Category:Nightmares Gain
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Actions that increase 
Nightmares.
For cures, see Nightmares Loss.
Common sources[edit]
Reliable ways to disturb your sleep in London.
Social Actions:
- +2 to +14 CP: Read a discordant letter (also gives + 1-9 CP Wounds)
- +6 CP: Allow an acquaintance to study your nightmares. (Unlikely to be received unless requested; doing so 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 do the rest of these) at Mrs Plenty's Carnival, Cross the Threshold (Low Glasswork), Enter in the company of a Fingerking (Restored), Mirror-Mazed - +6 CP: Failing to Locate an Impossible Theorem (but will also probably kill you, which would be inconvenient)
- +5 CP: Failure on Listen to the silence or Console the Calcified Man in Underclay
- +5 CP: Explore the woods in Balmoral with
Opening Balmoral < 5 - +5 CP: Failure to Carve out the emblem or Scour the earth at Marigold Station (also gives +3 CP Wounds or +3 CP Suspicion, respectively)
- +4 CP: Attend and speak of...terrible things. in The Shuttered Palace with
Unaccountably Peckish 2 (also +1 CP Scandal) - +2 CP: Failing to Push onward when hunting in Parabola
- +2 CP: Failing to Duplicate the skull of John the Baptist, if you can call that a skull
- +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 your 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 luck and The Airs of the Forgotten Quarter
Semi-reliable opportunity cards in London:
- +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)
- +3 CP: A dream about a calm sea (red-bordered card) (requires Nightmares ≥ 6)
- +3 CP: A dream about a corridor lined with brass mirrors 2 (red-bordered card) (requires Nightmares ≥ 6)
- +3 CP: A dream about a market-place crowded with dead men 2 (red-bordered card) (requires Nightmares ≥ 6)
- +3 CP: A dream about a burning river 3 (red-bordered card) (requires Nightmares ≥ 6)
- +2 CP: Use your nightmares as inspiration in your University Laboratory (requires Nightmares ≥ 5)
Items:
- +2 CP: F.F. Gebrandt's Tincture of Vigour, if you drink it all while not a
Person of Some Importance
Equipped items (chance to increase Nightmares gain while equipped):
- A Parabolan-sized Headache (from Mr Chimes' Lost & Found)
- At the Shore of Midnight, 5th Edition (from A Bookseller's Invitation)
- Focused Albatross (from Parabola)
- Masked Former Priest (from The Brass Grail)
- Song Stuck in Your Head (from Por Una Cabeza)
- Sporing Bonnet (
6.00 from Maywell's Hattery) - Vake Claw (from Ambition: Bag a Legend!)
- The Walls are Wrong burden (from Greet the Merry Gentleman)
- Wings of Change burden (from The High Sancta, see The High Sancta (Guide)#Wings of Change for details)
Pages in category "Nightmares Gain"
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A
- A bold and original plan
- A bold approach 1
- A bold approach 2
- A Brief Comedy
- A buccaneering approach
- A casket marked with a familiar name
- A comfy chair by the fire
- A cooling draught
- A day at the library 2
- A decidedly incautious approach
- A dream about a battlefield
- A dream about a brass mirror
- A dream about a burning river 3
- A dream about a calm sea
- A dream about a clock
- A dream about a corridor lined with brass mirrors 2
- A dream about a corridor lined with brass mirrors. 1
- A dream about a dark tunnel
- A dream about a desert 1
- A dream about a fleet of ships
- A dream about a map
- A dream about a market-place crowded with dead men. 2
- A dream about a mirrored hall
- A dream about a night flight
- A dream about a row of tombs
- A dream about a window at night 1
- A dream about an opaque mirror
- A dream about being lost at sea
- A dream about descending into darkness
- A dream about dissolution
- A dream about fireworks 1
- A dream about standing between brass mirrors
- A dream about standing between dark mirrors
- A dream about standing between two mirrors
- A dream about strategy
- A dream about the mist
- A dream about the Red-Handed Queen
- A dream about your reflection
- A dream of a candlelit church
- A Dream of Breaking Walls
- A Dream of Contact
- A Dream of Golden Thread
- A Dream of Homesickness
- A Dream of Oceans
- A Dream of Propriety
- A Dream of Reflections
- A familiar, paint-splattered figure
- A few quiet seminars
- A firm hand
- A forest fire
- A frosty reception
- A glimmer of recognition?
- A killing in trade
- A little package of his work
- A long list (Featuring in the Tales of the University)
- A lovely thought
- A mahogany-framed mirror
- A matter of dictation
- A meeting with the Dean
- A memory... 1
- A message long cold
- A more civilised solution
- A musical friend
- A new tool in the drawer
- A room of one's own
- A sacrifice for the cause
- A scholarly vice
- A show of vanity
- A slippery man of the cloth
- A spoonful of honey
- A sure bet
- A tradition developed after the Fall
- A trail of breadcrumbs
- A triple lock
- A work of burning dance
- Abandon the case
- Abandon your commission
- Abandon your promise
- Absinthe sends the hunter yonder
- Academic research
- Accept the case 2
- Accept the case, but...
- Address the committee
- Administer a sip of Hesperidean Cider
- Admire a piece of Rubbery art
- Admire the work of a fellow Nocturnal artist
- Admire the work of the Nocturnal Landscape Painter
- Advise prudence in her latest bill
- Affix an Eyeless Skull to your (Skeleton Type)
- Agree to tell her all about the Correspondence, and lie
- Aid a Terrified Weaver
- Aid the efforts of the Creditor
- Aid those who have expended too much in their search for art
- Allow Hell its hour
- Allow the clock to run out
- Allow them to watch over your rest (dupe)
- Allow them to watch over your rest (sincere)
- Allow your blood to cool
- Amuse the lesser hyaenas
- An exchange of knowledge
- An exchange of songs
- An Experiment in Form
- An eye for society
- An insider's knowledge
- An unusual job
- Analyse the aftermath
- And now... teeth!
- Appeal to all the Londons that never were
- Apply all your nautical learning to the task
- Apply what you have heard
- Apply your nautical knowledge to the art of governance
- Approach the Anchoress 3
- Approach the lone prisoner
- Approach the peak
- Arm yourself
- Arrange an interlibrary loan with Port Carnelian
- Arrive at an Oneiromantic Revelation
- Ascend to a higher deck
- Ask a dinner companion
- Ask around 6
- Ask around town about the scintillack refinery
- Ask for directions (Warrens of Worship)
- Ask for help with a certain... obsession
- Ask her to sing Pop Goes The Weasel
- Ask her to teach you what she knows about the Red Science
- Ask nothing, and focus on your research instead
- Ask someone you know well
- Ask the Bishop of St Fiacre's to sponsor you
- Ask the Implacable Detective to sponsor you
- Ask them for a proof in cedar
- Ask them the Question
- Ask your Hound of Heaven
- Assemble a Culinary Tribute to the Sea of Spines
- Assembling a picture
- Assert the mind's dominance over the body
- Assist in a Mentalist's act
- Assist the milking during the Hour of Mulgeres
- At least he knows what he wants
- Attempt the daring rescue of a Regiment urchin
- Attempt to break into a strongbox
- Attempt to calm it
- Attempt to escape from a cage
- Attempt to read a sigil
- Attempt to read the document
- Attempt to throw off the visions
- Attend
- Attend an assembly of academics 1
- Attend and speak of...terrible things.
- Attend the Bishop's bridge meeting
- Attend to Mr Fires
- Avoid a prickly entanglement
B
- Back to it
- Bargain with it
- Bask in Admiration
- Bask in the Mountain's light
- Bazaar politics
- Be careful
- Be damned to the instructions! Drain the bottle dry!
- Be loyal to the Red-Handed Queen
- Be patient.
- Bear witness (Chandler)
- Become a Midnighter
- Become Jack (10 FATE)
- Beg the King to withdraw
- Begin an expedition
- Beseech Saint Trezigor
- Betray a Friend
- Betray the Urchins
- Blacken your mind like paper
- Blood-red tales
- Brace against the Waning Wind
- Brave the Lilymire
- Break a goat-demon free
- Break into a storehouse of lily-balm
- Breathe an ancient air
- Breathe deeply
- Bribe Virginia
- Bring a spade and shuttered lantern to the graveyard
- Bring her a little gift
- Broker peace between Bishops
- Brood, ostentatiously
- Browse the bookshelves
- Burn a map into your mind
- Burn his works. Break his pen. Escort him to the Royal Beth
