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yumemigaoka2024-05-09 07:46 pm
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Happy Dreamerversary!
YUMEMIGAOKA
May is always a dicey time to have an outdoor event in Yumemigaoka but this year it seems like luck's on everyone's side. The morning of the 14th dawns with bright blue skies, beaming sunlight and a refreshing breeze - in other words, the perfect weather for an outdoor festival! As it does every year, the Dreamer Union is hosting its annual celebration of the first Dreamer Awakening now fifty-one whole years ago! Damn! Today's the day the entire community comes together to say happy anniversary, Dreamers!
Part of the DU has been opened to the public for the event - while the upstairs beyond the second floor are still off limits, a number of informational boards with quick and breezy rundowns of the DU's functions and how it supports Dreamers are set up around the atrium and on the second floor. Some are informational, some are educational, and a few have trivia quizzes on them that you can answer at the front desk to get a little token for some free food at the event.
The majority of the setup is outside, though - something between a pop-up market and a festival, with colourful sparkling banners and materials lining each stall. Some are small, independant businesses from around Yumemigaoka, some are larger organizations who sponsor the DU (they've gotta keep the lights on somehow!) and plenty of food and drink vendors. A few indie artists from the community are also selling merch and art catered to their fellow Dreamers, with imagery and in-jokes that wouldn't really mean anything to normal folks.
Some particular stalls to keep an eye out for include...
- ⧖ Dreamery Creamery are serving up scoops of their ice cream in all kinds of crazy flavours with a massive array of toppings and cones for you to choose from. To make things more exciting, Dreamers Sage, Soleil and Prisma are all helping out at the booth and serving ice creams themed after their Dreamer selves! How does Soleil Sorbet sound to you? Maybe Sherbert Sage? Or are you going for Prisma Pomegranate?
⧖ Dice and Dash have a shaded area set up for people to sit down, take a load off and chill out with some board games! They've got a selection of games to borrow, but so long as they're not too busy, you're free to take up a table with your own entertainment if you've got it.
⧖ Dream Weavers, famous for their position as the DU's go-to tailor, is strutting their stuff with recreations of some famous and well known Dreamers' outfits! As well as selling their goods, they're also hosting a little workshop where visitors can learn some quick and simple cosplay and sewing techniques to see how these outfits get made. Dreamers Luck, Gungir and Hanako will all be volunteering and... doing their very best at the cosplay workshop!
⧖ Hybrid Colours is selling portable wares like canvas bags, keychains and postcards of the various prints/paintings available at the gallery! Since they only just arrived at Yumemigaoka, all the locations are international or from other parts of Japan. (Aleena will do face painting or hand painted 'tattoos' for kids, teens, or the daring adult and has a small table set up with a catalogue or 'surprise me!' option for it)
⧖ The Yumemigaoka Cultural Museum has their usual setup! As well as a truncated version of their installation explaining the Dream Sphere and its history, they've set up several dioramas of places in the Dream Sphere, recreated in miniature! There's some moving elements like miniature Torments bobbing around here and there and some cute interactive gimmicks, like a button that will raise and lower the water level in the miniature Vale of Sorrow or a switch to make the volcano in mini Fury Peak go kaboom!
⧖ Finally, a soundstage has been set up just a little ways away from the rest of the stalls with plenty of sitting room for the audience. Dreamer Ai-Doll will be performing a small set of songs partway through the day and the rest of its time will be dedicated to hosting a Q&A panel of a rotating list of volunteers to answer questions about life as a Dreamer or day to day goings on at the DU. Please be aware that both Angelica AND Chloe will kill you if you post cringe on main so be on your best behaviour!
There's lots to do and plenty of time to do it in - the event runs from 10AM and starts wrapping at around 4:30PM so everyone's got time to head home for work the next day. Dreamers will be able to attend the afterparty in the Dream Sphere if they'd like to but for the most part, that's this year's event wrapped up!
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Oh! I guess I never realized or considered people might be drawing Dreamers? Um, fans?
[At least, back home it was easier to be oblivious to that sort of thing. While she knows the Dreamers here have support and all, it's another to see it like this? With people devoting time to art of them like this? Colette pauses in seeing some of familiar faces, complimenting some of them.]
Dreamery Creamery:
[It's ice cream. Of course Colette wants to try some! She quickly approaches the ice cream stall, debating and considering the options for a moment. Did she want chocolate today? Maybe strawberry? She does love fruit! She stands to the side, trying not to be immediately in the way if anyone else wants to be served and knows what they might like first, as she decides.]
Hm. Maybe a strawberry ice cream?
Dine and Dash:
Oh! I think I heard of this one but I hadn't played it. We didn't so much have things like board game stores before I moved out here.
[She does try to be quiet and not intrude as she watches some of the others play and snack. Colette doesn't want to interrupt, just sits down at some point during the early afternoon to eat something. Noting the games others are playing and having a look even if she wasn't necessarily intending to play.]
Cultural Museum:
Oh, look!
[Colette seems surprised, maybe a little excited as some children nearby push the buttons and see what it does. She has visited and helped out around the Dreamer Union and all but not necessarily so much spent too much time in the museum. More used to figuring it out herself or getting information from the Union without necessarily checking out the museum itself. She wanders and explores the museum, noting things it might have information on from before she herself moved here.]
Creamed Ices
[ Chris might. Egging on Colette is important enrichment for her too, though. ]
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[Colette admits. She can't help her weakness. Her sweet tooth. She turns to Chris, wondering what the other might prefer and want if not the same. She is aware others might have different tastes to her. So of course she isn't about to just order for Chris.]
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You could get a mix, too. Throw in a little chocolate with your berries.
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[She would be perfectly happy with just figuring some berries. That is naturally still enough for her sweet tooth cravings. But at the same time. If there is the option for some chocolate as well. She wouldn't say no. Colette glances over the options listed again. Maybe there might be a chocolate one with strawberries or something?]
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[ And dump any toppings that don't cost extra on top! ]
The customer's always right.
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[May as well make the most of it? Right? The strawberry options were tempting, she is just debating which she might like of the sorbet or the shortcake for example. And what chocolate option to go with it.]
Maybe the shortcake?