Zilethipereskis

Asteroid Library

• Basic Description

  Ocular lives on a large Asteroid approximately five miles in diameter. On the outside, there is nothing remarkable about this asteroid to suggest it is inhabited. Inside, of course, is another matter entirely. Inside a large fissure, 200 feet deep, there is a secret door which leads inside. The halls are smooth, square and bare no tool marks. The vast majority of the Asteroid's interior is taken up by the central Library. The Central Library rests on the Gravity Plane of the Asteroid, The floor is made from glassteel, and there are shelves on both sides. Most of the shelves line up, but there are exceptions where a shelf exists on one side, but not the other. The shelves vary in height from 35 to 50 feet, with ladders being plentiful and sturdy. The walkways are 15 feet wide and the ceiling is 100 feet from the floor, in both directions.
  
  The books are mostly not labeled on the spine, but careful investigation will reveal that the library is carefully and meticulously sorted by category. The bookshelves themselves are not laid out linearly. They form a twisted maze of shelves over a 6000 acre area. Travel from one side of the floor to the other is intermitent at best, further complicating the maze. Non-flyers are encouraged to bring a map or a guide, neither of which are readily available. Illumination is plentiful, provided by glowing glass spheres embedded in both ceilings. The glass floor results in light being available both above and below, which generally enhances the vertigo effect.

• Library Rules

  The edge of each bookshelf has a stone plaque attached to it, a recent addition relative to the thousands of years the stone shelves have been there. Each plaque is written in one of dozens of languages. As there are thousands of shelves, there are plenty of copies of each language, but you may have to check a few before finding one you can read. Once translated, they all say the same thing.
  
  Library Rules

  1. No fire
  2. No drinking while reading a book
  3. No eating while reading a book
  4. No fighting in the library
  5. No loud noises in the library
  6. Do not climb the shelves, use the ladders.
  7. Do not leap from shelf to shelf, non flyers are to return to the ground and find a new ladder.
  8. No winged flight in the library
  9. No aggressive spell casting in the library
  10. Do not eat the books

• Central Reading Room

  In the center of the library, for those who are not hopelessly lost by the time they stumble into it, is a wide open area, approximately 300 feet around, and mostly circular. In the center of the reading room is a hole in the floor for passing from one side to the other, 15 feet in diameter just like all the others. Ringing this hole are 6 stone lecterns on either side of the glass, totaling 12. The outer face of each Lectern has a copy of the Library rules on it, though only the most common dozen languages are available. Loosely ringing the lecterns, 10 feet farther out, are two dozen identical mirrors. Each is 7 feet tall and 3 feet wide, framed in platinum, and perfectly smooth in a way no craftsman could do by hand. The mirrors take turns between one side of the glass and the other, with one dozen evenly spaced around the center on either side, off set from the other side by one half step.

• Library Readers Application

  If you wish to use the Library, leave your character's name, home planet/dimension/plane/whatever, and read the Library's rules. Trespassers and violators of rules(or boring people) may be eaten occasionally.

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    Aethaerraent (played by Kim) || October 12 2011, 5:30am

    "To Zilethipereskis, true form of spherical perfection:
    
    I, Aethaerraent, wish to continue my research in your library. I have read your rules and recorded them in my book for future reference."

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    Zilethipereskis (played by Nero) || October 12 2011, 5:37am

    ""Aethaerraent,
    
    You may use the library so long as you continue to observe the rules. In your case, you must also remember to return the light spheres to their full illumination value once you have departed the area. So far this has not caused a problem, but if it does I may need to alter the rules. Most do not read in the dark, so it does not need to be a rule otherwise.
    
    The Perfect Sphere, Zilethipereskis.""

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