Task 3! Wooo! Watch out for some NEW MECHANICS!
Task 3: Forest!
Now our adventure is really kicking off! PREVIOUSLY in the LC, we explored around town, gathered information, healed up, and stocked up on some items! Now, let’s explore the forest!
For this task only, we’ll be introducing some special competitive mechanics! A generic subtask and normal team subtasks are available for all participants, but you’ll also notice the MEGA AND ULTRA TEAM TASKS. These tasks will only reward you points if you are on the assigned team. In addition, they will also subtract from a specific team’s advantage calculation. MEGA TEAM TASKS will subtract one subtask from the specified team’s calculation, while ULTRA TEAM TASKS will subtract three! Crazy!
Explore a mysterious forest—20 points: The mysterious forest! It’s bound to appear in any adventure you embark on. For this subtask, you must spend a dedicated amount of time exploring and interacting with a mysterious forest. “Mysterious forest” in this case meaning a forest you’ve never seen in waking life before.
Again, these next subtasks don’t have to be done in a forest, but why not combine points?
Study wildlife in its habitat—20 points: Animals! They live in the forest! For this subtask, you need to peacefully study whatever creatures you might find in your dreamworld in a natural habitat. It doesn’t have to be a forest, but just make sure it isn’t the zoo either. Or pigeons in a city.
Fight a pack of wild creatures—30 points: The forest is home to many kinds of wild creatures! Especially in fantasy scenarios, you’ll be sure to run into some kind of horribly dangerous creature that could kill you easily… and are you going to stand for that?! Take on a pack of wild creatures and show them who’s the real tough one around here.
MEGA FIRE TASK: Light a plant on fire—20 points + Grass Team Penalty: Grass is weak to fire, so use your element to show who’s the strongest! For this subtask, you need to just light a single plant on fire. That’s it. Yep.
ULTRA FIRE TASK: Singlehandedly burn down a large patch of plant life—50 points + Grass Team Penalty (x3): So, destroying one plant is cool, but let’s try wiping out a whole ARMY of plants! (This is elemental war, so YES, it’s an army!) Burn down a patch of the Grass Team’s precious plants and maybe laugh maniacally whilst doing so? This may seem a bit harsh, but don’t worry. Forest fires make the soil more fertile?
Visit a forest shrine—20 points: Forests can be very mystical places in waking life and dreams! For this subtask, you’ll need to find some kind of shrine in a forest. Basically, any kind of mystical structure in the middle of a forest will count, whether it be a simple memorial or a giant star gate.
Meet and interact with a “spirit animal”—30 points: The forest is also home to many kinds of mysterious creatures! For this subtask, you need to meet up with any kind of “spiritual” animal. By that, I mean one that’s more of the ethereal and mysterious nature. One that seems to be incredibly wise and almost human in behavior. This one’s a bit subjective, but as long as you meet and interact with some kind of mysterious spirity animal, I’ll award you points.
MEGA WATER TASK: Extinguish a fire with water—20 points + Fire Team Penalty: Fire is weak to water, so for this subtask you’ll be the ones responsible for extinguishing the Fire team’s mess. Just extinguish a fire with your element for points, and to subtract a subtask from the Fire team’s advantage calculation.
ULTRA WATER TASK: Singlehandedly extinguish a forest fire with water—50 points + Fire Team Penalty (x3): Alright, extinguishing a small fire is cool, but what about a bigger one? Find a forest fire and use your elemental excellence to extinguish it completely! This one’s going to take quite a bit of water to do the job!
Eat wild Fruit/Berries—20 points: Plants! They grow things, and sometimes they are edible! For this subtask, simply find some exotic and wild-growing fruit or berries and eat them. Hey, if they’re poisonous, it’s just a dream, right? Also you stocked up on plenty of antidotes in town, right? RIGHT? 
Build a treehouse—30 points: The forest is full of trees! Or rather, the forest is full of potential AWESOME TREEHOUSES?! Demonstrate true mastery of your own domain by building an awesome house in a tree! For this subtask, you just need to build a treehouse! And optionally have fun in one! Invite your friends and play some board games and eat snacks and stuff! Honestly, how can you build a treehouse and not have fun?
MEGA GRASS TASK: Absorb water—20 points + Water Team Penalty: Water is weak to grass, so let’s do what plants do best, which is… uh… absorb water? Yeah. Drinking water will not count, you’ll need to absorb it some other way. Just plant yourself into the ground and absorb it through your roots, perhaps?
ULTRA GRASS TASK: Summons plants to block/absorb a body of water—50 points + Water Team Penalty (x3): Absorbing a bit of water is cool, but let’s do some serious damage! Find a river and use the power of PLANTS to absorb the power of the water team! Let’s see them waterbend THEN!
Oh yeah, you might notice that there are no team dreams this week, even though in the last few LC’s they occurred every other Task. Also I told someone that Team Dreams would be in Task 3… well… I changed my mind! Team Dreams will come next task!
. I also looked around a town, but I don’t know if that counts because it was a Western town, despite the other weird fantasy like under-story going on.
