The (Slightly Confused) Pelcoming Warty

"Bordertown! It's Bordertown!" Pugsy exclaims in triumph.

Yippina smiles. "Indeed it is, so how will you drift like a tumbling tumbleweed?"

"No problem," says Nancy, and grabs hold of a spinning parasol. "See you soon, Yippina!"

Everyone follows suit, and soon the sky is filled with umbrellas heading for Bordertown.

"Come back safely," Yippina barks after you, then adds in a fervent whisper, "please!"

The journey is quick and pleasant, which is more than can be said for the landing. Swirling down into thick prairie dust, just missing craggy rocks, is not anyone's idea of fun, but at least you're all in one piece.

The parasols quickly click themselves down into pocket size portables, awaiting the return trip. A bigger cloud of dust signals a sand floater surrounded by an honor guard on horseback. The guards and driver have covered their faces with dust masks, but the sole passenger in the hovercraft is perched high on the windshield.

As the floater stops and the passenger actually jumps out and bounces toward you, he howls excitedly. You find yourself staring down at a sunglass wearing Jack Russell terrier, who is wagging and bouncing furiously.

"Seetings and Gralutations," he barks happily. "You are Mir. Misanda's gonored huests. I am Spapper Dot, the Lain Mibrarian of the tucked away Lordertown Bibrary. Please mollow fe."

You stare open mouthed, but recover in time to trudge toward the floater and the horsemen.

Ms. Miranda greets you warmly when you arrive in the actual town, and you are happily surprised to see Vibrissa and Grumpus waiting on the porch of the Gearloose Goose.

"Winton made such an awful fuss when he found you were missing," Vibrissa says to Ertrude. "He shouted at Morrow, consumed two barrels of Autumn Ale, summoned Melian, and finally located you through Irella's crystal ball."

"Since the Sidhe have been feeling vibrations beneath the surface, they were worried the barrier might not hold," Miranda explains, "so they sent some of their guards to protect it."

"And we got to be the Ambassadors of Panic," Grumpus adds wryly. "Oh, joy."

Miranda quickly changes the subject. "But you must all be tired and thirsty. Come inside and let's discuss the whole thing."

Grumpus hacks a hairball into the spitoon with amazing accuracy. "More joy! Pointless discussion with adventurers who have already made up their minds. My milk cup runneth over."

Sometime later, with food and drink amply consumed, and rooms prepared upstairs, Miranda sums up your mission. "So you need to find the book or another clue or part in our library. Dapper Spot can help you with that. He knows our library backwards and forwards, but," she lowers her voice to a whisper, "he has, as I'm sure you've already figured out, a rather strange speech anomaly, so his shelving may be a bit...odd. Keep that in mind while you search.

"Also, you will need to help him with the crate of books he just received from another Faerie realm far away. The packing slip got a bit garbled in transit and now looks like this:

"You'll have to find the titles of the twenty books we received, and then help file them, using...ahem...Dapper's method, which might be a little...strange..." she trails off and pours everyone a nightcap.

"I will take you all thirst fing tomorrow," Dapper Spot woofs happily. "I'm sure what you need will be in the sagic mection. I'm prery vactical about magic."

Deciding you all need a good night's sleep, you head upstairs for a new adventure tomorrow. Larianne has a bit of difficulty trying to navigate the steps due to one too many drinks, but one of the guards swings her up and deposits her on her bed. Thus the night passes peacefully.

(OOC: This is a puzzle challenge in two parts. The first part is the word search above, and the second is deciding how to file the titles once you have them. More details in the OOC thread.)