TDM #3

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TDM #3

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. That said, don't feel as though you have to stick entirely to the TDM prompts – you can use them as a springboard or some up with something totally new so long as it fits into the world of Beautiful Dreamer!

Dreamers on the TDM will have access to all of their starter powers as outlined on the powers page as well as two unique abilities 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

As if apologizing for the miserable weather the month prior, June comes through sunny and bright! It might still be blustery and damp out with some scattered showers but the skies are blue and clear and that summer heat is starting to creep in.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 Yumemigaoka Rainbow Pride Weekend! Yumemigaoka's Pride event falls in June and lasts over a whole weekend with a fun and lively festival held over at Yotsuba Park. There's live music, tasty foods and a whole mountain of cool things to buy from vendors and small businesses. Unsurprisingly, there's a whole lot of Dreamers milling around the event and overall the whole thing just seems like a good, fun time. Just don't get too overheated rocking out at the soundstage or shopping til you drop!

⧖ You're stranded! Thanks to last month's horrible weather, a number of train stations around the city have closed for repairs up and down the city leaving huge holes in the usually reliable train schedule. Of course, this happens to be just as you need to get somewhere important... there's still buses and taxis on the roads so maybe you need to fight a fellow passenger to get on one of those, or maybe you're just accepting your fate and vibing at the station until a good replacement train comes along...

⧖ Matsuba World Market is extending their Golden Week sale to clear out the last of their spring merchandise which means their already low prices are absolutely rock bottom and it's caused a bit of a frenzy over at the market! With this many bargains afoot, are you really going to be able to pick up that cheap spice rack without throwing a few hands first?!

THE DREAM SPHERE

In contrast to the Waking World, the weather over in the Dream Sphere is absolutely miserable once again, bucketing rain all over the Dream Sphere no matter where you are. At least you know your clothes and hair are going to be warm and dry once you pop back over to the other side, but that doesn't make the time you're spending here any less of a horrible endurance test! Fight on, Dreamers!!!

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 NOT cool and chill!!! You'd hope that the downpour from above might have cooled things down just a little but instead, we appear to be dealing with a sauna situation. Every time raindrops strike the superheated rock of the mountains and volcano, they turn into a thick steam that has coalesced into fog and 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 Vale of Sorrow, all this rain is having a bizarre effect on the scenery around you. It's always damp and dismal here but with the new torrents of rain refusing to let up, it looks like the place is at serious risk of flooding! While the water seems like it might remain ankle deep, if you stay too long then you run the risk of an out-of-nowhere tidal wave crashing over you and knocking your feet out from under you... and the nasty Torments lurking and swimming under the waves just might take the opportunity to jump you while you're down...

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world market scuffle

[norseferatu]

[Let the weebs throw hands over anime DVDs. She's here for boring, normie things like discounted spice racks and perhaps also some animal-themed cookie cutters. Even with the noise and bustle of the crowds, though, there's no ignoring the prickle down her spine, that unmistakable sensation of eyes glaring into her soul. She glances at Illya briefly, then behind herself—was someone trying to intimidate a little kid?

But no. Somehow, Illya is focused on her with all the intensity of a thousand suns, as though Lys had already eaten her pet hamster and was now on the prowl for seconds. With the kind of awkward, tentative smile one might show a hissing stray cat, she raises both hands to show she comes in peace.]

Sure, okay. It's all yours. Promise.

[Tall but not broad, she towers over Illya (then again, who doesn't?) and only briefly hesitates before squatting down to be at eye-level. A rather unpleasant question has just wriggled into her brain, and risk of looking like a condescending idiot or not, she can't just let things slide without an answer.]

Hey, uh...have people been bullying you or something? Is that why you said that?

[reluctants]

[ Honestly, it's not too strange that Lys would arrive at that conclusion. After all, even after she's already made it well and clear to Illya that she isn't here to rip this DVD out of her hands, the girl still seems to give her a half-flustered and half-suspicious look, like she's wondering if maybe Lys is trying to just get her guard down.. Like Lys will rip this DVD away from her when she least expects it..

It would certainly explain why Illya moves to instead hold the treasured object behind her back when the other moves down to her level, like she's just trying to keep it out of Lys' reach.

.. then again, when one expects something to be stolen from them in this frenzy of a sale, they generally don't expect.. well, what's going on here. When Lys continues with those words, Illya's expression shifts. Still a little flustered, sure, but with matching wide eyes of obvious surprise. ]

B.. Bullying? [ She sounds surprised, but on the other hand, with the natural fluster that's hanging over Illya it's easy to assume that Lys is actually spot on..

Even if it's more just Illya being bad with strangers in a stressful situation. ]

W-Why would you ask that?!

[norseferatu]

[Head tilting slightly, she stays like that, long legs folded in a graceful squat. Easy to shove over backwards, should Illya suddenly feel the panicked need to reclaim some space, and that's the point. Risking a pratfall was a small price to pay if it meant appearing at least a little less threatening.]

'Cause you're acting like a random stranger is gonna steal what's yours. Like you said, you saw it first.

[She takes in the kid's flushed face, the hands-behind-the-back...then shrugs, still smiling.]

Just wanted to be sure. [A beat.] Do you want some help, though?

[The reasons why this might be a good idea are politely allowed to remain unsaid: Illya being so small, obviously young, and therefore more vulnerable than most to getting fucking bodied by inconsiderate or inattentive shoppers. Some people in this world have to worry about being stepped on, or not being able to reach things on high places.]

[reluctants]

.. it's just since everyone's being so aggressive..

[ To a point where she definitely didn't believe that absolutely everyone here would actually let her keep this DVD, especially if they were interested in it too. Sure, you don't often perceive just how young and small you are when you are both of those things, but it's hard to not be reminded of it when she's seen literal people fight over objects.

In fact - there's two people fighting over a videogame right in the next aisle, to a point where the silence that lingers for a moment after Illya's mumbled excuse is filled up with mostly just their arguing carrying through the air. ]

I-- I think I can get this to the register by myself though. [ There's a tiny pause, the shouts from the next aisle getting louder, which are perhaps the reason that the girl blushes, looks away, and adds a very uncertain: ] Probably..

[ More like probably not, Illya. The girl seems to be half-realising this herself too, if her facial expression is anything to go by. It's hard when you want to be all cool and grownup and you're just.. not that. ]