorers-turned-researchers. Still, the McGard library is rather calming place to visit, even if there's a decidedly lack of ruins to explore now. That mentioned book, though, does sound rather promising...

"If it's got anything like that decimal system thing, we might have a clue," he quips towards Kuja. "As for the section...I presume our leader here--" He jerks a thumb towards Tyzias. "--has a map of some sort to get us there."

He then glances over to Klonoa. He seems rather young, but since this place is seemingly free of monsters... "Just make sure they don't spoil. I got a few supplies on me as well, just in case. Been here before once, so I personally know how long it can take to find something in this place."

Serge grins brightly at Klonoa. "Oh, man! You brought the good stuff! Well at least we know we won't go hungry while we're here."

He glances over at Cor. "D'you think we'll really be here that long? Ah, crap. Should I have packed a lunch?"

Vimes was, at current juncture, patiently ignoring the helpful and friendly signs thanking him for not smoking. This was not making him popular with the local librarians, but as he hadn't spotted anything orangutan-shaped, it was probably safe to do so.

"This'd probably be a bad time to mention that the last time I visited a magical library I got shunted about thirty years back in time."

"If I knew we were bringing snacks, I would have made some to help out." Sasami said. She didn't know the first thing about what they were looking for at the moment, but she was here for moral support and possibly some other helping hand somewhere.

"Well that'd give us another thirty years te solve this problem then, aye?" Castor couldn't help the gentle snipe at Vimes, but her attention soon catches on Klonoa's snacks and she sheepishly rubs at her own face. "I've got some gyshal greens on me if we get desperate. I ought've thought this through."

Corrin is already fishing through her own pack. "I did make some sandwiches for people..." She admits. "Though not nearly enough. I really didn't think the library was going to be quite so big." As well as some vegetarian chowder, but that's for her. "They're not fancy, just ham, cheese, and some butter, but they should fill a corner for any who wants them. And a few bottles of water too in case we get thirsty."

She's also pulling out her iMog to oin the linkshell when Vimes speaks up. "It sounds like there's a story there, Officer!" She says jovially. Time travel, huh? That sort of thing only existed in some of the more fantastical stories she'd read growing up. "It must have been quite the experience."

"Fortunately sustenance will not be an issue for myself. Or Minimus." Megatron says. He, too, has been keeping mostly to the back. The Energon Converter Minimus pulled out of the Dream Width has solved their growing energy problem (or lack of growth, if you'd prefer). He's already had Mogatronus (resting comfortably on Megatron's large shoulder) pull up the linkshell.

"I might suggest if there's a basement area we could send some people to investigate down there." He also adds. Not everyone in this group looks like they'd be all that helpful in research and the group is big enough that they can afford to split their focus. "We might be able to discover a hidden entrance or a way into deeper ruins that have not yet been discovered."

"I, TOO, HAVE A SELECTION OF FINE FEASTS IN MY POCKETS! MOSTLY PASTAS, BUT I HAVE BEEN BRANCHING OUT!" Ah, but how fascinating! A tale of time travel? Papyrus grins. "I, TOO, WOULD LIKE TO HEAR ABOUT THIS TIME TRAVEL, THOUGH... BUT IF WE DO NEED SOME EXTRA SPEED, I COULD ALWAYS SCOUT AHEAD ON MY HOVER BOARD."

He pauses, realizing, well. Hover boards are fast, yes, but also potentially imposing and may rumble a bit from the engine. "OH, BUT THAT MIGHT DISTURB THE PEOPLE READING, WOULDN'T IT? DRAT..."

Still worth consideration, at least.

Kanji tightened his hands into fists and set his jaw. He was the last person you'd see in a library, but thanks to Senpai and the others, he'd taken to studying more often. But he was just as afraid of making too much noise as he was back home.

He'd taken to slowly creeping around the aisles in the hopes of finding the section they were looking for.

Unfortunately, the dust had gotten to him. He slapped his elbow over the bottom half of his face to try and stifle what was an alarming sneeze in the first place. Then a miserable sniffle.

Madhuri had thoroughly forgotten the mission. There were plenty of people here, but as far as she was concerned, this would be the chance to drink in more songs, more stories. So don't mind the tiefling holding a stack of twelve to fifteen books, wobbling in her stance to get them to a table and read them.

"Anybody have a library card for this place...? Otherwise I may be here for a while. Or the rest of my life."

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