Ex Librium Books was established because Rita was bored and restless.
That’s an extremely simplified explanation, but it is what it boils down to.
You see, she grew up in a nice, upper-middle class neighbourhood with nice, upper-middle class parents who wanted nothing but the best for their only daughter. The Bainsbridges sent her to the best schools that they could afford, they planned out what she would study in university in order to be mentally stimulating to her
I've recently started a game of Bookhounds of London with my wife and a friend of ours to enjoy a smaller, more character focused game outside of the chaos and scheduling conflicts of our larger, seven person gaming group.
The two players created their characters and started to create the bookstore. I had a single NPC created to cover the counter while the Bookhounds are out and about and figured that the actual flavour of the bookstore would develop slowly over the course of several