Welcome to The Library

About The Library

The Miskatonic Occult Literature Library & Unusually Special Collections (MOLLUSC) Department is housed at the Miskatonic University’s R’Lyehian satellite campus. The department houses rare and expensive manuscripts, tomes, grimoires, and other works and restricts to their access to authorized personnel only. Only visitors with at least a Class T library card are allowed access to The MOLLUSC Department, hereafter referred to simply as…The Library.*

The Library is different than many other libraries you may be familiar with. While The Librarian speaks in hushed tones, its patrons are not held to such limitations and may be as loud and boisterous as they so desire. If anything, their vocal participation is requested by The Librarian in order to scare off the book worms.

*Acceptable names for The Miskatonic Occult Literature Library & Unusually Special Collections Department include…

• The Miskatonic Occult Literature Library & Unusually Special Collections Department, stylized with or without accentuation on the capital letters of the letters ‘MOLLUSC’

• Miskatonic University Special Collections (MUSC) or Miskatonic University Special Collections Department (MUSCD)

• The Library

Library Rules:

Concerns

Please alert The Librarian as to any ‘stream scuff,’ extra-dimensional anomalies, book worms, wormed books, and other issues that The Librarian may need to deal with. Let Eldra Echo know if there is an issue with the stream.

Suggestions Box

The Library would love your input as to content and events you’d like The Library to feature or host. Please use the suggestions box link here: suggestions box

The Library encourages patron’s participation in events. This means that ‘backseating’ is okay for solo streams. However, outside guest lecturers may not necessarily appreciate our patron’s vim and vigor. Thus, we ask that our patrons not backseat during ‘collab’ streams. Backseating is backseat driving for video games, basically, a viewer telling a player what to do. Backseating is actively encouraged on Eldra Echo’s solo streams. Backseating is not allowed on collaboration streams featuring other players because most people and their audiences dislike backseating.

The Library strongly urges patrons to avoid spilling esoteric knowledge to those outside of ‘the know.’ This means what are commonly described as ‘spoilers’ ought not be spoken in the library, lest they drive other patrons to levels of madness nowadays known as ‘malding.’ Basically, don’t post spoilers to content in chat, unless the content in question is from before…let’s say 2010.

The Librarian only has two blogs.

The spreading and perpetuation of any rumors as to the contrary, about a so-called ‘third blog,’ within the bounds of The Library will lead to the rescinding of a patron’s library card while they go on mandatory vacation. Of course, The Library and The Librarian have no control over what is said outside of the bounds of The Library.

Please ensure that restricted contents do not leave the restricted section of The Library. If you wish to contribute restricted content to the library, please tag the content accordingly, using the appropriate hashtag. For generally NSFW (not safe for work) content, such as adult artwork, please use the tag #takonahole. This tag has explicitly (ironically) not been turned into a link so people can’t click it on accident.

Library F.A.Q.

What are the library card classes and stickers?

The full list of library card classes is restricted information. However, the following information is currently available for the public.

Classes:

F: Forged Class. These are library cards that have been forged by pretenders. Do not trust those with a Class F license, and please report all Class F library card holders to Class T library card holders with an M sticker on their cards.

T: Takoban Class. This is the library card given to takoban.

Stickers:

M: Moderator Class. This sticker is given to card holders who act as exterminators and identifiers of F Class library card holders. These volunteers keep the library running smoothly.

S: Subscriber Class. This sticker is given to card holders who choose to subscribe to The Library, as a recognition of their contributions to the pursuit of knowledge. Thank you! Here’s a sticker.

V: VIP Class. Of course, ‘VIP’ stands for ‘Vermicious Insidious Pests.’ This sticker is used to denote those odious library patrons whose presence is of particular note. Please be sure to call attention to any VIPs in The Library and show them the attention they so desire. We must feed the VIPs.

What are the book worms?

Embarrassingly, The Library had recently been plagued by an infestation of book worms. Book worms are worms that, as their name may suggest, have a proclivity for consuming media. These worms are not welcome guests, as they hold a Class F library card, far below the required Class T library card to enter the threshold of The Library. They’ve managed to sneak into The Library and, given the vastness of the library and perniciousness of the book worms, it is imperative that patrons aid The Librarian by calling her attention to any book worms found in The Library.

If you would like to be an exterminator of book worms, you must obtain a M sticker on your library card. These stickers are given out by The Librarian to select individuals.

If you are reading this, and you are a book worm, please remember to use your assigned anti marks: 📚🐛