Category:Nightmares Gain

Actions that increase Nightmares.

For cures, see Nightmares Loss.

Common sources[edit]

Reliable ways to disturb your sleep in London.

Social Actions:

• +6 CP: Accept a message and Allow an Acquaintance to Alleviate your Fears (dupe) (indistinguishable from the sincere variant, but unlikely to be received unless requested; duping provides no benefit to the betrayer)

Actions:

• Instant Nightmares 8: Gaze into Dream's Mirror (sends you to A state of some confusion) or A mahogany-framed mirror (sends you to The Mirror-Marches, as to the rest of these) at Mrs Plenty's Carnival, Cross the Threshold (Low Glasswork), Enter in the company of a Fingerking (Restored), Mirror-Mazed
• +Variable CP: Failing on The answer to Nightmares? (gives CP Nightmares equal to double your Nightmares level, also reduces Watchful)
• +10 CP: Introduce your Grubby Kitten to the Starveling Cat (also +10 to Wounds)
• +6 CP: Failing to Locate an Impossible Theorem (but will also probably kill you, which would be inconvenient)
• +5 CP: Explore the woods in Balmoral with Opening Balmoral <5
• +5 CP: Failure on Listen to the silence in Underclay
• +4 CP: Attend and speak of...terrible things. in The Shuttered Palace with Unaccountably Peckish 2 (also +1 CP Scandal)
• +3 CP: A dream about a calm sea (red-bordered card)
• +3 CP: A dream about a corridor lined with brass mirrors 2 (red-bordered card)
• +3 CP: A dream about a market-place crowded with dead men (Red card)
• +3 CP: A dream about a burning river 3 (red-bordered card)
• +2 CP: Push onward when hunting in Parabola
• +2 CP: Use your nightmares as inspiration in your University Laboratory (Nightmares ≥ 5)
• +1 to +5 CP: Attract a Visitor at Hallowmas
• +1 to +4 CP: Failing to Use Correspondence Plaques to expand your knowledge of the Correspondence at The University
• +1 CP: Make friends with the Empress' dog in The Empress' Court
• +1 CP: Pet the Starveling Cat
• The Pavilion of Butterflies in Veilgarden during Hallowmas (various)
• Forgotten Quarter actions such as Understanding the Correspondence and Seeking Curios and Secrets in the Forgotten Quarter gain Nightmares depending on Airs of the Forgotten Quarter and on luck

Items:

• +2 CP: F.F. Gebrandt's Tincture of Vigour (if you drink it all)

Equipped items (increase Nightmares by whole levels while equipped):

• +1 level: A Parabolan-sized Headache (from Mr Chimes' Lost & Found)
• +1 level: Focused Albatross (from Parabola)
• +1 level: Masked Former Priest (from The Brass Grail)
• +1 level: Song Stuck in Your Head (from Por Una Cabeza)
• +1 level: Sporing Bonnet ( 6.00 from Maywell's Hattery)
• +1 level: Vake Claw (from Ambition: Bag a Legend!)