"you find yourself stuck in a dungeon" is something that 100% would happen to the chaotic mess my character is 😂 Boi gets in trouble ALL the time; I'm already excited
While reading a book in the library, Fara finds an old, folded sheet of paper. Sensing an adventure, she and her familiar, a desert mouse named Tail-Twitch set off with her bag and the map in hand. Down, down, down they go into the depths of the school until the map leads them to a door with no hinges, no lock and on its surface are glowing glyphs. "It's a puzzle," Fara exclaims after studying the door for a moment. "Are you sure you brought enough snacks", Tail-Twitch asks with concern. "Plenty", Fara reassures him. She completes the puzzle and the door opens. Lighting a lamp, Fara steps into the darkness beyond, but before she can see what the room has to offer the door slams shut behind her. Nothing she does will open it back up again. "It looks like the only way out, is forward", Fara tell Tail-Twitch. Holding the lamp high, she sees an archway on the opposite wall and more darkness beyond...
Since this is a year-long readathon to escape a dungeon, I decided it makes sense if the dungeon is a continuing dream that my character has every few weeks.
I have two characters a set of twins (Aquaella and Cassiella) and it's very clear to me that Aquaella most likely refused to serve a rather strange little man in the Tavern that the twins own and of course this strange little man turned out to be a powerful Wizard of some form known where he comes from to be obnoxious and rude and just expecting to get his own way all the time and therefore teleported both the twins into his dungeons. Which caused a bit of a rift between the twins as Cassiella felt that her sister was to blame, but will that cause them to take a totally different path home?
Thank you for creating another year-long adventure! Love the story so much! My character Deljah I expect wound up in the dungeon because her first year cooped up studying to become a Scribe got her antsy to move and be outdoors. She dreams of uncovering ancient findings in lost ruins, so she probably got it in her head to get started on some impulsive, unauthorized urban spelunking. And promptly got arrested for trespassing. 😆
So, coming to this new this year, I was looking through the playlist you posted....what all from previous years do I need to do??? There's....a lot lol
Thanks for this, G! I just discovered your channel because I was looking into making a reading journal and found your awesome Cawpile spreadsheet. Now I'm glad it's not too late for newbies to join your magical reading challenges! I already watched the sorting video and found my guild -- Mind Walkers. Here's a question: I like the shadow dagger here but chose a dagger for my conduit. I don't want to carry around two daggers. Although it wasn't listed in your other video on the whiteboard, could I use a necklace/amulet as a conduit? I like to keep my hands free. 😄 Cheers!
Oooh, this time around I 100% know which path my character would choose! Girl is a nerd AND in trainig to be a faewild cartographer, so shadow dagger, here I come!! :D
So yeah story time for my character "Tsula". (Soot, my scholarly impling, and snarl, my owl cat, took after each other in an unexplored area in the forests of Irtheria after Snarl took off with Soot's favorite quill pen. Chasing after them, I stumbled into an unexplored and uncharted ruin and followed them into an ancient tomb. Yeah, this is not ideal. The guardian spirit didn't see Soot and Snarl as threats to whatever secrets the tomb held and didn't pay them any mind when they crossed the threshold and alerted the guardians. Me on the other hand, they saw me as an unknown and a possible threat. This is how I now find myself in a dark dungeon only lit by soul light. I tried diplomacy but, I guess that it doesn't work to be diplomatic with spirit guardians. I looked to Agigage, my fox familiar, for advice as he was trying to corral Soot and Snarl, luckily he wasn't caught in the same trap as I. He shrugged at me and curled up for a nap. He had no insight to give and told me to figure it out since he was tired from the 2 'annoyances' as he 'lovingly' calls Soot and Snarl.) So glad to be adventuring with you and everyone in the Crescent Order again.
I don’t participate in the Orilium readathons due to time constraints (though I desperately want to), but last year’s Year in Aeldia really helped make my reading choices fun. I’m excited to try and follow along again this year!
Oooh, I just can't do this, because I'm really trying to save money, and I know me- I would be buying books to fit prompts! I look forward to taking part next year though❤
At 2023 I got owlcat. This year I think I will aim for a shadow dagger. But we will see. Thank you G, this is so fun and exciting. I need this so much right now ❤
Ugh, gosh I forgot about this challenge entirely last year. I started it and then began a really intense online course for 6 months that just made the memory of this pop out of existence. I wonder if I can retroactively have made it work 🤔 anyway, I am definitely doing this one and I won’t forget since I don’t have a class anymore! I’m excited!
i'm doing this from the perspective of my dnd character as i've never done orilium. helja is in the dungeon because she went to have a strong word with cthulu (again) and succeeded in finding him this time. the last time his office was empty. cthulu didn't want to hear helja yelling at him about the insurance scam he did on her grandfather so got her thrown in a dungeon to shut her up. he probably couldn't remember the specific scam but he gets enough complaints to be completely fed up with them the other option is helja joined babushka julia to aid in the french revolution and they ended up getting caught, so thrown in the dungeon by the french. i think the first option is more likely though
Ohhh, new year, new adventure! Already wondering how I ended up in the dungeon.... Will let you know when I know 😋Thank you G for putting it together! 💕
I‘m starting this year with a new character so I‘m not sure about my choices after Autumn Equinox - we‘ll see! I‘m soo excited, as always: thank you for all your work and creativity! ✨
Oh this is new. I would love to check it out. I'm doing so many new things with reading this year. So it's alright to change the wits to a physical book?
Of course I want the cat at the end. Is there really any other choice for me?! And it definitely works out, because those are the choices I would make at the end anyway 🐈⬛
Im brand new to this. Where should I start? Should I go back and do previous years first? I do not have a character or done any of the schooling yet. The schooling and classes portion is the part I am most excited about but this year only has extra curriculars. Is there a year that your character starts school for the first time that I should go through those ones first. Im ok with skipping the prompts to make my character I think that was the first year. Im just so lost and want to get the full school experience so any help would be much appreciated!
I'm excited for this year! Thank you for doing it again! 🥰 Can I just ask where can we find the new CAWPILE spreadsheet? I loved the new colours you showed on ig stories, but I can't find the link🥺
I think I'll read The Odyssey by Homer for the epic/high fantasy book. It's got heroes, monsters, traveling, and political intrigue, so it fits. (I don't own any epic/high fantasy books anymore.)
My character is definitely gonna get accidentally engaged (????) to a terrifying fae creature. She's a little obsessed with the faewild so she's gonna be happier about it than she should be lol
We find maraid and turlough in the market. Turlough Ambles behind maraid twisting a string tied round his finger put their as a reminder of something he mustn't forget. As they walk turlough is distracted by all the activity around him and the string slips off his finger. He searches frantically for it. maraid is busy searching a stall and takes no notice until she hears him shout from a distance "come back here you fiend!" She looks up just in time to see his mossy wild green hair rushing down an alley. She takes off after him. She finds him diving headlong after a mouse that has scurried into what appears to be a low window in the side of an old stone tower. Mairaid lunges for his ankle but fails to prevent his descent and finds herself falling through the window with him. Mairaid lands upon him. Turlough let's out an " oof" . "Are you alright?" She asks. " " oh yeah " he says smiling, " my head broke my fall so no harm done." Maraids mouth ticks up at the corners than she turns away and glances around realizing that they are in an old dungeon. Turlough meanwhile has spotted the mouse and is off. "Wait!" maraid calls after him, "we should think about this before we choose". As he runs he yells to her , "i feel just like alice following the rabbit!" Curiously enough i do too she thinks as she chases after him.
This is always a little fun adventure. I like the prizes at the end and the story you have to go through to get them. ✨ My character probably just got stuck in a dungeon when she was exploring and saw something shiny and couldn't get a door opened again when it shut on her. I was also wandering about CAWPILE. I saw on your instagram you have 2 colors this year. Both looked really cute! I thought you mentioned something about linking them also in your next video. Were you planning to still do that or did you end up deciding to make a video for it anyway? It's okay either way. Just curious. 💖
@@BookRoast The shiny trap gets her every time. She likes studying the night sky and it is not because she is good at it. 😅 That's okay. I can wait for the cawpile. I appreciate you even putting it out every year. ☺
This will be my first time ever participating in the Orilium Magical Readathon! ❤ That being said, I have heard overwhelming different opinions on where to begin, so any help would be appreciate. Where should I begin? And am I allowed to create two separate characters to go down the different paths? 🤔
I completed 2023 and have an owlcat I named Fox…..My spirit fox Loki are as thick as thieves my imp Eve has nicknamed them mischief and mayhem. I’m going to use Wit and strength but we are starting with Wit and Aqua Crow has gathered her splinters and is returning to Orilium this year. She had been splintered way to long So Griff just vanished from the cell as if he were never there in his place was a dragon fae and a note for the guards that were assigned to watch over the prisoners. The guards were knocked out by spirits controlling the Spirits were Aqua Crow the Spirit Elemental She got into the dungeons by using her portal Using her shadows she released all the prisoners and allowed them to run a muck. In each cell was a dragon fae. Let the adventure begin
What do E-books come under? My choice? OK I personally would put E-books under physical strength since they also have to be physically READ with the eyes. But each to their own.
i've been watching the wrong side of booktube this whole time! finally found the right one)
"you find yourself stuck in a dungeon" is something that 100% would happen to the chaotic mess my character is 😂 Boi gets in trouble ALL the time; I'm already excited
While reading a book in the library, Fara finds an old, folded sheet of paper. Sensing an adventure, she and her familiar, a desert mouse named Tail-Twitch set off with her bag and the map in hand. Down, down, down they go into the depths of the school until the map leads them to a door with no hinges, no lock and on its surface are glowing glyphs. "It's a puzzle," Fara exclaims after studying the door for a moment. "Are you sure you brought enough snacks", Tail-Twitch asks with concern. "Plenty", Fara reassures him. She completes the puzzle and the door opens. Lighting a lamp, Fara steps into the darkness beyond, but before she can see what the room has to offer the door slams shut behind her. Nothing she does will open it back up again. "It looks like the only way out, is forward", Fara tell Tail-Twitch. Holding the lamp high, she sees an archway on the opposite wall and more darkness beyond...
Since this is a year-long readathon to escape a dungeon, I decided it makes sense if the dungeon is a continuing dream that my character has every few weeks.
I have two characters a set of twins (Aquaella and Cassiella) and it's very clear to me that Aquaella most likely refused to serve a rather strange little man in the Tavern that the twins own and of course this strange little man turned out to be a powerful Wizard of some form known where he comes from to be obnoxious and rude and just expecting to get his own way all the time and therefore teleported both the twins into his dungeons. Which caused a bit of a rift between the twins as Cassiella felt that her sister was to blame, but will that cause them to take a totally different path home?
Thank you for creating another year-long adventure! Love the story so much!
My character Deljah I expect wound up in the dungeon because her first year cooped up studying to become a Scribe got her antsy to move and be outdoors. She dreams of uncovering ancient findings in lost ruins, so she probably got it in her head to get started on some impulsive, unauthorized urban spelunking. And promptly got arrested for trespassing. 😆
I was SO hoping that you would make another one for this year, thank you so much for taking the time to do it 💚
So, coming to this new this year, I was looking through the playlist you posted....what all from previous years do I need to do??? There's....a lot lol
I'm also curious about this.
Lets do this again!! 🎉 Thanks for taking us through this year 🌟
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Thanks for this, G! I just discovered your channel because I was looking into making a reading journal and found your awesome Cawpile spreadsheet. Now I'm glad it's not too late for newbies to join your magical reading challenges! I already watched the sorting video and found my guild -- Mind Walkers. Here's a question: I like the shadow dagger here but chose a dagger for my conduit. I don't want to carry around two daggers. Although it wasn't listed in your other video on the whiteboard, could I use a necklace/amulet as a conduit? I like to keep my hands free. 😄 Cheers!
Oooh, this time around I 100% know which path my character would choose! Girl is a nerd AND in trainig to be a faewild cartographer, so shadow dagger, here I come!! :D
So yeah story time for my character "Tsula". (Soot, my scholarly impling, and snarl, my owl cat, took after each other in an unexplored area in the forests of Irtheria after Snarl took off with Soot's favorite quill pen. Chasing after them, I stumbled into an unexplored and uncharted ruin and followed them into an ancient tomb. Yeah, this is not ideal. The guardian spirit didn't see Soot and Snarl as threats to whatever secrets the tomb held and didn't pay them any mind when they crossed the threshold and alerted the guardians. Me on the other hand, they saw me as an unknown and a possible threat. This is how I now find myself in a dark dungeon only lit by soul light. I tried diplomacy but, I guess that it doesn't work to be diplomatic with spirit guardians. I looked to Agigage, my fox familiar, for advice as he was trying to corral Soot and Snarl, luckily he wasn't caught in the same trap as I. He shrugged at me and curled up for a nap. He had no insight to give and told me to figure it out since he was tired from the 2 'annoyances' as he 'lovingly' calls Soot and Snarl.)
So glad to be adventuring with you and everyone in the Crescent Order again.
All 4 endings are so amazing and hilarious! How am I going to choose? Thank you for another exciting year!
I don’t participate in the Orilium readathons due to time constraints (though I desperately want to), but last year’s Year in Aeldia really helped make my reading choices fun. I’m excited to try and follow along again this year!
Looks like another fun year.
I couldn't wrap my brain around doing this by hand for my journal so I printed it and it printed beautifully ❤
I LOVED doing last year and getting my little fox spirit, I can't wait to do this year!
So happy it's back !! My plan is to do it in time this year
An admirable goal 😂🤌
Yessss! I'm starting a new character this year, an Illusionist Rogue, and she wants that Shadow dagger! 🗡🗡🗡
I did so bad at this last year- so glad that it's coming back this year! So excited for this!!! 💗
Love how this continues every year, it's so much fun!
🥳🥳 I am so excited! Now I gotta slide this into my TBR somehow... Hmmm
first time for me joining! I am a little overwhelmed with everything
I'm excited for another year in Aeldia! Thanks for this yearlong challenge and all the work you put into it! 🤩
You are so welcome!🤗
I have been looking for a reading challenge this year!! This is fantastic!
That you so much!!! I love this so much!! It’s so much fun to go adventuring! 🤗🤗
Oooh, I just can't do this, because I'm really trying to save money, and I know me- I would be buying books to fit prompts! I look forward to taking part next year though❤
At 2023 I got owlcat. This year I think I will aim for a shadow dagger. But we will see.
Thank you G, this is so fun and exciting. I need this so much right now ❤
👋 weirdly obsessed with Faewild. May also shout hello 😂 so excited for another year in Aeldia!!
Wait no, need that shadow dagger 🤐
G great storytelling btw - makes the prompts so much more fun!!
Ugh, gosh I forgot about this challenge entirely last year. I started it and then began a really intense online course for 6 months that just made the memory of this pop out of existence. I wonder if I can retroactively have made it work 🤔 anyway, I am definitely doing this one and I won’t forget since I don’t have a class anymore! I’m excited!
Aaah so close! Maybe this year!
Thank you for the challenge and the Transcription!
Ive been waiting for this for the last week!!! ❤
Omg !!!!🎉 yay. It's my first year doing the readathon and the adventure. I cannot wait. Thanks a lot for all this beautiful experience ❤
Yay so happy you’re joining us! ♥️
Excited to this challenge this year again! My character is slowly collecting all the animals :)
I'm excited to participate this year. I'm already behind but i can catch up.
So looking forwards to this. Gain myself another friend/pet to go with the other one.
Yay!! I was just thinking this afternoon if it will be on this year!! Had such a good time last year! Thanks for doing it again!
You’ve manifested it!
I’m so excited for this year!💛📚
Yay! SO EXCITED for this! 💕
Ty for doing all the work on this, G! 🤗
I love this!!! Thank you for making another year!!!
Amazing, thank you 🤍🤍🤍🤍
So far I’m following my wit and I’m a maze fan.
Yay I was hoping it will continue
I'm so excited! Year-long reading challenges are my favorite, and I loved last year's. I was hoping we would have another adventure this year
Omg yessssssssssss!! I can’t wait! I love the story as well!
Omg this is so fun!!! I’m definitely gonna do this!!!
i'm doing this from the perspective of my dnd character as i've never done orilium. helja is in the dungeon because she went to have a strong word with cthulu (again) and succeeded in finding him this time. the last time his office was empty. cthulu didn't want to hear helja yelling at him about the insurance scam he did on her grandfather so got her thrown in a dungeon to shut her up. he probably couldn't remember the specific scam but he gets enough complaints to be completely fed up with them
the other option is helja joined babushka julia to aid in the french revolution and they ended up getting caught, so thrown in the dungeon by the french. i think the first option is more likely though
So excited! ❤
I am so looking forward to this! ❤
Yay! I was hoping to get another year long adventure this year 😊
Ohhh, new year, new adventure! Already wondering how I ended up in the dungeon.... Will let you know when I know 😋Thank you G for putting it together! 💕
Yay!!! I'm so excited for this! I was hoping you would have a new one 😊❤
Thank you so much for this!! Can't wait to get started! ❤❤
Have fun!
very excited to start this adventure again!🥰✨ you did a great job as always!!☺️ thank you!
Ahhhh I can’t wait to get started!! Love all the thought & magic you put into this readathon and the prompts sound awesome 😍
I'm so excited!!! This is going to be my first time bc last year I came in late, I still did it, but I started from august! ⭐
Aaah welcome to Orilium 🥰
@@BookRoast Thank youuu!!! 🥰
I've been waiting to set up my reading journal until this video came out! I'm so excited!
Of course I picked the path leading me to a fourth pet and a raven friend 😂 very on brand for my character... and me 😅
Slowly gathering a zoo 😂🤌
I'm so gonna get engaged this year guys 🤭
Lol that nakey wrestler statue 😆 can't wait to plan my reading year with this!
Yay! So excited!
I love it, gonna decide as I go along, but I have some ideas where it will lead my character
Hope it leads you where it’s fun hehe
I was wondering yesterday about this! So happy to see it’s happening! My favorite readathon, thank you!
Yay!!! This was soooo fun last year!!
I am so ready for this!
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So excited for the adventure!
Wooo I’m so excited for this year! 🎉
Thanks !
This sounds so fun! Can't wait to start it ❤
I‘m starting this year with a new character so I‘m not sure about my choices after Autumn Equinox - we‘ll see! I‘m soo excited, as always: thank you for all your work and creativity! ✨
Oh this is new. I would love to check it out. I'm doing so many new things with reading this year. So it's alright to change the wits to a physical book?
I love this! 🥰 always so much fun
Of course I want the cat at the end. Is there really any other choice for me?! And it definitely works out, because those are the choices I would make at the end anyway 🐈⬛
So excited!
Yayy ❤️ I love this so much thanks G 🥰
Been so excited for this! Thank you, G!
Yay🎉 just in time to finalize my tbr for January and February ❤
Yay! I’m a little behind on last years, but I still hope to finish it, and can’t wait for this years!
Im brand new to this. Where should I start? Should I go back and do previous years first? I do not have a character or done any of the schooling yet. The schooling and classes portion is the part I am most excited about but this year only has extra curriculars. Is there a year that your character starts school for the first time that I should go through those ones first. Im ok with skipping the prompts to make my character I think that was the first year. Im just so lost and want to get the full school experience so any help would be much appreciated!
I'm excited for this year! Thank you for doing it again! 🥰
Can I just ask where can we find the new CAWPILE spreadsheet? I loved the new colours you showed on ig stories, but I can't find the link🥺
how did I end up in the dungeons? I ate peanuts discretely the once 🥜
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This is so fun!!!
I’m so excited for another year! 🎉🎉🎉
So excited!!! 🎉 thank you G! ❤
So excited! Question: I can't find badges for wild form druid in the folder. Am I just scrolling past them or are they not there?
I think I'll read The Odyssey by Homer for the epic/high fantasy book. It's got heroes, monsters, traveling, and political intrigue, so it fits. (I don't own any epic/high fantasy books anymore.)
Yay so excited! Thanks for doing this again!
My character is definitely gonna get accidentally engaged (????) to a terrifying fae creature. She's a little obsessed with the faewild so she's gonna be happier about it than she should be lol
We find maraid and turlough in the market. Turlough Ambles behind maraid twisting a string tied round his finger put their as a reminder of something he mustn't forget. As they walk turlough is distracted by all the activity around him and the string slips off his finger. He searches frantically for it. maraid is busy searching a stall and takes no notice until she hears him shout from a distance "come back here you fiend!" She looks up just in time to see his mossy wild green hair rushing down an alley. She takes off after him. She finds him diving headlong after a mouse that has scurried into what appears to be a low window in the side of an old stone tower. Mairaid lunges for his ankle but fails to prevent his descent and finds herself falling through the window with him. Mairaid lands upon him. Turlough let's out an " oof" . "Are you alright?" She asks. " " oh yeah " he says smiling, " my head broke my fall so no harm done." Maraids mouth ticks up at the corners than she turns away and glances around realizing that they are in an old dungeon. Turlough meanwhile has spotted the mouse and is off. "Wait!" maraid calls after him, "we should think about this before we choose". As he runs he yells to her , "i feel just like alice following the rabbit!" Curiously enough i do too she thinks as she chases after him.
This is always a little fun adventure. I like the prizes at the end and the story you have to go through to get them. ✨ My character probably just got stuck in a dungeon when she was exploring and saw something shiny and couldn't get a door opened again when it shut on her.
I was also wandering about CAWPILE. I saw on your instagram you have 2 colors this year. Both looked really cute! I thought you mentioned something about linking them also in your next video. Were you planning to still do that or did you end up deciding to make a video for it anyway? It's okay either way. Just curious. 💖
Ah the good old lured by something shiny trap! I like it 😂 oh yes sorry about the cawpile it’ll be mentioned in one of the future videos soon
@@BookRoast The shiny trap gets her every time. She likes studying the night sky and it is not because she is good at it. 😅
That's okay. I can wait for the cawpile. I appreciate you even putting it out every year. ☺
Yesssss thank you for this
YAY🎉🥳📚
So excited for this!
This will be my first time ever participating in the Orilium Magical Readathon! ❤ That being said, I have heard overwhelming different opinions on where to begin, so any help would be appreciate. Where should I begin? And am I allowed to create two separate characters to go down the different paths? 🤔
So I'm new. I looked in the description of this video and the beginner guide video. Is there a Discord or other social media stuff for us to join?
I completed 2023 and have an owlcat I named Fox…..My spirit fox Loki are as thick as thieves my imp Eve has nicknamed them mischief and mayhem.
I’m going to use Wit and strength but we are starting with Wit and Aqua Crow has gathered her splinters and is returning to Orilium this year.
She had been splintered way to long
So Griff just vanished from the cell as if he were never there in his place was a dragon fae and a note for the guards that were assigned to watch over the prisoners.
The guards were knocked out by spirits controlling the Spirits were Aqua Crow the Spirit Elemental
She got into the dungeons by using her portal
Using her shadows she released all the prisoners and allowed them to run a muck. In each cell was a dragon fae.
Let the adventure begin
This is amazing - as usual!!
Let's be honest, how many of our characters would be stuck in a dungeon because they were following a stray creature/animal?
So last year I did everything as It made things more interesting 😂 still not sure what pet I want lol
What do E-books come under? My choice? OK I personally would put E-books under physical strength since they also have to be physically READ with the eyes. But each to their own.
Ebooks would be physical ☺️