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The following teams will be competing:
The Witches of Lancre
Lauren S.
Lu
Claudia
The City Watch
Crusader
Liezel
Jennifer
Marcel
The Wee Free Men
Barbara
Niecole
Claudine
The Assasins Guild
Lauren F.
Mohammed
Shelagh
Shannon
The Unseen University
Jestersinc
Carolien
Lydia
Every team will have it's own discussion thread in which they can divide the tasks and help each other with suggestions and recommendations.
The following members have signed up but since then not participated in this challenge:
Diana
Fatima
Jo
Jocelyn
If they still want to join in please contact me and I will assign a group to you.
Sonnete unfortunately has withdrawn from this challenge and from her team the Witches of Lancre.
Kae is no longer a member of the SABL group and doesn't respond to emails I have sent her, so I have deleted her from this challenge
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Every task is based on one of Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels. You don't have to read a Terry Pratchett book if you don't want to. If you do however choose to read a book written by him then you can only read this book for the task that used that particular book as inspiration. For example: the book Reaper Man can only be read for task 11 not for task 4.
Tasks:
1) The Colour of Magic
Read a book in which an unusual colour plays a part. This may be for example as a word in the title, or the author’s name or the favorite colour of the main character. Colours that cannot be used are: white, yellow, orange, red, pink, purple, blue, green, brown, grey, black. Examples of colours that can be used are fuchsia, chartreuse or sepia.
2) The Light Fantastic
Read a book about the end of a world.
3) Equal Rites
Read a book about role reversal. A book in which a woman does what is considered a man’s job or a man does what is considered to be a woman’s job.
4) Mort
Read a book about Death the character not the end of life.
5) Sorcery
Read a book about a magical or haunted item.
6) Wyrd Sisters
Read a book in which a group of women is the main focus of the book. For example a sorority, a coven of witches, a nunnery, a brothel etcetera.
7) Pyramids
Read a book about ancient Egypt or where ancient Egypt plays a part or is about a culture based on ancient Egypt.
8) Guards! Guards!
Read a book about Dragons.
9) Faust/Eric
Read a book about hell or demons.
10) Moving Pictures
Read a book about the movie industry.
11) Reaper Man
Read a book in which the main character is unemployed or gets fired.
12) Witches Abroad
Read a book that is based on a fairytale.
13) Small Gods
Read a book in which the man character is part of a religious movement like a priest or nun.
14) Lords and Ladies
Read a book about elves not fairies.
15) Men at Arms
Read a book about war or going to war.
16) Soul Music
Read a book where the main character is in a band or is a musician.
17) Interesting Times
Read a book about two friends who haven’t seen each other in a long time and are reunited again.
18) Maskerade
Read a book in which one of the main characters is pretending to be someone or something they are not. When you have finished the book write a small story about what you would choose to be and do if you could be anything or anyone else you wanted for a day. Post this story to complete the challenge.
19) Feet of Clay
Read a book about an artificial or non biological lifeform.
20) Hogfather
Read a book about Christmas or that takes place at Christmas time.
21) Jingo
Read a book that takes place on an island or where an island plays an important role in the story.
22) The Last Continent
Read a book about or set in Australia.
23) Carpe Jugulum
Read a book about vampires.
24) The Fifth Elephant
Read a book about dwarves or where dwarves play an important part in the story.
25) The Truth
Read a book in which the main character is a journalist or works at a paper. When you have read the book write a small article about something that happened in your neighbourhood or city and post it to complete this task.
26) Thief of Time
Read a book in which time plays an important part or is mentioned often like in a journal or diary.
27) The Last Hero
Read a book about a hero.
28) The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents
Read a book about magical animals.
29) Night Watch
Read a book about time travel.
30) The Wee Free Men
Read a children’s or YA book.
31) Monstrous Regiment
Read a book in which the main character is in the army.
32) A Hat Full of Sky
Read a book with a hat on the cover.
33) Going Postal
Read a book in which letters or email play a major part. When you have read the book design your own stamp and post it to complete this task.
34) Thud!
Read a mystery novel. Any mystery novel.
35) Wintersmith
Read a book in which the seasons play a major part either in the story or on the cover.
36) Making Money
Read a book in which the main character works in the financial/banking business. When you have read the book design your own money (one coin or banknote is sufficient) and post it to complete this task.
37) Unseen Academicals
Read a book about sports or the main character is an athlete.
38) I Shall Wear Midnight
Read about a book about someone who is bullied or persecuted because of who or what they are. For example racism, sexism, bullying, witch hunts, robot rights etc.
39) Snuff
Read any book published in the period this challenge is active.
40) The Science of Discworld Trilogy
Read a non-fiction book about any subject you like.
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The challenge will start on 1 November 2011 and will run until 31 October 2012.
If you want to join, please sign up in the sign up thread and you will be assigned to a team. A team can have a maximum of 4 participants. If all teams are full when you sign up a new team will be created.
At the end of the challenge we will announce a team winner where we will take in consideration the number of teammembers.
If all teams have completed the challenge the team that has done it the fastest will be announced the winner.
Every task is based on one of Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels. You don't have to read a Terry Pratchett book if you don't want to. If you do however choose to read a book written by him then you can only read this book for the task that used that particular book as inspiration. For example: the book Reaper Man can only be read for task 11 not for task 4.
Every book you read for this challenge will have to have at least 150 pages of text.
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As a team you will have to read all 40 tasks.
These tasks will have to be divided before you start reading.
If someone is later assigned to your team he or she will have to read the tasks for the teamchallenge that are still not assigned to any other teammember.
There are 4 interactive tasks. These are tasks 18, 25, 33 and 36. For these tasks you have to do something more than just read a book. In the teamchallenge every member has to do one interactive task. If your team has 3 members that will mean that you will have to leave one interactive task for a potential fourth member.
The dividing of the tasks and recommendations for books and everything else team related can be discussed in your own team discussion thread.
If at any time for some reason you won't continue with this challenge please let us know so we may assign another member to your team.
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To complete the challenge on an individual basis you will have to finish 25 tasks.
10 of these 25 will be the tasks you will read for the team challenge.
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Yes for this challenge there will be ranks and banners that go with them.
1 will be the lowest rank and 8 will be the highest rank.
Each rank will correspond with a Discworld character.
A rank will be awarded after finishing 5 tasks. So there will be 8 ranks for the team challenge and 5 for the individual challenge. Three extra ranks are available for the overachievers among us that are going to try to read all 40 books in the individual challenge.
There will be two sets of ranks. One for the team Challenge and one for the individual challenge.
The ranks will be:
Team Challenge
1 Nobby
2 Tiffany Aching
3 Teatime
4 Susan Sto Helit
5 The Librarian
6 Mustrum Ridcully
7 Sam Vimes
8 The Patrician
Individual challenge
1 Rincewind
2 Greebo
3 Luggage
4 Nanny Ogg
5 Granny Weatherwax
Overachievers
6 Hex
7 Death
8 Great A'Tuin
Banners will be posted when we start the challenge.
The banners and finished tasks will be posted in a seperate points thread.
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Who isn't participating? I will first try to make contact with them to make sure they are not participating anymore. If people want to join the challenge while it is in progress they can replace people who aren't participating. For the teamchallenge winner we will take into consideration members who haven't participated so they don't mess up the scores.
I don't know if I have answered you're question but I am not sure what you want to know.
How long would a person have to be inactive for before we consider them as not participating?
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@ Lauren: In your case I have already contacted Jo and I have seen that she hasn't been active on Goodreads since she signed up. I will contact her on her private email adress and will let you know what happens.
@Crusader: I will check into it and will keep you posted on what we are going to do.
And just keep in mind we are sort of hardcore and are people who haven't got a life and because of that spend a lot of time on Goodreads. There are people who are part of Goodreads and our group however that do have a social life and while they are active they don't check goodreads every single hour :P
Hey, I have a life! It's just that a lot of it gets lived online...Thanks for contacting Jo. I know we're all a little bit, um, overeager. I just keep thinking of all the people who signed up for Harry Potter and then never returned.
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People have a real social life? :DOk so this challenge runs from November to October next year? We have a year to do it? Or is it quicker than that?
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I echo Lauren's sentiments. I have a life, being online is just a huge part of it.
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Nothing wrong with being overeager and it would be nice if everyone checks in at least once so we know they are still planning on doing this challenge.
I have sent both Jo and Jocelyn a message. Jo hasn't been active at all since she singed up. I checked so that is why I sent a message to her private email. I knwo she is still in the land of the living since she has been very active on twitter. That might be the next step in contacting her but lets wait a couple of days before we try that. Also I don't have a twitter account so some one else has to do that. Jocelyn hasn't been very active and might just not have read her mail. I snet her a nice message though without trying to push her but please let us know something.
Hey Claudine, yes you will have a year to finish reading. That doesn't mean you can't complete it in 3 months if you want to do that. There are some members who will finish very quickly because they read a lot of books but some of us aren't that fast since apparantly they have lifes :) and don't spend all their time reading and they will take some longer to finish.
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I was just teasing you!
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Think I should go read, been slacking!
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Can the same book count for more than one task? Happy to read a book for each, but some books could fall under more than one task.
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I have tried to contact Jo and Jocelyn. I haven't heard anything back though. I suggest we wait till the challenge has started and then if they don't check in within a week to send another message. If they don't respond to that message we consider them to be withdrawn and their places will be filled if and when new contestants will show up. This will leave the witches with 2 members and they will get the first member to sign up. Or if they prefer I will volunteer to join their group so they still have 3 members.
My team members seem to be uninterested to participate. It's lonely in my group.
I was just going over the rules again and wondering about the issue with inactive team members as well as the number of members in each team - a team has to complete all 40 tasks to complete the challenge, but what if you have only 1 or 2 active readers?Also, I was just checking to see if tasks have to be assigned before the challenge starts, and I see that this is the case - why? I can't plan my reading that far ahead, and anyway it's not possible as one of my team members hasn't shown up yet.
Well how about relooking at teams? Do we need that many?
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Leave The City Watch and The Assasins Guild as they are
They are sorted and planned
Maybe reshuffle? And make 2 groups out of them
The Witches of Lancre
The Unseen University
The Wee Free Men
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If everyone is happy with this solution I will change the teams.
Ok next problem:) Lauren. We thought it to be an extra challenge for everyone to decide on 10 tasks and stick with them. It shouldn't be too hard, just find tasks you are most likely to read. You don't have to deicde on a book yet. But for example since Lu and I are both archaeologists it is likely we would read a book about ancient Egypt. Since Crusader reads a lot of science fiction he is most likely to read a book about an artificial or non-bniological life-form. We don't know yet which book it is going to be but it is likely that somewhere in the coming year we will read it. If it makes it to hard we can say that any member can swap 2 tasks around during the year but I am not in favour of throwing out the rule that you have to pick before we start, unless there are more people who want to do this.
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I'm happy with Kahlan coming over too :)As to the other thing, I guess I'll just have to stick to my plans for a change :)
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Yeah Lauren I know it is hard to stick with your plans but it is only 10 books so it should be do-able. With most challenges you have to stick with at least 25 tasks. At least for you individual challenge you can choose from the other 30 and you can leave half out. So that should make it more fun. I think this is one of the few challenges where you are not obligated to read every task to complete it.
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And moderator problem solved :)
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completed task 25 for team challenge
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completed task 12 for individual challenge
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completed task 37 for both individual and team challenge
If you do it like this it will save me lots of time and trouble figuring out what you have finished and for what. I will then update in the points discussions and upgrade ranks.
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That'll mean that whoever reads an appropriate book can claim that task for the group.
If that's the case, then the remaining tasks should be split evenly - members can read an extra 3 tasks each, with one person reading 4. If you get a new member, then you should hand those tasks over to that person, and the tasks would no longer count as read.
Perhaps wait a little longer to see if someone else comes along? Even if you've already read something that counts, you can still add it later.
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