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⚔️ TITAN DUEL — QUICK START GUIDE

Welcome to the arena, Titans. Your duel begins now.

You do not need to memorize everything—just follow the flow below and use the Command Center as your guide.

Duelists
Michelle
Kassandra

📌 IMPORTANT LINKS
📜 Command Center (Full Rules & Powers)
👉 https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

⚔️ Roll Call of Titans (Duelist gameplay happens here)
👉 https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

⚔️ Hall of the Wandering Pantheon (Free Agent game play)
👉https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

🔮 Oracle of Clarification (Questions)
👉 https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

📊 Scoreboard & Status
👉https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

🏛️ YOUR DUEL TAG
👉 🏛️ Duel #2
You MUST include this at the top of every Roll Call post.

🔱 STEP 1 — CHOOSE YOUR TITAN
Go to Roll Call and claim your Titan.

⚠️ Rules:
First claim gets the Titan
No duplicates within your duel
Your choice is locked once posted
See Command Center for Titan details

📖 STEP 2 — READ & POST >
When you finish a book, post in Roll Call:
🏛️ Duel #
🔱 Action Type: Check-In
Titan:
Book:
Date:
Pages:
Domain Match: (brief explanation)
Perfect Match: (if applicable)
Devour Time: (if used)

Timing matters so post your books ASAP - no hoarding
👉 Mods handle all scoring.

⚡ STEP 3 — USE YOUR POWER
As you read, you will:
✔ Earn tokens
✔ Use attacks and defenses
✔ Activate Titan Powers
👉 All actions must be posted in Roll Call.

💀 QUICK GAME RULES
Effects apply to your next book only
Only ONE effect can be active at a time
Actions are processed in the order posted
You have 24 hours to respond to sabotages
Standard Rules apply

🏆 YOUR GOAL
Earn more points than your opponent before the challenge ends.
One Titan rises. One falls.

🧠 REMEMBER
👉 Read → Post → Earn → Spend
👉 Use Roll Call for EVERYTHING
👉 Check the Command Center if unsure

🌌 FINAL WORD
You don’t need to master the system to begin.
Step into the arena.
Make your move. 😈

Action Type: Titan Selection
Duel Tag - #2
Titan: 🌊 Oceanus — Waters & Depths

Where's Michelle hiding? No books yet? I have vacation scheduled for June 10-13 so it's too early for that.

🏛️ Duel # 2
🔱 Action Type: Check-In
Titan: 🌊 Oceanus — Waters & Depths
Book: This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me by Ilona Andrews
Date: 6/5/26
Pages: 470
Domain Match: Oceanus — Waters & Depths
⭐Ocean / rivers / islands
⭐Blue covers
⭐Emotional or atmospheric reads
Perfect Match: Yes - Blue cover and the book is heavy on emotion. because Maggie is not from that world and since she was sent into a book world, she is familiar with what will happen. She attempts to try and change what will happen to certain characters that she has come to love. Kair Toren is also a port.
Devour Time: N/A

🏛️ Duel # 2
🔱 Action Type: Check-In
Titan: 🌊 Oceanus — Waters & Depths
Book: Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Date: 6/7/26
Pages: 153
Domain Match: Oceanus — Waters & Depths
⭐Ocean / rivers / islands
⭐Blue covers
⭐Emotional or atmospheric reads
Domain Match - Emotional read - Dystopian novel based on a society that only allows you to have 2 children. Those who have a 3rd child must hide said child from society. This child will never go to school, have friends, or go out and do things that a normal child will do.
Perfect Match: No
Devour Time: N/A

🔮 Whisper of Fate
Laurie Locke, KC & Michelle have been favored by prophecy.
Their next completed book will gain +10 points.

👁 Veil Revelation
Dede & Michelle must now declare their next read before beginning it.
The Library sees what comes before it is written.

🏛️ Duel # 2
🔱 Action Type: Check-In
Titan: 🌊 Oceanus — Waters & Depths
Book: Beneath a Meth Moon by Jacqueline Woodson
Date: 6/15/26
Pages: 182
Domain Match: Oceanus — Waters & Depths
⭐Ocean / rivers / islands
⭐Blue covers
⭐Emotional or atmospheric reads

Domain Match - An emotional read of a teenage girl who lost her mom and grandmother in a hurricane. Afye moving to a new place she hooks up with a boy who introduces her to meth and she becomes a struggling addict.

🏛️ Duel # 2
🔱 Action Type: Check-In
Titan: 🌊 Oceanus — Waters & Depths
Book: Wave by Eric Walters -
Date: 6/19/26
Pages: 208
Domain Match: Oceanus — Waters & Depths
⭐Ocean / rivers / islands
⭐Blue covers
⭐Emotional or atmospheric reads

Perfect Match: Yes - Set in Phuket Thailand in 2004 when a Tsunami hit the coastline. Sam and his sister lose their parents that day. The book is quite heartbreaking and emotional as Sam describes the aftermath of what happened.

🏛️ Duel # 2
🔱 Action Type: Check-In
Titan: 🌊 Oceanus — Waters & Depths
Book: Torn Apart: The Internment Diary of Mary Kobayashi by Susan Aihoshi -
Date: 6/25/26
Pages: 216
Domain Match: Oceanus — Waters & Depths
⭐Ocean / rivers / islands
⭐Blue covers
⭐Emotional or atmospheric reads

Set in Vancouver, BC during WW2. After Pearl Harbor is bombed by the Japanese, Distrust against those of that racial identity is heavy among Canada. Those who are Japanese are removed from their homes and sent to internment camps in the middle of the country, far away from their homes.

🏛️ Duel # 2
🔱 Action Type: Check-In
Titan: 🌊 Oceanus — Waters & Depths
Book: The Calamity Club by Kathryn Stockett
Date: 6/27/26
Pages: 656
Domain Match: Oceanus — Waters & Depths
⭐Ocean / rivers / islands
⭐Blue covers
⭐Emotional or atmospheric reads
Perfect Match: No

Blue on the cover & and Emotional read

Set in 1933 in Mississippi during the depression.

Birdie travels to see her sister Frances to ask for money.
Charlie is released from jail and trying to get her daughter back.
Frances is having trouble with her husband Rory
Mrs. Tartt, who was one of the wealthiest people in town winds up broke and about to lose her house thanks to her son Rory.
Meg, Charlie's daughter, who is at an orphanage is being abused and mistreated. Everything falls apart before it comes back together in the end.

🏛️ Duel # 2
🔱 Action Type: Check-In
Titan: 🌊 Oceanus — Waters & Depths
Book: Prisoner of Night by J.R. Ward
Date: 6/27/26
Pages: 176
Domain Match: Oceanus — Waters & Depths
⭐Ocean / rivers / islands
⭐Blue covers
⭐Emotional or atmospheric reads
Perfect Match: No

⭐Emotional or atmospheric reads - There are no lengths that Ahmare will not go to, to save her brother from a sadistic vampire who has abducted him.

🏛️ Duel # 2
🔱 Action Type: Check-In
Titan: 🌊 Oceanus — Waters & Depths
Book: Junkyard War by Faith Hunter -
Date: 7/1/26
Pages: 175
Domain Match: Oceanus — Waters & Depths
⭐Ocean / rivers / islands
⭐Blue covers
⭐Emotional or atmospheric reads
Perfect Match: No

⭐Emotional or atmospheric reads - Shining has been a loner for most of her life, but she is starting to have friends and people who depend on her. She will move heaven and earth now to help someone out, even going to war with someone.

🏛️ Duel # 2
🔱 Action Type: Check-In
Titan: 🌊 Oceanus — Waters & Depths
Book: Junkyard Roadhouse by Faith Hunter
Date: 7/2/26
Pages: 155
Domain Match: Oceanus — Waters & Depths
⭐Ocean / rivers / islands
⭐Blue covers
⭐Emotional or atmospheric reads
Perfect Match: No

⭐Emotional or atmospheric reads - Anse's daughter was kidnapped by a motorcycle gang and he enlists the help from Shining and her crew.

🏛️ Duel # 2
🔱 Action Type: Check-In
Titan: 🌊 Oceanus — Waters & Depths
Book: My Darkest Prayer by S.A. Cosby
Date: 7/4/26
Pages: 288
Domain Match: Oceanus — Waters & Depths
⭐Ocean / rivers / islands
⭐Blue covers
⭐Emotional or atmospheric reads
Perfect Match: No

⭐Emotional or atmospheric reads - The MC's parents were killed by a drunk driver and the sheriff's dept. let the guy off scott free because he had money and clout. When a pastor of a church is killed, his parishners offer him $4,000 to look into the crime. When he does, it opens a can of worms and his life becomes in danger.

⭐Ocean / rivers / islands - Set near the James River in Virginia.

🏛️ Duel # 2
🔱 Action Type: Check-In
Titan: 🌊 Oceanus — Waters & Depths
Book: The Blood of the Bigfoot by Michael R. Cole
Date: 7/6/26
Pages: 156
Domain Match: Oceanus — Waters & Depths
⭐Ocean / rivers / islands
⭐Blue covers
⭐Emotional or atmospheric reads
Perfect Match: No

⭐Blue covers


⭐Emotional or atmospheric reads - a group of people try to make it out of the woods alive while a sasquatch is terrorizing them. People die one by one in the most horrific ways.

🏛️ Duel # 2
🔱 Action Type: Check-In
Titan: 🌊 Oceanus — Waters & Depths
Book: Snake-Eater by T. Kingfisher
Date: 7/7/26
Pages: 267
Domain Match: Oceanus — Waters & Depths
⭐Ocean / rivers / islands
⭐Blue covers
⭐Emotional or atmospheric reads

Perfect Match: No

⭐Emotional or atmospheric reads - Selena has suffered emotional abuse at the hands of her mother and then by her partner Walter. When she first comes to Quartz Creek she has no confidence and refers to herself as being a burden and has scripts that she uses in conversation that she thinks others want to hear.

🏛️ Duel # 2
🔱 Action Type: Check-In
Titan: 🌊 Oceanus — Waters & Depths
Book: Stay Out of the Woods: Strange Encounters, Volume 3 by Tom Lyons
Date: 7/8/26
Pages: 113
Domain Match: Oceanus — Waters & Depths
⭐Ocean / rivers / islands
⭐Blue covers
⭐Emotional or atmospheric reads

⭐Emotional or atmospheric reads - This is the the 3rd installment of the Stay out of the woods series. These are short accounts of strange encounters that people have had while camping, hiking, or just hanging out near wooded areas. People have had all sorts of encounters from running into supernatural entities or some sort of cryptid. Regardless of whether they are true or not the people recounting the stories believe they saw something that scared the all mighy hell out of them.

🏛️ Duel # 2
🔱 Action Type: Check-In
Titan: 🌊 Oceanus — Waters & Depths
Book: Stay Out of the Woods: Strange Encounters, Volume 4
Date: 7/9/26
Pages: 117
Domain Match: Oceanus — Waters & Depths
⭐Ocean / rivers / islands
⭐Blue covers
⭐Emotional or atmospheric reads

⭐Emotional or atmospheric reads - This is the the 4th installment of the Stay out of the woods series. These are short accounts of strange encounters that people have had while camping, hiking, or just hanging out near wooded areas. People have had all sorts of encounters from running into supernatural entities or some sort of cryptid. Regardless of whether they are true or not the people recounting the stories believe they saw something that scared the all mighy hell out of them.

🏛️ Duel # 2
🔱 Action Type: Check-In
Titan: 🌊 Oceanus — Waters & Depths
Book: Stay Out of the Woods: Strange Encounters, Volume 5
Date: 7/10/26
Pages: 115
Domain Match: Oceanus — Waters & Depths
⭐Ocean / rivers / islands
⭐Blue covers
⭐Emotional or atmospheric reads

⭐Emotional or atmospheric reads - This is the the 5th installment of the Stay out of the woods series. These are short accounts of strange encounters that people have had while camping, hiking, or just hanging out near wooded areas. People have had all sorts of encounters from running into supernatural entities or some sort of cryptid. Regardless of whether they are true or not the people recounting the stories believe they saw something that scared the all mighy hell out of them.

🏛️ Duel # 2
🔱 Action Type: Check-In
Titan: 🌊 Oceanus — Waters & Depths
Book: Origin in Death by J.D. Robb
Date: 7/13/26
Pages: 347
Domain Match: Oceanus — Waters & Depths
⭐Ocean / rivers / islands
⭐Blue covers
⭐Emotional or atmospheric reads

⭐Blue covers


⭐Emotional or atmospheric reads - Eve is dealing with a case where the individual that was murdered was considered a great man. The more she digs the more she discovers that he was engaging in research that was unethical.

⭐Emotional or atmospheric reads

🏛️ Duel # 2
🔱 Action Type: Check-In
Titan: 🌊 Oceanus — Waters & Depths
Book: I Survived the Great Chicago Fire, 1871 by Lauren Tarshis
Date: 7/14/26
Pages: 112
Domain Match: Oceanus — Waters & Depths
⭐Ocean / rivers / islands
⭐Blue covers
⭐Emotional or atmospheric reads

⭐Ocean / rivers / islands - Oscar must jump from a bridge into the Chicago River to escape The Fire

⭐Emotional or atmospheric reads - Oscar's first day in his new city and not only does he get his luggage stolen, the city also starts to burn down.

🏛️ Duel # 2
🔱 Action Type: Check-In
Titan: 🌊 Oceanus — Waters & Depths
Book: Tahoma Valley by C.E. Osborn
Date: 7/16/26
Pages: 152
Domain Match: Oceanus — Waters & Depths
⭐Ocean / rivers / islands
⭐Blue covers
⭐Emotional or atmospheric reads

⭐Blue covers - Blue Cover


⭐Emotional or atmospheric reads - Things become quite emotional when everyone is being attacked by the Dogman.

🏛️ Duel # 2
🔱 Action Type: Check-In
Titan: 🌊 Oceanus — Waters & Depths
Book: Junkyard Riders: Shining Smith, Book 5
Date: 7/18/26
Pages: 163
Domain Match: Oceanus — Waters & Depths
⭐Ocean / rivers / islands
⭐Blue covers


⭐Emotional or atmospheric reads - Emotions run high as Shining and her crew battle another Motorcycle Club called the Dark Riders.