TDM #1

[beautifuldreamermods]

TDM #1

Welcome one and all to the very first test drive meme for Beautiful Dreamer! 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 AU Planning meme to see what juicy ideas your fellow players are cooking up!

In order to not spoil the opening of the game for players, 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.

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

It's a busy day just like any other in a town as big and bustling as Yumemigaoka. With the last days of winter finally at everyone's backs, spring has begun blooming in earnest and the cheery seasonal energy is pretty infectious. A number of events are taking place around the city, so why not take the time to look around and have fun?



⧖ The Tsubaki Department Store is beginning to hype up their upcoming Golden Week extravaganza with a number of small sales and promotions. Maybe this year you'll finally be able to snag that air fryer you've been eyeing?!

⧖ It's cherry blossom viewing season! Hina Flower Gardens are holding a free event with a number of special seasonal goodies and some absolutely beautiful scenery to take in.

⧖ Moon Bunny Market are organising a stamp rally all around the neighborhood, with prizes on the line if you manage to collect them all. Just find the right stalls and speak to the right people and you could win a tasty prize!

Of course, life doesn't grind to a halt just because it's nice and sunny outside. Now the city is getting busier and more touristy, the folks who keep things running are starting to get some pressure put on them! And if you happen to be a student, end of term exams are starting to loom on the horizon, with particular pressure put on those just about to graduate their respective schools... Not to mention with spring coming around, allergies are running riot!

Let's just hope you're not feeling too stressed. After all, with all this energy running rampant and regular life starting to really push down on everyone, who knows what those negative feelings could spawn...?!

THE DREAM SPHERE

The Dream Sphere might be a very different kind of place to Yumemigaoka but that doesn't mean it's any less busy. Spring has sprung over on this side, too, with iridescent flowers and colorful trees growing right out of the streets and buildings all over the Slumbering City and the sky above turning a particularly pretty shade of pale pink to match.

That makes it especially bizarre that it appears to be snowing all over the Dream Sphere, no matter where you go but on closer inspection this snow is actually cherry blossom petals raining endlessly down from the sky. How pretty! Of course, for those of you with allergies, maybe it's just rubbing salt on the wound. Your nose isn't itching, is it? Achoo!

Pretty or not though, if you're on this side then you've got work to do! With the Waking World starting to gear back up after winter, some of the associated stress is starting to funnel into the Dream Sphere and cause no small manner of trouble. 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...


⧖ In the Vale of Sorrow, it's still raining and pouring despite the change of season and that combined with the dusting of petals across everything has turned navigating the place into a real task, even for a fully prepared Dreamer. The ground is even more of a wet and soggy mulch than before and to make matters worse, a group of particularly nasty Torments are gathering and seem to be made out of bristling vines and piercing brambles... they're unusually quick and vicious even for Torments so you better act fast and deal with them ASAP!

⧖ In the Reverie Necropolis, the season of spring hardly seems to have touched the place. If the sky has changed at all, it's hidden behind the bone white clouds that hang low and every single petal that touches the ground immediately shrivels and dies once it lands. Once you actually enter the labyrinth, frantic whispers can be heard and the scratching of disembodied pencils scribbling over papers can be heard echoing up and down all the halls. The vibes are absolutely rancid, is what I'm saying – made even worse by the fact that when you stumble into one of the open caverns, you come across a Nightmare just about to manifest?! Better hope you're not alone, because you'll need some good strong teamwork to keep things from escalating any further!

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[darknesshotpot]

Ango looks up at the foreigner, grinning. "I'll split it with you... but these are stolen goods, so if you eat them you're an accomplice, you know?"

He can't actually afford to share, since he'll be sleeping on a park bench and living off pocket change until Monday when he can beg the Dreamer Union for a job... but Ango's always been the type to lend his friends money even when he knows they'll never pay it back. And this stranger already talks like an old friend.

[dullshooter]

Misfire grins in return, pleased that things have gone so smoothly. He knew this guy had the right vibes. With a click of his fingers, he points them into guns right at Ango.

“Since you’re being so generous, as thanks, I’m gonna dispose the hell out of your evidence.”

A declaration of eating all of somebody’s food framed as a favour. He truly is despicable.

Misfire takes a seat, the plastic bag he was carrying rattling slightly as it’s set down.

“So how ill-gotten are we talking? You shoplift these?”

He asks, reaching for the mochi first.

[darknesshotpot]

"Heh, shoplifting is for middle school brats. I'm the king of the delinquents, so I did something even more despicable..." Ango leans in conspiratorially, lowering his voice to a theatrical whisper. "You see that community association table full of free snacks over there, where it says 'please take one per child?' I took one of everything. And then I went back through the line five more times. I think they were starting to catch on after the third time, so I put on a hat."

Ango tosses a can of beer to Misfire (those he actually had shoplifted) and laughs. "Eat up! We've got a lot of evidence to hide before those community association grannies report us to the park police."

[dullshooter]

Man, this guy was on another level entirely, and Misfire had to respect it. He’d only gone and taken a handful of free stuff; he hadn’t considered going up multiple times, with disguises no less. The difference between them was admirable.

In what’s an impressive feat of hand-eye coordination for him, Misfire actually catches the can as it’s tossed towards him, smirk plastered all over his face.

“Yessir!” With a salute he cracks open the beer, then quickly swipes a mochi - as if it’d get taken away if he’s not quick enough.

“So what’s your story, loser? Had no idea I was in the presence of royalty.“

[darknesshotpot]

Ango winces slightly, covering his grimace with a long swig of beer. What's his story? He doesn't even know anymore. He's spent the past decade-and-a-half of his life as a professional writer, collecting awards and cultivating a dubious reputation among the literary elite, and now he's completely run out of stories to tell.

"Oh, you know," he begins, waving his hand vaguely. "It's tough out there even for royalty. Do you have any idea what it costs to rent a modest castle in Tokyo these days? I can't even afford a one-bedroom with a pull-out sofa. But I heard there's some organization in this town that will hire you no questions asked if you have one of these..."

He pulls a Sandglass pendant out from inside his shirt and swings it so the deep purple sand within glitters with a rainbow of colors. "And all you have to do is put on a costume and fight dream monsters with magic! Sounds sketchy but it's totally legit, probably!"