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citylogs2023-09-04 03:18 pm
worldexecute) wrote in citylogs2023-09-04 03:18 pm
( closed ) i'm at the librarian meeting. i'm at the bowling alley party.
WHO: Miss Boss Lady & her employees (Angela, and Roland, Gebura, Netzach, Yesod)
WHAT: A fun and friendly work party........
WHERE: A bowling alley, just some regular one in District 2
WHEN: Early September (wiggles hands)
WARNINGS: Library of Ruina spoilers, probably.
( Angela technically put the onus on Roland to invite everyone bowling, mostly because she didn't think any of them would want to go with her—so he's probably responsible for gathering them all... but she's responsible for getting there early, despite also telling him "tell me when you go bowling". Her managerial talents just can't leave well enough alone—
Anyway, there's bowling (obviously), so go bowl. She's also been helpful and put out all available food on the counters and tables here, so go crazy. And... for drinks, there's the regular water and soda and such, but there's also several bottles of champagne and matching flutes for it.
She's also taken some CDs and a stereo from one of the shops around the city, so instead of just eerie silence or whatever, there's music. She just grabbed whatever she could find. Don't judge her.
... ... ... ... ...
Anyway, have fun. )
WHAT: A fun and friendly work party........
WHERE: A bowling alley, just some regular one in District 2
WHEN: Early September (wiggles hands)
WARNINGS: Library of Ruina spoilers, probably.
( Angela technically put the onus on Roland to invite everyone bowling, mostly because she didn't think any of them would want to go with her—so he's probably responsible for gathering them all... but she's responsible for getting there early, despite also telling him "tell me when you go bowling". Her managerial talents just can't leave well enough alone—
Anyway, there's bowling (obviously), so go bowl. She's also been helpful and put out all available food on the counters and tables here, so go crazy. And... for drinks, there's the regular water and soda and such, but there's also several bottles of champagne and matching flutes for it.
She's also taken some CDs and a stereo from one of the shops around the city, so instead of just eerie silence or whatever, there's music. She just grabbed whatever she could find. Don't judge her.
... ... ... ... ...
Anyway, have fun. )
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[ gestures weakly. yeah, he got nothing. ]
Never mind that now. We gotta figure out why the Library can even let go of people like that. 'Cause we thought that anyone who gets booked just straight-up dies, right?
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right, well. it isn't as if they're in the library anymore, so fine. )
They don't die.
( at least she doesn't sound like thinking so was a stupid thing, considering she never implied otherwise. of course they thought they were killing them... people from the outside, anyway. she's sure it's different for the sephirah, who were already bound to books by her hand. )
Upon signing the invitation, guests are quantized and copied by The Library to prepare them for becoming books. While they might die in The Library, they don't die completely—rather, their memories and knowledge become ours, while they themselves enter an eternal slumber.
( a beat. )
Or I suppose just a "slumber", seeing as it isn't as eternal as believed. ( so... there. ) I'd say they're essentially good as dead, seeing as none of them were supposed to leave The Library once they entered, but no: technically speaking, on a quantum level, they are not "dead".
( that's that. )
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[hey angela? hey, angela. quick question: what the fuck?]
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( when people did just kind of die. sort of permanently. only sort of considering angela also decided they get to be alive again but--
she still doesn't know why she did that. why she is doing this. she should just let them die, instead of holding them in stasis, and yet... )
No need to thank me, and no need to ask any further questions on this topic.
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he gives angela an incredulous look like "why the FUCK did you not say anything from the beginning?!" ]
You should've said so from the beginning, though. [ he said, a touch irate. ] Everyone here thought they had to kill again, y'know?
[ IT WOULD'VE MADE ROLAND FEEL BETTER ABOUT THE WHOLE THINK, THANK YOU VERY MUCH ]
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( but why hadn't she just gotten rid of them in the first place? why does she insist on keeping people around? making a deal with the sephirah and having them help her out, not letting the guests truly rest, maintaining some level of distance here as if being their boss actually matters and it really does not—
angela presses her lips together, then finally sighs. )
But fine. Sorry. ( is she? maybe. a little, yeah. ) To be frank, as copies, they're made of light—so I don't know what's going to happen to them once I achieve my goals and make my final decision.
( .......aside from apparently reappearing in the city, obviously, without her consent. )
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It's difficult not to feel upset; Yesod presses his lips together in kind. Still, he stays silent for the time being to examine his thoughts on the matter.
Presumably Angela considered it an irrelevant detail, an unnecessary distinction to make when every reception would feel real, and every death no less so. And yet, consciously storing people in stasis even indefinitely adds another dimension to her chosen approach to pursuing her goals. ]
...Their circumstances are unique, given the involvement of these elements.