Intro You basically have no skills, but some wizard picked you for this? Weird choice but okay. I’m your narrator, by the way. Welcome to your journey to save the kingdom. There’s books falling on citizens and no one knows why, but we may all be buried in books soon. It’s up to you to make it stop. Let me give you more backstory here, I know you just woke up. Get some coffee. Or tea, or whatever. Just wake up, stop yawning. It’s the kingdom of Shelfla, you live here as a peas

Book One: Romance Intro: Well peasants, Here we are once again, the third November in a row, where we attempt to get SOME work done. Did you at least try not to buy too many books this year? I don't know how you all manage it considering last year you were dead and this year you were literally stuck inside books. I bet you didn't even read the books you were stuck inside and decided to buy more instead, somehow. It honestly amazes me at your ability to be uselss. According to

Quest One: Sorry, You’re Still Dead Well, I'm not all that sorry. You got yourselves killed. That's not exactly my fault, or even my problem. Except that it makes things incredibly inconvenient when it comes to suing that damned Wizard in court. He's quite well known, as I'm sure you know by now. I think he thwarted our attempts at reviving your bodies over the summer, but, Ariadne says that's a "conspiracy". I'm going to need all of you to do a bit more research on the dead

The Power of Love distracted the Wizard while Lady Graves and Star began casting spells. The teeth group gathered together and worked with Lady Graves to use the old mouth bones to create weapons, chattering teeth gathering around the Wizard. He attempted to blast them back, but to no avail. The group with several rocks named Carl worked with the fanny pack group, creating strange weighted bags to hit the Wizard over the head with. After some time, all of you managed to subdu

Water signs, collectively You finally find Lady Graves and she looks quite worn after a year missing. She still resembles Ariadne, though, to some extent. The one of you who managed to pick the lock to get to this area does the same with her cell, and you free her. She looks at you all gravely and with an irritated sigh, notes: "This was the best you could gather to rescue me? Really, Ariadne, I would expect you to have less...idiotic looking allies. They've got rocks and tee

Pisces As you wander the halls of the castle, you discover a locked door. One of you is useful enough to get us through that door, and in it, is a large aquarium. There are many creatures in this aquarium, ranging from fantastical to the standard fare from the universe I once lived in. You peasants wander a moment, until you come upon a sign: Prisoners I suppose this is where you might find Ariadne's mother. Read a book with fish or ocean themes Scorpio The hall the door lead

Mini Boss As you approach the castle door, your peaceful journey to the structure has come to an end. Well peasants, it looks like another mini boss battle has come. The guards approach you, ready to take advantage of all your many, many weaknesses. Will you successfully defeat them by defeating your weakness, or will they defeat you? Question Everything: Read a book that you don't think fits any of the prompts Book hoarder: Read the book you've owned and kept unread the long

Sagittarius Star has decided to follow all of you, chattering endlessly with Ariadne and you peasants about Shelfla. She is teaching some of you about the plant life, and where the best places to buy pastries are. Ariadne still is quiet, and she loves shopping. The silence from the usually bubbly library witch feels deafening, and you wonder what she is hoping to learn on this journey. read a book you feel will teach you something Fire Element We pass a house with a red roof

Side Quest As we begin to head towards the next part of our journey, we come across a vendor. Is this the same vendor we met the first time we travelled this path? She says if we read these books for her, she'll give us healing potions. This is up to you, of course, dear peasants, but I would take the deal if I were you. Read a book from one of Rachel Aaron's DFZ series (three series to choose from!) Aries You begin to approach the village surrounding the castle, and some of

Capricorn Well well, what do we have here- the scam artist named Star. She seems to want our attention. Should we talk to her? Ambitious little thing, she is. I can't stand her, so if you all wanted to move on with your tasks and simply ignore her, I would support that path. You all think on it and I will glare at her from behind you. read a book with a character with lots of ambition Earth Element You all have decided to talk to Star? Why? I can't stand any of you. As you a

Mini Boss Oh look, who is surprised? It's the faeries. Did I tell them your strengths again? Set you up for failure? Maybe. Okay okay, you caught me, I did. I was hoping it would get Ariadne out of this quiet slump she's been in, but it seems she doesn't even have it in her to yell at me. Your loss, though, because I made good money selling your strengths to the fae so they could get revenge on you from last time. Well-Read: Read a book that feels like it could be multiple ge

Air Elements The air element - fitting as we come nearer to one of your very first mini boss battles. Do you remember how I sold your weaknesses to them, in hopes that we would end this journey early? Reminisce on this, and how one of the first quests was to read a small book- I give you that quest again. Read a lightweight book, and hope it keeps your footsteps quiet. Air Signs You all gather around the air signs you know, wondering why they are the first to go for this jour

Introduction Welcome back, peasants. If you forgot, the Wizard - who owes me money, and compensation for the emotional distress of dealing with all of you - has kidnapped Ariadne's mother. Now, I don't care for the witch, but Ariadne hasn't addressed her mom issues in therapy yet, and she wants to save the coven mother. Plus, we don't want all witches banned from doing their jobs, and it seems that's the kind of takeover the high Wizard has planned. We're going to go save her

Strengths: Well-Read: Escaped the books in 2022 Shelfla’s Disappointment: participated in every year Book Realist: owned unread is under 100 books Recommendation Master: gives the best book recs Weaknesses: Question Everything: Asked Narrator “does this count?” Book hoarder: owned unread is over 100 Solar Girl Boss: girlboss too close to the sun and overload your TBR regularly Problematic Perseverer: never dnfs books Weapons: The Power of Love Teeth A rock with googly eyes (

Gemini: Read a book with two main characters Libra: Let someone choose between two books for you Aquarius: Read a fantasy book or a book with fantasy like aspects Air Element: Read a lightweight book Air Signs: Read a book with multiple perspectives Free Space Mini Boss: Strengths Taurus: Read a book with an aesthetically pleasing cover Virgo: either or - read a high stress/stakes or low stress/stakes book Capricorn: read a book with a character with lots of ambition Earth E