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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!
Novvy Rex / original
(moon bunny market:)
[ Gratia is running back... and forth... and back... and forth...
Novvy had appointed himself at a bench where he can keep a reasonable eye on his kid's comings and goings, holding a tote with the few little things they've picked up so far, an ear out for calls of "Papa, papa, look what I found!" Akabeni was a little far to come for groceries, but that wasn't really the whole reason they were here. They needed vegetables, they both had the time off, it was a bea-u-tiful day and there were 'delicious prizes' or whatever... it'd be a great way to burn off all that energy and get an errand done while disguising it with fun. also he's weak to aesthetics, he kinda wants a new cute pen from that trendy stationary shop.
It was a great time right up until Gratia popped up empty handed and upset, because she dropped her favorite blue bunny plush somewhere.
Ah hell.
Wanna join a bunny hunt? ]
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(in the vale of sorrow:)
[ The scent of the rain has completely overtaken the perfume of the blossoms. Pink petals appear bone white, lain flat against the dark earth, wavering atop puddles, jostled over and again by the incessant raindrops.
The tiny ripples from Ballade's steps are barely visible among the tumult. It's an effort of immense concentration not to plunge past the (fake, not real) surface tension, but he breathes in deep through his nose, thinking, be like a petal, be like a petal...
There's a sound grating on his nerves that he chalks up to the wind, not yet well versed with identifying the source of that prickle down his spine. The Torments are creeping closer to the distracted Dreamer. He came here hunting, but hadn't found much of anything at all-- and then the opportunity to test what dream logic might let him get away with, athletically, seized him.
The rustling of the vines grows stronger and stronger, like scratching on the inside of his head. Ballade grits his teeth. He's thinking if he can just hold up a few seconds more, he'll stop and move on, capitulating to that growing bad vibe-- ]
awake!
[Zeke plants one whomping huge boot on the back of the bench from behind, leaning in to grin broadly down at Gratia.] It seems like this day's short on a little Shining Justice. But never fear, the Zekenator's here!
BLESSED ZEKENATOR
[ Gratia stares up at Zeke with wide eyes, startled out of a bout of sniffles by his boisterous introduction. She fusses with her big round glasses, trying to see him clearer where they'd gotten all foggy. ]
Mr. Eyepatch... is a hero of shining justice?
[ it seems she has yet to drop her alternative choice in nickname for him. ]
Novvy, for his part, had bristled like a cat at the sound of that boot thwunking against the bench right behind him, looking up slow-w-w-ly at Zeke. ]
Well. That was definitely the entrance of one. Per... usual.
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[Zeke has, unsurprisingly, focused on the one part of that statement that isn't actually a zing, and interpreted it as one. The rest of it doesn't bother him at all, of course, nor does Novvy's reaction in general. But no time for that now!]
You bet I'm a hero! Tell me what heroics need to be done, and watch in awe as they're done!
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Mr. Eyepatch, Benjie got lo-o-o-st. He was riding in my bag, but I wanted him to be able to see everything too, so I had him sticking out, and... and...
[ ah, the waterworks are creeping back on. Novvy's quick to jump in, a hand on her shoulder. ]
--And now Mr. Eyepatch is going to help us find him, so there's nothing to worry about! [ he looks back up at Zeke. ] Benjie is... her doll. A little blue rabbit. He's got a plaid ribbon on his neck, and his head's shaped kind of funny.
[ that gets a sour face from Gratia. ]
Papa, you can't say that, Benjie's sensitive about it.
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Let's go back to where you last saw Benjie and retrace your steps. If he got separated from you, he's probably waiting for you to find him! That's what you do in a case like that, you know -- you stay where you are, so the people looking for you won't miss you.
Dreaming
[Zzzip zip zip! A trio of glass-and-sand kunai whistle past Dreamer Ballade to bury themselves in the closest Torment's briary back. It hisses in a pained, papery way, like a holly leaf's serrated edge against wood amplified a hundredfold, and the other Torments groan back. Combined, the sounds form an angry woodwind chorus, wet bark creaking in a growing gale.
Over all that, the human voice calls again:]
Hey, hey, I don't think you got my point--!
[And another Dreamer, a young man outfitted a bit like a fantasy desert explorer with a distinctive headwrap leaps from stony ledge above to plow solidly, feet-first, into another Torment's face. Or he would've, if they weren't faster than expected. He recovers nicely, rolling with a splash in the petal-filled mud and popping right back up near Ballade.]
Whoops. ...Hi!
[Though the scarf covers his mouth and nose, his wink is patently friendly. Maybe it makes the new kunai materializing between his fingers less sinister-looking.]
Hope you don't mind my dropping in, Tutu-san.
awake
Hm?
[ There's something on the ground....Jeannette kneels. She picks it up carefully, brushes it off. Thinks. Her face falls. ]
Oh, no....
[ Standing, she clasps her hands - brings the bunny's front paws together in the same gesture. ]
Let us pray, Messire Lapin. That you may be reunited with your family.....
[ ....yeah she really is just standing here showing a stuffed rabbit how to pray to god
why not ]
HELP THATS SO CUTE
In the search, Novvy's been fervently referencing the stamp sheet Gratia had been running back and forth filling while he snuck his smoke break, and so far, it's been a whole lot of zero help. No sign of a well-loved rabbit with a head shaped like a balloon, as a result of suffering way too many hugs. Gratia's clearly starting to get tired from scuttling along with him, and he estimates he is five minutes from the inevitable "sit down on the floor and cry it out" stage.
It's time to start shaking people down for information, this is an investigation.
That's how he ends up calling out to the girl standing still with her back to him. She's like a rock in a river amid the flow of people, that's perfect interview material.]
Excuse-- Excuse me, dear! Blonde, with the long curls? Pardon the brusque address, but--
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wait, blonde with long curls, is that - ]
--Me?
[ Jeannette turns to see who's called out to her. Messire Lapin, in her hands, continues his prayer uninterrupted. ]
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[ novvy does not generally consider himself lucky, except maybe right about now he ought to start, considering the recent 'catching his big break just from passing out at work one day' and now this instance of the first person he calls down actually having the bunny, right there, holding it so that its little paws are squished together. ]
A... blue. Bunny rabbit.
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Messire Lapin is yours?!
[ Here, here, take him! She delivers the plush with great care and reverence. This is someone's special little friend, isn't he? ]
What a relief, to reunite you so quickly. Thanks be to God.
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[ that's about when Gratia crashes in, grabbing for Messire Lapin like he's the lone liferaft in a boundless sea. The kid actually kind of matches the rabbit, with her hair in two low pigtails. ]
Benjie! It's Benjie! Thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou!
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You're very welcome. It is never pleasant to be apart from a friend.
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Uhuh. Before... before... Peter got lost cuz we moved, and it's been a long long long time but I still miss him, and his cousin came so I wouldn't be lonely without him-- but I still miss him even though I have Benjie. So if I lost Benjie it'd be even worse!
[ Novvy's pretty content to let the two of them talk and decompress a little, though he's definitely got a wince in his smile hearing her recount the tale of the Long Lost Peter Rabbit. That particular spectacular parenting failure was uh, gonna be one of those memorialized for all time ones, huh. ]
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There's nothing wrong with missing someone you can't see any more. I'm sure Peter misses you, too. But there is something you can do for him. Do you know what that is?
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Huh? What?
[ Novvy, too, is curious where she's going with this. Listen, as long as she's not about to bust out with a "maybe you'll see each other again one day" he's for it. He has tried and failed with the fake new Peter trick. ]
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So for him and for you, you must make many wonderful memories with Benjie and everyone else.
[ This is a soft, warm smile. ]
I promise that will make Peter very happy.
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[ It takes some mulling over, but eventually, Jeannette receives a firm nod. ]
...Okay.
I'll try really hard. And... maybe one day...when we're big and had a bunch of adventures to make us super smart, me and Benjie can get DISGUISES and go back to Tokyo and--
[ --anddd, that's dad's cue. ]
--Remember, Gratia, honey, Peter left after we did, so he won't be there at our old house anymore. He didn't wanna stay in that old place without his best friend! So going back to Tokyo would be silly. I think it's a great idea to focus on having lots of fun with Benjie, right here at home.
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I am new to town, as well. We are explorers together.
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Dreaming
He fires a warning shot, a blazing warm white against the dreary Vale light. There's a splash of water and a sizzle of mulch, and the dark spiny forms scatter. Unfortunately what he considers a warning shot is still close enough that Ballade probably gets hit with the splashback.]
Are you trying to get yourself swarmed?
Re: Dreaming
[ the pristine concentration he needs to make like a water-strider and perch impossibly on the water's surface is, of course, irrevocably destroyed by getting a face full of rainwater. there's a splash as Ballade loses form and plunges down into the water-- coming just a bit under his knee. that was a little deeper than he thought it was...
he'd just been about to try going en pointe, too, fuckin' A. ]
I had it under control! What am I even doing here, if I can't deal with a handful, huh?
[ it's more than a handful that were creeping in like kudzu, ballade. ]
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[He straightens up, bends his legs, and jumps from the pillar. The sheer cape at his shoulders fans out in a way a normal cape wouldn't, taking on the appearance of great shimmery moth wings that are only a little bit dulled down by the rain. At least this means that he falls more slowly, so when he lands it isn't with another big splash. Partially this is because he's standing on top of the water, showing absolutely no sign that he has to think much to do so.]
That was just a warning shot. They'll be back.
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[ Pot, meet kettle. ]
You know, I had a whole thing planned. They were going to swoop at me, and I'd dodge, and then I'd pull my sandglass, really get the inertia going...
[ Ballade carefully keeps his tail aloft of the water as he picks his way back to an edge where he can climb out. ]
But now that doesn't work. You know how hard it is to make formless vines go along with dance logic? Hard! It's hard!
awake!
[ He pauses for a moment, sizing up Gratia with the same analytical gaze that Miyao gives his opponents during a match. ] Hm... you're young, so even if you are paying close attention, it'd be difficult to hold onto your bunny while carrying something else. Have you considered getting her a satchel to carry her plush with? [ That last question is directed at Novvy.
Miyao's demeanor changes, a soft smile shining across his face as he ruffles Gratia's hair. ] You did a good job finding your papa and asking him for help, though. You've got a great dad; make sure to remember that and always go to him when you need help, 'kay?