Fall Read-a-Thon 2021 Daily Game: Your Quest

[Robin P, Orbicular Mod]

Fairy tales, myths and legends from around the world share many characteristics, as pointed out years ago in Joseph Campbell's The Hero With a Thousand Faces. As you undertake your quest to save the princess, fill in the details below about your journey.

1. What is your humble origin?
2. What special power do you have?
3. What is the object of your quest?
4. What creature do you meet on your journey?
5. What obstacle or enemy do you have to overcome?
6. What allies/helpers/friends do you have?
7. What great feat do you accomplish?
8. What do you do at the end of your quest?

Use the first letter of the book you are currently reading to complete the prompts. You may disregard, A, An, and The. For instance, I am reading The Mountains Sing, so I will use the letter M.

1. What is your humble origin? Muddy village
2. What special power do you have? Making people happy
3. What is the object of your quest? Magical treasure
4. What creature do you meet on your journey? Mouse who talks
5. What obstacle or enemy do you have to overcome? Monsters!
6. What allies/helpers/friends do you have? Magicians and Monkeys
7. What great feat do you accomplish? Mountain climbing to castle
8. What do you do at the end of your quest? Marry a prince/princess

[Ellie]

Currently reading Green Rising

1. What is your humble origin?
Gambling den

2. What special power do you have?
Glamour

3. What is the object of your quest?
Gold!

4. What creature do you meet on your journey?
Gollum

5. What obstacle or enemy do you have to overcome?
Ghosts

6. What allies/helpers/friends do you have?
A gerbil and a goblin.

7. What great feat do you accomplish?
Growing golden gladioli

8. What do you do at the end of your quest?
Groan and grumble over sore feet

[Joyce]

Currently reading Ending Up

1. What is your humble origin?
End of the Pier.

2. What special power do you have?
Endless Enthusiasm.

3. What is the object of your quest?
Easter Eggs for All

4. What creature do you meet on your journey?
Enchanted Eels.

5. What obstacle or enemy do you have to overcome?
Easter-hating Elves

6. What allies/helpers/friends do you have?
Elvis's Ghost.

7. What great feat do you accomplish?
Eating Eleven Easter Eggs.

8. What do you do at the end of your quest?
Expire.

[Samantha]

Currently reading Never Saw Me Coming
1. What is your humble origin?
Neverland (lol, got to use my team name)
2. What special power do you have?
Necromancy
3. What is the object of your quest?
New lands
4. What creature do you meet on your journey?
Narwhal
5. What obstacle or enemy do you have to overcome?
Nosferatu
6. What allies/helpers/friends do you have?
Norse Gods, Nymphs and Nerds
7. What great feat do you accomplish?
Narrowly escaping Neverland
8. What do you do at the end of your quest?
Next adventure begins!

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

Currently Reading: The Maidens

1. What is your humble origin? The Mire
2. What special power do you have? Mind Reading
3. What is the object of your quest? Marbles
4. What creature do you meet on your journey? Minotaur
5. What obstacle or enemy do you have to overcome? Measles
6. What allies/helpers/friends do you have? Marshmallows (why am I this way?)
7. What great feat do you accomplish? Maiming the evil beast
8. What do you do at the end of your quest? Marry the prince

[JennH]

Currently reading Get a Life, Chloe Brown

1. What is your humble origin?
Great Gorge

2. What special power do you have?
Generating gluttonous goats

3. What is the object of your quest?
Greens gems

4. What creature do you meet on your journey?
Ghastly ghouls

5. What obstacle or enemy do you have to overcome?
Giant gnats

6. What allies/helpers/friends do you have?
Grasshoppers, Giraffes and Gnomes

7. What great feat do you accomplish?
Guard golden geese

8. What do you do at the end of your quest?
Go gracefully

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

Also currently reading: Illuminae

1. What is your humble origin? Island
2. What special power do you have? Ice... storm?
3. What is the object of your quest? Icons of greatness
4. What creature do you meet on your journey? Ibis
5. What obstacle or enemy do you have to overcome? Icicles falling
6. What allies/helpers/friends do you have? Ifrit who grants me wishes
7. What great feat do you accomplish? Identifying rocks
8. What do you do at the end of your quest? Ice a cake!

[Miriam]

Currently reading Bin im Garten: Ein Jahr wachsen und wachsen lassen

1. What is your humble origin? Behind the mountains
2. What special power do you have? Breaking things with mindpower
3. What is the object of your quest? Books
4. What creature do you meet on your journey? Bigfoot
5. What obstacle or enemy do you have to overcome? Big bad butterflies
6. What allies/helpers/friends do you have? beavers, bears, buffaloes
7. What great feat do you accomplish? befriending bigfoot
8. What do you do at the end of your quest? Build a fort

[Edie]

Currently reading /Their Eyes Were Watching God
1. What is your humble origin? Tennessee
2. What special power do you have? Throwing thunderbolts
3. What is the object of your quest? Treasure
4. What creature do you meet on your journey? Turtle
5. What obstacle or enemy do you have to overcome? Terrible tarantulas
6. What allies/helpers/friends do you have? Tigers, Tyranasaurus Rex, Tootsie Rolls
7. What great feat do you accomplish? Talking to toadstools
8. What do you do at the end of your quest? Take the treasure

[Laurel]

Currently reading: The Box in the Woods

1. What is your humble origin? Boring, Oregon
2. What special power do you have? Blinding Gaze
3. What is the object of your quest? Blue bauble
4. What creature do you meet on your journey? Blue-footed Booby
5. What obstacle or enemy do you have to overcome? Bad men
6. What allies/helpers/friends do you have? Birds and bees
7. What great feat do you accomplish? Breaking down a wall
8. What do you do at the end of your quest? Bake a cake

[Sarah]

Currently reading: In the Full Light of the Sun

1. What is your humble origin? Igloo
2. What special power do you have? Igniting fires
3. What is the object of your quest? Ice cream
4. What creature do you meet on your journey? Ichthyosaur
5. What obstacle or enemy do you have to overcome? Impassable ivy
6. What allies/helpers/friends do you have? Iguanas and Imps
7. What great feat do you accomplish? Ignoring idiotic ideas
8. What do you do at the end of your quest? Imbibe alcohol

[Rachel]

Currently reading: Blood & Honey

1. What is your humble origin? - Bramble patch
2. What special power do you have? - Breathing underwater
3. What is the object of your quest? - Bring back the book
4. What creature do you meet on your journey? - Banshee
5. What obstacle or enemy do you have to overcome? - Blood witches
6. What allies/helpers/friends do you have? - Bunnies and bats
7. What great feat do you accomplish? - Breaking into the balcony
8. What do you do at the end of your quest? - Bake brownies

[°~Amy~°]

Currently Reading: The Past Is Red

1. What is your humble origin? Potato Farm
2. What special power do you have? Pushing Puppies out of dangers way
3. What is the object of your quest? Pearls
4. What creature do you meet on your journey? Pan
5. What obstacle or enemy do you have to overcome? Pasta Pirates
6. What allies/helpers/friends do you have? Pinocchio and Peter Pan
7. What great feat do you accomplish? Parallel Parking
8. What do you do at the end of your quest? Pop Popcorn

[Roxana]

Currently reading The Wine-Dark Sea

1. What is your humble origin? Woods
2. What special power do you have? Walking on water
3. What is the object of your quest? World saving
4. What creature do you meet on your journey? Wolves
5. What obstacle or enemy do you have to overcome? Wendigo
6. What allies/helpers/friends do you have? Wish-granting water spirits
7. What great feat do you accomplish? War prevention
8. What do you do at the end of your quest? Waltz with a wizard

[Pam]

Currently reading Pride and Prejudice

1. What is your humble origin? Prescott Pines
2. What special power do you have? Psychic
3. What is the object of your quest? Photos
4. What creature do you meet on your journey? Piglet
5. What obstacle or enemy do you have to overcome? Protective parrots and poodles
6. What allies/helpers/friends do you have? Pooh
7. What great feat do you accomplish? Publish phenomenal pet photos
8. What do you do at the end of your quest? Pig out on pineapples, papayas, and pasta

[Kendra]

I'm currently reading Sweet Little Lies

1. What is your humble origin? The Shire
2. What special power do you have? I can Stop time
3. What is the object of your quest? A Sapphire
4. What creature do you meet on your journey? A Siren
5. What obstacle or enemy do you have to overcome? A Seven-headed dragon
6. What allies/helpers/friends do you have? Sheepdogs
7. What great feat do you accomplish? Saved the world
8. What do you do at the end of your quest? Sleep!

[Angie]

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

1. What is your humble origin? Hobbit hole
2. What special power do you have? Healer
3. What is the object of your quest? Heir to the throne
4. What creature do you meet on your journey? Hodag
5. What obstacle or enemy do you have to overcome? Hedge maze
6. What allies/helpers/friends do you have? Horses and hot guys
7. What great feat do you accomplish? Harnessing the wind
8. What do you do at the end of your quest? Hug those hot guys

[Kat]

And Then There Were None

1. What is your humble origin.
Arctic Wasteland
2. What special power do you have?
Astral projection
3. What is the object of your quest?
An ancient artefact
4. What creature do you meet on your journey?
Abominable snowman
5. What obstacle or enemy do you have to overcome?
Arctic cordillera
6. What allies do you have?
Arctic fox and arctic tern
7. What great feat do you accomplish?
Ascend an avalanche
8. What do you do at the end of your quest?
Archive the ancient artefacts

[Kathy]

The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon

1. What is your humble origin? The moors

2. What special power do you have? Magic on demand

3. What is the object of your quest? Money

4. What creature do you meet on your journey? Musk ox

5. What obstacle or enemy do you have to overcome? Monsters

6. What allies/helpers/friends do you have? Minerva McGonagall and Miss Piggy

7. What great feat do you accomplish? Mining successfully for gold

8. What do you do at the end of your quest? Mend clothes

[Allie]

Currently reading: Frozen 2: Dangerous Secrets: The Story of Iduna and Agnarr

1. What is your humble origin? Frankfurter

2. What special power do you have? Fire Finding

3. What is the object of your quest? Fried food

4. What creature do you meet on your journey? Flaccid Forked Floogleworm

5. What obstacle or enemy do you have to overcome? The Fetid Fen
6. What allies/helpers/friends do you have? Frank the Forger and Frederik the Faun

7. What great feat do you accomplish? Free figs for Fraggles

8. What do you do at the end of your quest? Festivals for Forever

[L Y N N]

Fairy tales, myths and legends from around the world share many characteristics, as pointed out years ago in Joseph Campbell's The Hero With a Thousand Faces. As you undertake your quest to save the princess, fill in the details below about your journey.

Use the first letter of the book you are currently reading to complete the prompts. You may disregard, A, An, and The.

I'll use A Gathering of Shadows

1. What is your humble origin?
Garage

2. What special power do you have?
Glowing

3. What is the object of your quest?
Gift

4. What creature do you meet on your journey?
Gargoyle

5. What obstacle or enemy do you have to overcome?
Gyrating Giant

6. What allies/helpers/friends do you have?
Gryphons and Gophers

7. What great feat do you accomplish?
Growing

8. What do you do at the end of your quest?
Grasp the Globe