Thread: Task of the Month for November 2008

Introduction:
This topic is for the Lucid Tasks that are assigned by me or voted on by experienced dreamers. Please attempt one or both 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.

Whoever completes either 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 the lucid task each month.

Tasks for this month:

Basic Task - Catch a Duck


Advanced Task - Follow the Yellow Brick Road

*The Yellow Brick Road refers to the movie The Wizard of Oz.

HOLY crap thank you for making yellow brick road the advanced task...this is the most excited I've EVER been to do a task...endless possibilities...

Yeah, I can't wait either.

yay applying my rule of "make basic task harder" I will try and catch that overpowered duck I gave birth to in another dream, I like this basic task so much!

In case you were wondering why I chose this task it's because this was actually the first task which was announced four years ago.

Walms, for a challenge, you might try catching the duck-lizard that Seeker found.

Ah, if I'm not bothering, could I get a link to the duck-lizard? research is taking me nowhere lol

Not sure if these count but here they are.

I have a FA and become lucid. I leave the house telling myself I will see the yellow brick road to follow at the bottom of the stairs. It is not there so I get made and turn my back and then look again. When I look again it is now there and I am happy. I start to follow it only to find that it ends rather quickly, but the road continues in square patches and arrows at corners and other pathway splits. The best way to describe it is it now looks like a board game lol. So I still follow this and then make a right when I can. When I get to the street I see the yellow brick road still looks like a board game so I deiced to look for some ducks to try to catch.

I look down from where I am standing by the grass and now see some ducks. At first they look like normal ducks, but then when I try to catch them they start to look evil and now have teeth. As I am trying to catch the adult ones I see there is now a nest with eggs and a few baby evil ducks. I pick up one of the squirming baby ducks. When I look at it now it looks like a half duck half fish evil looking thing. Before I could put the baby duck down again the adult ducks circled me and started biting me. Soon after I woke up.

D.G.

Hmmm... follow the yellow brick road, eh? Wonder what I'll find? It's a long weekend, so I get to sleep in and hopefully I'll become lucid

Ergh! I had a lucid this morning, but I couldn't remember what the tasks of the month were. It was the longest lucid I've ever had, all my other's I've woken up alot sooner.

Wee! Basic task done, just had to take some extra hours of sleep <.<

Quote from my DJ:


WILD

yay no fail! yelled when the dream started, DW (finally), in the storage were I "think" I was last time... some undesired people passed trough the barrier (the barrier was for machines only, so it was logic) 3 mages (earth, water and something else) they already destroyed half the city and were apparently waiting for my return, so the barrier can be destroyed, they had time to prepare a trap, because by the time I finished scanning and went to meet them, got frozen by the water guy, they tought that would be enough, after all even if death isn't instant, it will eventually arrive, I was feeling cold, but no problem, just used "atom of hate" to vaporize the water, once out they started to say something I can't recall (more like hear, hurting ears from cold) I didn't care about that and just put a summoning circle for Chivis, this time basic task was mine! So got attacked again by the water guy and his trap, so silly to think it would work twice, just teleported behind him and used the water vapor to kill him, then made an ice lance and went for the other 2 guys the earth one was merely an amateur and couldn't use his magick, easy win, the other one was trying to hide himself with some mirages, not like it worked tough, just put a light barrier and found the real, killed him and helped with the destroyed city, people was happy but it wasn't the momment, if I were to fight Chivis at that momment the new damage surely would be greater, and finally, she arrived (just realized that teleporting is easier than summon...) the overpowered duck was here, yay! Now to catch her, first to teleport outside the city tough, but right, Chivis had to be so cruel as to start attacking before I could teleport, got more repairing to do... anyway, teleported to the mountain close.

Went up to have a flying fight, inmediatly returned to the floor from a nice peack attack of Chivis, destroyed a tree in the way, I wonder why so agressive today? then some explosive feathers towards me, again, why so agressive... did I do something bad? Used a barrier and some earth to protect myself, after that teleported behind her and did that kick-to-the-floor thing, yay! Some water into fog to block the sight and continued the fight (yes, I will keep it again for me, or most of it) after trying our best to not destroy anything and fight at the same time, she got tired, and I offered tons of soup to her, then catched the duck! I suppose the soup at the start was better, but it would kill the purpose of summoning Chivis, after finishing the basic task, wanted the advanced one, but.

When tried to get into a FA for the advanced task, got into the last dream and had to buy some bread, ah well, at least basic was done, and it was time to wake up too, so its all ok. (excepting I forgot about gacko-duck <.<)


And thats it.

I'm sure that you'll get that gecko-duck soon.

Just a quick question.

For my records does my duck caching part of the ld count as a completed task? If not I will work towards compleating this task again this month.

Thanks.

G.D.

Well, you had a baby in your hands, so yeah it counts. You only get one badge though, so you're displaying the advanced one.

Originally Posted by ninja9578

Well, you had a baby in your hands, so yeah it counts. You only get one badge though, so you're displaying the advanced one.

Ok thank you, just making sure it counted.

D.G.

Woop!
There was a duck in my non-lucid dream last night, then I was like hmm, I wanna hug it so i knelt down and held out my arms and it ran away ¬_¬.
As it ran off, I became sort-of lucid because it was running too fast for a duck. I was like "please, please let someone else catch it!" then someone did and they gave it to me.
Would it count as ME catching it if I willed another person to get it?

On November 2nd, I walked into a room, and there was a guy in a duck suit, I tackled him. Does that count?

I haven't done one of these in a good long while so even though I didn't decide to until almost the end of the month, I thought I'd give it a try anyway. This is what I came up with...

P.S. This is just the bit that pertained to the advanced lucid task. For the rest of the dream, go to my DJ.

...realized that I had successfully materialized a shoe on my right foot, but that I was still holding the original shoe in my hand and the one I had on was slightly too small for me. I tried to take it off and I think the preoccupation with the shoes succeeded in either waking me up or at least throwing me into a FA. While I was either awake or lying in my dream bed I remembered that even though it was almost the end of the month, I wanted to do the advanced task since I hadn't done any of the monthly tasks in a good long while so I focused on the yellow brick road (fawllow fawllow fawllow fawllow follow the yellow brick road) and closed my eyes to go back to sleep.

Now, I've been playing fallout tactics lately and so what I saw when I closed my eyes was a loading screen to dream time, which is what makes me think I wasn't really awake in between.

When the loading bar finished I opened my eyes and saw that I was looking at a reflection of myself in some sort of biohazard suit/ full body armor in a computer console. As I stepped back, I saw that the console was weather proofed for being outside. Then, when I looked beyond it, I realized I was gazing over a post apocalyptic waste land and a broken but recognizable road made of tarnished yellow bricks worked its way through the rubble to my left. I vaguely remember a voice from the console telling me that it needed my help, but I immediately set off walking down the yellow brick road.

As I walked, I decided I must have a weapon strapped to the back of this vaguely power armor like suit so I reached over my shoulder expecting to come in contact with a rifle stock or something, only to find a smallish blocky digital camera. I stuck it to my chest (where I new it would stay) and tried to reach around again but became distracted when the yellow brick road through the wasteland led me to a fully operational outdoor food court with several different types of fast food restaurants being represented. One of the cashiers gave me an expectant look like he hadn't had a customer in awhile, but I thought this was quite the let down and went to continue along the road.

Unfortunately, I realized that the yellow bricks had given way to beige fast food chain tiles a while back and had to go back the way I came to see if I had gotten side tracked somewhere. I couldn't find where the path split off and it appeared that the yellow brick road dead ended at the food court so I decided to follow it in the other direction. I continued past the computer where I had come in to the dream and found that just back behind that the yellow brick road went into a building with double metal doors, so I followed it in.

The yellow brick road inside the building became like those lines they have in hospitals painted on the floors and walls that make it easy to find things, but this one was sort of a mash up between yellow bricks in the floor, yellow cement bricks in the hospital like walls and yellow painted lines, all haphazard and patchwork like the joining of two worlds. I followed the yellow brick hospital line around a couple corners and then started to see if I really had no weapons on this suit of futuristic armor, only to realize that it was becoming more and more like my snow suit and I just had a bunch of junk in the pockets (like normal). I pulled out a little pad that I had some drawings in (they were pretty cool looking now that I think about it) and immediately there were a couple of guys following me looking over my shoulder pestering me about the drawings. I flipped through and showed them a couple; most of them looked like they revolved around the idea of skeletons riding futuristic chopper motorcycles but I think the annoyance of these guys following me finally woke me up.

What if we catch a duck while it's walking down the yellow brick road ?

this morning i was lucid and i took a second to stop . and try and remember the task of the month.... I couldn't remember it,,,, so i did my own thing.
silly me,, i completed this months task

I finally got this one this morning. After a series of LD's, constantly waking up and getting back to sleep, I eventually remembered I had to look for a duck. It started with me waking up in bed and looking at my hands (as I've made a habit of doing). My hands were completely transparent. So, now aware that I was dreaming, I decided to head to the bathroom and check the mirror out as it's always entertaining. I looked in to see myself fairly normal except that I had no eyes. Then my face started to melt away and I thought it would be best to head off on my duck finding adventure. So I left the house and headed/glided down the street where I saw an old man in what looked like a hot dog stand. I tried to say "hello" to him but he just grunted back. Then I asked him where the ducks are. He perked up quite quickly after that, almost as if he'd been waiting to hear that question, and happily pointed towards a lake full of ducks just a few hundred metres away. So I glided down towards the lake and tried to get one of the ducks to come to me. One almost did, but turned back before it got to the shore. Then I realised that I shouldn't be worried about getting wet as it's a dream and jumped in the lake. As I surfaced there was a duck right in front of me. So I grabbed hold of it and petted it. It was so soft I couldn't believe it. After achieving this I went on to explore the bottom of the lake and found a shadow version of myself before waking up.

well I didn't make it for these tasks. I had 3 or 4 LDs this month but didn't
get them done.

Originally Posted by Swingdance

I finally got this one this morning.

Bit late.. It's December.

When will the new task be up? I wanted to try it last night but no-one posted it.

I was already said that the December task has already been decided, so now I guess we just have to wait for it.

I have been gone a lot lately, but I have tried to complete one of these tasks so I can suggest a couple:

~Travel to the North Pole
~Give Santa Claus a gift
~Ride Santa's reindeer

Etc.

I will attempt again tonight.

I did the basic task... well its a starter!

I was walking along a wedding isle and i remember about the task, I suddenly became lucid, I was suppose to be some sort of bridesmaid, and i ran outside in search for the duck... I walked along a bridge next to a lake and I saw a duck just stuck in a hole, I think it was about to be eaten by a mole or badger or something wierd like that, I pulled it out of a hole and put it in a cardboard box i found in a recycling bin outside the church (I know wierd right).

It was bizzare.
MEGA bizzare.

Nice job.