Hooked on Books discussion

“Stay focused. Stay ready.”

👥 Team Roster
Shan
Laura
AngelaH

Team SS
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...


📜 Rules
⭐Teams may only have one active creature at a time + one bonus if assigned (bonuses are optional)
⭐All creature requirements must be fully completed before turn-in
⭐All turn-ins must be posted in The Nightbound Conclave
⭐A Conclave Dial result is required to receive your next assignment
⭐Follow all instructions issued by the Conclave
⭐Standard Rules Apply

🔗 Chain Rules (Read This Carefully)
To capture most creatures, your team will complete chains.
Each chain requires 3 books total
Each team member contributes 1 book per chain
👉 You may split the work as needed:
One member may complete 2 books in a chain
BUT no single player may complete all 3 books in a chain


🔗 Important Links
❓ Q&A: The Conclave Inquiry Desk
📜 Scoreboard: The Conclave Ledger (competitive only)
🌑 Check-In / Turn-In: The Nightbound Conclave
🗂️ Collectibles
🗒️ Feedback

👁️ Thread Use
This thread is for:
⭐Planning your reads
⭐Coordinating with your team
⭐General discussion
“What happens here… is still seen.”

⚠️ Advisory
Something may… interfere.

🔮 The Conclave’s Favor (Fallback Hunt)

When a hunt proves too elusive, the Conclave may offer… an alternative path.

During the challenge, each player may call upon the Conclave for guidance.

Instead of completing a difficult or overly specific task, you may:

👉 Roll 2d6 or 1d12 https://rolladie.net/#!numbers=1&...
👉 Complete the assigned task below instead
👉 Your book will still count as a full chain link

🎯 The Conclave’s Boon Table
🎲 1. Color of the Veil
Read a book where one color makes up at least 50% of the cover

🎲 2. Marked by the Beast
Read a book with an animal or creature on the cover

🎲 3. Hunter’s Tool
Read a book with a weapon or tool on the cover
(blade, staff, gun, bow, etc.)

🎲 4. Whispered Name
Read a book with a specific word in the title
👉 Roll 1d6:
1–2: Blood
3–4: Shadow
5–6: Fire

🎲 5. Echoes in the Text
Read a book where the assigned word appears at least twice in the title, synopsis, or text.
👉 Roll 1d6:
1–2: Dark
3–4: Death
5–6: Power

🎲 6. Domain of the Hunt
Read a book set primarily in:
👉 Roll 1d6:
1–2: Forest
3–4: City
5–6: Water (ocean, river, or lake)

🎲 7. The Unnatural
Read a book featuring a supernatural or non-human element

🎲 8. Marked Soul
Read a book with a main character who is cursed, transformed, or hunted

🎲 9. Cycle of Conflict
Read a book that includes one of these themes:
Revenge
Survival
Sacrifice

🎲 10. Cover of Omen
Read a book with:
A face, OR
A single prominent object on the cover

🎲 11. Hidden Thread
Read a book with:
A map, symbol, sigil, emblem, crest, or other meaningful marking connected to the story.

🎲 12. The Hunter’s Choice
Read a book that clearly fits the supernatural, horror, or fantasy realm
(Must be justifiable—no unrelated reads)

⚖️ Rules & Restrictions
⭐ Each Hunter receives 1 Conclave Boon during the challenge.
🔗 One Boon may replace one eligible task and counts as one completed chain link.
📣 The Boon must be declared before finishing the book.
🎲 Once rolled, the assigned Boon task must be completed — no rerolls.
📖 One qualifying book completes one Boon task.
📖 HOB Standard Rules Apply
🚫 Boons cannot replace Tasks #11, #14, #19, or #23.


🌒 Veilbound Advantage (backup players)
Veilbound Reserves may carry a maximum of 3 Veil Sigils with them when called into the main hunt. Sigils are earned while playing in the Veilbound Reserves and are available only to those players.

🔮 Each Veil Sigil may be exchanged for 1 additional Conclave Boon use.
✨ Once exchanged, that Sigil is spent.
🎲 Additional Boons use the same Boon Table and rules as the player's original Boon.
🚫 The same task restrictions apply.

Hello. Checking in😁

Hi Team! Just checking in.

Hey checking in

👀 Well, well, well... The Veil Wardens are all here.

That's nice.

Do you three plan on hunting anytime soon, or should I come back later? 😈

Spun the wheel and checked us in

Shan ~A~ wrote: "Spun the wheel and checked us in"

thanks Shan just got on Laptop now, i need to play a round to understand what im doing LOL

Im still trying to understand what to do…. Are we now just waiting on our first tasks?

Sorry guys... been a long day but your tasks are here

14. 👻 Ghost

👻 Ghost Encounter: Signs of the Haunting

⚠️ CONCLAVE INTERRUPTION
The entity has not resisted.
It has not fled.
It has… remained.
“It does not force its presence…
It waits for you to notice it.”

Something is wrong.

Not violently.
Not clearly.
Just… wrong.


👁️ The Haunting
This is not a battle.
This is not a binding.
👉 This is a recognition
The Haunting reveals itself through signs.


👥 Your Task
To resolve the Haunting:
👉 Your team must complete three signs (read a book that fits each of the manifestations chosen)
Each sign must be completed with one book
Each sign must be completed by a different team member
❗ No duplicates
❗ No doubling up

🔮 The Signs (choose one sign each and interpret it your way)
The Conclave has identified the following manifestations:
⭐Something hidden or unseen
⭐Something repeated or returning
⭐Something that feels “off” or not quite right
⭐A connection to the past or memory
⭐A distorted or unreliable perception
⭐A truth that is revealed


👁️ Conclave Observation
As you progress, the Conclave will observe your choices.
“Not all signs carry the same weight…”
After your team submits its three completed signs:
👉 The Conclave will respond.

🔍 Final Directive
Once your signs are recognized:
The presence fades.
The Haunting ends.
“It was never trying to harm you…
Only to be understood.”

Bonus 8: 🦊 Kitsune

“It does not lie… it simply lets you believe what you want.”

The Conclave has identified a cunning anomaly—clever, elusive, and always one step ahead.

It does not confront.
It does not linger.

👉 It outsmarts.

To resolve this anomaly:
Complete the following:

📖Read a book featuring cleverness, trickery, or outsmarting another
📖Read a book by an author who has published 9 or more books. (One for each tail!)
📖Read a book where experience or wisdom gives a character an advantage.

Woohoo…we got our tasks! Im still trying to wrap my head around this…

For task #14- I can complete:
⭐Something that feels “off” or not quite right

I was just reviewing the rules…we have to decide IF we are completing the bonus. If we do, the bonus has to be submitted at the same time as our original task. My vote is to complete the bonus. I can do the 2nd or 3rd task. (Author with more than 9 books OR character advantage)

I just completed a book that works with ⭐A truth that is revealed

Do you want to complete the bonus?

My book also works for
⭐Something hidden or unseen
⭐Something repeated or returning
⭐A distorted or unreliable perception
⭐A truth that is revealed

Laura, let me know if the original one I chose works best for you and I can switch.

For the bonus, if we choose to read for it, do you have a preference?

📖Read a book featuring cleverness, trickery, or outsmarting another
📖Read a book by an author who has published 9 or more books. (One for each tail!)
📖Read a book where experience or wisdom gives a character an advantage.

Shan ~A~ wrote: "Do you want to complete the bonus?"

Yes, I think we should do it.

Shan ~A~ wrote: "I just completed a book that works with ⭐A truth that is revealed"

I seen you submitted this on the ss. Can you review the rules on the 1st ss tab? I think we have to wait to submit the main tasks until we submit the bonus?

Im so confused; because wouldn’t that technically be banking books if we wait to submit until we also complete the bonus? Or do we use the same book for the main task and bonus?

The bonus is optional

Shan ~A~ wrote: "The bonus is optional"

Do you want to do the bonus?

Please know that I asked you to review the rules because I’m not understanding how the bonuses work and wanted to see if you understood them better than me. But, rereading my comment Im worried I came off bossy. That wasn’t my intention. Im just not understanding how to play that part. I did also post in the Q&A.

I always want to do all the things, however, majority rules. If you guys don't want to, I'm fine with that.

im happy to try too

Shan ~A~ wrote: "My book also works for
⭐Something hidden or unseen
⭐Something repeated or returning
⭐A distorted or unreliable perception
⭐A truth that is revealed

Laura, let me know if the original one I chose ..."

If i could grab where a truth is revealed if your books fit elsewhere that would be great thanks shan

Sounds good!

Which bonus task would you like?

Completion Post

14. 👻 Ghost

⭐A truth that is revealed

- The Perfect Child

1st September

At the End of the Book Becky's killer is revealed


Bonus
📖Read a book featuring cleverness, trickery, or outsmarting another

- Thicker Than Gold

1st September

features prominent elements of trickery, cleverness, and outsmarting, driven by its central themes of palace intrigue and political survival.

Angela, which of the two Bonus tasks would you like? I'll take the remaining one.

ok im not sure what im doing onSS..... hopefully its right... if not sorry

I think you're good. I added your bonus category.

thankks Hun ;-)

Shan ~A~ wrote: "I always want to do all the things, however, majority rules. If you guys don't want to, I'm fine with that."

I agree with you😊 I like completing all of the tasks too.

Completion post: #14 - Ghost

⭐Something that feels “off” or not quite right

9-1-26
MC feels something is “off” with company merging people’s minds.

Bonus:
📖Read a book by an author who has published 9 or more books.

- still working on, should finish today
Author published more than 9 books

Shan ~A~ wrote: "Angela, which of the two Bonus tasks would you like? I'll take the remaining one."

I’ll take author with 9 or more…
Thanks.

Great! I'll find one for the other. My current book doesn't seem to be the one.

My books are completed.

I found a book for the bonus, that I'll start shortly. Hopefully, I'll be able to finish it by this time tomorrow.

Sounds good. Thanks.

We are checked in, ladies!

Awesome! Thanks!

20. 🦅 Griffin

“It does not attack without reason… and it does not yield without cause.”

The Conclave has confirmed the presence of a Guardian-bound entity—one that embodies both strength and precision.

It does not overwhelm.
It does not endure.
It balances.

Wings that command the sky.
Claws that hold the ground.
A presence that is neither reckless nor passive.

It does not act without purpose.
It does not defend without reason.
It does not grant passage lightly.

Some seek to challenge it.
Some seek to outmaneuver it.
Some believe strength alone is enough.

And they learn… that strength without balance is never enough.


🔗 Containment Protocol
🦴 Limbs Identified: 4
🔗 Chains Required: 4
📚 Total Books Needed: 12

“You are not overpowering it. You are proving you can stand before it.”

⚠️ Conclave Note

Griffins are known to:
⭐guard with purpose, not instinct
⭐act with both strength and control
⭐require balance to overcome
If you notice:
⭐opposing forces working together
⭐strength paired with restraint
⭐or the need to approach with more than one strategy…
👉 Balance is required.


To capture the griffin:
📖Read a chain of 3 books featuring balance between opposing forces (strength vs control, logic vs emotion, etc.)
📖Read a chain of 3 books where two very different characters must rely on each other.
📖Read a chain of 3 books obtained in three different ways. (Each team member must use a different source—for example purchased, borrowed/library, gifted, or subscription.)
📖Read a chain of 3 books where success requires more than one approach or perspective

For "📖Read a chain of 3 books obtained in three different ways. (Each team member must use a different source—for example purchased, borrowed/library, gifted, or subscription.)"

Which do you want to do since we have to pick different sources? I can do either.

I read from several different sources (Libby, Kindle Unlimited, purchased ebooks, and my own physical library) so Im fine using any of those.

Are we planning to each do one task from the 4 prompts?

We each have to read a book for each task to form a chain. That's just the only one where we have to choose a different source.

Basically we choose either borrowed, subscription, bought, gifted, etc...

Since you have all as well, I'll wait to Laura checks in tell us her preference before I choose a book for that task.

Remember this for chains
🔗 Chain Rules (Read This Carefully)
To capture most creatures, your team will complete chains.
Each chain requires 3 books total
Each team member contributes 1 book per chain
👉 You may split the work as needed:
One member may complete 2 books in a chain
BUT no single player may complete all 3 books in a chain

You can also use the Conclave if there is a task you'd prefer not to complete.

See message 2

I am good with reading for all of these tasks. Two of the books I was currently reading worked for the tasks! If either of you don’t want to read for any of the tasks, let me know I could read a second for that task.

🧩 TW-17: Focus — Team Edition
👉 The entire team may only work on one chain at a time until your next completion.

Happy reading! 😈

Just when I thought I was understanding this challenge… we can only work on one chain at a time. 🤪 I had already submitted 2 tasks. How do you guys want to work this?

I just asked in the Q&A how to proceed if someone had already posted prior to the curveball.

Shan ~A~ wrote: "I just asked in the Q&A how to proceed if someone had already posted prior to the curveball."

Good idea. Thanks.