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[Lel]

DC

The Dark Highlander/Grim Reaper/Brother of Wonder Man/ 2 of 3

Main character has a brother

[Veronica]

DC/Brighter Than the Sun/Grim Reaper/Magical Scythe/1 of 3

Scythe on the cover

[Kate]

Marvel

The Raven King/Grim Reaper/Brother of Wonder Man/1 of 3

One of the MC's has two brothers that are also characters in the story.

[Rinn, (Retired mod) Captain of the SSV Normandy]

Allegiant/Grim Reaper/Brother of Wonder Man/1 of 3 - Tris has a brother, Caleb

[Shawnie]

Marvel/Bloodline Gypsy: Jook and Gypsies Vol. 1/Grim Reaper/Brother of Wonder Man/1 of 3
Mains all have brothers in the story.

[Shawnie]

Marvel/Third Grave Dead Ahead/The Grim Reaper/Grim Reaper/2 of 3
Charley Davidson is the grim reaper.

[Lel]

DC

Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth/The Grim Reaper/Magical Scythe/ 3 of 3

John gets the speaking gun from Old Father Time

The Grim Reaper Defeated

[Nick]

DC/Bone Rattler/Firestorm/Red Hot Fire/2 of 3

More than one burning building in this book ;)

[Dawn]

DC
The Emperor's Blades / Grim Reaper / Brother of Wonder Man / 2 of 3

Main characters are brothers

[Melanie]

DC

Grim Reaper/ Magical Scythe/ The Demon Awakens/ 1 of 3

[Sam]

Marvel

Thor/1. Goddess of Thunder/3 of 3/Shades of Grey

Lightning in the top left corner of the cover :)

Thor recruited!

[Kate]

It's been a little while since I was able to post on here so I have more than one book to add!

Team DC

Zero Day/Commissioner Gordon/Fighting the mob/1 of 3

Adaptation/Firestorm/Regeneration/1 of 3

V for Vendetta/Katana/Mask/1 of 3

Jurassic Park/Grim Reaper/Brother of Wonder Man/1 of 3

[Karen]

Marvel

The Grim Reaper/Grim Reaper/Soul Music/1 of 3

Death is a main character

[Audrey, Queen of the Potato People]

(Tell me if I'm doing this wrong)

Team Marvel
Star-Lord/Retribution Falls/3 of 3
character Captain Frey

[Christina]

Audrey wrote: "(Tell me if I'm doing this wrong)

Team Marvel
Star-Lord/Retribution Falls/3 of 3
character Captain Frey"

Hi Audrey,

Looks good with the exception that you would put 1 or 3 instead of 3 of 3. That just means you have fulfilled 1 of the requirements under Star-Lord.

Welcome to Team Marvel! :)

[Audrey, Queen of the Potato People]

Christina wrote: "Audrey wrote: "(Tell me if I'm doing this wrong)

Team Marvel
Star-Lord/Retribution Falls/3 of 3
character Captain Frey"

Hi Audrey,

Looks good with the exception that you would put..."

Thank you!

[Kirsty, Jedi Master]

Audrey wrote: "(Tell me if I'm doing this wrong)

Team Marvel
Star-Lord/Retribution Falls/3 of 3
character Captain Frey"

Looks great Audrey, although where it says Team Marvel I think you meant to write Team DC?

*halo*

Welcome to the challenge! If you want to add your past books for the year, feel free to stick them all in one big post, and MPauli will tot up the points at the end of the week.

[Audrey, Queen of the Potato People]

Kirsty wrote: "Audrey wrote: "(Tell me if I'm doing this wrong)

Team Marvel
Star-Lord/Retribution Falls/3 of 3
character Captain Frey"

Looks great Audrey, although where it says Team Marvel I thi..."

Should I add ones even if others have also filled those categories?

[Wayland, Ernest Scribbler]

Absolutely. Anything you do will help the team, and everyone can complete the roster. The only things you can't do are villains and books of the month for months that have passed. You can do Grim Reaper this month, but not Poison Ivy for example, or Aeronaut's Windlass but not Uprooted.

Make sense?

[Kirsty, Jedi Master]

Audrey wrote: "Kirsty wrote: "Audrey wrote: "(Tell me if I'm doing this wrong)

Team Marvel
Star-Lord/Retribution Falls/3 of 3
character Captain Frey"

Looks great Audrey, although where it says Te..."

absolutely. Every member in Team Marvel can recruit every Marvel character. MPauli gives a special reward if you are the first one to recruit, but you still get credit for recruiting if you aren't the first.

Your aim as an individual is to get books against as many traits as possible.

[Kirsty, Jedi Master]

And yes as Wayland says, there are exceptions for the villains and botm energy cells.

Energy cells are done instead of traits, and they are specifically for that particular months BotM, and are used to make available portal heroes to recruit. If you want to, you can still use the botm against a character. For example, (sorry team) if i do a book of the month, i'll put it against a character and not as an energy cell as I know i'm unlikely to recruit all my characters so I want as many books against traits as possible.

Hopefully I havent confused things by mentioning the Portal Heroes/Energy Cells!

[Nick]

Team DC/Proxima/Atom/Dr. Ray Palmer/2 of 3

One of the main viewpoint characters is a scientist.

Welcome aboard Audrey, even if you have poor choice in teams ;)

[Audrey, Queen of the Potato People]

This must have taken a long time to set up -- impressive.

Maybe I'll join DC next year just so there's no hard feelings. :)

[Nick]

Out of interest - and i'm sorry if this has been answered previously and I missed it - does the "Super Ultimate Fantastic Extra Bi-Monthly Group Read" count as an energy cell like other BoTM's? Or just as a standard book read?

[Greg]

Nick wrote: "Out of interest - and i'm sorry if this has been answered previously and I missed it - does the "Super Ultimate Fantastic Extra Bi-Monthly Group Read" count as an energy cell like other BoTM's? Or ..."

See message 933 by Mpauli:

"Oh, the one from the Mod special. I see. As I like to keep it clean and simple we're handling this the same way as the last time there was a third book and stick to the two books that were originally nominated by the group.
Let us see if we stick to the bi-monthly schedule and if this is something that is reliable we include it in next year's challenge, but for now I don't want to mess with the point curve that I hopefully predicted correctly for the Energy Cells. I don't want to hit the goals for the Portal Heroes too soon by adding more books that can score points towards them. "

[Nick]

Thanks Gregg, so not an energy cell ;)

[Greg]

Nick wrote: "Thanks Gregg, so not an energy cell ;)"

You're welcome Nick! :)

[Dawn]

Never mind Nick. I used it for Katana no.1 if you haven't already fulfilled this

[Shawnie]

Welcome to Team Marvel, Audrey!

[Brendan]

Team Marvel.
Agent Coulson/Cheese/Countdown to Lockdown: A Hardcore Journal/2of3.
Mick Foley has multiple nicknames.

[Kate]

I have a question about commissioner Gordon, to protect and serve. Would it count if a character is an ex cop or only if they are currently a police officer?

[Wayland, Ernest Scribbler]

Grim Reaper 2. Brother of Wonder Man Read a book with "wonder" in the title or where the main character has a brother, who is also a character in the book. (The brother doesn't need to be a pov character) The Book on Bush: How George W. (Mis)leads America The book is mostly about George Bush and his brother Jeb turns up a few times.

2/3 for Grim Reaper

[Nick]

DC
The Aeronaut's Windlass/June BoTM Energy Cell

What a fantastic book that was. Wonder how long we'll have to wait for a sequel.

[Wayland, Ernest Scribbler]

Well considering how far behind he's running on Peace Talks....

[Nick]

I know right. Although, we haven't quite reached Gentleman Bastard levels of delay yet ;)

[Wayland, Ernest Scribbler]

And both lag behind George RR Martin, the "Great Bearded Glacier"

Or is that "are ahead"?

[Nick]

Hard to say. I've been spoiled by Nora Roberts - the In Death series is one of my favourites and she manages to put out two books a year, _in addition_ to countless books in other series. She is a fiction making machine.

[Clarkiep]

Team Marvel
Too Much Information... or Can Everyone Just Shut Up for a Moment, Some of Us Are Trying to Think/Iron Fist/Dragon Tattoo/3 of 3

Iron Fist Recruited

[Veronica]

DC/Mort/Grim Reaper/The Grim Reaper/2 of 3.

Death is a main character.

[Kirsty, Jedi Master]

DC/Leviathan Wakes/Commissioner Gordon/Bat Signal/1 of 3

Miller is a Detective.

[Veronica]

Ah, Miller. As I recall, he crawled up my creep-o-meter in that book. lol

[Kirsty, Jedi Master]

Veronica wrote: "Ah, Miller. As I recall, he crawled up my creep-o-meter in that book. lol"

yeahhhhh. Just a little!

[Audrey, Queen of the Potato People]

I've been looking through my books, and here's what I've got so far:

(Marvel)
Thor/Goddess of Thunder/Earthrise/1 of 3
main character is a goddess

Ms Marvel/Nobody Understands Me/Allegiant/1 of 3
Four has parent issues

Squirrel Girl/Tippy-Toe/Ella Enchanted/ 1 of 3
Ella talks to animals

Blade/High Stakes/The Crown Tower/1 of 3
character risks life for someone else

Jessica Jones/Jewel/The Thief and Danielle/The Void of Mist and Thunder 2 of 3
stolen jewels & parent has a POV

Iron Fist/Danny Rand/Blue Lily, Lily Blue/1 of 3
rich main character

Agent Coulson/Cheese/The Blade of Shattered Hope/1 of 3
Atticus's nickname is Tick

[Kate]

Marvel

Odd and the Frost Giants/Thor/To Asgard We Fly/2 of 3

[Mpauli, Bitten by a radioactive book]

Hi everyone,

first of all, let me welcome Audrey to the challenge! She signed up for Team Marvel. Hope you enjoy the challenge! And thank you for everyone who explained her initial questions. :)
In terms of points we had a quiet week with Team Marvel taking the win. For them Sam recruited Thor and Clarkiep added Iron Fist to his roster.
For Team DC Lel took the achievement for being the first player to defeat Grim Reaper.
The Energy Cell race went 1:0 in Team DC's favor.

[Mpauli, Bitten by a radioactive book]

Kate wrote: "I have a question about commissioner Gordon, to protect and serve. Would it count if a character is an ex cop or only if they are currently a police officer?"

The character should be currently working for the police. Gordon's story is that he worked through the ranks to become Commissoner, so I'd like to have the dedication to the force reflected in his challenge.

[Mpauli, Bitten by a radioactive book]

Audrey wrote: "This must have taken a long time to set up -- impressive."

It's not that bad. Setting up the thing for the whole year usually takes like 4-5 hours, so an afternoon's time of work.
It's our third year, so the rules are pretty much the same as last year's and setting up a character/villain takes about 10 minutes. For most characters I usually have like 2 cover ideas and 1-2 challenge ideas on the spot. Then I go to their wiki page and look deeper into the lore to fill the remaining challenges and google a nice pic.
Counting points and setting up the post each week usually takes 30-45 minutes with double-checking and editing.

[Milou]

DC/Grim Reaper/Magical Scythe/The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp/1 of 3

Alfred gets Excalibur

[Audrey, Queen of the Potato People]

Now, what should I do for the portal hero stuff? Who is open?

[Mpauli, Bitten by a radioactive book]

Audrey wrote: "Now, what should I do for the portal hero stuff? Who is open?"

The portal heroes are unlocked over the course of the year. Players contribute points by reading the book of the month. After a certain amount (30 points) the team that reaches it decides upon which hero they want to unlock. The team that unlocked the hero is now allowed to read books for this hero's challenges.
So far, Team DC unlocked Garfield and your Team Marvel unlocked Snoopy.
Through your post I did realize that this wasn't marked yet, so I edited the portal hero post, so now it should be more clear which hero was unlocked by which team.
Each portal hero can only be unlocked once, so you won't be able to read for the Garfield challenges.