Monthly Post & CR Meme #3: When you wish upon a star...

[beautifuldreamermods]

MONTHLY POST

Happy July, Dreamers! We hope everyone had a good Pride month both OOCly and in game! Before moving onto the IC recap, here's the usual OOC update tidbits for everyone to snack on:


⧖ AC had been adjusted! Going forward, our AC requirements will be 10 comments across at least 2 threads, capping out at 3. There will no longer be a comment minimum on AC threads - rather, we'll be looking at total overall comments. This change was made both to make things easier to parse for players and also uh me when I'm processing AC but also because we feel this better suits the pace the game has settled into. As this decision was made near the end of last month, we have run June's AC with these changes in mind and applied those standards retroactively. Comment count minimums for bonus threads, Excursions and Hunts, etc will remain the same but we will be sweeping pages and mod response templates over the next few days to update any relevant wording. Let us know if we missed any spots!

⧖ i cannot for the life of me remember if I formally mentioned this elsewhere but: the franchise cap is now five characters instead of four! While talking about it, we decided four felt like a bit of an awkward number and that five accomidated the average size of a 'core' series cast a bit better.

⧖ The NPCs & Notable Figures page went up in the first half of last month! Make sure to give it an eyeball now and then to keep up with who's who in the world of Beautiful Dreamer - or even submit some famous folks yourself!

⧖ Additionally, the Monthly Event & Player Plot Submissions page is now up! You can toss in some cool things you'd like to see happen around Yumemigaoka or even suggest a full-scale monthly plot of your own!

That's all for OOC updates! The only other thing to note is that as of our last app round, we are officially getting within spitting distance of our player cap!!! Insane!!! We will be keeping an eye on apps and drops over the next month and depending on how close we get to that magic number, we will make an announcement at the end of the next app round as to how we plan to handle those spicy final slots. Keep an eye out!




On the first of the month, a post goes up on the DU's official website.


Check back in a little bit to see what Dreamer Chat has to say!

EVENT PREVIEW

Following the sighting of Dreamer Crimson, the DU is in a bit of chaos. The reappearance of a Dreamer so long after a full disappearance into the Dream Sphere is more or less unheard of and results in many Experienced Dreamers and DU staff being pulled in to work overtime and investigate this new phenomenon. Nobody knows quite what happened or how, but the DU – and Angelica in particular – are determined to make it happen again.

Outside of the DU, other things seem to be stirring in the Dream Sphere. Tanabata is rolling around and those who've been Dreamers long enough will know that the festival sometimes has odd effects on the Dream Sphere; that many high hopes and that much intense wishing eventually has ripples that extend far out beyond the Waking World. Dreamers of the magical and regular variety may find themselves having reoccurring dreams of a beautiful stardust river and a glittering tree weighed down with wish tags. Each time you go back to that place in your sleep it becomes more and more real until it feels like you could almost step into it for real... but while that's certainly possible for Dreamers, regular people can't do that.

Right?

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

Looking forward to more sunshine? Unfortunately, after the damp but sunny weather everyone was graced with in June, July goes right back to damp and dismal. While that might match the mood for some – final exams are coming up at the end of the month, after all – it makes a poor match for the Tanabata festival due to be held on the 7th!

As expected of a Yumemigaoka summer, July's weather is miserably humid and damp with high temperatures and a frankly unreasonable around of rain. Showers are more or lest constant, with a persistent drizzle occurring at pretty much every moment of the day and more serious downpours frequently breaking out just to ruin your day. In particular, the first two weeks of the month will see some extremely heavy rain, including thunderstorms, that results in some flooding. Unfortunately for Orihime and Hikoboshi, it's going to be a damp Tanabata this year!



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WORLD EVENTS

⧖ All Month: Following Zeke, Sam, Connor and Ben's encounter with Dreamer Crimson, the DU puts out an official notice summarizing the event and imploring Dreamers who have any further information to report directly to the DU. Continued investigation into the matter is requested of Experienced Dreamers who are encouraged to take additional Excursions out into the Dream Sphere in hopes of locating Crimson once again.

⧖ July 1st - July 6th: In anticipation of Tanabata, a number of stores around the city are now selling the coloured paper for tanzaku and small cuttings of bamboo so you can hang wishes in the privacy of your own home. In addition, shrines, shopping malls and schools around the city will have wish trees for people to hang their wishes.

⧖ July 2nd - July 5th: A city-wide thunderstorm on top of the already torrential rain causes public transit havoc and several trainlines and bus routes are forced to shut down due to minor flash floods. F–free day off work and school, yay...?!

⧖ July 7th: It's Tanabata, the star-crossed lovers' holiday. There will be a festival held at Hikawa Shrine and the event mingle post will go up on this date - since the event this month crosses over with Tanabata, it's going up a little early!

⧖ July 15th: Torment Hunt Bounty! An aggressive Torment Horde spawned by rage and frustration have appeared in Fury Peak. They take the form of humanoid silhouettes formed from pure flame with jagged mouths and sharpened teeth. This is a High Risk bounty open to all Dreamers and multiple groups of characters can tackle this challenge. As a reward, characters who successfully clear this bounty will receive double points on rewards associated with this Torment Hunt!

⧖ July 17th - July 19th: It's time for final exams! Yes, they'll be a total slog but keep your chin up because once they end...

⧖ July 20th - August 31st: IT'S SUMMER VACATION, BABEY! Students have a whopping six weeks of summer vacation to enjoy before the start of the next term. Just make sure not to forget your summer homework!

AC RESULTS

The following characters have received a strike as a result of the previous month's activity check:


bakubug
brightidol
healthepast
howlmyrage
kitri
meteorman
terrortarot
tokencanadian
trickyjedi
untilidie


Strikes will automatically clear after one month of passing AC, so don't sweat too much!

The following characters have been removed for the game for failing to clear a strike:


bloodpetal
spielhaus


Sorry to see you go!

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Comments

[darknesshotpot]

Player Name: Matatabi
Contact: matatabibito, or Discord
Introduction: Butler to a bunch of freeloader cats, some of which aren't actually cats.

Character Name: Sakaguchi Ango
Canon: Bungou to Alchemist

About: Ango used to be a well-regarded writer, but his antics have gotten him blacklisted from the industry... so now he's a newbie Dreamer with a minimum wage job at the DU and a halfassed attitude to match it. He's a chaotic hot mess who makes bad choices.

Short Term & Long Term Plans: In the short term, lots of dumb adventures and shenanigans. In the long term, I want Ango to get his creative spark back and return to being a writer. He's gradually re-learning how to Give A Shit about life.

Desired CR:
Now that Ango has a job, he's looking for a place to live. Which means that a terrible neighbor is coming soon to an apartment complex near you! He's the kind of neighbor who steals your wifi, puts out 15 bag of garbage on recycling day (when he bothers to take it out at all), borrows your stuff and never gives it back, and hides on your balcony every time police sirens go by. Anybody want to live near a human raccoon?

Ango's going to stumble across an outlying location populated by massive glowing Torments inspired by the huge, elaborately constructed demon lanterns of northern Japan's wild summer festivals. Anybody want to come explore a spooky old-fashioned town full of towering monsters? Since it's an unofficial exploration, we can decide how well/poorly things go!

Anything Else?:

[healthepast]

Oh, my God, please come live next to Finley and his mum. I could use the little shakeup in his life.

Finley is a team mum who would be understanding of Ango at first and try to accomodate him. The poor guy just needs a good place to be, right? Right? And he's the kind who'll probably bend over backwards a bit to help Ango out. Depending on how their CR goes, Finley can either turn scolding-mum and try to get his butt into gear (whether that's successful or not), or into the sighingly-compliant, deciding "This is just how Ango is. Oh, well."