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Information Finding Championship

158 Steem Grand Prize!

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Artwork credit - @yeszuzia on steemit and instagram

Are You Watching Closely?

seemed like an ordinary day in Cryptopia. Krypotcek and his lovely girlfriend were just getting back to the Satoshia Farm after their morning run; Bashadow was cleaning his windows to his shop; Miss Charisma777 was stacking and organizing all the new books in The Story House. And the renovations on Crystal Street were under way! It truly was a lovely day.

As Apolymask was directing the construction on Crystal Street for the new marketplace, there seemed to be a commotion in town amongst the Cryptopians. Setting down the blueprints to @eaglespirit's Card Reading Shop, Apolymask walks with curiosity through town following the tumult.

Passing inaudible whispers and gasps, Apolymask quickens his pace. As the crowds get larger the pace gets quicker and whispers louder. It appears the crowds are heading towards the Castle. Something is very wrong at the Castle.

The sea of citizens have crowded the front of the castle. Apolymask, rushing now, swims his way through the nervous and panicking crowd. He pushes through to the front gate. Once there he inspects the damage to the entrance and notices a peculiar particle along the walls and floors. After further inspection, Apolymask's thoughts go through a psychedelic information download. Orgone... he nervously says to himself.

Everyone of Cryptopia, Please head back to your dwellings!

Apolymask enters the castle and to his heartbreak all is destroyed from the inside out. Relics and Artifacts are gone. Fires burning the ancient quest logs throughout. Heading up through the castle in search of the culprit, Apolymask races up to the lookout crystal. There he looks out over Cryptopia and to his horror the city is burning to the ground...

As he turns his gaze to the sky. There appears to be a long irregular shaped craft. It's the Oumuamua and appears to be slowly approaching. Terror sets in as Apolymask turns to help his fellow Cryptopians, but he is summoned and dematerializes and rematerializes into the Oumuamua.

Apolymask looks over himself as he feels the affects of the transport. He slowly looks up to see a giant Grey standing in front of him....

Awoken from the panic, Apolymask jumps out of his slumber and races to the window to see the beautiful Cryptopia as he remembers... It was just a dream....

Catch Up Round!

Catch up rounds are designed to help new players or those who haven't won a round yet. So, you are not eligible to win this round if you have won a round already, but feel free to support the contestants!

This Quest topic is about Dreams. Who is not fascinated by dreams? I have just started reading a new book “Dreaming Wide Awake, Lucid Dreaming, Shamanic Healing, and Psychedelics” by David Jay Brown. So, I think there is no better time then now for our topic to be Dreams! Again the judges are open to anything involving the topic of Dreams! Share a crazy dream; interrupt a meaning of a dream, dream art, dream poetry, etc. The topic of Dreams cannot have any boundaries! Good Luck!

Excerpt from the book:

According to Hindu philosophy, all that we perceive is maya, illusion, while modern neuroscience tells us that everything we ever experience is just a series of mental constructs, models, or simulations of reality created in our brains from a massive sea of electrical sensory signals. However, these insights do not mean that the world we see around us isn't real. Rather, it just means that things are not what they initially appear to be.

Rules

1. Thirty-first challenge starts now and is the dreams challenge.
2. Create a blog post for the contest.
3. Title must contain contest round, "IFC S2 R31 - Entry"
4. Leave a link to your post in the comments below.
5. Use the #ifc tag in your blog post as well.
6. If you somehow get hurt doing any of our quests you can not justifiably hold us accountable. Take responsibility for your own choices and actions in life. This is a voluntary game where you choose to play. Only you can make that decision for yourself.
7. You are responsible for paying the appropriate government taxes, fees, and service charges resulting from any transactions through The Marketplace. We are not responsible for collecting, reporting, paying, or remitting to you any such taxes, fees, or service charges, except as may otherwise be required by law.

For this challenge.. If there's a tie.. We will do another round to see who wins.
The winner will be decided by whoever gets the most votes.
The only people who can vote in a qualifying sense are @apolymask and the judges selected and they will vote by leaving a comment on the submission that they like the most and say something like.. "I vote for this one" and a reason why they voted would be good too, but is not mandatory.

You have until this challenge post payout ends to submit your post. Though we do accept late entries if you get it in before all the judges vote.

The challenge will finish after 7 days when the post ends and provides its payout cycle and unless there is a tie, the winner will gain the steem, the XP and have a point to go towards their long term win. (minus the 25% for curation)

Acceptable content

1. Anything Dream related. Examples but not limited to: Essay, art, poetry, music, crazy dream story, etc.
2. Language is primarily in English and if you would like to participate from elsewhere in the world it is up to you to translate your message into English so we can understand you.
3. We also encourage role playing for those who enjoy doing that. :)

Good luck in the contest! And We Look Forward to seeing you Cryptopia!

Special Thanks to @ifc sponsors!

First up is @ats-david who has helped greatly! If you appreciate this contest or just his efforts in general you may want to look into voting for him as a witness at @ats-witness, he does a lot of other cool things for the community as well!

Next is @timcliff who has similarly helped out the contest significantly and who is also a witness who does a lot for the community, so likewise if you appreciate the efforts you may want to vote for him as witness also!

I'd also like to thank @theguruasia who has pledged at least 20 steem to the second and third place prizes and he said he may even donate more.

And @nxtblg who has been regularly resteeming and upvoting our challenges which has been a big help!

Plus one other person who has been helping a lot who deserves some credit is @soundlegion who has also been upvoting the contests regularly.

And while not technically sponsors, we are working with @davemccoy and those at #newbiegames and #newbieresteemday and they do a great service to the community so definitely check them out if you appreciate that, or if you're new.

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Other Open Rounds

Round 30 - Most Important Issue

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The Judges Await! Good luck in the contest!

Artwork credit - @yeszuzia on steemit and instagram