[text] ; a few days after the breach is sealed

[shroudedsecrets]

Greetings.

The conditions outside of the barrier are extremely poor, confirming what had been indicated to us previously. The atmosphere is heavy, and full of toxins, and currently uninhabitable.

I have attached some images for those who may be curious.

Be aware, however, that for those of you who might have the ability to withstand such conditions in your previous universes, it will still pose a danger to you here.


... That is all.


[And as the text indicates, attached to this fairly open message are quite a few snapshotted images, and even a brief shaky video or two taken of the outside just beyond the breach, indicating the state of the wall from the outside just before the repairs were completed.

A few shots focus on the conditions of the broken and corroded buildings, ones that indicated that the city had once been larger. One of these shots even captures an odd looking small lizard, hiding among the rubble.

There's a few wider shots of the area, revealing some bleached bones of a large, unidentifiable creature among empty expanses of dry, cracked wasteland, a little further off.

Lastly there seem to be slightly blurred images of some of the monster activity, from further away.]

Comments

[shroudedsecrets]

[Vianca's so diligent. Although perhaps not as sneaky as she expects. And the amount of these books is... surprising. Even though no person appears at the window while the book stacking is in progress... whenever she finishes with her first couple of neat stacks, one of the stacks will slowly start to rise and float away from the sill, with a gentle glow of arcane energy.

Hopefully that's not alarming.]

[pinkmin]

[Mostly she was just trying not to be a bother. For a few moments there, she even thought that maybe she was a lot quieter than she had attempted. Maybe she'd be able to just deposit books and skedaddle before anyone was the wiser.

It was when she turned to put books on top of books that were no longer there that she realized This Was Incorrect. Vianca blinked, looking between the windowsill and the cat. Did you see that? Where'd they go? She blinked again, gingerly setting down the new stack of books, and waited.

And waited.

And-- Oh!! Vianca gasped softly. Magics. Or psychic powers. Or something. Something neat. Gosh. So useful.

Well. Here was the last of this impressively hefty pile of books for you, Mystery Magic User. She'd done her best to get a little bit of everything that the library had to offer genre-wise, even though the majority of it was admittedly... nothing very useful. The information sections were really lacking!]

[shroudedsecrets]

[And a good job well done, mystery book deliverer. She honestly had not been expecting that many, as limited as the selection truly was here.

Perhaps there'd be some insights onto past culture, even if she wasn't the best sort of person to be looking into those aspects. But it was... something else to do.

It takes a few moments more, perhaps whether waiting and determining if more of those little stacks would appear, but when they don't, Vianca will receive a new text not long after.]


thank you, for this kindness. this is a generous selection.

[pinkmin]

[Job complete, and assured that the books had been located, Vianca had found little other reason to stay by the window. They needed whatever kind of rest they were getting, after all! So she'd given her thank you's to the cat and been on her way.

At least until text messages!]

I hope they help ease some of the boredom. I can come by to pick them up when you are done, or if they are bad and you'd like different ones.

I have not gotten to read them all yet. Some may be bad.

[shroudedsecrets]

regardless of quality, they are what reflect the state of mind of the population at the moment it was written. that alone may be of some worth.

[She's had some experience with sitting through extremely bad "Earth" movies for her distraction, another planet's measure of such things would just be something else to get through.]

[pinkmin]

Yes, that is why I have been reading them. It is interesting to see how some concepts are handled now. Even the bad ones are still fascinating that way.

[shroudedsecrets]

we have little knowledge on who they had been when these stories were constructed. whether the written words themselves have been modified in any form.

[What had been left to find in the archives might not necessarily reflect what was offered for them in the library.]