Killer librarians gonna librarian

[theflyingone]

I hope everyone has made permanent as many books as they could from the last space. Those you wish to make available to everyone, please fill out a card for each of them telling us with whom it can be found, and place it in a public catalog, like the one in L—The Workshop. [ Can he still call it Leonardo's Workshop if Leonardo is gone? He wants to, but that is also like putting salt in the wound. ] Alternatively, leave them with me in The Workshop and I will shelve them for you.

What we've just received may serve, but personal accounts such as ours will shed light on more than just general history. I encourage you to write your own. I have again gathered my own notes on last Jaunt. You can find them under the title January Codex. I did not have much this time around. A bit about youth culture, illegal vision technology, courier trade, artisan trade, smuggler trade, what Jason told me about a book describing how the plague began, and how... delinquents are dealt with.

I came back with a pair of long earrings, but I do not wear earrings. Would anyone care for them? They are made of feathers and painted bird skulls.

[ And lastly... ]

If I... did anything embarrassing during the Samhain festival, I apologize. For my other self. I was not myself. And drunk.

Comments

[leftbehindagain]

I collected a few books on medicine and chemistry, and as for jaunt information, I can definitely fill in some medical information, after reverse-engineering that plague test.

[theflyingone]

A medical treatise on elves would serve us, particularly in cases of sickness or injury. I saw some Travelers kept the form. They should know themselves well if they are to wear it.

...The test was not created by the Council?

[leftbehindagain]

It wasn't. Once we had the information for it, I grabbed a couple of my friends and got to work on it. [He's only being cagey about the information because it was a huge wrench to ask Matthew to get it in the first place; ratting him out is probably a one-way ticket to 'see if I ever help you again,' and for all they disagree on some things he does like the guy.]

I think one of the books I grabbed was from January. I'll have to double-check. I know I showed up face-to-face with stuff about Gorgons, and that's equally important on account of another couple jaunts.

[theflyingone]

[ If Naoki wanted to keep some things secret, Altaïr would not blame him. Altaïr had not recorded that he'd been Marked. As long as Naoki wrote down everything he was comfortable with that could be of use to everyone. ]

Gorgons?

[ He knows enough of mythology for that to pique his interest. ]

[leftbehindagain]

Not the kind in European mythology. [Which, admittedly, he's only vaguely familiar with in the 'wasn't that one of Kanji's Personas?' sense.]

They're a humanoid reptilian species with access to Questing Country, and they were also a feature in the space jaunt - a few of us came back with the shape. Cold-blooded, light-sensitive, very prone to sensory overload, more expressive through their head tentacles than their faces, get waste out of their system by way of a calcifying vapor, struggling with an illness that turns people's insides to goo.

[theflyingone]

[ What Altaïr knows comes down to him in the form of stories and art. He's never actually seen anything close to one, Persona construct or not. ]

All that sounds... unfortunate. Are there any advantages to the form?

[leftbehindagain]

Absolutely. The sensory overload is because Gorgons have a lot more sensory input coming in - things like heat and electromagnetic fields. Very useful for finding your way around underground. They can see very well in the dark, though I didn't try the stuff in January so I can't say whether they're better than a Darksider or not. Softening sickness isn't part of the package automatically, just something my first Gorgon overlay was concerned with fighting, the way you would smallpox or cancer or any other prevalent illness.

...And turning stuff into rock at a touch is pretty cool.

[theflyingone]

Turning things to stone is one part of the myths I know that is the same. The warrior Perseus had to avoid being turned to stone by a Gorgon.

It would be interesting to compare the Gorgon's sight to that of a Darksider. Unfortunately, I myself cannot help with either, unless you are looking for a moving target for eyes to focus on.

[leftbehindagain]

...Huh. I wonder how they managed to get that part right.

It would be, but who knows when we're going to get a good time or space for the purpose. If the chance comes up, though, I'd be willing to help test it.

[theflyingone]

I am surprised that some of the worlds we visit have people and animals that I know, given that there are so many other possibilities.

[leftbehindagain]

I was thinking more in terms of the myth having something accurate in it. I guess bits of stories get around, somehow.

That is an interesting point, though.