Monthly Post & CR Meme #21: Cold As Death

[beautifuldreamermods]

MONTHLY POST

Happy New Year, Dreamers! Can you believe we're coming up on the game's 2nd anniversary this year??? It somehow feels nowhere near that long and yet like way longer lol.

As mentioned last post, I spent December doing some housekeeping work for the game! Unfortunately I was hitting some end-of-year burnout so I didn't get everything done that I wanted but I did manage most of it so WAHOO. A lot of this stuff is backend things that won't be player visible (writing up world events and weather updates a few months in advance, tidying some of the page HTML, etc) but here's a smol handful of changes so far:


⧖ General tidying up of infopages, removing references to mechanics that no longer exist, etc. I have also adjusted all mentions of AC to reflect our current system but if you catch one I missed, please let me know!

⧖ The Permanent AC page is now properly codded and stuff!! RIP ACSavior, we'll always remember you...

⧖ The Dream Sphere's locations pages have now been split into two! Outlying Locations now have their own page while the original page is dedicated purely to the Slumbering City and everything that can be found there. Currently there's only a small handful of locations to allow room for the city to grow as players add World Alterations so let's work together to make the city grow!

⧖ Going through into February, I want to keep pecking at some stuff as I have the brain bandwidth for it, so keep an eye out for updates to a few other pages!

Aside from that, I'm happy to report we have a good handful of Disturbances in our player plot queue and I'm hyped as heck for how they'll all shape up! The next one will be running in February... with another one following in April! Back to back Disturbances!!!

Additionally, as alluded to in a few other places, in 2025 we will be moving towards progressing the metaplot in such a way that will change the world state of the game with current tentative plans for that to take place from May onwards. Don't worry if this sounds scary...! We're just moving into Season 2 Plot Territory, I prommy.

That's all for this month! There's no IC recap since we were all percolating for the holidays but now it's time to get back into the metaplot so be sure to take a peep at this month's event!

EVENT INFO & TIMELINE

With the new year finally rolling in, it's the DU's busiest month...! Everyone's having their first dreams of the new year and when everyone's focusing so hard on the same thing, that only spells doom for the Dream Sphere...

Dreamers will be warned to keep a look out for three powerful Nightmares known to spawn around this year; An eagle, a mountain and an... eggplant? It is all down to hatsuyume, after all... and what are those rumors about a bizarro combo form?!

Each Torment Hunt will have a chance of encountering one of these beasts and anyone who manages to track one down will be rewarded bonus points on top of the usual payout.Torment Hunts for this event should be submitted in the usual place - just make sure to note that it's an event hunt! Please also note that all event hunts this month are, by default, Medium Risk and above, so be sure you're prepared!

Another unusual occurance on the other side is that thanks to the low temperatures in the Dream Sphere, Fury Peak has totally frozen over! The Torments have gotten pretty nasty in response but more unusually is the fact that the ever-boiling volcano seems to have finally gone quiet for the very first time...? Has it frozen over too? To find this out, the DU is requesting that any Dreamers down for a little adventure try and explore the volcano's depths and see exactly what's waiting down there...

Excursions for this event can be submitted in the usual place! Note that event-specific Excursions for this month are metaplot relevant and will automatically be High Risk with a good chance of failure. Make sure you've got a good team together!




CR Planning Form:
<b>Player Name:</b> <b>Contact:</b> <b>Introduction:</b> <b>Character Name:</b> <b>Canon:</b> <b>About:</b> (Give us a quick outline of your character! Think of this as a brief introduction to get everyone on the same page.) <b>Short Term & Long Term Plans:</b> (If you have any, of course! You can also use this section to pitch the general shape of The Vibes you're shooting for in your arc and see if anyone else can help you brainstorm it.) <b>Desired CR:</B> (This is the big one! If you're looking for particular CR, pitch it here!) <B>Anything Else?:</b> i fully expect this to be meme central but i'm adding it anyway

WORLD UPDATES

New year, new weather! Just kidding, it's the same weather as usual. Temperatures are still bitterly cold, and the snow is piling up, with a fresh dump of the stuff on the 2nd that causes some commotion with traffic and public transport. January 13th will bring a bit of a thaw, melting off the last of the snow that had accumulated - but a blustery, bitterly cold wind blows through the city all the same, so things are kind of just as miserable during January as they were during December. Things warm up just enough that snow turns to pattering rain by the end of the month but that's really it's own kind of dismal...

Over in the Dream Sphere, everyone's thoughts of the dismal weather seem to have stretched out the snowfall for a couple extra weeks compared to the Waking World. The Vale of Sorrow, Whispering Grotto and Facet Lagoon are all still frozen over and shockingly, Fury Peak has succumbed to the chill as well - not only are the rocks frozen over but the volcano seems to have gone quiet, too! Wonder what's down there...



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WORLD EVENTS

⧖ January 1st - 3rd: Happy New Year! As is traditional, businesses will be shut down during this period and families will get together to relax and spend the holiday together. The DU will be operating on a rotating skeleton staff for emergency Excursions and other Dreamer-related matters but for the most part, expect things to be slow and quiet around the city over these days.

⧖ January 5th-10th: New year sales and promotions continue with various shops all trying to make one last push on their wares in order to make room for their upcoming Spring collections. Tsubaki Department Store's January sales start this day and last until the 10th, offering big discounts on clothing, shoes and more!

⧖ January 8th: Schools across Yumemigaoka will open back up after their extended winter break.

⧖ January 10th - 26th: A particularly nasty case of the flu starts sweeping through Kihada, partly as a result of students returning to school and mingling again after their extended break. Mask up and keep safe!

⧖ January 10th: Tsubaki Department Store will be offering an extended 2-hour sale to end off its New Year's Sales. It starts at noon and goes until two PM and everything's going fast at rock bottom prices! A-are they even making a profit at this much of a discount? And if they are, then how much must their regular markup be?!

⧖ January 11th - January 19th: Usubeni Community Gardens will be having their now-traditional fundraiser event to help raise money that will go towards helping the gardens recover from an icy Yumemigaoka winter.

⧖ January 13th: Coming of Age Day falls on the 13th this year! For everyone who's turned 18 on or between April 2nd of the last year and April 1st of this year, today's the day to celebrate your transition into adulthood! Get dressed up in your best formal outfit and go out to enjoy the ceremony!

⧖ January 15th - 24th: A wave of particularly cold weather will pass through Yumemigaoka this month with a cold weather warning put out on the 15th and lasting through until the 17th, then coming back for one last blast on the 24th. There's heavy snow and ice and as a result, schools are forced to close for about a week starting on the 16th, getting the school year off to a pretty rocky start...!

⧖ January 23rd: Yumemigaoka Language School announces their scholarship program, opening the opportunity to study their language courses and exchange classes to students who can't normally afford the cost of the courses. Applications for the next academic year are due February 7th.

AC RESULTS

AC is due at the end of February! Make sure to submit your January/February over at the Permanent AC Page!

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Comments

[hanamane]

Excellent!! Amane's going to be surprised she hadn't found out about it earlier, given... everything with the Disturbances, but 8''| Better late than never, right...

But HGHH JUNNA.... ;_; Your parents aren't here, you don't have to listen to them, okay!!! (Says the boy who is still under his parents' roof for another four years.....)

[thestarknows]

Ahahaha yes. I think she has some idea but isn't clear, so she might come... ask since I imagine it's like. Not knowing details?

And yes. D: She needs to learn to tell them "butt out" but sometimes a person has to fall into a nightmarish manifestation of their fears, project them as a literal Nightmare, and be dragged out of them. It's fine!!