Nothing But Reading Challenges discussion

Throwing Card 5 back :P

eta: Throwing Card 2 back too - we can do better :)

eta2: And we can kill the monster when we get a little closer to leveling up.

eta3: Okay, I think I'm caught up! Going to update the Goal post with bare bones - there's going to be a lot of changes over the next few days so keeping things simple will make things easier (I hope, hehe).

eta4: I'm going fast (hard to think of taking an hour+ as going fast! lol) so yell at me if I missed something... I'm pretty sure I missed something.

...and please accept my apologies in advance. ;)

HEY GUYS we have boss fights now! Check out the spreadsheet :)

It looks like boss 8 is the easiest... not sure we'll be able to kill very many of these but it will be fun trying!

eta: It's late so someone check my math.

I think we can kill boss 8 right now - we need five strikes to kill and will survive with 2 health. Killing it will give us 20 xp, which will level and heal us right away...?

It looks like there are others we can attack if we use our poisons but I'm starting simple because brain. I no haz it right now :P

eta: Also, 20 attack points may be perfect for these monsters, as they all have round numbers of health. Might be worth it to put the series books into tasks and hope to gain levels because levels = heal and greater max health?

Kazen wrote: "HEY GUYS we have boss fights now! Check out the spreadsheet :)

It looks like boss 8 is the easiest... not sure we'll be able to kill very many of these but it will be fun trying!

eta: It's late s..."

I don't understand a word of what you're saying, but it sounds awesome...?

Finished:

Read for: #4

Pragya wrote: "Kazen wrote: "HEY GUYS we have boss fights now! Check out the spreadsheet :)

It looks like boss 8 is the easiest... not sure we'll be able to kill very many of these but it will be fun trying!

et..."
Me neither...do whatever...go Pandas!

Finished!

Kissing Under the Mistletoe, Bella Andre
352 pgs
#9 in series
There is a character named Howie if you want to use for H instead

Now reading #11

Do we still need a #10? I'm still working through Once Broken Faith, but now my attention is split between reading and NaNoWriMo.

Just got in from after-Halloween shopping -- hundreds of $$ eep, but only 1 kid cried last night so next year MUST be scarier!!! Will go check marks on boss monsters now yay!

Finished!

163 pages
for the card that needed a book with "Star" in the title.

I have no idea what cards we are currently working on or what I should read next to help. I will wait till the morning to choose my next book unless someone can tell me what we need. Thanks!

Right now we don't have much. We are waiting ~45 mins for a few new cards to pop up. Maybe check back in a bit?

Or just read whatever you want!! We're getting a lot of spell-it-outs and basically every book has something for that. :)

Caly wrote: "Finished!

163 pages
for the card that needed a book with "Star" in the title.

I have no idea what cards we are currently working on or what I shoul..."

Ray (user2637) wrote: "Right now we don't have much. We are waiting ~45 mins for a few new cards to pop up. Maybe check back in a bit?

Or just read whatever you want!! We're getting a lot of spell-it-outs and basically..."

Thanks Ray! I will check back this evening or in the morning. I would be reading any more tonight anyway, I have to be at work super early tomorrow.

BOSS MONSTERS YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!

#8, the Crawler, is easiest and perfect for us right now! Your math is right, we'll end with 2 hp and level up, woot! :D Then we're back to full health, up to 50 hp. I will check out the other Bosses and see what might be good to kill after that.

As for leveling the weapon or not, we had decided not to because 20 seemed like a nice number and 11 books was a lot, but then we had no bosses so it was a good way to get 30 xp (almost 3xp per book!) but now we have bosses so... maybe not again for the weapon-leveling? Buh... lots to look at. and I want to KILL ALL THE THINGS, hahaha. Though, yeah, it might not be possible.

I do think we're going to be using a lot of potions soon, so it's good we have a pile of them and a pile of gold. I guess the balance for choosing which bosses to kill could be: Do we get more points (in xp, gold, potions) than we use in the fight (in gold, potions)? Sound like a good metric? I can crunch the numbers.

Kazen wrote: "It looks like boss 8 is the easiest... not sure we'll be able to kill very many of these but it will be fun trying!

eta: It's late so someone check my math.

I think we can kill boss 8 right now - we need five strikes to kill and will survive with 2 health. Killing it will give us 20 xp, which will level and heal us right away...?

It looks like there are others we can attack if we use our poisons but I'm starting simple because brain. I no haz it right now :P

eta: Also, 20 attack points may be perfect for these monsters, as they all have round numbers of health. Might be worth it to put the series books into tasks and hope to gain levels because levels = heal and greater max health? "

@Kazen - my Broken Heart Tails is in the #10 weapon spot, but it's probably better in the "Heart" in title spot. There are many more #10s (including Bethany's wip and the same book on the TA list) than there are "hearts". :D

If we *aren't* leveling up the weapon, then we can put School Spirits (Pragya, author) or Kissing Under the Mistletoe (Tammie, character Howie) into the H spot and finish up that Card!

Ray (user2637) wrote: "@Kazen - my Broken Heart Tails is in the #10 weapon spot, but it's probably better in the "Heart" in title spot. There are many more #10s (including Bethany's wip and the same book on the TA list) ..."

Aha, you found the thing I forgot, thank you! I knew there would be something lol.

Update post incoming :)

eta: I'll move that book when I get home - darn work! :P
eta2: Discarded Card 1 Greater Sewer Rat - we have bigger fish to fry :)

Only a few more days to go and we're doing great! And even better - there are bosses to fight, woo-hoo! This changes our priorities a little bit.

First of all, whatever you're reading right now is awesome and will work for something. We have lots of spell outs and other tasks so we'll be able to pop them in somewhere!

Second of all, considering that the monsters all have round numbers of health and we have a nice round 20 attack, let's concentrate on quests and bosses over leveling our weapon again. This way we can work towards more base health points and potions/gold so we can live through the fights.

Third, a goal post will be set up, just not immediately. The sheet needs to turn over and I need to go to work, hehe.

Fourth, said work has been crazy for two and a half of our three captains, so please understand if we're not able to update the spreadsheet or thread immediately. Thanks :)

So, plan, we haz it!

Our Plan
1. Read a lot of books
2. Kill a lot of bosses
3. Rinse and repeat :)

Let's start by killing Boss 8, woo!
eta: Boss 8 is dead and we gained a level, awesome!

CARD 1
Sewer Rat
The bane of all young hero's, the iconic sewer rat. Biting at ankles, he makes his presence known one nip and nibble at a time.

Attack: 3 Health: 15

Rewards:
•1 Experience

CARD 2
Brown Bat
The brown bats are much prettier than the black bats because of their grace, stamina and ability to make a lovely bat leather hat.

Attack: 2 Health: 20

Rewards:
•1 Experience

CARD 5
Drop Bear
A cute cuddly little creature with vicious man eating teeth dripping blood. Makes a great steak and is good for increasing iron levels.

Attack: 10 Health: 20

Rewards:
•3 Experience
•2 Gold

Sweeeet!!! :)

I think we should take on the Jabberwocky (#1) next. We can kill it on our 5th hit. It'll do 4 hits, so 80 damage which means we'll need to heal 30 pts during the fight (3 heal potions, 1 greater + 1 heal + 1 minor heal potion, whatever). OR we could use a shield and a greater damage and knock it out in 4 rounds with no heal potions. Both ways leave us at zero hp, which is allowed. We will have to heal or level up before attacking again.

We're at 202 xp, 73 xp to next level. Jabber's 50 and the 2 cards we have (finished!?) are 13 for 63/73. 10 more after that to level!

Also, I think the Greater Sewer Rat is way too mean! He'll hit us for 32 damage before we kill him (with no potion use) and only leave paltry rewards! Booo. He's already gone, yay!

eta: STELLAR card draw!! We can one-shot all of those!! :D

Morning all.

Everyone is busy as I know (and I am too) so I am going to choose to read by James Dashner. Lots of characters so it hopefully can be used somewhere and is #3 in a series if we need that as well.

Off to work. Have a great day all.

Finished! 11/2

One Man's Art, Nora Roberts
126 pgs
#4 series
Grant Campbell
Joshua Fairchild
Mrs. Lawrence
Daniel MacGregor
Angela

Finished:

(By Rainbow Rowell)
Read for: something...?
Characters:
(view spoiler)[Cather Avery
Wren
Levi
Alexandro (usually called Jandro)
Arthur Avery
Professor Piper
Nick
Reagan (hide spoiler)]

One shot-ing monsters now :)

CARD 1
The Queen calls you in and since it's the Queen you of course drop everything and rush to the castle. When you arrive she pulls you aside and confesses her current disaster. "I'm set to go on another date with Prince Archer and I have nothing to wear!" Alarmed at the emotional distress of the Queen, you assure her that you'll work on the problem right away. As you start to back away, she pins you with a glare. "And I've heard about what those swindlers did to that Emperor who wanted new clothes so don't think you'll be getting away with that scam." You stammer a response and then flee to investigate new fabrics and ribbons.

Tasks:
•Read a book first published in 2016.
•Read a book with clothing on the cover to acquire a nice selection of fabrics to construct the Queen's new clothing.

Rewards:
•3 Experience

CARD 2
The Academy's History department is in desperate need of new history. Queen Skye has assured them that you are the very best in inventing new history for the students to learn. Don't let her down!

Tasks:
•Sort your to-read by date added. Select one of the first 4 books (oldest books). If one is a series book you may substitute an earlier book in the series.
•Read a book published the year you were born.
•Read a book published the month you were born. (year does not have to match)
•Read a book published the day you were born. (year/month does not have to match)
•Read a book set around 50 years in the past.
•Read a book set around 100 years in the past.
•Read a book written 20+ years ago

Rewards:
•10 Experience
•1 Greater Heal Potion

Haha, no! Throwing that one back.

eta: Discarding #1, as well - no gold or potions so pfffft. ;)

CARD 5

A father is looking for a gift for his young child Hadley. He asks you if you've come across anything in your travels that might entice a young girl.
Find the shape name in the book title then spell-it-out.


Tasks:
•Read a book with CIRCLE in the title.
•Spell-it-out: C
•Spell-it-out: I
•Spell-it-out: R
•Spell-it-out: C
•Spell-it-out: L
•Spell-it-out: E

Rewards:
•8 Experience
•1 Gold

↑ If someone is looking for a next book, those letters are awesome! ↑

Full update in the morning, it's past midnight and my brain is mush :/

My book Fangirl works for:
•Spell-it-out: R - Character Reagan
•Spell-it-out: C - Character Cath
•Spell-it-out: L - Character Levi

Kazen wrote: "↑ If someone is looking for a next book, those letters are awesome! ↑

Full update in the morning, it's past midnight and my brain is mush :/"

G'night!

Moderators of NBRC wrote: "CARD 2
The Academy's History department is in desperate need of new history. Queen Skye has assured them that you are the very best in inventing new history for the students to learn. Don't let her..."

Hahah i laughed so hard at this one ;)

Kazen wrote: "↑ If someone is looking for a next book, those letters are awesome! ↑

Full update in the morning, it's past midnight and my brain is mush :/"

I will put my current book on hold for a few days and read The Ice Twins as it will work for the letter "I" in Circle and I know that is a hard one to get. 8-)

Dang Hadley has a lot of toys, lol. If no one can find "circle", we can use one of our bonuses and duplicate , which Lori read on 7/29. :)

Moderators of NBRC wrote: "CARD 5....
Tasks:
•Read a book with CIRCLE in the title."

Finished
What a Bride Wants by Kelly Hunter
3rd nov
118pgs
Goes with-> 1st in series
C-cameron (mc)
R-reese
E-ella(mc)
Also clothing(weddingdress) on the cover.

CARD 1
On the edge of town there is a strange house. Sometimes you wander past and ponder if some wizard drank too much mead and accidentally cast a growing spell on an old boot. The lady who lives inside is frantic because her cats have gone missing. She would like you to find all 7 of her missing cats.

Tasks:
•Find Cat 1
•Find Cat 2
•Find Cat 3
•Find Cat 4
•Find Cat 5
•Find Cat 6
•Find Cat 7

Rewards:
•7 Experience
•3 Gold

CARD 2

The innkeeper asks you to pick some berries to help with her famous triple berry pie. You gladly agree in hopes of reaping some berry good rewards.
Use spell-it-out rules to spell the word STRAW.


Tasks:
•Spell-it-out: S
•Spell-it-out: T
•Spell-it-out: R
•Spell-it-out: A
•Spell-it-out: W

Rewards:
•6 Experience
•1 Gold

Each cat in a different book? Or doubling/tripling/etc-ing up? The book I'm reading has 2 cats (so far)... if the 1 book can count for 2 cats, this is a pretty good card.

Moderators of NBRC wrote: "CARD 1
On the edge of town there is a strange house. Sometimes you wander past and ponder if some wizard drank too much mead and accidentally cast a growing spell on an old boot. The lady who lives..."

So I finishedTerrier
Lots of characters, so I can get those if needed. I'm still confused as to what is needed.

Although there are 3 different cats in the book. One of the "sort of" main characters is a cat.

It's #1 in a series.

Finished

Rose by Holly Webb
240 pgs
02Nov

Has 2 cats
Characters:
Maisie
Miss Lockwood
Miss Bridges
Mrs. Jones
William
Frederick Paxton
George
Alethea Sparrow
Isabella Fountain
Jack

I'm back, yea! I'm going to go through the spreadsheet and make sure I didn't miss any books, then go through and finish as many cards as possible. I won't be replying to each book this time because my brain is barely on straight as it is. ;) I will be using your character lists and things, though, and will get back to replying after this run.

Let's do this! :D

CARD 3

They're everywhere! Bugs here! Bugs there! Bugs everywhere! Capture them all before the whole kingdom is overrun with the creepy crawlies.
You must capture 100 and may capture multiple bugs per book. If all bugs are caught without using all book slots fill them in with x's.

Tasks:
•Book 1
•Book 2
•Book 3
•Book 4
•Book 5
•Book 6
•Book 7
•Book 8
•Book 9
•Book 10

Rewards:
•10 Experience

If someone wants to read a 100 bug book this would be awesome, but otherwise maybe we should throw it back.

CARD 4
Kindlecorn
The mythical kindlecorn is a proud and mighty beast. It's been described as the carnivorous unicorn in many circles but ancient Novelarians still honor the beast with great feasts during harvest. Feasts made of kindlecorn meat of course.

Attack: 20 Health: 80

Rewards:
•8 Experience
•3 Gold
•1 Greater Poison Potion

★☆End of Wobble COUNTDOWN☆★

Cards we should totally do:

Card 5 (8xp, 1 gold)
Read a book with CIRCLE in the title
Spell-it-out: C
Spell-it-out: I - Caly
Spell-it-out: R
Spell-it-out: C
Spell-it-out: L
Spell-it-out: E

Cards for the adventurous :)

Card 3 (10xp)
100 bugs - every mention counts, so theoretically this could be finished with one book

Tammie wrote: "Finished! 11/2

One Man's Art, Nora Roberts
126 pgs
#4 series
Grant
Joshua Fairchild
Mrs. Lawrence
Daniel MacGregor
Angela"

Could you double check shelves for me? Thanks! :)

Caly wrote: "Kazen wrote: "I will put my current book on hold for a few days and read The Ice Twins as it will work for the letter "I" in Circle and I know that is a hard one to get. 8-) "

That is a most excellent plan!

Ray (user2637) wrote: "Dang Hadley has a lot of toys, lol. If no one can find "circle", we can use one of our bonuses and duplicate , which Lori read on 7/29. :)

Moderators of NBRC wrote: "CARD 5......"

Noted, thank you!

Ray (user2637) wrote: "Each cat in a different book? Or doubling/tripling/etc-ing up? The book I'm reading has 2 cats (so far)... if the 1 book can count for 2 cats, this is a pretty good card.

Moderators of NBRC wrote:..."

One book, one cat :/

Lory wrote: "So I finishedTerrier
Lots of characters, so I can get those if needed. I'm still confused as to what is needed.

Although there are 3 different cats in the book. One of the "sort of" ..."

Sorry about all the confusion! This works perfectly for the Straw spell it out so I'm popping it in there :)

Straw and Circle characters
Sabine
Tansy Lofts
Rebekah Cooper
Annis
Ersken Westover
Inman