The Challenge Factory discussion

This is where the tasks will be announced every other Wednesday.

Task #1 Colors:

Each team will have the given task listed with their team name. Please note the given color doesn't have to be a certain percentage. It just needs to be visible.

Dates: 6/17 - 7/1



Cinderella: Cinderella is famous for her blue dress, read any book with something blue on the cover.

Peter Pan: Everyone knows Peter Pan wears green, read any book with something green on the cover.

Red Riding Hood: Red is famous for well her red cape! Read any book with something red on the cover.

Snow White: Snow White has white in the tile, read any book with something white on the cover.

Sleeping Beauty: Sleeping Beauty wears a pink dress. Read any book with something pink on the cover.

Little Mermaid: Ariel wears a purple shell top. Read any book with something purple on the cover.

Beauty & the Beast:Belle wears a yellow dress. Read any book with something yellow on the cover.

➜Colors don't have to be a certain percentage just visible enough without zooming your screen in a million times :)

Task #2, Villains

Dates: 7/1 - 7/14

Cinderella: Cinderella's step-mom ~ any book with a step parent or step sibling qualifies.

Peter Pan: Captain Hook ~ any book with a pirate or a thief/criminal qualifies.
(Clarification: must be a criminal of money, gold, jewels/jewelry, treasure and or gems)

Red Riding Hood: The Big Bad Wolf ~ any book with a werewolf qualifies.

Snow White: The Evil Queen ~ any book with a queen qualifies.

Sleeping Beauty: It was a fairy's curse that caused the great sleep ~ any book with a fairy qualifies.

Little Mermaid: Sea Witch ~ any book with a witch qualifies.

Beauty & the Beast: (substituting a minor tale)
Rumpelstiltskin: The Imp Rumpelstiltskin ~ any book with a demon qualifies.


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Welcome to Task 3, Themes & Plots!
Duration: 7/15/15-7/28/15

Each team will have 2 plots and themes to work with this go around for a little more flexibility. You will not have to complete 10 of each plot.

Cinderella:
Cinderella, Rags to Riches: Character(s) must have been poor, broke, in a servitude situation etc and come into money, riches, married into money, etc.
White Snake, Hunting for the Tree of Life: Characters must go on the hunt for the impossible/hard. This could be a hunt for a killer, hunt for an artifact etc.)

Beauty & the Beast:
Beauty & the Beast, Tortured/Scarred hero: Any hero that's scarred or tortured.
Jack & the Beanstalk, Single mom/Widow struggling to support her son:
Must have a single mom/widow struggling to support her kid(s), single dads are ok too.

Little Mermaid:
Little Mermaid, In love with someone you can't have: Character(s) must be in love with another species or someone they shouldn't be in love with.
Rapunzel, Given away at birth: A character would need to be adopted or adopting a child. This could be by another relative or non related person.

Snow White:
Snow White, Hired Killers Books with an assassin/assassination, murder for hire, military secret opp involving murder, serial killer, political murder, etc.
The Princess and the Pea, On the hunt for the perfect spouse: Character(s) would need to be marrying someone from their same station in life, species, race, etc.

Peter Pan:
Peter Pan, Leader of the Lost Boys: Book involving a gang, team, a brotherhood etc.
Pied Piper, Kidnapped/Missing Children:Books with missing person(s), kidnapping, ransom etc.

Sleeping Beauty:
Sleeping Beauty, The 100 year sleep: A parent, guardian, or even the relative of one who's lost their kid(s) for a period of time or indefinitely and/or a kid that's been lost, kidnapped, etc.
The Frog Prince, Spoiled princess: A character that's spoiled, a brat, or a royal character, someone of great privilege.

Red Riding Hood:
Red Riding Hood, Wolf pretending to be Red's Grandma:Character pretends to be something or someone else, could be pretending to be human, be undercover, etc.
Hansel & Gretel, Evil witch that eats children: Any kind of crime against children, victim of a child crime, etc.


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Welcome to Task 4, Genres:
Duration: 7/29-8/11

✦Each Team will have 2 genres assigned to them.
✦Sub genres are fine.
✦Any retelling will also fit the task for any team.
✦Like the last task you will not have to complete 10 of each genre.
✦For rulings on genres, we'll use the same ruling we've been using on retellings.
A )If you know it's obviously the correct genre, roll with it
B) If it's been shelved at least 5 times as the given genre
C) If it's on a listopia for the specified genre


Beauty & the Beast:
Beauty & the Beast ~ Fantasy
Rumplestiltskin ~ Mystery

Cinderella:
Cinderella ~ Romance
Pinocchio ~ YA

Snow White:
Snow White ~ Historical
The Turnip ~ Thriller

Sleeping Beauty:
Sleeping Beauty ~ Romance
The Seven Ravens ~ Mythology

Peter Pan:
Peter Pan ~ Fantasy
Pied Piper ~ Thriller

Red Riding Hood:
Red Riding Hood ~ Horror
Hansel & Gretel ~ YA

Little Mermaid:
Little Mermaid ~ Romance
Rapunzel ~ Fantasy


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Welcome to Task #5, Hair Colors
Duration: 8/12/15-8/25/15

⋙Each Team will have 1 hair color assigned to them.
⋙Books where the person on the cover has the given hair color will qualify
⋙Books where the MC has the given hair color.
**What qualifies as the MC**
They are in the majority of the book
They are mentioned in the blurb
They are on the character tab on the book's page here on GR

Snow White:
Snow White has black hair

Little Mermaid:
Ariel has red hair

Sleeping Beauty:
Aurora has blonde hair

Peter Pan:
Peter has red hair

Red Riding Hood:
Goldilocks has blonde hair

Beauty & The Beast
Belle has brown hair

Cinderella:
Cinderella has blonde hair

Sandy wrote: "Re Books with a demon on the cover - if its a person on the cover and the book is about demons, do we get to assume that is a demon on the cover (unless it's obviously not?) Or do they have to loo..."

The demon needs to be a character or the theme in the book.

Megan wrote: "So for the witch for Little Mermaid... does the story have to have a witch in it? Or can the word "witch" in the title or a witch on the cover count, too?

I mean, more than likely if the book has ..."


Same thing the witch needs to be in the story

Peter Pan: Captain Hook ~ any book with a pirate or a thief/criminal qualifies


Jenne -- the way this is worded, I've be going with a mention of a pirate or criminal (within your definition) counts, but your answers are leading me to believe that you mean a larger role than that

Cinderalla is a bit easier for an example. If a step mother stopped by to say hi, but had no other role in the book, I would count this.

Financial crimes like these okay?

embezzling
ponzi scheme
extortion
con men
insider trading/securities fraud
insurance/credit card fraud, identity theft
tax evasion
money laundering
forgery


What about smuggling and bootlegging?

Susan A wrote: "Financial crimes like these okay?

embezzling
ponzi scheme
extortion
con men
insider trading/securities fraud
insurance/credit card fraud, identity theft
tax evasion
money laundering
forgery


What..."

Susan, I think the Mods were looking to make Criminal specific to Pirates by linking it to things that pirates common steal. Hence the financial crimes. So just simply being a "Con man" isn't specific enough.

The booty needs to be of significance.
Ex of a YES: A theft of the Mona Lisa
Ex of a No: Insider trading, identity theft, tax evasion, extortion

I will put this list for the mods to look at.

P.S. Awesome questions for clarifications BTW!

Jenne wrote: "Sandy wrote: "Re Books with a demon on the cover - if its a person on the cover and the book is about demons, do we get to assume that is a demon on the cover (unless it's obviously not?) Or do th..."

Thanks!!

For Red riding hood. Werewolf is good but what about a plain wolf?

For Stepfamily, do they have to be in the story or can they just be mentioned in the storyline?

No plain wolfs. Werewolves are pretty easy to come by.

For step family, they need to be in it (even if only for a minute) or be mentioned enough to where you know the character has step family.

For example if the mc has a stepmom and mentions her a lot but there's not any real scenes in the story of them interacting that's ok.

The Secret Casebook of Simon Feximal without reading the book, it looks like at some point they are investigating a grave robbery in which the grave was rumored to hold treasure..whether or not the treasure was there to be stolen, I won't know until I read it.

Is this enough, or will have to read it first to see if it counts?

Glen & Tyler's Scottish Troubles doing a word seach I can see that at some point in the book they find a pirate's treasure map and go on a treasure hunt..again, until I read it, I don't know whether or not they ever find any treasure.
Does it fit the task?

Susan A wrote: "The Secret Casebook of Simon Feximal without reading the book, it looks like at some point they are investigating a grave robbery in which the grave was rumored to hold treasure..w..."

let me get back to you, okay?

Susan, Ezi and I were just talking about it and treasure hunters will work too :)

I bet there's some Egyptian artifact thief books out there. I'd be surprised if there wasn't.

Jenne wrote: "Susan, Ezi and I were just talking about it and treasure hunters will work too :)

I bet there's some Egyptian artifact thief books out there. I'd be surprised if there wasn't."

Like one of my all time favorites...

Maybe it's time for a re-read :)

by Jane Harvey-Berrick ---are we counting "H" or "B" as the last name?
I would say H...but I will defer to any librarians or experts in this area?

I'd think H too, if it was listed in the phone book it would be in the H's.

Jenne wrote: "I'd think H too, if it was listed in the phone book it would be in the H's."

Thanks. It doesn't work anyway for author's initials

Does the fairy have to be throughout the book or can the fairy appear in just one chapter?

For the step-sibling challenge, would the Harry Potter books work? Or Into the Lair?

In Into the Lair, Ian and Braden are brothers. Their team leader (they are former military who still work together as they once did) considers them as close as his brothers and married a woman they now all work with. I'm not sure if this qualifies as a step-sibling relationship or not. Help?

Jennifer one chapter is enough :)

Holli I haven't read the Harry Potter books. I'm not sure if there's any stepparents or step siblings in it. Anyone know?

For into the lair someone that considers them family but not actual relation wouldn't work. Ian and Braden would need their mom or dad to marry someone and or if the new spouse had kids.

I don't *think* there's any step-siblings in Harry Potter. The Dursleys never claim Harry as their own so Dudley is still just his cousin. And all of Ron's siblings are full siblings. Hermione's an only child, so are Neville and Luna, I think. I'm trying to run down a checklist of all the characters in my head and I'm going to feel really dumb if I miss one, but I can't think of any.

Jenne - will Ritual Magic and Unbinding work for fairy/fae. Ritual Magic shelved Fae 8 times and fairies 2 times. Unbinding shelved 13 times as Fae. Is it the same as. Is it the same as Fairytale retelling where it has to be shelved at least 5 times?

It'll need to have an actual fairy/fae character in it (they only have to be in there for a second). There's a few of our members playing that have read them. If you want I can ask them if they remember.

Jenne wrote: "It'll need to have an actual fairy/fae character in it (they only have to be in there for a second). There's a few of our members playing that have read them. If you want I can ask them if they rem..."

No worries Jenne - I can ask Leslie - I know she has finished out the series. Pretty sure they are going to be in the last two books. Thanks :)

For the theif/criminal...Does one of the MCs have to be a theif? I'm reading a book where their jewel-encrusted war sword is stolen and they go after the theives.

No doesn't have to be an MC. That scenario would work just fine :)

Sweet! Thank you. :)

thief/criminal: in this book I read the killer (not a MC) stole a badge (a piece of jewelry - a gold plated pin)from his victim. is it ok?

Stella ╰☆╮ Mistress of Gorgonzola Goodness╰☆╮ wrote: "thief/criminal: in this book I read the killer (not a MC) stole a badge (a piece of jewelry - a gold plated pin)from his victim. is it ok?"

The mods are discussing

I told Melissa that the Fae play a pretty prominent role in the last book for sure and I'm pretty sure in the second to last one as well.

I need to start that series one day.

Jenne wrote: "Holli I haven't read the Harry Potter books. I'm not sure if there's any stepparents or step siblings in it. Anyone know?

For into the lair someone that considers them family but not actual relati..."

Kind of what I was thinking, but I wanted to make sure. Thanks!

no steps in harry potter. there are siblings and twins. aunts, uncle cousins and parents

I'm reading Training Season, not a pirate book but the pirate word is mentioned. Can I count it for the pirate / criminal task???

How's pirate mentioned in it?

How's pirate mentioned in it?

(view spoiler)[Matty couldn’t believe the number of people in the crowd. There were so many insane folks in the town that they’d actually been cordoned off into groups to take turns jumping in. Many of them were dressed far more outlandishly than Bill and Angus — he saw one man wearing a toga and another dressed as a pirate — and all of them were going to jump into the frigid, dark water. (hide spoiler)]

Jenne -

Just finished The Water Knife. One of the main power players in the book is frequently referred to and known as the "Queen of the Colorado" or "Queen of the River".

Would this count for the task? Thanks!

It would :)

Do half siblings count or only step?

I am not sure if there is a stepmother yet

Gotta be step family.

Thanks

“Let’s pretend we’re orphans for the day.”
“I’d prefer pirate captain and sweet young cabin boy, but orphans works for me,” Cal said.

Enough?