Thread: Spellbee2's Summer Lucid Competition 2016

Oohoo those teams are nifty, might make some enemies of those who are in different teams in the game haha. My recall has been high and lucidity bubbling to a crest, so I am excited for this .
EDIT: Woops forgot to set out my tasks, here goes:
3 Step Tasks:
-Advanced Summoning
-Change Gravity
-Fly

Personal Goals:
-Meet/Summon my Dream Guide
-Dissolve the dream world yet maintain the dream state
-Take part in a giant wizard battle

I like how the teams are laid out. Go Team Instinct!

3 step tasks
-Teleport
-Fully Phase through Big Solid Object
-Time Control

Old personal goals
- fully transform into dolphin
-use a slide to teleport
-attend a party

New personal goals
-enter a flying saucer
-jump off of a waterfall
-visit Candyland

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?

Go team Instinct!!!

3 step tasks
-fly
-Telekinesis
-Teleport

personal goals
Defeat the mafia thief for the Dream Hero League
Drink a stability potion
Have my dream guide teach me a new technique

Yes per cooleymd's request, please give examples of what could be constituted as "spamming" vs. planning tasks so that doing a single thing falls into multiple point categories ("stacking").

My personal view is that "doing one thing" should be scored just one way. You could choose the highest valued scoring (say, task of the year), but not multiple point categories for "one thing".

Now we have to decide what "one thing" means .

(should the rules have excluded rc/stabilize and or interact with DC)
3 Step
. 1 Eat Something
.. 2 Use Electronic Device
... 3 Fully Phase

(I might go with 3 as Advanced Transformation if becoming giant counted as advanced)

New Personal Goals +15
Smack DC with my flashlight
draw a Light Saber
Flip coin and land it on edge
Behind the Back Hand DC Summonation
Find Self In Void believe that I'm a'dragon'back and emerge from 'between' Pern-Style
Make it rain 'cats' and 'dogs' literally
Use Phone Screen to locate specific DC/Place/Object that I want/need
Breath Underwater

Old Personal Goals +10
Stretch Phone Screen Bigger
Pistol whip dream-cop with their own weapon
Find Self In Void but then punch my way out of it mine-craft-style
Jump off a cliff (crash or fly)
Transform into giant and stomp/smash stuff
Transfigure the color of bird/animal into different color
Duplicate DC (make additional copy/copies of them)
Enter the TARDIS



what about multiple unspecified powers per dream (disallow?)
like say someone claims:
earth bending, then water breathing, mind melding a DC, super hearing, force-field extrusion, energy absorption, self healing, self replication, laser emission, luminescence, seismic induction, and necromancy (all in the same dream)

possibly requiring you to reclassify
water breathing = partial alteration
mind melding = DC mind control
force-field extrusion / self healing = invulnerability
laser emission / luminescence / seismic induction = elemental control


so your point interpretation of the above post would have been like
first DILD (10)
meet an enemy (5)
DC summon (5) fictional +(5) (not really required in the task of the year)
task of the year (20)

for 35 or 45 points depending on (summonation fictional as independent)

Team Valor !! ( Good job on the team design! )

Three-Step Tasks

• Super Strength
• Gain Invulnerability
• Adv : Full Transformation

New Personal Goals

• Visit a jungle / magical forest
• Visit Gondolin
• Battle with a giant
• Meet my dream guide
• Face a nightmare creature and defeat it for the Dream Hero League
  
• Have a goofy adventure with John Travolta

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.

Go Team Instinct!

Three Step Tasks
- Push your hand through a solid object
- Telekinesis
- Fly

Personal goals
- Step into a painting
- Ask a DC for advice on Lucid dreaming
- Play some quidditch

Edit: no RC :'(

Originally Posted by Tataglia

Go Team Instinct!

Three Step Tasks
- Reality Check
- Telekenises
- Fly

Personal goals
- Step into a painting
- Ask a DC for advice on Lucid dreaming
- Play some quidditch

Originally Posted by MadMonkey

Go team Instinct!!!

3 step tasks
-Reality Check
-Telekinesis
-Teleport

personal goals
Defeat the mafia thief for the Dream Hero League
Drink a stability potion
Have my dream guide teach me a new technique

Choose 3 different Dream Control Tasks from the Basic and Advanced Dream Control tasks above, excluding RC/Stabilization.

me too has a question i participated the last sensei comp. there it was for example:
personal task: summon and eat an appel.
--> points for personal task + 5 points for eating and 5+ for summoning.

this still count yes?

I like the idea, but loathe the idea of being on team mystic. I bleed red man! Valor all the way. If you changed it, I would be happy, but if not I will pretend that I am just on blue team.
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3 step
Teleport
Element manipulation
Adv flying

Personal tasks
new
Visit blips and chitz!
Meet Rick
Meet Morty
Use a portal gun
Summon a pokemon
Meet a new god of Zödra

Old
Meet the created life form
Meet an old god of Zödra
Learn something about a god of Zödra

Originally Posted by RelaxAndDream

Choose 3 different Dream Control Tasks from the Basic and Advanced Dream Control tasks above, excluding RC/Stabilization.

Sorry. I somehow missed that. I had a feeling that would be way to easy. Thanks for pointing it out. I edited my post to have fly instead of RC.

Originally Posted by Sensei

I like the idea, but loathe the idea of being on team mystic. I bleed red man! Valor all the way.

I feel the same way. I'm team valor in pokemon go but I will support dream team instinct as much as I can!

i would love to see you two in my team

Okay!

Three-Step Tasks
Basic:
Eat Something - 5 points
Telekinesis - 5 points

Advanced:
Element Manipulation - 10 points

Personal Goals
New:
Kill a DC with the help of another DC - 15 points

Old:
Ask DC for help with locating music hall building - 10 points

OI OI OI TEAM INSTINCT, this s*** comes naturally.

This is a question more out of curiosity, as I'm unlikely to get as far as summoning people, but how do we (i.e. you guys) know who to look for if we're looking for other competitors? Do you all know what each other looks like or something? Similarly, is it a 'meeting them in your dream' thing or do both of you have to confirm meeting? Like the shared dreaming stuff I'm sure I've read about on here before.

Anyway, assuming I actually get one measly lucid (I will, I will get one):

The Big Three

+ Telekinesis
+ Jump through a door
+ Fly out of the Earth's atmosphere

Percys

+ Listen to my favourite record [on the turntable, of course]
+ Jump down two flights of steps without breaking the old kneecaps
+ Smoke a fatty [I have a crippling problem of having never been able to smoke something I've rolled]

Three steps

Push hand through object
Fully phase
Use electronic device

Personal

Walk through a mirror
Cheat Grim Reaper when gambling, receive it's cloak as reward

May you all have a mystically unreasonable amount of success in the following two weeks!

3 Step Tasks
one. Use an electronic device specifically to play music.
two. Practice a waking life hobby; specifically: gardening.
three. Fully phase through a big solid object; specifically, humanity's impending Pokemon Go-induced doom. Jokes. A big solid object. I got it.

New Personal Goals
- Meet the Dream Pirate aboard his ship and honor him with a gift in exchange for a place in the crew. (This is old but I never completed it).

Yay! Thanks for including me!

3 Step Tasks
1. Practice a waking life hobby
2. Ask a DC for advice
3. Gain invulnerability

New Personal Goals
Meet my child self
Meet myself or my clone
Do hallucinogenic drugs
Go to outer space

Three step task

Advanced Summoning -*10 points*(make something/someone appear right in your direct view / summon something larger than human-size)
+5 points*if it is a fictional character from a book/movie/TV show/anime or a Dream Guide
Element Manipulation -*10 points*
• Push your hand through a solid object -*5 points*(note: 'pushing finger through hand' RC does not count)

Personal goal
1) Complete Dhl mission by getting rid of the snake
2)Dance with a dc

3 Step Task: I'm gonna challenge myself and pick some stuff I haven't done much.

1.Practice Waking Life Hobby. Specifically I'm looking at doing Taekwondo in a dream. I've done it before, but never just for practice. It's always because theres some prick DC who wants to fight and I have to. But any other hobby. (Video Games, Running, Art will qualify, so long as I'm lucid.)
2.Object/DC Changing (Basic)
3.Time Control. (Advanced) I think I did this once, a really long time ago. I want a challenge.

Personal Goals (Some are still leftovers from the last LDing competition, since I didn't complete a single personal goal.)

NEW:
-Teach DG how to fight/defend herself. I will count teaching a single move or just a few seconds of instruction a success.
-Earthbend. (Reasonable scale, a boulder that couldn't be lifted in waking life. I still have not done this.)
-Watch Dream TV. Gotta be lucid when I do it. Gotta remember what I saw. Just a few seconds will do.
-Build a sand castle.
-Use a healing ability on myself or another dream character.
-Go Underwater, report what I see. Cannot be in a swimming pool/bathtub, must be a lake/river/ocean. I beat the Tsunami dream, the next step is to get accustomed to being underwater.
OLD:
-Preform a Flip or other Acrobatic Maneuver, while flying or not.
-Project a dreamcatcher shield. (See my art thread to know what this is.)
-Waterbend.
-Dream Music. Gotta be lucid when I do it. Gotta remember what I heard.
-Rotate the sky like a planetarium to change the time to day or the positions of celestial bodies. So fun. So cool.

Hmm, let's see...

Three Step Task
1. Partial Transformation
2. Advanced Summoning
3. Advanced Object/DC Changing

Personal Goals
1. Visit Irva (the world of Elona)
2. Take the form of a Spellforged Guardian (prismatic, crystalline form; must be resistant to magic, cold, electricity, and fire)
3. Eat a Marloss Berry (apple-sized, berry shaped pink fungus; must grant feelings of bliss/relaxation)

Looks like my relative that I live with will likely not last long now

I don't know what state I'll be in for this competition

I had just posted time off on All of each Wed and some time off on the second Monday and both Thursday mornings
I may just end up with little sleep and mostly nightmares

I guess I'll try my best to at least journal, I'm amazed I made it from 98 to 100 dreams last weekend
Stress is the dream killer I think this will be the most stressful time of my life so far

I was going to start practicing sleep disruption tonight now so stressed it will more likely be sleep deprivation

Spellbee: I think I am fair with scoring, and understanding but it is good to have things explained at the beginning so all have similar understanding. Looks like most in the competition have some experience from before. I wonder about people who wake once a day and then claim 10 separate recalled dreams tho, I might claim 10 if I woke 9 times but never if I woke only 8

Three Step Task
1. Eat something.
2. Telekieneses.
3. Fly.

Personal Goals
1. Destroy a whole building.
2. Sleep in LD to wake up IWL [FA doesn't count].

Valor for life !!

Here we go again, let's hope it goes better this time

Three-Step Tasks

- Basic Summoning
- Interact with a DC
- Ask for advice

Personal goals:

New:
- in an LD, come back to a place visited in any previous dream
- summon a persistent DC who I have already interacted with in a previous LD
Old:
- have a continuous LD for over ~45 seconds