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[You know you must have died—nothing is ever easy around here, certainly not quick, so you must remember burning, bleeding, falling, dying?

And yet. You're waking up.

Do you recognize it here, once you pick yourself up off of the hard floor, maybe half-strewn across a couch or beanbag chair? This room died, too: you're in the library, good as new and maybe better than that, only barely smelling of burnt paper and you only sometimes kick up ash, just like those old wounds that finished you off only ache every now and again, dully.

The book selection isn't quite the same as you remember it—all the bad erotica that didn't die is missing here, sorry to say, but so are the books on everyone's home worlds. Snoop around enough and behind the librarian's desk, you'll find tablets: one for each participant of the game, and with enough experimentation, you'll find the one that reacts when you press the button. You're already logged into your Recyclr account and can read the feed, but the same rules apply: 140 characters, one tweet a day. The voting app is gone, replaced by a sort of security monitoring kind of app. Characters can view different rooms of the school, or even place a few side by side so they can view a few at a time, and they'll be able to see the living go about their day to day lives. There's even an archive of recordings, but only the important ones: murders, executions, investigations, trial highlight reels, and major events like libraries being burned down. Was watching yourself die once not enough? Boy have I got good news for you!!!

It's kind of exciting that you can go around touching stuff, probably, despite being super dead and vaguely transparent in a way you notice like your own breathing; you don't and then you do and it's all you can think about, but your tangibility only extends to the inanimate: try to touch any of your fellow deceased and you'll find that you just pass right on through like touching cold air.

The windows aren't bolted up with those big metal plates on this side of things, but look out of them anytime and it's just pitch-black and still outside, so that's demoralizing. There is, of course, the door out of the library—but for now it's locked up tight. Whatever is a ghost to do?]

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[If she's focusing on war history specifically, she'll get some books about the Narnia's Winter Revolution, the many many conflicts in the Game of Thrones universe, and and similar conflicts no one here would recognize as anything but fictional.]

[Aw sweet, she'll have all this random stuff about gory battles to go bother someone with later.

Anything else in this bit? The science bit looks tempting after half the conversations she had were people didn't know junior school stuff.]

[Science, eh? The science books are mostly textbooks, including a book focused entirely on the mitochondria, one that explains photosynthesis with plants with smiley faces drawn onto them, and a big red book about cat behaviors and biology.]

[Well.........She's too dumb for most of these. But the others keep talking about cats and animals and biology is something she can understand. Mostly for hunting. But it makes more sense to her.

Grabs cat book]

[Cat book obtained!

Its contents are actually very ordinary, and do in fact provide extensive knowledge on how cats work—except that the first page is an absolute mess of red scribbles and shapes.]

[That's vandalism!

What types of shapes? Are there any words here or is it really just a mess.

She might just call for help in a moment.]

[There's sort of a dim blue undertone...? It's hard to make out what it is, though. Otherwise, though, just a mess.]

[Squints, then she just holds the book out to whoever is closest. She found a thing.]

[Guess Ichigo will do the thing!]

...?

[He's going to look around for anything blue and seethrough that he can look for, because, well...this sure looks like one of those puzzles for sure.]

[Alas, nothing even kind of blue and see-through to be found around here.]

[Okay, what about 2d glasses. do they have any of those?]

[There are some very ordinary reading glasses, but no 2D glasses, alas.]

[....puts reading glasses on and looks at the page???

If that doesn't work, it's off to the children's section.]

[The scribbles are bigger in the reading glasses, because that's what they're for.

The children's section contains copies of books like The Very Hungry Caterpillar and Where the Wild Things Are, alongside other classic picture books from a variety of worlds, including those not represented here.

...There are also some picture books very obviously created by Tycoon with crayons, containing a litany of swear words and lots of poor-quality gory drawings. These aren't for children to read!!!]

[Listen, he has one eye so he needs all the help he can get.

Time to flip through those books and see if there's anything that sticks out to him - including the ones Tycoon made.]

[Nothing immediately standing out about the books, except that the Tycoon ones get increasingly poor in art quality, but his enthusiasm really shines through.]

[Rin was looking at some sci-fi trash so.]

Find anything interesting?

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Found a page that's one of those 2d things - Well, Futayo found it.

[Shows rin the red scribbles with the blue undertone.]

I think we're going to need those 2d glasses that're in the rec room - the only red lenses one and a normal pair. Do you think you can get a message out to the living?

[Since he used his already.]

Sure. So just tell them to send both pairs?

Yeah. That should be enough, I think.

[Just.

pushes up the reading glasses in an imitation of Ishida, because why the hell not.]

[Akira, having eavesdropped, kind of. slides himself into the conversation. he gives Ichigo a faintly amused look, before addressing Rin]

Do you mind sending Akechi a message for me too, if you have space?

Just say, "yep Akira's laughing."

sure, I can add that I think.

[Waves the horror novel from his side of the room.]

I would guess this all leads to the locked door, if anything at all.

[tilts his head up curiously, inching towards Niles]

The one on the fifth floor, most likely. What'd you find in that book?

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[She really doesn't understand. 3D glasses? What are those why not just use a hologram?

But Rin's presence reminds her of another thing she didn't understand. So she bats at Ichigo's sleeve, her hand going straight through.]

... Ichigo-dono, what is 'Little D'? Rin-dono mentioned it earlier and started to laugh so I believe it is something he likes. Though I have not heard of it.