Nightmares in Xarne

It is said that if you ever sleep with a grieving widow in a Perfume House (brothel), that night a nightmare will be born in the place where her grief began and it will follow you (or anything like that). It knows where you are. 

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It arrives in 2d6 nights.

It only moves while you sleep (until it reaches you).

Only you can see your own nightmare (even after it arrives).

Each night it gets closer and closer and each night you will dream with it wherever it is, until you finally get a last glimpse of it looming at your door. Better wake up now.

Its twisted body is(d6):

1. Pitch-black, tall, lanky with long arms and legs with an arched back. Walks like an animal. It looks hurt

2. A mass of eyes, flesh, mouths, arms and legs

3. A hulking beast of shadow and dread. It looks impossibly tense and stiff with anxiety all the time

4. A child’s body, it walks painfully as if it were broken. You hear snapping of bones with each step

5. A human sized, bizarre, bloody clay statue

6. A mirror of yourself

Distinctive feature (d8):

1. Your mother’s eyes

2. The smile of an old lover

3. Your father’s hands

4. The face and snout of an old beloved pet, although broken, twisted and angry

5. The voice of an old friend

6. The smell of the house you were born

7. Hums your favorite lullaby

8. Emits familiar, but forgotten sounds of your childhood

It ultimately wants to consume you. It envy’s you, it wants to BE you, in its own bizarre way. If a nightmare ever reaches its goal it takes your form to live a broken version of your life while you fade into nothingness.

Goals (d6):

1. To kill and eat you

2. To separate you from all your loved ones

3. To destroy your self-image and worth

4. To end all your motivation

5. To starve you to death

6. To make you go insane

In case of long-term goals, the nightmare will cling to its prey, always lurking in the shadows attempting to reach its dark objective.

Each case is unique, there are no specific ways to get rid of a nightmare, but it should ALWAYS be possible. If you want to fight it, consider its stats equal to the dreamer’s.