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CHARACTERRace/Class
Read a book from a genre you usually don't read.
This will determine your race/class.
Book/Author:
Don't Let the Forest InAuthor: C.G. Drews
Date completed: 10/3/2025
Task: Read a book from a genre you usually don't read.
How it fits: Rarely read horror.
Orc WarriorYou are strong and daring, never backing down from danger.
Advantage: “Battle Fury” – Once, you may double-count a single book (if it fulfills two prompts in a row).
WeaponRead a book and tell me the page count and format.
This will determine your weapon.
Book/Author:
OceansongAuthor: C.W. Rose
Date completed: 10/6/2025
Task: Read a book and tell me the page count and format.
How it fits: 370 pages, ebook
SwordBalanced and reliable, a hero’s classic weapon.
Advantage: “Parry” – Once, you can deflect a prompt you dislike and swap it for a random new one from the DM.
CompanionRead a book that meets the guidelines.
The title will determine your companion.
Book/Author:
Wild ChildAuthor: Katie Cross
Date completed: 10/11/2025
Task: Read a book that meets the guidelines.
How it fits: Book meets guidelines.
Raven 🪶Cunning and mysterious.
Advantage: “Dark Messenger” – Once, swap your current prompt with a random one from the DM’s secret list.
🌄 The First Quest: The Call to AdventureThe air is crisp as dawn breaks over your quiet village. Life has always been simple here — until today. A mysterious figure in a dark cloak arrives at the village gates, carrying a scroll sealed with an unfamiliar crest. They call for brave souls to leave the safety of the village and journey into the unknown.
As you step forward, the figure hands you the scroll. Inside, it reads:
“Choose your first step wisely, for your path will shape the fate of your journey…”
⚔️ Choose Your Path (Read one book):
The Forest Path 🌲
Prompt: Read a book with green on the cover.
Outcome: You follow winding trails into the forest. Strange whispers echo among the trees — something magical is watching.
The Mountain Pass ⛰️
Prompt: Read a book over 400 pages.
Outcome: The climb is harsh, but the view is breathtaking. High above the world, you find ruins carved into the cliffs — but they’re not abandoned.
The River Road 🌊
Prompt: Read a book set in another country.
Outcome: You journey along rushing waters, where merchants and wanderers trade stories. Yet rumors of bandits make every crossing dangerous.
The Shadowed Alley 🌑
Prompt: Read a book with "shadow" or "alley" in the title.
Outcome: You slip into the backstreets of a crumbling city. Eyes follow you from the shadows, and a dangerous secret is about to be uncovered.
Question - For The Shadowed Alley option, can "shadow" be in the series name or just the title?
Book/Author:
SavageAuthor: Sherrilyn Kenyon
Date completed: 10/20/2025
Task: The Shadowed Alley - Read a book with "shadow" or "alley" in the title.
How it fits: Series name Shadows of Fire
The Shadowed Alley 🌑The city’s twisting alleys conceal more than beggars and thieves. Every corner hides danger, but also opportunity.
The Thieves’ Guild 🗝️
Prompt: Read a book with a thief, spy, or morally grey character.
Outcome: In a smoky tavern cellar, the guild offers you a deal you can’t refuse.
The Haunted Manor 🕯️
Prompt: Read a book with a haunted house, mansion, or secretive family.
Outcome: A looming estate invites you inside — but the doors may not let you leave.
Book/Author:
Practically ImperfectAuthor: Mary Frame
Date completed: 10/24/2025
Task: Read a book with a haunted house, mansion, or secretive family.
How it fits: The Rosco family is secretive, shady, and ruthless.
The Haunted Manor 🕯️The manor groans as if alive. Cobwebs drape the chandeliers, and cold air whispers through the halls.
The Mirror Room 🪞
Prompt: Read a book with mirrors, reflections, or doppelgängers.
Outcome: Dozens of mirrors reflect your every move — but one reflection doesn’t match.
The Family Crypt ⚰️
Prompt: Read a book with MPG Gothic.
Outcome: The manor’s secrets lie buried in its crypt, but so do its restless dead.
Book/Author:
Our Lives In BetweenAuthor: Billie Kowalewski
Date completed: 10/29/2025
Task: Read a book with mirrors, reflections, or doppelgängers.
How it fits: Mirror: Pg 78 "I checked myself over in the full-length mirror that hung on the back of the washroom door. Reflection: Pg 51 "I learned forward a little, and my eyes refocused as I caught my reflection in the water."
The Mirror Room 🪞The mirrors shift — some showing truths, others lies.
The Shattered Reflection 🪞
Prompt: Read a book where a character faces their double or opposite.
Outcome: You shatter the mirror — but something steps through into your world.
The Endless Hall 🌀
Prompt: Read a book with a labyrinth or maze.
Outcome: The halls twist endlessly, yet you emerge with knowledge of the manor’s secrets.
Book/Author:
The Titan's EmpireAuthor: Daniel Scott
Date completed: 11/2/2025
Task: Read a book where a character faces their double or opposite.
How it fits: Christian Windsor is having hallucinations of himself. He calls this version 'the other' and it is kind of the devil on his shoulder. He has to stand up to his 'other' in his mind in order to save his mom and the woman he loves.
The Shattered Reflection 🪞Through the broken mirror, you glimpse the Tower looming beyond the mist.
Task: Read a book with a "mirror" or "reflection" in the title.
Book/Author:
Mirror, MirrorAuthor: Jen Calonita
Date completed: 11/8/2025
Task: Read a book with a "mirror" or "reflection" in the title.
How it fits: Title 'Mirror, Mirror'.
🏰 The Tower — Interlude QuestThe journey has led you here. Rising higher than the clouds, the Tower looms like a wound against the sky. Its walls are black stone, carved with runes that shift when you look at them. You are not alone: whispers of other travelers, shadows of past adventurers, even echoes of your own footsteps gather here.
The gates creak open with a groan that shakes the ground. Inside, four corridors spiral upward. Each pulses with a different energy. The choice is yours…
✨ Choose Your Path (Read one book):
The Library of Whispers 📚
Prompt: Read a book about books, libraries, or knowledge.
Outcome: Shelves stretch beyond sight, filled with tomes that whisper your name. Some knowledge is a gift… and some a curse.
The Hall of Blades ⚔️
Prompt: Read a book with a weapon, warrior, or battle theme.
Outcome: The air hums with steel. Swords hang suspended mid-air, waiting to test your worth.
The Chamber of Shadows 🌑
Prompt: Read a book with MPG Horror.
Outcome: Darkness pools in every corner, moving as if alive. To enter is to risk being swallowed whole.
The Garden of Echoes 🌿
Prompt: Read a book with nature, plants, or animals playing an important role.
Outcome: Overgrown roots split the stone, flowers bloom in impossible colors, and every leaf whispers forgotten secrets.
Book/Author:
The Butcher and the WrenAuthor: Alaina Urquhart
Date completed: 11/19/2025
Task: The Garden of Echoes: Read a book with nature, plants, or animals playing an important role.
How it fits: The Bayou of Louisiana and the life it contains, is almost a character in itself.
The Garden of Echoes 🌿Roots coil up the walls, flowers bloom in strange patterns, and vines shift as if alive. Every leaf seems to murmur words you almost understand.
The Bloom of Poison 🥀
Prompt: Read a book with a poisonous flower, herb, or dangerous plant in the story.
Outcome: A flower drips venom onto the soil, its petals opening toward you like teeth.
The Singing Tree 🌳
Prompt: Read a book with a tree or forest as an important element.
Outcome: A massive tree hums a mournful song, its branches forming a path deeper inside.
Bookish Challenges
Books mentioned in this topic
The Butcher and the Wren (other topics)Mirror, Mirror (other topics)
The Titan's Empire (other topics)
Our Lives In Between (other topics)
Practically Imperfect (other topics)
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Authors mentioned in this topic
Alaina Urquhart (other topics)Jen Calonita (other topics)
Daniel Scott (other topics)
Billie Kowalewski (other topics)
Mary Frame (other topics)
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Sign-ups are open until February 28th.
The challenge is open-ended.
The Challenge
1. Comment here to sign up, and I will create a personal challenge thread for you.
2. You will create your adventurer step by step: first by reading for a race/class, then a weapon, then a companion. Each of these will come with a one-time-use advantage to help you later in the challenge.
3. After your character is ready, you will begin the journey. At each stage, you will face a short story and a choice of tasks. The book you choose to read will determine the path your story takes.
4. To move forward, you must read for at least one of the tasks presented. You can only choose one task per branch — but you may use your earned advantages to skip or bend a rule if you wish.
5. Please make a completion post in your thread using this template:
Book/Author:
Date completed:
Task:
How it fits:
6. If you feel stuck, you may use 5 points to skip a task.
7. Completing a task gives you 2 points. Completing the challenge gives you 25 points.
8. If you don't have a personal point account thread yet, request one here.