Thread: Spellbee's Spooky Competition 2016

Three step tasks
Basic summoning
Ask for Advice from DC
Eat Something

Personal goals
Find closet
find Skeleton in closet
change outfit
become witch
find wand
cast spells
Find Varosha Ghost Town
Open/Work in Bar , serve drinks in skull mugs
Find grave
go to gym
draw a skeleton tattoo
make a necklace out of teeth
summon Army of the Dead from Lord of Rings

Yay i am excited how i will do this comp.
i am also lets say curious about how teambalance will work out. we will see^^

NEW - IMPORTANT! - As discussed in the signup thread, points no longer stack for completing a single task that falls in multiple categories (i.e. Normal Dream Control, Task of the Month/Year, Personal Goal, etc.). Instead, it counts for the highest-scoring category. If you complete the same task multiple times, then it can count for the additional categories, but each category can only be scored once per task per night. For example, if you complete the weekly challenge of "Transform into your team's creature", it only counts for the 20 points for the Weekly Challenge, and not an additional 10 for the advanced control task of full transformation. However, if you were to complete the transformation a second time in the same dream, you would then score those 10 points. Note that this new rule does not apply to 3-Step Tasks, as those have always been purposely stackable.

i understand why this new rule got introduced but i find it a little sad. i had tons of fun thinking and incubating some dreamgoals that stacked a lot of points. now this is over :/
but when i get it right i can do one dreamcontrol now several times in one dream?
personal goal: change one balls color to purple and let it levitate
three step task telekinesis
--> now when i do my personal goal i only get this one counted because its 15 points but later in a dream when i make a coke can fly around i would get another 5 + 5 points for telekinesis (5 tele and 5 personal task)?? or would three step task alrdy count first time?
or something similar with flying: fly to moon. so when i fly around land : 5 points for flying and then same dream start flying again and get to the moon another 15/10 for personal?

Originally Posted by FryingMan

Let's rock this thing!

Three step tasks:
1. hand through solid object
2. multiply single object into multiple copies
3. make normal size object huge

Old personal goal:
+ Do a dream yoga exercise

so you would get personal + one/several three step tasks done when you do a three step right?

Originally Posted by FryingMan

New personal goal:
+ meet my dream pimp and have him "hook me up"
+ meet woblybil and have him introduce me to some of his dream girls

Originally Posted by DreamSwimmer

New Personal Goals

1) Spawn a Double Penetrating Unkempt Harold

2) Turn a random DC into a dinosaur

3) Shoot the troublesome dinosaur with the Double Penetrating Unkempt Harold.

just saying: you only can do one personal goal/dream --> but your personal goals stack so if you do all in one you would done them all but still just get 15 points

Originally Posted by oneironautics

Personal goals
Find closet
find Skeleton in closet

same here



i will edit this post later when there are maybe some answers to my questions and will add my tasks

Edit:

Three-Step Tasks
-Fully Phase through Big Solid Object
-Element Manipulation
-Mass Telekinesis

Personal Goals

*NEW* Enter a picture/TV
*NEW* Shrink/enlarge myself
*NEW* Play rock-paper-scissors with a DC
*NEW* Find my dream guide
*NEW* Transform part of my clothes while looking at them
*NEW* Change an apple into a banana without looking away
*NEW* Smoke a joint consciously in a lucid
*NEW* Make it rain


new competition ....nice!! good luck everybody

Here is my current full list for tasks including most of my old ones and the newest 'face down a clown'

NEW GOALS
Draw a Light Saber
Face down a Killer Clown
Smack a DC with my Flashlight
Flip a Coin and land it on Edge
Find self in Void and 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
Use 'Lucizon.com' by any means to summon a Drone containing my wanted/needed item (from my suggested Future Montly Task)

OLD GOALS
Pistol whip dream-cop with their own weapon
Find self in Void and punch my way out of it minecraft-style
Transform into a 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
Kiss 10+ random DC
Use hand as musical wind instrument (added)

Originally Posted by RelaxAndDream

...i understand why this new rule got introduced but i find it a little sad. i had tons of fun thinking and incubating some dreamgoals that stacked a lot of points. now this is over :/
but when i get it right i can do one dreamcontrol now several times in one dream?...

Here is how I think the need to repeat part of task skill to claim skill works

Lets say I'm in a dream and become lucid, I see a corner/woods, and know a killer clown is on the way, he arrives (beginning second new task above) I then decide as he approaches to draw a light saber and take him down.
I think I would get + 5 for summon object (not explicitly part of the face down killer clown goal) and 15 for the new goal itself (but the catch would be that I would then have to demote my Light Saber goal for future dreams to an old task since I would then have done it already)

Suppose instead I was in a town and became lucid, and decided to make myself into a giant and then stomp/smash stuff. I would not get +5 for minor transformation since its part of my task, but would get +10 for old goal. However with repetition allowed after I smashed some stuff what if I then transformed back to normal size, I think then I could get the +5 for the second minor transformation.
(but shrinking myself back down might seem so lame I might not claim it)

But some things seem tricky, suppose I become lucid and then rapidly destabilize and enter the void, but think to stabilize and survive and emerge a Dragon'back Pern-Style. I then see a handy village and merge myself into the dragon becoming him, and roast and toast the town. Do I get to claim my Personal Goal and the Dragon task of the year. I think I should becuase I did the new personal task then the task of the year. And so Should get +15 & then +20, however I couldn't also claim that I used (unspecified)Posession or transformation to become the dragon becuase it is an explicit part of the Dragon Task.

Originally Posted by RelaxAndDream

i can do one dreamcontrol now several times in one dream?
personal goal: change one balls color to purple and let it levitate
three step task telekinesis
--> now when i do my personal goal i only get this one counted because its 15 points but later in a dream when i make a coke can fly around i would get another 5 + 5 points for telekinesis (5 tele and 5 personal task)?? or would three step task alrdy count first time?
or something similar with flying: fly to moon. so when i fly around land : 5 points for flying and then same dream start flying again and get to the moon another 15/10 for personal?


so you would get personal + one/several three step tasks done when you do a three step right?

One category per action (with the exception of 3-step tasks to preserve the fun of stacking planning without having it go crazy, so 3-step tasks still stack)
And no, one action still per dream, and one personal goal scored per night, and each individual goal scored only once per competition.

So in your example: new/old personal goal=15/10, 3-step TK counts (since 3-steps stack) from the one action, then a separate action of TK later earns 5 for TK since TK has not yet been scored. No extra +5 for personal since personal is scored once per night. No more TK can be scored in that dream/chain, but more TK in different dream/chains will count 5 again.

Originally Posted by spellbee2

I do understand the criticism, however. This was kind of sprung on suddenly, and I have a couple concerns that might just have to be handled on a case-by-case basis (for example, what happens if you have a personal task that covers more than one control category). But I think it'll help out with some of the balance issues, and hopefully make points rely more on control skill as opposed to who can make the system work to their advantage the most. And if it turns out it's more trouble than it's worth, we can always switch back next comp.

This is precisely the point. It's about dreaming, not about spamming. The 3-tasks are still there for the stack lovers, up to 6 instances per competition (first week 3-step, second week 3-step)

For a personal task with multiple categories, you either score the goal, or you score the categories. It's not advantageous to make goals contain too many separate, specific categories, or you can't score it as a goal unless you do them all.

I think it makes scoring more straightforward and keeps the emphasis on the control, not the scoring.