CUS Y6: Parts 25-27

Part 25

You can sense there is someone in this room as you all enter. However, you can't see them. It seems even Hawthorne is victim to this, whispering nervously, "Hello?" The pages in the room ruffle, and a spinning wheel begins spinning.

"Hello, Hawthorne." The room seems to whisper. "We have been waiting for you. For all of you. We have written...read...weaved...understood...known...you all for so long..." The phrasing here feels distracted, yet intentional. Everything about this journey has felt this way. Like walking in circles, through some strange labyrinth, but still, intentional. Threads float into the room and around the room, gleaming in various birth stone colors, avoiding your curious touches and centering in on a strange machine, that pulls the threads in, and create pages upon pages with stories on them. This is the heart of the Library.

Read a book published in your birth month.

Part 26

"We have been waiting for you...to find us..." The room whispers, the weaving doesn't stop. "The Library's custodian is...no longer serving us well...we will need to Sever her story..." A loud snap of scissors closing on thread is heard, sounding as though it is right by all of your ears, somehow. "We would like to hire you, if you will pass one last test..."

Well, why didn't you say so, these peasants owe me quite a lot of money at this point!

"We...know." The whisper echoes through the room and I feel quite satisfied that someone is validating that you people owe me money.

"We ask that you prepare yourselves for a test...and if you pass...you can become the new custodians...perhaps it will curb your purchasing tendencies..." The room seems to shake a little, the pages ruffling, and you realize, the room is laughing, "We know that it won't, though."

Well peasants, it looks like we have to prepare for one more boss battle. Assuming, of course, you want to take up the job.

Free Space

Part 27

Another door opens, and after preparing your questionable weapons - seriously, did any of you think to pack better? You hear a loud roar. Hawthorne hesitates, unsure if they are meant to come with you. A thread wraps around their ankle, as if answering the question. This is not for Hawthorne to battle. Hawthorne has already proven themself.

Entering the room, the door slams behind all of us. A book with several bookmarks, fraying at the ends creating more loose threads that seem to have teeth, is roaring before you. It hisses, and lunges, and is ready to attack.

Did you think you would get out of this library unscathed?

1. Sword of Destiny: have someone pick a book out of a list for you.

2. Loaded Dice: read a book with an odd number of pages or audio hours.

3. Telephone Book: read a book that mentions any phone in any capacity.

4. Needle: Read a very small/short book.

5. Empty Cardboard Box: Read a book that was delivered to you (digital or otherwise).