The Pirate Challenge: Team 2

[Rushali, Head Mod]

Ahoy! This September we bring you our Pirate Challenge where you and your crew fill up your treasure chest by collecting various gemstones. Read the books to fulfill criteria, and the gemstones are yours for the taking!

Challenge runtime 5th September to 5th October

About the challenge:
1. Each crew will have 3 members.
2. You have to make combinations of these gemstones and collect as many combinations as you can.
3. Each combination is made of one cheap stone, one semi-precious stone and one precious stone.
4. The book you read needs to match a few criteria. Each stone has a set of criteria, and each stone type has a minimum number of criteria that are compulsory to fulfil. If you fulfil more, you get more points.
5. Once you fulfil the minimum criteria, you officially collect that stone.
6. After you collect one of each type of stones (cheap, semi-precious and precious), a combination is made. For each combination made, extra points are added (See scoring).
7. For the individual scoring, you have to read one book for one stone, so a total of 3 books to make a combination. You can choose any of the cheap, semi-precious and precious stones to make combinations, just make sure that you use 1 from each type.
8. For the team scoring, there are a set of 8 pre-defined combinations. To complete a combination each team member has to read for one stone type. So, each person for a team combination reads one book.
For example, the combination is Jade-Turquoise-Sapphire. Person A will read Jade, Person B will read Turquoise, Person C will read Sapphire and thus a combination is complete.
9. The team combinations are:

Amber - Turquoise - Taaffeite
Lapsis - Aquamarine - Sapphire
Rose Quartz - Spinel - Ruby
Jade - Peridot - Emerald
Quartz - Opal - Diamond
Citrine - Agate - Musgravite
Zircon - Amethyst - Alexandrite
Jasper - Tourmaline - Tanzanite

Rules:
1. Only books finished on or after 5th September can be logged in for the challenge
2. Each team has to make minimum 2 combinations
3. Each individual has to make minimum 1 combinations that are not part of the team combination
4. A book read can be part of either the individual combination or team, not both.
5. Webtoon/webcomics will not be counted for this challenge
6. Please sign up if you are sure you want to participate because if you leave the challenge in the middle, it will affect your team as a whole. The challenge is based completely on team members finishing the tasks in an order

Scoring:
- Cheap stone (To collect a cheap stone, any 1 out of 4 criteria need to be completed.)
For finishing 1 criterion - 1 point
For finishing 2 criteria - 2 points
For finishing 3 or more criteria - 3 points

- Semi-precious stone (To collect a semi-precious stone, any 2 out of 6 criteria need to be completed.)
For finishing 2 criteria - 2 points
For finishing 3 criteria - 4 points
For finishing 4 criteria - 6 points
For finishing 5 or more criteria - 8 points

- Precious stone (To collect a Precious stone, any 2 out of 8 criteria need to be completed.)
For finishing 3 criteria - 3 points
For finishing 4 criteria - 6 points
For finishing 5 criteria - 9 points
For finishing 6 criteria - 12 points
For finishing 7 or more criteria - 15 points

- Once you finish an individual combination, you get additional 5 points
- Once you finish a team combination, you get additional 10 points

Extra scoring:
- September BOTM: Each book read by a participant will give 10 points to the team. It won’t be counted under any prompt. Additionally, the participant should also participate in the BOTM discussion. If the participant chooses to include the BOTM as part of the combinations then it will not get any BOTM points.
- Buddy Read: 3 points
- Review: 2 Points
- Page Count Scoring:
For every book above 300 pages-
301-400: 2 points
401-500: 3 points
501-600: 4 points
601-700: 5 points
701 and above: 7 points

[Rushali, Head Mod]

Team Members

Mary
Piu
Manu

Team needs a leader! Decide and let us know who can be one.

Choose a team name if you want, get settled and start planning! Happy Reading and all the very best!

[Rushali, Head Mod]

Prompts:

Cheapest stone

(view spoiler)[Amber
1. Genre: Classic
2. Page count has to have: 2
3. MC is patient and wise
4. Cover has to be at least 75% any shade of yellow or brown

Lapis Lazuli
1. Genre: High Fantasy
2. Page count has to have: 4
3. MC can control people with their mind or can read people’s mind (because of social cues or magic both work) or the MC’s mind is being controlled.
4. Cover has to have a crown

Jade
1. Genre: YA Fantasy
2. Page count has to have: 6
3. MC should work with poisons or be a poisonist (ability to not react to poisons)
4. Cover is green or blue

Quartz
1. Genre: Steamy Romance
2. Page count has to have: 5
3. MC is poor male
4. Cover has flowers

Citrine
1. Genre: Memoire
2. Page count has to have: 9
3. MC has had to face a very tough life
4. Cover should be 80% white or yellow

Jasper
1. Genre: Mystery
2. Page count has to have: 1
3. MC is a police officer/ detective
4. Cover cannot have a person/ people

Rose Quartz
1. Genre: YA contemporary fiction
2. Page count has to have: 3
3. MC deals with insecurities
4. Cover should be pink

Zircon
1. Genre: YA Science Fiction
2. Page count has to have: 8
3. MC is from space originally
4. Cover is dark (hide spoiler)]

Semi-Precious stone

(view spoiler)[Spinel
1. Genre: Middle grade
2. Page count has to have: 6
3. MC gets angry easily
4. MC falls in love slowly
5. Title including the meaning of these words; love, anger, passion, rage
6. Trope: a love triangle

Aquamarine
1. Genre: New Adult
2. Page count has to have: 3
3. a calm MC
4. MC believes that every problem is solved by tranquility and harmony
5. Title is made up of neon letters
6. Main color of the cover should be blue

Opal
1. Genre: Young Adult
2. Page count has to have: 7
3. MC has a lot of mood swings
4. Book has an emotional MC
5. Title should be silver or gold in color
6. Book has very colorful illustrations inside

Amethyst
1. Genre: Magical Realism
2. Page count has to have: 4
3. Book has a very religious MC
4. MC believes in spirituality or the importance of healing inner wounds
5. Title should represent the words; pure, spirit, Christ
6. Book has a grey/purple spine

Turquoise
1. Genre: Historical Fiction
2. Page count has to have: 9
3. MC has very high hopes for the future
4. MC is very wise and will protect anyone they can
5. Title should be blue/brown in color
6. Book is set after a war is officially over

Peridot
1. Genre: Fantasy
2. Page count has to have: 5
3. When with another character, one of the MCs gets calmer
4. MC is immune to a certain illness/power against them
5. Title should represent something that symbolizes the words: good health, peace. E.g. calm, lake, fairness
6. Book has very good/a lot of world building

Agate
1. Genre: Psychological thriller/Horror
2. Page count has to have: 4
3. MC has to go to a therapist/psychologist/any kind of mental treatment
4. MC is a serial killer
5. Title is very plain/monotonal
6. The book/story is told in parts

Tourmaline
1. Genre: Graphic Novel
2. Page count has to have: 8
3. MC who has a very close friend
4. MC is diverse
5. Title’s meaning is something cute/fluffy/heartwarming
6. Book is part of a series (hide spoiler)]

Most Valuable or Precious stone

(view spoiler)[Diamond
1. Genre: Historical Romance
2. Page count should have two same numbers (eg: 343 has 3 twice)
3. MC is very strong and hard working
4. MC has to face many hardships through the course of the book
5. Cover has a ring on it
6. Title has 4 unique letters from the word ‘DIAMOND’
7. The word ‘diamond’ is mentioned in the book
8. Someone gets engaged in the book

Ruby
1. Genre: book featuring vampires
2. Book’s final number of pages to have any of the numbers from ‘125’
3. MC has red hair
4. MC is very wealthy
5. Characters are very passionate
6. Cover should be red
7. The title of the book should have the word ‘Blood’
8. Book is set in Asia

Emerald
1. Genre: Urban Fantasy
2. Page count: should have 7
3. Book featuring a passionate romance
4. MC is a healer/doctor
5. MC has green eyes
6. Cover should be green
7. Book is published in the month of May
8. Major part of the book is set in a forest

Sapphire
1. Genre: Features royals
2. Book’s final number of pages to have any of the numbers from ‘65’
3. MC is an extrovert and outgoing
4. MC is very innocent
5. Cover should be dark blue
6. Title should be silver in color
7. Book is published in the month of September
8. MC is trying to find something that is lost

Alexandrite
1. Genre: Dark Academia
2. Book’s final number of pages to have any of the numbers from ‘1830’
3. MC is very lucky
4. MC is very intelligent
5. Cover has a mix of blue and green colors
6. Title has a character’s name in it
7. Some part of the book is based in Russia or mentions Russia/Russian Lore
8. Some part of the book is set in the mountains

Tanzanite
1. Genre: Contemporary
2. Page Count: 9
3. Book has an African character
4. MC has been sheltered/has lived in the same place for most of their life
5. Cover has blue or purple colors in it
6. Title has the name of a country/city in it
7. Book is published in the month of December
8. Book is set on an island

Musgravite
1. Genre: Literary Fiction
2. Book’s final number of pages to have any of the numbers from ‘1967’
3. Authors initials can be found in the word ‘Musgravite’
4. MC is idealistic or sensitive
5. Cover is grey or black
6. Title has 5 or more words in it
7. Book has mentions of a rare disease/illness
8. Read a book based in Australia

Taaffeite
1. Genre: Paranormal
2. Book’s final number of pages to have any of the numbers from ‘1945’
3. MC’s character arc shows that they were weak/unlucky earlier but further on turned stronger and better at things or became lucky
4. MC challenges the power/rule initially present in the book
5. Cover is purple/violet
6. Title is a single word
7. Book is set in Ireland/Africa/China/Sri Lanka
8. Book where the characters go an adventure (hide spoiler)]

[imabookelf]

I'm reading Red Queen which fits Lapis Lazuli prompt 1, 2 and 4

[imabookelf]

oh right I mean HEY GUYS!!!! SO EXCITED TO WORK WITH YOU hehe

[imabookelf]

Also, can we think of a group name?

[imabookelf]

ohoh oh if we're doing pirate crews then we should obviously do The Motley Crew from Pirates of the Carribbean or we could do a ship name
I have a few
- Argo II, then we'd be Argonauts (HoO)
- Black Pearl ( Captain Jack Sparrow's ship in Pirates of the Caribbean)
- The Saad (from To Kill a Kingdom)
- Queen Anne's Revenge (Blackbeard's ship from Pirates of the Caribbean)

Tell me if you guys like any of them

[imabookelf]

Manu, do you want me to find and suggest some books for Aquamarine?

[imabookelf]

So, I personally messages Manu too but she isn't responding, should we report to the mods?

[Nishkha]

Hey guys I am Nishkha:)

So I will be covering up for Manu so I am here instead of them

Mary you can continue being team leader :)

HI PIU we are in a team again woooohooo

[Nishkha]

Also how are you guys liking the challenge? Is it too confusing?

[Nishkha]

Also one of my books is fitting most criteria in the diamond prompt if you guys have book for opal and quartz

[Nishkha]

So basically all books I finished on or after 5th will be counted even if I wasn't originally part of this team so I have managed to almost make an individual combination which I will finish this weekend

Mine is Cirtrine-agate/peridot-Taaffeite

And once I read a book for aquamarine we will finish the lapis-aquamarine-sapphire combination

Please can I have book suggestions?

[Nishkha]

Mary wrote: "Nishkha wrote: "So basically all books I finished on or after 5th will be counted even if I wasn't originally part of this team so I have managed to almost make an individual combination which I wi..."

OOoooooh that is great since its on my TBR

[Nishkha]

So basically I have books for Taffiette and Diamond if you guys want to do either of those for the second team challenge.

Amber - Turquoise - Taaffeite
Quartz - Opal - Diamond

[Nishkha]

Also just a suggestion, after we finish our 2 team combos and 1 individual one, if we have time, we can read for team combos as they give more points

[imabookelf]

HEYYY NISHKA!! good to see ya!
I haven't been around lately with all my studies but I'm back now Let's kill this
Wait lemme check

[Nishkha]

Yayyyyy so if piu can do quartz we have another team combination

[Nishkha]

imabookelf wrote: "HEYYY NISHKA!! good to see ya!
I haven't been around lately with all my studies but I'm back now Let's kill this
Wait lemme check"

Heyyyaaaaa

[imabookelf]

hm I don't have anythig for quartz as such but I'll look, you guys tell me if you find smthng that fits

[Nishkha]

Sorry Piu, I made the quartz criteria and I was running out of ideas so I just put random stuff. Usually if I made prompts I always had a book in mind, not for this though sorry oops but I will help you find one.

[Nishkha]

@Mary I have read shadows between us and it fits the diamond prompt so will you log it in as a team thing coz you are doing opal anyway and piu can do quartz then

[Nishkha]

yep gimme a minute

Shadows between us
Date completed: Sep 6
Stone: Diamond, precious stone
Buddy read link: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Review Link: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Criteria:
-Genre: Historical Romance
-Page count should have two same numbers (eg: 343 has 3 twice)
-MC is very strong and hard working
-MC has to face many hardships through the course of the book
-Title has 4 unique letters from the word ‘DIAMOND’
-The word ‘diamond’ is mentioned in the book
-Someone gets engaged in the book

page number: 336

points: 22

[Nishkha]

I am reading ugly love for the aquamarine criteria not malibu rising

[Nishkha]

Nishkha wrote: "yep gimme a minute

Shadows between us
Date completed: Sep 6
Stone: Diamond, precious stone
Buddy read link: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/......"

Hey Mary you'll add this right

[Nishkha]

Hey hey don't worry
I wasn't sure you had seen this so I asked again

[Nishkha]

Nishkha wrote: "yep gimme a minute

Shadows between us
Date completed: Sep 6
Stone: Diamond, precious stone
Buddy read link: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/......"

Mary actually can you edit the log and remove the 'historical romance' part from the criteria and make my points 19

[Nishkha]

Thanks!!

[Nishkha]

Really?? No I don't think so...

[Nishkha]

Okay Okay so just let me know how you are logging in the books

[Rida]

Hi guys!

Just to clear your confusion I wanted to quote the rule that Rushali has mentioned in the log thread, which is "By rule, cheap stone must be completed first, then semi precious and lastly precious."

[Nishkha]

Ah that is all okay

[Rushali, Head Mod]

Hey guys! Nishkha has left the group, due to some personal reasons of her, and it's unfortunate she didn't inform you guys. I am really sorry since this will be affecting your team scores but I'll log the books I have read this month, to cover up some points.

[imabookelf]

Hihi Human beans Ok so what exactly do we do about the team challenges then

[Rushali, Head Mod]

Mary wrote: "imabookelf wrote: "Hihi Human beans Ok so what exactly do we do about the team challenges then"

Hey!! Yayay okay I think we’ll be able to do this!

Rushali, are you going to do Team prompts with u..."

Hey! No, I won't be able to do them, so if you guys can, that's great otherwise we'll still qualify your team since it's not your fault you are missing 1 member.