Lucidity Challenge 62 - winner James_UK2008

I’m down ill with a cold at the moment, but I’ll check through the thread and respond to any questions tomorrow. Meanwhile, week two tasks coming up…

Week 2 - Vikings

Outdoors, day. You are in a market in the Viking city of Jórvík In the ninth century. You pass a stall selling horned helmets. A member of your group whispers to you “I wouldn’t buy one of them. if I were you. The armour class is terrible. Strictly for ceremonial use only”.

Walking further through the market, you come across one of the most implausible of RPG clichés, the magic item vendor. She is speaking in Old Norse “biargrunar … meginrunar …” but switches to English when you arrive. As she speaks you realise she is Susan wearing a Viking outfit. “Runes to carve on your sword hilt … runes to aid childbirth … something for everybody…”

You say, “I’ve played one of these games before. Aren’t you supposed to give us a quest or something?” She fetches a scroll from underneath her table and unrolls it. You have some difficulty in reading the words, as it appears to be in the Runic script. And besides, you have a suspicion that “corp por” was not actually an Old Norse word.

Tasks for week 2:

  • See some text in a script that in not the script of your first language - 5 points

[list]
[]The script is Runic, or a reasonable approximation to it. +15 points
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[*]See a horned helmet - 10 points

  • And wear it - + 15 points
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    [
    ]Drink from a drinking horn - 10 points[/:m]
    [
    ]See a Viking longship - 10 points[/:m]
    [
    ]See one of more dream characters in Viking costume, or a reasonable approximation of it - 10 points (NB: can potentially be combined with the horned helmet task)[/:m]
    [
    ]Attend a Viking festival - 15 points[/:m]
    [
    ]Cast a spell (hey, we’re not being historically authentic here) - 5 points

  • Cast a spell using Runes somehow, e.g. by reading them, painting them on something, dropping paper inscribed with them in a dream character’s mead, etc. - +15 points. I will allow this even if the Runes aren’t in quite the right character set for the Viking era (e.g. I will allow kanji). - +15 points
    [/*:m][/list:u]

Had 1 ND here this morning. No tasks completed.

1 ND last night.

Claiming points for the senory task. Touch feeling

Dream Journal

Hope you feel better soon, Susan :tulip:

I will be posting in my dream journal tonight or tomorrow

One ND on Friday, Fishes
near lucid though
Task: seeing colours

One ND on Saturday, Sociable
Task: seeing colours

Had 1 LD here this morning which at around 3-4 minutes long makes in a medium one for me. I notably saw colors in this one so would like to claim colors sensory task please. Although I shapeshifted as per my task, I don’t wish to claim the 2nd batch of points for it on this occasion as I don’t feel it met my standards based off of my previous ones.

Oh yeah I didn’t see you got Sick Susan, I hope you ll feel better soon!
I liked your Story though :smile: I even googled “Jórvík” to see how far you went in your story :happy:

One ND last night

Dream Journal

Last night, I had 1 ND, and 2 Fragments, one of them being lucid.

[spoiler]Wed, April 11, 2018
1 ND, 1 Fragment, 1 LD Fragment
The Dragon Riders
Vividness: Medium-High
Length: 2-3 minutes
I was at an amusement park with my friend and some of my family, and we were waiting in a line for some ride. The line started off outside before it went inside a little mound before going to the ride. We were at the end of the line when something attacked the ride, and we had to fight it. We had already fought something else, so the dragons me and my friend were going to ride were injured. We had to come up with a plan, and I eventually decided to ride on my dragon while wielding a sword. We entered the ride area, and we fought the enemy, though I don’t remember much of the fight.

The LD Fragment
I only remember becoming lucid at some point in some dream because I remembered what plans I had to accomplish of the Lucid Challenge things. I might’ve looked at some text in a script, but it was probably in my first language, and I don’t remember if I did.

The Fragment
I was on a pier, with someone else, and that’s about it.[/spoiler]

The goals I completed included having a lucid dream and I’ll put it under a short LD, seeing color(namely brown in my ND, since the mound we entered was brown), and possibly seeing some text during the LD Fragment, but it was probably in my first language, and I don’t know exactly, so I won’t score points.

In total, that’s 22(2 points for having a dream) points(give or take)

Claiming points for 1 Long LD last night (longest for a year I guess! :happy: )
I focused on my personal Goal for a while, however I totally missed it as I thought it was something else… I should really think about tasks before going to sleep…

Dream Journal

Had 2 NDs here this morning. No tasks completed.

Had 4 NDs here this morning. No tasks.

1 ND this morning,

I only could write a sentence about this ND…
Dream Journal

I had 1 ND last night, though I didn’t accomplish any tasks.

Thanks Moogle for how to add the specific links

3 NDs - April 10th
1 ND - April 11th
1 LD, 2 NDs, Various Tasks - April 13th

For April 13th’s dreams, tasks accomplished:

[spoiler]The lucid parts of the dream are in Dark Blue color in my DJ.

So I’m not sure what exactly should or does count or not, feel free to read the dream and determine if it should count or not. Everything below happened while lucid unless otherwise noted.

Sensory Tasks:

I heard a sound, namely the xylophone.

I heard music when I played the xylophone.

I felt warmth when I casted the runic spell.

For Week 1 Tasks:

Most of these I’m unsure of whether they belong due to being done in front of babies.

I saw my outfit while performing.

I played a musical instrument (the xylophone of all things).

I sang while appearing male.

For Week 2’s tasks:

See text in a language that’s not my own (native English) - The rune I drew on the DC’s forehead, which was both a rune (it’s kind of like a triangle shape) and a symbol I had created for one of my own languages. I looked it up online though before setting out for these quests, and it appeared in the search engine as a rune, which is why I used it.
As the subset of the above task, it was Runic, at least according to what I found when searching online. Again, I don’t know if one runic symbol is enough to count or not for this task.

Casted a Spell - Used the rune I drew to create a heat source on the DC’s head. This was all according to my own incubation for the dream. Also it lit up on fire as I drew it, which was like a stretch goal, and it was pretty cool.
As a subset of the above task, I casted the spell using a Rune.[/spoiler]

Edit: First sentence was mysteriously missing from the post, I must have forgotten it when writing.

Had 2 NDs and 1 Fragment here this morning. No tasks completed.

Just 1 fragment here this morning.

Had 1 ND here this morning. No tasks.

Sorry for the slight delay = I’ll try to post week 3 tomorrow.

Had 1 fragment here this morning. No tasks completed.