Lucidity Challenge 42—Winner: Wyvern!

^ drd, I’ve added those in and will retroactively add them to the previous score post.

==========

Task 6: Firin’ Mah Lazer

Everybody’s favorite meme makes its way to the LC! Beyond that, one of the subtasks will come from a certain video game that’s spawned countless memes, so perhaps this is more of a pop culture task than a laser task. :tongue:

  • Shoop Da Whoop! Fire a laser from a weapon or from your own body: 40 points
  • There may or may not be cake. Use a portal gun to shoot and create two linked portals, then enter one: 40 points
  • Beam me up, Scotty! Use a laser as a teleporter by getting enveloped by it: 20 points
  • You’ve probably seen a shrink ray in some work of fiction. Be subjected to a shrink or grow ray and experience results: 40 points
    At this point, with Team Dreams and bonuses set aside, all teams have 800 points available from subtasks. The teams will stay even throughout the end of the LC, of course.

Does Task 6 feel a bit under-weighted compared to the other tasks? No worries; there’s some extra point opportunities in the Team Dreams as follows.* Action: Decide how your laser will be fired. Will it be from a portable weapon provided by a team member? Will you all be able to summon one from within your body? Is there another way? You and a teammate must both fire a laser for points. Earn an additional 10 points for picking an effect of the laser that fits another subtask besides shrinking/growing (no point farming here!) or 30 points for an effect that does not fit any other subtask and for having that effect occur in the dream on whatever or whoever your two lasers strike.

  • Traveler: Will you use a portal gun or a teleporter with your teammate? Decide this, and for an extra 30 points, decide on a “real” location (e.g., not a fantasy setting, but you can treat it in an unrealistic manner) to access that would be impractical or impossible to reach without such a device.
  • Shapeshifter: Decide on whether to shrink or grow with a teammate via a ray and to what relative size. You’ll earn extra points according to how radical the size change is that you choose; more extreme changes will earn more points but may take longer and may lead to a less stable dream. It may be helpful to think of a desired dreamscape to explore to assist in choosing the best size.[list][*]Sizeshifting via a ray at all will satisfy the Team Dream conditions if the team chooses to make the change small.
  • Get to Godzilla sizes (this is taller than a Floraiju, mind you!) or shrink down to under a foot (30 cm) tall for a bonus 10 points.
  • Grow beyond that to the point where you could simply step on an entire city or shrink down to mere millimeters tall for a bonus 20 points.
  • Outgrow Earth and float in space or shrink down to a microscopic size for a bonus 30 points.
    [/*:m][/list:u]The winning team this week will get a 40-point bonus subtask next week, which other teams can do for only 20 points. Now, go fire some lasers! :happy: