Task of the Year for 2011

**ninja9578** · 12-27-2010 03:20 AM

The Challenge
This year the theme is hollywood. A collection of the most memorable movie moments of all time. I realize most people will not have seen all of them, so if you need clarification, just ask. I’ll try to describe them as best I can.

The Rules
You must each task; each one in its own dream, you can't do more than one in the same dream.

Additional Information
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Steal Dorothy’s red slippers. Tap them three times and see what happens.

Dorothy wears ruby slippers throughout the entire movie, and the Good witch of the East tells her that all she needs to do to get back to Kansas is to tap her heals together three times and repeat “There’s no place like home.” After which, she wakes in her own bed.

Gone with the Wind (1939)
Convince Rhett to take back Scarlett

Rhett is angry with Scarlett and completely given up on her. She is begging him to stay with her. Asking him "Where shall I go? What shall I do?" To which he replies: “Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn.” It’s one of the most quoted lines in movie history

Casablanca (1942)
Ask Sam to play something for you, see what he plays.

In this scene, Ilsa is in Rick’s bar in Casablanca, Morocco. Sam is the piano player and an old friend of both of them. Ilsa asks him to play a song for her, but he pretends not to know what she is talking about because Rick had told him never to play it because Ilsa broke his heart. She finally convinces him to sing “As Time Goes By,” making Rick come over to yell at him and sees Ilsa for the first time since they broke up in Paris.

Psycho (1960)
Save Janet

Janet is in the shower and Norman (the psychopathic killer) attacks her with a large knife. He is seen only as a shadow in the shower curtain.

The 300 Spartans (1962)
Fight in the battle of Thermopoly

The Spartans and a number of various other Greek soldiers force the invading Persians into a bottleneck between impassible mountains and the ocean. Although the Persians had over a million men and there were only 300 Spartans and about a thousand other greeks, the Spartans held the pass for three days because of their superior weapons and skill. Historical accounts from both sides show that this battle actually happened.
* You may use the recent remake as you reference if you have never seen the original

The Godfather (1972)
Ask the Godfather for something

During his daughter’s wedding, the godfather hears requests for favours. Johnny asks him for help landing a movie role, because his career is hurting, which is granted and leads to one of most famous scenes where the producer finds the severed horse head in his bed.

The Exorcist (1973)
Help perform the exorcism

Father Karras is assisting father Dyer attempt to perform an exorcism on Morgan, who is possessed by a demon. The demon is amused by the priest’s attempt to rid it from the young girl, taunting them and using Father Karras relationship with his recently dead mother to infuriate him, and she howls and makes the room into a disaster zone. During this both priests repeat the famous words: "The power of Christ compels you."

Star Wars (1977)
Blow up the Death Star

Luke Skywalker flies down a long corridor, with Darth Vader and other imperial troops on his tail. He shuts off his computer and uses the Force to target a small shaft that is known to be a weakness of the moon-sized space station. His torpedos go in and they haul ass before the Death Star explodes.

Jaws (1975)
Kill the shark

Chief Brody is alone on the sinking Orca as the shark circles him. During a failed attempt of the shark to kill Brody, he manages to shove a scuba tank into the sharks mouth. He then climbs to the top of the mast and fires a rifle at the shark, trying to hit the tank. He finally hits it and the shark explodes from the compressed air.

Grease (1978)
Race against “Greased Lightning”

Danny and his friends have build a hotrod named "Greased Lightning" and their rival “gang” the Scorpions challenge him to a race for papers. They hold the race at some sort of drainage ditch. The race is to the end of it and back.

Indiana Jones (1981)
Open the Ark of the Covanent

Indiana Jones and Marion turn away and don’t look as the Ark is opened and proceeds to fire lightning bolts out of it, like the bible references and kills all of the Nazis, before closing itself

A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
Destroy Freddy with his own glove

Serial child murderer Freddy Kruger stalks the children of the parents who burned him alive in vigilantly justice in their dreams. He wears a glove with razor blades on each finger and slaughters them one at a time with it. Being a dream world, Freddy can manipulate the entire world, making him impossible to hide from. He allows his victim to run and hide from him for his own amusement.

**PercyLucid** · 12-27-2010 04:24 AM

Very cool tasks!!!

I won't slay my own Hero though (Freddy) I will kill a clone of him

He saved me from so many lucid nightmares when I was a kid...

There are some very fun tasks out there. Can't wait! As soon as I complete a special and personal beyond dreaming request from a friend, I will work on these!

**Waterknight** · 01-01-2011 07:21 PM

I agree it does seem a little unfair to kill the guy that taught so many people about lucid dreaming.

**AjWasHere** · 01-02-2011 12:38 AM

Originally Posted by ninja9578

* You may use the recent remake as you reference if you have never seen the original

300 is not a remake of The 300 Spartans. It is a movie version of the graphic novel 300 by Frank Miller.
That said, great task of the year. Good choices for the movies all around.

**Snowboy** · 01-02-2011 01:59 AM

Cool tasks! Not sure if I will get around to them, but who knows?

**dakotahnok** · 01-02-2011 03:12 AM

I'm really excited!!!! Although I haven't watched about 75 percent of them.

**nina** · 01-02-2011 04:25 AM

I might try this.

**zebrah** · 01-02-2011 06:31 AM

This year I hope I can do it. Although I think I need to Netflix some movies XD

**Sam1r** · 01-02-2011 11:18 AM

SICK (in a good way) tasks ninja!!!!
Really excited to try Godfather,Exorcist,Psycho,and 300...
-sam

**MrIrony** · 01-02-2011 12:45 PM

As soon as I learn how to control those damn dreams I think ill start doing these (allthough I need to watch allmost all of those scenes)

**MrIrony** · 01-02-2011 12:55 PM

btw, do I have to do these on my "own", or can I take some DCs to help me?

**dakotahnok** · 01-03-2011 01:34 AM

We Don't have to do them in order do I?

**zebrah** · 01-03-2011 01:46 AM

Originally Posted by dakotahnok

We Don't have to do them in order do I?

Not that I know of. I believe this question was asked last year.

**dakotahnok** · 01-03-2011 02:17 AM

I attempted one but failed.

Here's what happened. Lucid is blue the task attempt is yellow

I normally can't DEILD during the day but I just woke up from a short one were I beat the crap out of sonic.

I woke up from my nap. I saw the light from behind my eyelids and was recalling my dream (that I don't remember now) and suddenly I started to feel a slight vibration. My dream came up like when activating an app on an iPad or iPhone.

I'm standing in the middle of a bunch of Christmas trees, there is I giant christmas tree in front of me. I start walking out if the circle of Christmas trees. I wanted to find sonic and race him.

I walked around a building that had a sign that read "DC mall" I see sonic surrounded by a group of people. His voice is really high pitched and is telling people that he will take any person on a race and beat them.

I stepped up and said that I could beat him. and then he said that he would give me a 5 second head start. I told him that I lerned my lesson not to do that but agreed to the terms.

We went to the corner of the road and I heard someone say "ready set go" I ran just normal. I counted to five and saw him blaze past me.

As soon as he did I went fast. I was going so fast everything started to get blurry. I saw him and then past him. I ran past another group of people an heard "AND THE WINNER IS DAKOTAH"

I stood and waited for sonic to pass and when he did I tripped him. He slammed on the asphalt causing it to crack.

Then I wanted to do the TOTY. I walked around and saw Freddy. I ran at him and slammed against him. He went through a brisk wall and was now in a mall like place. He cut my arm but I didn't feel it.

Everything started to get blurry and I woke up. I failed at a DEILD.

**GMoney** · 01-03-2011 02:26 AM

This sounds awesome! I'll definitely try, but I need to have at least that many lucids in order to do it!

**INeverWakeUp** · 01-03-2011 02:27 AM

I looked at this too late last year. This year, I'll do it. However, I will need to look up some of these scenes on YouTube. My favorite will be the Battle of Thermopylae. I've never seen either movies, but thanks to my history teacher from last year, I know exactly what happens. I'm so up for it! I'm trying the Battle of Thermopylae first!

**INeverWakeUp** · 01-03-2011 02:50 AM

Hey, for the movie 300, can I use any weapons I want, or do I have to use swords, spears and shields?

**Raven Knight** · 01-04-2011 11:10 AM

Originally Posted by ninja9578

Jaws (1975)
Kill the shark

Chief Brody is alone on the sinking Orca as the shark circles him. During a failed attempt of the shark to kill Brody, he manages to shove a scuba tank into the sharks mouth. He then climbs to the top of the mast and fires a rifle at the shark, trying to hit the tank. He finally hits it and the shark explodes from the compressed air.

Awww... I really don't want to kill the poor shark, after all, the shark was probably just looking for some food after the people had over-fished the surrounding ocean, leaving little or nothing for him to eat!

Well, if I do kill the shark, I'm resurrecting him! The challenge doesn't say the shark has to stay dead!

**Baron Samedi** · 01-04-2011 07:38 PM

Cool Tasks. Please remove my former status for 2010. Aloha.

**PercyLucid** · 01-05-2011 07:20 AM

Originally Posted by WakingNomad

Cool Tasks. Please remove my former status for 2010. Aloha.

Done

**Soulnote** · 01-05-2011 03:44 PM

I haven't seen any. but i'll try anyway, I SWEAR, I WILL GET AT LEAST HALF OF THESE DONE!!!

At around 1/3 or my dreams being lucid now, with me having about 1 dream a day, I'll have around 120 chances to remember and do it

**Baron Samedi** · 01-05-2011 07:52 PM

by WakingNomad on Today at 08:49 AM (The Nomad Chronicles)
I float up out of my car. I look at myself. Why am I sleeping in my car? Fuck it. I have shit to do. Meet Raven on the Moon... and what...? Indiana Jones?... shit...

An army of Templars float down on winged beasts. I ignore them, and create a portal. My fly pods open, and swarms of flies attack their eyeballs, munching on them.

I open a portal to the Moon, and fly through. The Templars follow me through the wormhole. The Wormhole Wyrm battles them. I turn and shoot bolts of red energy at them. I fly out the portal landing on the Moon.

Moon dust kicks up. Raven is standing above me. She helps me up. “I thought we terraformed the Moon.”

“We did, Nomad. This grey moon is the illusion. We put this here to protect The Green Moon. Don’t you remember?”

“No. Yes. What are we supposed to do?”

“Open the Ark of the Covenant.”

“Right. Shit. The FUCKING TEMPLARS FOLLOWED ME.”

Raven and I are just outside the Biodome, which zap-teleports them away from us as they come through the portal. Raven rolls her eyes at the Templars, and makes a portal. We step through.

We are in a large cold cave. It reminds me of the ice cave I would play in with Selene and MoSh in dreams when we were children. I shiver. Raven laughs at me, and tells me it’s a dream.

“I don’t give a shit, it’s cold.” I summon up a big furry jacket.

“Nomad, are you lucid?”

“No. Look up ahead!”

Raven puts her hands on her hips. “Nomad, look at your nose, pinch your hands or something!”

I look past Raven into a large cavern. There are bunch of Nazis and Templars standing in a circular formation around a large golden box. Indiana Jones and the chick in the movie are tied to a stake. The creepy dude is about to open the ark. I put on my cowboy hat, and bust out my chain whip. “Nomad, that’s a lame copy of Indiana Jones.”

I sing the theme song in her face, and gently push her aside. I shoot my whip around a stalactite, and yank on it. I grab Raven around the waist to swing her with me to the ark, and she pushes my arm off, annoyed. “Nomad, I can fly, thank you very much!”

“Wait! Look! The Ark!”

I swing out over the people, and the creepy guy reaches for the ark. “Screw this!” I teleport in front of him, and push him aside. I reach for the ark.

“Nomad! Wait. We have to do it together.”

“Oh, right.” Raven teleports next to me. The ark hums and glows. I feel excited, but a little afraid... especially when golden snake carvings slither up the ark, then the two of them stare at me, one with ruby eyes, the other with emeralds. “We are DNA! We are the caduceus! We are the Tree of Life! And now, you will die!”

The snakes strike at me, and I slow time. Raven and I cut their heads off. They die and become flesh. I grab one and bite it. Raven asks me why I did that. “For its power.”

“What does it taste like?”

“Gross raw fish or raw chicken? Yuck.”

“Ok, weirdo. Let’s open this!”

Raven and I grab the lid together, and open the ark. A scream of a thousand souls vibrates my skull, and pierces my brain. The shrieking vibrates the cave itself. Spirits pour out of the ark, flying madly about. The Templars and Nazis melt. Raven and I begin absorbing the souls.

Diverge #1
We become two great bulbous chimeras... strange slimy wraiths.

We are on the Moon somehow.

We laugh and explode. Dark energy goes everywhere like black oil. It’s gross. We go back to original forms, and burn up the dark energy ectoplasm with violet flame.

Diverge #2
“Nate?” Angel is standing at the entrance to the cave. Raven nods to her, smiling madly as she fills up with the ghosts. “OMIGOD NATE WHAT ARE YOU DOING?”

“I am absorbing these ghosts. It’s okay.”

Angel roars at me, and morphs into Angelwitch. She flies into the sky outside the entrance to the cavern, and summons lightning into her staff. She channels it to us, and puts the ghosts into the ground.

**ninja9578** · 01-06-2011 12:57 AM

Originally Posted by AjWasHere

300 is not a remake of The 300 Spartans. It is a movie version of the graphic novel 300 by Frank Miller.
That said, great task of the year. Good choices for the movies all around.

Oh, well The 300 Spartans was a thousand times better than 300 anyway.