DE: Everyone's an adventure...

[chameno_koritsi]

 Another from genarti , which works as a nice follow up from yesterday's:

Your character gets to/has to spend their vacation... AT THE LIBRARY! Specifically, a huge, well-organized, architecturally nifty one, with librarians and other patrons and all -- and a small cafe, let's say, so that they don't have to spend the day fasting -- which they are for some handwavy reason obliged to spend at least one full day inside with nothing to do except what they feel like.

Do they love it? Hate it, and spend every second bored stiff? Dive into the archives and not emerge for a month? Shrug, because they already live or work in a library and this is basically Tuesday to them?

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[camwyn]

Ray would say it was Tuesday, yeah.

Gordon would pull down several books from the physics section and then put two of them back so that he'd have room to go and pull Dune or Lord of the Rings from the science fiction section. Then he'd hole himself up somewhere and read the science books first so he'd feel like he'd done his obligatory duty to catching up with his profession, and then spend the rest of the day with the SF stuff, and anyone who tried to distract him from this would get a filthy look and a hand on his crowbar. (He wouldn't actually hit anyone with it. That might make a mess and he's not going to do that to the librarians.)

Shephard would park himself somewhere near the early portion of the 800s (he does not strike me as the sort to wind up in a Library of Congress-system library) and look for the stuff he recognizes from the Bookmobile that used to come to town every so often when he was a kid. The stuff he hadn't memorized yet, anyway. He'd probably skip the library's copy of Paradise Lost, as he has his own and doesn't want to deny somebody else the chance to spend some time with Mr. Milton.

Varric would look for his own works on the shelf and would pester the librarians about buying the works of this brilliant new author who writes in four or five different genres if he didn't find them.

Mordin would start counting over the books he'd already read and memorized (being a salarian, the phrase is probably redundant- the whole species is composed of visual eidetics) and then find the multimedia section to look for something musically interesting. Or possibly the art history section. Or maybe the philosophy and religion section. More likely all of them. His species lives at very high speed.

Ellen would squeak a bit and then beg the librarians to give her a volume discount on the photocopier because she would have to bring all of it home, ALL OF IT, unless of course they'd archived the entire library to holotape in which case HOW MUCH DO YOU WANT FOR THAT HOLO. Not for her own use, for the Brotherhood and for Moira to reprint.

Santo would offer to assist the children's librarians and conduct a couple of storytime sessions that ended with him signing autographs with exhortations to read and study hard. And the kids would do it, too.

Medic would park himself in the R or possibly Q section (I am using Library of Congress classification system here because I don't know how German libraries organize their books) and find material of interest for some time to come, and before he left he would probably check out several violin recordings as well.

And Stacker would stop at the door, contact his subordinates and tell them exactly where he was, and then not only turn off his electronic devices but turn them over to the librarian. If an emergency arose, the Shatterdome personnel would have to reach him by calling the library's main number and having him paged, but if he got a day at the library he would not want his reading time disturbed, thank you.