Lucidity Challenge 44—Winner: drd

James, consider it noted. Remember that I can’t start accepting points for Team stuff until all three teams post or until 48 hours passes, whichever comes first.

obfusc8, I’ve marked those points and updated the scores.

Alright, so I had recall last night. I rode in a mine cart and grew to a giant size after leaving town in a ND last night.

And with that, it’s time to post the character I may or may not transform into. :razz:

Please allow me to introduce my very own Sonic original OC character!

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I didn’t think this LC could get even more fun.

Mew, it’s… beautiful. I’ve never seen such a stunning work of character creation. Congrats on getting Task 1 points!

I’ve updated the scores, and for the very last time, I’ve updated the Task 1 grid, text description, and photo of the grid. The entirety of Task 1 is now available!

Never done anything like this so bare with me:
For the Sonic OC part of this, I present to you:

[center]Azimuth the Soarer[/center]

Doing this challenge has made me feel happier – I think it’s made me sleep better and given me more pleasant dreams.

I’ve been avoiding the violent subtasks. My problem with the violent ones is that dreams appear real, as if they’re actually happening. They’re much realer than a computer game or a movie, and that makes death or violence horrible. Also, I think I’m in a more emotionally open state in dreams, so I scare easily. And I’d rather not set myself a dream intention of causing harm to a real person, as I wonder if dream intentions can work their way into my unconscious and affect what I do when I’m awake.

I can only feel minor injuries in a dream (cuts, bruises, scratches, minor burns). Major injuries don’t hurt as much as they would if they were real, they just look bad. So the pain isn’t really the issue.

I’ve been trying to do some of the shapeshifting subtasks. They’re interesting to try, even though I haven’t had much luck with them yet. (Apart from the mecha one, which I did without intending to). My unconscious seems to have a much more fixed idea of what my body is like than it does of the location I’m in, so it’s much harder to change. The one thing that changes easily is my age – I often revert back to a teenager or child. (One of my attempts at the desert temple team dream morphed into some very early childhood stuff). Presumably because I have lots of real memories of being younger that can turn up in dreams, but no real memories of (for example) wearing a bunny hood.

I’m also hoping to do the “play a musical instrument to achieve an effect” subtask from the Zelda phase. When I play music in dreams, I often have difficulty remembering how the tune goes, but I can usually manage a rough approximation.

Susan_Y, I’m glad to hear it’s made you happier. :smile:

Okay, 48 hours is up, so let’s lock in the Team Dreams. The Explorer team has decided to visit the final race track in all Mario Kart games, Rainbow Road. If you’re not familiar with it, it’s a road… made of rainbow. It’s high in the sky or in space depending on the game, and never just a multicolored, man-made road in a city or the like. If you’re looking for a race on this Mario Kart track, you could perhaps combine it with Task 3’s vehicle subtask or with Task 4’s footrace subtask.

The Hero team decided to fight Knuckles the Echidna from the Sonic series as its villain. It’s a bit of an edge case, as he’s usually just misguided if he’s an adversary in the games, but I’ll accept it. Perhaps seeing him in front of you in the dream will make the subtask about transforming into your own such character easier to visualize? Maybe you could fetch a piggyback ride on his after you win the fight for Task 2’s “Ride an animal” subtask?

The Power team decided to visit Bowser and learn the sorts of magic his tribe practices. If you’re smart, you’ll combine this with other subtasks. Task 1 had a subtask based on “dark magic” if you want to be truly evil with it. The Mario games often depict such magic being used to enlarge foes, and Tasks 1 and 3 both had subtasks involving being or dealing with a giant. Heck, Super Mario Bros. had enemies magically transformed into Bowser in the first seven castle-themed levels; this fits Task 3’s “become a turtle” subtask if you cast such a spell on yourself. In general, “magic” can be broad, so as long as you learn to manipulate something with magic instead of just willing it into existence, this Team Dream can offer up many points… but only if you learn it from Bowser as the Power team decided!

Also be aware that it’s September 1 today, so we may have a new monthly Quest. If we do, that’s another source of points for you!

The “fan character” subtask is for a different team, but just in case I manage it and want to claim another team’s subtask: my Sonic fan character is a yellow lion (with cat ears and a lion’s tail). I doubt I’ll manage this shapeshift, as I find even simple transformations difficult, but you never know.

Normal dream featuring Rhewin who helped me with an old task… I played a clarinet which sent me back in time. Or well, changed the dream scene/teleported at least. The whole thing was a setup though… I’ll get you back for that, Rhawin! :razz:

Susan_Y, while you get less points for doing a task for another team, there is no penalty to your team for doing it. There’s basically no reason not to take five minutes to create something for that subtask, so I think those that haven’t done it are simply depriving themselves of a few points. :smile:

obfusc8, never trust a Rhewin. :wink:

I’ve updated the scores. For those of you that haven’t posted about your favorite subtasks, please do so! Typing one line about it in IRC does not equate to making a post!

Tasks I’m most interested in completing are the transformation ones as that’s something I’ve not really experimented with while lucid. Also on my list are enter a TV, ride a mine cart, skateboard. From the hero side I’d like to pilot a mech and maybe the aliens one.

For the fan character sub task I’ve made a half bat cyborg… Mecha body with black bat wings bat ears and a pointed tail. I was trying to think of a name, but got sidetracked. :content:

Favourite subtasks? All of them. :content: This LC has such a great topic, and I have video game related dreams all the time, but this period is so bad for me, and I am really annoyed because of that. :cry: If I somehow manage to get a good lucid dream, I will try to go for the Quest and my personal goal combined with LC tasks.

^ Thanks, you two. As I said before,

If somebody doesn’t give any input there, then he or she is only hurting himself or herself. :tongue: I have input in this topic from Susan_Y, obfusc8, and En’enra now, and I know some participants dropped one or two lines in IRC that they could just elaborate on in here. I haven’t forgotten those IRC lines and will use them if I must, but I feel that a post may offer more insight because it’ll be better thought out than a quick IRC response.

obfusc8, for some reason that character seems fitting for you. I’m not sure why.

Well, just so I have something to post, I’ll post about Task 5 Tweaks. :razz:

I’ve really liked the entire direction this LC has gone… just wish I could have done more than the little I actually did. :razz: It’s not over yet, though! :happy:

As to things I’ve REALLY liked… well some of the Task 1 subtasks are actually what’s on my mind. I think it’d be cool if there would be a way to elaborate on them somehow. Particularly I’m focused on (in order of preference) the “Take Control of a Powerful DC”, “Dark Magic”, and visiting your “mindspace”, Thorn. :razz:

I wish I had more to say, but I haven’t really had the luck to be able to do much so… yea. :razz:

Haha… I’d post a picture, but it might scare the children… (and one of my sonic fan character too :lol:)

A short lucid with a late task.

“Fight a robot or a mech” ugh…so close. A DC fought for me. Also visited the space around Earth. No rainbow road, just a long free fall.

I had a long lucid dream last night. The tasks I believe I completed:

Jump down a pipe
Destroy a bridge
Have Bowser teach me koopa magic
Use dark magic

My DJ post: [community.ld4all.com/t/drd-tales/39779/17)

En’enra, I’m surprised that felt like it hurt in your dream. I can’t say I usually change size in dreams by pretending I’m a balloon, but the last time I filled with air, it was actually a strangely satisfying feeling, as if I just ate a big meal. That said, I was actually treating it like a balloon and not sucking in more air than Earth actually has; perhaps the vacuum of space was trying to make you expand past your limits? I am not a dream scientist, so this conjecture should not be taken seriously. I hope the view was nice, at least.

Letaali, the trick to getting from “close to points” to “earning points” is to realize you are dreaming. :happy:

drd, it’s neat that you seemed to end up in a classic Mario level while doing most of that, and it helped you find points too. Does that mean you’ll be entering a Sonic level for the current task’s points?

I’ve updated the scores.

Actually, I chose that method of expanding my body because I was reading a fable for my exam in which a frog wanted to grow like an ox, so she inhaled air until she bursted. Perhaps that’s why it hurt? :woo: Yes, the view was very nice.

I’ll give some feedback as has been asked. I liked the minigame in Task 1 to reveal more subtasks. I liked that the first task gave so many options on what to incubate.

It’s easier to list the subtasks that I wasn’t that interested in:
Ride and jump on a skateboard
Speak with a real animal
Give money to a DC
Attend an event held in your honor
Score the game winning points
Usurp a king/ruler and take charge

I still want to outgrow Earth, I want to visit the rainbow road with a teammate and I have mostly been focusing on my personal goal. I haven’t really focused on incubating tasks 2-4 so I don’t have anything to say about them.