Library, all day - for Armageddon Plot researchers

[asar-suti.livejournal.com]

There had been this odd magical clock near the back door yesterday, and, as Asar-Suti had explained to Nerdanel's young friend, before poking the thing itself, it was wise to consult books that might or might not contain information he would then not have to find out himself.

So, early Monday morning already found Asar-Suti in the library, pouring over books and the index which he by now kept in his computer. And he didn't just look up all references for 'clock' (and 'watch' and 'timepiece' and even 'hourglass') he could find, he had also put up a big notice on the library notice board that said:

Have you noticed the magical clock by the back door? I find it suspicious and am trying to find out what it is. If anybody knows, please poke me and tell me. Thanks!

- Asar-Suti

[[OOC: You know who you are - please poke, post in, thread-hop and interact on this post! Thanks!]]

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[gone_byebye]

Ray went home last night some time after supper, but he's back again today. Since Bar wasn't about to give him a reference manual for his nephew's situation, he figured he'd see if anything suitable might exist in the library. That still counted as finding it the hard way, right?

That's how he saw the notice board. He's giving it a curious look as we speak.

[asar-suti.livejournal.com]

"Morning, Ray!" Asar-Suti said. "Have you noticed that thinggy as well?"

[gone_byebye]

"I saw it in passing, but I assumed it belonged to somebody," Ray says. "It looks like something a patron might drag in. It hasn't got a master, then?"

[asar-suti.livejournal.com]

"Not that I know of," Asar-Suti said. "And I've seen it about for a day or two now. I'd have guessed that by now, somebody would have claimed it. It's an intricate device. Perhaps it is a patron, I wonder."

[just_the_doctor]

The quakes had registered on the TARDIS instruments from the beginning, and so the Doctor and Rose have been doing their own research in the TARDIS library, researching possible scientific causes for the seismic activity.

It was actually Rose who finally said, only half-serious, "Must be magic." Which is why the Doctor is heading into the magical library this morning: to see if maybe she might be right.

[asar-suti.livejournal.com]

"Morning!" Asar-Suti said, looking up.

[just_the_doctor]

The Doctor is reading the notice, and so doesn't immediately respond to the voice. He belatedly realizes that someone is talking to him, and turns to regard the violet deity.

"What? Oh. Yes. Good morning to you." He nods to the notice. "Problems never come one at a time around here, do they?"

[supersymmetry]

Let it never be said that Fred's not curious. She's often not terribly aware of her surroundings, having her nose buried in a book or working up some new theory or just avoiding the fact that she lives in a bar now by keeping to the non-bar areas.

However, the clock? That she noticed.

She approaches the purple man carefully, as she's understandably wary of colorful ex-gods.

"It's weird, isn't it? I thought they just installed it as decoration, or something."

[asar-suti.livejournal.com]

"Nobody randomly installs magic stuff al over the place," Asar-Suti argued, sensibly. "I think somebody must have left it, or perhaps it's sentient and arrived on its own. We've got talking, intelligent cars here as well."

[supersymmetry]

"Well, not randomly. I guess I assumed whoever runs the place put it in? Decided, "hey, what this place really needs is a magic clock!" -- why not? Maybe it tells magic time."

She pauses, only just now realizing how silly that sounds.

"Um. Don't ask me what I meant by that, because I didn't really think that one through."

[watcher-g-man.livejournal.com]

Giles was likewise making an early day of it, with several books around him. Some from his world that he thought might be prevalent, and several more here.

Any Scoobies/Slayerettes old or new would certainly recognize the obvious sign of full blown "Research Session" going on here.

[asar-suti.livejournal.com]

Asar-Suti nodded good morning, but otherwise left the man alone - he respeted cogitation in others.

[watcher-g-man.livejournal.com]

Giles already had some notes, based on conversations with Magius and Melkor. He added a few others to a clean notebook as he continued researching.

[gil-whimple.livejournal.com]

Gil levitates a tray into the room at wandpoint then heads across to the tea room to top everything up. If there's one thing he has learned living with Sooty it's that research can be thirsty work.

Also hungry, hence the mountainous plates of sandwiches and cookies and good old fashioned buns.

He's brought napkins too so they don't get the books grubby.

[asar-suti.livejournal.com]

"Oh!" Asar-Suti said, startled from his book in an entirely pleasant way.

"Gil! And coffee! And food!"

He grinned brightly at the faun and his tray.

[gil-whimple.livejournal.com]

Gil catches a bit of his lower lip between his teeth, and lifts a quizzical eye brow.

"Coffee, tea or me?" he asks.

[gravity_shifter]

After her encounter with the clock, Sikozu head tot he library, hoping to be able to find something that will allow her access to the timepiece.

The note on the board only deepens her frown as she enters.

[asar-suti.livejournal.com]

"You saw that thing as well?" Asar-Suti asked her, looking up.

[gravity_shifter]

Sikozu nods.

"I have seen it, felt its tremors, touched it." She grimaces slightly at that. "It has a protective barrier, electricity of some sort."

[seker-pride.livejournal.com]

Strahan did not know.

He only knew there was a clock. And a bit of shaking that had been mild until last night.

And there was Urza. He never got the man's name, but Urza struck him as someone he could use for his own ends. Perhaps get the Planeswalker to teach him new, powerful magics no Ihlini could dream of.

All that could be put on hold. The Seker was asking for a little help in regards to the mystery of the clock, and, well, maybe this was his opportunity to show his god just how much he'd learned during his time here.

[asar-suti.livejournal.com]

"Morning, Strahan," Asar-Suti said, casually, nodding to his follower.

[seker-pride.livejournal.com]

Strahan's return greeting in the form of a smile is too sincere to be genuine.

"You desire help in researching the strange additions to the bar?"

[asar-suti.livejournal.com]

Khayman had reckoned somebody should be told.

One of the few people he knew in this place was the purple fellow who kept the library and the garden; he'd visited in New Orleans when it wasn't under water yet.

And the purple fellow normally lurked in the library when he wasn't doing things with the faun behind closed doors.

"Ah, you are wondering as well," he said, abruptly, when he entered the library after deposting Claudia in Tokyo and saw Asar-Suti's sign.

"What did it do now?" Asar-Suti sighed; he had been absorbing more and more bad news over the course of the day.

"It made Claudia mortal because she said she wanted to be; I took her home to David in tears," Khayman said. "You know her?"

"Of course I know of her!" Asar-Suti said, shaking his head. "This is getting randomly complicated. It ticks, it hits people, and it fulfils odd wishes."

"It ran backwards a few ticks after it had changed her as well," Khayman offered.

Asar-Suti nodded, and made a note. "Curiouser and curiouser. Keep watching it, can you?" he asked, remembering Khayman's patience.

Khayman gave him a Look, but shrugged and went back downstairs.

[just_the_doctor]

The Doctor looks up when Asar-Suti comes back to the table.

"Something helpful, I hope?"

The pile of books with nothing helpful are rapidly outnumbering both the possibles and those left to read.

[asar-suti.livejournal.com]

"It de-vampired a little vampire girl," Asar-Suti said, darkly. "After she had vaguely wanted it. But didn't, really. Then it ticked backwards. Khayman is going to keep an eye on the thing for us; he is a very ancient vampire with the patience to listen to a clock tick for days."