Subject: This was a neat thing
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Posted on: 2018-01-25 22:08:00 UTC
Information-retrieval "missions" is a nice concept, the gaggle of kids asking silly questions was a nice touch, and it's really good to see the universe being expanded generally.
- Tomash
This story contains spoilers for the ongoing(?) Marvel comic Star Wars: Darth Vader - Dark Lord of the Sith, particularly issues 8-10 (ie, the most recent). If you both read them and somehow haven't gotten round to it in the last two weeks, be warned.
There are also spoilers in this post, going back to issue 8; it's 2 months old now, so hopefully you've gotten that far, but just in case, here's that amazing picture of Mark Hamill and Daisy Ridley to give you time to click 'back' and get away.
Right. Now, who is the best Jedi?
No, your answer is wrong. The real answer is...
Jocasta Nu, the galaxy's most awesome librarian.
In light of this fact, and in light of the events of the aforementioned comic, the staff of the Musée des Univers Perdus have recently paid a visit to Jocasta's collection, in a short piece I like to call...
A Library Far, Far Away
hS, apparently carving out a librarian-shaped niche in the PPC
I particularly liked "Do Mustafar shadow-demons have wings?" Excellent question, well worth debating.
I nominate Urag gro-Shub of the Mages' College of Winterhold for a position on the list of Most Dedicated Librarians. He's an Orc, both defying and living up to cultural stereotypes in pursuit of his calling. Not even the Arch-Mage is above his rule in the Arcaneum. He's one of my favorite NPCs in Skyrim. ^_^
~Neshomeh
Information-retrieval "missions" is a nice concept, the gaggle of kids asking silly questions was a nice touch, and it's really good to see the universe being expanded generally.
- Tomash
I always love seeing more of the Musée, and of Lorelai and Dr. Cornelius. This new type of "mission," as it were, is very unique, and I like that there's an element of difficulty to it without making it dangerous or tense. Good use of Ekyl's character, and of the younglings. A lot of their questions were quite amusing!
I also like that you found a way to give both Jocasta and Cator screen time, and then honor them with statues and the name wall at the end. Aside from being nice from our out-of-universe perespective, it feels like the sort of thing Dr. Cornelius would do. (Or maybe that part is Lorelai's contribution?)
A long typo ago:
The dimly-lid corridor behind the shelf led to an equally-dim flight of stairs.
—doctorlit, too old to be trained as a Jedi
Librarians are the best. I might be biased, because I am a librarian, but you can take my word for it: Librarians are the best. Aside from Jocasta's awesomeness, it made me think of another Library, which does contain some quite amazing people in it.
The book (and T.V. show) "The Magicians" has a library (titled "The Library", what a name) of quite epic proportions, and the contents are quite special. Feel free to check it out, but fair spoiler warning for The Magicians!
http://themagicians.wikia.com/wiki/The_Library
- Maxewell, Librarian who has a spot in a niche now