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TDM #3
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...
Cid Kagenou | The Eminence in Shadow
[ Cid assumes he's not really one of the people Pride is meant for, but it's still a festival, and seems like a fun one to boot. He finds himself browsing the various booths selling merchandise. He knew a rainbow was the official symbol, but he still wasn't prepared for how colorful everything for sale would be! There are things in a fascinating array of colors... ooh, this picture is really nice. It's really speaking to him - should he get it? It's small enough to carry around easily, so he wouldn't have to choose between getting it and seeing out the rest of the celebrations... ]
[2] Yumemigaoka - Transportation
[ Cid had hurried to get to the station, assuming he'd be just quick enough to catch the train... but there's no train in sight when he reaches the place. He's still out of breath as he looks up and down the track, frowning. Then he turns to you, perplexed. ]
...So did I just miss it? or is the train late?
[ It's bound to be one of the two, right? ]
[3] Dream Sphere - Vale of Sorrow [cw: potential reference to delusions]
[ Cid is trudging doggedly along through the water, a black crystal umbrella open to shield him from the torrential downpour. He's looking around for any roaming torments. If you catch sight of him and are with the DU, you might recognize him as the newly-joined Dreamer Shadow. You might be aware of a weird story about when he first tried to join; how he seemed... confused.
Or if you've been an active Dreamer for at least 3 years, you might do a doubletake - is that Dreamer Dark Prince who's wading through the water? It looks an awful lot like him! He hasn't been sighted in the Dream Sphere for over 2 years now... and if you knew him in the Waking World at all, you might even be aware that's because Minoru Kagenou died in a car accident right about then. So who is this guy?
Meanwhile Cid lets out a startled cry as a giant wave appears from nowhere. He instinctively tries to ward off the water with his umbrella, but the black crystal shatters on contact. As the wave sweeps past, Cid is left knocked on his butt, now surrounded by several torments. One leaps at him, and he knocks it back with a left hook - er, why isn't he using his Dreamer weapon... ]
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It's.... um, not happening. There's a news story that just came out about several stations closing for repairs.
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They're... closed? Not late, closed.
[ He looks at her as if to judge whether maybe she's joking.
Yeah, he could always pull out his own phone to actually doublecheck, but that seems like unnecessary effort when she's always got the news article pulled up. Also possibly rude, but whatever. ]
Does it say for how long?
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She'll just... hold her phone out to show him the news article; closed due to the horrible weather last month. Not the worst news, but then-]
I think it might be a 'til further notice' situation?
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[ He peers at the article, skimming it quickly when she holds out her phone. ]
Yeah, there's no mention of a "repaired by" date... Huh. Guess that weather'd really been worse than I thought...
[ He gives a soft huff as he mentally reviews what he knows about this section of the city... mn, no good, he'd always taken the train to get back to Akabeni. ]
You familiar with the local bus routes at all? I don't know which lines go through here.