Cleaning up the mess ((Open post))

[librarykeeper]

On any given day the Librarian is kept busy trying to keep any open doors he finds shut, chasing various goblins and bookworms away from eating/tearing out the pages of/scribbling on the books. He has to sleep once in a while, never as often as he'd like, but once he woke up from a nap to find three gobllins engaged in a snowball fight with balled

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[goblincook]

Weech is incapable of moving around the library quietly. This is in part due to her own shuffling, scuffing tread (which generates vast amounts of static electricity, and keeps her hair nice and curly), but mostly thanks to Stench. Years of acquaintance with the Librarian have taught Weech that while she herself is tolerable company for the immense literary beastie, her jittery, drizzly little assistant is not. He tends to climb up on the desks and ooze on the books, unless she keeps him tied up firmly in the bottom of her teakettle.

Stench doesn't like being tied up in the bottom of the teakettle.

So it is that the goblin cook's approach is generally heralded by a series of indignant, if muffled, squeaks, squelches, and pings.

[librarykeeper]

((*dies* Beautifully done.))

He's already at the table, having given up on keeping all the doors shut or possibly just taking a much needed rest from spending days trying to barricade himself in. He glances up from his work and watches her approach over the rims of his glasses. "Any news? He's done it, hasn't he? He's gone and bloody done it..." His voice is deep and rumbly, but quiet.

[goblincook]

"'Course 'e has," she shakes her head so that the bow on the peak of her helmet flutters like a demented butterfly. "We both knew 'e would. Shouldn't oughter 'ave tried to discouraged him. Iffen 'e'd thought we liked the idear, 'e might've changed his mind just to be contrary-like."

[librarykeeper]

The Librarian sighs and closes the book he was looking over. "They'll destroy the library. It's bad enough as it is without outsiders wandering in. Who knows what they do to books out there." He waves a taloned hand vaguely and rubs his temples. "That bloody messenger asked and it all just spilled out. I had to be enraged about it at someobdy. I've never been good at lying." It's possible the goblins see that as a major character flaw in him.