Thread: Task of the Year 2017

This is the first year I am really going after TOTY other than one task a friend did in the past and I decided to try for fun. So with my limited experience with what seem a little more detailed tasks than the TOTMs, I wanted to play it safe and clarify a few points:

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Elephant-Ride an elephant through the jungle. There is a tough war going on and you have no other choice but to fight. Create havoc (from your Elephant.)

If you are stampeding DC's and things in the jungle, is that the same thing as fighting, or does this task need some specific combat interaction?

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Dolphin-Ride a dolphin through the ocean and visit Atlantis. Find a mermaid or triton and have fun with (in any ways you want…)

Is any lost underwater city that you take to be "Atlantis" fine, or does it need to possess certain specifics to qualify? No specifics mentioned, so I am guessing not. And I think there are different myths/versions of Atlantis anyway.

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Car-Drive a car that has no tires and no engine (open the hood to check, if there is an engine, remove it.) If the car stars and gives an engine noise, it will be valid as long as you previously removed the engine and you neither summoned another one. It has to spawn on its own, or start without an engine at all.

I take this to mean that it is okay if the car starts with engine noise but it isn't a requirement, the main point is to drive a car with no engine or tires - removing them once, if they are present. As long as the car drives, then it is assumed to have started and the "starting" of the car is not a factor. Basically making the last sentence read "It has to spawn on its own, or (go/drive/be driven) without an engine at all." Sound right?

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Dragon-Fly a dragon from one castle to another. When you reach it, pulverize it.

Pulverize has a few meanings including "to defeat utterly" on one end of the spectrum to "reduce to fine particles" on the other end of the spectrum. I am guessing that reducing the castle to a pile of stones and material would be good enough and that we aren't looking for only fine sand remaining...is that right?

Originally Posted by fogelbise

This is the first year I am really going after TOTY other than one task a friend did in the past and I decided to try for fun. So with my limited experience with what seem a little more detailed tasks than the TOTMs, I wanted to play it safe and clarify a few points:

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Elephant-Ride an elephant through the jungle. There is a tough war going on and you have no other choice but to fight. Create havoc (from your Elephant.)

If you are stampeding DC's and things in the jungle, is that the same thing as fighting, or does this task need some specific combat interaction?

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Dolphin-Ride a dolphin through the ocean and visit Atlantis. Find a mermaid or triton and have fun with (in any ways you want…)

Is any lost underwater city that you take to be "Atlantis" fine, or does it need to possess certain specifics to qualify? No specifics mentioned, so I am guessing not. And I think there are different myths/versions of Atlantis anyway.

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Car-Drive a car that has no tires and no engine (open the hood to check, if there is an engine, remove it.) If the car stars and gives an engine noise, it will be valid as long as you previously removed the engine and you neither summoned another one. It has to spawn on its own, or start without an engine at all.

I take this to mean that it is okay if the car starts with engine noise but it isn't a requirement, the main point is to drive a car with no engine or tires - removing them once, if they are present. As long as the car drives, then it is assumed to have started and the "starting" of the car is not a factor. Basically making the last sentence read "It has to spawn on its own, or (go/drive/be driven) without an engine at all." Sound right?

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Dragon-Fly a dragon from one castle to another. When you reach it, pulverize it.

Pulverize has a few meanings including "to defeat utterly" on one end of the spectrum to "reduce to fine particles" on the other end of the spectrum. I am guessing that reducing the castle to a pile of stones and material would be good enough and that we aren't looking for only fine sand remaining...is that right?

Fogelbise, I think until something is stated specifically or excluded specifically, then all the possible explanations would apply.

So if it says pulverize, it could be any meaning of the word - leave no stone unturned, turn them into dust, defeat them, drop an asteroid on their heads...

Creating havoc - by anything you can - fight, stampede, drop some trees on them, break a water dam to flood them, yell at them real loud some scary things, haha...

Or the Atlantis - I think anything that will give you a feeling that you are in Atlantis would do. Any island or continent when you think to yourself "wow, this could be it" would do. I don't think we need to confirm by asking a DC what is that place, since DCs can be pretty stubborn and non-cooperative.

The tasks are not easy and they are long. So if we complete what's in the "spirit" of the task, I think it's a completion.

Like in the previous task, I was too hard on myself, when the task was "lift a car with your superstrength" but I lifted it just by thinking about lifting it. Later I thought, that could be a superstrength as well, so It should have counted. Unless it says "lift the car with your hands without any other help".

I think, ultimately it's about having fun. And we can all read the attempts and I invite everybody to chime in to help decide if the task is accepted or not.