TDM #20

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TDM

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

Fall is officially in full swing as of November, which means everyone gets to enjoy crisp mornings, cool nights, clear skies and, most importantly, northern Japan's famous vibrant autumnal colours! It's pretty consistently overcast and rainy for the whole month which would usually make things all sorts of gloomy - but thankfully, as the month grows colder, trees all over the city are turning cartoonishly yellow and red and orange, decorating the otherwise grim fall atmosphere with pops of warm colour that have a way of brightening the mood. Unfortunately for folks working in hospitality, the change in weather and the famous fall colours also means that a whole lot of tourists will be invading the city for autumn sightseeing. Be strong, our soldiers..!


⧖ It's Culture Day! Schools around Yumemigaoka will be holding their cultural festivals, which usually includes performances put on by school clubs, booths run by classes and, of course, lots of food stalls run by students. Cultural festivals are also open days, so family members and friends from other schools will be able to come and hang out during these days! Come have a nostalgic wander around your old haunt or use visiting a friend as an excuse to snoop around Promised Morning and see what the heck a school for mahous even looks like, I ain't your boss.

⧖ It's blustering out there...! A nasty storm has blown in that's currently wreaking havoc all over Yumemigaoka with high winds and heavy rains - thankfully, it's not a full blown typhoon but that doesn't mean it's any less of a pain to deal with! Traffic has slowed to a crawl, as has public transport, and cafes and shops are overflowing with people trying to stay out of the rain! If you're lucky, you can stay home and avoid the weather, but if you really do need to go out, well... we'll be sure to remember you...!!

⧖ Hoping to do some regular shopping at the department store this month? Unfortunately for you, Tsubaki Department Store are having a pre-Black Friday Sale Sale (??!??!) to hype up for the winter season and is usual for when prices drop at Tsubaki, competition is fierce! Nobody will judge you if you have to throw a few punches to pick up a new microwave today. With how dangerous things get during these sales, it's basically self defense.

⧖ Midway through the month, the holiday spirit really starts to show itself in Yumemigaoka! The Yumemigaoka Christmas Illuminations go up all around the city with a lighting ceremony in the evening to celebrate turning them on. Food stalls with tasty food and hot drinks will be available for everyone to check out or maybe you just want to enjoy the pretty lights. They're only here for one month a year, after all!







THE DREAM SPHERE







Over in the Dream Sphere, fall fever has taken over here as well! The air is crisp and clean and those leaves raining down from apparently nowhere aren't letting up in the least. They're nice and pretty and all, but they're also piling up everywhere around the Dream Sphere, leaving a really good hiding spot for Torments who love to jump out and smack you. So really, it's just good manners to kick those piles and scatter leaves everywhere as soon as you see them.

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...


⧖ Twinkle Keep and the Whispering Grotto have been taken over by Torments! These little Halloween suckers are NOT respecting the seasonal aesthetic. Make sure to each them a lesson - but don't get Tricked in the process!

⧖ Fury Peak is just as unpleasant as usual, though the crisp fall atmosphere does seem to have cleared some of the usual smoke in the air, making it a bit easier to fight and, you know, breathe when you're patrolling here. The Torments on the Peak seem to be in a pretty bad mood this month, though - maybe the seasonal change is getting to them? Either way, they're responding to this by... pelting any Dreamers thry see with rocks?! It's different from their usual tactics to be sure but you have to wonder how effective it is... it is really annoying, though, so better take 'em out!

⧖ The Reflection Glades aren't usually a hot spot for Torment activity but with all the unusual happenings in the Dream Sphere lately, it looks like whatever force is usually responsible for keeping Torments at bay isn't quite as effective as usual and a startling amount of the little boogers have breeched the Glades' safety and started going after Figments in earnest! Thankfully, a whole bunch of Dreamers have been dispatched to take care of the issue so even though there's a fair bit more pressure than usual with all these Figments who need protecting, you're not alone – and who knows? Maybe this is how you'll stumble your way into a new team!

⧖ In a rare change for the Abandoned Dojo, its usually rainy weather has almost entirely cleared in favour of crisp, wintery fog that definitely effects visibility more than you would maybe like it to when hiking this path but something about it is kind of refreshing, too. Even so, there's an odd tension in the air today and all the Torments you face on the way up here seem on edge as well. It isn't until you reach the Dojo itself that the cause becomes apparent – a Nightmare is starting to spawn here, right in the middle of the Dojo's training arena, as if it's waiting for a truly powerful opponent to turn up and challenge it... 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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culture day, also hi welcome!!!

[thestarknows]

[Junna Hoshimi -- age eighteen, third year high school student at Promised Morning -- is Amane's pupil as a Dreamer. She's been around Amane. She might have well come up. She's Dreamer Sage.

She looks up from the booth she was working, which is... a takoyaki booth. She smiles, a little sheepishly.]

Oh, Amane-kun! [...sorry Tsukasa, she's interacted with you a lot less so her brain jumped to a conclusion at a first and hurried glance.] I--er--I didn't... actually... make them? I'm just selling them.

hello!!!

[deadwishes]

[There is nothing funnier to Tsukasa than when people think he's Amane and vice versa. He blinks and then laughs.]

Haha, you think I'm Amane! I'm not Amane, I'm Tsukasa. [At least he doesn't seem bothered.] It's okay. We look a loooooooot alike! We're twins and were born together.

[You don't say, Tsukasa.]

[thestarknows]

Oh--oh, gosh. I'm sorry, Tsukasa-san!

[Junna apologizes with that sort of nervous energy that says she actually is worried about causing offense. There's even a slight bow.

She looks up, then she cracks a smile.] W-Well, yes, I admit... it's a bit hard to tell you apart. Junna Hoshimi.

[She extends a hand.] I'm a friend of your brother's.

[deadwishes]

[He looks at her hand, blinking at it for a moment as if he's not entirely sure what to do. But then shakes it quickly after. Politely and everything. He's capable of some manners.]

Don't be sorry! It's not so bad if you think I'm Amane. [He considers it an honor. But her name does ring a bell, though he is not fully sure.]

I didn't think girls would like Amane as much. [Ouch, Tsukasa.]

Ahem sorry some holiday travels

[thestarknows]

[Junna smiles after the handshake. Though there's a bit of a blink -- then another smile after the question of Amane and girls.]

He's behaved. Mostly. And, well... he's been a good mentor.

no worries, in the same boat here!

[deadwishes]

That's good, that's good! But remember, sometimes you gotta be really blunt with him. Tell him right to his face even if he cries.

[As if she needs advice...as brutal to his dear twin as this is.]

[thestarknows]

W-Well... I'm not sure about making him cry... but point taken about being blunt.

[She laughs, though. Then she looks around.] Anyways, welcome to the cultural festival!

[deadwishes]

Thanks! [He looks around, appraising the place.]

Are there good places to hide around here, do you know?

[thestarknows]

...Hide?

[Junna blinks. Her eyebrow twitches a little bit -- well, okay... okay, clearly, he's not THAT different from her brother.

...okay.

She sighs a little.]

Hide a person or an object?

[deadwishes]

Person. And a living one!

[That had to be clarified? But well, when you hear hide a person, he thinks it only sounds like one thing.]

I can only hold my breath for so long. But I can sing a note for a while! [That has nothing to do with the other thing.]

[thestarknows]

Uh...

[She looks around. There's behind the booth. Maybe. Or maybe some of the decorations, or--

Wait. Focus.]

...what do you need to hide for?

[deadwishes]

Sometimes you just have to hide. [Of course!]

You gotta know all the right places.

[thestarknows]

...well, you could hide behind this booth. Or maybe in the paper trees there.

[a beat, though]

Try to not get into too much trouble, though, okay?

[deadwishes]

[He blinks and then grins.]

What do you think I want to do?

[thestarknows]

[dot dot dot]

Something calm and studious?

[deadwishes]

[He just looks at her for too long of a moment and then he laughs.]

Haha! That's so funny! No wonder Amane works with you. [What does that mean???]

[thestarknows]

[She actually asks that very thing aloud.]

What does that mean?

[deadwishes]

You'll figure it out one day!

[There is absolutely NO explanation.]

[thestarknows]

I... I have concerns.

[Concerns about the lack of explanation.]

[deadwishes]

[He opens his mouth to answer her...

Before he sees another booth and is immediately distracted by that, running off. No offense, Junna, he's done with this conversation. He is onto the next! No goodbyes or anything.]