Thread: Spellbee2's Summer Lucid Competition 2016

So lets talk about point stacking

Suppose this was my dream plan

spot an enemy captain like say sensei
transform him into a Unicorn
ride him / force him to gore to death a couple of 'hello kitty' DCs (expectation summoned)

points might be:
first DILD (10)
meet an enemy (5)
advanced changing (10)
convert enemy to ally (*10)
DC summon (5) fictional +(5)
task of the year (20)
interact with DC (2)

for a boat load of points in this theoretical scenario 67?

Originally Posted by cooleymd

So lets talk about point stacking

Suppose this was my dream plan

spot an enemy captain like say sensei
transform him into a Unicorn
ride him / force him to gore to death a couple of 'hello kitty' DCs (expectation summoned)

points might be:
first DILD (10)
meet an enemy (5)
advanced changing (10)
convert enemy to ally (*10)
DC summon (5) fictional +(5)
task of the year (20)
interact with DC (2)

for a boat load of points in this theoretical scenario 67?

Dang cooleymd, you've done 3 competitions and you're just asking this now?

So spamming refers more to twisting your interpretation of your dream in order to score more points than you deserve. Honestly, we've never really had a problem with it in the competitions I've run, but I can think of a hypothetical example.

"I suddenly realize I'm dreaming without an RC. I try to summon dolphin (an enemy captain) behind me, but instead all I summon is a cell phone with a picture of a dolphin on it. I pick it up off the ground. I press the lock button, and the time shows up on the screen."

Legitimate score:
DILD (10) - Self-explanatory
Basic Summoning (5) - I summoned the phone behind my back.
Use an electronic device (5) - I used the phone and got it to work.
Total - 20 pts

Spamming Score: All of the above, plus...
DC Changing (5) - The phone was actually dolphin, transformed into a cell phone.
Interact with a DC (2) - Since the phone was actually dolphin, I interacted with a DC when I picked him up.
Meet an Enemy (5) - Since the phone was actually dolphin, I met an enemy.
Ask for advice (5) - The time is technically advice, right?
Weekly Task (20) - Sure, I didn't directly ask cell-phone dolphin the time, but it told me anyway.
TOTM (15) (Advanced Task i - Bind a DC/creature into a small object (like a Pokeball), then summon it.) - Technically I bound dolphin to the phone when I summoned it.
Spammed Total - 72 pts

So you see, I almost quadrupled my points by twisting my failed summoning of dolphin into a successful summoning of a transformed dolphin. I know dreams are weird and unpredictable, but in general, if it seems like too much of a stretch, it probably is.

Your scenario sounds fine, except for the Converting an Enemy part (notice in the description the enemy has to start out hostile - it sounds like you just found him and transformed him). So 57 points seems incredibly reasonable, especially since 20 of those points come from a TOTY, so you wouldn't be able to claim the unicorn TOTY points any more during the competition.