Game of Tomes

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Game of Tomes is a team-based event set in a modern, urban-fantasy world. Writers choose a House and turn in word counts during the event. The House with the highest word count wins the Iron Tome. http://www.worldanvil.com/w/game-of-tomes

The Game of Tomes July 2026 Tourney of Tales Major House results for Week 2 are displayed in a chart format on a navy background. House Chiroptera has 396,309 words. Combined with 361,255 words from House Meles, they are in the lead with 757,564 words. House Lapin has 471,687 words and is in second place. House Mollusca has 443,920 words and is in third place. House Ailurus has 267,071 words. Combined with 80,978 words from House Avis, they are in fourth place with 348,049 words. House Sauropoda has 200,326 words and is in fifth place. The total wordcount for Week 2 across all of the Houses is 2,221,546 words.
A promotional graphic for “Nov 2025 Final Showdown” from Game of Tomes. The background is parchment with bold black ink-like strokes. In the top corners are two identical circular rainbow-gradient GoT logos featuring an open book. Centered are two sigils: on the left, the purple Mollusca crest with an octopus and the motto “What is Fish Shall Never Fry,” and on the right, the red-and-white Kitsune-Gumi fox crest with stylized tails. Yellow question-mark graphics decorate the left and right sides. Large white text in the middle asks: “Will the living or the undead win the Iron Tome?” At the bottom, white text invites viewers to tune in on Twitch at “twitch.tv/game_of_tomes at 1:30 PM PST / 3:30 PM CST / 9:30 PM UTC to find out!”
A dramatic announcement graphic on a parchment background with black brush-stroke texture. At the top, text reads “Nov 2025 Week 4.” Centered is the sigil of House Lapin: a white rabbit head on a red shield, partially showing the motto “Ideas Are Coming.” To the lower left is the red panda crest of House Ailurus with the motto “Open Hearts & Pens,” and to the lower right is the badger crest of House Meles with the motto “Words By Claw Or Paw.” Beneath the sigils, large white text states: “House Lapin Has Fallen.” At the bottom, the total word count is displayed as “1,251,595 Total Words.”
A promotional graphic for “GoT – Nov 2025 Week 4” with a parchment background and black ink-like brush strokes. At the top left is a rainbow-gradient circular logo with an open book labeled “GoT.” At the top right is the Kitsune-Gumi red-and-white fox sigil. Large white text asks three questions: “Which House will fall, Lapin or Mollusca?” (with the Lapin rabbit sigil on the left and the purple Mollusca sigil on the right), “How many Tome Knights will turn undead?”, and “How many words will the Horde gain?” Green question-mark graphics appear on both sides. The bottom text invites viewers to tune in to a Twitch stream at “twitch.tv/game_of_tomes at 1:30 PM PST / 3:30 PM CST / 9:30 PM UTC to find out!”
A stylized announcement graphic on a parchment-and-ink background. At the top it reads “Nov 2025 Week 3.” The main image is the sigil of House Ailurus: a red panda face on a red and orange shield with the motto “Open Hearts & Pens.” Partially overlapping it on the right is the minor house Meles sigil: a badger face on a green shield with a ribbon that says “Words By Claw Or Paw.” Below, bold text states: “House Ailurus Has Fallen.” At the bottom, the total word count is displayed as “903,416 Total Words.”
A beige background almost completely blacked out. In front there are three big green question marks and writing “which house will fall? How many Tome knights will turn undead?” There are the logos of Game of Tomes and the Kitsune-Gumi in the corner.
A chart titled “Game of Tomes – Nov 2025 Week 1.” It shows major houses in a writing event along with their word counts. The houses listed are Lapin, Ailurus, Mollusca, Undead Horde, Sauropoda, and Chiroptera. Chiroptera has 89,888 words, and that number also appears in the “Total Words” column. A total event word count of 1,476,103 is shown at the bottom. Minor houses Avis and Meles are listed next to Lapin and Ailurus. The other house numbers are still blacked out since they didn’t fall yet.
A dark graphic with a red and black bat sigil in a heraldic shield above a banner reading “Type by Night.” Text below announces: “House Chiroptera Has Fallen” and “89,888 Total Words.” The background resembles torn parchment with splashes of black ink.
A motivational poster titled “The Self Care Mafia” at the top, with “GameOfTomes.org” written beneath. The background shows a stylized cityscape at sunset with streetlights glowing. To the lower right stands a cute orange cartoon fox wearing a gray fedora hat. The text in the middle is: “During challenge week, a lot of things got put on hold. That’s fine, really, don’t you worry! I’m just saying that if you want to try to create new litmon, the thing in your mug from three days ago doesn’t quite count. Let’s try to clean up a bit. The faster you’re done, the faster you’re back at writing :3” from Bard
A motivational poster titled “The Self Care Mafia” at the top, with “GameOfTomes.org” written beneath. The background shows a stylized cityscape at sunset with streetlights glowing. To the lower right stands a cute orange cartoon fox wearing a gray fedora hat. The text in the middle is: “Would you look at that? You made it through the first round of wording! You’ve done some words. You may have hit your goal for the challenge week (and if you did, you get more cheers from all of us). Or you might have not, but you still deserve the cheers for trying! If you’re still going, then keep at it! Just don’t forget to take a break, stretch it out, hydrate, hug the loved ones, eat, and pet the pets. We’re so proud of you!” from Sunny
A picture of the undated travel warning of House Lapin, where Shyredfox and FowWriter and Ru are classified as Undead. There is an arrest warrant against them. Also, there is a 8 pm curfew and house lapin has the support of house Avis this week
A fictional news article speculating who the nee Nite Monarq could be. Bard with many names aka the nite Monarq from last year acts suspiciously by going on a tour wearing a mask, but shyredfox and FoxWriter have gone missing… though Attorraru vouches for them? What is happening?
TOURNEY OF TALES July 2025 - Week 4 Results Major Houses HOUSE Lapin 873,420 Mollusca 800,546 Ailurus 334,360 + Meles 265,045 = 599,405 Sauropoda 302,601 + Avis 234,927 = 537,528 Chiroptera 172,447 Total Wordcount 2,983,346
A heroforge centaur in blue and violet wearing a tunica, holding a book and a spear. In the backdrop is a lightning storm in blue and violet. Around her is written „can you hear the soft wisper of your name?“
A list of the houses of GoT with their wordcount behind Mollusca 561131 Lapin 536727 Ailurus 163255 + Meles 172866 = 336121 Sauropoda 201055 +Avis 7128 = 272337 Chiroptera 109254 Total: 1815750
A gradient blue back ground with “tourneys of tales” and the dates of this week, with “challenge: raise the eastern seaboard” Below are the logos of the teams: “the amazing flying sea bunnies”, “what’s kraken?”, “dinos and diggers” and “undead folk band - revival tour” Below are the solo challengers: Lady Wynterworn, Insane Maine, String witch and Eiliagh
On a black Background, a ring of fire flares up. In the middle of stands a hero forge figure of Misty as nite monarq: a humanoid with fluffy ears, kitsune tails and a while half mask. They are wearing a wild red and black suit and carry a fireball in their hand. Across in wild font: “let it burn, let it burn, Misty won’t hold it back anymore” Heroforge made by happyhappysad, graphic made by shyredfox in canva
A background radiant from pink to a soft blue with lots of flecs of glitter. Upper half: a big black splotch of paint, in front of it the hero forge avatars of Shyredfox and foxwriter: two kitsune, one red, one white, both clothes in green wearing fedoras. Lower half: for chaos! For glitter! Vote Shyredfox and Foxwriter for night monarch “to free the lost”
In a bolt font, it’s says „tourney of Tales, July 19-25 2025, Challenge, Raise the eastern seaboard“ The background is in comic style and clean, shining colors: a deepblue sea below a blue sky. A few fishies swim in it as shadows, and the logo of GoT is clearly visible
A Wignow, a cute little leafy creature with big googley eyes and curly feet. It looks quite goofy and is the well known mascot of the game 4theword