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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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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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[ Novvy gets a faraway look as Gratia starts expounding on exactly what kind of exploring Benjie's rescuer can do, here in Matsuba, and all the places Gratia will definitely be going, in the rest of the city. ] There's no way it's really been all that long, right? It was only...
[ his grimace deepens as he comprehends, truly, that it's been four damn years since he moved here. at a lull when Gratia stops for breath, he cuts in. ]
You said you're new to the city? There's a lot to get used to, especially if you're new to Japan, too.
I can't overstate what a help you've been, getting that bunny back to us... if there's something I can do for you, while you're getting your sea-legs... I'd be more than glad.
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It would not be a bother?
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[ ...depending on what she said, there were quite a few things that could be a bother. but pretending otherwise was part of that whole responsible adult thing, right? and the showing proper gratitude thing. ]