End of Week 1 Scores
The runaway leader is GenghisKhan with some long, themed lucid dreams that helped him rack up the task points.
Our side mission stars are Lumessence and Pedro Sponchiado with 2 ‘genre’ completions each.
Week 2: Wizard Wheezes
the story continues…
[spoiler]Flying over the forest of this alien world you leave the battle between the invading tank-controlling humans and the defiant blue-skinned natives far behind. You spot the ship that brought you here in a clearing and fly down to find several familiar looking people.
Obfusc8 is gently patting the giant ship.
“The hole is gone, look, it vanished when you transformed. No one can see it.”
The ship makes a whining mechanical noise.
“Fine, fine, I promise our next destination will not have any hostile natives. No bows or arrows. Promise.”
Obfusc8 turns and regards you all standing around in the clearing. “Well, how was that eh? Did you have fun on Pandora? Anyway, we’d better get out of here while we can, hop in and let’s go.”
You climb aboard the space ship, through the main hatch this time rather than the cargo hold. After a rush of acceleration and a view of stars, you emerge in someplace entirely different…
The sky is dark and stormy. Lightning tears through the sky revealing a large old castle ahead, partially surrounded by a thick forest. Train tracks glitter below you, a metal path guiding the way.
Out of the darkness thick heavy branches loom and smash against the ship’s windshield, shattering it.
The ship tumbles out of the sky with a mechanical scream as Obfusc8 curses and tries to get it under control.
“Abandon Ship! Everyone out!”
You dive for the exit and manage to get clear of the ship before it crash lands in front of the castle.
An enormous tree is waving it’s branches madly at the ship, apparently in anger.
“It’s alright, I got this.” One contestant says, “I fought one of these last week…” 
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Explore a castle 20pts
-admire the view from the top of a castle tower (don’t care if you climb, fly, or take the stairs, just describe the view from the top) +10pts
-search the castle dungeons/below ground level (will you find a troll there?) +10pts
-enter the great hall +10pts
Ride a train 20pts
-Steam train +10pts
-Modern train +10pts
-Drive the train! Choo choo! 
+20pts
Fly in/on something that shouldn’t (e.g. car, motorbike, phone box, piano, broomstick, train, penguin) 20pts
-play quiddich or any aerial-based game/race +30pts
-catch the golden snitch (or score the game winning point) +50pts
Encounter a mythical/magical creature (e.g. dragon, phoenix, unicorn, giant, elf) 20pts
-Meet a magical creature from the Harry Potter series (e.g. Fawkes, Aragog, Norbet, Buckbeak.) +30pts
Polyjuice time - transform your appearance into a different (human) person 20pts
-Use a potion as a transformation trigger. +20pts
-Turn into an anthro-animal / hybrid form/ tf’s gone wrong (remember when Hermione ended up as a cat-girl? Werewolves are in this bracket too, as this is a subtask you need to be still partly human, i.e. retaining arms/legs/hands) +30pts
Cast a spell (any ‘magical’ effect, activated like a spell or through a magical artifact, preferably with hand gestures and magic words!) 30pts
-use a wand +20pts
-cast a famous spell from the Harry Potter series. (any of the spell names mentioned in any of the books or films, including the ‘dark arts’ if you are that way inclined!) +30pts
See/find some “Weasley’s wizard wheezes” (magical sweets/candy) 20pts
-eat one and report the effect +10pts
-make a dc eat one and report the effect +10pts
Send or receive a letter using an animal (This is a tricky one I think, but you can combo it with last week’s talk to an animal task if you’re confident enough to attempt it.) 30pts
-send or receive a howler +30pts[/color]
Another NLD’d task. Swords are nice. 
RPG Mix - Non-Lucid Dream - Hold a Traditional Weapon, Use/Fire the Weapon
Stats so far:
[spoiler]NLDs: 2
Task 1:-E Ride in a Flying Vehicle, Pilot the Vehicle | Hold a Traditional Weapon, Use/Fire the Weapon
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Nice tasks !
One question: Can I still claim points for Week 1 tasks I haven’t tackled yet ?
In this morning’s dream, I saw both myself and my “daughter” in the military uniforms from the Halo video game series.
Sorry I’m late, but can I join the challenge, please? I can’t stay away from such fun tasks. 
Sign-Ups
@Cornelia - Oooo cool sword. Like the name too. 
@GenghisKhan - All tasks are still worth the same points, it only effects the ‘early’ bonus, which you already earned. 
@Thorn - President? Hehehe. My my… cool suits. You didn’t consider them mech suits/power armor?
@En’enra - Welcome to the challenge! I think you’ve lucked out here, as your starting point for the side mission is 5 ‘Fantasy’, perfect for this week’s tasks…
obfusc8, I actually did think it was that, but for some reason I didn’t think you’d count it. If that’s what you think works, then please do move it to that category instead! That, or if I could count my own as power armor and have seeing my “daughter” count for seeing somebody in a military uniform…? Do what you think is best.
Claiming points for the side mission: “Crime”
My friend Maite was hiding in a well with her Family from someone. Someone said: I m sure it s Jack! (He meant Jack the Ripper!).
Eventhough there was no crime I think hiding from Jack the Ripper counts for “Crime” right?
Incubating look pretty easy this week: 7 days => 7 Harry Potter movies
Nice Job Obfusc8!
Two lucids this night ! Amazing !
LINK TO DJ
I was very focused on LC tasks, so I can claim quite some points
Explore a castle
admire the view from the top of a castle tower
enter the great hall
dungeons nope - I was almost there, but still…
Ride train
steam train
Transform into a different (human) person (on the 2nd lucid)
Turn into an anthro-animal / hybrid form
~ Potion as a transformation trigger: I think so - however I used it when changed into hybrid but not when changing to another human, so I leave it to obfusc8
Cast spell (I cast 2: orb light + day/night)
use wand (yes, for both)
See magical sweets
eat one and report the effect
~ make a dc eat one, yes, but not sure about the effect, as I was… er… busy
Receive a letter using an animal: yes, owl
Thanks obfusc8, I will keep in mind that week 1 tasks are still feasible !
As a side note, I am doing an awful job at the side quest
Ran out of lunch-break to update the score sheet and read through your posts, sorry…
…And just found out that Alan Rickman is dead. One of my favourite actors of all time.
Lemmy Kilmister, David Bowie, now Alan Rickman… Absolutely gutted. 
I’m in mourning.
Sorry for the losts obfusc8 
Today had 2 ND’s fragments here. The fragment with action theme was before than the with children theme, so I think I can claim points for both.
Ok, back up to date.
@Koal44 - Hmmm hiding from Jack the Ripper… that sounds perfect for the Horror theme, but I don’t see a ‘Crime’ involved, unless you saw him murder someone? Ideally you need to witness or carry out an illegal activity, or hang out with mobsters and criminals. Perhaps you could take something without someone’s permission… (I’ve been known to nick a few motorbikes in lucid dreams, so something along those lines would be great. )
@Thorn - Points granted for using a mech suit.
@Genghis - Woah! For a dude that hasn’t seen or read any Harry Potter you sure nailed those tasks! And yes, you are supposed to get the DC to suck the candy not your… nevermind… Emma Watson, understand completely… 
@Pedro - Good work on those side tasks, you’re on to Superhero, so go do something heroic tonight!
So… I got a lot to go through today.
I had TWO lucid dreams! A short and medium… Also did a bunch of tasks! I’m gonna claim a couple of the castle tasks. It was built into the mountain so I did end up in underground bits!
Also… would seeing a Wizard-of-Oz-esque witch count as seeing a mythical creature? I notice you have Elf on the list and they’re usually classed as humanoids instead of mythical creatures.
There’s one scene during the non-lucid portion of that first dream that’s… ridiculous… but maybe it’ll count? I was using a mech suit… but it was my brother pretending to be a mech suit. I thought about lifting something, but never did. So tell me if you’ll count this as I have no idea if you will. I’m marking it tentative till you post your response.
Also, during my flight up to the castle I did so in the manner of Superman. (Two arms forward.) Would this count for the superhero genre?
Oh… and did I mention I fire magical energy from a diamond sword?
Apocalyptic Prison - Short Lucid Dream
Pagodon, Nelfville - Medium Lucid Dream - Explore a Castle, Explore Below Ground, Cast a Spell, & Super Hero Genre Task 2 EARLY
Stats so far:
[spoiler]NLDs: 2
Short LDs: 1
Medium LDs: 1
Task 1:-E Ride in a Flying Vehicle, Pilot the Vehicle | Hold a Traditional Weapon, Use/Fire the Weapon
Task 2:-E Explore a Castle, Explore Below Ground, & Cast a Spell
Side Quest: Super Hero Genre
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RIP Alan Rickman
@Cornelia - Hehehe, er, no standing on your brother’s feet doesn’t count as a mech suit, even if he’s pretending, it’s just utterly bonkers… 
As for the witch, I couldn’t see a physical description in your DJ. If she was just a regular looking human, no, that doesn’t count. If she was green-skinned or appeared to be something other than human, then maaaaaybe.
My opinion on elves, being a massive LOTR geek, is that they are magical beings because they are (at least in Tolkien’s books) immortal, and able to recover from grievous wounds that would kill regular humans, without scarring. Also, with the pointy ears, height and grace, they are physically distinguishable from humans too.
Flying like superman sure sounds like a super power to me, so it counts for the side mission. You are on to Science Fiction, should be easy for you, right?
Also, grats on jumping to 2nd place!
@Susan_Y - Yep, great, you are on to the Crime genre.
I had like four lucid dreams last night, but I can’t remember any of em. Well, gee… what the shits, me, why?
@obfusc8: Bonkers as it may be I thought I’d mention it and ask about it because I found it interesting how my brain incorporated that bit of task memory into the dream. Completely silly.
As to the witch, I can’t really recall her face… I just recall her being Wizard of Oz-esque and garbed up with a big crooked black hat and black robes. If that’s not enough I understand. And what you say about elves make sense. It’s just “Magical Creature” is more synonymous with “Magical Beast” when I read it. I tend to put humanoids like giants, elves, dwarves, drow, etc. in their own category. I’ll just have to go find a phoenix or something then, eh?
I thought there was a “futuristic weapon” task because it seemed like a natural parallel to the traditional weapon task… but since I’m on the Science Fiction genre… I can still count this!
This morning I collected a boat load of weapons from the Quake II FPS and fired a few rounds with the loveable (provided your the one firing it ) railgun. Pretty sure this dream was futuristic enough to count for the SciFi genre. Too bad I didn’t find any Strogg. Just recall running from enemies.
Quake and an Evil Teddy Bear - Non-Lucid Dream - Science Fiction Genre
Stats so far:
[spoiler]NLDs: 3
Short LDs: 1
Medium LDs: 1
Task 1:-E Ride in a Flying Vehicle, Pilot the Vehicle | Hold a Traditional Weapon, Use/Fire the Weapon
Task 2:-E Explore a Castle, Explore Below Ground, & Cast a Spell
Side Quest: Super Hero Genre | Science Fiction Genre
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Had an LD here this morning which at around 5 minutes long makes it a medium one for me. I tried to complete the Polyjuice LC task and started changing into a Lizardman but it ultimately ended up stalling and the LD just stopped co-operating with me altogether. 
Nooooo… Harry Potter week… almost could have been titled ‘Oleg Week’ based on the dreams you recalled last week… 
@Cornelia - Yeeeeaaah, railgun, awesome! 
You’re on to ‘Medical’ next.
Ah I understand the confusion Re naming the task ‘magical creature’ - I wanted it to include centaurs and giants which show up in Harry Potter, which is why it didn’t say ‘beast’. The task description should have been clearer, my bad.
@James_uk2008 - Gah so close! A good attempt though. The earlier part of the dream where you were flying in and controlling/piloting the airbus would count for the week one tasks (although I suspect you probably don’t really give a damn about the non-tf tasks… I’ve added it to the score sheet) 