Louise’s Comments (group member since Aug 29, 2015)

Louise’s comments from the Nothing But Reading Challenges group.

Tote of Infinite Books

Infinite Book Tote Shelf
(view spoiler)[Welcome Basket Books:




Book Reserve:
The Scorpio Races 4* 11/18 416pgs
Rosie Meadows regrets... 580pgs 4* 12/18

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Hero Handbook

Welcome to A Novel Role-Playing Game!

"Novel Kingdom is a small kingdom on the edge of Lake Lexicon. It is ruled by the benevolent Queen Skye. Queen Skye is having some trouble enforcing laws in her kingdom after the death of her husband King Forest. You are a new recruit in the kingdom of Novel. Prove your worth to the kingdom and obtain glory for Her Majesty (with some of your own personal glory thrown in)."

Inside the Handbook
(view spoiler)[ Leveling
"You obtain levels when experience is achieved. You collect experience points by completing quests and killing monsters. Leveling up heals your hero fully and increases the HP available by 2 per level."

Total experience needed - maximum health.
LVL 1 - 0 XP - max HP 10
LVL 2 - 5 XP - max HP 12
LVL 3 - 15 XP - max HP 14
LVL 4 - 30 XP - max HP 16
LVL 5 - 45 XP - max HP 18
LVL 6 - 90 XP - max HP 20
LVL 7 - 135 XP - max HP 22
LVL 8 - 225 XP - max HP 24
LVL 9 - 360 XP - max HP 26
LVL 10 - 585 XP - max HP 28
LVL 11 - 945 XP - max HP 30
LVL 12 - 1,530 XP - max HP 32
LVL 13 - 2,475 XP - max HP 34
LVL 14 - 4,005 XP - max HP 36
LVL 15 - 6,480 XP - max HP 38

Book Reserve
"The best part about Novel Kingdom is their fabulous research department. They've constructed a Tote of Infinite Books and handed them out to all the new recruits. This allows you to store up any books you've read until you're ready to use them. Just keep them listed at the bottom of your adventure log until they're applied to a task."

Rereads
A notice in the local Tavern indicates a book can be reread and used again after six months.

Spell-It-Out Rules
☞ the first letter in the book's title
☞ the first letter in the series
☞ the first letter in the author's first or last name
☞ the first letter of a character's first, last, or nick-name

"As always, if the first letter of a title starts with an indefinite or definite article ('A', 'An', 'The', etc.), you may use the first letter of the second word in the title to spell out your chosen word."

Book Cover Colors
Color Extraction: https://labs.tineye.com/color/

Specific Words Needed
"General guidance for finding words in the title is that unless it's specifically stated otherwise it's fine to use another variant of the same word. i.e. Northern for North is fine but Beast for East would not be since they're not indicating the same thing."

Health
Healing Potions
Using a healing potion does NOT use a turn in battle. Your hero can use a healing potion and then immediately attack.

Hitting Zero HP in a Fight
"You cannot attack monster if your health is at 0. If you hit the exact 0 HP you can heal and do another attack."
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CURRENT STATS
Hero: LVL 9 | HP 8/27*
Sword: LVL 9| AP 15 (11+3+1)*
Magic Staff: LVL 12 | AP 18 (14+3+1)*
XP: 450 (next level at 585 xp)

Earned Modifiers
* Health Gem: Adds +1 to max HP
* Orb of Earth: Adds +3 AP to Sword
* Orb of Fire: Adds +3 AP to Staff
* Pet Rock: Subtract 1 AP from all Monsters. Heals 1 HP at end of battle
* Horse (Baroque): Adds +1 AP to Sword; Adds +1AP to Staff

Current Goals


* Complete
Complete Halloween

Enjoying it so far.

We’re @85 books at the moment

My audio for Truly Devious came in so going to fit that in.

Add them Jackie I’ll fit them in somewhere 😊

I did start many years ago but rl came crashing in and I got really lost so am starting afresh.

Nice

Round 2 Completion
Task: Read a book featuring a strong-female lead

The Law Is a Lady by Nora Roberts
Date Read: 11/8
Rating: 4*
How It Fits: Tori is the town sheriff

Nouns: director; business; sheriff; money; law

Final Noun Selection ~ Round 1 ~ SS updated
Adjective Called: dainty
Noun Selected: Gangster

Completion Post - Round 1

The Last Brother by Andrew Gross
Date Read: 11/4
Pages: 382
How It Fits: MPG Mystery and MPG Thriller

Nouns: Family (precis); Brother (title); Car (cover); Gun (cover); gangster (tagged pg1)

No worries Abbie, it’s been a bit of a learning curve on this one.

Will do. Working on meals tomorrow. Month end on work was a little bit hectic

I’d like to sign up as a newcomer please. Like Sally I started many years ago but got very lost and struggled to work it out.

LaurLa can I get the locations for:

Rescued by the Wolf

Coffee (*2)
Hotdog
Hamburger
Steak

:)

LaurLa wrote: "Do you want us to even bother noting letters for spell out?"

No, I didn't use them last round,

Moderators of NBRC wrote: "Melanie wrote: "Two questions, I don't think I saw these mentioned anywhere and wanted to check if it was allowed or not.

Can you use the generic food category name as an ingredient in a meal? i.e..."

I think we have conflicting answers to the same question posted Here through to here

Generic is good for things like pasta, curry, salad. Things like soup, stews and casseroles aren’t able to be combined into our main base dishes.

Our main base dishes are:
Sandwich
Pasta
Salad
Quiche
Curry

I’ve managed to put a hold on the audio Truly Devious for nov 8th.