Job opening: Time Traveler

breelandwalker:

evilsupplyco:

Job opening:
Time traveler, must provide own temporal locomotive device.

Request:
Return to the Library of Alexandria an hour before the destruction began and secure every book, scroll, and other media.

Paradox prevention:
All items will be secured in forbidden and eldritch libraries to allow study but not interference with the flow of time.

Compensation:
Name it.

Apply:
Before this post was made and after you have completed your task.

Dearest Atticus,

Mission accomplished!

Utilizing a proprietary temporal-tunneling ritual, I and a couple of helpful interns returned to the Musaeum and associated Library circa 40 BCE. Well-glamoured disguises, scrying charms, and paradox-canceling talismans were employed to prevent discovery and subsequent damage to the established timeline.

We hit the indices first to get a proper idea of what we’d be looking for. The language was no barrier, thanks to a good deal of studying, and in a week’s time, we had a healthy checklist, prepared sets of instructions, and several archivists bribed to carry out said instructions over the course of the following five years. (Attached please find an expense slip for ten [10] amphora of wine and associated shipping costs.)

Working within existing Library policies, we successfully installed agents who will, under the auspice of cataloguing and correlating scholarly research, disseminate copies of all existing non-duplicated media to libraries and archives in other locations. The more widespread, the better.

While we cannot vouch for either the longevity of the papyrus or the safety of the duplicate documents once they reach their destinations, we feel that our efforts will at the very least preserve a portion of what the former timeline once called “lost.” The Library of Alexandria lives on…if you know where to look.

In your inbox is a listing of the documents catalogued and their associated locations. With any luck, the duplicates should still exist in the new present day. I have included some steathily-obtained photos as proof of our little venture. I think you will especially enjoy the group selfie with the head archivist.

Aside from the pittance for the wine bribe, which is calculated without accounting for inflation, we ask no compensation for this mission. As a student of history and a lifelong lover of books, I consider it a service to posterity.

Sincerely Yours,

Bree & Co.