Librarians Errant, shrunk, amnesia volume 3, silverfish, mice, roomba banishment
Wait, are birds real after all? I wish the Internet would make up its mind!
Played: Librarians Errant. Reshelving Squad Upsilon find themselves in a mysterious, probably artificial landscape of cyclopean edifices. Why are they there? No time to figure out, exceptionally loathsome arthropods are attacking! From the way the squished bugs flutter down lightly, Thaïs deduces that the squad is very small, rather than the silverfish being very large, but trying to remember why and how results in visions of ink and origami, and San loss. Lili divines that they are there for the third volume of The Magical Education, and also that they have letters folded into(?) their heads. Rearranging themselves to spell out words does produce magical effects, but doesn’t get them any closer to the book, so they explore the regular way. They are in a library off a crocodile-themed temple, so probably in the temple of Sobek, where the possession issue is centered. At 1/60th scale, they can’t easily check the books on the shelves, but a magical tome wouldn’t be in the accessible library anyway. Checking around the baseboards, they find mice, but also a magically-warded secret door, and beyond it, a much smaller library guarded by an automatic dust-sucker that wouldn’t even come up to their ankles if they were full size, but now can swallow Grumman whole and carry him to another plane when banished, Fortunately its insides are not constructed to stand up to a determined engineer with a steam armor maintenance kit, and it returns inoperable. And, on an upper shelf, the third volume! The squad manages to knock it to the floor by spelling LEVER, but LARGE only breaks the spell and returns them to their bodies in the library. Still, now they know where the final volume is.
Read: The Summer You Were There vol 2 (Yuama): More feelings, and also popular girl knows depressed girl’s dark distressing history. Can she overcome it?
Read: The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook (Matt Dinniman): Turns out Carl isn’t the first to think, “fuck this entire system”, and they probably didn’t even have an evil subway system to figure out at the same time.
Written: 117. Writing a second draft was like pulling teeth, so I switched to writing in a summary mode, about one paragraph per scene. Not sure if this is better or worse, in either the long or short term.