When I clicked the odd Spellguard Bookcase in our Library earlier, I had forty "Suspicious Man" creatures spawn on me. I was stuck there for a bit was able to maneuver my way out as they creeped through the Tower.

Is there any purpose to that bookcase anyway? It has no use for us as players and it just stores odd variables into it. I recall once it loaded up 40 bullets, and another time 40 Skull Masks. Perhaps the bookcase just shouldn't be usable to us at all.

It shouldn't be used. Right now it's still linked to the old persistant storage system. If anyone modifies the contents of these containers, problems arise.

...like apparently spawning a million NPCs.

This is almost as good as one of the first bugs we had in EfU. Basically, someone died on a transition, and all their equipment disappeared... and was replaced with 20 inventory pages of Wild Undercarrot Pudding.

XX     XX   DDDD
 XX   XX    DD  DD
  XX XX     DD    DD
   XXX      DD    DD
  XX XX     DD    DD
 XX   XX    DD  DD
XX     XX   DDDD

Don't use persistent storage until it's fixed!

I recently talked with ExileStrife and cawila about fixing it. Apparently, due to the new (improved) database system that we're using, certain handlers that allow the module to communicate with the database need to be entirely rewritten in order to make everything function properly. This is a rather non-trivial task, which is why it's taking so long for it to be done.