DAB has struck at last! or If the librarian runs into the bookshelf, does anyone get in trouble? (A Salamandastron Log)

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Salamandastron: Library

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Here lies the collective efforts of a few good, intellectual hares of the mountain. Over the seasons, this room, which was once little more than a storage room, has been converted into a quite functional library, filled with books of all sorts. The room is staggered with bookshelves, all crafted within the mountain, which reach very nearly to the ceiling, with only a foot or two of space above them, in most instances. And, surprisingly, the shelves are basically all full. Apparently, over the seasons, hares have donated books, and books that were previously stored elsewhere have been brought here.

Some books are older than any of the hares alive in the mountain, and, even more, some are nearly as old as the mountain, itself. These sort are usually journals and records - histories of the mountain. In fact, there is an entire section of this, in a corner of the room, which one can only get to by making their way through the maze of bookshelves to that corner, which is quite like a room in and of itself, closed in by walls on two sides and bookshelves on the two others. However, in the center of the main room, there are two tables set, and upon these books like, some open and some closed, despite the efforts of the librarian hare to keep them on the shelves.

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Hares: Finn, male. Felicity and Julia, females.

It's afternoon and afternoon finds Finn, as it usually does, studying in the library. But today he's seated at the table with a book and he's been staring at the same page for the past 30 minutes or so. His forehead rests on his paw, his elbow propped on the table. The oversized teenager's shoulders rise and fall silently.

And then peace is shattered by a shouting Dibbun. The door slams open and a petite auburn-furred female leveret, probably somewhere around 1 or 2 seasons of age, comes hurtling in, clutching a pillowcase and a bunny doll. "Nonono, dey mine now!!" she scrambles under the table just as an auburn-furred haremaid enters. They look like they're sisters, and the older one looks livid. "Get back 'ere, y'little rottah!!"

When the silence is broken, Finn hardly glances up. He does, however, scooch his chair back as the dibbun scurries under the table, finally flipping the page of his book. Leverets are really nothing new here, or to him. Safest to just ignore them, really.

Felicity finally notices the male hare. "Oh, sorry. Didn't mean to disturb you. Julia, please give me the scones. They're not your--" "NONONO, DEY MINE NOW 'CAUSE I FOUND 'EM! I call dibsies!" The older hare looks to the ceiling as if patience can be found there. "For the love of sanity.....where's Miss DoraRose when I need 'er......." "DEY MY SCONESIES!!!!"

"... No. Uh. That's okay," Finn offers as the leveret runs amuck. He eventually closes the book and starts to stand, tucking said book under his arm. "I was done, anyway. I ought t'head out." He flashes the doe a brief smile, though it's wan, and heads towards the door. "Good luck with the kid. Threats always worked with my little bro," he suggests helpfully. And out he goes.

The hare's sudden departure is matched only by the speed of another's entrance. "AVAST YE LAND LUBBIN' SCUM AN' PREPAIR TO BE GUTTED LIKE THE DOGS YE ARRRRR!" Comes the loud shout from down the library. The sight of Kate usually makes one perform a double take, especially while she is dressed in a folded paper pirate hat and brandishing a cutlass while riding atop a ladder as it rolls down the isles of books. "Beware the scourge that is Kate the Killer Hare and oh blimy!" She shouts as her wheeled ladder rolls strait for Felicity and her dibbuns!

"RUN AWAY!" Comes the brave little shout from Julia, who darts away and hides under a chair, safely out of the way. Lissie gasps and leaps out of the way. Laying on the floor, she sticks her cane out to courageously try and stop the runaway ladder of doom!

The unstoppable ladder meets the unmovable cane. And explodes. Well, not really of course but the effect causes just as much damage as the ladder stops in mid flight, tilting forward as it jettisons its rider into a shelf full of cook books. Kate bounces off the shelf, causing it to wobble then fall forward, over the obese hare.

It takes a couple moments for Julia's brain to process what in the world just happened, but when it does, she has the most logical reaction in the world: she begins to wail and cry while hugging her purloined scones (in their pillowcase) and her precious dolly close. Lissie stands and goes to move the bookcase off of her friend, then begins rapidly picking books off of her. "Kate? Kate, love, are y'alright? Speak t'me, please!"

A pair of ears appear from under the pile, then soon Kate's head appears. "I think think I swallowed a book..." She says pitifully. She struggles to get up, trying to push books away from her, "What in Samhill were ya doing? Don't you have enough sense to leap out of the way?" She growls as she moves a dictionary off of her chest.

"I did leap outta the way. I just stuck my cane back in the way 'cause I wanted to 'elp y'stop the ladder. I....didn't really think through what, exactly, would 'appen." Lissie continues to take books off of her friend, piling them in stacks. Julia has calmed down and toddles forward. "You okaay? You coulda been killeded!" Thanks, you're so comforting.

"Well, ya stopped it." The hare laughs. She gets up, popping her back into place...then straitening out her ear. "It's ok, 'twas my own tom foolery that did me in. I swear I should have been born vermin. I think I have some pirate in me...that...and it get's pretty boring here in the library..."

Felicity smiles up at her friend, still seated on the floor. "I'm sorry that it gets so borin' in 'ere. I'll try to visit more often, and y'can always come and try to find me or Julia--" "I Julia! Was you name? Wanna sconesie?" The leveret holds out a (very) squashed cheese scone to the overweight hare, smiling in a very friendly manner. Her older sister sighs. "Those aren't you to give away, Julie..." "I SAW 'EM FIWST!" "Oh, for sanity's sake...."

After eating the scone Kate pats the dibbun on the head, "Thanks mate. And, thanks for the offer, that would be nice...but...you should probably head out before ya get blamed for the mess." She points to the over turned shelf.

Still smiling, Lissie shakes her head. "Oh, I can't leave ya to clean all this up by yourself--" "Wanna nudder sconsie?" "Julie, honey, they aren't f'you to give away--" "YISS DEY ARE! I SAW 'EM FIWST!" The Dibbun runs out of the room. Her older sister lays down on the pile of books and groans. "Why me....." She should probably go catch her baby sister, but she seems to be on the verge of a catatonic state right now. Let somebody else catch the DAB ringleader. She curls up into a fetal position and stares at the far wall.

"And that, my friend, is why I don't have kids." The fat bellied hare rubs the back of her neck, "Anyway. Thanks for the offer but I...uh..." She turns to see Fel curling up into a ball and blinks. "Yeah...anyway. Have fun with catching the dibbuns and wot not...yeah." She just slowly backs away, beating a hasty retreat!

Julia is eventually caught by someone, who turns her over to DoraRose, who is trying to teach Lissie how to help her little sister without feeling like she has to be a mom. Dora is also helpful by watching the DAB ringleader and giving her older sister a break. Felicity, meanwhile, manages to move to a cushy chair and falls into a much-needed sleep. Thanks for reading! :)

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