Part 16 The door opens and leads you to a room of disheveled books. The room seems to be crumbling, untended to, as if no one has seen it in ages. It feels as though this is a part of the Library that the Library almost forgot to take care of, like a body part or piece of the soul left neglected. The pages of the books have clear chewed through pieces, some are moldy, tattering and rustling from a breeze you can't quite determined where it's coming from. There is a sound, and

Part 13 No matter, we won't worry too much about where she disappeared to. You all head towards the glowing light, and find a door off to the side, filled with books covered in the classic vintage romance covers, women adorning them beautifully. Ariadne rushes in, because of course she does. I suppose you all could take a moment to peruse these books, if anything as a break from the endless stairs. Side quest: read a sapphic book Part 14 Our little side adventure has ended, a

Part 10 The peasants continue down the stairs, endlessly. It feels like it has been both only a few moments, and also, so many hours. Myself and Ariadne are quite used to the odd passing of time, as it seems Hawthorne and the Librarian are as well, but you peasants...are not. Your feet ache, and this journey is beginning to feel endless, and perhaps a bit fruitless. Much like the task of tackling your endless TBR's can feel, I imagine. Read a book you keep putting off Part 11

Part 7 Curiously, the board begins to fill with words, and while this does not fit your normal history with "mini bosses", the Library's...

Part Four The Librarian begins to take the peasants on a tour of the library. She continually side eyes Hawthorne, as though she can...

Part One The ship lands with a thud, a large library on an empty street before it. The peasants hesitantly get out, with myself and...

Intro You basically have no skills, but some wizard picked you for this? Weird choice but okay. I’m your narrator, by the way. Welcome to your journey to save the kingdom. There’s books falling on citizens and no one knows why, but we may all be buried in books soon. It’s up to you to make it stop. Let me give you more backstory here, I know you just woke up. Get some coffee. Or tea, or whatever. Just wake up, stop yawning. It’s the kingdom of Shelfla, you live here as a peas

Book One: Romance Intro: Well peasants, Here we are once again, the third November in a row, where we attempt to get SOME work done. Did you at least try not to buy too many books this year? I don't know how you all manage it considering last year you were dead and this year you were literally stuck inside books. I bet you didn't even read the books you were stuck inside and decided to buy more instead, somehow. It honestly amazes me at your ability to be uselss. According to

Walkman Entry It's time for me...and this Ari computer bot...I'll call it the Strawberry Bot, to look at these files. I've been avoiding it for too long, and while I still think Narrator's shouldn't have a back story, maybe this will help me figure out the Wizards' issues and see how to get you all out of the books. Dear Diary, Mother has been pushing me to pursue this project with her. It's something about reincarnation, or revival, or something like that? I don't really lis

Quest One: Sorry, You’re Still Dead Well, I'm not all that sorry. You got yourselves killed. That's not exactly my fault, or even my problem. Except that it makes things incredibly inconvenient when it comes to suing that damned Wizard in court. He's quite well known, as I'm sure you know by now. I think he thwarted our attempts at reviving your bodies over the summer, but, Ariadne says that's a "conspiracy". I'm going to need all of you to do a bit more research on the dead

J U N E 1st: RESURRECTION EXPERIMENT # ??? We believe there is a chance that the correct layout of candles may allow us to bring the peasants back from the afterlife. Narrator seems to have an odd 6th sense about the afterlife, but won't expand on the details. We are using the spiritual connection of the peasants* (note from Ariadne) ** (note from Narrator) to guide us to the correct candle arrangements. *note from Ariadne: aka, my HEROES *note from Narrator: aka, village idi

Read the most recently added book on your TBR Read a children's/middlegrade book, or one with a child in it Read a book with a...

sept. 15 - schedule drops oct. 13th - prompts drop nov. 1st - Story Parts 1-3 nov. 8th - Story Parts 4-6 nov. 15th - Story Parts 7-9 nov....

Well that was a terrible ending- Oh, what was that? Ariadne said these coordinates have taken us to some...black hole of sorts. I believe the ship can handle that sort of thing but...well. We can only hope we make it. I refuse to not complete yet another job on account of any of your safety. Lets hope we make it through. Ariadne would like to add that time can get strange with these things, so we may not know how we fared or where we are until November 1st. Hold onto your sea

Eight: The book held stories of peasants, in a land called Shelfla. These peasants, and their handler, seemed to be able to defy space and time- they could hop in and out of books, return from the dead, and save other planets. Could they save other worlds entirely? Travel fully to other dimensions? Could they come to the library, and help Hawthorne answer their questions? Hawthorne pondered these things, and, as if they had asked for it out loud, a paper and pen seemed to rol

five: Well peasants, this is a bit of a strange story. I'm only reading it as it's being sent to us. Each story part has new coordinates, which Ariadne has been using. Your guess is as good as mine as to how this specific set of story parts is going to end, and much less where we're going, but hey - they paid me in advance, so at least this time you all can't ruin my pay day. Again. I think I'd throw you out of the space ship if you managed that, actually. Free Space six: The

Three: Hawthorne grew from a sleepy, strange infant, to a quiet and stranger child. They could often be found 10 paces behind Librarian, and they learned quickly to read, write, and of course- shelve books. There were books Hawthorne was allowed to read, and books they were not allowed to read. Hawthorne wasn't sure why that was the case, nor why some rooms would be locked one day, and unlocked the next, but they accepted that this was simply How Things Were- in the way that

intro: Welcome back to the ship, peasants. We've been given a bit of a strange request. I have been hired to be the Narrator for a new story, but I am only to read parts of it to you at a time. I don't question when I'm being paid well, as we all know, so let's just settle in for the ride to our next planet, and get this over with. one: This is the story of Hawthorne. This story begins with a strange basket left on the footsteps of an even stranger library. This strange bask

1. Read your most recently acquired book. 2. Read a book someone else recommended or gifted to you. 3. Read a book you, or someone else, might consider cozy or comforting. 4. Read a book you've been putting off the longest despite being curious about it. 5. Free Space 6. Read a small or short book. 7. Read a book that has a mystery, or a big secret involved 8. Read an exciting book. 9. Read a book with green in the cover.

April 18th, 2025: Schedule releases May 20th, 2025: Prompts release June 1st, 2025: Readathon starts, story updates 1 & 2 June 8th, 2025: Story updates 3 & 4 June 15th, 2025: Story updates 5 (free space), 6 & 7 June 22nd, 2025: Story updates 8 & 9 June 30th, 2025: Readathon ends, final story post.