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TDM #1
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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[ Ballade lets go of the fold of the ribbon he'd been holding onto to use as an emergency lead-- it starts to break apart into stardust, disintegrating up its length until it reaches near the cuff on Glasswing's hand. It stays there, back to its original length. ]
So? Not so hard once you get started, right?
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I don't think I can take all the credit. [ Or any of it, her dry tone says, as she holds out the ribbon for Ballade to take from her. ] I definitely wouldn't be able to move like that without magic. ... though I suppose that goes for most of us.
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That's the point of working with a Saver, right, ri~ight? ...or at least, that's what I figure I'll count as, once I get my sea-legs.
[ Ballade kneels down to reach his fluffy tail, to manually tie the ribbon back, threading it through with its match in purple. ]
...hey, but thanks. For playing along.
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You don't know yet? Which one you are.
[ He'd acted so confidently and Glasswing hadn't had time to question it but... he seems a fair amount older than her and those two facts combined had her assuming she'd run into someone higher up in the DU. ]
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[ He gestures to the orrery he trusts to be somewhere behind his shoulder, gone completely still. Lonely little Pluto's been left pointing closest to them. ]
Doesn't look like a hard hitter kind of weapon, does it?
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She feels a stab of misplaced annoyance and she has to bite back some sort of nasty comment that she knows would be both undeserved and also deeply unhelpful. It's nobody's fault but her own that she's so inexperienced despite how long it's been since she Awakened but it still makes her feel all sorts of mad.
She pushes the feeling down and instead turns her attention to the orrery. Somehow, it looks a little eerie frozen in place like that. ]
Hm. I don't know about that. You could always pluck out some of the planets and start throwing them if you were really in trouble.
[ ... that was (probably) a joke. ]
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[ did the Venus part of the orrery just turn away out of sight, a little? dream world be like that.
they're out of the soup for now, but Ballade decides to keep it summoned. Right before the Torments had kettled the two of them together, he'd also thought there wasn't much danger around... he's looking around, but... ]
...I still don't understand where they all came from so fast.
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She turns her face back to Ballade, shaking her sodden hair out of her eyes as she does so. ]
The feelings from the other side that were influencing them must've been particularly strong. Though I don't really love the thought of that.
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[ welp, there's where he's showing his inexperience. he forgot to even think about the other side, looking at where they were... ]
...It is a... rough part of the season, isn't it. [ He reaches up and flicks away a cherry blossom petal that had landed on his shoulder. ] If you're already down and alone, seeing all the little clusters of people looking up at the blooms, well...
[ sources cited: The Great Spring of 2019 Breakdown In The Park feat. your host, Novae Rex ]
Ahhhhhh... They'll make it. With us here sanding off the edges.
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Right. That's what we're here to do, after all.
[ Even if nobody had been able to do it for her until it was too late... Glasswing can at least make sure that what happened to Ryoko Shinonome doesn't happen to anybody else. ]