Thread: Task of the Month for November 2009

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 - Do a somersault in the air

Advanced Task - Hollow yourself out and carve yourself into a jack-o-lantern

Sorry guys, I should have posted this five days ago, but my Macbook is in for service.

For the advanced one, you can turn into a pumpkin if you want, but you can just carve your regular human body for some gore and guts And to smartasses: yes, I know Halloween is in October, in fact, it's today

OMG, you used my basic task .

OK, here's how it goes. I don't think that I would like to carve myself.

BUT,

I would do it if I switched bodies with another dream character and turned "me" into a pumpkin, ready to carve. I'd do a "magic spell" to take all of the guts out, and I'd carve it, to save time and make it creative.

If you "OBE" can you carve your body that you see lying on the bed? It's an image of yourself.

Moved to Task of the Month.

Good luck with that advanced task ._.

I am so doing the advanced task ASAP. ^.^

If this was supposed to be posted days ago can a dream I had 3 days ago be eligble? The Latest LD In My DJ (Check date of post if you think i'm trying to get a task done without doing it.....Freerunning = Air Somersaults)

Can I still try to get advanced later if this counts?

lol, I think I'll pass on the advanced. Too messy.

I was in some desolate bombed-out cityscape. I was all alone. I said, "Fuck this madness! PUMPKIN MAN!" I turned into a giant pumpkin. I was the only colorful thing there. Everything else was just dirty grays. I tried to move, but I could only wiggle around. I grew two arms. I summoned two kitchen knives, and carved a face on myself. I felt like I was doing surgery on my own face. I was completely mad. I scooped my pumpkin guts out of my mouth. I screamed in horror and agony.
"WHO DID THIS TO ME? WHO DID THIS TO ME?" I screamed at the sky as I grew dozens of tiny robotic spider legs.

Dark, evil, drum'n'bass music boomed through the city. I shot a web out of my spinners in my pumkin ass, and began web slinging through the city. I grabbed my web with two huge man-arms, as I swung, spinning through the air between slings. BOOM BOOM BOOM WOWOWOWOW BOOM BA BOOM BOOM BOOM WAWAWAWWAWAWWAW
"WO DID THIS TO ME?" I screamed, grinning madly at nothing.

I came to woods and a small Dark Ages hamlet at the edge of the city. I sailed through the air landed in the town square. People screamed and ran in terror. I shot them with webs from my hands, and grabbed people. I ate them, and pooped them out, and they were be covered with bright orange soggy pumpkin guts in a daze.

I grew great green tendrils, and ran through the village out into a forest. There I saw Silverwolf. She was a little black witch. She stepped out of her cottage. Pixy looked at me concerned. "Tell me what I must do, Mother?" I said.
Silverwolf spoke as if in a trance, "You must let them cook you, love."

I laughed, and grew in size with each laugh. My tendrils grew longer. I ran to a castle and I banged on the gate with my tendrils. "Let me in, you fools! You must cook me!" Guards looked over the walls.

"The pumpkin monster!" they cried, and shot arrows at me.
"That will do nothing. You must cook me!"
The guards came out and threw a net over me. They put me in a cart with a cage on it, and rolled me into the city. "Kill the demon!" the people chanted. "Kill the monster." They took me out, and tied me to a stake in the city.

The main streets were cobblestone. All the buildings were stone with thatched roofs. I was grinning at the people as they laid fuel for the fire at my spiderbot feet. "KILL THE MONSTER!" they were chanting. I laughed at them, and my hollow laughter rang through the city.

"Cook me will you? I do not taste delicious! I will not be made a pie of! I taste like pure power, bitches!"

They lit flames under me, and I began to cook. My sking began to blister. "Cook me, will you?" I boomed at the townspeople. At that moment, dozens of pumpkins broke haflway or so through the ground. They had big glass eyes that were looking at all the people. Tendrils came out of the ground and grew rapidly toward the people, wrapping around their ankles.

"PUT OUT THE FIRE! PUT OUT THE FIRE!" they screamed.

"It's too late, bitches! Now you have to EAT ME! NOW! HAHAHAHAHAHA!"

Originally Posted by WakingNomad

I was in some desolate bombed-out cityscape. I was all alone. I said, "Fuck this madness! PUMPKIN MAN!" I turned into a giant pumpkin. I was the only colorful thing there. Everything else was just dirty grays. I tried to move, but I could only wiggle around. I grew two arms. I summoned two kitchen knives, and carved a face on myself. I felt like I was doing surgery on my own face. I was completely mad. I scooped my pumpkin guts out of my mouth. I screamed in horror and agony.
"WHO DID THIS TO ME? WHO DID THIS TO ME?" I screamed at the sky as I grew dozens of tiny robotic spider legs.

Dark, evil, drum'n'bass music boomed through the city. I shot a web out of my spinners in my pumkin ass, and began web slinging through the city. I grabbed my web with two huge man-arms, as I swung, spinning through the air between slings. BOOM BOOM BOOM WOWOWOWOW BOOM BA BOOM BOOM BOOM WAWAWAWWAWAWWAW
"WO DID THIS TO ME?" I screamed, grinning madly at nothing.

I came to woods and a small Dark Ages hamlet at the edge of the city. I sailed through the air landed in the town square. People screamed and ran in terror. I shot them with webs from my hands, and grabbed people. I ate them, and pooped them out, and they were be covered with bright orange soggy pumpkin guts in a daze.

I grew great green tendrils, and ran through the village out into a forest. There I saw Silverwolf. She was a little black witch. She stepped out of her cottage. Pixy looked at me concerned. "Tell me what I must do, Mother?" I said.
Silverwolf spoke as if in a trance, "You must let them cook you, love."

I laughed, and grew in size with each laugh. My tendrils grew longer. I ran to a castle and I banged on the gate with my tendrils. "Let me in, you fools! You must cook me!" Guards looked over the walls.

"The pumpkin monster!" they cried, and shot arrows at me.
"That will do nothing. You must cook me!"
The guards came out and threw a net over me. They put me in a cart with a cage on it, and rolled me into the city. "Kill the demon!" the people chanted. "Kill the monster." They took me out, and tied me to a stake in the city.

The main streets were cobblestone. All the buildings were stone with thatched roofs. I was grinning at the people as they laid fuel for the fire at my spiderbot feet. "KILL THE MONSTER!" they were chanting. I laughed at them, and my hollow laughter rang through the city.

"Cook me will you? I do not taste delicious! I will not be made a pie of! I taste like pure power, bitches!"

They lit flames under me, and I began to cook. My sking began to blister. "Cook me, will you?" I boomed at the townspeople. At that moment, dozens of pumpkins broke haflway or so through the ground. They had big glass eyes that were looking at all the people. Tendrils came out of the ground and grew rapidly toward the people, wrapping around their ankles.

"PUT OUT THE FIRE! PUT OUT THE FIRE!" they screamed.

"It's too late, bitches! Now you have to EAT ME! NOW! HAHAHAHAHAHA!"

:O Epic!

there is no way I'm trying the advanced one, I can usually feel pain in my dreams

what the heck is a somersault, anyways? what a weird word. i spun around in the air with my hands supporting my weight in a dream this morning... does that count?

Originally Posted by AndresLD

there is no way I'm trying the advanced one, I can usually feel pain in my dreams

Just say, "I feel no pain, this is a dream."

Originally Posted by cygnus

what the heck is a somersault, anyways? what a weird word. i spun around in the air with my hands supporting my weight in a dream this morning... does that count?

I would say so. I don't really know the difference between a somersault in the air and a flip. I guess with a somersault in the air, you push your hands on imaginary ground?

Originally Posted by SilverBells

:O Epic!

Yes. Thank, you. Epically mad.

ok. i looked up that strange word in the dictionary:

somersault |ˈsəmərˌsôlt|
noun
an acrobatic movement in which a person turns head over heels in the air or on the ground and lands or finishes on their feet.

--
that's what i did!

here's the excerpt from my journal with details on the "somersaulting" part:

i’m in a music store and some kid walks by carrying a loose guitar string. the string pokes me just beneath my eye and i start yelling at the kid. i go up to the counter and see A. (a friend who now lives far away). some music is playing and i start to move in a circle with my upper body while my feet are in one spot on the floor.

i realize i’m dreaming and continue my swaying/dancing movement. then i spin around for awhile with my arms holding up the rest of my body. my legs are sort of turning over my head and i do what i think to be break dance moves. i don't seem to have a spine - more like a rotating robotic lower body. i actually get tired, stop and end up on my feet. <--- there ya go.

some old white guy in a plaid kanga hat is furious that i’m dancing and marches up to me and A. (we’re now in a misty, green yard) and i say “hey guess what!” and grab his hat. i spin it off into the distance and say “this is a dream!” he run’s off to get it and goes under a big tree. he starts picking up some round, spiky seed balls and throws them at me. i have his hat again and i block the seeds with it and wake up.

It's a flip guys.It's just an alternative saying I guess. lol
(Sorry about the above post)

Originally Posted by cygnus

ok. i looked up that strange word in the dictionary:

somersault |ˈsəmərˌsôlt|
noun
an acrobatic movement in which a person turns head over heels in the air or on the ground and lands or finishes on their feet.

--
that's what i did!

here's the excerpt from my journal with details on the "somersaulting" part:

i’m in a music store and some kid walks by carrying a loose guitar string. the string pokes me just beneath my eye and i start yelling at the kid. i go up to the counter and see A. (a friend who now lives far away). some music is playing and i start to move in a circle with my upper body while my feet are in one spot on the floor.

i realize i’m dreaming and continue my swaying/dancing movement. then i spin around for awhile with my arms holding up the rest of my body. my legs are sort of turning over my head and i do what i think to be break dance moves. i don't seem to have a spine - more like a rotating robotic lower body. i actually get tired, stop and end up on my feet. <--- there ya go.

some old white guy in a plaid kanga hat is furious that i’m dancing and marches up to me and A. (we’re now in a misty, green yard) and i say “hey guess what!” and grab his hat. i spin it off into the distance and say “this is a dream!” he run’s off to get it and goes under a big tree. he starts picking up some round, spiky seed balls and throws them at me. i have his hat again and i block the seeds with it and wake up.

Congratulations! It sounds like the man was throwing lychee fruits at you!

Originally Posted by cygnus

what the heck is a somersault, anyways? what a weird word. i spun around in the air with my hands supporting my weight in a dream this morning... does that count?

Doing a forward flip in the air

Hi,

I tried the task of the month last night for the first time.

I had 4 WILD's last night.

After my first WILD I woke up. I was then hit almost immediately by SP - I felt my body vibrating and shaking like crazy. I felt myself float up and away. I was blind at first but then requested vision. The scene of my bedroom rendered and I flew out my bedroom window, over the yard and down the road. It was night time / dawn and there was no-one else around so I decided to try the task of the month for the very first time.

I landed in the road and first tried doing a few stupid things like hopping and jumping (I normally fly everywhere - why walk/run when you can fly right?). The I went for the summersalt. It was lazy and slow like - but I jumped up really high (about 10 feet) and dip a slow backwards flip and landed on my feet.

I finished the TOTM a week ago, am I going to get a new TOTM badge, or can it be taken off? What's the update with the badges, they were working last month, obviously.

My computer died so I didn't have my Photoshop files. I'll make them soon.

I accomplished the basic task.

Using WBTB, I had a WILD. The first thing I did after rolling up the windowshade for light was a somersault in the air, as per the monthly task. There were some random people in my room. I exploded their heads off their bodies, but somehow it wasn't satisfying. Everything was fuzzy and vague. I tried to focus, but there wasn't anything interesting enough to focus on.

I tried the advanced task, but I couldn't bring myself to do it.

I was at my school. It was late summer and the campus was not the same.

An unusual group had begun to live there. They were a bunch of tough guys, generally about 30 to 40 years old, seemingly from the 18th-19th century, all speaking in upper-class British accents. They had perfected an unusual martial discipline.

They would fry eggs, and when they flipped the eggs, they would do things during that instant. Over time, they would be able to do more and more in that instant, until they gained superhuman speed and strength. Fortunately, they were generally friendly.

I began to suspect I was lucid, but for some reason, I couldn't just acknowledge it, I had to become lucid within the context of the dream-story. I asked the leader of the strongmen how they were capable of such impressive feats, and as I suspected, he replied that it was because life was a dream. I then was able to agree with him, and I told him I knew it because I could use telekinesis.

After I demonstrated on a nearby object, he was very interested in how I did it. I explained it as best I could (which was, surprisingly, about as well as I'd be able to while awake), and he seemed to accept it, though he didn't try it himself.

This helped me to remember the advanced task of the month. Shapeshifting is not something I can really do, so I just asked the group leader to lend me his knife. He drew an ordinary steak knife from a sheath somewhere, and wordlessly handed it to me. I started to cut myself, but I could not bring myself to slice deeply. I decided to ask him for his infinitely sharp knife, and after a moment's hesitation, he removed a superthin blade from a hiding place within his hat. I was unable to bring myself to use that either, so I lost lucidity, and went to get ice cream.

Last minute task of the month, basic task! I did a somersault through the air over the Assassin to kill the Templar behind him. Here is the dream excerpt...

Originally Posted by Raven Knight

There was a Templar sneaking up behind the Assassin. "I'll show you what a woman can do in battle!" I charged at the Assassin and the Templar behind him. It was clear the Assassin thought I'd snapped and was attacking him… and he didn't seem sure of how to respond to that. It was obvious he didn't want to fight a fellow Assassin whether that was a man or a woman. Right as I got in front of the Assassin I jumped into the air and did a flip, coming down right on top of the Templar behind him sword first. I drove the sword right into his head. He crumpled to the ground in a heap. The Assassin turned around and saw the Templar I had just killed.

But I'm not even going to try the advanced one!

Where's December's TOTM?