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.
hello there!
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.
