S.I.T. (Library)
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Region |
S.I.T. Campus, Porkham |
Area |
S.I.T. (Main Lobby) |
Unlocked by |
Enrolling in classes at S.I.T. (Admissions Office) |
Quests
- Pass all your S.I.T. courses to enter the Stacks.
- An old man, Dean Wormwood, is performing a dark ritual. You need to get past him.
- Wearing the terribly cursed fedora, you can speak in shadow-tongue, and he replies. You can't understand him and make no progress.
- You can fight him.
- You can interrupt him with Brag/Bewitch/Bamboozle (6ish mainstat), sending him into the shadow portal.
- If you've researched Wormwood and Jeffy at the faculty lookup book, and researched the two unlocked dates at The Watchful Eye Office, you can ask about Jeffy. You need Brag/Bewitch/Bamboozle (6ish mainstat) to be let through without interrupting his work.
- Find Librum Umbra Malum Ovilla in the bottom row of the stacks.
- If you didn't stop Wormwood, he notices the book you're taking. He gives you the Old Dean's incantation, opening up another way to end the game.
Interactions
Library
You can look up names in the staff faculty listing:
| Name | Text | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Adams | Ambrose Adams, Founder & Chair of Chemicals from 1704-1723. Disappeared in 1723 under mysterious statue-related circumstances. | Seen in S.I.T. (Chemicals Building) |
| Balfour | Shovel Balfour, professor of Archaeology from 1921-1927. Resigned in disgrace, i.e. to pursue a music career. | |
| Bridge | Asa Bridge, professor of Engineering from 1840-1859. Fired for eating gears. | |
| Briggs | Theodore Briggs, visiting professor of Archaeology. Visits have so far been limited to the gift shop, to whose shelves Professor Briggs adds various novels written by himself. | |
| Dooley | Augustus [smudged], professor of Philosology from 1858-1870. Fired Sept. 8, 1870 for Ridiculousness and Troublemaking." | Unlocks Sep. 8, 1870 in The Watchful Eye Office. |
| Fchmidt | Ftaniflauf Fchmidt, research assistant in the Chemicals Department from 1721-1727. Assistant Professor (Chemicals) 1727-1733. Associate Professor (w/ Prof. Ansel Gregory) (Chemicals) 1733-1741. Professor (Chemicals) 1741-1784. Fired on Dec. 11, 1784 for unsanctioned research. | Name hinted at in Professor Adams' Old Office. Dec. 11, 1784 can be searched in The Watchful Eye Office. |
| Gilbert | Gilbert (no surname), Professor of Chemicals 1911-1913, 1913-1914, 1914-1917, 1917-1919, 1919-1922, 1922-1924, 1924-1925, 1925-1927, 1927-present | Seen in S.I.T. (Chemicals Building). |
| Gregory | Ansel Gregory, Associate Professor (w/ prof. Ftaniflauf Fchmidt) (Chemicals) 1733-1741. Research Chair (Chemicals) 1741-1790. Awarded Galtz Prize on Feb. 17, 1788. Retired. | |
| Howe | Dewey Howe, Professor (Culinary Alchemy) 1782-1784. Research Chair (Culinary Alchemy) 1784-1789. Awarded Galtz Prize on Feb. 17, 1788. Fired due to an unfortunately poorly-documented incident involving salad. | |
| Jacking | Damian Jacking, Professor of Meta-Acoustics (1917-1923) Censured 1923 for inordinately sick beats. Disappeared mysteriously 1923, presumed too cool for school. | Referring to Prof. Jacking in Kingdom of Loathing. First name Damian is presumably a reference to Damian Hess (aka MC Frontalot) who designed the zone. |
| Jakes | Jorbert Jakes, professor of Calumny from 1840-1844. Fired when the Calumny department was sued out of existence. | |
| Jeffy | Benwald Jeffy, Adjunct Professor (Astronomy) 1770-1785. Research Chair (Astronomy) 1785-1795. Awarded Galtz Prize on Feb. 17, 1788. | Unlocks Mar. 25, 1808 in The Watchful Eye Office, though it's not clear how, since the entry doesn't actually mention that date. |
| James | Sherbert James, professor of Cryocuisine from 1901-1904. Perished as a result of a liquid nitrogen prank. | |
| Jones | Herbert Jones, professor of Sideways Biology from 1864-1882. Resigned after an internal investigation revealed that there is no such academic discipline. | Default text suggestion |
| Kalos | Agamemnon Kalos, Assistant Professor (Botany) 1915-1919, Professor (Botany) 1919-present. | Seen in Professor Kalos' Holiday Home |
| Milkwood | Genevieve Milkwood, Research Chair (Physics) 1760-1801. Awarded Galtz Prize on Feb. 17, 1788. Retired. | |
| Morton | Josie Morton, Professor of Geology 1906-present. Awarded the Steinblokk Prize for Practical Applications of Rocks in 1919. | Seen in S.I.T. (Geology Classroom) |
| Shovel | Hart Shovel, professor of Animal Sexuality since 1919. Currently on administrative leave for insisting that animals don't reproduce, they "make love." | |
| Technology | Junius F. Technology: Inventor of the University (1630) (Patent expired 1650), Dean of Students 1630-1669. Retired. | Seen on the portrait outside the room. |
| Wormwood | Lucian Wormwood, Dean of Students 1777-1808. Presided over Galtz Prize ceremony, Feb. 17, 1788. Disappeared after the Black Fire Incident, presumed dead. | Feb. 17, 1788 can be searched in The Watchful Eye Office |
- Any of the names on the doors of the infinite hallway (Araiza, Ashe, Badger, Brent, Burchett, Freling, Ginn, Halsey, Prasad, Redmon, Talbott, etc.): "There are too many people with that name in the directory. You're too overwhelmed to look at any of them."
- Should you take the Spiders elective, looking up your own last name reveals "[Player Name], Temporary Instructor (Spiders) 1929-present." (May be a typo, as the current year in-game is 1928.)
- After using the weird leather pouch found in Gray County, you can ask Douglas about book call number 133.43152319. The title page says "DIABOLUS UNGULATA: a Direcktory of the Hooved and Horned Maters of the Realms Belowe." As you flip through the book, it opens to a page that has been accidentally marked with a blob of black wax. The page is headed "DUKE BOVICUS", and has a drawing of the spiky symbol on that pouch you found. Apparently, Bovicus is a "Greate & Heavy Lourde of the Inferno", whose domains are violence and greed, and who is known for offering lopsided deals to foolish humans who long for power. There's a description of a ritual to summon him, which involves standing in a circle drawn with chalk mixed with virgin blood, burning a beef-tallow candle, scattering cowbane, and reciting a complex incantation (which you dutifully copy down, just in case). It also notes that regularly reciting the incantation backward serves as a charm to prevent Bovicus from finding you, if you're worried about that for some reason. (You can use the weird leather pouch a second time to have him repeat this information.)
Library Stacks
- Find some hobo glyphs on the back wall. With 6 Hobo Literacy, read HOBO-RELEVANT LITERATURE NEARBY and get The Psychography of Panhandling.
- A book bound in black leather, on a pedestal in the middle of an occult ritual glyph. "This is, unmistakeably, the book you are looking for." It's an old student handbook.
- A shadow rift containing a skill book: the DiMaggio Fragments as a Pig Skinner, the Nachotic Manuscripts as a Cheese Wizard, or The King in Blue as a Jazz Agent.
WARNING: If you leave the stacks with the cursed book, you cannot return to the stacks to complete the shadow rift or get the panhandling book.
People
The folks from the Circus in West of Loathing show up here:
- Janet, the woman with gears for guts.
- Douglas, the two-fronted man, at the information desk.
- Ted, the man with an eyeball for a head, guarding the way to the stacks.
Dean Lucian Wormwood.
Gallery
Janet
Douglas
Ted
Dean Wormwood
