Lucid? Say what?

Ugh. Giant chain chomp turned gold? ... ok. Sounds completely normal to me. Giant mushrooms underneath the city? Fly to them on a pink dinosaur? Leads to a land of odd blocks suspended in air with people populating them? Ok. Got it. What's next? Getting chucked long distances by said strange people in said strange land? ... sounds dangerous...

56 shines, 119 blue coins. There is some doubt as to how much blue coin shines cost (5 or 10... we're pretty sure it's 5) so we could have as many as 80 shines now. Granted, probably the easiest 80 shines, but considering our experience level, familiarity with game, etc., that's pretty damn impressive, especially considering it's only been about 42 or so hours since we started, of which we've spent... I have no idea how many hours we've spent actually gaming. Coming up on 20 for today, including occasional breaks (less than an hour total). So it's been pretty intense. Basically.

OSK doesn't handle chucksters too well. Granted they're pretty nasty, anything shy of perfection and mario is hurled into oblivion.

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Ok, so now it's more like 9:30 a.m. Hmm. Guess I haven't looked at this in awhile. Well, whats new... we've run out of easier stars completely. We found an absolutly cruel hidden shine on the beach. Turns out the blue coins are 10 to a shine, so we've actually only got 71 shines right now (we cashed in the first half of the blue coins, got 7 left over). I'm approaching 24 hours straight awake, and I'm still doing pretty good. Pretty strong going. At this moment, OSK is raping the second secret level for extra lives (somewhere in the neighborhood of 20) before taking another shot at the yoshi island hidden shine. It's nasty in every way, but we've got the first 4 coins down pat pretty much, and almost the extra life too. He's pretty good about getting that, but although the second half should be easier (excepting the jump one) I'm cautiously optimistic at best. We'll see how it goes.