Thread: Task of the Month for December 2014

Yay. Posted so that we can try the tasks tonight. None of these appeal to me, but it was something I always wanted to say to Ophelia. But since I wasn't willing to do anything about it, it was not worth saying anything. Don't tell people about problems like this unless you are willing to help them fix it. way to stay on the ball.

Yep, that way, if someone can get it done on the 1st night, they do not get their wings clipped And technically, most of the night from the last day of the month is the first night of the following month

Oh goodness... Gremlins... Even Giz always creeped me out a bit...
I may or may not do that one... but the rest I'll give a try.
I feel like my subC could insert some... interesting... things into Santa's Sleigh...

Originally Posted by KestrelKat

Oh goodness... Gremlins... Even Giz always creeped me out a bit...
I may or may not do that one... but the rest I'll give a try.
I feel like my subC could insert some... interesting... things into Santa's Sleigh...

Gizmo is the cutest thing ever!

Originally Posted by Sensei

Gizmo is the cutest thing ever!

He looks like Yoda screwed a Half-Bear-Half-Orangutan...
And he's obviously always secretly plotting something sinister... that look he always has is WAY too innocent to be good.

He is just furry yoda! No cross species tango needed. Lol.

All of these tasks appeal to me, especially the snow ball one. I've never dreamed of snow before!

It's going to be a busy month for me. Lots of fun to be had

Originally Posted by dolphin

All of these tasks appeal to me, especially the snow ball one. I've never dreamed of snow before!

It's going to be a busy month for me. Lots of fun to be had

I just realized that most of my dreams involving snow have been nightmares...
But I've never tried to find snow in a LD... should be interesting.

Hmm, I guess I'll do the first Basic Task. Since I have no clue who the hell Gizmo is, I guess I'll be doing the second advanced task. I might do the bonus task if I have the time.

Now that mine college term is almost over, I shouldn't have too much trouble getting these done. [Shrugs] I hope.

Woohoo let's go for earliest wings yet!
p.s. weather here works strictly by the calendar: December 1st morning now, and snow is falling outside my window.

Originally Posted by FryingMan

Woohoo let's go for earliest wings yet!
p.s. weather here works strictly by the calendar: December 1st morning now, and snow is falling outside my window.

Just what we need, A little more of the white shit....Bah Hamburger

Woah snow already? We often have to pray for a white christmas. Usually snow arrives somewhere in januari. Wanna trade weather with me Fryingman?
I also have rarely dreamt about snow. And never seen it in a LD, so I'd like to try this one out. See if I can finally get my firsts wings ever

Originally Posted by MrPriority

Woah snow already? We often have to pray for a white christmas. Usually snow arrives somewhere in januari. Wanna trade weather with me Fryingman?
I also have rarely dreamt about snow. And never seen it in a LD, so I'd like to try this one out. See if I can finally get my firsts wings ever

Haha nope I don't want to trade, at least not right now. I'll probably feel differently in April, though. I like winter -- for about 3 months. After that I'm done…and it's usually 4-5 months here.

Originally Posted by PercyLucid

Basic Task i - Hit a DC with a snowball and report their reaction - (kilham)

This sounds fun, I have always loved snow and only ever seen it a couple of times! I should make a nice snowy world to go with my snowball

Lol it snowed here like three weeks ago. It's not as bad as it was in Buffalo NY, but we've been doing that thing where the weather changes all the time before settling into the 4-5 month winter. It was almost 60 yesterday and it's 15 today. Not snowing though. All the snow we got melted ;___;

But I completed basic i by chance last night! Well, maybe. The snowball missed, but they got sprayed with snow when the ball hit the ground. Does that count?

Hmmm…well, for questions such as this I defer to the task wording…it does pretty clearly say "hit", not "throw at"… but with subsequent contact with snow it may be in the gray area...

Well, we'll let the ones in charge decide.

I also ended up doing a task from November that I still wanted to try. Haha!
((Full dream here))

Spoiler for Basic i and one from November:

I walked through some scattered trees to a little plaza with a fountain. I sat on a stone bench that circled the fountain. There was an annoying mascot thing with a huge hunk of cheese trying to get me to take a selfie with it. I turned around to face the rest of the mountain above us (we were about half-way up the mountain here). It was beautiful; the mountain side was all bare except for these tall, skinny, wooden animal figures. They were made with different colors of wood and stood along the mountainside, all looking as if they were walking in the same direction (to my right). There was a vast landscape of them, and something about them was tribal, though I can't pinpoint what it was. I took out my phone to take a picture of it so I would be able to see it forever, but every time I hit the button to take a picture, the view would switch to front-facing and take a selfie. The stupid mascot thing was in all of them, too. It was getting in my way, and I was convinced it was the one making my camera do that. I elbowed it in the stomach to make it go away, and turned back to the mountain above us. But it was different. There were large, almost junglish trees scattered instead of the animal figures.

I said, "WHAT GIVES. It's different!" And then I realized, and said, "WAIT. Haha! I'm dreaming!" I looked down at my hands and confirmed that I was dreaming. I grinned. There were so many children around, and I wanted to try the task from last month about telling a kid they were in a dream. It was too late for that one, but I still wanted to try it.

I walked up to a kid who was sitting on the crest of the grassy hill, and said, "Hi! My name is Ms. Kestrel. What's your name?"
"Nathan..."
"Hi Nathan! Where are you from?"
"I'm from BC. Where are you from?"
"Oh, I'm from around there! I'm from K."
"Oh, nice." Nathan smiled.
"Actually. Do you wanna know something?"
"What?"

I said, "You know how sometimes you are dreaming, and you realize you're dreaming, while you dream?"
Nathan brightened up and nodded. "Yeah, I've heard of that!"
"It's called lucid dreaming. This is my lucid dream right now. That means you're not actually from BC. You're from my subC, actually."

I watched for his reaction. At first he was just blank, but then he says, "Maaannn. Oh that's just TERRIBLE."

He sounded dejected but also detached, like he didn't actually care. I patted his back and stood up. Now, I wanted to do at least one of the December tasks. The one that came to mind first was to throw a snowball at a DC.

I looked around. No snow here... But I was on a mountain, and snow was normal on a mountain. All I had to do was go higher up and I was sure I'd find snow. I jumped up to hover a foot above the ground. Once I was sure of my stability, I flew close to the ground up the mountain until I hit the road above us. I turned to my right, where the road curved over a bridge surrounded by trees. The trees created a sort of tunnel around the road. I hovered through this tunnel and on the other side, I heard a different stream. It sounded cold somehow, and I was happy to see some snow on the railings at the side of the road. I scooped it up with my hand, but it was all powdery, not good for a snowball. It actually felt more like fake snow. I kept taking samples, getting closer to the river, which was mostly frozen over. I kept getting powdery, fake-ish snow. I turned to the trees, and saw a clump of snow gathered in the branches. Powdery snow wouldn't clump like that, so I was hopeful for this patch. I scooped it up, and packed it into a nice snowball. Perfect. Now I turned back up to the road, and turned back to the direction I had come from. I flew back through the tunnel of trees, and then left back to the plaza. There were stone stairs downward. The fountain thing was to my right, and there was a stone tunnel ahead of me, where I saw all the kids leaving.

I called out, "HEY KIDS!" And Nathan and a few others turned right as I threw the snowball. They were looking at it like I had thrown an angry, venomous snake at them, not a simple snowball. They shrieked and some of them cried. Until they realized it was a snowball, and it missed them. It landed on the ground between Nathan and another kid, and powdered them all with snow, rolling along the ground with un-dampened velocity as far as I could see, leaving a line of snow where it rolled and showering the kids with snow as it passed.

The kids all started laughing and cheering, and said "THAT WAS AMAZING!!" And started playing in the snow.

I was pretty satisfied with that, and decided to just fly upwards until I lost the dream (I could already feel it was ending soon). I didn't make it very far before I woke up.

Nice. I almost always lose lucidity when flying by just getting distracted with the amazing view, but you managed to fly to get the snowball and make it back to the kids!

Originally Posted by FryingMan

Nice. I almost always lose lucidity when flying by just getting distracted with the amazing view, but you managed to fly to get the snowball and make it back to the kids!

Flying seems pretty natural for me. I spent almost the entirety of my patronus LD flying. There are plenty of things that distract me in a LD but it's not usually flying
I just worry that it will fade and there won't be anything to touch to keep it stable.

^^ Yes I have the same concern about nothing tactile to stabilise with when flying. But in my last TOTM LD I flew and specifically thought about "OK, make sure to land" (to find the pile of leaves) and it worked out fine. I'm pretty happy that doing the flying itself is also pretty easy for me.

Basic i completed!

Not quite sure if a scene change would be possible, but I try to think of Christmas, winter and snow. To my surprise this works and as I enter the living room I see it nicely decorated. I concentrate on the outside a bit and then head towards the porch where I can see the entire yard covered in snow and also some decorations on the trees there. I quickly form a snowball as the snow begins to melt and head inside. There are a number of DCs sitting around the table having fun. One of them is like some sort of a fatherly figure. In addition, I think I mistakenly summoned a DC that looks like Santa and he is also among the DCs. I was wondering whether to hit him with the snowball, but that seemed too evil, so I decide to throw the snowball at the fatherly figure . He lets out a loud "Ou", while the DC next to him chuckles quietly. I happen to have another snowball in my hand and throw it at the other DC, carefully noting his reaction. He continues chuckling.

An attempt at advanced (Gizmo):

Indeed, there is still some decoration, a mini xmas tree and a few presents left in the middle of the room. I look at the gift boxes, trying to determine which one size-wise most likely contains Gizmo. I grab one that looks appropriate and try to think about gizmo before opening it. As I open it, I find a white rabbit toy. This is pretty amusing as I ponder about how the mind has created something related to the target object. "But no, you have to think of Gizmo, he is a gremlin, concentrate on him", I tell myself while looking away. As I look back to the rabbit, I notice that the rabbit has turned into a close match to gizmo, unfortunately his toy eyes are falling out while I try to fix them in place. I recall that we also had to learn a new song and feel the futility of it all as the dream begins to slip away.

I'm not sure how to interpret that Xanous owo

It's my subtle way of being an ass. Let's just say I was really hoping for better tasks this month. I have to be really excited to devote precious lucid time to any goals and this month is a huge disappointment. Oh well, I have a list some place full of personal goals that I've yet to complete.