TDM #3

[beautifuldreamermods]

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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[livingalarp]

Kihada.

[ The answer's prompt, and the very slight hopeful perking up might tip her off that at least this much is true. ]

That on your way...?

[ He's willing to compromise and share the taxi if she can be convinced. Sharing would be much easier for him than trying to fight for the whole thing outright. ]

[selfmanagement]

It's your lucky day, kid.

[She pulls to open the door. The taxi driver looks relieved that he's not going to be held up by some extended argument.]

Get in, quick.

[livingalarp]

[ Cid quickly hops into the back before she can change her mind. Only then does he turn back to her and beam again. ]

Thank you so much!

[ He'll turn off the fake charm once they're safely moving - she wouldn't want to inconvenience herself by making the driver pull over at that point just because he's not being super sweet anymore, right? ]

[selfmanagement]

It's fine, we all have places to be and little time for waiting on a curb.

[The fake-sweetness is eye-roll worthy, but Miyako is an Adult and will not give into the urge. She does get into the taxi and shut the door before giving directions of where she's going.]

But you can drop him off first.

[She gives him an expectant side-glance.]

[livingalarp]

Mn.

[ He makes a small noise of assent, rather than giving a proper response, to her first statement. He's slipped back into the deadpan expression again already; but the directions he gives the driver are to an apartment high rise in Kihada.

With the fake-sweetness turned off, it seems he's not the most talkative person... ]

[selfmanagement]

[Hm. Interesting. So the act was only to get him into the taxi, huh. At least he's not faking anymore. It reminds her of Aqua. Which does make her softly smile just a bit.]

Hm...

[livingalarp]

[ His eyes flick towards her when she smiles, briefly; then he turns his attention to the buildings the taxi is driving past. He doesn't know what that smile was about, but it probably wasn't about him. Meanwhile, he does need to make sure this taxi is driving the way it's supposed to... one can never be too careful about strange vehicles, if he's learned anything from spy movies. Trains and buses are much harder to intercept than smaller vehicles, but the trains were out and the buses were off-schedule. He wonders idly if perhaps this could have been planned for, a deliberate attempt to get him to take a taxi??

...And unless Miyako does something unexpected or attempts to make conversation, Cid is actually quite occupied plotting his escape from the certain peril his imagination has uncovered. He'll be content to ride in silence to his stop.

If they do ride in silence to his stop, the ride will be uneventful and on arrival he will, for just a moment, seem inexplicably disappointed. (It'd been the perfect opportunity to kidnap him, and instead he just goes home?) ]

[selfmanagement]

[She sees that brief look, which only makes her smile more. Miyako doesn't mind silence. Sometimes even welcomes it, with how busy her life can be. But that isn't what she wants right now. Not with this Quasi-Aqua sitting next to her while they wait. She hasn't thought yet what to say to get him to talk--because she doesn't want that fake smile to show back up on his face.

Her phone beeps and she looks down at her texts...and what normally would cause her great annoyance instead causes amusement.]

Oh. Well that does change things. [She calls to the driver about adding a stop before looking to her fellow passenger.]

You don't mind, do you? It will be quick.

[livingalarp]

[ Cid glances at her again, both wary and curious - is this it, the time for the kidnappers to strike? He can probably hand them so long as he's on guard... He sounds cautious when he replies. ]

I suppose it's fine... is there something you need to pick up?

[selfmanagement]

[Miyako just smiles as the taxi calls back he understood.]

My early meeting just got rescheduled and I have to pick up something for the next one. A quick stop.

[livingalarp]

I see.

[ Yep, this is definitely the part where the kidnappers strike. ...Or maybe it's a fake-out, to allay his suspicions? "Aha, the perfect opportunity! If they didn't take it, then I must be safe!" Ha, nice try, kidnappers. He's onto you. ]