Hello everyone,
On the third week of January, so from the 17th to the 23rd, I participated in the TBRPGathon. This readathon was created by Ro of Wandering Through Worlds (her channel), and it’s based on her monthly TBR game TBRPG.
The concept
In her TBR game, she is doing a campaign like in Dungeon & Dragon. She is following a story told by the game master (aka her boyfriend), and her choices choose the prompts she needs to fulfil to have a TBR.
For the readathon, she uses the same elements: a story where you are the hero, choices to make to continue the story, and give you your prompts, but it’s only for a week.
The story for this mini-campaign was that you are friends with Ro, and one day going back home together, you see a bright light coming unnaturally from the forest. Ro runs to see what is happening, and you follow her but at a slower pace, and when you arrive there, you see a circle that shine brightly, but you don’t see Ro anywhere. When you touch the mysterious circle, you fall into a deep hole for a long time. When you land, you are welcome by Ro, and a man comes to ask you if you want to participate in the trials together or alone (which is your first choice to make.)
The way everything is revealed is simple. Everything happens on Youtube. First, you click on the first video that tells you the beginning of the story; then, in the description box, you have the two links of the two choices, you click on the one you want. Then it will redirect you to the video, and you have the consequences of your choice and the prompt that correspond to it. Then, the next day at midnight GMT, you have the next episode of the story, next the choice, the consequences, and the prompt, and again…
Each time you choose between two choices, only once the choice was decided by a dice (d20.) Here are the choices (mine is in bold) and the prompt corresponding to the choice I made:
- Solo/Duet: Read a book with one perspective
- Wait for it/Chase: Patience
- Left/Right: Left-side of the world
- Dice choice -> Lower (1-10)/Higher (11-20): Read a book of more than 375 pages (15)
- Long & Thin/Short & Thick: Choices
- Harness/Controls: Stiff
- Share/Steal: Friendship
The books
I managed to read one book to complete 85.71% of this readathon. For the ones who aren’t friend with math, it means that I read one book to complete six prompts out of seven.
This book was The Hatmakers by Tamzin Merchant.
To be honest, I wanted to read at least two books and maybe start a third one, but everything changed when I DNFed the first one. The first prompt corresponded to the book These Deadly Games by Diana Urban as you only have the pov of Crystal. However, after reading half of the book, I DNFed it, but I didn’t include it in the readathon (the thing I could have done.) So I replaced it with my second book, The Hatmakers, and I read all of it. The last book I wanted to start was Our Violent Ends by Chloe Gong, but I didn’t even pick it up.
My experience
I loved to do this readathon! I liked that you had to wait for the next part of the story, and it was starting to be a habit. Each morning, I watched the video to discover the choice I needed to make and the corresponding prompt while I had my breakfast.
I didn’t like the ending, not because it’s not well-done, but more because I still have many questions and no answer. Also, this story feels like it’s ending in a cliffhanger and like I always say: I’m not a fan of this.
I hope that Ro will do another TBRPGathon this year. However, I’m not sure to have it longer. I think one week is enough for this kind of readathon. I think I’m starting to know which readathon I like, and the ones where you discover the prompts as you are doing it are the ones I like the most.
I cannot wait to do a new readathon; I like doing those readathons as you surpass yourself. And you, have you already participate in one readathon? Or do you want to do it? Which one?
If you have any experience with this kind of readathon, don’t hesitate to share it in the comment.
Bye, bye
Liz.
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