TDM #1

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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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[nmc0204]

[ ... She shifts a little awkwardly and takes perhaps a fraction of a second too long to answer. It feels a little embarrassing to say it when Ingo seems so confident, but... ]

I haven't been assigned one yet. [ there. that feels better to say than 'I don't know'. ] I don't really have a preference either way, though.

[offtracks]

That is alright! I also act as a striker, when the need arises! They are not such rigid categories - indeed, it's better that they aren't! Focusing on one's strengths is all well and good, but no one can ever truly predict what may happen in a fight. It is for the best that we not become so specialized that we cannot fill other roles!

[Not that this is really an issue he's observed, for the most part, but - it's Ingo! Loud encouraging speeches are sort of his thing!]

[nmc0204]

[ It feels a little... itchy to be so obviously given a pep talk. She'd like to pretend that the rain and muck is probably making her look more pathetic than she actually is, but maybe that'd be a bit too convenient.

Still. She'd be lying if she tried to pretend it didn't make her feel a little bit better. ]

I guess you're not wrong. I don't know that I'd be any good as a Saver, but I could manage as a Striker or a Sentry if it was needed... I think.

[offtracks]

Ah, I do wish I could be a better Saver...but I've no talent for magical healing!

[He knows a little bit of field medicine, even if that's mostly adapted from what he might do for injured wildlife, but when you work with a lot of people who do have magical healing abilities that isn't always really necessary!]

Some of my constructs can increase their own speed or strength, but I have only made one before that would do such things for others! There's quite the variety of them - I am still working on cataloguing all potential variations!

[Misson: Complete The Pokedex]

[nmc0204]

Even if it's just one, that's still better than nothing. [ It's better than what she can pull off – she thinks, but decides she'd rather not say. ] I can confuse them and freeze them on the spot if there's not too many at once – Torments, I mean.

[ just in case anyone thinks she's engaging in recreational friendly fire ]

Sometimes an extra second to collect yourself is all you need, but I'm not sure how much of a difference it would make on something like a Nightmare.

[offtracks]

[Ingo...well, he's been frowning this whole time, actually, but he sort of frowns deeper.]

Very true. It has been several years, but I still have not faced many Nightmares myself.

[Indeed, it's possible he's avoided it a little by leaning on his tutoring work with younger Dreamers. Yes, he likes doing that, but...well. His first experience with a Nightmare was bad.]

[nmc0204]

[ Glasswing's face hardens a little in a similar way and her gaze slides away from his face, with a noncommittal 'mm' to underline it. ]

That's a good thing, I guess. If Torments aren't getting the chance to come together into Nightmares, it means we're all doing something right.

[ She likes that answer. It makes her sound a little less...

Evasive? Cowardly? She doesn't like either option. ]

[offtracks]

Indeed! Prevention is the best cure, when you can manage it!

[Though he is, perhaps, a little uneasy about the whole matter himself. But while Ingo's a fairly open person, even he isn't all that willing to just dump his fears and worries on someone he has literally just met.]

And I would not wish a Nightmare on anyone, in any case.