Research Library

Professor Thistledown is the sole researcher working in this library. She owns all the books and maps that are kept there as well as the magical painting that hangs on the wall. She is very friendly and welcoming to everyone who would like to visit her library and readily helps others. However, she is reluctant to reveal the secrets of her library to those outside the Enclave for fear that they will betray the Awakened. Once someone has earned 10 renown with the Enclave, she will reveal the secret of the painting and allow them to use it, for a reasonable fee of 300$.

Purpose / Function

To research information about New York. To provide maps to the Enclave members and their allies. To document the history that can be uncovered in the research and to document events as they occur for the future Awakened.

Sensory & Appearance

In the dim amber glow of an ancient electric desk lamp, the scholar goat sits poised at her cluttered desk, her tailored suit rumpled from long hours of study. Her sharp eyes, magnified by round glasses, scan the scattered notes and yellowing maps that chart long-forgotten territories and speculative theories. Behind her, two cages rest in each corner of the small, worn library—each home to a watchful pet rat, their soft rustlings a rhythmic backdrop to the silence. The walls are lined with leaning shelves, thick with dust-laden tomes and oddities, but the most striking feature is the enormous mural dominating the rear wall—a sprawling, hyper-detailed painting of a crumbling cyberpunk metropolis, glowing faintly with artificial neon light. Though static, the city seems to pulse with memory and myth, blurring the line between past speculation and present obsession.

Denizens

Professor Thistledown

Contents & Furnishings

There are books and maps here.

Founding Date

112

Type

Library

Parent Location

The Enclave

Owner

Professor Thistledown

Owning Organization

Enclave

The canvas listens, not with ears, but with memory and magic; it grants not mere images, but truth in its raw, shifting form. And the maps it bestows—ah, those are not paths on paper, but lifelines woven between present and possibility.

— Professor Thistledown