Welcome to Lucidity Challenge 56 - Week 1
Background
[spoiler]You open your eyes, and almost get blinded. You are wearing a t-shirt, but it feels like a wool sweater.
Ouch ! It’s damn hot in here !
Around you, looking in all directions, deformed by the heat, you can see only sand, sand and more sand, extending in all directions.
You know this sand has always been here and always will be. This immobile desert exists beyond space and time.
Looking around, you see the other LC participants, sweating hard, same as you.
Squinting your eyes, in the distance you spot a tiny sand cloud. It’s just a dot at first, then you notice it’s increasing in size and getting closer to you.
Squeezing your eyes, you finally understand what the cloud is: a man mounting a horse is approaching your group.
You can now see the black horse is galloping furiously.
As soon as the mounted man reaches your group, he jumps down, without waiting for his horse to stop.
He’s wearing a leather armor, he’s got a black bow at his back and a quiver at his ankle.
He starts to speak, addressing all of you:
- Greetings to you all, LC participants !
- I am Genghis Khan, and I am here to challenge your LD skills !
- For this first week I am going to propose a very simple task, just for starters: you just have to conquer Jerusalem’s temple !
He summons a small oasis, including a big, shadowy tent.
- Inside the tent you will find your Crusaders equipment. Grab it, wear it, march ahead, conquer the sacred city and claim the temple as your own !
- I will meet you again in one week !
Then, the black horse appears as out of nowhere, Genghis Khan mounts and gallops away, leaving a sand cloud behind…
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Week 1 - Crusaders !
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Be in a desert +20 pts (A beach or playground sand won’t do ! It has to be A LOT of sand
)- Find an oasis in the desert +30 pts (Let us know what you find there !) [spoiler] Just a water pool surrounded by trees ? An ice cream kiosk ? A drink stall ? More travelers ? A zoo ?[/spoiler]
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Wear medieval armor +20 pts (Plate, Chainmail, Leather armor or similar)
- Armor or shield has a cross on it +30 pts
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Hold a ‘traditional’ weapon +10 pts (lightsabers and firearms aren’t included !)
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Sword / Greatsword / Shield +10 pts
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Bow / Crossbow +10 pts
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Mace / Warhammer +20 pts
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Engage in a fight +10 pts
- Using ‘traditional’ weapon +10 pts
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Meet Saladdin (Salah al-Din) +20 pts
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Meet Richard the Lionheart +20 pts
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See a siege weapon +20 pts (Catapult, Ballista, Trebuchet, Rams, but also anything else, even invented by you, that can hurl a heavy load or destroy a wall/building)
- Destroy something with it +20 pts (Witnessing something destroyed by it will earn points as well)
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Mount a beast +10 pts (Riding not necessary but welcome !)
- Mount a horse +10 pts
- Mount a camel / dromedary +20 pts
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Visit a city or town +10 pts (An easy one, at last!)
- It’s Middle-East-looking +30 pts (Some flexibility is allowed here - ideally low, bright houses, domes, mosque, minarets, bazars, …)
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Visit a temple/church/sanctuary/altar +20 pts
- Pray/meditate at it +20 pts