the_librarians | setting

THE LIBRARY

The largest and most expansive area, The Library is divided into sections, which don't seem to be based on any form of organization common in modern libraries. They seem divided in a nonsensical fashion that begets a OCD but horribly disorganized person.

Each Floor has different Sections, each Section being about a mile straight distance to the next Section, where it seems to cut off into the Big Shelves, with several car-sized bridges to the next section. The Floors of the larger areas can reach several Floors upward before the next actual physical Floor, which are connected by various staircases placed at various intervals.

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The Floors	The Sections
	D	E	F	G	H	I	J
652	Darkness and monsters	Darkness and monsters	Darkness and monsters	Darkness and monsters	Darkness and monsters	Darkness and monsters	Darkness and monsters
651	Dead gates	Dead gates	Dead gates	Dead gates	Dead gates	Dead gates	Dead gates
640-650	Open Shelves	Open Shelves	Open Shelves	Open Shelves	Open Shelves	Open Shelves	Open Shelves
639	Studies	Studies	Studies	Studies	Studies	Studies	Studies
628-638	Open Shelves	Open Shelves	Open Shelves	Open Shelves	Open Shelves	Open Shelves	Open Shelves
627	Dead gates	Gates	Gates	Gates	Gates	Gates	Dead gates
616-626	Open Shelves	Open Shelves	Open Shelves	Open Shelves	Open Shelves	Open Shelves	Open Shelves
615	broken studies	Studies	Studies	Studies	Studies	Studies	Broken studies
614	Market	Market	Market	Market	Market	Market	Market
613	Living quarters	Living quarters	Living quarters	Living quarters	Living quarters	Living quarters	Living quarters
612	Living quarters	Living quarters	Living quarters	Living quarters	Living quarters	Living quarters	Living quarters
611	Living quarters	Living quarters	Living quarters	Living quarters	Living quarters	Living quarters	Living quarters
609-610	Market	Market	Market	Market	Market	Market	Market
608	Broken studies	Broken studies	Broken studies	Broken studies	Broken studies	Broken studies	Broken studies
???-607	Darkness and monsters	Darkness and monsters	Darkness and monsters	Darkness and monsters	Darkness and monsters	Darkness and monsters	Darkness and monsters

Open Shelves
	The open shelves are everything you would expect from a giant library, each shelf reaches high into the air, complete with stairs and balconies. The floor and balconies have plenty of plush chairs of various designs. The brokendown sections have partly destroyed shelves, as well as housing the larger sorts of monsters that can't fit in the smaller areas of TL. Beware of dragons.

Studies
	Private studies not unlike what you might find on college campuses. Each study area has a theme to it but the rooms leading off its hall all will be designed to fit various designs.

Markets
	Like some sort of giant indoor mall, the marketplaces have fountains and stores all over the place (most are bookstores or book-related stores). Some parts have fake outdoor parts, with fake skies and places where trees used to be neatly groomed into perfect parks... Most of these have now run completely wild. Here is where you'll find most of the herbivorous monsters.

Gates
	Hallways and hallways of doors without rooms behind them. When not used, the Gates are dark and smooth like onyx or iron, but when open, the Gates are brightly colored and look very similar to the door of the place they open up to.

Living Quarters
	Dorm-like, these were converted to hotel-like room for people who decided to stay in The Library for extended stays. Most people who stayed in The Library were professors, researchers, or worked there. Character may find personal items in some of the rooms of someone's written notes or books they had checked out. Some clothes may have been left behind as well as other items.

Darkness and Monsters
	Overgrown with wild plantlife and dense with monsters, these areas of The Library tend to be missing sections of the floor and badly damaged by the monsters who run wild. Most of these areas are without power, so getting a signal and contacting help may be near impossible.

Between Sections: The Big Shelves
	These massive shelves arc up into the ever-present ceiling and are several stories high (no pun intended). Making up the main routes between sections, the Shelves have stairs between levels, as well as walkways across to the adjacent Shelf. These enormous Shelves take the place of major hallways or walkways. On every third level there are doors to the various floors.

Questions about what may be found in the various areas may be answered below.