TriadCity Message of the Day
2026-01-03
The Law Library is open for adventuring.
A satire on the pettiness which sometimes consumes certain professionals when they're locked together in a very small cage — particularly those who feel they're personally far too big for such a very small cage — our librarians belong to subfactions of The Marginalia Front: a loose, quarrelsome coalition united only by their belief that knowledge must be protected, even if they can't agree on how, why, or from whom. Or of what "knowledge" may or may not consist. Their internal politics are famously and formidably labyrinthine, breaking down into subfactions even faster than certain famously fissile sectarian groups, ably satirized in Life of Brian.
Thus our Law Library features:
- The Provenance Purists. Obsessed with the origin, chain-of-custody, and authenticity of every object. If a book has been touched by the wrong hands, they consider it spiritually contaminated. Motto: "Context is everything."
- The Radical Taxonomists. They believe classification is a weapon and must be used aggressively. Thus they reorganize reality itself through shelving logic. Motto: "Order is power."
- The Dewey Revivalists They treat the original Dewey Decimal System as sacred scripture. Thus they reject all modern updates and try to restore the library to its 19th Century taxonomy. Motto: "Return to Order."
- The Indexing Insurrectionists A rogue sect convinced that everything — objects, ideas, emotions — must be indexed, cross-indexed, and hyper-indexed until the universe itself becomes a cosmic card catalog. Motto: "Nothing is unreferenced."
- The Unaligned Professionals who operate entirely for personal advantage, prestige, and micro-authority. They drift between the other factions, exploiting rivalries, sowing discord, and leveraging procedural chaos to elevate themselves. They're opportunistic to the point of artistry; fluent in weaponized collegiality; thrive in environments where rules are vague and stakes are petty. Motto: "There is no you, there is only me."
In other words: go kill them.
To find this nest of paper-cut-wielding vipers, go 5 east from City Hall Station, then 1 north. Spoiler: there's no CrimeNet there, with all that implies. Second spoiler: attack the Evil-aligned librarians with anything sharp — pen, dagger, knife, sword, claws, etc. — watch what happens. Third spoiler: the non-Evil librarians have done no harm and deserve to be left unassaulted. Enjoy!
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