ライオン @ 2800-1841-9922

This Dream Address was another revisit! ^-^ This time, I went to the town of ライオン, which loosely translates to "Lion" I think. Clearly, some time-traveling going on here, seeing as April 9th, 2014 has not occurred in the real world yet. c:

I was rather impressed upon first landing at the plaza in my warping bed--the plaza was cleanly paved and some effort had invariably gone into planning these exact conditions for the saving of the dream. Plus, the gift of a paper umbrella was left for me, and I just love receiving presents in dreams! :D Also, the lion tiles laid out to spell "LION" was pretty cool. Nice touch. (I did a pretty crappy job of photographing the shot with the "O" and the "N", though... The town tree is the "O" in case that wasn't apparent. :s )

THIS. Yay, continuity! This little scene, complete with the centrally-located cube sculpture, looks exactly like something I'd find in this sort of town. This person keeps the theme very consistent throughout their town as well--and the dreamies have a theme of their own, too: Lions!

The first house I explored was customized to the imperial theme on the outside, and that appears to have been carried over to the inside as well. ^^ A Chinese restaurant, perhaps? Regardless, I found this to be one of the most beautiful houses I believe I will ever see, and I'll tell you why: First, I would not be surprised to encounter this house's twin in real life; second, everything is so meticulously and intentionally placed; and third, the creator was not afraid to just use a simple red carpet of their own creation instead of a tangible carpet and it looks BEST this way.

I went exploring a little more after that first house, making my way down to the beach where I found the kind offering of an orange wetsuit! :D I put it on, as you can see, but I'm not sure it's exactly my colour... Think I like my white wetsuit better, ahaha. c:

I also met one of my four remaining dreamies, Rosie. <3 In addition to Rosie, I'm only missing Filbert, Hugh, and Yuka as of right now. Miagen's dream neighbour roster is getting close to being complete! Until then, I will have to be content with meeting my lovelies in dreams.

This permanent camper that I found to the northeast was very fitting for the area as well--as you might expect, he was located right near the campsite PWP, in a peaceful forest-y setting. His tent is decorated all nice inside, too. ^^ (The cherry blossom season in April is an especially effective time for a perma-camper, I find. Who wouldn't be camping at that time of year?!) I'm rather jealous of how green this person has managed to keep their town as well, or at least the parts that need to be green. Speaking as someone whose town seems to have a lot of brown spots that simply won't grow grass... Mmmmph. :c However, personally, I could do without the rainbow-striped rectangular patches like the one you see right in front of the tent in the picture above. (Are they supposed to be towels? I don't even know. 'Cause they don't look enough like towels to justify being there, I feel...)

The next house I went into was, quite clearly from the first room I entered, a schoolhouse.

Once again, meticulously designed. Very impressive. Like, the creator even went so far as to put a slingshot on someone's desk (probably the intended "troublemaker") for shooting pieces of eraser and other small objects at the teacher. (Not very nice, but hey, it happens.) There is also a small principal's office to the back, a science lab to the right, a nurse's office to the left, and a music room in the basement to complete the theme. :) (Bah, to be perfectly honest, I find the nurse's office is a little more cluttered than what I believe is necessary, but that's just nitpicking~)

Now, this house, I believe, is the mayor's house. (I don't exactly remember, though--I revisited this town over a week ago now.) The mayor's house would be a good bet, though, because of this House of Commons-type deal in the rightmost room. And if that's truly what this room is, then that's got to be a relatively original idea. I mean, I've never seen or heard of anyone doing anything quite like it...

I did find the other rooms in this house to be rather redundant, however. There was a kitchen (in back, I think?) that we'd already seen in the Chinese restaurant house. And I mean, I know every house needs a kitchen in theory, but technically every house needs a bathroom in theory, too. I haven't seen any of those in this town. Even more unnecessary was the second casino. I actually don't have any ideas as to why there are two of those.

The upstairs room was interesting, though. I haven't a clue what it's supposed to be, but I was mildly amused by the placement of a watermelon chair behind the campfire to make it look like some tribal dude is roasting a watermelon over an open fire. xD

So, all in all, a pretty gosh darn neat town. Definitely one I would recommend to others to visit, both for house design and landscaping alike. Lovely work, creator of ライオン.

アヒャこ @ 3300-0197-4819

I've decided that since I have a bit of time on my hands in the mornings while in France (and it's, like, anywhere between 12:00 and 4:00am in Miagen) I will dream and create posts specifically for my dreams. :) News on Miagen will commence again soon, since I'm almost to the point where I want to start showing progress on Miagen's new direction. ;)

So, we start with the lovely town of アヒャこ, of which I obtained the Dream Address from my friend Jasper a while ago. Update activity happened fairly recently (Feb. 2nd, 2014) although it didn't appear to have changed a lot since I visited before. I didn't take any pictures then, but now that I have, let's get started~

The town itself was not overly spectacular, I found. It was decent, don't get me wrong, but there wasn't that WOW! factor that I've gotten from other towns. Like, the dreamies didn't have a theme or anything, and it's best when the dreamies have a theme, imo. I REALLY like themes. I do, however, commend the effort it must have taken to get all the houses squished onto one side of the town like that. Not an easy thing to do. 

These two shots to the left are two of the spots in town that I chose to highlight, though, because they were, admittedly, well-put-together locations. The campsite (top) is nestled up in a nook of the river, between a cliff and the pond. It's contained by a row of bushes, with its own personal bridge, a campfire, a couple of stump chairs, and a windmill in the background. How cute--I'd camp there! The Japanesy-type area (below) is also super-kawaii, especially the addition of stepping stones! If you look in the back, there's the Japanese train station and (not shown in the picture) to the right, there's the Japanese town hall. (And the Japanese mayor's house just right of that.) The thing that really gets my goat about this town, though, is that right below this tranquil setting is a paved park, with a bunch of very un-tranquil things, such as the video screen PWP and the jungle gym-type thing. So, yeah, even just that kinda ruins the whole atmosphere. D: Now, the HOUSES, though...

This is the first house that I went into, the first in a line of identically-exteriored houses in the north of town. Upon first inspection, it appears to be a hotel with a rather magnificently done foyer.

Upon closer inspection, the various rooms seem to be hotel rooms that showcase various Gracie sets! The back room boasts the sweets series (top), the left room has the Gracie series (left), the right room houses the gorgeous series (right) and the upstairs room contains the princess series (bottom).

...And down below, there's a full-out kitchen and dining area! So much white... o.O Regardless, not much more to say about this, except that it's a very nice kitchen. Very food. Much eats. Wow.

The second house in line has a convenience store interior with a similar layout to its congruent neighbours. It makes one think that the layout of the rest of the rooms will be similar, too. (And go figure, they are. c: )

This time, we have "pseudo-Gracie" series on display in the hotel rooms! In the back room, we have the regal series customized to have blue accents (top), in the left room is uncustomized rococo furniture (left), in the right room is alpine furniture customized to have a leaf design (right) and the upstairs room holds VERY chic silver-customized modern furniture. (Super cool, will be using some of that myself later~)

Ah, the downstairs. :] I was impressed with the basement of this house when visiting when I first got the Dream Address, and it still impresses me now.

It's a bathhouse! How creative! And so cute: the person did a wonderful job. :)

The last foyer of the house-triplets is a library! And a beautiful one at that! :D This is honestly adorable: there are little reading nooks with tables and chairs between the bookcases that you can't really see in the picture. (Sorry!)

And as it should just so happen, the room layout follows the same pattern as the other two! Out back is the trump series, which is technically a Gracie series, but it didn't fit in the other house I suppose xD (top), to the left is the Pave series (left), to the right is the egg series (right) and upstairs is the sloppy series (bottom). And a huge page taken out of Aika Village's book with that last one: Hypno K.K. is playing in the sloppy room!!

The library's basement is a balloon casino of sorts. ;) Well-put together: I mean, a casino is by no means an original idea, but this appears to be a good one, at least. I like how the stools resemble billiard balls, whether that was the intention or not.

Lastly, I just have a couple of shots of the mayor's house. :) The foyer was Japanese themed (and to be brutally honest, looked almost exactly like every other Japanese home I've ever seen--and that's a lot) so I decided again taking a picture. The room to the left, though, is what appears to be a fast food restaurant, and I quite like how this one was set up. (Might have to mooch a bit of inspiration off this one, eh?) Also, the basement was an unexpected little tropical scene. Not much more to say. Trop mignon, n'est-ce pas?