Happy Dreamerversary!

[beautifuldreamermods]

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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[predecir]

Maybe stage acting's better?

[It's practically rhetorical. That's the sort of acting Bruno always imagined himself doing, back when he still imagined things like that. But of course it's only ever been a fantasy; he never even considered trying to do anything like that.]

Well, her music's catchy. I don't think I'm, uh, catching all the lyrics, but that's fine.

[His Japanese skills have progressed a lot since he got here! But the lyrics are coming pretty quickly!]

[saynotobugs]

I don't blame you. It's tough learning something new, much less a whole language, huh?

[predecir]

Yeah, but it hasn't really been as bad as I thought it would be. Since I found some people to talk to, anyway.

[saynotobugs]

Good to hear. If we're ever hard to understand, tell us. We're used to new learners around here.

[predecir]

Ay, yeah, people here've been pretty good about it. Easier than if I'd moved anywhere else, I'm sure - that's part of why I picked this city.

[That's his cover story, at least!]

[saynotobugs]

Yeah, the people here are a lot more prepared. I had to put in a lot of studying of other languages myself when I moved out here from the middle of nowhere.

[predecir]

Oh yeah? Where from?

[It's not like he's gonna know the name of some tiny Japanese town, but it seems like natural small talk. Anyway, Bruno is sort of from the middle of a different nowhere; he's curious.]

[saynotobugs]

Manoyama, you've probably never heard of it. Best known for radishes, mochi, and that one time in the 80s the tourism board decided to make up our own cryptid. It didn't catch on.

[predecir]

Oooh, what was it?

[saynotobugs]

This stupid green monster they came up with out of a "Chupa-kabura" pun. Kabura as in radish. Yeah, it wasn't very scary.

[predecir]

[He laughs, covering his mouth with one hand like he's a little nervous about making noise.]

Nobody even likes El Chupacabra that much! They should've gone for a Bigfoot or a Mothman or something like that, those are much more marketable.

[saynotobugs]

Probably why it didn't catch on. That and we already know there's plenty scarier in people's actual dreams, where they don't have to put it together on a budget.

[predecir]

I bet the scariest ones don't even get reported about, huh...?

[Bruno knows that non-Dreamers still know what at least some Torments and Nightmares look like. But he certainly never made a habit of reporting the ones he saw back.]

[saynotobugs]

Yeah, could be. Especially if the Dreamer who found them's not registered or has some other reason not to pass it on...

[predecir]

[Bruno mutters something under his breath in Spanish.]

Ay, it's creepy to think about! I don't...I don't read very much about that stuff. Never did, but it'd be extra weird now.

[saynotobugs]

What, just because you work here and people see that stuff every day? Or night, I guess.

[predecir]

Well, I know a lot of Dreamers now, right? It's not just some...tabloid thing.

[saynotobugs]

Didn't know a lot before now, huh?

[predecir]

Mmm, no, not at all. I didn't keep up with it so much anyway though, just -

[He thinks for a moment, then shrugs.]

I guess it feels weird, to think that all that stuff is happening when you're asleep, and you don't even know anything about it. It's a little spooky.

[saynotobugs]

When you think about it, that's the waking world too. We'll never know everything, and a lot of what we don't know we don't want to.

[predecir]

Heh...well, that's cheerful!

[saynotobugs]

Hey, I wear a lot of hats around here, but I don't think any of them say "PR."

[predecir]

Maybe you should. Might keep all those...hm. TV people? Might keep them away.

[He can't find "paparazzi" in Japanese.]

[saynotobugs]

[snrk] What, you think I couldn't do it if I had to? All --

[A switch flips, and Maki smiles, sparkling with an aura like any idol. Or at least like a TV announcer.]

Isn't everything wonderful? It's not like we've had anything worrisome to deal with at all!

[She clears her throat, frowns, and shakes her head.]

...Yeah, I'm not meant for it anyway.

[predecir]

What was that?