Task of the Year 2014

[OpheliaBlue]

The Challenge: This year the theme is Fairy Tales! We'll be visiting 8 different fictional tales. Your challenge is to complete all 8 tasks before 2015. The Rules: You must complete each task in a separate lucid dream; you can't do more than one in the same dream. The Tasks, in no particular order are: Beauty and the Beast - Your dad screws you over and drops you off at a palace, owned by a frightening, cursed beast. You have to tell this beast that you love him, then kiss him, whereby breaking the curse. Report what he looks like after the curse is lifted. Hansel and Gretel - You and your sibling are imprisoned in a witch's cottage. Using any means necessary, escape imprisonment, rescue your sibling, and shove the witch into a hot oven. Once the witch is "al dente," take a bite. Jack and the Beanstalk - As Jack, acquire some magic beans, and plant them. Once they grow into a giant, sky-piercing stalk, climb to the top and find the giant. Defeat him using any means necessary. Sleeping Beauty* - As Prince Charming, find and defeat The Dragon (an evil, transfigured fairy). In the nearby castle sleeps the charmed princess. Hack your way through overgrown briars, and release the princess from her slumber with a kiss. The Wizard of OZ - Your house is transported by a tornado, with you still in it, to a magical land. Whilst there, grab the red ruby slippers from the feet of the witch upon whom your house has landed. Click your heels 3 times, and wake up. The Little Mermaid - As a being who is human on the top and fish on the bottom, seek out an attractive landlubber by transforming your fins into legs. Do what you want with the object of your affection, then grab your gills and return to the briny blue. Aladdin - As Aladdin, you need to find a magic lamp to grant you 3 wishes. The first wish must be to possess a magic flying carpet, that you take for a spin. The remaining 2 wishes are for you to decide on your own, but you must have the addition of the remaining two wishes to complete this penultimate task of the year. The Lord of the Rings - Be any character from LOTR (a hobbit, wizard, dwarf, elf, ent, etc), and travel to Erebor, The Lonely Mountain. Find Smaug the Dragon, and run a spear through the one place on his breast where there is a missing scale, destroying at last, the final fiery descendant of Morgoth's cruel creations. * Since Oreo came up with this year's theme, and I know he happens to like dragons, I thought it would be nice to include one or two. Good luck: Feel free to post any attempts and accomplishments in this thread. Good luck and have fun!

[Sensei]

Hmmm... I might have to possess a woman to do some of these. kissing guys isn't really my style, but I am gonna do these this year. I like LOTR added in! Especially Erebor! The Hobbit is one of the best books that I have ever read. Gonna save that one for last I believe, so I can keep my spirits up. Sleeping beauty as well. I think it is gonna be Aladdin for me! I have some good ideas for wishes! :3 Wasn't excited about last year, bit this years seem awesome.

[CanisLucidus]

Great tasks! Having spent all of 2013 on Task of the Year only to complete 2, I can raise the bar just by finishing 3 of these. These are really story-driven, so they could make for a nice way to practice a very visualization-heavy form of MILD to get the imagination rolling in the right direction. Are we permitted to adjust the genders on any of these? (A female Beast, for example?) Good luck, all, in 2014!!

[OpheliaBlue]

Oh hell yeah, adjust genders as necessary.

[FryingMan]

Hmmm... I might have to possess a woman to do some of these. kissing guys isn't really my style, but I am gonna do these this year. I like LOTR added in! Especially Erebor! The Hobbit is one of the best books that I have ever read. Gonna save that one for last I believe, so I can keep my spirits up. Sleeping beauty as well. I think it is gonna be Aladdin for me! I have some good ideas for wishes! :3 Wasn't excited about last year, bit this years seem awesome. Who's to say Ariel doesn't....uh... "like to experiment?"

[Aristaeus]

Hmm...some of these seem somewhat interesting. I was hoping the next yearly task would be based off of fairy tales. I might try to do these, though I do not know if I will have the time to, since I have a busy schedule coming up. I will probably have to do these pretty fast.

[PercyLucid]

Not the most excited (some) but I work on them! I did last year in a month and a half, lets see how these go. Is it okay to destroy Smaugh by other ways, or only with the spear?

[OpheliaBlue]

Ohhhh there's no pleasing you Percy

[Sensei]

Which ones do you like and not like Percy? @fryingman You and your dirty mind. Ariel is supposed to be like 16! (I think)

[imrossed]

Question about the beauty and the beast one, are we allowed imagine the beast as a female if we are so inclined? Like BrandonBoss said earlier, I'm not into kissing guys myself Also, I totally wanted to visit Erebor before seeing the Lord of the Rings task! I even attempted in my LD last night: "I then remembered that I wanted to visit Erebor from the Hobbit. I decide to phase through the wall and think that's where I want to show up. I push through it remembering an old dream that's how I did it. When I go through, I come out in a fancy hotel. I thought about trying again, but I decided to just explore a bit and see if I could just "stumble upon" Erebor. I find a hallway, and then a door. I open the door and realize I found it. But it was extremely dark and hard to see. So I thought maybe I just need to help my subconscious out, so I'm walking down the stone stairs from the movie trying to think of what it looked like. It doesn't really work because I end up back at the hotel."

[OpheliaBlue]

Yes, go ahead and be a dude and make the beast a cursed female. Or be Jaqueline and the Beanstalk, or Aladdina

[FryingMan]

Which ones do you like and not like Percy? @fryingman You and your dirty mind. Ariel is supposed to be like 16! (I think) Yeah but what's that in fish years? And hey, *I* didn't write the story and/or choose the TOTY . And just who said anything about "dirty" experimentation?

[PercyLucid]

Ohhhh there's no pleasing you Percy Well, I said, "some." This is too fairy tale themed... too Disney! Some months you pleased me, and last ToTY were excellent, but this revolves too much around TV. Also, you need to tell me if it is okay to kill Smaugh by any means or only with the Spear thing. Which ones do you like and not like Percy? love - Aladdin. - Lord of the Rings. Like - Hansel and Gretel. - Jack and the Beanstalk Neutral - The Wizard of OZ Dislike - Beauty and the Beast - Sleeping Beauty. - The Little Mermaid Just too kissy-kissy girly fairy tale themed task... some horror movies could have been thrown in there or some a little more attractive to other than kids! 7 out of 8 are cartoons! Oh well, what you gonna do, LOL. Time to go to bed and kill some dragon (and no, I am saving no prince, the other dragon )

[OpheliaBlue]

Well you can kill Smaug in another way if you like... of course I completely understand if it's too difficult to hit the target with the missing scale. I mean after all, it took 2 generations of Laketowners to get it right, so I won't hold it against you

[PercyLucid]

Well you can kill Smaug in another way if you like... of course I completely understand if it's too difficult to hit the target with the missing scale. I mean after all, it took 2 generations of Laketowners to get it right, so I won't hold it against you Oh...ooookaaaaaaaaaay,,, I see... It's that so??? You dare to challenge me? Mhuahahaha. Worry not then, I will kill your dragon, your way... I'll hit the missing scale for you Wait and see.... 1-15-14 shall be my deadline, mark my words, will come sooner but no later than this date

[Sensei]

Haha. I like those two best as well. Gonna see if I can use some of those wishes to my advantage and see if I can use them to enhance my dreaming. I like the other ones as well though, just not as much as those two. So you'd rather have a Grimm task and cut off some toes. I am giving myself until the end of February and if I haven't at least gotten close to finishing all of them, I will give up. If I get too distracted by a goal I will lose lucidity frequency.

[OpheliaBlue]

Damn, you know what, I was thinking of Cinderella, but couldn't think of anything cool to do with her. I totally forgot about the sisters cutting off their toes. And usually I get in trouble for being TOO gory with tasks. I thought of Snow White too, but couldn't think outside the poison apple. I think this year I'm really going to hound the crap out of the lucid task club for more ideas.

[StephL]

I like the beanstalk thing especially - and the dragons!

[FryingMan]

Yeah and avoiding gore/horror is A-OK in my book.

[Sensei]

Aladdin fail Spoiler for LD: Hmmm... Strange house. I am in a dream. Third tonight... i should try a task. Aladdin! i try to think if the task had me actually go to the cave of wonders. I dont think so, seems way too straight forward, lamp, wishes, first wish is for magic carpet. So... Find a lamp. I walk around the back of the building. I see a small piece of clay in the yard. I grab it and imagine it is the lamp and rub it, it doesn't transform or anything. Hmmm... I drop it and lean down. I start digging and reach a lamp broken in 3 parts. I pick it up and try imagining them together, but nothing happens. I close my eyes and imagine them molding together. I look in my hands and I have a lamp shaped like fat Buddha. One arm being the handle and the other the spout side (imagine "little tea pot") I rub the statue (kind of strange since people rub him). No genie comes out. I try closing my eyes and rubbing. When I open the lamp is gone. Grrr... Guess I'll try another time then. I look around and see a boom box. I play it with my mind (I think imagine dragons). I hear a voice before the music. "Brandon." It is my wife " it is time to get up. Pastor wants you to help get him in the Santa costume for Christmas. It is 6:57" About to wake myself up. I realize that my pastor would never wear a Santa costume. I listen to the music and realize that the last time I closed my eyes it became dark outside. I fly into the night sky and am entranced by the stars and music for the remaining time. I woke up at 2:15 by the way, only 3 hours after I went to sleep. Imagine Dragons - Demons (Official) - YouTube

[OpheliaBlue]

Wow Brandon, you got a lot done after only a few hours sleep. Sorry that the lamp was being such a butt.

[imrossed]

I like the creative ways and persistence to get that lamp all in one piece haha.

[Sensei]

@ophelia, I might have to go into the cave of wonders. I know that there is a lamp there, and it works pretty good. Thanks imrossed. I shall try to get everything to work next time.

[Sibyline]

I like this better than last year's. And it wasn't even 100% Grimm, but a little Hans Christian Andersen thrown in there too. I'm going to have to do that one, for patriotic reasons. BTW, you guys crack me up. You're going to attempt to kiss a hideous monster, and what you are worried about is its gender? Fangs! Claws! Halitosis! Oh my!

[FryingMan]

Hey who said anything about "hideous" ? Some "frightening beasts" are smoking hot (and I don't mean as in the balrog) .