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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Comments

[breezyplayboy]

[Ah, oops. He realized partway through that she would probably be mad at him for this, but by then he was committed and it was too late. Oops.]

Sorry, I just sort of rushed, in case the torments decided to come at us. I'll warn you next time.

[Lame excuse is lame. He looks properly sheepish about it at least.]

But hey, look, higher ground!

[He peers over the edge at the... hissing.... thorny little things. Hissing plants, eugh.]

[nmc0204]

[ For a moment, she gives him a look like she's considering pushing him right off and back into the mud... but he seems contrite enough that she lets him off with a little 'hmph' and fluffs out the skirt of her dress to try and regain a little composure. She did ask for high ground... ]

We're out of their reach, at least. [ It hasn't improved visibility all that much, but that's always the way in the Vale. Glasswing squints out into the gloom as the Torments hiss among themselves and skitter about, trying to find a way to reach the two of them again. ] Does it look like there's a ringleader? I can't tell through the rain.

[breezyplayboy]

[Ah yes, the "if looks could kill" look... classic Ryoko. It feels almost nostalgic, and maybe that's weird, but in a way it feels more like a sign of friendship than anything.]

[He can't help but grin when she grunts and fixes her skirt because he knows it means he's off the hook this time. He peers over the edge with her, squinting into the wet and fog. Man, can't see shit in this place.]

I can't really see, either. If there is, I would expect it to be in the center, right? So all the others can protect it.

[Cerulean's eyes glow a silvery blue in the darkness, and they look cool, but they don't actually do much for visibility, unfortunately.]

[nmc0204]

[ She nods slowly. Out of pure habit, a hand goes to her chin as she peers out into the rain and mulls it over. ]

Maybe. They're unusually aggressive, so I wondered if it might be at the front, but...

[ She trails off before scraping her sodden bangs back from her eyes to better squint into the gloom. With the Torments all gathered together so close, it's hard to make out anything distinctive but– ]

There!

[ A flash of a wilted pink blossom sprouting out of one Torment's head, comfortably in the middle of the pack. ]

It must be that one!

[breezyplayboy]

[Even Shu's magically wind-swept hair is starting to look soggy and limp in all this rain. He cannot wait to take a shower. Yes yes he will be dry in the waking world again but it's the principle of the thing.]

Oh! The flowery one?

[She's definitely onto something. That one is the only one in bloom, or with any visible color that isn't just... brown-grey.]

It even looks a bit bigger than the ones near it.

[From what he can see...]

Right. [He swipes his hand over his shield, changing it from a heater to a round target shield. He looks as though he's thinking hard, his eyebrows knit and his free hand scratching at his hair.]