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AttacksGoblin Attack
Karrie attacks goblin with staff 4 damage = goblin 6
Goblin attacks Karrie 6 damage = Karrie 8
Karrie attacks goblin with staff damage 4 = goblin 2
Goblin attacks Karrie 6 damage = Karrie 2
Karrie attacks goblin with staff damage 4 = gobin dead +1 experience and one goblin bone
Next available 2/23/15
Karrie attacks sewer rat damage 5 rat dies +1 exp. Next available 3/19/15
Goblin Attack
Karrie attacks goblin with staff 5 damage = goblin 5
Goblin attacks Karrie 6 damage = Karrie 10
Karrie attacks goblin with staff damage 5 = goblin dead +1 Exp and one goblin bone
Next Available 3/21/15
Karrie attacks sewer rat damage 5 rat dies +1 exp. Next available 3/27/15
Goblin Attack
Karrie attacks goblin with staff for 6 damage = goblin 4
Goblin attacks Karrie for 6 damage = Karrie 4
Karrie drinks minor healing potion +5 = Karrie 9
Karrie attacks Goblin for 6 damage + goblin dead +1 exp and one goblin bone
Next available 3/28/15
Karrie attacks sewer rat damage 5 rat dies +1 exp. Next available 4/4/15
Goblin Attack
Karrie attacks goblin with staff for 6 damage = goblin 4
Goblin attacks Karrie for 6 damage = Karrie 14
Karrie attacks Goblin for 6 damage = goblin dead +1 exp and one goblin bone
Next available 4/9/15
Karrie attacks sewer rat damage 5 rat dies +1 exp. Next available 4/12/15
Karrie attacks sewer rat damage 5 rat dies +1 exp. Next available 4/21/15
Goblin Attack
Karrie attacks goblin with staff for 6 damage = goblin 4
Goblin attacks Karrie for 6 damage = Karrie 8
Karrie attacks Goblin for 6 damage = goblin dead +1 exp and one goblin bone
Next available 4/26/15
Karrie attacks sewer rat damage 5 rat dies +1 exp. Next available 4/30/15
Goblin Attack
Karrie attacks goblin with staff for 6 damage = goblin 4
Goblin attacks Karrie for 6 damage = Karrie 2
Karrie attacks Goblin for 6 damage = goblin dead +1 exp and one goblin bone
Next available 5/2/15
Karrie attacks sewer rat damage 5 rat dies +1 exp. Next available 5/20/15
Karrie attacks a bat for 6 damage = brown bat 9
Karrie drinks heal potion for +10 = Karrie 11
Brown Bat attacks for 3 damage = Karrie 8 HP
Karrie attacks bat with magic staff 6 damage = brown bat 3
Brown bat attacks for 3 damage = Karrie 5 hp
Karrie attacks bat with magic staff for 6 damage = Bat dead +1 xp + 1 Bat Wing
Karrie attacks sewer rat damage 5 rat dies +1 exp. Next available 6/1/15
Karrie attacks a bat for 6 damage = brown bat 9
Karrie drinks minor heal potion = Karrie 7 HP
Brown Bat attacks for 3 damage = Karrie 4 HP
Karrie attacks bat with magic staff 6 damage = brown bat 3
Brown bat attacks for 3 damage = Karrie 1 hp
Karrie attacks bat with magic staff for 6 damage = Bat dead +1 xp + 1 Bat Wing
Next available 6/1/15
Karrie attacks sewer rat damage 5 rat dies +1 exp. Next available 6/9/15
Karrie attacks a bat for 6 damage = brown bat 9
Brown Bat attacks for 3 damage = Karrie 13 HP
Karrie attacks bat with magic staff 6 damage = brown bat 3
Brown bat attacks for 3 damage = Karrie 10 hp
Karrie attacks bat with magic staff for 6 damage = Bat dead +1 xp + 1 Bat Wing
Next available 6/9/15
Karrie attacks sewer rat damage 5 rat dies +1 exp. Next available 6/20/15
Karrie attacks sewer rat damage 5 rat dies +1 exp. Next available 6/27/15
Karrie attacks a bat for 6 damage = brown bat 9
Brown Bat attacks for 3 damage = Karrie 7 HP
Karrie attacks bat with magic staff 6 damage = brown bat 3
Brown bat attacks for 3 damage = Karrie 4 hp
Karrie attacks bat with magic staff for 6 damage = Bat dead +1 xp + 1 Bat Wing
Next available 6/27/15
Karrie attacks sewer rat damage 5 rat dies +1 exp. Next available 8/2/15
Karrie attacks sewer rat damage 5 rat dies +1 exp. Next available 8/18/15
Karrie attacks sewer rat damage 5 rat dies +1 exp. Next available 8/30/15
The AcademyThe Academy - Expires 7/15/15
I am using my gift card here I think I needed two. The Novel Academy where all mages, warlocks and undergraduates go to learn about the world is looking for new instructors. The application process is rigorous and daunting but have no fear, the worst that can happen is you fail horribly and live in disgrace.
Complete requirements to rise the ranks and become a teaching prodigy.
Note: Books used in these tasks are still available to be applied towards other tasks. These are participation tasks.
Ranks
Associate Professor - Complete 3 Requirements
Professor - Complete 6 Requirements
Distinguished Professor - Complete all Requirements
Requirements
1) Nominate a book for BOM in any category
Nominated Among the Hidden May Young Adult
2) Read and Participate in a BOM Discussion
I'll Give You the Sun
3) Volunteer to write DQ for a BOM
Volunteered to write for A Pretty Mess
4) Start and Finish one of the Monthly/Seasonal Challenges
Hemisphere Challenge
5) Start a Spell-It-Out challenge in Reading Challenges and finish at least one word.
ANZAC Day Trying CANBERRA Finished
6) Participate in a Buddy Read
Death Without Company
7) Write and post a scene for The Theatre Done 8/30/15
8) Request a recommendation or choose one already recommended and read it
Received a recommendation for The Night Circus Finished 6/13/15
9) Create a draft of a new reading challenge and send to mod account. Done 8/30/15
10) Welcome 5 new members to the group
Heather, Jeanine, Ellie, Lilistar, and Helen
Rewards - received at each level gained
Associate Professor - +3 Exp, 1 Heal Potion
Professor - Complete 6 Requirements - + 4 Exp, 1 Major Heal Potion
Distinguished Professor - Complete all Requirements - +6 Exp, 1 Health Gem (grants +1 Max HP and Current HP)
Monsters KilledSewer Rats: 11
Goblins: 6 -- 6 bones used in a challenge
Brown Bat: 4 -- $ wings used in challenge
Robbing Robin HoodBat wings: 4
Book: Armada +5
A Fairy Odd Path
1. I, Robot (0.1)
2. Fairest (3.5)
3. The Death Factory (3.5) +2 and heal potion
Two Empty Halves of Coconuts
HORSE!
Gold
1. Gold Cover or Gold currency
Clothes
3 Books Under 200 Pages
1. Turned 150 pages
2. Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative 160 pages
3. Cat's Cradle 179 pages
Horseshoes
Horse as main part of story or set on a farm
Pegasus Need i say more?
Horse Armor
Book over 600 pages
1. Outlander
Saddle
2 d's in title
1. Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Sugar
Sweet book
1.Steadfast Heart
Apples
Red or a teacher
1.Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
Carrots
Book where someone dangles a reward
1. All the Light We Cannot See
Hay
A book with a title letter starting with H
1. The Hour I First Believed
Bribe
A book where someone gives or takes a bride or is a thief
1. Life or Death HORSE!! Baroque Horse -- Charger +1 attack to both weapons
Boast the Most
Rats: 10
1. And Then There Were None +2
A Tavern Delicacy
Rats: 4
1. Captain Underpants and the Perilous Plot of Professor Poopypants Banned in 2013 for crude humor and language.
1. Purple Hibiscus +6
The Kindness of Strangers
I rolled a 5
The Wonder Garden Avis is in several stories
+1 and enhanced weapon potion
Everybody Lies
Treatment 1
L Lindquist The Marauders
E Elayna Stoles The Selection
E el-Assad The Keeper of Lost Causes
C Cat Ape House
H Higgins Bronze Gods
1. A Discovery of Witches 2 healing potions
Treatment 2
1. The Talented Mr. Ripley Italian Coast
2. City of Bones Page 16 of the list!
3. Gauntlet 1 major heal
Treatment 3
1. Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things
2. Science The Real Doctor Will See You Shortly: A Physician's First Year +8
Total exp to this point 152
Spock Guardian of Forever[
Mr. Spock has traveled back in time using the Guardian of Forever and gotten lost! Help Captain Kirk and the rest of the crew search for their beloved friend.
Search for Spock in Books
N [book:Uprooted|22544764] Naomi Novik
I The Nightingale Isobelle (Character)
M Betting on Hope Maggie (character)
O The Things They Carried Tim O'Brien
Y Young
+3Search for Spock in History - Read 3 books written by Leonard Nimoy or set in outer space.
1. The Planets: A Cosmic Pastoral Poems
2. Saturn Run
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Search for Spock in the Hearts of Men - Read 3 books about sports, dogs or food.
1. A Handful of Stars Lucky
2. The Joy of Gluten-Free, Sugar-Free Baking: 80 Low-Carb Recipes that Offer Solutions for Celiac Disease, Diabetes, and Weight Loss
3. Love That Dog +4
Search for Spock in our Memories - Read 3 books about history or set in the past.
1. Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time
2. Red Tails: An Oral History of the Tuskegee Airmen
3. The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story +5
Search 1 location to gain 3 experience.
Search a second location to gain an additional 4 experience.
Search a third location to gain an additional 5 experience.
Search the final location to recover Spock's lost Plasma weapon. There is only one charge left but it may be used as a instant (no battle turn used) attack of 10 points. (hide spoiler)]
Midas Quests Starting 3/1/15(books may be used from before 3/1/15 if they're not used for something else)
Midas quests are a new form of quests that provide gold to the adventurer. Gold may be used when the travelling caravans come to town and used to purchase equipment, potions and other goodies.
Run Alex Run!
North Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10 Instead we stayed south, flying over the friendly costal deserts of The United Arab Emirates, NORTH of the burning sands of the Rub al Khali, the empty quarter. Page 5
South The Bullet He urged the public to come forward with tips about the shooting on Eulalia Road, just south of Peachtree Road in northeast Atlanta. page 62
East In the Unlikely Event A few blocks down East Jersey Street from the Martin Building, where Steve Osner's father had his dental office and you could get a great tasting burger at the Three Brothers Luncheonette, Steve was shooting baskets at the YMHA with his best buddy, Phil Stein, both of them seniors a Thomas Jefferson High.
West The forensics team was gathered around the bed, concealing whatever was there, like a cluster of buzzards around the exposed head of the outlaw they used to bury up to their necks in the Old West.Storm Front
Lady Kelly's Missing Quests
To find Lady Kelly's quests read 2 books where someone steals something and 2 books where someone finds something. (use your imagination ☺)
1. The Girl on the Train Anna steals Rachel's husband
2. Locke & Key Dodge steals Bodie's body
3. Quiet: Rosa Parks finds the courage to refuse to give up her seat.
4. Pivot Point she finds the answer to her question.
The Many Voices of Lady Zuzana
To help Lady Zuzana in her communication with the merchant, read 2 books originally written in your native language and 2 books originally written in another language.
1. English : The Child Thief
2. English : This Star Won't Go Out: The Life and Words of Esther Grace Earl
3. Swedish: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
4. Greek Aesop's Fables
Ser Amanda's Cryptic Caper
C Before the StormDiane Chamberlain
O The Romanov Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra Olga (character)
D Memory Man Amos Decker
E A Darker Shade of Magic Emira Merish (Character)
Lady Rachel's Debut
Gather 3 goblin bones then read a book with a grey cover to gather the metal then forge the metal and goblin bones together with a book that has fire (exact word, though may be part of a larger word) in the title or series.
Grey: Pretty Girls
Fire:
The Easter Bilby1) Read a book where someone has a pet rabbit. The Stonekeeper
2) Read a book with a rabbit on the cover.
3) Spell out the word RABBIT using spell-it-out rules.
R Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary CanalMary Roach
A A Spool of Blue ThreadAnne Tyler
B In the Shadow of Blackbirds Mary Shelly Black (character)
B We Bought a ZooBenjamin Mee
I In a Sunburned Country
T The Pearl DiverJeff Talarigo
4) Read a book with the word rabbit in the title or series.
5) Read a book featuring chocolate or where the main character is a pastry chef. Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder
6) Read a book set during Spring. Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
7) Read a book with an invasion in it. War Horse
8) Read a book where the main character is a doctor or vet. Orphan Number 8 Dr. Solomon
9) Read a book where there is an Easter celebration. Orange Is the New Black
10) Read a book with grass on the cover.
The Academy - History
• 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. As Sure as the Dawn
• Read a book published the year you were born.
• Read a book published the month you were born. (year does not have to match) Ink and Bone July
• Read a book published the day you were born. (year/month does not have to match) Cinder Published January 3, 2012
• Read a book set around 50 years in the past. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
• Read a book set around 100 years in the past. The Borrowers Aloft: With the Short Tale Poor Stainless
• Read a book written 20+ years ago The Chimes (1844)
Crazy Cat Lady
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.
1. City of Ashes Church the Cat pg 54
2. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim Pg 169 I spoke to the outdoor cats, and the indoor cats, and the adopted piglet that seemed like a good idea until it began to digest solid food.
3. Splintered pg 7 I've stolen the royal sword and am on the run, desperate to find the caterpillar and the Cheshire cat.
4. Calvin and Hobbes Hobbes is a pet tiger.
5. The Alienist A lady has eight pet cats!
6. The Muse Quick has a cat
7. Her Fearful Symmetry They have a kitten.
+5 Expereince and 1 Heal Potion
To find a cat, find a mention of a cat in a book and quote the sentence where the cat is mentioned. Cats are individual creatures and there can only be one found per book. (Find Items Potion works for this quest.) Receive +5 Experience and 1 Heal Potion for finding all 7 cats.
The Sandwich is always Greener on the Other Side
Read a book where the author or a character has the initials PB. Read a book that starts with the letter J (indefinite article may be ignored). Then spell out the word BREAD using spell-it-out rules. Finally assemble it using a knife by reading a book from a series that starts with I. Earn 12 experience when the sandwich is complete.
P. B.
J Tuesdays at the Castle Jessica Day George
B Brogan See Me
R Rickert The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
E Emma Can You Keep a Secret?
A Superhero SillinessTony Abbott
D Dallden The Book of Three
Sticks and Stones may Build a House
Steps to build house:
1) Clear Spot - Read a book set in the plains. (Any Plains.)
Lithuania and Siberia are on plains2) Make Foundation - Read a book about someone getting an education to build their foundation.
3) Gather Wood - Read a book mainly set out in the woods. The Hike
4) Gather Nails - Read a book with something pointy on the cover (knife, nail, stiletto, etc.) Awkward Pencil
5) Create Frame - Read a book where someone is framed for a crime. The Watchmaker of Filigree Street
6) Create Walls - Read a book where someone is closed off from the world either mentally or physically. When You Reach Me The Laughing Man (mentally and through time travel)
7) Add a Door - Read a book where someone moves houses. The Graveyard Book from house to graveyard
8) Add Windows - Read a book with Glass, Window, Clear or See in the title.
9) Paint - Read a book where the cover is mainly (<70%) one color.
10) Garden - Read a book with flowers on the front.
Death's Requests
(view spoiler)
TERRY PRATCHETT HAS REQUESTED SOME ITEMS TO BRING WITH HIM
• Spell out the word PRATCHETT for 5 Discworld books (5 items)
P Peter Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
R Smile Raina Telgemeier
A A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story
T Drama Raina Telgemeier
C Caitlin Mockingbird
H Henrik Number the Stars
E Edward The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
T Twite
T Trellis The Stonekeeper's Curse
• Read a book where the author or a character has the initials TP for some much needed toilet paper (1 item) A Daughter's Inheritance Tracie Peterson
• Read a book where a character has Alzheimer's disease for social awareness (1 item) Strawberry Shortcake Murder
• Read a book with a hat (on or off a person) for a black fedora hat (1 item)
Prunella wore a hat• Read a book with a knight for a knight medallion (1 item) The Ruins of Gorlan
• Read a book with a sword on the cover for a handmade sword (1 item) Magic Bites
• Read a book with a mainly green/yellow/purple cover for octarine sunglasses (1 item)
• Read a fantasy book for a little bit of magic (1 item) Black Butler, Vol. 3
• Read a book with a monkey in it for a donation to the Orangutan Foundation UK (1 item) Zanzibar Tales: Told by Natives of the East Coast of Africa
• Read a book set in outer space for a telescope (1 item)
Acquire 3 items to gain 3 experience.
Acquire 3 more items to gain an additional 4 experience.
Acquire 4 more items to gain an additional 5 experience.
Acquire all items to recover Deaths Gratitude. Death has offered you one wish to lower the starting hitpoints of a creature by 10.
Midas Quests Starting 4/1/15Sir Zee's High Flying Adventure
To help Sir Zee achieve her dream of flying (and falling from the sky) read 2 books with something that can fly and 2 books with something very high on the cover. Sir Zee will gladly pay you 10 gold for her flying experience.
1. Before the Fall Airplane
2. Everything, Everything Airplane
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Nessie's head2.
Tea KettleSir Audrey Jane Break-in
Read 3 books showing something through which you can enter a house and 1 book where there is break in. Sir Audrey Jane will gladly pay you 10 gold to help her enter her house without a key.
1. Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark Window
2. The Death House
3. The Kitchen House
1. The BFG
Lady Shanna and the Case of the Blueberries
Read 2 books with blue covers and 2 books with round object on the cover to help Lady Shanna out of her blueberry-ism. She will gladly pay you 10 gold.
1.
2.
1. Welcome to Night Vale Light at the top of the tower
2.
Decorations on cakesLady Dani Lost and Found
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Lady Dani and you walk down the lane. Every now and then she stops and picks pretty stone for her collection. After a while you see old man coming towards you. "Hello there strangers! Oh, what pretty stones you have there my lady. I have something that will make your collection even prettier" and he pulls from beneath his cloak smallish stone with gold flecks on it. You are all excited (because it's gold!) but Lady Dani knows her stones and asks to look it closer (because everyone knows that those gold flecks are probably pyrite). She examines it closely and is pretty sure it is real gold. "Where did you find this stone?" "Not far from here. There is abandoned gold mine not many knows about. I could give you map for small price - all your pretty stones." Lady Dani doesn't really want to give her stones, but opportunity to find more gold is huge. She agrees and gives her stones to old man and gets map for them. Two of you follow directions on the map and soon come to big hole in the ground. Since Lady Dani is expert here, you agree that she should go down and explore while you keep guard. Lady Dani goes in and starts going down the many halls. Left. Right. Left. Right... Until she comes to the main chamber and sees gold vein in the wall. Lady Dani is very happy and turns around to go to you and share her news, but then she finds out that she's actually lost.
To help Lady Dani to find her way out of the gold mine, use this map and Lady Dani will gladly pay you 10 gold when she gets out.
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East Entrance odd left even right
Left The Clique
Right The Abominable Snowman
Left The Assassin's Blade
Right My Lady Jane
This section done and posted
Update for MayMonster Updates Starting 5/1/15
Drop Bears are part of a new class of creature that spawn a specific number each week or month. The number will always reset either on Sunday (weekly creatures) or the 1st of the month (monthly creatures).
• 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. (Weekly)
8 Attack 15 Health - Reward: 1 Experience, 1 Drop Bear Meat
Quests Starting 5/1/15
(books may be used from before 5/1/15 if they're not used for something else)
Kitchen
To construct your kitchen complete the following tasks:
• Build the oven - Read a book that takes place in a hot climate. Magic Bites Georgia
• Build a fire place - Read a book with a red cover or one about firefighters. Elizabeth I: Red Rose of the House of Tudor, England, 1544
• Hang a pot - Read a book about a witch or a chef.
• Build a sink - Read a book with a body of water on the cover or one that takes place mainly near or on the water. Miss Pickerell Goes Undersea
• Buy bowls - Read a book with the word bowl (exactly) in a quote from the book text. She pursed her lips as she slid the bowls of soup onto the table. pg 2Among the Hidden
• Buy spoons - Read a book with a reflective object on the cover. A Kiss from Mr Fitzgerald (Sparkly hair clip)
• Buy knives - Read a book where someone gets stabbed. The Darkest Part of the Forest
• Add meat hooks - Read a book where someone dies. A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
• Build a pantry - Read a book with someone who likes to shop a lot.The Vanishing Point
• Build a spice rack - Read something spicy (romance)! or something with peppers on the cover. Cold Shot
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Drop Bear Feast
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Lady Karen has stopped by from the neighboring village and the Queen would like to hold a special party for her birthday! She's asked you to help cook up some of Lady Karen's favorite things. Lady Karen is especially fond of grilled Drop Bear steaks. You eagerly agree to help in hopes that you can repeat the recipe later for your own gastronomical delight.
To cook a Drop Bear Steak: gather 1 drop bear meat, sprinkle with salt. Grill for 3 minutes per side. Garnish with 1 sprig of herbs.
(Requires: 1 Drop Bear meat, 1 Salt, 1 Sprig of Herbs and Kitchen)
Drop Bear Steak: Restores 7 hp. May only be eaten at rest.
To acquire Lady Karen's recipe complete the following: (The Queen would be very upset if you ate one before feeding the guests.)
- Deliver 3 Drop Bear Steaks to the castle
- Read a book with fruit on the cover and read a book with a cake on the cover for desert
- Read a book with a silver cover or with silver in the title or series for a platter to deliver the food on [book:Grey Mountain|24728478]
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New Gang in Town
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There's a new gang in town and they're moving in on your territory! Never mind that you aren't actually in a gang for them to move in on but it's the principle of the matter! Do whatever you need to so you can win back your town.
Check the last 9 books you read before May 1st, 2015. If there have been more male authors then your target is the new female gang. If there has been more female authors then your target is the new male gang. MORE FEMALE
Read new to you authors of the appropriate gender to chip away at the rival gang. Gender should be the real life gender of the author and not their pen name (unless unable to find).
Reduce the rival gang by 3 to gain 4 experience.
Reduce the rival gang by 2 more to gain 4 additional experience.
Eliminate the rival gang by reducing 3 more to gain 4 additional experience and 1 Heal Potion.
1. [book:Handing One Another Along: Literature and Social Reflection|7907541] Robert Coles
2. DraculaBram Stoker
3. The Whistling Season Ivan Doig
4. Bad Kitty Meets the Baby Nick Bruel
5. The Pale Criminal Philip Kerr
6. Kiss the Girls James Patterson
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The Academy - Literature
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The Academy's Literature department has fallen on Hard Times. The Book Thief has been plaguing their halls! They're so desperate they'll even take Little Women to help out. It's a Brave New World and they have Great Expectations of what you could do to help capture this fiend and bring him in for Crime and Punishment.
Receive +10 Experience and 1 Major Heal Potion after helping the literature department.
• Read a book with a single character in the title (Not A or I) B is for Burglar, X Marks the Scot
• Read a book with a greek letter in the title Alpha One, Omega Days
• Read a classic or literary classic
• Read a book with a preposition in the title [book:The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God|11389341]
• Read a book with a conjunction in the title The New Kid at School
• Read 2 books that have homophones of each other in them. (The Winter Sea and All the Light We Cannot See - Sea/See)
In the Woods
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Spice Exchange - Repeatable Quest
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Salt is a wonderful mineral that can be used to enhance the culinary aspects of many dishes. There's a particularly grimy old spice trading man who's definitely worth his salt. Though you should take it with a grain of salt, his salt is especially fine and salty. He likes to taunt you that you're not a good enough chef for his salt and he really rubs salt in that wound. Prove to him that you're not below the salt and become the great chef you know you can be! Only to do that... you need some salt.
Read 4 books each with at least one of the following qualifications: (Find Items Potion works for this quest.)
• 50% or more white cover
• Title begins with S, A, L or T [book:A Curious Beginning|28186322]
• The word salt (exactly) appears in the book text Where do you keep your oil, salt ... pg 159 The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing
Receive 3 servings of salt for use in cooking.
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Picking Herbs - Repeatable Quest
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Herbs are another important aspect to cooking culinary cuisines. Herb Macklefinger is the local Herbsman. He traipses through the woods and selects the herbiest of the herbage to tempt herbivores to commit herbivory. He is willing to trade some of his herbs if the price is right.
Read 4 books each with at least one of the following qualifications: (Find Items Potion works for this quest.)
• 50% or more green cover
• Title begins with H, E, R, B (Indefinite article may be ignored) [book:Roxie and the Hooligans|388100]
• The word herb (exactly) appears in the book text herb garden pg 109 The Likeness
Receive 3 servings of herbs for use in cooking.
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Questanomics
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Novel Kingdom is dangerously close to entering a time of deflation. Queen Skye has been advised that she wants a nice healthy rate of inflation around 2% to maintain price stability and maximum knight employment. She is worried that if the kingdom falls into deflation everyone will hold onto their gold since it will be worth more tomorrow than it is today. She's even heard that there is novel hoarding going on! Help Queen Skye inflate the kingdom!
Read 3 inflationary books. Inflationary books have a "number" in the title. The number should be inflated to the next higher number as the series number. See link for examples of inflationary language.
Example:
For a Few Demons More - The Hollows #5 (four -> five)
Something Wonderful - Sequels #2 (one -> two)
Receive +8 Exp for saving the economy.
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Tavern Games
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The local tavern is looking to drum up some new business and has started a game night. The game is called Shipzee and was invented by local sailors to play while on long voyages. Try your hand at it. There is a prize for the winning knight!
Roll 5 Dice. Then choose series numbers or words in a title. If you choose series numbers read books whose series number matches each of the die. If you choose words in a title read books that have each of the numbers of the die in the title. (+7 Exp if series number is chosen, +9 Exp is words in title is chosen.)
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Monster Updates Starting 4/1/15A new breed of Sewer Rat has moved in, the aptly named Greater Sewer Rat now makes his home in the sewers of Novel Kingdom. After countless deaths of sewer rats, Darwinian evolution has been proven and Sewer Rats will now flee from any hero Level 8 and higher. Greater Sewer Rats have smaller brains and will still attack anyone.
Greater Sewer Rat - The larger, stupider cousin of the average Sewer Rat. These rats are bigger, smellier and have beadier eyes.
8 Attack 20 Health - Reward: 2 Experience, 1 Rat Tail
Midas Quests Starting 5/1/15(books may be used from before 5/1/15 if they're not used for something else)
Lady Teresa in Tights
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Lady Teresa comes into the Tavern very excited. 'Have you heard? We are going to have a real performance in the Theater. Some group is coming to town and they are going to preform for us. Look!' and she pushes torn ad into your hands. You look down and see advertisement for troupe called 'Men in Tights' that are going to preform their version of Robin Hood. Looking at the image below the title you see that all actors are male. 'This should be interesting' you think remembering Robin Hood story. 'I know! And there is a prize! If you can answer the quiz question, you get to meet the actors behind the stage! Don't you think that would be great? But, I can't figure out the answer. I looked everywhere but I can't find what are the actors names.' She looks at you sadly and you decide you'll try to help her.
To figure out actors names you need to read 2 books written by male authors and two books where author uses only his/hers initials instead of full name. Lady Teresa will pay you 10 gold for backstage pass.
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Still high from her great performance in Theater, Ser Rebecca strolls into the Tavern where she saw some strange man sitting. 'There she is! Star of the night. Please take a sit and we'll have a little chat. Actually I have little business proposal for you.' 'Um, business proposal?' 'Yes, I'm looking for unique talents and your performance was brilliant. If you say yes, you'd travel all over the Kingdom or even wider. I even heard Queen Skye would like private performance.' Ser Rebecca starts to think private performance! Traveling all over the world! No more monster that attack when you least expect... 'Where so I sign?' 'Not so fast, my knight. First I'd need to hear few more songs to be certain that you are talented and that your performance wasn't just beginners luck.' Ser Rebecca runs back to Theater to get her goblets and finds knights, that were before in the audience, around her cart spilling water and smashing her goblets. 'What is going on?' she asks you. 'Well, after your performance someone started selling mulled wine that was poisoned. Now they are afraid that everything here is tainted.' 'What am I going to do now?' asks Ser Rebecca as her dream of fame and fortune falls apart.
As we all know, you are very tenderhearted so you decide to help Ser Rebecca. Read 1 book where character is involved in music, 2 books with body of water on the cover and 1 book that has object in what you can keep/gather water on the cover. That will restore Ser Rebecca's 'instrument' and she will gladly pay you 10 gold for it (and probably send you few postcards from her travels)
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Lady Tea in Wonderland
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Lady Tea is out walking and sees a rabbit darting through the woods. Thinking it may be one of the magical egg laying bunnies she sets off in pursuit. The rabbit darts into a hobbit hole on the edge of town. Never one to turn down a hobbit hole, Lady Tea pursues the rabbit. As soon as she steps inside she falls down a deep hole. She sees a tiny door and a bottle named "DRINK ME". She shrugs and downs the unknown concoction then starts to shrink to a tiny size! Looking around she sees a piece of cake labeled "EAT ME." Growing wise, she pockets a piece of it and heads through the door. On the other side she munches on the cake and returns to her previous size.
After stumbling around for awhile she sees the rabbit sitting at a table with a tea party set out. Smiling to herself she sits down deciding that tea is much better than what else may lay in this crazy world. Lady Tea hopes that others will be told about where she's lost.
Recount Lady Tea's story by reading a book with trees on the cover or one with short people (hobbits/dwarves/etc.) to set the scene. Then read a tiny book (100-150 pages) to tell about shrinking Tea. Read a big book (500+ pages) to tell about making Tea big again. Then read a book with a cup of tea on the cover or one where drinking tea is mentioned in the book to tell about the party. Lady Kelly will gladly pay you 10 gold for helping describe where Lady Tea is lost.
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1. In Every Heartbeat
2. 100-150 The Curse of the Cheese Pyramid 128 pages
3. Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
4. Sharp Objects Tea
Lady Eni's Cinnamon Sticks
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Making Pasteis de Nata is not an easy task. First you need to keep your hands cold for the puff pastry to be smooth and perfect. That means having a bucket of water with lots of ice nearby to keep dipping your hands in. Then is spending hours by a low fire stirring to get the perfect custard. Next comes the wait for them to bake, and the worst part is to avoid eating them while they are fresh from the oven. After conquering this mighty task, Lady Eni only needs some cinnamon sticks to ground and some icing sugar. Easier said than done since some mice had a late night party and now the icing sugar bag has a nice hole in it and is spilled on the floor. Also the cinnamon sticks are all chewed down. Oh no! There is no way she can present her Queen pasteis de nata without ground cinnamon or icing sugar to sprinkle on top. What to do? What to do?
Replace the chewed sticks: Read 2 cinnamon books (*)
Find some icing sugar: Read a white cover book
Serve the pastries: Read a book where the main character loves to cook or does some yummy treats or owns a bakery or food shop.
(*)Cinnamon books: brown cover, cinnamon on cover or title, Series or Main Character's name has at least 2 letters from cinnamon. Any character (or pet) is named Cinnamon or Cin.
Cinnamon Books
1. [book:The Absence of Nectar|614064]
2. Broken Harbor
Lady Eni will gladly pay 10 gold for help with her pastries.
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Sir Reva's Forecasting
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Sir Reva is frantic! There's planting to be done and seeds to choose and the local weather magician hasn't given an accurate weather forecast in months! She wants to fit as many vegetables as possible into her garden since her kitchen is almost done and there's cooking to be done and health points to be had. She wonders if cherry tomatoes are just as good as the big ones and if they are smaller and are ready sooner. They must be tasty since people eat them. As you approach she's wandering around her garden muttering to herself about unpredictable weather and vegetable yields. You cautiously ask if you can help. She turns to you and says, "Well you can start by figuring out what vegetables would be best and provide the biggest benefit in the least amount of time per crop ratio. Oh, and any knowledge of future infestations and plagues would be useful."
Read 2 books where someone predicts the future or is sent to the future and 2 books featuring farmers or economists.
Sir Reva will gladly pay 10 gold for accurate predictions of the future and vegetable benefits.
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Quests Starting 6/1/15(books may be used from before 6/1/15 if they're not used for something else)
Spring Cleaning
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The old armor smith found a stockpile of gold in a nearby mountain and up and left! The Queen has asked you to clean out all his old junk and get the smithy ready for the next master smith to live in.
Read a book on your to-read shelf that has been there for more than a year. 1 Experience per book (Max 5 Experience).
[book:As Sure as the Dawn|95621]
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Quick! Lies!
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You stumble up to the gates of the nearest town desperate for a nice cozy, rat infested room at the inn. The guards stop you and ask for your reasons for visiting. Not willing to spout your real reasons, you quickly spin a tale explaining the purpose of your visit.
Read up to 5 books and construct a story using their titles as part of the tale. Post your tale in the tavern when done. (+1 experience per book, +1 additional exp if all 5 books are used)
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Rebel of the Sands
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Mesomegomediment
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You're sitting in the tavern enjoying the new specialty Drop Bear Steak and a man sidles up to you. He smells of beer and stale sweat which you suppose isn't all that different from anyone else around the bar or even the bar in general.
"Hey, I heard you know things. I'm looking for these scrolls, they sound kind of the same. Know what they are?"
You're not entirely sure what he's talking about but you figure that with the condition he's in, he would accept anything resembling the right answer.
Read 2 books with a word in the title with the same prefix and 2 books with a word in the title with the same suffix. (Chart) Receive 1 Time Walking Potion and 4 experience for giving the man his answer.
Example:
The Angel Experiment - Merriment in the Museum (-ment)
C is for Corpse - Carpe Corpus (corp-)
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Art Extravaganza
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The Queen is setting up her annual Novel Kingdom Show of the Arts. She'd like you to help organize the paintings into pairings pleasing to the eye.
Your job is to help organize the paintings. Start with a book, choose an alternative cover then choose another book with a similar cover to the alternative one. You may link up to 5 books together. (+2 exp for 2 books, +1 more experience for 3 books, +2 more experience for 4 books, +3 more experience for 5 books)
Note: You may use one of the covers from the edition you've read but you don't have to. Books with only one cover are not eligible for the quest however you may use covers from another language of the book.
Incarceron (Incarceron, #1) by Catherine FisherThe Key by Simon Toyne
La predestinata by Simon ToyneThe Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Hobbit by J.R.R. TolkienForbidden by Tabitha Suzuma
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Here Birdy Birdy
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Lady Sonia is in town to celebrate her birthday with Queen Skye. She brought along her beloved pet falcon named Beta Test. Beta left hunting this morning but never returned. Lady Sonia is beside herself with grief and asks for you to help return her falcon to her.
First you must track the falcon. You decide to follow the trail of mutilated, eaten mice. Spell out the word MOUSE using spell it out rules.
Then you must set a falcon trap. You need some netting and a lure. To make the netting read 3 books with a net on the cover or set at sea. To get the lure read a book about fishing or one with a rodent or bug on the cover.
Finally read a book with a bird on the cover to capture Lady Sonia's falcon.
Lady Sonia is so happy with the return of her falcon that she gifts you one of the falcons eyasses. Your baby falcon will return with 1 piece of mouse meat every week on Sunday.
To cook Mouse Meatballs: gather 1 mouse meat, grind, form into ball, sprinkle with salt. Bake 1 hour.
(Requires: 1 Mouse meat, 1 Salt and Kitchen)
Mouse Meatballs: Restores 3 hp. May only be eaten at rest.
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Level 1 Level 0 Sword, Level 0 Magic, 10 HP, 3 Exp
Quest One Introduce Yourself
Introduction
Quest Two Gathering Berries
Y Yes Please by Amy Poehler 329 Pages
U Unravel Me by Tahereh Mafi 461 pages
M Mead, Richelle Frostbite 327 pages
Total +5 Exp.
Quest 3 Gather Bones
1. Bone Out from Boneville 138 pages +1 exp.
2. Bone, Vol. 2: The Great Cow Race by Jeff Smith 133 pages +1 Exp
3. Bone, Vol. 3: Eyes of the Storm by Jeff Smith 192 pages +1 Exp.
4. Bone, Vol. 4: The Dragonslayer by Jeff Smith 176 pages +1
5.The Bone Collector By Jeffery Deaver 427 pages +1
Quest 4 Rare Gems
1. 50 Days Ablaze Daily Devotional One review +1
2. Transforming the Difficult Child: The Nurtured Heart Approach 4 ratings +1
3. Listen to the Heart +1
Greater Rare Book
1.Simply Sacred: Daily Readings (2 ratings!) +2
Quest 5 Healing
1. Divine Soul Songs: Sacred Practical Treasures to Heal, Rejuvenate, and Transform You, Humanity, Mother Earth, and All Universes
2. No Rest for the Dead cooperative work
3. Bloodlines: Race, Cross, and the Christian
Quest 6 Timewalker
2005 Classic Stories: A Virginia Lee Burton Treasury +1
2006 Getting Lost: Survival, Baggage, and Starting Over in J. J. Abrams' Lost +1
2007 The Dangerous Days of Daniel X +1
2008 The Maternal Is Political: Women Writers at the Intersection of Motherhood and Social Change +1
2009 Divine Soul Mind Body Healing and Transmission System: The Divine Way to Heal You, Humanity, Mother Earth, and All Universes +1
2010 Sandman by Neil Gaiman +1
2011 The Martian +1
2012 The Secret Rooms +1
2013 Wings of Glass +1
2014 I'll Give You the Sun +1
Valentine's Day Feast
1. Pilot Season 139 pages +2
2. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret 149 Pages +2
3. Unveiled: Tamar 173 pages +2
Date Night
1. Landline He was a railroad yardman and he had a heart attack at work. Heart page 32. This was in the romance genre. +2
2. Love Letters to the Dead You learned right away that applause sounds like love. Love Page 9 +1
3. The Sweet Hereafter The track that looped around the field and passed between the stage and the grandstand had been raked smooth and watered until it looked like chocolate frosting. page 218 +1
4. Paper Towns I ate two peanut butter and jelly sandwiches as an early dinner. Page 23 +1
5.Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth +1 The heroine of the romance was, of course Masha. Pg 133
Gift of Love +5
1. Lola and the Boy Next Door Goodreads Choice Nominee for Best Young Adult Fiction (2011)
2. Columbine Goodreads Choice for Nonfiction (2009)
3. Lila Goodreads Choice Nominee for Best Fiction (2014)
Alchemy
Grey
Grey
Grey
Gold
A Toy for Hadley
Shape: Under the Dome Dome
D The Forbidden Stone Darrell
O On Ugliness
M The Shoes of the Fisherman by Morris L West
E The Cater Street Hangman Charlotte Ellison +5
Goblin Bones
6 Bones turned in +8
Queen's New Clothes
1. The Curiosity
2. The Same Stuff as Stars
3. The Night Circus
4. A Pretty Mess
5. After a Fashion +6
Rescue Kitty
1. The Flower Garden
2. Garden Spells
3. Spells
4. Spells & Sleeping Bags
5. Bags With Style +8
Time for the Dead 2007
Jan Mr. Chickee's Messy Mission
Feb Pirates of the Purple Dawn
Mar Nineteen Minutes
April Spanish Dagger
May Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
June Escape from Jabar-Loo
July White Heat
Aug Monday with a Mad Genius
Sept Lindsay's Luck: A Fascinating Love Story
Oct The Fake Cape Caper
Nov Fury
Dec Mr. Louie Is Screwy! +14 and one damage potion
Level Up Sword
The Patience Stone 160 pages, Joy The Summer Vacation Fairy 177 pages,Mrs. Yonkers Is Bonkers! 112 pages,The Nixie's Song 162 pages, Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back 163 pages, A Princess of Mars 186 pages The Woman in Black 164 pages The Ha-Ha-Haunting of Hyde House 112 pages, God Help the Child 174 pages, The View from Saturday 174 pages.
March Violets 256 pages, Go Set a Watchman 287 pages, The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories 208 pages, Dinosaur Boy 224 pages, Citizen Vince 293 pages, Starship Troopers 264 pages
Joyland 283 pages, The Adventures of a South Pole Pig: A novel of snow and courage 288 pages, The Door in the Hedge 288 pages
The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender 301 pages Station Eleven 326 pages, The Last Sin Eater 332 pages A Man Called Ove337 pages, A Town Like Alice 371 pages, Everything I Never Told You 304 pages, Against the Wind 387 pages, Luckiest Girl Alive 352 pages
Death of a Red Heroine 465 pages, Mr. Mercedes 436 pages, Six of Crows 465 pages, Scarlet 452 pages,
Stormbird 507 pages, Shadow of Night 584 pages, Cress 550 pages, The Forgotten Garden 552 pages The Lake House 593 pages The Clan of the Cave Bear 512 pages
Spycatcher LP: A Novel 640 pages,
The Goldfinch 773 pages, Dragonfly in Amber 743 pages When Christ and His Saints Slept 742 pages The Angel of Darkness 752 pages
800 - Paris 809 pages 2 more books needed
900 - Need 2 books
1000 The Source 1104 pages
Level Up Magic
A Modern Witch Book 1, Pretty Little Liars Book 1,Goofballs Book 1, Do Unto Others Jordan Poteet Mysteries book1Heidi Book 1, Plain Perfect Book 1, The Bean Trees Book 1, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Book 1, The A-List Book 1, A Great and Terrible Beauty Book 1
The Golden Lily Book 2, Death Without Company Book 2, 2nd Chance Book 2, The Case of the Stolen Statue Book 2, The Only Good Yankee Jordan Poteet #2, Ripley Under ground Ripley #2, A gathering of Shadows Shades of Magic #2 Linger book 2
Shadow Kiss Book 3, Kindness Goes Unpunished Walt Longmier book 3, The Indigo Spell The Stolen LakeBook 3, 3rd Degree Book 3, Ripley's Game book 3
SD Book 4, 4th of July, The Mysterious Talent Show Mystery Book 4, The Stolen Lake Book 4 (need 4 more)
SD Book 5, Rueful Death book 5, Dangerous Games book 5(need 3 more)
Love Lies Bleeding Book 6 (need 4 more)
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Book 8
Attack
Sewer Rat
Hero Attack with Magic Staff 3 Attack = Rat 2 Health Remaining
Rat Attack 3 = Karrie 7 Health Remaining
Karrie Attack Magic Staff = Rat Dead! +1 Expereince
Killed 1/19/15 Next Available 1/26/15
Sewer Rat Hero Attack with a magic staff 3 attack = Rat health 2 Remaining
Rat attack 3 = Karrie 9 health remaining
Karrie attack magic stall = rat dead! +1 expereince
Killed 1/26/15 Next available 2/2/15
Sewer Rat Karrie Attack with a magic staff 3 attack = Rat health 2 remaining
Rat attack 3 = Karrie 6 health remaining
Karrie attack magic staff = rat deaqd +1 expereince
Killed 2/3/15 Next available 2/10/15
Reserves - Read but not used
New York 1020 pages by Edward Rutherferd, Sarum: The Novel of England 971 pages,
Current Status
Level 7 Level 7 Sword, Level 5 Magic staff, 22 HP, 169 Exp, 3 minor heal potion, 2 Major Heal Potion, 1 Timewalking potion, 4 bat wing, +1 Damage potion, Rat Killing Trophy, 4 healing potions
Distinguished Professor at the Academy, Enhanced weapon potion, Health Gem
Baroque Horse named Charger +1 attack for each weapon
Midas Quests: 80 gold coins