The Book of Baird · The Readers’ Season · 2026–2027
The Chronicle
The kingdom’s record, carried along Elowen’s Book Road. The Chronicle keeps its own time — no company speaks of a page the kingdom has not turned.
The Map
Thirteen lands, joined like the facets of the Stone. Click a land your company has reached.
Select a land…
Guilds & Companies
Four guilds in every company. Five companies on one road.
The Guild Race — all companies
Parts earned by every guild member in every company. 1 Part = 2 ✦ + 1 ◆ at Friday’s Exchange.
Group Standings —
The four guild teams of the company selected above. Week resets at the Exchange; the season total never does.
The Five Companies
“The light must fight for its memory, for the fog will not fade.”
Quest Board
Standing Quests (always open)
Quest
Evidence
Pay
Reading the Long Road — 20 min independent reading
Field Log minutes bar
5 ✦ / 2 ◆ (cap 120 min/wk)
Lessons of the Sages — pass an i-Ready reading lesson
Lesson report
10 ✦ / 5 ◆
Literature quest (one per week; eight categories)
Product per quest card
15 ✦ / 8 ◆
Chronicle entry at the Reckoning
Field Log back
5 ✦ / 2 ◆
Parts — awarded live in class (evidence, courage, craft, leadership, service)
Named aloud when given; team & guild totals on the Guilds page
1 Part = 2 ✦ / 1 ◆ at the Exchange
✦ Lumen (XP — permanent) · ◆ Embers (spendable). Prices are posted by the Keeper of Records (your teacher) and may be amended by decree.
The Exchange
Open at Friday’s settle-up (or by decree). Embers only — Lumen is never spent.
Boons (personal)
Choose your seat for a week
15 ◆
First conference of the week (Rangers free)
10 ◆
Read-aloud DJ — pick the voice/chapter music
12 ◆
Guild banner signature (once ever)
25 ◆
Name a minor character in the next chapter
40 ◆
Works (company)
Stronghold brick (needs evidence bundle too — see rulebook §7.3)
20 ◆
Deep Path unlock (when ahead of pace)
30 ◆ pooled
Clear one fog tile (with make-up surge)
25 ◆ pooled
Fog Tithe (weekly, per guild — funds the Beacon)
5 ◆
The Readers’ Beacon
All companies together · unlocks the June finale build
Ranks & the Ledger
Rank reads lifetime Lumen only. Thresholds recalibrate each 12-week cycle so the ladder stays honest.
The Seven Ranks
Company Standings
Individual ledgers are private: look yourself up by quest-name with your teacher. Public glory is guild and company glory. (Phase 2 adds self-lookup by alias.)
My Record
Your page in the Book of Records. Enter your quest code (your teacher has it) — only you and the Keeper can read your page.
Default passcode: lumen2026 — change it in the DATA section of this file.
Story control
Calendar gating resumes whenever the override is cleared. Overrides affect every company equally — pace never reveals plot.
Company state
The Ledger Desk — permanent record: points, corrections, notes, sigils. Click a student row, then act.
Corrections: the rulebook’s counsel is to fine Embers (spendable) and protect Lumen (the growth measure) — but both are yours to take. Notes marked private never appear on a student’s My Record page. Voided entries stay visible here, struck through: the record never forgets, it only corrects itself.
Award Parts ⚙ (1 Part = 2 ✦ Lumen + 1 ◆ Ember at the Exchange)
Tap a student to award. Individual totals live only on this panel; students see team and guild totals. Parts are never taken away — the Fog handles consequences, not the ledger.
Google Sheet Sync — the Sheet is the year's system of record and your mail-merge source. Setup: see questlist-sync.gs (5 steps, ~5 minutes).
Pulling the roster matches by quest code (or name + company), adds new students, and writes generated quest codes back to the Sheet — so the Sheet's Roster tab and Totals tab stay mail-merge ready. The sheet itself stays private to your Google account; the script is the only doorway, and student lookups through it require a quest code and never include private notes.
Mail Merge — feedback letters from the Sheet’s Merge tab + live quest stats. Fill the Merge tab (Name, Company, emails, feedback columns), then send or print from here.
Emails go out from YOUR Google account via the Apps Script (re-authorize once after updating the script). Always test first. Students without an email on the Merge tab are skipped and listed — print letters cover them.
Roster
If this site is hosted publicly, use first name + last initial or quest aliases. Company accepts the name or id (Dawn/Ember/Meridian/River/Star); guild accepts Trailblazers/Crafters/Captains/Guardians.
Season data
Export weekly as your save-game. Phase 2 replaces this with a Google Sheet; Phase 3 with a real backend (rulebook §10.4).