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An important step in any young knights life is his first horse. Actually, once you get a horse you don't take nearly as many steps. So maybe it's really the beginning of the end of steps is acquiring a horse. No matter what, it's a good thing to do.
To acquire a horse you must have perseverance, persistence, perspicacity, performance, perfume and various other per related things.
Tasks:
•Gold to Buy Horse - Read a book with a mainly gold cover or one set in an era where gold is used as the main currency.
•Riding Clothes - Read a book under 200 pages.
•Riding Clothes - Read a book under 200 pages.
•Riding Clothes - Read a book under 200 pages.
•Horseshoes - Read a book with horses as a main part of the story or one set on a farm.
•Horse Armor - Read a book over 600 pages.
•Saddle - Read a book that has 2 d's in the title.
•Sugar for Treats - Read a book that's sweet (chic lit, romance, cozy mystery, etc.)
•Apples for Treats - Read a book with a mainly red cover or one featuring a teacher.
•Carrots for Treats - Read a book where someone dangles a reward to get someone else to do something.
•Hay for Feeding - Read a book with the title starting with the letter H.
•Bribe for the Stable Master to allow you to pick your horse - Read a book where someone takes or gives a bribe or where the main character is a thief.
Rewards:
•14 Experience
•3 Heal Potions
Nikk wrote: "Gonna start on The Secret Life of a Dream Girl which will work for either S from card 1 Straw ( title) or card 4 : t from triangle (author tracey deebs) it's only 219 pages so if i ..."We need a book with "triangle" in the title though...I haven't checked yet but I feel this might be a hard find
Ashley wrote: "Nikk wrote: "Gonna start on The Secret Life of a Dream Girl which will work for either S from card 1 Straw ( title) or card 4 : t from triangle (author tracey deebs) it's only 219 p..."true - didn't think about that part :-/
The version of Harry Potter I read had a mostly red cover.
Kimberly wrote: "The version of Harry Potter I read had a mostly red cover."I used this one before for the "W" in straw...HP works for so many goals!
I have nothing for triangle.@Nikk: Burned buddy read sounds good! When do we start?
I can read Demonic Triangle after I finish The Secret Life of a Dream Girl today and then start Frost Like Night after thatKathleen, Should we start on Saturday? as I think I have just scheduled some other other reads for the next few days :-P
Did you want me to grab a buddy read thread in NBRC?
Katharine wrote: "Ashley wrote: "It looks like we will be able to get level 11 as well if you want to read French Fried for #9 in series?"Will do. Just finished Black Ribbon. Started [book:Matched|773..."
Remember to add Black Ribbon to your WOBBLE shelf :)
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After hard day hunt, you enter into the Tavern looking forward to some cool ale and maybe some nice stew you know that's simmering in the back. After all it was you who brought rat meat for it. You're sitting at your table, drinking ale and thinking about quests that are waiting for you tomorrow, when you hear sniffle behind you. You turn around trying to find where the sound came from, but only Lady Kelly is sitting in that direction. You're little scared to approach her, after all she's the Master here, but your kind heart can't say no to damsel in distress. As you start approaching Kelly, you hear her muttering "They are gone. They are all gone. What am I supposed to do now?!" and she starts crying again. You sit beside her, offer her your not so clean handkerchief and ask her what's wrong. Through tears you find out that someone broke into her room and stole all her future quests.
"All future quests?! But how's that possible? There are no thieves in Novel Kingdom! I'll help you Lady Kelly. Don't worry, you'll have your quests back!?" you yell and storm out of Tavern to find a thief.
Tasks:
•Read a book where someone steals something
•Read a book where someone steals something
•Read a book where someone finds something
•Read a book where someone finds something
Rewards:
•2 Experience
•4 Gold
Finished The Secret Life of a Dream Girl and starting on Demonic Trianglecharacters in secret life are: Dahlia Greene (who is also popstar Cherry), Keegan Matthews, Himesh, Jacin, Finn McCain,
There is also a teacher Oliver and its a sweet romance so would work for cards 1,3,4 and if you wanted to be really cheesy you could say it also works for card two as Keegan Matthews steals Dahlia Green's heart :-P
Completed:Title:
Mansions Can Be MurderAuthor: Willow Monroe
Date Read: 11/01/2016
Characters: Characters: Gemma Stone, Nick Leonard, Ross Ferguson, Holly, Mitch, Angie, Loden West, Simone Northlake, Victoria Northlake, Benjamin Northlake, Vincent Northlake, Conrad Bilker, Brenda, Walter Shores
#3 in the series
Finished Matched and French Fried. All books should now be on WOBBLE shelf. :)Would
work for red cover? Can't decide if it is more orange or red.
Nikk wrote: "Finished The Secret Life of a Dream Girl and starting on Demonic Trianglecharacters in secret life are: Dahlia Greene (who is also popstar Cherry), Keegan Matthews..."
LOL Nikk. Definitely cheesy!
Oh and Saturdays sounds good enough and yes to buddy read thread.
Finished
Fits #2 in series
Fits #3 in series
Completed:Title:
Expresso Messo: A Cozy MysteryAuthor: Constance Barker
Date Read: 11/02/2016
Characters: Lily, Hildie, Essie, Jules, Eli, Toe Thompson, Mildred, Joseph Commiskey, Reva, Trevor, Moira Baumgardner
#6 in the series.
I'm reading DAVID SPADE IS ALMOST FAMOUS. In it, he steals a hat from a valet.
Is there a someone steals something goal open?
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You pass group of young squires sitting and talking. You can't not notice they are retelling Lady Shanna's Blueberry Adventure. You smile to yourself. It is great story, but like in many stories some things got changed with each retelling. And not to mention not many people know what happened after. Lady Shanna went to the field again day after and she picked some blueberries for herself, but nobody told her that those berries shouldn't be eaten fresh. She started eating them while picking. "Spit them out!" said the white horse. "But they are so tasty." "Spit them out!" All of the sudden, Lady Shanna's nose started turning purple. "What is happening to me?" yells Lady Shanna while continuing turning purple and starting to grow round. "I told you to spit them out. Everyone who eats them fresh ends up as blueberry and nobody knows why."
Tasks:
•Read a book with a blue cover
•Read a book with a blue cover
•Read a book with a round object on the cover
•Read a book with a round object on the cover
Rewards:
•2 Experience
•4 Gold
Kimberly wrote: "I'm reading DAVID SPADE IS ALMOST FAMOUS. In it, he steals a hat from a valet.
Is there a someone steals something goal open?"
Yes there is - good find :)
Katharine wrote: "Finished The Empty Chair. Started The Paris Vendetta (red cover?) and The Hidden Oracle (H?)"We have the red cover/teacher goal covered. Let me know if it works for one of these;
- Read a book where someone dangles a reward to get someone else to do something.
- Read a book where someone takes or gives a bribe or where the main character is a thief.
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It's the 1st annual Scrounger Hunt in Novel Kingdom! Queen Skye has been plagued with requests for various things that her subjects need and has found a clever way to make everyone happy. She is offering reward potions to those who bring back items on her scrounger list of things that people need.
Tasks:
•Turmeric
•Cinnamon
•Rosemary
•Ginger
•Basil
•St. John's Wort
•Garlic
•Steel
•Copper
•Silver
Rewards:
•20 Gold
Moderators of NBRC wrote: "CARD 3You pass group of young squires sitting and talking. You can't not notice they are retelling Lady Shanna's Blueberry Adventure. You smile to yourself. It is great story, but like in many sto..."
Completed
Finished DAVID SPADE IS ALMOST INTERESTING
Finished
Fits #6 or Less than 200 pages
Katharine wrote: "Finished 
"How was it??
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The local fool is wandering around town speaking in riddles... or at least you think they're riddles. He keeps talking about wanting a cup of joe but you can't figure out how Joe (the 300 pound farmer down the road) could fit in a cup. Then he told you to eighty-six the moldy bread and you told him who would want eighty six pieces of moldy bread... Then he started talking about having a field day with the new rat stew recipe in the tavern but he wasn't even in the field that day. You really must help him regain his sanity so he doesn't keep spouting off gibberish.
Tasks:
•Read a book that contains an idiom.
•Read a book that contains an idiom.
•Read a book that contains an idiom.
•Read a book that contains an idiom.
•Read a book that contains an idiom.
Rewards:
•7 Experience
•2 Gold
Ashley wrote: "Katharine wrote: "Finished "How was it??"
I really liked it. I've heard from some friends that have read it that they found it predictable and "juvenile". Well, the juvenile part I get, I mean, it's written for about 10-14 year olds. Plus, it's a nice break from the more "adult", intense stuff I read so much (and love, don't get me wrong). How Riordan thinks up all these details and incorporates classic mythology makes my head spin. Predictable? Kinda. But again, what I enjoy the most is the creativity and imagination and seeing where Riordan takes the story and how he gets there. I was a little disappointed that I hadn't read all the Percy Jackson books first, but I expected that when I first picked up the book.
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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
Just heads up that we seem to have lost card 3 - i have let the mods know and hopefully it will be fixed shortly
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Logophilic Lemur
These are the termites of Novel Kingdom. They are everywhere! They have chewed their way through an adverb forest and a whole crop of newly sprouted adjectives.
Attack: 20 Health: 40
Rewards:
•6 Experience
•1 Damage Potion
Completed:Title:
Fire When ReadyAuthor: Kate Kingsbury
Date Read: 11/04/2016
Characters: Lady Elizabeth Hartleigh Compton, Earl Monroe, Douglas McNally, Fred Shepperton, Lydia Shepperton, Ray Muggins, Jessie Bandini, Zora Bandini, Dave Meadows, Captain Wally Carbunkle, Rita Crumm, Florrie Evans, Violet, Martin Chezzlewit, Polly Barnett, Sadie Buttons, Florrie Evans, Nellie Smith,George Dalrymple, Sid, Marge Gunther, Jack Mitchum, Millie, Dr. Robert Sheridan
#7 in the series
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It's the 1st annual Scrounger Hunt in Novel Kingdom! Queen Skye has been plagued with requests for various things that her subjects need and has found a clever way to make everyone happy. She is offering reward potions to those who bring back items on her scrounger list of things that people need.
Tasks:
•Gold
•Cotton
•Silk
•Fabric
•Dye
•Candle
•Wax
•Ink
•Paper
•Bowl
Rewards:
•20 Gold
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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
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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 BLUE.
Tasks:
•Spell-it-out: B
•Spell-it-out: L
•Spell-it-out: U
•Spell-it-out: E
Rewards:
•5 Experience
•1 Gold
So we managed to defeat the big bad book dragon and its left us with another spell it out task.We also defeated the monster on card 3 which gave us a longish card which I am thinking with two days to go may be worth discarding
Here are our current unclaimed tasks:
Read a book with a mainly gold cover or one set in an era where gold is used as the main currency.
Read a book under 200 pages. - Nikk - reading (nearly done)
Read a book with horses as a main part of the story or one set on a farm.
Read a book over 600 pages.
CARD 2
Read a book that contains an idiom.
Read a book that contains an idiom.
Read a book that contains an idiom.
Read a book that contains an idiom.
Read a book that contains an idiom.
CARD 3
Gold
Cotton
Silk
Fabric
Dye
Candle
Wax
Ink
Paper
Bowl
CARD 4
Spell-it-out: S
Spell-it-out: T
Spell-it-out: R
Spell-it-out: A
Spell-it-out: W
CARD 5
Spell-it-out: B
Spell-it-out: L
Spell-it-out: U
Spell-it-out: E
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Plush Zombie
The Plush Zombie was originally a child's toy that was washed one too many times. It came back and now haunts dreams.
Attack: 8 Health: 25
Rewards:
•4 Experience
I am currently reading I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the TalibanI will finish it before the end of Emerge.
It can be used for an Idiom goal.
Just in the last minute, there were two:
I read my books like Anna Karenina and the novels of Jane Austen and trusted in my father's words: 'Malala is free as a bird.' and
My father used to say, 'I will protect your freedom, Malala. Carry on with your dreams. '
Are the words listed for Card 3 words we are to find in the text of books? If so I'll watch for those as well. For example "FABRIC":
Wearing a burqa is like walking inside big fabric shuttlecock with only a grille to see through and on hot days it's like an oven.
GOLD: Lots of women were so moved by what Fazlullah said that they gave him gold and money, particularly in poor villages or households where the husbands were working abroad.
How will this book be most useful?
Great Kimberly! Sounds like we have lots of options for it - that's good because we can do last minute changes for it :)
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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 YUM.
Tasks:
•Spell-it-out: Y
•Spell-it-out: U
•Spell-it-out: M
Rewards:
•4 Experience
•1 Gold
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