Opening of the Grand Britannian Repertory Library - Athenaeum Annex - March 9th at 9:00PM EST
After 15 years and thousands of community book donations, The Grand
Britannian Repertory has finally completed the creation of a second
player written book library, housing works donated and created from 2010
onward. This project has taken over a year and over a thousand hours of
hard work to finally bring to fruition.
Named after the original grand library created by Richard Ebonrune of MTC, the Athenaeum Annex is constructed from the ground up to focus entirely on books. This building houses some of the rarest tomes in the realms, alongside over 1500 player written books, bringing the total number of books in the Repertory collection to 3000.
Some features of the new library include:
Named after the original grand library created by Richard Ebonrune of MTC, the Athenaeum Annex is constructed from the ground up to focus entirely on books. This building houses some of the rarest tomes in the realms, alongside over 1500 player written books, bringing the total number of books in the Repertory collection to 3000.
Some features of the new library include:
- The largest collection of Books of Lore in the game, with over 36 books and counting.
- Collections from every global event spanning 2010 to present.
- Every EM event book scattered across the lands, we combed every inch of every map on Atlantic to bring them to you in a single section, including the most complete collection of EM Bennu's works in the realms.
- EM Petrichor's Little Adventurer's Library that once resided beside the Britain counselors guild has been resurrected from a copy made before its demise, and now has its own shelf in the new Annex.
- 1500 player written books with nothing held back. We've brought you the forbidden texts of The Order of the Ebon Skull to the secret governmental processes of The Regency and The Protectorate.
- Unprecedented organization and presentation. We've spent thousands of natural dyes to color code every book, alphabetize every tome, and place them in clean, organized shelving that works with both normal and large container gumps.
The Athenaeum Annex is located across from Goodman's Rune Library, just outside of Zento's north eastern gate.
Special thanks goes to everyone who has donated books to the
Repertory mailbox since 2008, and continued to donate throughout the
decades. A huge thank you to Andrasta, Bennu, Dryzzid, Athelas, Ceinwyn,
Isk, Zahndra, Cear, Molly, Bellrick, Beleth, Rune Artisem, Sunwolf,
Sadie, Cinderella, Archnight, and everyone else who helped me acquire
books and provided guidance and assistance in building my dream.
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One week until the grand opening!
24 hours before, I will post the event outline here, including the rules for the book hunting contest and the lottery.
Hope to see you all there!9:05PM - 9:25PM EST
Introduction and opening speeches. We will start with our keynote speaker, then move to speeches from Andrasta and Halister.
9:25PM - 9:40PM EST
Book scavenger hunt. Players will look for 7 books hidden throughout the new building. Each book will have a word in it. When all books are found, it forms a sentence. The first player to speak the correct sentence exactly wins a secret prize.
9:40PM - 10:00PM EST
Players gather at the Tipsy Crane pub south of the Athenaeum, gift bags are given out and a lottery for 3 prizes will be drawn. Drinks and exotic food will be served.
We hope to see you all there! Please see the main post for location and other details.