Our story takes place in the town of Liona, Oregon; The local public library has organized an after-hours social event for Teens from Grades 6-12 (11-18 years old) to take place in their large "Community Room". The event is a role-playing Murder Mystery: The members of the library's Teen Council are acting as characters come to life from Books and Manga both old and new, who are all suspected of the murder of Draco Malfoy of the Harry Potter series.
Things seem to be going well until near the conclusion of the game (Just as the killer is about to be revealed) when a scream from the second floor of the building brings the Teens to the scene of an actual murder. Strangely enough, though he has no identification, one person points out that he looks a lot like Dustfinger, from the Inkheart books. Linda, the Young Adult librarian, tells the frightened Teenagers that the Liona Public Library holds a secret; the characters actually do come out of the books after hours and walk all around the library grounds until the library opens again, when they all must return to their books again or else risk being trapped in the "Outside World" until the library closes again that night. However, part of this strange phenomenon is that if a character is wounded or killed, they will return to their books before the library opens again as long as at least one copy of the book and/or movie they came from remains on library grounds. Otherwise, they will remain in this world until a book is returned to the property. This is reassuring, until the librarians realize that all of the books in the Inkworld Trilogy have been stolen, as well as the Inkheart movie DVD's, leaving the dead Dustfinger trapped outside of his story. Now, with the help of the other Characters, we must find the books and the criminals before even more Characters are killed and trapped in the real world. And beware, for now that they know we're after them, the murderers might just be getting ready to kill us instead, and we don't have books we can return to...
If you have any questions, please feel free to ask me. I'll edit this with my own character in the morning.