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[buildstherobots]

[Phone call! To the whole town! Except the drones and the usual meddling authority figures. The call is in a moderately hushed tone, but he's easily understandable.]

So, I see that there are many new people, and you may count yourselves as lucky as you can in this place because Dist the Rose is here to take care of you all. I'm sure you've been informed as to the basics of Mayfield, but I've put together a lovely little primer for just this kind of occasion, giving you all of the details you need to bring you fully up to speed, including the most important things that have been inflicted upon us since the first of us can remember arriving here. If you would like to be informed, then come to the library to pick up a copy. If you can't find it, ask any drone where it is, they'll be able to tell you. Look for a gorgeous man with pale hair; someone as extraordinary as myself will stand out.

[And, just a little louder but no so much so that he's quite up to normal talking level.]

And be sure to pick up your free library card! Knowledge is power and all that.

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[And there Dist will be, flitting about, stacking things and shelving things and generally keeping himself busy. He'll also be available to assist anyone who just so happens to be in the library themselves, though every so often he'll have to stop and sit to rest a bit, possibly get down a granola bar outside the view of the head librarian. He can't fit his chair through the door, let alone down the aisles of books, so he's walking everywhere and carrying things and with his condition this tires him out quickly.]

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[buildstherobots.livejournal.com]

[Iiiinteresting. Dist "returns" the book, then goes through the same process with Ruri's information. When he flips the cover closed, he's staring at a cheerful pastel book-cover - definitely not the one he'd seen before.]

Well, that's...

[Actually kind of pointless, but interesting nonetheless.]

So it's not only the authority figures who have the ability to manipulate the reality here. You just have to work inside their ridiculous system.

[Dammit. Subtlety is not something Dist enjoys; he'd much rather just knock over buildings. But, what other choice is there?]

[hontobakabaka.livejournal.com]

"Hrm.... So what you are saying basically is... If you have the Mayor's library card, you can get just about any book under the sun, but if you have mine, its all pastels and posies. Interesting. I wonder what the books actually are."

[buildstherobots.livejournal.com]

I couldn't say. I see all the books that are here; if I were the mayor, I'd keep my important books behind triple-reinforced fonic-locked steel doors behind an army of my best robots, not sitting out on shelves in public, hidden or not.

[Now that he thinks about it, he'd make a pretty damn good mayor.]

But it can be manipulated, and manipulated by us. It's more than the library; we just have to figure out how to take it out of here.

[hontobakabaka.livejournal.com]

"However, what about your only kind of important books? I would imagine that all those locks and robots would attract quite a bit of attention. That coupled with the way the town wants us to think nothing is wrong may lead to some rather interesting reality loopholes."

[buildstherobots.livejournal.com]

It's worth examining. But if you have something precious, wouldn't you want to make sure it's protected even if someone knows where it is?

[hontobakabaka.livejournal.com]

"This is protected though. Hubris can frequently be the greatest downfall of man."