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It was meant to remain a secret forever, hidden deep beneath a condemned house never to be unearthed by human hands. For reasons beyond the comprehension of the regular, immense and dangerous power is trapped in the words of a prominent old book: one entitled The Forgotten documents..

But two foolish thieves in search of a luxurious and well concealed home fall victim to the lures of The Library. What was once a mere myth of the town, folklore of strange children originating from the books of a library no one has seen, turned into a hushed truth.

And this is where our story begins.

Welcome to the Headquarters of the Forgotten documents. Everyone here is dearly welcomed, however you must be cautioned that the occurrences of children originating from books has fluctuated since we've moved in.

Be forewarned of this, and do not go down to the Library.







April 21st: Much has happened! Third grew, and the miniquests are coming to an end! Two new Feedee join us! And MUCH more to come, I assure you, harhar.

Please respond to the poll, as I wish I get an accurate reading as to how many lurkers, stalkers, and guardians actually come by the thread anymore, ;w;.

EDIT: GUEST AUCTION!!

http://www.gaiaonline.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=13214452

Please come bid, or help bump it up! Show your support, biggrin .

February 26th: Welcome Ice Queen, as Walter and Oblivion's new guardian! And a congrats to Tweek for winning the semi-custom contest! Huzzah! The Library will soon terrorize you, XD.

In other news, our second ever guest auction has been unleashed, and the artist is.. CHESHIRE! Give her a warm welcome and help us bump, if you aren't already planning on bidding on this fantabulous auction. http://www.gaiaonline.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=12376414

January 3rd: The Second Writing Contest has been opened! http://www.gaiaonline.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11659158

Come on out and join us, (:. It's semi-custom, and bound to be a ton of fun~

November 17th: METAPLOT ADVANCEMENT: Guardians and their Forgotten are encouraged to join up in the extreme niftiness that will be the metaplot advancement!

Delicious prizes! Funfun mini-quests! The House evilly revolts against its occupants! Madness, I say!

http://www.gaiaonline.com/guilds/viewtopic.php?t=1613774

Pippin says..
"Anyone who doesn't show up is square watermelon." talk2hand

ALSO! The Forgotten documents are holding their second annual Secret Santa event here in the guild: http://www.gaiaonline.com/guilds/viewtopic.php?t=1581612

Watch the Breedables for a raffle coming soon!

September 1st: See this: http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/7275/bbq0xd.jpg

NOTE: The actual barbeque in real time will begin September 9th. Around here we tend to have troubles with backdating, thus the bbq will start a week beforehand to accomidate. It'll be held in the guild in a thread I'll set it especially for this purpose. Anyone and everyone is welcome! Just hope the chaos isn't too confusing for all of us, and our sanity stays intact, >>. Pippin has no worries there. BARBEQUE CAN BE FOUND HERE: http://www.gaiaonline.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9955777

July 29th: Oh dear. It's seemed that, with the disturbance of The Book, things are starting to heat up. Many of the Forgotten are in very bad moods today, acting out of character or with dangerous amounts of magic. What on Gaia could be happening to stir such changes? Could.. could The Book have something to do with this, or perhaps the mysterious timepiece..

It's working its way backwards from twelve hours. The meaning or significance of this is completely unknown.

Maybe it'll become clearer once time is up.

June 29th: Welcome, Aki Ana and Reyna Crelos into the guardianship of two fine new female Forgotten. Also, a custom auction is underway, be sure to drop by! Auction thread.

June 18th: "This is some very strange business.. just take a look at that Book.. @_@.. "

May 14th: Letters are overflowing in the mailbox of Pippin and Ciara's residence, newspapers piling up on the front porch. It seems that concerns about the building's structure have been sifting about at City Hall, and a decision has been made to tear down the mansion and rebuild it completely, with no charge to the couple for doing so.

In true Pippin fashion, these warnings of building condemnation have been ignored, as if they'll just go away if he decides not to pay attention. The deadline for the couple to temporarily move out for the demolition, May 25th, is soon approaching.. On top of this, the Book has been sporatically leaking out words, even whole sentences, for short periods of time.

All guardians are called to pitch in their support. If the building is destroyed, the threat to both the discovery of the Library as well as damage to the timeless collection is also threatened. On top of that, is the Book trying to tell us something? Is this its own panic, knowing its own untimely destructive future? Can we risk the exposure of these books as well as the existing Forgotten documents, knowing this Library may be the only chance we'll get into insight of their purpose?

Everyone is called to action. Something must be done!

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As the saying goes, you should not judge a book by its cover. The building owned by Ciara and Pippin is in definate need of repairs. Both sides of the mansion are lushed with tall trees, their green beautifully complimenting the orange hued, aged wood making up the exterior as well as the spacious porch. But the outside tells nothing of what is on the inside, for the building itself shows a passer-by nothing of extraordinary life and the mystery that surrounds it.

Instead, one must take a closer look inside. A staircase, unsafe by the look of it, sits directly inside the hallway upon entry. To the right is a large and quite spacious Stalker Hall, complete with makeshift seating areas and entertainment systems to keep visitors occupied. It has a doorway directly linked into the kitchen, which takes up a great deal of the rear of the mansion itself. Every imaginable useful appliance, tabletop surface, seating arrangement, and utensil can be found here, though in desperate need of co-ordination. The dining area is surrounded by scuffy glass windows and is elevated to overlook the backyard.

But if one were to take a left at the entrance instead, they would find less habitable rooms. The building itself hasn't completely, nor even half completely, been repaired, thus the home owners left the rooms less often used alone for the time being. A strange and often eery hallway is full of doors with limitless possibilities, and at the end of the hall a lone window marks a dangerous passage to the right. Cobwebs lock this path off - obviously no one has explored even this far yet.

Up the stairs would bring a person to more unused rooms, though up here they are often locked. [Loot behind these doors, perhaps?] Another set of stairs are available for use in the master bedroom, whose door is left open slightly. Other than these facts, the two upper levels remain the property of Pippin and Ciara, for their "home" purposes.

But, surely a grand place like this would have a basement, you insist! Well, perhaps it does.. but as they say, curiousity killed the cat.

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No one has ever determined the exact age of the building before. If they would, perhaps they could then link the approximate age of the building to that of the Library is conceals.

Those who are drawn to the Library often say they were lured there, driven by a force often too compelling to miss out on. Music, noises, lights, movement -- an extensive range of bait is just part of the game to catch the perfect prey. Indeed, the exact entrance down to the Library can never be pinpointed - if one goes in search of the Library, they will more than likely waste hours trying to find it and end up empty handed. The Library chooses its pick of the litter, exposing to them more than they ever intended on finding.

What can be said about the entrance is that it opens to a spiral staircase. At the bottom is a single, uncovered light bulb, often not able to sustain a frequent source of electricity. At the foot of the stairs are two immensely tall frosted glass doors. Etched into them is a golden and pale green design of ivy and other assorted leaves, the handles themselves twisting up into the shape of vines with the part meant for a thumb shaped as a leaf. The size alone can leave someone breathless, but to stop and ponder the time required for these designs and the structure, also taking into consideration the time in which they probably were built, would be astounding to imagine.

It is beyond the doors that the magic even begins.

Rows upon rows, endless to the eye, millions upon millions of books. As impossible as it seems, if someone considered how few stairs there really were, the ceiling seems to go incredibly high that one cannot even see where the books end and the ceiling begins. The doors rest almost in the middle, farther to the back than to the Reading end. Behind the square structure are three completely different locked doors, one barred off halfway by another bookshelf. Directly in front, and often the first things one would notice, are the many rows of reachable book shelves. All of this would easily make someone feel insignificant.

At the far end of the Library, a reading-room-turned-office is set, usually the escape room of choice for Pippin. Whether he is there or not depends on the time of day and what is scheduled, but for some reason he can get upstairs and downstairs at an incredible speed, which makes one wonder if he has his own passage, yet another secret..

There is still more to discover. Why don't you?

Just in case you're super lazy and don't want to read the above story, and for those who just want a simple break down, here's one for you.

These are high roleplay pets.
They are all custom drawn at every stage.
They are trapped souls within a very ancient library.
Only one person is able to open a single book from a library. [In other words no co owning and no more than one per person.]

They are based on an excerpt, a short paragraph or two extracted from the book the guardian read before they came into being.
This excerpt shapes their lives, but in which way? One must determine that for themselves.
They are accompanied also by a daemon.
Although the excerpt is only description, it is not true that it describes the Forgotten. It merely was born with the piece of paper, the page torn from its own birthplace. Thus, an excerpt can refer to a male and the Forgotten can indeed be female, and vice versa.
The full significance of the excerpt is not clear to anyone.. everyone understands it differently.

No one has access to the library unless they are a Guardian.
When you receive a Forgotten Document, you must be present to roleplay the encounter, the discovery of the library and the choosing of your certain book in the massive library. It usually doesn't take that long, but your character will have to find the Library by means of roleplaying as you are lured.
Although there is no book stage [too cliche and too short of a time for us to bother with one] it will be described to you.

Our goal is to release these Forgotten souls.. so that not only we find them the best environment to occupy and develop in, that we may read the pages of The Forgotten Documents.




Stages___

This is the showcase of the Forgotten that are currently being cared for. Their image and that of their daemon link to the journal that the Guardian and the Forgotten keep together.

Preteens___:


Children___:


Toddlers___:


Infants____:


Missing____:

Collection of stage pictures reside here, and will hopefully be kept up to date.