TDM #2

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TDM #2

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

May comes rolling in full of blustery winds and heavy rain, blowing away the sleepy spring atmosphere with aplomb! While the second half of the month perks up a little and there's more sunshine to be seen, the first half of May is decidedly dreary and wet. Hopefully nobody's plans fall through on account of all this miserable weather...


⧖ It's Golden Week! The city is buzzing with excitement as the holiday brings in crowds of tourists and locals alike, all aiming to take advantage of sales and promotions or just enjoy some hard-earned time off. Of course, this unfortunately means the city is a little more jam-packed than usual and maybe it causes just a few traffic and transport delays... but it's better than being stuck in work, right? Why not go out and see what all the fuss is about?

⧖ Yikes, watch that forecast! A massive thunderstorm blows in just over Kihada, plastering the streets with rain and causing a blackout that lasts a good few hours. Some people might be upset, but there's nothing quite like a good storm to make things more fun and exciting... so long as you're viewing them from a distance, anyway. You WERE wise enough to find safe shelter as soon as it started bucketing down, right?

⧖ Moon Bunny Market are organising a stamp rally all around the neighborhood, with prizes on the line if you manage to collect them all. Just find the right stalls and speak to the right people and you could win a tasty prize!

Of course, even with the city being in such a jovial mood that doesn't mean things are all fine and dandy. With midterms and exam results on the horizon and the high-strung anxiety and stress of muddling your way through a major holiday it just makes sense that some of that might seep through to the other side...

THE DREAM SPHERE

The Dream Sphere might be a very different kind of place to Yumemigaoka but that doesn't mean it's any less busy. The weather is miserable over on this side, too – the usually pretty skies have turned bruise purple with low, heavy clouds that are swollen with rain. Thankfully, it seems like more of the places around the Dream Sphere are getting away with just a few light showers but things are still pretty cold and miserable over here. Good thing you've got work to distract you, at least!

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 Fury Peak, things are hotter than hot! There's no rain here but the volcano is steadily leaking a heavy black smog which has turned navigating the place into a real task, even for a fully prepared Dreamer. To make matters worse, a group of particularly aggressive Torments made out of volcano glass and black rock are gathering and ganging up on any Dreamer they see. Torments at Fury Peak are even more foul tempered than usual and they're hitting especially hard today so you better act fast and deal with them ASAP!

⧖ In the Reverie Necropolis, the sky is hidden behind black clouds that hang low and a horrible cold wild blows all through the inside and outside of the place. Once you actually enter the labyrinth, frantic whispers can be heard and the scratching of nails against brick can be heard running up and down the corridor. The vibes are absolutely rancid, is what I'm saying – made even worse by the fact that when you stumble into one of the open caverns, you come across a Nightmare just about to manifest?! Better hope you're not alone, because you'll need some good strong teamwork to keep things from escalating any further!

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[terrortarot]

That sounds like a good idea.

[It would have been easier to just say "good idea," but Mantle works their way through that sentence instead. Not a bad way to practice a new language, really! And the ridiculousness does amuse them.

It's the questioning about stabbing that makes Hanako perk up, and even though Mantle doesn't know he'd zoned out a little, the fact that that had caught his attention -- and prompts him to just materialize a knife, what Mantle can recongnize as their dream weapon based on the glass-and-sand motif -- makes them cackle a little.]

So, to find new places and fight the monsters we find there? Two birds, one stone, that's right. [Even if "take out" wasn't necessary and Mantle was himself cutting out part of the phrase in Japanese, oh well, in both cases it's close enough!

The sly smile with the offer really does make it sound like Hanako is offering to try to scare them, and their own grin turns a bit sly. Whether he means them or someone else, either way, it promises to be entertaining!]

That sounds fun! I would like a little more excitement. Could use...? [They can't quite grasp how to say that in Japanese, for the moment, and discard it after a moment.] Oh well.

[They stand, then, stretching a bit and then grinning down at Hanako. From, like, their 6'6" tallass height. Now that's just unreasonable. And since they should probably introduce themself at some point:] I'm Dreamer Mantle!

[hanamane]

[Is Hanako going to try to scare Mantle? Or does he mean he's going to frighten someone else instead? Who knows! Hanako certainly doesn't, but there's nothing better than a good bluff, and he'll just go with whatever opportunity presents itself the best. Still, he bounces a bit in place (well, as best as one can bounce perched on the back of a bench), the excitement of someone wanting to go on an monster fighting trip chasing away any slyness that was previously on his face.]

Yeah, yeah! This city, it gets boring after a while. Too much of the same things!

[Though his excitement stills for a moment once Mantle stands, because... dang. Considering Hanako's not even five feet tall himself, that height difference is just plain rude!! Granted, being able to float a foot off the ground helps ease the gap a little, but...

If he's bothered by it at all, though, he doesn't let it show on his face for long, and he matches Mantle's grin with a wide smile of his own as he points towards his face.]

Dreamer Hanako! ☆ It is nice to meet you, Manny!

[Yeah, you just got a nickname already Mantle, sorry-- be glad it isn't as obnoxious as the one poor Dreamer Cinnabar got saddled with, though!

He lets go of his perch on the bench, letting himself float to max capacity-- even if it was only a foot, it was still less for him to look up-- his legs dangling a little behind him.]

So! Which direction you want to go?

[terrortarot]

[Would it be more fun to lower their guard so that Hanako has a better chance of scaring them? ...Would it be more fun to scare him first? Well, they'd see indeed. ♪

But that mischievousness does drop away again into seemingly honest excitement. It's been a while since Mantle's siblings were that age, but they still recognize it -- a promise that this little adventure will be fun, and maybe even a little nostalgic, despite the fact that they never used to fight the Torments...]

It's not different enough from the waking city, but I like it better. But a change of scenery is more best~

[Yeah, they'll just stick that English in there instead of fighting the Japanese, though they do fumble the "best of all" ending a bit. And they just laugh at the nickname, practically a cackle, and grin down at the now-floating boy.]

Nice to meet you, Hana-kun!

[Fair is fair, after all! Though when the question is posed, they consider it, taking it seriously.]

Hmm, with so much rain... Maybe the Necropolis? [There's a lot of shelter there, after all, and...] It's spooky, too!