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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[thezekeinator]

How have I let you go this long without a catchphrase!?

[Had Zeke even been anywhere near here moments before!? Well, he's here now, looking distraught!]

How about, "Time for some Sage advice!"?

[thestarknows]

[GWAHHH!!

She doesn't punch him this time, though. Sage does jump a bit, then she makes a face.]

I-I--um! I don't know, is it... it's a little pushy?

[thezekeinator]

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<small?[This complaint doesn't even make sense to a man who constantly yells BRINGER OF CHAOS for basically any purpose.]</small>

It's an attack catchphrase! You say that and then deal immense damage to your foe through your means of choice! If you want one that's more general-purpose, how about, "The stage is set for Sage!"?

[thestarknows]

The stage is set for Sage...

[She considers, scratching at the back of her head. Junna looks very serious.]

My love of theater! Of course! Ah, perhaps something like...

"Friends, Romans, countrymen! Lend me your ears, for I shall not suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous arrows, but inflict them upon mine enemies! For fair Sage, 'tis but a scratch, but for these foes... 'tis their end!"

[thezekeinator]

[Zeke rubs the back of his head, a bit awkwardly.]

That's, uh... a bit more than a phrase. Maybe the Torments will wait peacefully while you say the whole thing, but do you really want to risk it?

[thestarknows]

...that... that is a good point. They don't have that sort of respect for stage presence.

[She considers for a moment.]

Sage advice is good word play... shouted right before I attack some Torments...

[thezekeinator]

Yeah, exactly! But it gets tricky from there... Don't get this the wrong way, but when I hear the word 'Sage', I wouldn't be picturing you, you know?

[Zeke begins to pace, back and forth, just a couple of steps in each direction. As he does, he mutters in thought.]

Sage on stage... the stage of Sage... Sage rage? Nah... Sage and Sagacity? No, that's crazy...

[thestarknows]

You don't picture me? But--I am--I mean, I think of myself as learned! And smart.

[She frowns, folding her arms, and she considers.]

"Face the wisdom of the heavens! Dreamer Sage!"

[thezekeinator]

You're learned, smart, and not an old man stroking your beard and dispensing wisdom from some temple.

But that one was good! I like it! [And she can just yell WISDOM OF THE HEAVENS! once she comes to understand how important yellable catchphrases are! (Hint, they're absolutely critical, according to one Dreamer Chaosbringer!)]

[thestarknows]

S-Sages don't have to have beards! I got the job in Eureka before fighting the Cloud of Darkn--I mean. Nothing.

[Junna's eyebrow twitches.

Then she brightens a bit.]

Then--then that's what I'll do!

[thezekeinator]

[Junna stop crossing universes or whatever]

Right! Now you're really getting into top-tier Dreamer territory! I'd say you should be promoted if that were actually a thing!

[thestarknows]

[Junna's eyes widen, before she nods. This sounds like a ringing endorsement to her!]

Y-Yes! That's what I will do, then!

Promotion or no promotion.

[thezekeinator]

Awesome! Now for ice cream!

[This isn't why he came. He came because a Dreamer was in need! But now that he's here, what the heck else could he do but get some?]

[thestarknows]

Oh! Yes!

[Junna smiles, then hands over a cone, with a distinctive green ice cream.]

Enjoy some Sage Sherbert!

[thezekeinator]

...that name makes me think this is going to taste like the herb, you know.

[thestarknows]

...that.

That's a note for marketing for next year.

[thezekeinator]

Sagacious Sherbet!

[Nuts to next year! Zeke has opinions NOW!]

[thestarknows]

Z-Zeke-san. There's... signs. They've already been printed.

[Managing resources!!]

[thezekeinator]

If that argument worked, I'd have put up signs all over the DU saying "get some therapy!" Unless you're saying if I do that it actually will work, I'm not gonna be bound by what any sign says.

[thestarknows]

That--

[She pauses. Then she wrinkles her nose. Hm. Hmmm.]

...That argument is difficult to argue with.

[thezekeinator]

All my positions are difficult to argue with, and the sooner people figure that out the happier we'll all be!

[thestarknows]

Pride goeth before the fall.

[thezekeinator]

[Zeke folds his arms, stubbornly.]

It's not pride to be right!

[thestarknows]

[She's fighting a smile.]

It's pride to claim you're always right, but I think we've made a logical circle.

[thezekeinator]

Okay, name one thing I've ever been wrong about and I'll stop claiming that.

[Zeke twists a hand out, snaps his fingers, then flicks them to make a 'bring it' gesture.]