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[librorian]

Who: Librarian, whoever
When: Day 36, early evening
Where: Apartment L
What: frustration!!!

[If you pass by Apartment L today, you might notice something is terribly, horribly amiss. It's a mess!! Torn out pages are scattered everywhere, some crumpled and tossed at the wall, some just discarded to one side. There's so many wads of paper that they're scattered out into the hallway even.

And what is causing this paper holocaust? Some jerk curled up near the door of Apt. L, scribbling furiously in his notebook. As soon as it looks like he's getting close to finishing his sketch, he frowns at it, tears the page out, and crumples it up. Anyone picking up a paper will see that he's sketched similar things on those pages. Technical digrams of some kind, and not half bad either.]

Why isn't it right?

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[timeandagain]

[Coming in with two books in tow...





wtf man]

What is going on?

[librorian]

[it's a mess. this apartment is never messy omg. mostly because this fella is kind of OCD. he heaves a sigh.]

Failure.

[timeandagain]

[setting the books aside to pick up one of the paper balls and carefully smooth it out]

Of what?

[librorian]

[it's a technical diagram of one of the components of Cepheus' Core. pretty well done, actually.]

Accuracy primarily. The proportions are all wrong, the angles won't come out right...

[the_sabra_inquisition]

. . . Aidan?

[timeandagain]

[i dun remember the Core and am probably holding this upside-down]

Proportions? So it's meant to be to scale?

[librorian]

[sketchy sketchy crumple crumple >(]

Ah. Good evening.

[librorian]

Yes. To the original device and to the other components.

[... reaches over and adjusts it]

[timeandagain]

. . .Oh. Thank you.




Aah. . . what is this for?

[librorian]

It's a component of the Core.

[the_sabra_inquisition]

What are you doing?

[anopenbook]

B-boss....

[sharksong]

You know this is a huge waste of paper . . .

[librorian]

[looks up at him. then turns away, tossing away another crumpled-up piece of paper.]

[librorian]

Attempting to assemble a technical diagram of the Core. But it isn't working.

[librorian]

I know...! But it isn't right!

[anopenbook]

What's wrong?

[librorian]

[pppauses]

Did you torture Cain to avenge me?

[anopenbook]

No.

I broke his hands. Fairly quickly. If I was going to torture him he'd be tied to a tree somewhere covered in honey and broken legs.

I was mad.

[librorian]

[doesn't relax]

You still hurt him.

[timeandagain]

The "Core". . .?

Is that something that you wish to rebuild?

[librorian]

[sigh]

I don't know. I thought - perhaps I might start with that book.

[timeandagain]

Ah, I need to speak with you.

[madasahero]

[Picking up a crumpled paper ball and trying to smooth it down.]

Ah, perhaps we can still use them.

[anopenbook]

I did. I was upset.

You can be mad at me for it.