Category:Nightmares Loss

Nightmares cures for the determinately lucid.

If you are in a state of some confusion, see Nightmares Loss (State of some confusion).

If you are in the Mirror-Marches, see Nightmares Loss (Mirror-Marches).

Common sources[edit source]

Reliable means of restful sleep in London.

Social actions:

• Get someone to Assist your friend with their Nightmares (Nightmares 3 or more; -4 or -6 CP)

Actions:

• Doze in Ealing Gardens (-1-2 CP)
• Time in bed in Your Lodgings (Wounds 2 or more; options depend on The Airs of London)
• The Somnolent Hyaena in The Labyrinth of Tigers ( Watchful 80; -1 to -3 CP but Wounds +2 CP)
• Try some hot wine at Mrs Plenty's Carnival (On average: -1 CP)
• Enjoying the pace of academic life at The University ( Watchful 85; -1 CP)
• Take some art lessons in The Shuttered Palace ( Persuasive 73; -1 CP)
• Bolt the door and hide under the bed. during Hallowmas (-5 CP)
• Produce a Conflagration at your Parabolan Base-Camp (-8 CP). You can only do this if you are at Nightmares 8, and it will raise Sighted the Storm-bird.
• Hide in your Base-Camp at your Parabolan Base-Camp (-Parabolan Defences CP on a success, -(Parabolan Defences-1) CP and +1 CP Wounds on a failure)
• Leave the Cave of the Nadir (-1, or -three quarters).
• Take tea with Lettice in your University Laboratory (Place) (-2 CP) with Lettice as one of your assistants
• Take a rest in your University Laboratory (Place) (-2 CP) with Nightmares 5

Semi-reliable opportunity cards in London:

• Various options from The Interpreter of Dreams (Varies, e.g. -10 CP)
• Various options from A Moment's Peace (Varies, -3 to -4 CP)
• Work diligently on A Day with God's Editors for -2 CP in both scandal and nightmares
• Invite the Shivering Relicker in for a chat with a Scholar of the Correspondence (Averages -1.4 CP)

Items:

• Appalling Secret (sacrificed from your inventory; 30% Luck chance; -10 CP)
• F.F. Gebrandt's Superior Laudanum (-1 to -4 CP; if you are a PoSI, this raises your Laudanum Habit)
• Bottle of Greyfields 1868 First Sporing (-4 CP)
• Key to a Dripstone-Snared Temple (-1 CP on moving in; purchased at Christmas; no effect on those with Nightmares > 4)
• Page from the Liber Visionis (-1 CP if burnt; obtained through Uncovering the Secrets of the Face-Tailor)
• Dispose of an Unusual Pail of So-Called Snow (-2 or -3 CP; collected at Christmas)
• A Magnificent Feast (-46 to -56 CP; gifted at Christmas)
• Lose half your Nightmares for 2 x Professional Perks

Equipped items:

• Aurochs-Fur Coat (from Whitsun; Nightmares -1)
• Bejewelled Cane (from the Keen-Eyed Lapidary; Nightmares -1)
• Cheerful Goldfish ( 0.40 at the Bazaar; Nightmares -1)
• A Firm Conviction of the Absence of the Supernatural (from Mr Chimes' Lost & Found; Nightmares -1)
• Spiked Rosary (from Ambition: Bag a Legend! 31; Nightmares -1)
• Storm-bird (from Parabola; Nightmares -1)
• Weasel of Social Discomfiture (from The Dome of Scales; Nightmares -1)
• Cryptographic Chiropteran (from Hallowmas 1898; Nightmares -1)