Thread: Task of the Year '22: Build Our Dream Base!

After an annoying 3 week dry spell I had a great lucid and found the training room!

Spoiler for Task 17 - Training room - Success:

…I remember my goal to find the dream base for the TOTY and first need to change the location. As I’ve done before, I shut my eyes to erase the current dream scene. Then I start walking forward with my arms stretched out, with the expectation to find one of the stone structures from RelicWraiths vision of the base exterior. I walk blindly, feeling around for something and eventually my hands come in contact with a solid, gritty stone surface. I open my eyes to view what I’ve discovered but the location hasn’t fully formed yet and all I can make out is a vague brown patch which is the stone in front of me. I keep interacting with it and will it to become clearer but it remains a blur. I turn and look for something else instead and behind me I see a tall brown post, barely visible in the darkness. It hasn’t fully formed yet either but I wonder if it could be the pillar section of the beacon. I look up and see a glowing yellow light source in the dark void above me and I conclude It must be the beacon. With hope and desperation I leave my stone and grab onto the beacon post instead. I rub my hands up and down it, hoping the location will appear but everything remains out of focus.

I keep searching and suddenly find a door which I hope will lead into one of the buildings. I let myself in and instantly an interior corridor forms clearly in front of me. It has a rather old fashioned hotel vibe about it, with dim lighting and old decor. I make my way through it slowly and see other people around. A young woman then comes running up to me in colourful, retro jogging attire. She’s blonde with pig tails and is jogging on the spot. “Hello, are you from dreamviews?” I ask her, wondering if she’s another dreamer. “Yep” she says and then starts doing boxing punches as if she’s warming up for a fight. “Oh, is this the training room!?” I ask, remembering that was one of the TOTY rooms. “Yes” she confirms. “Can you teach me something?” I ask. “I’m allergic to ducks” she replies. I laugh at the nonsense and look forward to writing that part on Dreamviews.

I decide to head back outside and see if the exterior has now formed. I leave through the door I came in at and see outside has become a small, square courtyard surrounded by grand, oriental buildings as if I’ve gone back in time to Imperial China. “Oh wow” I say, amazed at the crystal clear location that has now fully formed in front of me. I step out into the square and see first a tall, wooden post in the centre, about 8ft tall with a pointed top (like the Washington monument). I assume it’s the post I was feeling earlier and a failed re-creation of the beacon pillar. I stand in the centre and look around 360 degrees to take it all in. The entire courtyard is bordered by tall buildings with traditional oriental architecture. They’re made of a dark, wood panelling with the classic, pagoda style trims and rooftops. All the decoration appears to be made of a dark, red Rosewood and is beautifully carved. It’s then I see I’m not alone and a group of men are sat together in a group around small, back tables. They’re of asian ethnicity and wearing black robes, or armour but no helmets. They don’t look too pleased to see me and soon I hear an angry foreign voice shouting behind me, who I assume is their commander or teacher. I know I’m not welcome here so I waste no time and get to work examining all the details and making mental notes so I can describe it clearly in the forum later. I look to the floor first which is made up of grey, slate squares which shimmer silver as you walk over them. I then walk to the post in the centre and find a sculpture in front suspended between two posts. It’s a circular frame made up of wooden blocks of different lengths. The outside looks spiky and messy but it leaves a perfect, spherical hole in the centre (It looks a bit like a sun). I admire it but only for a moment before I hear another angry comment from the commander behind me who is clearly annoyed at my rude interruption. “Ok, ok” I say getting the hint. The last thing I see is a row of dangling black objects hung on a rope. I go up to inspect them and see they’re actually small, charred animal corpses and most disturbing, human limbs as well! “Ok that’s enough” I think to myself not wanting to linger much longer and end up like these poor fellas. I get moving and leave the square but the dream fades and ends shortly after.

I really wanted to re-create RelicWraiths vision of the exterior with the globe beacon but the dream just wasn’t playing ball. That said there were elements like the post which was clearly my minds attempt to re-create it. It was a cool location though and I saw it as an alternative version of the base. Perhaps that’s what we should expect going forward that the base will be influenced by each other’s dreams but will inevitably become our own unique version of it.

Originally Posted by Tiktaalik

After an annoying 3 week dry spell I had a great lucid and found the training room!

Awesome! I've just managed my first LD in quite a while recently, didn't think about TOTM/Y though!

I'm jealous of LDers who can converse (however randomly) with their DCs: mine just sort of look at me with big moony sad eyes and either utter gibberish phrases or simple one-word responses.
"I'm allergic to ducks!" would be a huge improvement!

I think we can expect that every dreamer will have their own interpretation of the base, otherwise it would become impossible to make progress on new rooms if the existing structures have to be "verified" first in the dream.