As all Seanchai folks know, Job #1 at Seanchai Library is to inspire people with stories of all kinds:
short stories, novellas, poetry, across a wide number of genres and styles. Our sessions are offered freely, without expectation of any kind - Just to enjoy what we share.
Job #2 in our Second Life program has always been to raise consciousness of featured charities, going back to our days at the West of Ireland in SL. Recently, we shifted some of our operations around, and that necessitated retiring the "Bee Striped" Donation Jar that we have had rezzed since January of 2011. That inspired us to look back at the fruits of Job #2 - five years of charitable contributions made by Seanchai Library on behalf of its friends and patrons.
Since January 2011 we have passed along $5,122 to 17 different charities featured at Library sessions. In addition, we have also raised over $1,443 for other charities at "out-board" events we have produced elsewhere in Second Life. That's just what we can track. The actual figure is more!
So the sharing of stories has raised over $6,565 to organizations doing good all over the planet. And the most remarkable thing about this is that the average donation to the Seanchai Donation Jar is 8 to 12 cents.
Thank you, everyone, for joining us in this small but meaningful effort.
Click here to see our record of Charitable Contributions
The Laundry Files is a Lovecraftian series of novels by Charles
Stross. They mix the genres of spy thriller, science fiction, and Lovecraftian
horror. Their main character for the first five novels is "Bob
Howard" (a pseudonym taken for security purposes), a one-time I.T.
consultant turned field agent. Howard is recruited to work for the British
government agency "the Laundry", which deals with occult threats. In
this world, computers and mathematical equations are just as useful, and
perhaps more potent, than classic spellbooks, pentagrams, and sigils for
influencing unseen ancient powers and opening gates to other dimensions. These
occult struggles happen largely out of view of the public, as the Laundry seeks
to keep the methods for contacting such powers under wraps. There are also
elements of dry humor and satirisation of bureaucracy.
As all Seanchai folks know, Job #1 at Seanchai Library is to inspire people with stories of all kinds: 
Bob Howard is a low-level techie working for The Laundry, a super-secret government agency. While his colleagues are out saving the world, Bob’s under a desk restoring lost data. None of them receive any thanks for the jobs they do, but at least a techie doesn’t risk getting shot or eaten in the line of duty. Bob’s world is dull but safe, and that’s the way it should have stayed; but then he went and got Noticed.
Climbing on to a Roman Dragon Rustling ship by mistake in your first ‘Boarding an Enemy Ship’ lesson is bad enough. But to then discover that Alvin the Treacherous is also on board proves to Hiccup he couldn’t have been more wrong, especially when he steals his copy of How to Speak Dragonese. Can Hiccup save the dragons and the day?
