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Premise
The veil is sealed, but The Whispered does not let go so easily. Each of you carries the scar of the pact — and each scar manifests differently. Shadows coil in your thoughts, temptations gnaw at your choices, and the godling’s laughter echoes when you close your eyes.
The mark binds you as a group, but how you wear it is yours to decide.
📚 Tasks: The Ripple of the Whispered
1. The Scar Burns
📘 Read a book with a cursed or branded character.
The mark is more than a reminder — it is a wound that does not heal.
2. Twisted Reflections
📘 Read a book with a mirror, doppelgänger, or shadow-self.
You glimpse versions of yourself that are not entirely yours.
3. Tempting Whispers
📘 Read a book where temptation draws someone from their chosen path.
The Whispered is always in your ear, offering another way…
4. Unseen Strings
📘 Read a book where hidden forces manipulate events from behind the scenes.
Whose story is this now — yours, or the Whispered’s?
⚖️ Personal Choice: Bearing the Scar
Each Wyrm must decide how their mark manifests:
1. Embrace the Shadow
📘 Read a book where a character turns corruption into power.
You let the scar fuel you, wielding The Whispered’s gifts openly.
2. Resist the Chains
📘 Read a book where willpower or faith defies darkness.
You fight the pull, even if it costs your sanity or strength.
3. Bend It Back
📘 Read a book where a trickster or manipulator is undone by their own game.
You play The Whispered’s own game, scheming to twist the pact against it.
✨ End Result: The team will finish Quest 2G with four scars worn in four different ways (or overlapping choices), shaping how each Wyrm interacts with The Whispered in the next quest.
I happen to be reading a book with a doppelgänger. Would it be okay if I took that one?
I think I have something that fits this one1. The Scar Burns
📘 Read a book with a cursed or branded character.
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Donna, Fi has decided not to continue.
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The pact you made was never meant to be quiet. The Whispered is no longer content to linger as scars on your skin and secrets in your minds. Its laughter leaks into dreams, its murmurs curl through tavern corners, and strangers whisper its name without knowing why. Already, shadows gather into cults, oaths, and half-remembered songs.
But one scar remains unanswered. Fi is gone, her choice never spoken. And silence, to The Whispered, is as binding as words. Her absence is a doorway — a gap the godling presses its essence into, a place where it can grow unchecked. You carry her shadow along with your own.
The scar has become a seed. The question is not whether it will grow — but what you will make of it.
📚 Core Tasks: The Spreading Pact
(Complete all)
Echo of the Scar
The mark you carry spreads. It is no longer yours alone.
📘 Read a book where a mark, curse, or legacy spreads beyond the first bearer.
Cult in the Shadows
Others hear the same whispers you do — and some kneel in devotion.
📘 Read a book featuring a cult, secret society, or underground movement.
Dreams of the Whispered
Your sleep is no longer your own. Every dream feels like a test.
📘 Read a book where dreams, visions, or hallucinations alter reality.
The Fractured Team
Do you stand together? Or has the pact already driven wedges between you?
📘 Read a book with a group divided by loyalty or ideology.
⚖️ Personal Choice: Bearing the Demand choose one:
Each Wyrm must decide how they respond to The Whispered’s growing call.
Heralds of the Whispered
You no longer resist — you carry its voice into the world.
📘 Read a book where a character embraces corruption or divine madness.
Chains Broken
You cannot serve. You will not kneel. You would rather face wrath than remain bound.
📘 Read a book where a curse or binding is shattered.
The Trickster’s Gambit
You smile, you nod, you play the role of faithful servant — but you are plotting even as you bow.
📘 Read a book where a manipulator or trickster is undone by clever deceit.
✨ By the end of this quest, each of you will have chosen your allegiance — Herald, Breaker, or Trickster.
I've started looking for possible books that will work and was wondering if you two had preferences for the core tasks.
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📘 Read a book where dreams, visions, or hallucinations alter reality.
But, I'm happy to change to another if either of you want that one.
I'm also good with any of the Personal Choice tasks, if you two want to pick from those first.
I have nothing in mind so unless Cat has other thoughts about the dreams/visions/hallucinations then I think you should use it Angie. I started looking for books with curses as that seems to be a theme for both the core task and the personal choice. For personal choice can we all read the same one or do we each have to do a different one?
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I totally forgot that I finished a book late last night that will work for Read a book where a mark, curse, or legacy spreads beyond the first bearer. I will mark that one on the ss. It's been a crazy week.
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You each may choose individually. They may be the same choice or different. It is a personal decision.
Angie ☯ wrote: "For the Personal Choice, Donna's answer is below...You each may choose individually. They may be the same choice or different. It is a personal decision."
Thanks for asking!
I have yet to find anything. I'll aim for the cult but we'll see.
Catsalive wrote: "I have yet to find anything. I'll aim for the cult but we'll see."I added a book that will work for The Fractured Team but if you end up reading a book that works for either of the tasks I completed, please feel free to replace one of them with your own.
RachelG. wrote: "Catsalive wrote: "I have yet to find anything. I'll aim for the cult but we'll see."I added a book that will work for The Fractured Team but if you end up reading a book that works for either of ..."
Will do.
I've got my two in for Cult in the Shadows & Heralds of the Whispered.
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ETA - Not that you should have had to look for it Donna, but I see it on my shelf.
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Premise
The pact is no longer a single thread. It has splintered into three paths: Catsalive carrying the voice of the Whispered, Rachel breaking the chains, Angie plotting to bend trickery back on its master. The godling’s laughter grows louder with each fracture — for division is its nature, and contradiction its strength.
But a shadow that splinters can either become many gods… or tear itself apart. Your choices are no longer personal — they are political, cosmic, and binding. The world will not see three Wyrms. It will see three versions of the Whispered.
📚 Core Tasks: The Fracture Grows (complete all)
Echoes of Three
📘 Read a book with three distinct factions or viewpoints.
The Whispered’s power is mirrored in your division.
The Shadow War
📘 Read a book where allies become rivals or rivals become uneasy allies.
Your paths grind against each other.
A World Watching
📘 Read a book where the actions of a few shape the fate of many.
The cults of the Whispered begin to divide — Herald, Breaker, Trickster.
The Unraveling or the Weave?
📘 Read a book where fragmentation either destroys or strengthens.
Can three truths coexist — or must one prevail?
⚖️ Team Choice: The Fractured Fate
At the end, the Wyrms must decide:
Crown One — One alignment rises dominant, the others suppressed.
📘 Read a book where one leader or ideology wins out over others.
Balance the Three — Accept division as the Whispered’s true nature.
📘 Read a book where paradox, contradiction, or coexistence defines survival.
Break the Pact Entirely — Sever the Whispered’s hold, even if it tears reality further.
📘 Read a book where destruction or breaking apart is the only resolution.
✨ Outcome: Quest 2I doesn’t ask who you are anymore — that’s set. It asks whether the Whispered itself becomes singular, balanced, or broken through your divided reflections.
Which should we choose for team choice?
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All of these this time are not easy and so if I happen to come across a book that might work I am posting it but I haven't been looking too hard this time around to find something quick to read.I just read a book about a beehive dungeon coexisting with bear people which might work for Balance the three or perhaps a romantic break up would work for Break the pact.
I have no preference, either. The first 2 might be slightly easier than the 3rd.
Actually, I've just finished a book that might work for "Break the Pact Entirely".
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I can probably find something for #3 that would work. Do you have suggestions?
I finished a book earlier that may work. The guardians destroy an evil sorcerer, her bloodline and monsters, because she is power hungry and it's the best thing for the town to survive. Do you think that would do it?
RachelG. wrote: "I finished a book earlier that may work. The guardians destroy an evil sorcerer, her bloodline and monsters, because she is power hungry and it's the best thing for the town to survive. Do you thin..."Sounds like destruction is the only resolution.
Thanks. I sometimes have trouble when things are a bit more abstract.
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Shall we go with Break the Pact Entirely — Sever the Whispered’s hold, even if it tears reality further.
📘 Read a book where destruction or breaking apart is the only resolution?
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Subtitle: Echoes Through the Vein of Worlds
Premise
When the pact was broken, the Whispered did not die. It exploded — a divine detonation that rippled across every plane you’ve touched. Wormspawn, fae, shadows, and mortals all heard the echo of its unraveling. Fragments of the godling drift like stardust — some whispering, some screaming, some remembering you.
Reality itself is sick with paradox: dreams walk while awake, stars bleed shadow, and those who once worshiped the Whispered now twist its fragments into new names. You stand at the heart of this collapse — three mortals who once shared one pact, now gods in miniature whether you wish it or not.
You can’t fix what you broke, but you can choose what grows in its place.
📚 Reading Tasks — The Cosmic Fallout
1. Fractured Reality
📘 Read a book where reality bends, breaks, or collapses.
The edges of the world curl inward like burning paper — only your will holds the shape of what’s left.
2. Echoes of the Whispered
📘 Read a book where something dead or destroyed continues to influence the living.
Even shattered, gods do not stay silent.
3. Birth of New Powers
📘 Read a book where new powers, gods, or magic systems emerge from ruin.
From the corpse of the Whispered, new forces stir — some benevolent, some hungry.
4. Riftborn Ascendant
📘 Read a book with a being born from chaos, fusion, or divine mutation.
The Whispered’s essence wants to live again — but not as it was. Will you stop it, guide it, or claim it?
⚖️ The Final Choice — Shaping the Aftermath
The world is splitting under the weight of what you’ve done. Each path offers salvation… or another kind of end.
Path 1: The Riftborn Covenant
You gather the fragments and bind them into a new being — a god born from contradiction, unity through discord.
📘 Read a book where enemies unite for survival.
📘 Read a book where something new is born from destruction.
📘 Read a book with a title or cover referencing rebirth or renewal.
Path 2: The Silence Between Stars
You let the Whispered’s essence scatter to nothing, sealing all remnants of its voice. The cost is isolation — between worlds, between souls, between selves.
📘 Read a book with isolation or silence as a theme.
📘 Read a book where magic or divinity fades.
📘 Read a book that ends in quiet peace or tragic stillness.
Path 3: The Devourer’s Chorus
You embrace the chaos. You let the shards of the Whispered infest reality, rewriting creation in your image — a realm of infinite reflections.
📘 Read a book where reality is rewritten or reshaped.
📘 Read a book with a multiverse or infinite worlds.
📘 Read a book where a god or force consumes what came before.
✨ Outcome:
Choosing The Riftborn Covenant births a new cosmic entity tied to the Wyrms — part shadow, part light, part mortal memory.
Choosing The Silence Between Stars ends the Whispered’s line, but leaves the universe colder, quieter, fragile.
Choosing The Devourer’s Chorus begins the Age of Mirrors — where no truth stands alone, and reflection rules all.
Yes, I kept staring at it for inspiration and trying to jam my current book into one of the holes. The Enchanted Greenhouse would work for Birth of New Powers but I already finished it. Echoes of the Whispered is the only one that I could think of a book right away.Which outcome do you like?
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The 1st or 2nd? Honestly, I'm okay with whatever you two prefer.
Path 2? I imagine silence of isolation, outback, mountains, forest?
Do you guys have preferences in tasks?
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I have absolutely no idea, just hoping to fit something in after I've read it.
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I think you can skip this set of tasks and join back on the next if you need to...."
Thanks Angie. :)
Catsalive wrote: "I think you'd better give yourself a break & give up on that book, Fi."
Lol it's actually not the poor book's fault, I've just been really exhausted and the only time I have for reading is late at night. But yes, I'll definitely be taking a break for now.