Hooked on Books discussion

“Stay focused. Stay ready.”

👥 Team Roster
Jess
Richard
Jackie

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.

Hi all...checking in & clicking the Notify thingy

Hello!!! Can't wait to start!

Donna said that if Jackie has not checked in by noon EST, we can go ahead and check in.

👀 Two Sentinels accounted for...

Looks like you're still waiting for your ranks to fill.

I'll come back. 😈

'Tis Noon. I spun and checked us in! Hopefully Jackie shows up soon!

21. 🐂 Minotaur

“It does not chase you… it waits for you to lose your way.”

The Conclave has confirmed the presence of a Labyrinth-bound entity—one that does not rely on speed or strength, but on confusion.

It does not hunt in open ground.
It does not strike from afar.
It waits within the maze.

Paths twist where they should not.
Turns repeat where they should end.
And what felt like progress… leads you back to where you began.

It does not need to find you.
It does not need to follow.
It only needs you to wander long enough.

Some try to rush forward.
Some try to retrace their steps.
Some believe they understand the path.

And the maze proves them wrong.


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

“You are not escaping it. You are finding your way through it.”

⚠️ Conclave Note

Minotaurs are known to:
⭐trap others within complex paths or systems
⭐disorient and mislead rather than overpower
⭐require careful navigation to overcome
If you notice:
⭐repeated dead ends
⭐progress that feels uncertain
⭐or the sense that direction itself is unreliable…
👉 The path is not what it seems.



To capture the minotaur:
📖Read a chain of 3 books featuring a maze, puzzle, or complex path
📖Read a chain of 3 books containing a map, diagram, family tree, glossary, or other reference aid.
📖Read a chain of 3 books consisting of one standalone, one first book in a series, and one later book in a series. (Each team member must take a different path.)
📖Read a chain of 3 books where the greatest obstacle cannot be avoided.

I have standalones, 1st in series, and later book in a series. so can do any of them.
Richard/Jackie - do you have a preference?

I haven't heard from Jackie yet. Let's give her another day then I will send a Reserve over.

I'd prefer Standalone, if that's okay

I went ahead and added some colors on the spreadsheet to separate each chain. I have one book done and added 2 more I have planned. Will add the last once I know which prompt I am reading for Path (1st in series or later in series). I unfortunately need to finish a book I started on the 31st that is 960 pages before I start the next one. I will hopefully finish in the next 2 days. I mistakenly thought we could use books finished on the 1st forward. Didn't realize we couldn't start until the 1st.

Adding Rachel to your team..

Hello Rachel! Welcome to the team! On SS you can use the Jackie spots until the names are updated.

Hi Jess and Richard! I am happy to be on your team! Luckily I started this morning a book with a reference aid so I will add that to the spreadsheet.

@Jess- I can do either 1st in series or later on. I have both and so feel free to choose.

Hi Rachel!

Just curious, no rush. What is everyone's timeframe for getting their books done. Just trying to plan my books out (due dates are fun)!

RachelG. wrote: "Hi Jess and Richard! I am happy to be on your team! Luckily I started this morning a book with a reference aid so I will add that to the spreadsheet.

@Jess- I can do either 1st in series or later..."

I'll take later in the series.

I typically read a book a day and I try to get my group challenge books read before individual challenges so people aren't waiting on me, but I don't want anyone to feel pressure.

No pressure felt! I should actually be done with my 2nd book today. My 1st one was super short. I'm still annoyed I lost out on using my 960 page book. 100% my fault! Sorry team! I do have an 800 page book I am reading later this month. Fingers crossed it will fit a task!

Ooh! I just realized that one of my books is a Tier 3 BR! Woohoo!

Jess wrote: "Ooh! I just realized that one of my books is a Tier 3 BR! Woohoo!"

Nice!

Jess wrote: "No pressure felt! I should actually be done with my 2nd book today. My 1st one was super short. I'm still annoyed I lost out on using my 960 page book. 100% my fault! Sorry team! I do have an 800 p..."

I have a book that I am reading towards the end of the month which is almost 2000 pages. I really hope it works for something here.

I should be finished with my 3rd book today, maybe even 4th.

I'll put whatever I finish today in the thing.

I have finished 2 books today so far and hope to get a big chuck of my 3rd done.

Working on 3rd today!

I did "accidentally read" a 1st in series last night, but it was only 250 pages. My later in series in over 300. So depending on if Rachel started her 1st in series and if we want higher points or to finish Creature sooner will depend on how i post. Let me know what you want me to do. i may be going out tomorrow for most of the day tomorrow, so not sure how much reading will be done.

@Richard - Unfortunately Groundhog Day will not count because books have to be at minimum 100 pages per the challenge rules. It's so close.

I have several choices of books for series and was also planning on trying to figure out which book to read based on how long we might want to wait. I have a 250 page and a 800 page for 1st in series books and several 300ish page books for later in series. I am happy to go in any direction.

i'm all for the 800 page book if it's something you really want to read and what is due when for you. it could work for later prompts as well. its all a gamble.

Jess wrote: "@Richard - Unfortunately Groundhog Day will not count because books have to be at minimum 100 pages per the challenge rules. It's so close."

My mistake...I read the 112 page edition
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

I started reading the 800 page book and decided it was not for me. There was so much swearing! It was packed into almost every sentence and I typically go for a more cozy vibe. If we have to read a book out of our comfort zone I might go back to it.

I am really enjoying the book I am currently reading and hope to have it done by the end of the day.

🔁 TW-7: Echo

👉 Your current (or next) read must share something in common with a teammate’s book — theme, trope, setting, genre, character type, or another clear connection.

Find your echo. 🔁

Happy reading! 😈

Oh great.... we got visited by Twitch. (j/k)

My book is a litrpg fantasy, with a chosen hero trope, friendly character who is good at leading and cooking but he was brought into the world as a swap with a dark lord. Currently he is looking to buy a tavern. Does any of that line up with what you guys are reading?

RachelG. wrote: "Oh great.... we got visited by Twitch. (j/k)

My book is a litrpg fantasy, with a chosen hero trope, friendly character who is good at leading and cooking but he was brought into the world as a swa..."

I have a book that has a green character on the cover

Edit: a fictional green character on the cover!

@Richard- Great that works! I was just about to say that I am reading Death at Breakfast for my individual roundup and although I could swap the books if needed, Reborn as a Dark Lord gives us more points for the competition.

@Jess- It looks like both of your books are MPG Fantasy, so that would work as an echo with mine.

RachelG. wrote: "@Richard- Great that works! I was just about to say that I am reading Death at Breakfast for my individual roundup and although I could swap the books if needed, Reborn as a Dark Lord gives us more..."

All good...I have heaps of books to search through 😎

The book I will be reading is:

- Becoming Dr. Seuss: Theodor Geisel and the Making of an American Imagination

Just finished my 3rd book. Which is Fantasy! I mean my 4th will also be fantasy

Richard wrote: "The book I will be reading is:

- [book:Becoming Dr. Seuss: Theodor Geisel and the Making of an Ame..."

Please let me know if you enjoy the book! My son is a huge fan of the Dr. Seuss books.

I finished my book and updated the spreadsheet.

I'll need a day or 2

Richard wrote: "I'll need a day or 2"

No problem at all!

Finished my last book! Now trying to cram a book in that is due in 2 days.

Finished my book

I went ahead and checked us in. Is everyone comfortable doing the check-ins? If so, do we want the last person done to check us in in the future?

I am good with doing last person to check in.

Thanks Jess. Sure. Sorry I didn't do it this time...I get migraines a lot & am at capacity right now.

Richard wrote: "Thanks Jess. Sure. Sorry I didn't do it this time...I get migraines a lot & am at capacity right now."

I hope they go away quickly for you Richard. Migraines are no fun.