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District 3
Alright they've officially sent us their book...here are the options we've come up with so far...1. The N.M.E. - Ashley
2. On Merit - Shelby (would read if absolutely necessary, but have a lot of other things I would prefer to get to first)
3. On Message
4. On Message: Precision Communication for the Digital Age
5. On Mexican Time: A New Life in San Miguel
Ashley if you want to read it I'd say go for The N.M.E. unless someone else wants to speak up and grab one of the other options.
I have access to The N.M.E. If they toss it back, I'm willing to read it the 2nd time.I also found this On Medicine as Colonialism -- ebook at hoopla and everand. 179 pages. I'm not interested, but I think it works
Off Topic -- I'm on vacation Aug 10 through the end of the challenge. I did note this in my sign up, but I think I forgot to mention it here. I'm not sure how much, if any, reading I'll get done.
Mod
The struggle for survival in the arena is a never ending cycle. Sometimes a tribute will luck into a boon but they are just as likely to be a victim of sabotage.
The Randomizer was let loose on all of the teams' resource supply piles. The Arena Masters are not heartless, the news isn't all bad. But the Arena is just a wee bit harder as we get closer to crowning a Champion.
In Round 2, 1 pile receives a boon (15% page point increase), 1 is left alone, and 2 are the subject of sabotage (10% or 15% page point decrease). Impacts to resource supply piles are team specific.
Your team's randomizer results
Weapons: 10% decrease (protected, no change)
Shelter: 15% increase (protected, no change)
Food: Left Alone
Defense: 15% decrease (protected, no change)
I only have a second to check in, but go ahead and put me down for The N.M.E. (assuming no word count for the novel in verse is fine because the audio is 3 hours).
Ashley - I'm going to say go for it, since we've got to get things moving. The audio does check out as over 3hrs so I think we're good.
Thank you for taking care of it, Shelby. I have been out and about all day/night.
Hello all, sorry for the delay CHAIN
1. All Eyes on Me - D13
2. The N. M. E. - D3
3. NME: From The Bender Squad to The Gremlins; Inside Newcastle's Football Hooligan Firm - D13
So....are we looking for NME again or INS? I'm not sure where the subtitle startsIf it's NME, I can read THe NME that Ashley is reading. But that does stick us in a awful loop.
If it's INS I can read Instacrush
NME is the name of a music magazine so who knows? If that’s the title we could all just read different NME publications each time. There are lots of them.Maybe we should break the chain and add a letter.
Yeah I’m not quite sure what letters we should be looking at on this one either.
Yeah, that one is hard because it has both a colon and a semi-colon so who knows where the subtitle starts? Hopefully one of the capts can weigh in soon / ask the mods if necessary
I'm going to shoot it over to the captains group and see what they think because it's definitely a weird one and D13 was questioning it in their discussion too.
Okay - asking over there. Might be another few hours before I can check in again so if anyone wants to investigate some INS options so we have them ASAP when we get an answer, go for it!
I think Susan listed one above. I was making a mental list while I was stalking their thread yesterday, so here are a few other options that I'd be willing to read too:Instant Gratification
Insomnia
I've got The Insanity of Reincarnated Mages and Amorous Vampires on my TBR I'm happy to get to running out the door though so don't have a chance to see what the captains are saying.
Welp the consensus from the captain's group is that were stuck with NME. So we could send it back to them and force them to either take the forth letter and do ENME... OR we take the hit and call in a favor from District 12 for a title that starts or ends in N that we can use to cover the N, leaving us with only ME to match which should be easy.
I'm willing to read the same NME book as Ashley if that's allowed. Otherwise, I don't really know enough about points and strategy to give an opinion.
Ugh, well that isn't great news about going back to "NME". I don't understand how the supply drop works, but maybe we should do that? Also, how would we be able to send it back to them and force them to take a 4th letter if they found something that technically works? Is it just because we literally only have those same 3 letters to work with, where ours had the option to add the "e" and the beginning?I feel bad that we got stuck in this situation, partially because of my book choice.
Or I guess if Susan is willing to read The N.M.E., we could do that again and keep our fingers crossed that they will add the "e" the next time around? Maybe that's what Vicky meant by sending it back to them and forcing them to take the extra letter?
I'm a little hesitant to use a supply drop book only because it seems like round 3 might have 3 sabotaged (point decrease) supply piles based on the last two rounds, and that would leave at least one unprotected.
We can use another vowel at the start this time. There’s no The.O, U,I or E would be easy to find and get us moving. That’s my thought.
Ashley wrote: "Or I guess if Susan is willing to read The N.M.E., we could do that again and keep our fingers crossed that they will add the "e" the next time around?"Yes, this is exactly what I meant!
Unfortunately we're really between a rock and a hard place because their title is only NME so we don't have any additional letters to fall back on for this. Options are:
1. Susan reads The NME (this gives them the 4 letter option if they want to take it) or we find another NME book - I'm doing some browsing quick.
2. We read the same book they're reading (this gives them the same options we have)
3. Supply Drop
Kaley brings up a good point about the potential of 3 sabotaged piles in round 3. It does look like we're likely to get 1 15% increase and 1 each of 5%, 10%, and 15% decrease. BUT we could potentially combat this by putting as many books as possible into only 2 of the categories and protecting them. We'd probably miss out on the chance at an increase, but a decrease wouldn't have as big of an impact if we only had a few hundred pages into an unprotected category.
Okay no browsing helped, but I did find Enmeshed Essence as an ebook on Hoopla to offer up to D13 to follow if we go with The N.M.E. again. Or if one of them opts to read The NME, I'd read that one... I do need some beach reading. lolOn second thought... is NCE better than NME? oof
Okay here's a potential plan...If Susan reads The N. M. E.
and we talk D12 into reading Enmeshed Essence
then I'll read The Essence of Malice or we can find something else starting with Essence and ending with a more reasonable set of letters.
We'll have to take a hit from using Essence, but it will still have with 13 overlaps to their 10 which isn't insurmountable. And hopefully we can break out of this cycle.
If D12 instead would agree to read The N. M. E., I'll still take the hit on Enmeshed Essence and they can work with essence... but that gives them the shorter end of the stick so if I were them I'd take my first plan.
Dropping some Essence options under the spoiler to keep track of them while I'm browsing:
(view spoiler)
"NME" Rock 'n' Roll Years
. No colon and it’s about the mag by a music biographer so not one of their publications. If I can track down a copy I’d read this. It’s the sort of book we might have but I can’t see it on the music room shelves and my husband’s still asleep. Our son might have it.
Vicky wrote: "Okay no browsing helped, but I did find Enmeshed Essence as an ebook on Hoopla to offer up to D13 to follow if we go with The N.M.E. again. Or if one of them opts to read The NME, I..."I'm still not following....but with NCE, can you do a supply drop thing and use O to get Once
Susan A wrote: "I'm still not following....but with NCE, can you do a supply drop thing and use O to get Once"No, a supply drop has to match one of the three letters and it replaces them. So if we wanted to use a supply drop for this round of NME we could ask for D12 for a book that starts or ends with N to replace the N and would leave us with ME to match.
Elisabeth wrote: ""NME" Rock 'n' Roll Years . No colon and it’s about the mag by a music biographer so not one of their publications."I found this on the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/nmerocknr...
Apparently with a free account you can "borrow it" for up to 14 days; but I think you have to read it on their site.
I also still just cannot wrap my head around how the supply drop works in the battle. I am open to whatever you think is best if we go that route, Vicky.Elisabeth's idea sounds good if she can have access to that and the whole title definitely counts so they'd be workings with "ars".
This is available at everand as an ebookNmemesis by Pat Whitaker.
N'Mesne - The Avenger by Nikki Dorakis
If I'm the reader, I'd rather do the audiobook The NME.
I'm not all the keen on reading something I'm not interested in to make it easier for the other team.
Vicky wrote: "Elisabeth wrote: ""NME" Rock 'n' Roll Years . No colon and it’s about the mag by a music biographer so not one of their publications."I can get it on eBay and my husband likes the look of it. They say it would turn up by Wednesday next week. Happy to do that regardless of whether we use it for the Battle.
Elisabeth - what's the likelihood it gets delayed and doesn't get to you in time to read? I don't normally order from eBay so I don't know how consistent their delivery windows are. I'm all for using that book if you want to read it, but if it doesn't arrive in time remember we wouldn't get any points for our later reads even if we read everything else in our chain.
Susan A wrote: "This is available at everand as an ebookNmemesis by Pat Whitaker"
This is a great find! I think this is the best bet if we have someone with Everand willing to read it.
Elisabeth - I definitely appreciate your willingness to buy it but I'm leery of making that one of our middle of the chain books because we really have to lock them in and if it does get delayed it would put us in a really bad spot.
Vicky wrote: "Nmemesis by Pat Whitaker"
This is a great find! I think this is the best bet if we have someone with Ever..."
I don't understand why this better. I am willing to listen to the NME. I don't really want to read this, I would if we had no choice, but not just to make it easier for the other team. Can't they read this if I listen to NME?
Ok here's my suggestion and I'm going to give it 30min's before posting it at 6pm as we're going to run out of time to make our book choices if both teams don't start making some faster decisions.Susan is down to read The N.M.E. as well - this does give them the option with enme to expand the choices. If they don't and kick us back the same three letters I'll take on reading Nmemesis as a last resort to get us out of the loop in the next round.
EDIT: And yes Susan you are correct that they could see our thread and choose to read Nmemesis themselves as well.
Alright - I see no objections so we have a plan. 😁 Going to post now.
Great compromise, Shelby! Keeps us moving and gives us a way out of the loop we're stuck in if they don't take the bait. :)
I understand the time issue with my book so go with the plan Shelby. I'll buy my book anyway. We may need it later!
If we need someone to read Nmemesis, I have Everand and I'd be willing. Kind of sounds like a Dystopian, and they're my favorites so I'd probably end up enjoying it. 👍
Thank you Lucy! If it comes to that, we'll go with that plan. I'm crossing my fingers that we get some new letters to play with. :)
CHAIN POSTED / UPDATE1. All Eyes on Me - D13
2. The N. M. E. - D3
3. NME: From The Bender Squad to The Gremlins; Inside Newcastle's Football Hooligan Firm - D13
4. The N. M. E. - D3
5. Enmeshed Within - D13
Here are some options I found on KU/audible plus:Contemporary Fiction:
The Hint of Light (on KU with audio)
Cozy Mystery:
A Hint of Mischief (on KU and also in Audible Plus catalog, third in series)
A Hint of Murder (KU)
Paranormal or Fantasy Romance:
A Hint of Darkness (KU, but second in a series)
Hint of Her Blood (KU, but fourth in a series)
A Hint of Frost (KU)
A Hint of Delirium (KU)
Hint of Danger (KU)
There are many, many more I'm sure, but these were some I found. I'm willing to read The Hint of Light or A Hint of Murder, unless someone else has something they really want to read.
Ght would force them to use more letters, is that right? but it should be easy to find a book that works
Kaley do you have a preference? I'm happy to have the first person speaking up take the next book as our window for decisions is shrinking rapidly.
I'd probably be quicker with The Hint of Light since it has the audio option too, so I'd rather do that one!
Hopefully now that we’re out of the “NME” trap things will go more quickly/smoothly.
Alright - I'm going to turn us in with The Hint of Light. :)
Turning in - CHAIN POSTED / UPDATE
1. All Eyes on Me - D13
2. The N. M. E. - D3
3. NME: From The Bender Squad to The Gremlins; Inside Newcastle's Football Hooligan Firm - D13
4. The N. M. E. - D3
5. Enmeshed Within - D13
6. The Hint of Light - D3
The Light Through the Leaves - D13
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