Thread: Task of the Month for April 2014

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

My failed attempt at the April Fool's task:



I got my revenge later on.


Whole Dream.

Wow, A really fantastic dream...That's the only kind of revenge DC's understand
And I wouldn't dare tell anyone about my DV and Lucid Dreaming goings on or they'd have me in a padded cell !

Aside from that, I still cant upload a picture from my computer..

Originally Posted by woblybil

Wow, A really fantastic dream...That's the only kind of revenge DC's understand
And I wouldn't dare tell anyone about my DV and Lucid Dreaming goings on or they'd have me in a padded cell !

you and me both

Aside from that, I still cant upload a picture from my computer..

Ahhh, is the uploader tool not working when you try? I hate using that thing even when it DOES work, so I just host my images on imageshack or imgur

No. Another uploader comes up with just a red OK and green Cancel button for pasting web addresses instead of the basic uploader that lets you browse files..I can do it in the DJ but not here... Also like last month no delete button in edit to delete a double post.. Just kind of a pain in the butt but the same thing happened at the turnover last month..And I think you fixed it..I checked settings and that all looks good.

test

bouquet1.jpg

It worked fine for me in explorer as well as chrome. I'll ask gab then get back to you.

edit: how large is the image? The bouquet I just uploaded above is 445X500. Try resizing it then see what happens. Gab wasn't able to get it to work for her anyway, so it maybe something else entirely.

On it!

@#@#$

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

test

bouquet1.jpg

It worked fine for me in explorer as well as chrome. I'll ask gab then get back to you.

edit: how large is the image? The bouquet I just uploaded above is 445X500. Try resizing it then see what happens. Gab wasn't able to get it to work for her anyway, so it maybe something else entirely.

No access to computer images period, I can't post to random image either
I clip off exposed parts to impressionable viewers before I post them ....

See what I mean, Now I cant delete the double post..Maybe it's mad at me

Riiight... So, um...

When I said that I'd get some or one of the new tasks done as soon as possible... I guess I really took that to heart.

Only a day late was I from the first day of the new tasks being announced. Or the day with which my seasonal task was associated. Although... Since it's the 2nd of April and this day isn't over and it hasn't had its night yet (at least not where I am)... this date of completion is really like I got the task done on the night of the 1st of April, isn't it? Yes, that's right. Today, I had a lucid nap. The second lucid nap I've ever had and the first one really worth noting. Well, then. Without further ado:

Basic Task i - April Fool's Day: Prank a DC any way you want and record the reaction.

The setting when I became lucid was an altered, dream version of my school. After a failed brawl wherein I attempted to fight someone with magical abilities but was never able to summon them and ended up getting pummelled, the first thing on my mind was that I should do one of the new Tasks of The Month. I climbed to a cloth roof connected to my school's main staff building (which isn't there in real life) and saw one of my classmates giving a speech to the rest of the school that he wrote as part of a project, with another one sitting next to him for some reason, on a very tall structure that seems quite precarious in retrospect made of wooden stilts and a cloth roof (which definitely isn't there in real life). Since I have an ambivalent relationship with this guy, I feel okay with the prospect of pranking him before his audience. I jump off, fly over behind him, sort of land on his shoulder for a moment and fly off again. It's supposed to be like the tap-the-person-on-the-opposite-shoulder-to-make-him/her-look-over-the-wrong-way trick; but with flying. I think he looked at me for a moment but was generally unfazed and continued with the speech. In case this wasn't enough of a prank (I didn't want to miss the opportunity to get a task-of-the-month done this early on), I flew up behind him again and pulled on his shirt, spun him around a bit and threw him off the oddly precarious cloth roof structure. It looked like a long way to fall but... you know, he was still alive. ... Right? (That's actually what I thought to myself at that happened. 'Hey, I just threw him a long way down but, you know, he is still alive! ... Right?' I then flew down to check on him but never really completed the check successfully.) That latter prank actually took a bit of time to get to work as, beforehand, I was trying to pull the guy by his shirt but he was too heavy to budge. Fortunately, though, he didn't really react and seemed to oblivious to it when I did it. The intended effect of it was to be so bold and quick that he would be taken aback by the sudden lack of sitting material under him, like a far-up variation of the pulling-the-chair-out-from-under-the-person trick.

As a matter of fact, I find that interesting... Because, when I was thinking about this task-of-the-month before I took the lucid nap, two tricks that prominently came to my mind were the tap-the-person-on-the-opposite-shoulder trick and the pull-the-chair-out-for-someone-as-he/she-is-about-to-sit-and-end-up-pulling-it-all-the-way-out-just-as-he/she-does-so trick. It becomes evident to me time and time again how what we think about happening in our future lucid dreams really affects the decisions we make and how things later go in those dreams. This sort of lucid dream incubation really is important, I see.

Nice tasks! Thank you ...I need a little kick in the pants to refocus the last few days, so this is some nice inspiration! Saw your DJ Ophelia, I will take that kind of "fail" any day!

Following up last month's discussion, here is my new incubation image just added to signature...Saw a blingee image Sibyline posted and I found this blingee:

Originally Posted by AstralVagabond

As a matter of fact, I find that interesting... Because, when I was thinking about this task-of-the-month before I took the lucid nap, two tricks that prominently came to my mind were the tap-the-person-on-the-opposite-shoulder trick and the pull-the-chair-out-for-someone-as-he/she-is-about-to-sit-and-end-up-pulling-it-all-the-way-out-just-as-he/she-does-so trick. It becomes evident to me time and time again how what we think about happening in our future lucid dreams really affects the decisions we make and how things later go in those dreams. This sort of lucid dream incubation really is important, I see.

Yes! And congrats on the wings. You know, I had thought about the shoulder tap trick too hehe.

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

Yes! And congrats on the wings. You know, I had thought about the shoulder tap trick too hehe.

Whoo! Hello again, my dear wings.



Now, then. With so much more time left in the month than before, let's see how many more tasks-of-the-month I can score this time! Or start brainstorming on some lucid task ideas for next month.

Yeah weird minds think alike, I'm planning a shoulder tap or simply a classic "hey what's that over there!?"

Although nailing a barbie lookalike on a couch sounds like a lot more fun!

Interesting!

I've been indulging in picture orgies in the Space Event thread - and now I cheekily double post..

We are LDers, who are at least theoretically able to actually go there - I find it overwhelmingly fantastic to see these pictures and imagine to swim about in a star-birthing or deathbed nebula!

Our universe has such a sublime beauty - it's almost as if we were made to marvel at it.
Maybe our beauty-loving ancestors were more curious and passionate for finding knowledge and understanding?
Knowledge and patterns being intimately entwined ..

And we had no idea for such a long time, of how colourful space actually is - these nebulae look wonderfully psychedelic - even Space.com commented such.


The famous Cat's Eye Nebula: Dying Star Creates Fantasy-like Sculpture of Gas and Dust:




The unique planetary nebula NGC 2818:

The spectacular structure of NGC 2818 contains the outer layers of a sun-like star that were sent off into interstellar space during the star' s final stages of life. These glowing gaseous shrouds were shed by the star after it ran out of fuel to sustain the nuclear reactions in its core.

Planetary nebulae fade away gradually over tens of thousands of years. The hot, remnant stellar core of NGC 2818 will eventually cool off for billions of years as a white dwarf. Our own Sun will undergo a similar process, but not for another 5 billion years or so.

This Hubble image was taken in November 2008 with the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2. The colours in the image represent a range of emissions coming from the clouds of the nebula: red represents nitrogen, green represents hydrogen, and blue represents oxygen.

Hubble Space Telescope Image of Nebula and Star V838 Monocerotis.






Now I have a hard time stopping..

p.s. what the heck is that food photo? Spaghetti and meatball cupcakes? With cherry sauce?

Spaghetti Ice - don't you know that, FM?
Ice worms and fruit and for cheese it's white chocolate grind - delicious!!

Or wait - maybe prankster food??

Ah, never heard of that. I was thrown off by the grater, I thought it was parmesan, not white chocolate. Looked like a dessert but couldn't be sure .

Not sure what kind of prank to pull off with the cupcakes, but it's a great excuse to enjoy some dream food!

Originally Posted by NyxCC

Not sure what kind of prank to pull off with the cupcakes, but it's a great excuse to enjoy some dream food!

You could put a cupcake on a seat just as a DC is sitting down?

Originally Posted by NyxCC

Not sure what kind of prank to pull off with the cupcakes, but it's a great excuse to enjoy some dream food!

Let this appear on an unsuspecting DC's table - bear and all:

I want to pull a prank with one of the DCs I am trying to make persistent. I am afraid the Vixen would kill me if I did something... Jason would as well. I need less powerful friends in my LDs... or get stronger.

That worked well I see

(fixed - OpheliaBlue)

The pic is spaghetti and meatballs cupcakes. The meatballs are chocolate ganache, the sauce is raspberry jam, the parm cheese is grated white chocolate, and the noodles are just buttercream frosting piped through a small tip. You can google "april fool's cupcakes" and there's all sorts of funny ones.

woblybil: the imgur link you posted was to an imgur page with the pic on it. You have to click the pick to get the url. I fixeded it.

Ah - something was not entirely correct to be spaghetti-ice, I suspected something..
Nice woblybil - that would top it of, actually - a fairy to live in your spectacular plant - now I want one as well!