The Amazing Race

**BillyBob** · 12-02-2007 08:00 PM

The Amazing Race

Some of you may have heard of "Lucid Island." Well this is kind of the same, but different.

After writing this tutorial I was talking to some people and we touched on how that method of dream control could allow for lucid dreams to become more like video games.

Usually in lucids your god, there are no rules or anything. Lucid tasks here on the site focus on seeing who comes up with the most creative dream power to complete the tasks.
They focus on who can be most godlike.

This will be a video game for your LDs. To participate you must use the form of dream control I just linked you to.
The reason this is different from other lucid dream tasks is because I'm going to give you a setting, a ruleset, and a task that you must complete.

The fun of this is that you must actually be creative in how you go about doing the task:

Rules:

Rule 1: Absolutely no "powers"

You are not invincible, you cannot fly, you have no superpowers of any kind.

The dream is set to "real life" standards. If you can't do it in real life, you can't do it in this dream.
Also just to note, no passive powers can be used either. No item creation!
(Of course, this doesn't mean you can't take a policeman's gun as you walk past. If something is illogical --"a gun is under this vending machine"-- then its considered passive control.)

Rule 2: The world must be logical and flowing like real life.

You can't walk to a place thats five miles away in two minutes.
The real life laws of nature apply in this dream. If its going to take a long time to get there, steal a motorcycle or something -- just remember that traffic will react in exactly the same way as it would in real life: you may get hit.

Though laws of nature apply, you can still break all social norms

Keep in mind though, if you get shot you still bleed. Your not superpowerful, a bikerdude can still beat your ass if you piss him off.

Rule 3: If you die, you start over.

If you get shot, or your head busts open, you HAVE to start over.

In other words, be careful not to slay too many pedestrians, the cops may take notice.
By start over, I mean either get back to where you started, or just re-spawn there when you resurrect.

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Those are the rules. Rules must not be broken.
If you break a rule, remind yourself that thats against the rules and keep going.

The Task:

Choose whichever suits you, they all lead to basically the same end:
(Notice: for all of these, you start out with only the clothes on your back and a pocket knife)

You just got a transmission from the government, they've secretly launched a nuclear warhead straight for this city. You have ten minutes to get your ass to the bomb shelter on the outskirts of the city, its about ten miles away.
You've killed many people in your years as a hitman, now the FBI is on to you. They've deployed hundreds of operatives to seek you out and kill on sight. You have a very short amount of time to make it to a helicopter thats on the top floor of the building your in. All the elevators are being watched.
Your an FBI operative that has to take down the hitman before he reaches the top. You just run into the building when you see him sprinting into the door that leads to a stairwell. You've been given the authority to kill anyone on sight.

Why do this? Because instead of having a bunch of dream powers, you're going to have to think about your next move and try to judge what would be the best route.

This is a video game, not sandbox. Do you have the skills to kill your target/ reach your destination before time runs out?

To recap on the rules:

No magical powers.
The world is set to "real life," it must stay consistent like real life.
Death means you restart the whole experience.

TIPS:

View all the DCs around you just like you would view people in real life. You aren't in control of them, some other force is (lets just say your subconscious or something). They are free-thinking individuals, not puppets of your mind.
(Note: by thinking like this you'll allow whatever creates dreams to put the same effects on them as it does on tables: we all "kind of" know how to "read" people, which enables us to create seemingly free-thinking individuals in our dreams. {think about your normal dream's dream characters, they mostly all seem ultra realistic right?})

Think of this like your in virtual reality, you need to get supplies early so you can use them later, etc etc.
Think of it like a video game. I've just made the world and rules, now you must follow them to your objective.

Have fun with it. This isn't actually a race against your peers, but a whole new experience altogether.

Use this tutorial to render the world. I explain everything much more in-depth there.

**FreeOne** · 12-02-2007 10:06 PM

nice idea! I think ill tackle the 1. first. then 3, then 2. 2 seems like it would be pretty hard.

**arby** · 12-02-2007 10:33 PM

Woo! Right up my alley! I just gotta watch the automatic reactions though.. XD It's too easy just to have something unlikely happen just because it's convenient.

I love the puzzle solving in dreams. Am I allowed to do little skips back in time though? Thats the way I normally operate in these sorts of circumstances.

**BillyBob** · 12-02-2007 10:37 PM

Originally Posted by arby

I love the puzzle solving in dreams. Am I allowed to do little skips back in time though? Thats the way I normally operate in these sorts of circumstances.

Nope

This is reality, that seems pretty impossible to me

You can kill yourself and restart if you please, but otherwise thats against the rules/cheating.

**FreeOne** · 12-02-2007 11:50 PM

man 20 miles in 5 min. is going to be hard

cant i just like, get in a plane or somthing? or do i have to go to the bomb shelter?

**BillyBob** · 12-02-2007 11:54 PM

Originally Posted by freefire

man 20 miles in 5 min. is going to be hard

cant i just like, get in a plane or something? or do i have to go to the bomb shelter?

You could try for a jet or something, but the bomb shelter is your best bet for survival

(The plane might get blown out of the air by the shock wave when the bomb goes off)

Maybe the sewer systems?
Your going to have to ride out the blast any way you do it. Find somewhere safe and hunker down if you can't think of any way to get there.

**FreeOne** · 12-03-2007 12:00 AM

(The plane might get blown out of the air by the shock wave when the bomb goes off)

i suppose the havent made jetpacks yet

im sure i could get a parachute somewhere. That shockwave is going to blow out my ear drums though lol. do we have to escape un-injured? or if im deaf does it still count?

**BillyBob** · 12-03-2007 12:09 AM

Originally Posted by freefire

i suppose they haven't made jetpacks yet

I'm sure i could get a parachute somewhere. That shockwave is going to blow out my ear drums though lol. do we have to escape uninjured? or if I'm deaf does it still count?

As long as your not dead or about to die directly after the objective is complete (ie. missing limbs, bullet holes, etc), you win

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**arby** · 12-03-2007 05:11 AM

Originally Posted by BillyBob

Nope

This is reality, that seems pretty impossible to me

You can kill yourself and restart if you please, but otherwise thats against the rules/cheating.

Darn =P

Oh well, I guess i'll just have to do it the old fashioned way <3

And 20 miles in 5 minutes?? I just realized how ridiculous that is. You'd have to average about 384 kilometers per hour.

**BillyBob** · 12-03-2007 09:13 AM

Originally Posted by arby

And 20 miles in 5 minutes?? I just realized how ridiculous that is. You'd have to average about 384 kilometers per hour.

Argh,

Ok, I've just changed it to ten miles in ten minutes.
Dunno what I was thinking

**Mrs. Jones** · 12-04-2007 11:29 PM

what is the purpose of this exercise? cuz i have experienced those shit half-done universes. does this exercise help with that problem?

**b12** · 12-04-2007 11:41 PM

Ooh. I'm going to try number 2.

**BillyBob** · 12-05-2007 12:12 AM

Originally Posted by Mrs. Jones

what is the purpose of this exercise? cuz i have experienced those shit half-done universes. does this exercise help with that problem?

Its not so much an exercise, but more of something for people that have done everything to try out.

I did something similar to this on my own and I found it pretty rewarding/extremely fun. Its probably the closest thing to virtual reality I'll ever experience

Thought you guys might enjoy it as well

EDIT:
I guess you could view it as an exercise... If you successfully complete it then you will have experienced a thoroughly self-sustaining universe in your lucid dreams.

**Mrs. Jones** · 12-05-2007 12:55 AM

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

i'm stupid.

i didn't think we were supposed to do it during lucids. i thought you meant for us to do it here, as an RP

. nvm forget i said anything. wow

**EchoSun13** · 10-23-2008 04:12 AM

A challenge...

I will try.

**Hukif** · 10-23-2008 04:38 PM

Cool, hard tasks, it will be hard to not use the passive superpowers tough, ah well, I will try 1 as I has done that 2 or 3 times before lol

**Marvo** · 10-25-2008 12:27 AM

Oh god do I want to be better at lucid-dreaming. This is good motivation though, thanks a lot BillyBob. Gonna read up on your WILD tuts again and get started.

**Box77** · 10-26-2008 04:44 AM

ten minutes?? minutes?? time??
how is it suposed to count the time since clocks don't work well inside, do they?

would it be posible to use a kind of "inner clock"?

**Marvo** · 10-27-2008 12:32 AM

As a human you are able to feel time. Do that.

**Box77** · 10-27-2008 03:35 PM

yeah! that was what I lately suposed. It is posible to do it in real life too. Although I don't know exactly how it works yet.

**Marvo** · 10-28-2008 12:49 AM

Well, I have a basic idea about how much time pases from point to another. Like, if I do something, and stop, I'd say "10 minutes passed" and then I was maybe 2 or 3 minutes off.

**Hukif** · 10-28-2008 07:25 PM

Ah... tried multiple times with no sucess, always use powers, its so hard not to, plus the scenario. So I was wondering, does this count as using powers:
DILD, create the scenario and set the rules (with powers) then wake up.
DEILD, your now in the same scenario, with no powers and the place set to play the game.

**Marvo** · 10-29-2008 12:02 AM

Duh, I guess you can set up the place with powers, but once the "game" begins, you're of with no powers.

**Hukif** · 10-29-2008 09:19 PM

lol thats what I tought too, but since its a game, I wanted to get the permission of the creator first.

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