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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dream weaver, demonstration;

[traceofeffort]

[It's not wrong to say the idea of Dreamer cosplay would be super exciting, especially with her normal-ish outfit that could feasibly exist on this side with a lot of hard work. Unfortunately, that hard work isn't something she's in a good headspace for, given when she would have needed to start... maybe next year? Still, it definitely brings her around to the booth to see what's in progress. Luck and Gungnir's costumes are coming together well enough, but if she's being honest, Hanako's is probably the one she's most familiar with out of those three simply from time and exposure, and it's fun to see it represented on this side in real materials, ethereal perfection replaced with meticulous, careful, thoughtful craftsmanship.

Or it would be, if a certain boy weren't standing there with the emergency permanent attachment tool that any serious clothier knows you don't use for anything short of decorations you never want to take off-!!!]

Amane-kun, put that down right now, you are going to ruin that costume!!

[Her expression is horrified as she comes closer. There's already trails of glue drying onto the dark fabric, getting those off is going to be a nightmare harder than the ones they fight, and they'll never get a needle through that stuff once it hardens-]

[hanamane]

[Thankfully for everyone involved here, the copy of Dreamer Hanako's uniform that Amane was currently desecrating happened to be a spare-- there was no way any of the seamstresses at Dream Weaver would even dare to give a newbie one of their painstakingly crafted pieces to work on. Sure, they liked to recreate the vague, logic-bending outfits from the Dream Sphere, but they weren't that masochistic, for goodness sakes! (They'll save that level of pain for crunching a cosplay two days before Comiket--)

Still, it doesn't undo the psychic damage that came with watching this child wreck what could have been a wearable piece, and the poor employee supervising this demo shoots Lisa a look of sheer relief when she calls out to him. Finally, somebody with some sense arrives!!! Amane, on the other hand, glances up from his glue gun atrocities to look at her, the surprise and confusion evident on his face.]

... huh?

[In his bewilderment, though, he forgets to move his hand away from under the gun-- just in time for a glob of piping hot glue to drip from the nozzle and right onto his finger. With a startled yelp, he drops the tool onto the table, no doubt leaving another ugly smear drying onto this poor fabric for later.]

OW--!! Hot, hot, hot--!

[CONGRATS, AMANE, YOU'VE EARNED YOUR FIRST COSPLAY BATTLE SCAR]

[traceofeffort]

Amane-kun! [Lisa seems to teleport as she rushes to his side, taking the glue gun into her own hand and setting it somewhere further away that doesn't look readily meltable and is also not next to Amane - she has a suspicion the Dream Weaver employee will put it somewhere properly safe but that's not her concern just now. She follows up with a practiced, blind reach into a side pocket of her tote for a napkin, immediately moving down to wipe his finger off, careful not to spread it.] Sheesh. Some of this stuff's dangerous, you know? I know it's your costume, but you need to treat the tools with the respect they deserve.

[.......okay, crisis one averted, and it's the one she cares about most. Yeah, she'd like to try and help fix the costume he's working(?) on, but his safety comes first. She doesn't look mad or anything, just... worried for him, which is now fading into mild exasperation as she puffs out a long breath, examining him across the table.]

Are you okay? So long as it doesn't dry on your skin, the glue won't do any real damage to you. It just hurts when it's hot.

[hanamane]

[Without missing a beat, the Dream Weaver employee takes the glue gun that Lisa had deposited elsewhere and moves it to it's appropriate place-- far, far away from where any grubby teenage boys could get their hands on it. Said teenage boy in question lets out a small whine as she goes to assess the damage, though whether that was out of pain or a protest over the chiding on her part was anyone's guess. Though considering the pout on his face, it might have been the latter...]

It's not like I was waving it around or anything...

[It's not the first time he's used a glue gun, after all!! But gluing strips of cheesecloth to a body suit for Halloween was vastly different from actual tailoring, so...

He holds his hand still as Lisa goes about fussing over it, however, his petulant pout dimming to something more subdued.]

... 'm fine, though. [Just ignore that sheen around the edge of his eyes, he's totally not holding back tears or anything!! NOPE!!] It kinda stings, but I don't think it broke skin or anything...

[Thankfully, the glue has dried enough to the point that she can easily roll it off his finger, but the skin beneath is still a livid, bright red from the burn. Maybe he should have taken his advice from a while back and brought an aloe plant with him, huh...]

[traceofeffort]

You weren't, no, but you need to always be aware of it. Just like you wouldn't wave a pair of scissors around... right?

[She trusts that he's reasonable, but he's also a kid still, so she's heading him off at the pass. Just in case. In any event, her fussing doesn't take very long - it's not a hard cleanup. As she makes sure the glue is all off his finger (gently, but firmly, so it probably hurts a bit) and reaches back into her tote again, she clicks her tongue.]

Not that I can talk, as Miss Dropped a Pan on Her Hand, but. Do as I say, not as I do on this one, please. [She comes back with a little tube of ointment and a band-aid.] There's only so much room in my bag, so I still don't have any aloe, but I think this'll do for now, yeah? [Lisa flashes him a meaningful smile. She remembers.] Then we can... take a look at this, if you want some extra hands?