The Challenge Factory discussion

3-month
Partner challenge
Runs April - June 2023

Welcome to the School for Good & Evil. The first thing that must be done is that every student must decide if they are inherently good or evil. You can only study one or the other here at this school. One partner must study good and the other must study evil.

Once you have decided which line of study that you will follow, you can find your classes here. To prepare for your 3 tests, you will want to complete as many tasks as you can. Only the most prepared heroes & villains will pass their finals. Oh, and you will be competing against your partner in the finals. Good luck and may the best side win!

*Please note that the 3 tests will run over 3 different weekends. Each test will require one book (minimum 100 pages) that must be read in a 2-day period. You will get one day to study and prepare for your test. Books cannot be started until the test begins. The winner will be determined by whoever wins 2 of the 3 tests. The winning partner will get 100 bonus points. The books for your regular classes will be done at your pace and only be scored if you complete them.


Testing Schedule
Snow Ball: April 22-23
Circus of Talents: May 20-21
Trial By Tale: June 24-25


Rules
✨Books must be minimum 100 pages
✨Books may be started before the challenge BUT must be finished after the start of the challenge. This does NOT apply to TEST books. They must be started after the test starts
✨Re-reads are allowed

Posting Completed Books
Post your completions in this format

Class/Test:
Task:
Book:
Author:
Pages:
Date Read:
Score:

Book Points for Classes
5 points per completed class task

I want to be good.

Ok I'll be evil. This outta be fun!

I am rather confused and there is no Q & A thread. Do we just read books that fit our class list on our own time or is there some schedule to things? Do you have any idea?

I posted question in rules thread. I don't want to start reading and find out I'm doing it wrong.

Sorry, I have multiple challenges running and I can only post 3 threads per hour per GR rules. The Q&A thread is up and I answered your question in the signup thread.

@ Roger
In case you were wondering, here's the answer to my question.

You will read books that fit the tasks for your classes to "prepare" for your tests. Those tasks may be read in any order at your pace. Your "tests" will be at a faster pace on a specific schedule that is posted in message 1.

Donna wrote: "Sorry, I have multiple challenges running and I can only post 3 threads per hour per GR rules. The Q&A thread is up and I answered your question in the signup thread."

Thanks Donna. That helps a lot.

My Class Schedule
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EVIL CLASSES

Uglification Class
✔🦹‍♂️Read a book with an ugly character (your interpretation)
Daughter of the Pirate King - Tricia Levenseller 4/7
(I stand as my weapons are removed by the ugly pirate), p8
✔ 🦹‍♂️Read a book where a character wears a cape or disguise
Unwritten - Alicia J. Novo 4/1
✔ 🦹‍♂️Read a book with the author’s initials in UGLIFICATION
Fall For Me - Ann Lister 4/5


Henchman Training
✔ 🦹‍♂️Read a book with a henchman
Of Claws and Inferno - Kyoko M. 4/10
✔ 🦹‍♂️Read a book where someone trains
Zar - Alana Khan 4/12
✔ 🦹‍♂️Read a book with at least one of the 5 strategies for training henchmen in the text
Trick - The Rapids - Carla Neggers 4/15
(experience and mental toughness were the trick), p9

Curses & Death Traps
✔ 🦹‍♂️Read a book with the letters NEMESIS in any order in the title/series
The Case of the Missing Morris Dancer - Cathy Ace 5/13
✔ 🦹‍♂️Read a book where someone is poisoned
The Butterfly Forest - Tom Lowe (Elizabeth) 5/7
✔ 🦹‍♂️Read a book where a character uses a curse or spell against someone else
Hidden Blade - Pippa DaCosta 4/18

History of Villainy
✔ 🦹‍♂️Read a book where a villain dies
Hades - Candice Fox 4/8
✔ 🦹‍♂️Read a book where a villain eats their nemesis
The Laughing Policeman - Elizabeth J. Brown 4/3
✔ 🦹‍♂️Read a book where the villain wins
Viking Warrior, Unwilling Wife - Michelle Styles 4/13
✔ 🦹‍♂️Read a book where a villain sets a trap for their nemesis
Silver Moon - Jen L. Grey 4/11


CLASSES FOR BOTH GOOD & EVIL
Animal Communication Class
✔ ✨Read a book where a character communicates with an animal or insect
The Hive Child - Rebecca L. Fearnley 4/15
(MC talks to bees and insects)
✔ ✨Read a book with a creature sidekick
Witch Hunt - Sara Bourgeois 4/8

Special Talents
✔ ✨Read a book with a character that is talented
Midnight Crystal - Jayne Castle 4/16
(both MCs have incredibly strong psychic talents)

Surviving Fairy Tales
✔ ✨Read a book with a survivor
Broken Mate - Jen L. Grey 4/8
✔ ✨Read a book where it is hard to tell who is good or evil
A Dirty Shame - Liliana Hart 4/14
✔ ✨Read a book where someone has to eat bugs or hunt food to survive
Burning Bright - Melissa McShane 4/18
✔ ✨Read a book tagged Fairy Tales
The Vixen and the Vet - Katy Regnery (MPG fairy tales) 5/5
✔ ✨Read a book with one of the bold words below in the text or title.
5 Rules
1. The Evil attack. The Good defend.
✔ Devil of a Chance - Ciara Graves 4/5
(then the attack would come), p1
✔ Dark Illusion - Christine Feehan 4/25
(be at rest with no harm to defend), p210

2. The Evil punish. The Good forgive.
✔ Kingdoms at War - Lindsay Buroker 4/21
(her captors might punish her for such thoughts), p109
✔ Warrior's Moon - Lucy Monroe 4/16
(you are saying you do not forgive me), p82

3. The Evil hurt. The Good help.
✔ Once Tempted - Laura Moore 4/26
(nothing to do with the hurt he'd been dealt), p360
✔ Liar, Liar - Lisa Jackson 4/27
(but second-guessing wouldn't help now), p121

4. The Evil take. The Good give.
✔ Find Her Alive - Diane Saxon 4/27
(it should take six to eight weeks to heal), p287
✔ An Unthinkable Thing - Nicole Lundrigan 4/30
(is there anything else you can give me), p208

5. The Evil hate. The Good love.
✔ The Cabinet of Dr. Leng - Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child 4/28
(this is what I hate about police work), p216
✔ Caught in the Flames - Kacey Shea 4/29
(I love firemen), ch7

Spells
✔ ✨Read a book where someone can manipulate water using magic
The Vanquisher of Water - Logan Young 5/7
✔ ✨Read a book where someone can control the weather
Touched by Fire - Kel Carpenter 4/13
✔ ✨Read a book where someone can shift into an animal or plant
Rising Darkness - Jen L. Grey 4/9

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Completion Post

Class/Test: Uglification Class
Task: Read a book where a character wears a cape or disguise

Book: Unwritten - Alicia J. Novo
Pages: 326
Date Read: 4/1
How fits: the medallion that secured his short red cape glinted too, p72
Score: 5

Completion Post

Class/Test: History of Villainy
Task: Read a book where a villain eats their nemesis

Book: The Laughing Policeman - Elizabeth J. Brown
Pages: 396
Date Read: 4/3
How fits: villain is a demon and he eats his victims (who are his nemesis as he cannot return to hell until they are all dead)
Score: 5

Completion post:
Class: Fairy tales
Task 5 rules I chose the good defend
Book: Master Cleary's Boys by Brina Brady but I used this edition, not on goodreads https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01...
Pages: 371
Date read: 4/4/2023
How it fits: Page 315 If he had to fight to kill, then he was prepared to do so, to defend himself, but most of all, he would do it to protect his boys.
Score 5

Roger classes and tasks:

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Good Classes


Beautification Class
👸Read a book with a smiling character on the cover
👸a book with BEAUTY in the title.
👸Read a book with the author’s initials in BEAUTIFICATION
👸Read a book where a character is on a diet

Princess Etiquette Class
👸Read a book with the word POSTURE in the text
👸Read a book where someone takes dance lessons
👸Read a book with a polite and mannerly character (your interpretation)

History of Heroism Class
👸Read a book where the hero wins
👸Read a book with an unlikely hero (your interpretation)
👸Read a book where the hero escapes from the villain
👸Read a book where the hero dies to protect someone

Good Deeds Class
👸Read a book where a character does a good deed ( a book
👸Read a book with one of the 3 keys to good deeds in the text
1. Creativity
2. Feasibility
3. Spontanity

Classes for Both Good & Evil

Animal Communication Class
✨Read a book where a character communicates with an animal or insect
✨Read a book with a creature sidekick (can be any creature – examples: dragons, trolls, etc)

Special Talents
✨Read a book with a character that is talented (your interpretation)

Surviving Fairy Tales
✨Read a book with a survivor
✨Read a book where it is hard to tell who is good or evil
✨Read a book where someone has to eat bugs or hunt food to survive
✨Read a book tagged Fairy Tales
✨Read a book with one of the bold words below in the text or title.
5 Rules
1. The Evil attack. The Good defend.
2. The Evil punish. The Good forgive.
3. The Evil hurt. The Good help.
4. The Evil take. The Good give.
5. The Evil hate. The Good love.

Spells
✨Read a book where someone can manipulate water using magic
✨Read a book where someone can control the weather
✨Read a book where someone can shift into an animal or plant (hide spoiler)]

Completion post
Class: Special Talents
Task: read a book with A Character that is talented
Book: Moonlight Becomes You by Piper Vaughn and M.J. O'Shea
Pages: 244
Date Read: 4/4/2023
How it fits: Both MCs are talented Musicians
Score (this class):5
Total Score: 10

Completion Post

Class/Test: Uglification Class
Task: Read a book with the author’s initials in UGLIFICATION

Book: Fall For Me - Ann Lister
Pages: 406
Date Read: 4/5
How fits: A & L in ugLificAtion
Score: 5

I should be done with a book this evening. Tomorrow will be a slow day with medical appointments!

Completion Post

Class/Test: Surviving Fairy Tales
Task: Read a book with one of the bold words below in the text or title.
1. The Evil attack. The Good defend.

Book: Devil of a Chance - Ciara Graves
Pages: 240
Date Read: 4/5
How fits: then the attack would come, p1
Score: 5

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Class: Good deeds class
Task: read a book with one of the three keys to a good deed, I chose Creativity
Book: Moonstruck by Piper Vaughn and M.J. O'Shea
Pages: 250
Date Read: 4/4/2023
How it Fits: Page 84 Working with Jesse was familiar and always inspiring—he was an amazing musician—but recording with Nick and Shane really revved up Surya’s excitement because they were new. This was uncharted territory for all of them, blending their styles to try to create something fresh and appealing to a broader audience while trying to preserve enough of their respective sounds so as not to displease the fans they already had. It was a fine line, but Surya thought they’d found a good balance, and the results were coming together beautifully.
Score: 5 points
Total score: 15 points

Completion Post
Class: princess etiquette Class
Task: a book with posture in text!
Book: Jonah and the Narwhal aby Vinni George
Pages: 228
Date Read: 4/6/2023
How it fits: Page 170 My mate stood his ground, his posture and facial expression neutral as his fathers looked him over, then turned sharp-eyed gazes my way.
Score: 5 points
Total score: 20 points

Completion post
Class: Good Deeds Class
Task: Character does A good Deed
Book: Darkest Hour Before Dawn by Charlie Cochet
Pages: 310
Date Read: 4/7/2023
How it fits: Wolf pulls Seb out of the path of a speeding vehicle.
Score: 5 points
Total Score: 25 points

Completion Post

Class/Test: Uglification Class
Task: Read a book with an ugly character

Book: Daughter of the Pirate King - Tricia Levenseller
Pages: 311
Date Read: 4/7
How fits: I stand as my weapons are removed by the ugly pirate, p8
Score: 5

Completion Post

Class/Test: Surviving Fairy Tales
Task: Read a book with a survivor

Book: Broken Mate - Jen L. Grey
Pages: 258
Date Read: 4/8
How fits: heroine is the sole survivor of the annihilation of her entire pack
Score: 5

Completion Post

Class/Test: History of Villainy
Task: Read a book where a villain dies

Book: Hades - Candice Fox
Pages: 309
Date Read: 4/8
How fits: the serial killer was killed
Score: 5

Completion post

Class Surviving Fairy tales
Task: Read A book With survivor
The Magician Murders by Josh Lanyon
Pages: 246
Date read: 4/8/2023
How it fits: SA Jason West survives a hit and run accident.
Score: 5 points
Total score: 30 points

Completion Post

Class/Test: Animal Communication Class
Task: Read a book with a creature sidekick

Book: Witch Hunt - Sara Bourgeois
Pages: 200
Date Read: 4/8
How fits: MC has a talking cat for a familiar
Score: 5

Completion Post

Class/Test: Spells
Task: Read a book where someone can shift into an animal or plant

Book: Rising Darkness - Jen L. Grey
Pages: 234
Date Read: 4/9
How fits: MC is a wolf shifter
Score: 5

Completion post:


Class: Surviving fairy tales
Task: Read a book where a character has to eat bugs or hunt food to survive
Book:Moving Maverick byLucy Lennox
Pages: 288
Date read: 4/9/2023
How it Fits: Page 215 We went crabbing
Score 5
Total score:35

Class: beautification Class
Task: read a book with smiling model on cover
Book: One for the Gods by Gordon Merrick
Pages: 334
Date read: 4/10/2023
How it fits:
Score: 5 points
Total Score: 40 points

Completion Post

Class/Test: Henchman Training
Task: Read a book with a henchman

Book: Of Claws and Inferno - Kyoko M.
Pages: 376
Date Read: 4/10
How fits: one of the villains is the henchman for the leader of the Japanese yakuza gang
Score: 5

Class: Spells
Task: read a book where someone can shift into a plant or animal
Book:The Scars That Bind Us by Michele Notaro
405 pages
Date read: 4/10/2023
How it fits: Cosmo is a Lion Shifter
Score: 5
Total Score: 45

Current Scores

Barbara:50
Roger: 45

Good thing I made a slight rule change. You guys are killing these tasks. Check out the Q&A to see the change that I made. It's gonna be a close competition between you two. I am curious which side will win ; )

Class: Beautification Class
Task read a book with Author's initials in BEAUTIFICATION.
Book: Featherbed by Annabeth Albert
196 pages
Date read: 4/11/2023
How it fits : there are 2 A's in beautification
Score: 5 points
Total score: 50 points.

Donna wrote: "
Current Scores


Barbara:50
Roger: 45

Good thing I made a slight rule change. You guys are killing these tasks. Check out the Q&A to see the change that I made. It's gonna be a close competitio..."

What happens if we read all the tasks before the final test?

Good thing we were paired up, no other team is even close to where we are.

Good question, let me think about it. I wasn't expecting any of you to read 9 or 10 tasks in one week.

Roger - president of NBR United - wrote: "Good thing we were paired up, no other team is even close to where we are."

That wasn't fate. I checked your averages and paired up everyone as closely as possible based on their averages. Only one team was further than 1 or 2 books in their average.

In the us vs godzilla challenge I signed up as super fast and my team mate and I are already on the Fifth of ten battles. Knock myself down to fast so I could have a Teammate. It not unusual for me to read 10 books in one week.

Just try not to wear yourself out. I can read at that level also but I wore myself out (doesn't help that I have iron issues). Now I am taking it easy. Remember this is for fun.

I usually read a book a day so this pace is normal for me. I'm also doing numerous challenges and so far these books were not actually chosen for this challenge...I've just gotten lucky, so far.

Completion Post

Class/Test: History of Villainy
Task: Read a book where a villain sets a trap for their nemesis

Book: Silver Moon - Jen L. Grey
Pages: 294
Date Read: 4/11
How fits: villain sets a trap for heroine but heroine is too smart to get caught
Score: 5

The rule change is this

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I am going to modify an answer that I gave. Each task can only be done once except for the '5 Rules of Surviving Fairy Tales' task. You may do each word once. So you may read up to 10 books for that task @ 5 points each.

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✨Read a book with one of the bold words below in the text or title. (You can read for each word!)
5 Rules
1. The Evil attack. The Good defend.
2. The Evil punish. The Good forgive.
3. The Evil hurt. The Good help.
4. The Evil take. The Good give.
5. The Evil hate. The Good love.

Donna wrote: "Just try not to wear yourself out. I can read at that level also but I wore myself out (doesn't help that I have iron issues). Now I am taking it easy. Remember this is for fun."

I have been reading at this level for years this is my natural rate.

Completion post:


Class/Test: Surviving Fairy Tales
Task: ✨Read a book with one of the bold words below in the text or title.
5 Rules the Good Help
Book: Country Mouse
Author: Amy Lane andAleksandr Voinov
Pages: 222
Date Read: 4/12/2023
Score: 5 points
TotalScore: 55 points

Completion Post

Class/Test: Henchman Training
Task: Read a book where someone trains

Book: Zar - Alana Khan
Pages: 210
Date Read: 4/12
How fits: hero is a slave forced to fight as a gladiator so trains every day
Score: 5

Finished a book waiting on an answer to a question.

Completion Post

Class/Test: History of Villainy
Task: Read a book where the villain wins

Book: Viking Warrior, Unwilling Wife - Michelle Styles
Pages: 288
Date Read: 4/13
How fits: the "hero" is the villain of this book; he sacks heroine's manor and takes the girl and the land
Score: 5

Completion post
Class: Surviving Fairy Tales
Task: rules the evil Attack
Book: Perihelion by Tami Veldura
Pages: 281
Date read: 4/13/2023
How it fits: Page 33 While his mind floated, he felt Kato push his body. Mas’ud fell into a chair of some kind. Soft membrane that conformed to his shape. His awareness snapped back into form around a queenship under attack: Vanetta’s Queenship Ningal.
Score: 5 points
Total score: 60 points

Completion post
Class: Princess Etiquette Class
Task: Read a book where someone takes Dance lessons
Book: Running to You by Andrew Grey
202 pages
Read 4/12/2023
How it fits: page 95 Marie patted his shoulder once again, then pulled her hand away. “I love this scene,” she said, turning her attention to the dance lesson in the movie where Debra Messing stomped Dermot Mulroney’s foot and he proceeded to sweep her off her feet. “I used to love to go dancing.” She cleared her throat and turned away from the television, then asked Carlos if he minded if she turned off the television.
Score: 5 points
Total score: 65 points

Completion Post

Class/Test: Spells
Task: Read a book where someone can control the weather

Book: Touched by Fire - Kel Carpenter
Pages: 332
Date Read: 4/13
How fits: Natalie has storm magic and can manipulate the weather
Score: 5
Total Score: 65 points

Completion post
Class: Surviving Fairy Tales
Task: 5 Rules: the good give
Book: Buzz by E. Davies
Pages: 302
Read 4/14/2023
How it fits: page 97 Already, there was heat between them. Noah resisted the urge to sway into Cameron and give him a hello kiss. “Come on in,” he invited and waved at the wine bar. “Wine and cheese?”
Score: 5 points
Total Score: 70 points

Completion Post

Class/Test: Surviving Fairy Tales
Task: Read a book where it is hard to tell who is good or evil

Book: A Dirty Shame - Liliana Hart
Pages: 328
Date Read: 4/14
How fits: strange "hate" crimes have popped up in Virginia and it's difficult to tell who is involved as all the clues lead to upstanding citizens
Score: 5
Total Score: 70 points