Joe responds,
"Oh, it wasn't just his stupidity at work here. I think there is an easy way out. Probably to the World Serpent Inn. At a guess at one time there was a big EXIT sign or something similar."
"So if we knew how to leave, we could just do it. Maybe we snap our heels together three times and say 'There's no place like home.'" Joe does exactly that then he continues,
"But that information has been restricted. I don't think this place was supposed to be made into a death trap, I think the guy doing the restricting just zapped all the info on Library's internal workings and that was part of it."
"And this is the stupid part, he figured since he knew how to get out it was just obvious."
"Without knowing how to do that and having no way to look it up, we have to do it the hard way. We gum up the inner workings of this place and get it to summon maintenance. They'll come and let us out, and maybe even put a sign back over the exit so the next guy wearing a red shirt who comes in here can just leave on his own."
"I'm going to halt time on an entire set of book shelves. Then I'll move to the next row and do the same thing, then again, etc. That will halt updates and it should start alarms blaring somewhere."
Unless someone raises serious objections Joe walks down an aisle touching row after row and using Temporal Manip to halt time.
{Pay extra juice to bribe the Ban if it's active here).
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In time, all things will be.