Amazing, remeniscent of the rabbit whole in 'Alice..'
Art:
Susanna Hesselberg, “When My Father Died It Was Like a Whole Library Had Burned Down” (2015)
Photo of art:
by Claire Voon for Hyperallergic
Cool armor bro
Armadillo Cloak- Wondrous item (cape), Uncommon
The outside of this cloak has a rough, leathery texture, while the inside is soft like velvet, and the cloak itself is large enough to swaddle your whole body. The cloak has 5 charges, and regains 1d4 charges each day at dawn. As an action on your turn, you can draw the cloak around yourself and speak the command word, expending a charge as you do so and causing it to harden into a sphere that fully encloses you. Then as part of the same action you can move up to your speed by rolling along the ground. During this movement you can move through hostile creature’s spaces as if they were difficult terrain, and when you move through a creature’s space, make a melee weapon attack against it. On a hit, the attack deals 1d6 bludgeoning damage plus your Strength modifier. At the end of your movement, you gain a number of temporary hit points equal to the damage dealt this way.
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There is a bookwyrm in the library.
Note the spelling. Not a bookworm. A bookwyrm.
No one is entirely sure when it snuck into the Elsewhere University Library, but one thing has become entirely certain: it is never, ever leaving.
And why should it leave, with a veritable unlimited floor plan filled to the bell tower with delicious, fragrant tomes to claim and hoard and sample.
An ink-black serpentine wyrm that originally was not much bigger than a rabbit, it used to scamper here and there in the library looking for open tomes to slurp the words out of (it is a terribly messy eater, much to the librarians’ chagrin). The words it eats etch themselves somewhere onto its dark hide, though it has consumed so many letters in so many languages that it is difficult now to see where new bits of prose are added.
Students have been warned repeatedly over the years not to feed the bookwyrm. But there are always those who do not heed the warnings of the librarians. It used to be a funny pastime for students that had become stuck in one section or another of the library’s labyrinthine stacks to feed scraps of paper with vulgar words to the then tiny bookwyrm and then try to find where the offending epithets manifested. The bookwyrm was not terribly picky about the words it ate back then, because it was always hungry. Whether they were in good taste or bad, it didn’t matter; its appetite was insatiable.
And this kind of recklessness is why it grew so large in such a, relatively, short amount of time. It sprang up to the size of a cat one semester, then a large dog a year later, and then eventually… well, to the point where it’s a very good thing that the library has a mostly Other architecture, because it surely would have burst the building by now. And the bigger it grew, the more territorial it became. The more it hoarded tomes in certain sections (it really seemed to savor Anne McCaffrey’s works, but would never be found anywhere near Hemingway, for example). The more aggressive it became to students and librarians alike who needed the books also.
Hoping to avoid another calamity like the last wyrm that took up residence on the campus, the librarians decided to make good use of their new pet. With a copious amount of parchment and ink, they lured the bookwyrm down down down deep into the seldom used catacombs of The Library and set it to work. They knew that once it was presented with its new collection that it would never stray far from it again. And there it stays.
It was a constant conundrum that the librarians faced in the early days, when the Fair Folk and students were beginning to… mingle. A place filled with a vast amount of knowledge like The Library is always bound to have certain… archives that are better perused by no one. Ancient texts. Tomes of ages, dated further back than it is currently recorded that written word existed. The language of the birds, poetry of the stars, and truths that would shatter the mind. Words that needed to be preserved but not necessarily studied. Not by the Good Neighbors, and certainly not by incoming freshmen. Absolutely not by school administrators.
A tiny bit of such knowledge is dangerous. A little more is a disaster. Lots of that knowledge, though, would present a crisis of cataclysmic proportions. These are the books, bound in iron and chains, locked with enchantment and dusted with bottled oblivion, that the wyrm keeps. Guards. Claims. Hoards.
Not all words fade with time. Some grow sharp teeth and attack from the dark instead.
So if you are lost in the library and find yourself in a place that is blacker than spilled ink, smells of iron and sulfur, and sounds like an ancient bellows, turn around and leave out the way you came.
Yesterday, if possible (which, in The Library, of course, it always, always is).
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I love the rain also, especially the smell and sound. But like other things it can sometimes overstay it's welcome.
The rain always calms me a bit.
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They were always walking away from him. But he never seemed able to walk away from them.
I'd like to have this; Irish folklore is one of my favorite folklore/mythologies that I've researched.
Absolutely love this, just look at that face. 😍🥺
werewolf park ranger
she loves her job and helps keep the deer population under control
I've always believed this to be canonically correct.
Fun fact! According to folklorists, all myths, fairy tales and nursery rhymes that are about some dude named Jack are talking about the same guy
What this means is, that ever single one of the following
Jack Be Nimble (who jumped over burning candles for fun)
Jack the Giant Killer (who sold his cows for magic beans then robbed and killed a giant)
Stingy Jack (who tricked the devil so many times he was banned from both afterlives)
Jack of Jack and Jill (who splattered his head open falling down a hill)
Jack o’ Lantern (the headless horseman spirit of halloween)
Jack Frost (the spirit who heralds the end of autumn and the start of winter)
Are literally the same jackass who made so many bad life choices he ended up an immortal ice dullahan with a pumpkin serving as both his head and flashlight
-Just Me [In my 30s going on eternity] (A Random Rambling Wordy Nerd and an appreciator of all forms of artistic expression) Being Me- Art, Books, Fantasy, Folklore, Literature, and the Natural World are my Jam.
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