1: Beware, for We are Mighty (finished)

[Sammy]

ditto on the vines 😁

[Angie ☯]

Cool! Thanks to both of you!

I hope to read some longer books for our next Titan!

[Sammy]

Took me a little longer than I'd planned, but finished my last book for this monster :)

[Angie ☯]

I should have the last book finished tonight.

I had to stop reading it and read the one for the Bonus monster....because I want to use the book I was reading for this one for Monsters too! Lol

[Sammy]

Makes sense to me! 😁

[Angie ☯]

I'm waiting to finish her Redcap book before I read the last chapter of mine....it's 700 pages, I want it to count for both monsters! 🤣

[Sammy]

Don't blame you! I'd prod her in case she's putting it off in favour of something else.

Employing assistance with proddy finger...

[Jenny]

I will be done with my Redcap book later today.
When Captain Kirk prods me, I pay attention!!!!

Ah, dreams.

[Angie ☯]

Lol, Jenny!!

Amhuluk is finished!

I didn't do the check in. I didn't know the next monster or who was picking.

[Sammy]

Shall I, since we've come full circle again? 😊

[Sammy]

I checked us in and requested Na Kika. here's hoping it fits with planned wheel reads! lol.

[Jenny]

Thanks Sammy!
Na Kika, huh? Now I am curious.

[Sammy]

there could be tentacles...

[Donna, Curator of Challenge Terrors]

Na Kika


Na Kika is a multi-colored octopus-like Titan. Most of his body is blue with the top sides of his tentacles pink. His eyes are light blue. He has a maroon fin on his back and an insect-like face. His blood is green. He is incredibly powerful using his tentacles in combat. They are strong enough to shatter bullet-proof glass and can drag down an entire marine Monarch outpost. He can regenerate body parts and has multiple hearts which allow him to survive fatal wounds. Highly intelligent and able to recognize that a containment field only works on living Titans. He can mimic other states such as death by disguising his radiation signature. This allows him to escape the containment fields that Monarch uses. He can also change the color and patterns of his shell and skin to become invisible.

He was awakened by King Ghidorah's call. He faked being dead and launched a surprise attack sinking the outpost surrounding him. He did not arrive in time to witness Godzilla become the new alpha. While searching for a place to rest, he was poisoned and captured in an electrified net by traffickers. Godzilla freed him and eliminated the humans while Na Kika swam away. He was sent into dormancy by Godzilla.

To capture Na Kika, you will need 8 chains

Complete the following tasks
Tentacle 1: Read a chain of 3 books with multiple colors on the cover (minimum of 3)
Tentacle 2: Read a chain of 3 books with strong characters (your interpretations)
Tentacle 3: Read a chain of 3 books where someone escapes something/someone
Tentacle 4: Read a chain of 3 books where someone attacks someone/something
Tentacle 5: Read a chain of 3 books where someone helps someone else (your interpretation)
Tentacle 6: Read a chain of 3 books where someone is poisoned
Tentacle 7: Read a chain of 3 books where someone has a unique skill like regeneration, invisibility, can appear to be dead when alive, etc
Tentacle 8: Read a chain of 3 books with either an octopus or insect-like creature on the cover

[Donna, Curator of Challenge Terrors]

Sammy wrote: "there could be tentacles..."

There could be...

[Angie ☯]

Wow!
It's quite colorful though! LOL

[Sammy]

Holy cr*p that's a lotta chains! lol.

[Jenny]

Yes it is!
Not sure I want a hug from this one though.

[Donna, Curator of Challenge Terrors]

Now didn’t I tell you some had more than others?

[Sammy]

And as we're moving on to longer books for wheel, I'm thinking this one may take longer than a day or 2 😂

[Jenny]

It might. I am looking for books right now. Trying to find some good ones. Fingers crossed!

[Angie ☯]

And there are some very unique tasks for this one too!!

[Sammy]

I'm looking too, although the plot driven ones might become a "fill in as I read them" thing

Shame I already read recently!

[Jenny]

I loved that book.
I am probably going to go with .

[Sammy]

I have a book with an insect on which will work if need be, and although I was getting really bored with the series, it means getting it off my tbr finally. reasonable page count too.

[Sammy]

And a 9 for turf! lol.

[Angie ☯]

I'll find books for the tasks hopefully tomorrow evening.

[Jenny]

No hurry. I have some long ones to finish and that won't happen in the next few days.

[Sammy]

Ditto. Will be starting on an 880 pager when I'm done with my current book, and I won't be finishing it until wednesday, because turf, lol.

[Angie ☯]

So glad we are all the on the same teams!! Lol!

I too will not be finishing many more until Wednesday. I think I have a short P and O book for tonight! Hahaha!

[Sammy]

It makes life easier, that's for sure, lol.

Having wheels on top of everything else is probably going to kill me, but otherwise... 😂

[Sammy]

Just finished my last one for this titan 😁

When you're done with yours Angie, do you want to go ahead and choose a new one and check us in? I'm pretty sure it's your turn 😉

[Angie ☯]

I hope to be finished tomorrow. I will check us in when I'm done.

As for picking, I think it is Jenny's turn. 😃 Jenny, just let me know your pick.

[Jenny]

Let's go for Scylla.

[Sammy]

Sounds good to me :)

[Angie ☯]

Checked us in!

[Angie ☯]

I think Donna may have missed posting our tasks here. The dropdown on the SS has Scylla. I'll ask. :-)

[Donna, Curator of Challenge Terrors]

I did. My head is elsewhere...

[Donna, Curator of Challenge Terrors]

Scylla


Scylla is a gigantic creature with a squidlike body and spider legs. Her torso has a ridge and raised spine with a large curved extension above her head. She has a round head with two eyes and several tentacles which hang from her mouth area. She is classified as a destroyer. She can exit her shell at will to escape another Titan. This does make her vulnerable but she is very clever and can burrow into a rock face or mold sunken warships into temporary armor. If she feeds on a slain Titan, she can convert its nutrients into a deadly water-borne bacteria. Scylla is also known to disorient her opponents by launching her tentacles at them.
Ghidorah awakened her with his call. Scylla erupted from underground and rampaged through populated areas. She destroyed buildings in nearby Phoenix before making her way to Boston. After submitting to Godzilla, the new King of the Monsters, Scylla was reported to have left civilization to reside in a lake. There she was able to slow the melting of polar ice caps.

To capture Scylla, you will need 6 chains

Complete the following tasks
Leg 1 Read a chain of 3 books with a lake on the cover
Leg 2 Read a chain of 3 books with spider legs on the cover
Leg 3 Read a chain of 3 books with a character wears armor
Leg 4 Read a chain of 3 books with the letters "PHOENIX" in the title/series
Leg 5 Read a chain of 3 books with the author's initials in "BOSTON"
Leg 6 Read a chain of 3 books with the word "SHELL" in the text

[Angie ☯]

Hells bells.....that's too spider-like for me!!!! I will be ignoring that picture! 😂

ETA ~ and one of the tasks has spider legs.... yuk!

[Donna, Curator of Challenge Terrors]

Very pretty isn't she?

[Jenny]

Isn't she part of a pair? Where's Charybdis?

[Sammy]

Oof! Is it me are are these tasks getting harder? lol.

[Donna, Curator of Challenge Terrors]

I could make them harder....

[Jenny]

Yes, ups could. Please don't. Or do, but make them really entertaining as well...

[Jenny]

I did find a book on my TBR that works for phoenix in title, and if you are interested, this is the first op-ed piece I read by this author. She is so funny. Alexandra Petri, op-ed writer for the Washington Post and other thingies...



(view spoiler)[Lurking clowns: the most terrifying story of the year
By Alexandra Petri

2016 had not broken me, until now. I was holding on. Until yesterday, when I turned to the Internet and read the following headline:
South Carolina Neighborhood Reports Clowns Are Trying To Lure Kids Into The Woods
“Be reasonable, Petri,” I said to myself, trying to contain the rising tide of panic surging within me. “Headlines are meant to be clicked on, and this is probably some kind of fun charity event, or a birthday party that has gone wrong, or something else fundamentally, well, benign.”

I read the subhed: “Children have said that the masked figures have tried to attract them with money.”
NOPE.
I’m done, 2016. That’s it. You win. I am not leaving my apartment ever again, not even if Kate McKinnon and Ted Cruz stand outside my door in their most fetching attire and beseech me.
Let’s just go through this article, from the Huffington Post. It piles horror upon horror, relentlessly, until your entire worldview is shattered. It is just perfect for 2016.

Here is the first line:

Clown sightings in a South Carolina community have residents on high alert following reports that the masked figures are approaching children and even trying to lure them into nearby woods.
Could anything be creepier than masked figures approaching children and luring them into the woods? Wait, I have it: Masked figures DRESSED AS CLOWNS who are approaching children and luring them into the woods.
The creepy sightings at Greenville’s Fleetwood Manor Apartment Complex allegedly began on Aug. 19, when a resident relayed that her son said he saw clowns “whispering and making strange noises” in the nearby woods, according to an incident report obtained by The Huffington Post.
You know when you hear an unexpected sound in your house late at night, a floorboard creaking when it should not creak, and you think to yourself, “Well, that’s probably the house settling.” (As though “settling” were just a normal thing for a house to do, like the house was a dog, or was tired of OkayCupid.)

I am trying to think of a benign explanation for this, the explanation where it’s just the house settling. But I can’t.
I cannot think of why you would ever be lurking in the woods dressed as a clown whispering and making strange noises. Lurking in the woods, whispering. Sure. Dressed like a clown, sure. Happens to the best of us. But I can think of no conceivable reason why you would LURK IN THE WOODS IN A CLOWN SUIT WHISPERING AND BECKONING TO CHILDREN because you had gotten confused when reading an invitation, or were attending the world’s least publicized Juggalo gathering. No story that starts with “and the muttering clown with hands full of cash beckoned our children into the woods” ends with “it was all just a humorous misunderstanding.”
The resident, who was not identified, said she went to investigate and saw “several clowns in the woods flashing green laser lights.” The figures then ran away into the woods.

“SEVERAL CLOWNS” “IN THE WOODS” “FLASHING GREEN LASER LIGHTS” — Is there a more horrible series of words in the English language? This is the exact opposite of “cellar door.” Even “moist President Trump” is not as bad.
Adding to the family’s unease, the following night, at the same time of 10:30 p.m., the woman noted that her oldest son said he heard “chains and banging” on their front door.
GREAT. GHOST CLOWNS.
In the early hours of Aug. 20, around 2:30 a.m., another resident said she was walking home when she saw “a large-figured clown with a blinking nose, standing under a post light near the garbage dumpster area.”
The woman said the clown waved at her so she waved back while safely making her way home. The suspect did not approach her or harm her in any way, the incident report states.
I respect the heck out of this woman. If I saw a clown with a blinking nose, large-figured or not, standing next to a garbage dumpster, you better bet I would not wave cheerily back at it (or It.) Put this woman in charge of everything, because she is made of sterner stuff than I.

Several children said the clowns have appeared in woods behind one apartment building and that they “try to persuade them into the woods further by displaying large amounts of money.”
Good H. God.
The brothers Grimm took one look at this version of Scary Things To Find In The Woods and said NOPE.
I don’t care what the explanation for this turns out to be. I have been trying to think of the best-case scenario, and all that I have come up with is that this is viral marketing for the remake of Stephen King’s “It.” Or maybe everyone in the case is lying, but specifically lying in such a way that NO ONE WILL EVER BE ABLE TO SLEEP EVER AGAIN. Or that, perhaps, this is a mass delusion, like when whole towns suddenly become convinced that they are under attack by paranormal phenomena or a whole campaign thinks that the Forward H is a passable logo.

The kids said they believe that the clowns live in a house located near a pond at the end of a trail in the woods.
The responding Greenville Sheriff’s deputy reported that they indeed found such a house, but no clowns or any signs of suspicious activity. They noted in their report that there is no video surveillance in the community.
WELL, YOU BETTER PUT SOME VIDEO SURVEILLANCE IN YOUR COMMUNITY GOOD SIR OR MADAM, BECAUSE THERE ARE LASER CLOWNS IN THE WOODS AND THOSE CLOWNS WANT YOUR CHILDREN.
The apartment complex’s building management sent out a warning to residents on Wednesday:
In the letter, which was posted to social media Friday, the property manager reminded parents not to leave their children unsupervised outside at night.
“There has been several conversation (sic) and a lot of complaints to the office regarding a clown or person dressed in clown clothing taking children or trying to lure children in the woods,” the letter reads. It reminded residents that the complex has a 10 p.m. curfew.

A request for comment from the building management was not answered.
I HOPE IT WASN’T ANSWERED BECAUSE THEY WERE BUSY OR THE CALL WAS AFTER BUSINESS HOURS, NOT, AS I FEARED, BECAUSE THE CLOWNS GOT THEM, ALL OF THEM, WITH THEIR LASERS AND THEIR WHISPERING.
In short, this is why I will never leave the house again, and neither should you.
I miss the good old days, when Dangerous, Terrifying Clowns Who Wanted To Do Awful Things To Our Children were limited to the realm of presidential politics. (hide spoiler)]

[Jenny]

Does this look like a lake to you guys?

[Angie ☯]

I think the bottom part is a lake. The top could be river or lake.

[Jenny]

Works for me. Thank you!!!

[Sammy]

UGH! GR keeps randomly turning off notifications for certain threads! Stoopid GR.