The Challenge Factory discussion

Team name TBC

Team Players

Denise S
Dede
Juliana
Elizabeth
Aoife

Team Name Suggestions
Teams are welcome to use one of these or create their own.
Team names are first come, first served.

📚 Librarians & Canon-Inspired
• The Annex Alliance
• Guardians of the Clippings Book
• The Library Legion
• The Library Adaptors
• Guardian & Librarian United
• The Guardians of Jenkins’ Tea
• Jenkins’ Jesters
• Baird Brigade
• Cassandra’s Constellations
• The Stone Scholars
• Ezekiel’s Swipe Squad
• The Charlene Conspiracy
• Danger Desk Crew

🐍 Brotherhood & Lore-Themed
• The Serpent Brotherhood Survivors
• The Brotherhood Breakers
• The Eve of Destruction

✨ Magic, Artifacts & Quests
• Artifact Aficionados
• Questing Quills
• Arcane Archivists
• Spellbinders
• Scroll Snatchers
• Relic Runners
• Luminary Keepers
• Shelvers of Doom

🌀 Time, Portals & Chaos
• Portal Jumpers
• Portal Wardens
• Chrono Hunters
• Temporal Tamperers
• Reality Rewinders
• Mythos Meddlers
• Chaos Curators
• Magical Malfunctions
• Starbound Scholars
• Map & Myth Guild

🎉 Fun & Playful
• The Flynn-tastic Five

I like Danger Desk Crew. LOL

Thank you for setting this up

I like these names but very easy for whatever

Jenkins’ Jesters
Relic Runners
The Eve of Destruction
Chaos Curators

Dede wrote: "I like Danger Desk Crew. LOL

Thank you for setting this up"

no worries!!

I'll go with any name if people want something but I'm logging off for the night so I'll check in tomorrow :)

Aoife wrote: "I like these names but very easy for whatever

Jenkins’ Jesters
Relic Runners
The Eve of Destruction
Chaos Curators"

Same I am not that picky

I like Relic Runners but I'm also super flexible!

Hello! Is the team for Denise S or Denise the Moderator?

For you Denise S as far as I know!(:

Elizabeth wrote: "For you Denise S as far as I know!(:"

Thanks! I just found the moderator Denise on a different team so I'm here !

I loved Questing Quills but it is taken. I'll go with Danger Desk Crew or Library Legion but I'm good with what others want.

heading out for reading and sleep - see you tomorrow!

Good morning team!! I'm in Norway, GMT +1, how about you guys?

Thanks Aoife for setting the team thread up!

I think the names most mentionated are:

Danger Desk Crew
Library Legion
Relic Runners

I too think anyone of those is a good one.

Since Aoife created the thread I think is just her that can change the name.
So, how about she picks one available when she logs on, if we didn't narrowed it down before?

From the Team Setup Checklist

✅ Step 1: Form your team of 5 players.
✅ Step 2: Create your team thread using the instructions below.
✅ Step 3: Have every team member check in to your team thread.
Step 4: Once all members have checked in, visit The Vault and complete your team check-in to let us know you’re ready to begin.

After we have a name we can go and visit The Vault.

Sounds good! I'm in Wisconsin, USA. it's just about 3am right now.

Elizabeth wrote: "Sounds good! I'm in Wisconsin, USA. it's just about 3am right now."

Cool Elizabeth, it almost 10 am here. :)

I'm in Mississippi and it is 12:30 pm here

Hello! Sorry I was out with my dad for the day :)

I'm in Ireland so GMT+0 just for reference as well lol

Danger Desk Crew seems to have the most comments so I'll go with that?

I'm in New York - Eastern Standard Time U.S. - it is 5:30 p.m. here

So who is the Guardian? Which I guess means team captain?

I can't do it as I've never played this type of game before. I wouldn't know what to do.

Or is there already a Guardian and I didn't catch it?

I just read through the Librarian Q & A and Donna said as soon as someone checks us in as a team at the Archive we get the challenge and can start early (it says January 15 but she said we can start now).

I can go check us in

Never mind I see Aoife checked us in! Thanks!

Season 1, Episode 1:
And the Crown of King Arthur

👑 “A crown with power, a secret society, and a library that chooses its own heroes.”

In Season 1, Episode 1 of The Librarians, a mysterious organization recruits a new Guardian, Eve Baird, to protect the magical Library and its chosen Librarian, Flynn Carsen. Together, they investigate a series of strange murders linked to Excalibur and the lost crown of King Arthur. Along the way, they discover a hidden group of potential Librarians and face off against the Serpent Brotherhood, who seek to unleash dangerous magic.


Tasks (Reminder: Each of you must choose a different task)
👑Read a book with a crown on the cover
🐍Read a book that starts & ends with a letter in SERPENT
🧑Read a book with a character named EVE or FLYNN, or ARTHUR
🗡️Read a book with all the letters of EXCALIBUR in the title/subtitle/series
👦👦Read a book with brothers in the story

Great job team! We already have our first set of tasks.

From a first look through I can read a book for the SERPENT task, I already have it borrow.
I'll see if I have any other book for the others tasks.

I didnt want to lose the name lol

I can do any of them tbh, the character names will be the most i need to search for but I think I have an Eve book on my kindle! I can wait for everyone else to pick

I can do crown on cover.

I'll do brothers in the story

I can do Excalibur - Th[r]ee M[a]ges and a Margarita (Series name) - The Gu[i][l]d [C]od[e][x] Spell[b]o[u]nd by Annette Marie luckily it has lots of copies/wide open hold so should be able to get it on the 15th.

So far we have:

Season 1, Episode 1:

Tasks
👑Read a book with a crown on the cover > Dede
🐍Read a book that starts & ends with a letter in SERPENT > Juliana
🧑Read a book with a character named EVE or FLYNN, or ARTHUR > Aoife
🗡️Read a book with all the letters of EXCALIBUR in the title/subtitle/series > Elizabeth
👦👦Read a book with brothers in the story > Denise S

How it sounds for everyone?

Anyone want to be the Guardian/Captain of the team?

I could do it if none want to be it.

Also from the Q&A section, altough the challenge's start date is 15th Jan, early bird teams (aka already checked in) can start already.

So as soon we agree upon the divition of the tasks we could start reading for it. But no pressure, the challenge is self paced after all. :)

I'm good with you being captain Juliana & the breakdown of books! I'll find my book today to get started on

Murder at the Manor - a footman is named Arthur

Sounds good Juliana thank you

The Killing Stones by Ann Cleeves - brothers in the story - Iain and Lawrie

Sounds great Juliana!

Heir, Apparently by Kara McDowell

Just started my book! It's pretty short so I should have it done by tomorrow or the next day.

I'll be listening to The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst

Finished my Excalibur task!

Book: Three Mages and a Margarita
How it fits: Three M[a]ges and a Marga[ri]ta Series: The Guild [C]od[ex]: Spel[lb]o[u]nd
Pages: 312
Read: 1/5/2026

Finished my SERPENT task!

Book: The Spellshop
How it fits: The Spellshop
Pages: 377
Read: 1/6/2026

Finished my CROWN task!

Book: Heir, Apparently by Kara McDowell
How it fits: There is a crown on the cover
Pages: 336
Read: 01/07/26

Finished my BROTHERS task.

Book: The Killing Stones by Ann Cleeves
How it Fits: Two brothers are important characters in this book. To say why would be a spoiler!
Pages: 384
Read: 1.7.26

Completion Post

Book Murder at the Manor
Pages203
Date08-01
Task Character named Arthur
How it Fits Footman named Arthur Brown in the story

Has anyone checked us in? I see we are done

Elizabeth: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Julianna: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Dede: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Denise: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Aofe: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Checked us in!

Great job team!

Thanks Elizabeth for checking us in.

So what happens now? Does Donna wait until all teams are finished and then gives the second task?

Hope you don't mind my questions. Never did this before. Thanks!

Usually these type of challenges are at your own pace so when Donna comes on she'll probably update us along with any other threads that need it. You'll have the hang of it in no time Denise!

Thank you Elizabeth for checking us in!