The Library of Lost Stories
mirielleansel
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  • Reads 276
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  • Parts 21
  • Time 2h 27m
mirielleansel
Ongoing, First published Feb 03
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Main Prompt: #40
Sub Prompts: #100 &  #59
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Once, you were a character in a story--your life crafted by an unseen hand, your destiny inked into pages. But that story was deleted, erased from existence. 
Now, you wake up in the Hidden Library, a place where discarded characters and abandoned tales linger. You have no name, no memory, only the weight of an existence that no longer belongs anywhere.

But the Library is in turmoil. Books are unraveling, their worlds colliding in chaos-romance heroes stranded in dystopian landscapes, fairy-tale villains haunting contemporary settings, cookbooks whispering eerie prophecies. The ink that binds these stories is breaking.

A voice calls out to you from the pages:

"Tell me your story, and perhaps I'll grant you the love others failed to find."

Guided by an ancient entity known as "The Archivist", you must restore order to the Library by weaving these fragmented stories into one cohesive masterpiece. But as you travel through the wreckage of broken narratives, something stirs in the ink. A truth long buried within the Library's depths a secret about who you really were before your story was erased.

Can you rewrite your fate? Or will the Library consume you, turning you into just another forgotten page?
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