Tol-in-Gaurhoth LXIX: Were-Librarians

[autume98]

I remain in my corner when I realize I should probably make my rounds and introduce myself. After all I do work for Bill Gates now, and drive a 2007 Porche. I give a small smirk and think, "Probably the only one here who can afford such a thing."

So I go off and start making the rounds beginning with Sally. As I approach I see Sally is looking to her left. As I follow her eyesigt I see she is looking at Boro. I know she had a thing for him back then.

I decide to get this over with and enter her field of vision.

[alonariel]

Alona was both shocked and happy to see Fea at the reunion, even more so when she produced a green mesh bag of lemons and handed them to her.

"Your memory's impeccable!" Alona says, laughing a little.

She watched Fea wander off to speak with other classmates, and then disappear off to find some other classmate.

Probably Nienna, she thought, remembering how much both girls enjoyed art. Those two were inseparable in high school!

Speaking of friends, Alona made her way over to Lari, taking in the girl's rather bold outfit as she did so. She looked down at her own clothes - a sea green gauze dress she'd picked out because the color matched her scrubs and low, two-inch matching heels.

"Hey chiquita," Alona greeted, remembering the two had shared AP Spanish together. "A mi me encantan tus tacones."

[Lariren Shadow]

Lari stood off to the side, sipping her punch. Needs something, she thought, oh I know, Frangelico…no spiking the punch is so high scho-oh wait, its like I’m back anyway. She gazed at her classmates and wondered if they had noticed how sickenly sweet her speeches and temperament was. It was even giving her cavities. She really would rather have been off being truly sarcastic but had been taught to play the polite hostess when she needed too. Stupid manners, she thought.

Oh there’s Shasta and Sally, good thing they are getting along. Boro seems to have worked up the confidence to go over and talk to Sally again. I think I should apologize for what happened…well it was a one time thing and I felt horrible about it…oh Fea just gave Alona lemons, that’s really nice of her to remember. And Nienna looks to have run off to the art room already. Oh good, Wilwa and Nessa are talking and everyone else seems to be entertaining themselves (I wouldn’t mind Autume’s SmartPhone…), that means I can go get some air.

Lari set her cup down and headed out of the conference room and off to the bathroom first. After that quick trip she was walking back to the conference room of green and black when she heard a giggle from behind a closed door and then a loud thump. Its not a room…well I know curiosity killed the cat but I’m not a cat! Lari grabbed the handle and throw open the door.

Inside the closet she found that Boro and Sally had defiantly made up and were, well, talking with their mouths closed. All Boro could do was splutter out nonsense while Sally had the ability to exclaim “Oh spite, oh hell.”

“I’ll…leave you too it then.” Lari closed the door. Funny, I never thought that they were even that serious in high school, maybe they really got together afterward. Lari closed the door and walked away.

I better go find Mira, she thought, I saw her walk out and if I have be there she does too, co-voted hostess of the most annoying thing in awhile. She was pretty much giving into her inner sarcasm while keeping a bright smile on the outside.

Suddenly everything went black. When everything began to come into the focus again, she wasn’t sure what had happened, she noticed she was in library stacks. That’s odd…there isn’t a library anywhere near here.

She turned and saw Mira standing against the wall. “You’re here too!? Well then who’s AAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!” Before Mira could respond three blurs impaled her on the end of a v-cart, a look of horror twisted with pain on her face as her blood began to coat the Encyclopedia’s that were on the cart.

“It was them!” Mira chocked out before her head slummed to the side.

“It was who?” But Lari’s thoughts were discontinued when she felt something fall on her head. “The Dark is Rising?” She read the cover of the book before, more started falling. Hundreds of books came crashing down, covering her. All the Harry Potter books were aimed for her head it seemed, especially the fifth. “OWOWOWOWOWOW!” She screamed, her body became covered with all these children’s books. She realized she had to be in the PZ section of the library, on that everyone messed up on purpose. Covered with the likes of Grimm’s Fairy Tales, Little House on the Prairie, Charlotte’s Web, as well as the entire Percy Jackson series, she was glad that, while she felt horribly bruised and like her left arm was broken, that she wasn’t dead. And then the last book feel with amazing force and broke her neck. It was Breaking Dawn, and the book had finally killed someone.

Over looking their carnage the Were-Librarians smiled. They had to go back to the “party” but not before taking something to write with.

The hall had become slightly deserted since most people had run off to do other things. The Were-Librarians like it that way, they could work in private.

Autume looked up from her phone after awhile and saw the message written in blood on the wall. ‘We’re back for our revenge, sincerely, your Were-Librarians’ it read. She screamed and ran for someone for help.

Mac and Brinn stared at it, too horror struck to even move. Everyone came back into the room.

“What are we going to do? Where’s Lari and Mira-“ but Hakon’s question was cut off when Nerwen help up to polorids that were left under the message. They showed Mira and Lari’s deaths.

“Oh, this is not good,” Formendacil commented.

The Living:
Sally, Awkward Theater kid
Fea, Freshman comp professor/slave
Hakon, Something rather successful but keeps it to himself, like in high school
Boro, Nervous student teacher
Autume98, Computer geek who keeps to herself and no one really knows
Nerwen, Ex-cheerleader with a job that sounds horribly more glamorous than it is
Nessa Telrunya, Has a fascination with Fantasy
Wilwa, Stay at home mom of 9
Nienna, Artsy kid that couldn't be dragged out of the art room so she stayed there
Mac, Shy kid
Shasta, Rebel with nothing to rebel against but still looks cool
Formendacil, Eater of Kraft dinners while getting his Doctorate in Inane Uselessness
Alonariel, Nurse who never sleeps
Brinn, The goth kid everyone is afraid of

The Dead:
Lari, crushed by books~ Moddess
Mira, impaled by a v-cart~ Co-Moddess

Let the speculations begin! You may still do a few in-character stuff if you like. As always, narrations have no clues in them.

[Boromir88]

Boro looked a bit ruffled, but he wasn't sure if that was from the snapshots of Mira and Lari, or trying to see how much french he remembered with sally.

"Are we sure this is real? Maybe...its l-l-ike a joke or something. Lari always had the best pranks. Alonariel, remember that time, on April Fools, when you actually came bursting in the boys bathroom, shouting Lari was hurt? She was in Miss Tolvers room, unconscious up against the wall, what looked like blood on the wall and everywhere? I was so frantic, frozen about what to do, and then came the feint 'April Fools!' The supposed blood, turning out to be ketchup, wiped on my white shirt. Ha she was quite the...um" Boro apparently lost his words again after momentarily being lost in a good memory "well I m-m-ean that was...much better...than my prank with cellotape and a red stapler. Definitely b-b-better"

Anyway...I'm on to you two. "Mira! Lari!You can come out now. " Boro tried to portray confidence and that he was right, and around the corner, would appear Mira and Lari. They would be looking disappointed as they had been figured out so quickly. "Any second now, right around that corner...you'll see. Yes...you'll s-see them. Lari we know...you're hiding and you can hear us...Mira! C-c-come out!"

[alonariel]

Alona was horrified at the news of her best friend's and classmate's demise. Her first instinct was to find them and see if they were all right, if there was anything she could do...she'd assisted surgeons before on cases, maybe there was something she could do...

Boro's voice brought her from her thoughts, and she tried to smile at the hilarious memory of her and Lari's April Fool's plan years ago.

"The cafeteria lady wanted to help us get back at the boys for always getting thirds and fourths at lunch," Alona said, remembering how the woman had supplied the ketchup for their little prank.

But, looking at the faces around her, she doubted this was a prank...

[Boromir88]

(P.S. and if we don't start getting more than 1.5 posts an hour I'm not going to be a happy camper, and that probably won't be good for anyone. Enough cold feet, let's get going.)

Edit: crossed with Alona, at least someone's here

[satansaloser2005]

Sorry. Didn't mean to be gone so long but I had to fix my makeu-

Oh. My. You've gotta be kidding me.

*glances at Mira, gags*

Who would do that to someone? You know, it wouldn't surprise me if it was just another trick by her and La....*sees the picture of Lari, decides not to mention that the seventh Harry Potter is bigger than the fifth and would have been a better choice, clears throat*....Lari....

Okay, first of all, someone around here has the strangest sense of humor ever. That's a bit sick, people. Books should never be used to kill people.

Second of all, it couldn't have been Boro and I because....well, we were busy elsewhere. Now that I've come out of the closet....I mean, now that I'm back....I think I'll be able to help. Or at least give it a shot. I'm sure I can figure out who the killers are if I get into their heads, try to think like they would.

Best take a look at Nienna first; she's got even more 'paint on her shirt now. Odd....

[Nienna]

Nienna wanders back toward the masses with a stack of watercolor drawings in hand. Everyone is standing around looking subdued. She looks around the crowd questioningly and Formendacil leans over and whispers what has happened.

Nienna is overcome with grief. She desperately wants to run back to the art room where she knows that it's safe and where she can let her emotion out but her classmates need her here.

She is contemplative for a moment or two and thinks the Twilight thing is oddly apropos.

She shakes it off and puts on a brave face while wandering over to Alona hoping that maybe she has a popsicle hidden somewhere that she will share.

[wilwarin538]

Oh my my my, Wilwa thinks in a panic as she takes out her cell phone and calls her kids quickly, #3 answers the phone and she quickly says, "Tell all your brothers and sisters that I love them..." That's all she gets out before the phone goes dead and she forgot her charger at home.

With a sigh of distress she walks back to the group and tries to listen to the panicked talking that is going on.

"Perhaps Sally and Boro are actually in on this together? Maybe Mac isn't as shy as he's pretending to be? Brinn is kinda scary...."

[wilwarin538]

note: since the deadline for me is 1 o'clock in the morning, I'll have to vote within the next 3 hours. I'll be here on and off within that time, if there still isn't anything really to go on then I will choose someone and try to be logical in my choice and vote then.

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Fea, not entirely sure why she's still thinking in third person, stumbles into focus. (Worst. First. Day. Of. Work. Ever.)

Maybe I'll post for realsies later. For now, I'm taking some Advil and waiting for Kelly to feed me.

Please don't kill me. I'm too exhausted to care, and it would be really, really horrible to die on Day One two games in a row.