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[Katharine]

In the time we have left, I could read for "600 pages" and possibly one more, or I could read 3-4 other goals. Thoughts? I am also about three-quarters done with The Paris Vendetta, which would work for "M" (MC is Cotton Malone)

[Ashley]

We have a couple of travel agent books left. We have one that can be used for 600+ page so would be more beneficial for you to read more shorter books!

[Katharine]

Will do! I will start with which can be used for "gold/gold used as currency". I will also read which will work for "Y" (author Rick Yancy).

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CARD 4

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 TRIANGLE in the title.
•Spell-it-out: T
•Spell-it-out: R
•Spell-it-out: I
•Spell-it-out: A
•Spell-it-out: N
•Spell-it-out: G
•Spell-it-out: L
•Spell-it-out: E

Rewards:
•10 Experience
•1 Gold

[kat (wanderfulbooks)]

I think we could discard Card 3, reward is 20 gold for 10 books to be read. We have lots of gold atm, and would benefit more from XP points.

I'll peek at the spreadsheet and see what I can read. My schedule kinda got busy.

[~~~N~~~]

Finished Masks, Lady Midnight (reread), On Midnight Wings.

I feel bad for being so nonexistent.

[Ange]

I've totally been awol too I'm going through a slump which is not good so close to the end! Sorry gals.

[~~~N~~~]

Same! I'm just not in the mood to really read. I had all this time yesterday, and I just watched some t.v. instead. I don't even like t.v. generally :(

[Katharine]

Finished The Paris Vendetta and The Silver Pigs.

I feel the same way ladies. I've been pushing myself to keep going for the next day or so, and then I think I'm going to take a break.

This might be stretching it, but for "dangling reward", I could read Tilt-a-Whirl...MC's friend wants to help him put war memories behind him, so he offers the MC a job he thought would be "laid back"...as a police officer in a small seaside town. That's about as close as I can find on my TBR list.

[~~~N~~~]

Read The Biggest Scoop.

[Nikki the Sapphired Book Dragon]

finished Center Ice, Playing Defense and Winging It (Corrigan Raiders 1,2 & 3) and am going to try to finish You're Still the One before the countdown ends

[Kimberly]

I finished I AM MALALA

[Katharine]

Finished The 5th Wave. Reading Tilt-a-Whirl if you all think we can use it.

[Kimberly]

I'll try to finish ANGELFALL before the end. :)

[Ashley]

One day and three hours left so let's see what we can do :D

[Ashley]

Katharine wrote: "Finished The Paris Vendetta and The Silver Pigs.

I feel the same way ladies. I've been pushing myself to keep going for the next day or so, and then I think I'm going ..."

Sounds good to me for the dangling reward!

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CARD 5

You've never been one to try to outdo everyone else. No one really needs to go a whole 20,000 leagues under the sea when 5,000 is plenty. You're quite sure after traveling 5,000 leagues that there's really nothing more that would surprise you down there. You've seen all the fish, sunken ships, sharks and mermaids that you could ever care to see in the sea. Just make sure to take some pictures so you can have a few rounds bought for you at the Tavern after you've returned.
Travel 5,000 leagues and take pictures! Reserve a wonderful spot at the tavern for all your stories.
Leagues may be traveled by reading books. To determine the amount of leagues traveled by a single book, round down to the nearest 100 pages, then calculate 2 to the power of the number of hundreds of pages. (Hint: use the xy button on the calculator)
Examples: 512 page book -> 5 hundred pages -> 2^5 = 32 leagues
(If not all spots are needed, x out all columns)


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

Rewards:
•5 Experience
•1 Greater Heal Potion
•1 Shield Potion

[Ashley]

Moderators of NBRC wrote: "CARD 5

You've never been one to try to outdo everyone else. No one really needs to go a whole 20,000 leagues under the sea when 5,000 is plenty. You're quite sure after traveling 5,000 leagues th..."

Discarding this one

[~~~N~~~]

Finished Gathering Storm and Plunder

As sad as I am that this is ending (and that we won't get to be a team the same way), I'm still incredibly relieved to almost be done with this challenge. I'm just too busy, and I want to go back and finish old reads.

[Ashley]

Any idioms in them?

It will be nice to take some time to read longer books again :)

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CARD 5
Nook Squirrel
The nook squirrel is a hard to find squirrel. It hides in nooks and crannies all over Novel Kingdom.

Attack: 10 Health: 20

Rewards:
•2 Experience
•1 Poison Potion

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CARD 5
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

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CARD 2
You just finished killing your last monster of the day when you check the time (Sun is just nearing horizon). You figure you don't have time to go home and change, but luckily that last kill didn't mess with your shiny armor. You just polished it last night since you've been invited to the dinner at Sir Audrey Jane's. You are really looking forward to that dinner since she just got back from Hobb'ton and everyone knows that Hobb'ts like fine cuisine and always have plenty of food and love parties. You reach Sir Audrey Jane's place and see her standing in front of her door, grocery bags on the ground around her, and she is searching her bags like crazy. "What happened?" "Oh, it's you. Is it time already? You won't believe what happened. At last moment I remembered I forgot to purchase something for dinner and went to the market just to figure out I forgot my key. Again! We can't get into the house!"

Tasks:
•Read a book showing something through which you can enter a house
•Read a book showing something through which you can enter a house
•Read a book showing something through which you can enter a house
•Read a book where there is break in

Rewards:
•2 Experience
•4 Gold

[Kimberly]

ANGELFALL has idioms in it, e.g., "the long and short of it":

"The long and short of it is that angels aren't allowed to get together with humans?"

[Kimberly]

... and they eat lots of cat food if you still need to find a mention of a cat.

[Ashley]

Kimberly wrote: "... and they eat lots of cat food if you still need to find a mention of a cat."

Just need one more - can you give me a cat quote?

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CARD 3

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

[Kimberly]

From ANGELFALL:

"They sound entertained, the way a pack of dogs might sound if they'd cornered a cat."

[Katharine]

Finished The Quiet Game and, with a push to get it done in time, Tilt-a-Whirl. We could use Quiet Game for a cat..."I try to laugh it off, but both of us are nervous as cats." (page 90)

[Gillian]

Finished

fits #8 in series

fits #9 in series

fits #10 in series

fits #11 in series

[Katharine]

Great job team! It's off to bed for me! I look forward to the next WOBBLE!

[~~~N~~~]

Finished Fallen Crest High and Playing to Win. Probably won't finish 1984 in time. I lost (somehow deleted?) the wobble spreadsheet link, so I'm not sure what we need, but if someone posts the links I can try to find places for my books that aren't slotted yet. Also, I couldn't find any idioms in the other two books I mentioned.

[Ashley]

Here you go;

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

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CARD 1
The local necromancer is looking to ply his trade. He offers good coin for any spare bones you happen to have lying around.

Tasks:
•Read a book with a title that mentions bones.
•Read a book has bones on the cover.
•Read a book that is in the horror or paranormal genre.

Rewards:
•4 Experience
•1 Minor Heal Potion

[Ashley]

Katharine wrote: "Finished The Quiet Game and, with a push to get it done in time, Tilt-a-Whirl. We could use Quiet Game for a cat..."I try to laugh it off, but both of us are nervous a..."

Can you please check the shelving for quiet? I think the one you've marked as read is different to the one shelved for wobble so it isn't picking it up

[Kimberly]

Finished ANGELFALL!

That's it for me. Thanks everyone for an awesome challenge. It's been fun. :) :) :)

[~~~N~~~]

In Playing to Win the MC "finds" threats left to him in his stuff and he finds a note from his boyfriend.

[~~~N~~~]

In The Biggest Scoop multiple objects are stolen from the character Fern, and later found.

[~~~N~~~]

In Plunder the main character is kidnapped (stolen), though he is the person who puts himself in danger.

[~~~N~~~]

In Fallen Crest High, a lot of secret relationships, secrets, and schemes are "found" out. Also, the MC's true biological father is found. A police car is stolen.

[~~~N~~~]

Does that all work? If there's something you feel the books might work better for, you can ask and I will look.

[~~~N~~~]

I also found some idioms, but it doesn't look like they're needed any more.

[~~~N~~~]

Finished Forty Studies That Changed Psychology: Explorations into the History of Psychological Research

[~~~N~~~]

Should I try to finish another? How much time is there?

[Nikki the Sapphired Book Dragon]

There is an hour and 40 minutes left Noa so if you think you can read one more in that time - go for it :-)

[kat (wanderfulbooks)]

Managed to log in just on time (I hope!)

I wanted to finish one more but not much reading time this week.

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CARD 5
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

[~~~N~~~]

Finished Playing with Fire (yay, I did it!)

[Viji]

Hi team,

Enjoyed reading with you all very much and learnt a lot from you all. Hope to be with you all in some other challenge soon. Thank you all very much for making this great challenge very enjoyable. Special thanks to Ashley and Kathleen for putting up with my queries and helping/guiding me.

[Gillian]

Its over :( I'm going to miss you all and this challenge its been loads of fun. Thanks to our team leaders you did a great job guiding us through some very difficult events. Thanks Mods for thinking this whole thing up I look forward to the next one.