Task of the Month for June 2015

Spoiler for Bonus Task:

In the car, I was looking out the window. The scenery couldn't decide what it wanted to be, and I thought this was funny... I had the inkling I was dreaming, so I checked my hands... I WAS dreaming!

I was so happy to be lucid again after such a long dry spell, that for a while I just let the dream play out. We were still in the car, though, and it was still driving. I remembered the TOTM to find a house that represented yourself, and so I told myself that the car would stop in front of the building that was ME. Sure enough, the car did stop very soon after that. I phased through the door and looked. The building in front of us was a large-ish Greek looking place. It was really pretty, and Kali stopped to take pictures of all of us in different poses in front of the building. I opened the door to see what the inside was like. It was fascinating! It was all Winchester-y, with rooms in odd places. I could see most of the rooms at once, though, because it was all very open. Most of the things in the rooms were deep reds, dark blues/browns, whites and splashes of blinding bright orange. Zukin was sitting on a bench in the entry room, and stood up when she saw me. "Finally!" She said, grabbing my hand and leading me around the house. "I've been waiting for you for ages. Let's explore!" We looked through a lot of the rooms, but I knew there were more. We went up stairs and ladders, down some and through countless doorways. Somehow I still knew exactly where I was in the house! Usually I'm so directionally challenged. We heard the maid calling us down for drinks, and I decided to go talk to her to see what she knew about this building. But Zukin wanted to go find the Chinchilla Room.

We split up, me going down and she going further up. When I reached the bottom, I was about to ask the maid what she knew about the Me-House, when the DC of the high school friend thanked me for sticking up for him earlier. He game me a drink in a "candied coconut shell" which was really delicious! I lost a lot of my lucidity and got horny, but the dream faded away after I walked onto a long balcony overlooking a cliff on the ocean. It was beautiful.

Full Dream

I didn't even think to go into the basement of the house...
I want to try this task again, actually, though... I didn't feel like the house was really ME (it was way too clean), though parts of it did. I'll try again next time I get lucid : /

I'll also go for the mirror task :D

Wooo congrats KK!! :party:

No Task done here

6/19
3:30pm I was ending a nice nap LD at the computer desk where most of my betterer LD's end giving a "Pixie" a tongue bath :P
I have some Pixies on here but this one was quite large (about the size of a two liter pop bottle) I was licking her all over from head to foot with my tongue which seemed to about a foot or more long and hung on the desk and she was absolutely delicious.(Actually I was slurping her like a hound dog) Every time I quit she would beg for more but in the background I kept hearing an ominous rumbling sound.....The train!.. Its the goddam train!.....
If he blows that horn before I'm done bathing her I'm going to fly over there and jam a potato in it.. :yddd:
He blew it-And I woke up :whyme:

Yay did my first TotM :) had a awsome streak this night with about 4 DEILDS... and everytime i "woke up" i started in my bed. i felt like Bill Murray in "Groundhog Day". at the beginning i was pissed about how short the first LD was but then it got just funny "waking up" again and again and just know "okay new chance, lets see how you do this time" xD

Spoiler for Basic Task ii - Find a tree and climb to the very top. :

I wake up in my bed, see my wristwatch (which i dont wear anymore since a decade or so) and know that i had a FA again. i dont loose time with unnecessary stuff and go to my window, put away the flowers that block my window and jump out. i land on the street and head right to a park near my home because i know there will be planty of trees. on my way i see my younger brother and he joins me. we reach the city park. first i want to find a female friend of mine and we search her at some benches but i cant find her so we move on. i fly around and look for a nice tree to climb. i hope to find a rubber tree [i saw a huge and awsome one once i was on an island] and hoped to climbe this particular one. But i couldnt find one and my brother said to me i had no time . so i walked back a bit and picked a tree. it was a conifer with rough bark and some blobs of white on it. at the beginning climbing felt really easy but after a time i felt my arm muscles and thought about to do more with my feet and not just climb with my arms. after some time i kind of had all of the time some small branches touching and annoy my head. i coudlnt look up and get nervous. my vision get black but i could manage to calm myself down and climb a litte down and head more right. the vision came back and then it was no problem anymore. i reached the top which was also colored with some white blobs and the top was cut of. i was happy to be on top and heard my female friend shouting why i did it alone and why i dont call or find her. i looked down and see her standing right besides my brother, they where happy for me nonetheless and i think she asked if i see the monastery and while she asked i looked around and saw not far away a nice big monastery build of sandstone in red with a cross or a simbol carved in. i looked down to them again and just jumed down. i felt my stomach like in a rolercoster or like doing a big fall while sportsclimbing. i landed right next to them and hug/kiss the friend and we go arm in arm away and i woke up for good this time because i was satisfied :rolllaugh:

After one of those bloody nightmares I used to celebrate back in the days, the closest I got, I was in a non-lucid on the top of a tree covered in snow thinking to myself: What was it about being up here?

Tomorrow in the morning the voting pols will be open for next Month ToTM, so if you haven't yet done your task, make sure to do it!!

This morning I ended up doing three different versions of the bonus task (because apparently I'm hard to please), but I completely forgot about going into the basement until I reread the task just prior to posting this! Full dream here: Three Houses (DILD)

The first house was very disappointing. Although I thought I had set my intention clearly, the dream wasn't really playing along. The house was mostly empty and what few objects it did contain were random junk, as far as I could tell.

Spoiler for Random house:

Although I was upstairs in a house when I got lucid, I decided that to do the task properly I should start with a fresh one. I went out to the balcony, which looked out over some tall pines bordering the backyard, and easily levitated into the air. I was floating over a residential neighborhood with numerous houses to choose from, so I tried to let instinct guide me. Although the outside of the house I picked didn't inspire any sense of connection—it was an ordinary two-story suburban home in blue-grey clapboard—I figured I should look inside.

My first distinct impression was how heavy the front door was, one of those old ones made of solid wood. I had to manually lock it behind me and the bolt was hard to turn, though even at the time this struck me as mere DR, since the sensation of forcing the bolt was identical to what I have to do currently with my patio gate in WL. After entering, I found myself in a short plain white hallway, and started wandering through and trying various doors.

Although my intention had been to find house that represented me, and I even muttered something to this effect aloud a few times as I wandered through this one, I still didn't feel any connection with this place. All the rooms on the ground floor were vacant and a bit dirty, as though someone had moved out in a hurry. I wondered if I was seeing an empty house because I've never actually owned a house of my own in WL, having always rented, so I never had experienced a house that truly did represent me. I opened one door and it led into an enclosed porch or sunroom, also empty. I went back inside and found an interior room with no windows. I thought that if I did live here, this would be a great place to build bookshelves, something I've always wanted to do if I had a house of my own. This house, however, didn't look like a place would ever really want to live, much less a place could represent me in any meaningful way.

I was annoyed with how empty and uninteresting the ground floor was, so as I went upstairs I reinforced my intention for the house to represent me. At the top of the stairs were two rooms, and these were cluttered with scattered boxes of junk. Might this represent a cluttered state of mind? I looked around at the seemingly random stuff, but once again I felt no connection with it. There were big boxes crammed with vinyl record albums... but I've never owned any vinyl, having grown up in the era of cassettes and then CDs. There was a smaller box containing smaller records, and I tried to remember what that format was called. "Eight-tracks" was what I came up with—clearly I didn't have full access to WL memory, because I'm well aware that eight tracks are those big chunky early cassettes, and only after waking did I remember that the miniature records are properly called "singles." I've never owned any of those either. When I saw that another box on the floor contained an open bag of what appeared to be maxipads, I started to get annoyed. This is just random junk! Sure, I'm a woman, I occasionally use maxipads, but I really don't think they have any special meaning for me... apparently the dream is not cooperating with my intention. That part, at least, is nothing new. My dreamstate has never been entirely cooperative.

After the disappointment of the first house I wanted a do-over, so I found another house and found myself forcing the issue by imagining what I wanted to see until dream took over and filled in the details. Even though for some reason I felt a bit like this was "cheating," it's probably a technique that I should develop if I want to get better at creating specific dream environments.

Spoiler for Aspirational house:

I wasn't happy with my first house attempt, but figured I should try again. I tried to find a house that looked more like something I would actually want to live in. Stone walls, of course, something old and solid and dignified. I "located" such a house but it felt a bit fake, like I was forcing the issue, maybe even creating an overlay of what I wanted to see over what was actually there. I tried to remind myself this is dream, nothing is "actually" there, and went through the front door.

This front door was also pleasingly solid and heavy, and it latched shut on its own, a big improvement over the last one. I found myself in a little coatroom or antechamber, and from there passed through another door into a spacious kitchen. As I walked in I was still determined for this to be the house I was hoping for, so at first I felt like my impressions were driven more by imagination than dream. But after a moment dream took over, and my vague wishes solidified into a magnificent kitchen. It was long and narrow, and over to my right I had the impression of a stove range where a woman was cooking. To my left was the food storage area, consisting of a large refrigerator, floor-to-ceiling stainless steel doors that turned out to be the cupboards for dry goods, and the glass doors of a built-in freezer that also occupied a whole section of the wall. Although I had created the basic structures through my own deliberate imagining, as I now opened the doors and peeked at the contents, I was satisfied that dream had followed through and spontaneously filled in the details. When I opened the door of the refrigerator, there was even a beautifully frosted white cake, and although I thought I heard the woman across the room warning me not to touch it, I couldn't resist lifting up a corner of the plastic cover and using my finger to swipe a bit of the frosting. The vivid taste made me glad of my mischief... just like real buttercream!

I don't remember the other rooms of this house as clearly as the kitchen, though in contrast the last house it was furnished and even peopled. Upstairs I ran into a guy with a beard and mustache and decided to work on my ongoing attempt to summon game characters. I wondered if it would work better if I started with a character I had less interest in, so that I'd be less concerned about "getting it right." Last night in DA:I I had some conversation scenes with Blackwall in which I basically friendzoned him, so I tried to transform this DC into him by visualizing the scene I remembered. The voice was easier than the face; it wasn't a complete success but not a complete failure either. Unexpectedly I ended up kissing the DC (which was not in the original scene), and it was at this point that he seemed most like the game character, though I didn't take our interactions any further.

In further exploring the upstairs of this house, I opened a closet door and found myself in—I'm not sure what to call it, maybe "the labyrinth," a kind of claustrophobic dream space that perpetually replicates itself. In the past I've experienced it when I've portaled and accidentally found myself trapped in a seemingly endless series of tiny doorless rooms. This time it wasn't even rooms, just a texture like pebbly pastel-colored styrofoam that was pressing in on all sides. Wherever I pushed through in any direction, I found myself in another identical space. I even "airlifted," a technique of rising vertically that usually extricates me from unpleasant or threatening situations, but was still stuck in the labyrinth. In the past, the only way I've gotten out was to wake up, but this time I was determined to keep cool and persevere. Sure enough, eventually the sense of claustrophobia receded and I found myself in a new scene. Maybe the labyrinth is no more than a virtual rendering of unconstructed dream space.

The dream went on for over an hour so there are some unclear passages, but toward the end I found myself back in my childhood home, and naturally in some ways this felt the most representative of all, even if it was shaped more by memory than dream (apart from the way I rode off on a giant elk at the end!)

Spoiler for Old house:

I was in the house where I lived from the age of ten until I left for college. This was so far into the dream that I can't be sure if it was another attempt at the TOTM that brought me here, but once I found myself in the house, it definitely felt relevant to the task... of all the places I've lived in my life, this was the one I felt the most connection to, and it lives very intact in my memory. I floated through it like a disembodied spirit, mostly impressed by the accuracy of what I saw. But there was something drab and empty about it, too, perhaps because I was aware that everything I was saw no longer existed: the house was sold shortly after I finished college, so although it still stands, it is no longer the home I remember.

I started in my bedroom, floated through the upstairs playroom I shared with my brother, drifted down the stairs, and then made a circuit through the dining room, into the parlor, through the closet that connected the parlor to my parents' bedroom, and through the adjoining bathroom. Everything looked ordinary and intact until this point, when I saw the first oddity: a white enamel woodburning stove, a kitchen model, was in the bathtub for some reason. I continued floating into the kitchen, where we did have such a woodstove—original to the house—though the real one was black cast iron and much too large to fit in any tub. I concluded my tour in the living room, having made a complete circuit of everything but my brother's room, the pantry, and the workroom.

There was something festive about the decoration of the living room, perhaps because of the many wonderful Christmases we had enjoyed there, and another oddity: a giant pair of elk horns, which when I looked closer appeared to be attached to an actual elk, although it was standing as still as a statue. I assumed the elk horns were DR, since I had recently been impressed by pictures of the giant Irish elk, an extinct species (neither specifically Irish nor actually an elk, to be pedantic) that sported massive antlers. It reminded me of the elk that Thranduil rode, and my earlier successes inspired me to attempt another thematic summoning. I clambered on the back of the giant elk and rode it outside (conveniently ignoring the fact that there is no way its antlers would have fit through the the ordinary-sized door that led outside from the living room.)

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Much as I love my old house, the giant elk was definitely the best part, especially when it took me straight to Thranduil, a character I had tried to summon unsuccessfully on previous occasions. It was an awesome way to conclude the dream...

Spoiler for Thranduil!:

Outside it was winter, everything covered in snow, and I found myself in a hilly landscape with no connection to my old yard. I focused on finding Thranduil and saw him up ahead on his own elk, actively battling a pack of large winter wolves. He was alone and I feared that if I did not intervene I would lose the chance to talk to him, so I charged ahead using fire magic to clear the pack. When the battle was done and we stood alone again, surrounded by the fallen wolves, he gave me an imperious look and said coldly, "No Lothian tickets will be given to see me." Although I wasn't sure what he meant by "Lothian" (or why I feel like it should be capitalized), I had the impression that he was telling me that he was not someone to be summoned at whim by a mere dreamer. So I changed tactics, presenting myself as his sister. According to the lore I don't even think he has a sister, but it worked.

"So, our father in the middle of a storm brought anzu fruits for our hunters," I informed him, pointing to a cache of green and orange spheres buried under a patch of ice. Thranduil accepted my new identity and greeted me with a prim brotherly kiss, to which I responded with somewhat more than sisterly affection, though I tried not to go full Lannister on him. It was here that I awoke at last, delighted to have finally made some progress in the character summonings that, to date, I have found the most difficult type of tasks.

Keep up the great everyone!! :)

Did the mirror task, hooray for sick sleep!

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..I was in a hallway at the time, and at the end of the hall were 2 mirrors. I stared at my reflection, and like many times, it looked like a younger, slimmer, longer-haired version of myself. I was wearing a really baggy t-shirt like I used to in college, and my long hair all one length and combed down with a power-part like the granola girl that I was lol. Satisfied, I thought about going through the mirror, then thought "nah I always do that." So I tried something different..

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Whole Dream.

Advanced Task i FAIL

I fell asleep on my back which I rarely do. Anytime I get sleep paralysis I know even in a dream it's bc I fell asleep on my back.

Anyways I'm laying in my bed, it's dark, I can barely see anything. There is just a little bit of light coming in through my partially cracked door. Everything in my room appears normal except the door is on the wrong wall but I don't notice this as unusual in the dream.

I discover I'm paralyzed and can't move a muscle. I panic and try so hard but can't. The door opens and in walks my roommate. He tells me sorry for bothering you so late but....can't remember what he said. I'm fighting with everything I got to move and signal him I'm stuck. I can't even talk.

I suddenly realize I'm in SP and become lucid....but still panic and can't effing move! I try to use my lucid powers to escape my body and take off running. I remember magic show task but can't use this environment so I raise my hands and drop them trying to rain bombs from the sky to eliminate this setting and start fresh in a new dream. The most I got was some faint thunder.

I ultimately wind up back in the damn bed paralyzed. I fight it until I wake up.

If I were you SuckerPunch, I would use this opportunity to imagine a WHOLE new dream scene, away from your bed and room.

And technically it's not Sleep Paralysis that you were experiencing, rather REM Atonia. Often times as we are drifting off to sleep, we become temporarily aware of the body's natural state of atonia in this stage of sleep. However, when you can't move at all for seemingly long periods of time like you mentioned, it's because this feeling bled into your lucid dream. If you are in a dream, and aware you are dreaming like you mentioned you were in this case, then you CAN get up and move. You just need to mentally detach your dream self from the idea of your sleeping body.

I get alot of LDs that start with me being in my room and in my bed. It can be tricky to remind yourself once the LD starts, that you are now in your dream body. Any real life restraints are in your sleeping body and totally separate from the dream that you are currently experiencing in your mind, even though they do sometimes bleed through. Try to remember that next time you fall asleep on your back.

I really hope I explained this well. I hear of this type of thing alot and have experienced it frequently myself. It wasn't until I made that mental separation that I was able to push forward from it. :)

Wow...I can't believe I'm saying this but I don't want to write this whole dream down xD

Summary of ToTM Parts:

I absolutely had no idea what the bonus task means, so I created a stone, medieval castle. I forgot about the magic show task (until now), but I completed all the other tasks in my awesome castle.

I tasted the rainbow... it tastes like the frosted flakes milk when you mix frosted flakes and milk.

I climb to the top of a tree toward the edge of my castle and saw a beautiful sunset, with hills, even though it's physically impossible.

I got back to the castle and there was a mirror on the side of the castle (outside), and I saw a darker version of myself with red eyes, and was made of shadows which I though was pretty cool.

Other stuff about castle: there was a feast inside even though I didn't participate, and more entertainment activities. It looked like the castle I owned in the game Wizard101 when I played many years back.

Well, that's mostly it for the ToTM stuff.

The new voting thread is here:

http://www.dreamviews.com/lucid-task...ng-thread.html

Those who have wings, please go and vote for July's ToTM!!!

Since we have a lot of suggestions and maybe you have already an idea what to vote, I am adding to the following spoiler the NEW ideas suggested this month, in case you change your opinion:

Spoiler for June 2015 new suggestions:

Basic
Board an airplane/ferry/train/submarine etc. Look out of the window during your travels and describe the changing scenery. (BrotherGoose)
Go to a concert/music store and listen to some music. Describe the experience as best you can. (BrotherGoose)
Get a haircut from a DC barber. Describe what it looks like. (Spellbee2)
Treat your body as though it were made of putty: can you tie or contort any part of yourself into a knot? (Verre)
Ask a DC, "Whose dream is this?" (Verre)
Hop on a bus/tram/train and leave for places unknown. Describe where it takes you. (NyxCC)
Go in a geyser (advanced wings if you have Aquaphobia, please be honest.) (OpheliaBlue)
Go to a DC and whisper in their ear that you're on to them and you are aware that you are dreaming. (Sad)

Advanced
Go back in time when you were arguing with someone and give them this better answer. Describe how the conversation ended. (NeoDreamer)
Take on the role of a superhero (or villain), describe your powers, and thwart (or commit) a crime. (Verre)
Go to the future and watch the announcement of Half-Life 3. (Jacob46719)
Go back in time and tell your past self that it's hard to WILD with E3 hype. (Jacob46719)

Bonus
Find an advanced laboratory and invent the most futuristic thing you can think of. (Oktek)
Destroy the world. Like, really. Blow it up. (Timothy Paradox)
Take a glass cup. Will it to have the consistency of honey and let it ooze around your hand and arm. With it still on you, make it like glass again. Try and move your arm, then make it like water so it falls off. Then boil the glass away and have it form into globules in the air in front of you. Turn them into a different glass cup. PecaBokem
Literally grow "eyes in the back of your head": attempt to expand your visual field to include the area behind you simultaneously with that in front. (Verre)
Transform yourself into a planet. (Verre)

However, you are welcome to read the entire suggestions pool if you desire, and as always, you can add new suggestions :)

And time for me to share the advanced task completion, I for once stopped going to space and got the advanced done (I honestly forgot I only had the basic task.)

Here it is:

Zooming the mirror - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Spoiler for Advanced ToTM:

23.06.2015

Zooming the mirror (DILD)

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID

This was a very long and most of it, personal, but there was a lucid part of the dream and I remembered to do the advanced task since it was undone, so I am sharing this part:


After coming out from the house since I needed to go to the big event I wondered if I was ready and all set. As I was gliding I saw a lot of lights and circus-alike tents. The entrance was like an old creepy campsite welcome sign. There were some pot-a-potties nearbie and I did not recognize the place so I turned lucid.

I looked up into the sky, and as usual, it was full of stars, I wanted to take a flight but I remembered I had my advanced task undone. So I got into the pot-a-potty and on the inside it was huge and like a normal bathroom.

I looked myself into the mirror and at first nothing happened, but then, the top of my head started to inflate like a balloon. I wondered if I could change myself entirely if I looked away from the mirror and started at it again, so I did. I saw no changes, other than being deformed and/or having a lot more facial hair.

I wanted to see if I could be absorved by the mirror somehow if I started at it, which I did for quite some time. Nothing happened other than a "zoom" effect on my reflection.

A little after I left the bathroom satisfied with the task completed.

Lost lucidity shortly after and/or woke up/dont recall.

Did the advanced mirror task a few times but nothing interesting happened (apart from DCs coming to seduce me :P). Finally on the last try, I got some cool effects out of the long staring:

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I have a short ld in between other dreams, so remember only parts of it. Once again I remember the totm and go find a mirror, this time look at the mirror but instead of myself see the reflection of the DC next to me (looking from an angle). I. Keep staring at the mirror for as long as possible and this time the face of the DC starts changing, it shifts from one DC to another DC, female to male features and vice versa. It goes on for a while, a very cool thing to watch.

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;-; no wings ;-; for summary ;-;

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Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

If I were you SuckerPunch, I would use this opportunity to imagine a WHOLE new dream scene, away from your bed and room.

And technically it's not Sleep Paralysis that you were experiencing, rather REM Atonia. Often times as we are drifting off to sleep, we become temporarily aware of the body's natural state of atonia in this stage of sleep. However, when you can't move at all for seemingly long periods of time like you mentioned, it's because this feeling bled into your lucid dream. If you are in a dream, and aware you are dreaming like you mentioned you were in this case, then you CAN get up and move. You just need to mentally detach your dream self from the idea of your sleeping body.

I get alot of LDs that start with me being in my room and in my bed. It can be tricky to remind yourself once the LD starts, that you are now in your dream body. Any real life restraints are in your sleeping body and totally separate from the dream that you are currently experiencing in your mind, even though they do sometimes bleed through. Try to remember that next time you fall asleep on your back.

I really hope I explained this well. I hear of this type of thing alot and have experienced it frequently myself. It wasn't until I made that mental separation that I was able to push forward from it. :)

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Thanks Ophelia. I get about 3 or 4 a year this was the first time I actually tried to do something besides just panic and try to intentionally wake myself up. What's an example of what I should be doing or what you do? The panic is pretty overwhelming.

If I could figure something out it would be a great lucid tool bc it always happens in really deep sleep during vivid dreams and automatically leads to instant lucidity....it's just a waste bc I can't do anything lol.

Btw the reason I panic even when I know it's just a dream is bc I fight a lot in my dreams and I get attacked often so when I can't move I feel very vulnerable to an attack which I wouldn't be able to defend myself.

I believe I have adequately completed the advanced mirror task here.

Advanced Task i 2nd Fail :doh:

Well this has proved to be a really tough one for me. It doesn't look like I'm going to get it in time. Here's my 2nd fail in just a couple days...

I'm standing there talking to 2 attractive females and I suddenly become lucid. It happened so quick. I was thinking "oh I have an audience!" I try to do a trick to like shink myself down or make myself invisible but everything just goes black and I lose the dream. I woke up from the nap kinda confused about what I was trying to do and what the hell happened?

I Climbed a Tree! :) - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

I completed basic task ii! :)

Yay congrats AnotherDreamer! Was beginning to think you was ded 2 :wtf:

^ ^ I has sort of Deja-vu here... :D

Finally got around to posting these DJs, just before the month is up :P

Rainbow, mirror, magic tasks here:
Sweaty Rainbow

Tree task here:
The Forest of Dreams

House task here:
Life as a House

I'm excited for June tasks!

Oh me, oh my. Looks like I hit a dry spell after all. This morning, I had a brief lucid dream, but I totally forgot about the tasks. [Shrugs] Oh well.

Did you summon your house? Was it cool?

Well, now is time to sell your house and spend your money in buying some EXPENSIVE art (no piracy please!) such as the Mona Lisa or the Guernica so you can successfully complete July's Task of the Month :D

Have fun folks and great job this month!!

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