TDM #18

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TDM #6

Welcome to Beautiful Dreamer's test drive meme! If you're unfamiliar with the game, then you can check out the navigation to get yourself up to speed on all the relevant info pages then check out the most recent AU Planning meme to see what juicy ideas your fellow players are cooking up!

As the prompts in the TDM are based on events from the prior in-game month, the overall TDM is not canon to Beautiful Dreamer though players are free to treat individual CR/threads on this post as canon to their characters if both players are happy to do so.

Dreamers on the TDM will have access to all of their starter powers as outlined on the powers page as well as two unique abiliites to play around with as you please.

Some prompts and location details have been provided below for you to play around with but please feel free to go hog wild and have fun!

YUMEMIGAOKA

Summer might start coming to an end in September but the death throes are anything but pretty! On top of scorchingly high temperatures, Yumemigaoka sees a whole lot of rain, rain and more rain. And to cap things off, the last week or so of the month sees pretty much exclusively thunderstorms and downpours. Even when it's not raining, things don't dry off - the humidity is high enough that just being outside for a while makes you feel like you've been hosed down. Things get so bad, in fact, that the city is forced to grind to a halt for two whole days starting on the 12th when the humidity and temperature suddenly spike to dangerous levels and force basically everyone to stay home for their own safety. You might have gotten an extra long weekend out of it but by god, at what cost?!


⧖ Excessive heat warning! The temperature's gotten unreasonably high and there's only minimal reprieve to be found indoors. To everyone's horror, the usual hangout spots during a time like this - Tsubaki Department Store and the Dreamer Union are having AC issues due to the overwhelming summer heat. Just what are you supposed to do to beat the heat now?!

⧖ Moon Bunny Market are holding a mostly-for-funsies ice cream eating contest where contestants do their best to scarf down an ice cream (or some other delicious frozen treat) as fast as they can without keeling over with brain freeze. Winners will get a coupon for one free Moon Bunny Market treat and bragging rights... but let's be real, this is mostly just an excuse to eat delicious summer treats.

⧖ Pegasus Arcade are holding their legendary bonus weekend, offering players up to 10x more tickets for their favorite machines and some of their rare redemption prizes on display! Are you a bad enough dude to beat the crowds and go ham on some arcade machines?

⧖ Dice and Dash will be hosting a board game evening from 4pm to 9pm for customers to stop by, socialize and play any number of the shop's many games. There's a small entry free per person but there's also discounts on all the food and drinks and once you're in the door, everything's free to play!







THE DREAM SPHERE







Over in the Dream Sphere, the heat wave that hits the city is also hitting the Dream Sphere pretty grd. The Reverie Necropolis, already a gloomy place, becomes oppressively dark and ominous, filled with a low hanging fog that clings to the ground and Fury Peak is like stepping onto the surface of the sun and thus goes understandably neglected as far as Hunts go this month. But on a brighter note, the Whispering Grotto and Facet Lagoon are both still pleasantly refreshing, as are the Reflection Glades. So it's not all bad!

As usual, the emotions stirring over in the Waking World have begun funnelling into the Dream Sphere and causing all manner of problems here and there. Torments and Nightmares won't hunt themselves so be sure to properly scout out all the available locations of the Dream Sphere you can access just in case - maybe you'll find a new teammate to work with while you're out there!

In particular, it looks like trouble can be found...


⧖ At the Abandoned Dojo, the blazing sun has scorched all the greenery that usually lines the mountain path, leaving it dry, desolate and overall pretty dull to look at. The torrid heat means Torments prowling the area are a bit more sluggish than they usually might be, but don't get cocky and assume they're easy targets. If you decide to engage one in battle, it might go down quick but just as quickly, another Torment will appear to take its place... and another, and another and-- hold on, where the hell are all these guys coming from?! You're not going to be able to manage this rowdy group without a little backup!

⧖ At the Facet Lagoon, a heavy shower has been pummeling the area with a cool, refreshing rain that doesn't seem to be letting up anytime soon. The lagoon itself has swollen as a result and most of the usual caves and grottos beneath the water have either flooded or are filled with rushing waves of water, so the usual methods of exploration and Torment hunting have been cut off for now - thankfully, the weather also seems to have forced most of the Torments prowling the lagoon out of their usual hiding spots! They haven't taken too kindly to being so dismally rained on but with their mood already so consistently foul, it probably isn't going to make that much of a difference, right?

⧖ Ah, the Reverie Necropolis, everyone's least favourite place to hunt Torments! Bizarrely, though, the Necropolis actually proves itself to be a nice change of pace from the rest of the Dream Sphere as it's unseasonably cold and chilly; almost wintry. Unfortunately, while the environment might be more accommodating to Dreamers here, Torments wandering the area seem to have been affected by the chill in the air as they're a little more speedy and dexterous than normal! Even worse is the fact that, if you happen to stray too deep and find one of the inner chambers... it looks like a Nightmare is starting to spawn here! If you act fast, you might be able to take this Nightmare down before it awakens and starts rampaging, but maybe not all by yourself...

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