Task of the Month for January 2014

[OpheliaBlue]

Introduction: This topic is for the Lucid Tasks that are assigned by the Lucid Task Club and the On-Topic Administrator. Please attempt any or all of these tasks throughout the month. Report back in this thread, even if you didn't successfully accomplish the task. Your efforts should make interesting reading! This is required in order to get credit, it is no longer sufficient just to say that you did it. When you complete a task: go to your control panel, then to permission groups, and request to be in the group that applies to the task that you've done: either a basic or an advanced or both (specify in the description field if it was the bonus task). Of course you still need to post the dream here because we check. Whoever completes any of these tasks gets the following goodies until the end of the month: Your name will be displayed in ORANGE in the online members list at the bottom of the main forum page. You will receive a special title and badge. You will receive access to the "Lucid Task Club" which is a limited access forum for people that complete a lucid task each month. Members of this club can submit suggestions for the next month's tasks. Tasks for this month: Basic Task i - Ask a DC for his or her resolution(s) for the new year. Basic Task ii - January 25th is (unofficial) Opposite Day. This task is pretty flexible, so you can be as creative as possible. You could wear your clothes backwards, change gender, tell a DC that it's night when it's actually day.. endless options. Advanced Task i - Turn invisible and go somewhere naughty you shouldn't be. Advanced Task ii - Confront and defeat the Balrog of Moria using any means necessary. BONUS TASK!! - Find an unfrozen body of water, and freeze it using any means. Then make a hole in the ice and go ice fishing. Report what you catch.

[PercyLucid]

Balrog of Moria?m LOL Have you been watching the Lord of the Rings yesterday on the TV? Kind of suspicious that after a 11am to 11pm Lord of the Ring marathon (forgot the channel) you come up with this task, LOL. Well, time to get busy then. The Bonus is fairly easy, might do that one Is that you on the pic? Nice catch!

[OpheliaBlue]

I admit I have been going pretty Hobbit/LOTR crazy lately Percy because I just watched Desolation of Smaug. And I DID watch Fellowship yesterday, but on DVD. I didn't know about the marathon, damn. Any why yes, that is a pic of me and I caught that giant whatever-the-heck it is.

[PercyLucid]

I knew it!!!! That Balrog task in there was very suspicious Like it did not come out of nowhere hahaha. I love it tho Can't wait for you to post the Task of the Year. Lets see if I can pay a visit to Moria and do something near there for one of the ToTY. And yep, that was my TV yesterday. All three movies in a row lol. Well congrats on the catch

[TwitchLucidity]

The advance tasks sounds fun, Can't wait to go to sleep tonight,

[woblybil]

Nice Pike.......Girl aint bad either ps: Just a suggestion.. When you close the thread for the month add a link to next month as the last post so we don't have to navigate to it..

[OpheliaBlue]

Nice Pike.......Girl aint bad either ps: Just a suggestion.. When you close the thread for the month you need to post a link to next month as the last post so we don't have to navigate for it.. You know, someone suggested that before and I completely forgot about it. Will do!

[woblybil]

Advanced 2 should be easy for me.. Is it fair to turn visible after we sneak in and scare the pants off of them ?

[Maxis]

Oooo, nice tasks! I think I'll try all of them at one point or another. I really have been wanting to learn and practice on turning invisible in lucid dreams, so I think I'll try advanced I (which sounds like it'd be very fun and funny to do to begin with) first in my next vivid-enough LD. Basic II sounds like it would produce some humorous results as well.

[Sensei]

Balrog would be fun! Fire on fire! Muhahaha. That is a really advanced task. I like.

[NyxCC]

Awesome tasks! And I love the opposite day task! Looking forward to reading lots of creative task executions!

[INeverWakeUp]

Advanced I...I'll be all over that one

[FryingMan]

"Flame of Udun! ... YOU .... SHALL ... NOT ... PASS ... Go, do not collect $200" "Hrmph! (fire / smoke breath, cracks whip)" "Oh yeah? Your whip can Meet my infinitely variable-length infinitely powerful lightsaber plasma emitting fingers. Swish and flick, Balrog steaks are ready to grill (*), and I've got some golden wings for the month, big boy. By the way that's Boardwalk, I have a hotel there, you owe me big bucks" "Hrmph! (fire / smoke breath, cracks whip)" "Hey those are the rules, don't make me smote your smokey ass on the mountain side again!" (*) although, technically, Balrog must be eaten tartar, as they're invulnerable to fire....doh!

[Sensei]

Had a sick day and 4 lucids. In one of them I decided to try and do a task. Didn't succeed. DC stopped me from getting close to it. Spoiler for LD: Whee!!! another LD! I jump down out of the house, it is dark, and I am in a city. kind of strange thought because there are no streets. It is a little bit of an older city. Just walkways and such. I want to do a task. I had decided on one... (I had decided on Aladdin, but forgot) LOTR! there were two. One was long and involved the lonely mountain and Smaug, the other the Balrog. guess I'll do the easy one. It is already dark, I just need to go down a little. I jump into a house and get shot out. "Don't try this" an old man is sitting in a tree, I can only focus on his face, his body seems to be opaque. "What?" I say, climbing up to him. "A fool seeks his own knowledge in adventure, but a wise man uses someone else's knowledge." I know he misquoted a saying, but I guess I'll try another way. I have two companions that agree with not going back. I head down a back alley and it goes dark. I start trying to smell sulfur and expecting the Balrog to pop up, but it just gets darker until I wake up... lay still DEILD

[Aristaeus]

Hmm, the advanced and bonus tasks seem somewhat interesting, I guess. I might try to do these tasks. Now that I have some time on mine hands, I can finally practise mine induction techniques once more. Also, do we have to do both basic/advanced tasks in order to receive credit or just one of each?

[NyxCC]

My DCs are interested in juice and friendship clubs. I am in my old room and can see that the voices from the previous part belong to a number of women. They are sitting on couches around a table with food and drinks as if there's some sort of party going on. A friend from school is also there. I remember the NY resolution task and make an announcement that I would like to hear what their resolutions are. My friend says "I want some juice" and points at the table. A bit unsatisfied with the answer I move on to the next woman who looks in her forties and repeat the same question. She just stares at me with her mouth open. I wait a bit but not a single word comes out. There's another woman sitting next to her and I address her "what about your beautiful friend sitting next to you?", I feel as if I am moderating some sort of show. She says something about a friendship club in New York. I try to memorize as much as possible. The dream soon ends.

[imrossed]

The first advanced task I've tackled! I thought I didn't accomplish it because I didn't end up doing anything naughty , but I just realized it said I only had to go somewhere naughty. Here it is! "I realized I was dreaming and thought about what I should do. I thought of a task of the month and remembered the invisibility one. So I think of the most classic "naughty" trick in the book, go to the girls locker room. I'm outside, and I know I need to find a school, but it's really dark outside and hard to see. So I put on some night vision goggles, and things turn green but they brighten up. I see a school not too far away so I head in that direction. I stop and realize I haven't gone invisible yet. I just think about it and repeat that people can't see me. For some reason I knew it worked and I head inside the school. There were girls leaving and they didn't see me walk by them. I head to the girls locker room, and there was one girl left. But then she left and I was by myself..."

[Sunfire]

My birthday is opposite day lol

[MagMisanthrope]

My birthday is opposite day lol I was about to post the same thing!

[OpheliaBlue]

Haha that's awesome!

[Xanous]

I'll make Balrog my bitch!

[StephL]

I found something nice - a Balrog in the making: Google-Ergebnis für http://cf.sketchfu.com/i/4313247.png

[fogelbise]

With Scionox's contest over I was re-inspired to really check out the TOTM! Love the picture OB! Damn!! Attempted the Bonus TOTM but ran out of dream it seems... Spoiler for Lucid bonus attempt: Once again I have a driving DILD. I am looking at my dashboard wondering why it is one solid dashboard without any of the normal items, not any of the plethora of items on my dashboard...nothing! Confusion for a second, then, I am dreaming! I very quickly decide to fly up out of the car (my mindset is...the car is immaterial, kind of like "there is no spoon" from The Matrix). I fly around but it is dark and I decide to fly up into space again stopping to look back down at Earth. The view is a little fuzzy. I decide to try out the Bonus TOTM. I fly back down look for a body of water, hold out my hands superhero style and freeze it. I spawn a pointed saw and start to cut a hole before I end up fading back to bed. Lasted maybe several minutes.

[Highlander]

Spoiler for Basic (i): I think about the TOTM. I look round for someone to ask. I see 2 girls in dresses sitting to the left away from me. I see this soldier guy dressed like the others. He is in his mid to late 50’s, with white hair; some sort of facial hair, white whiskers, wisps, etc. I try to ask him where he turns round and he sort of looks at me. He doesn’t seem interested however. I go to ask the 2 girls who I assume must be French. I say to the one person (who is now male,) “Parlez vous Ingles?” He says “English.” (In English, meaning he is more English.) I see him (90 degrees) to the left of me now (rather than directly in front as previously.) He and an accomplice are sitting. I mention about his New Year’s resolution. He says something about “5th Edition.” I ask him “What?” He mentions/says about this “5th Edition” again, (as in not being important?) I say something like, “As in Harry Potter!” He looks/disagrees. Spoiler for Basic (ii) - attempted: I wanted to try the gender reversal thing for the TOTM opposite challenge. (I try to think of myself as a woman – curves, etc.) I go outside where it is a bit dark/dull where it is raining hard. I have nothing on my feet. I feel the path and how uncomfortable it feels underfoot. I look down where I notice that I’m wearing a dark pair of denim jeans – I still look like a bloke (in shape, etc.) Oh well! Always more fish (pike) in the sea. http://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/high...ild%92s-54209/

[NyxCC]

Finally, a well-thought out resolution: I think he is another neighbor and then the realization hits me that I can ask him. I go back and follow him to his place. He soon comes down being a completely different DC (tribal dots on his face) with two other DCs accompanying him. He claims they are neighbors. I also introduce myself as a his neighbor and ask him about his NY resolutions. He replies he doesn't have time now, because he just met the other neighbors and it's one per weekend thing. I insist on getting my answer, "don't worry I am not going to bother you, just tell me what your New Year's resolution is". He starts talking but I can't catch the words, the sound is muffled. He mentions something about a woman and then after repeated questioning from my side finally replies "I want to be someone they always remember, always want to know". Oh, that is beautiful, I exclaim and repeat his sentence a few more times to commit to memory.