Category:Nightmares Loss
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Storylets and actions which lower Nightmares.
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]
Reliable means of restful sleep in London.
Social actions:
- -4 or -6 CP: Get someone to Assist your friend with their Nightmares (Nightmares ≥ 3)
- -3 CP: Get someone to send you a letter to spread the Good Word
- -2 CP: Drinking The Sunlit Special in Beatrice's Tea Shop
Actions:
- Quarters nightmares, once weekly: Leave the Cave of the Nadir (with 6+ Irrigo)
- Various options at A Kitchen for Artists:
- -10 CP for dosing yourself with a Dark-Dewed Cherry Liqueur
- -28? CP for dosing yourself with a Solacefruit Champagne Royale
- -8 CP: Produce a Conflagration at your Parabolan Base-Camp (Nightmares 8; raises Sighted the Storm-bird and lowers some stats)
- -5 CP: Bolt the door and hide under the bed (during Hallowmas)
- Various options when doing research in the University Laboratory:
- -4 CP: Show the Esurient Smith your bird collection (requires having completed Ambition: Nemesis)
- -2 CP: Take tea with Lettice (also -2 CP Wounds)
- -2 CP: Take a rest (with Nightmares ≥ 5)
- -2 CP: Take comfort in companionship in The City of the Tracklayers
- -1 to -4 CP: Time in bed in Your Lodgings (with Wounds ≥ 2; options depend on
The Airs of London; all require 3 actions each, reducing efficiency) - -1 to -4 CP: Drink tea to alleviate your Nightmares reached via The Hurlers (depends on current nightmares, costs Jasmine Leaves)
- -1 to -3 CP: The Somnolent Hyaena in The Labyrinth of Tigers (
Watchful 80; gives +2 CP Wounds) - -1 to -2 CP: Doze in Ealing Gardens; requires having built the Passenger Lounge
- Leave the Cave of the Nadir:
- -1 CP if Irrigo ≤ 5
- If Irrigo is ≥ 6, the Nightmares level is set to 1/4 of the original level
- -1 CP: Publish a newspaper with The finest kind of madness (requires
104 x Outlandish Copy; not very efficient indeed, but can be combined with money grinding) - -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 (average): Try some hot wine at Mrs Plenty's Carnival
- -0 to -4 CP: Hide in your Base-Camp at your Parabolan Base-Camp (scales with Parabolan Defences; failure is less effective and causes Wounds)
Semi-reliable opportunity cards in London:
- Various options from The Interpreter of Dreams:
- -10 or -12 CP: Ask for help with the nightmares (also -10 Dreams: A Game of Chess)
- -10 or -12 CP: Ask for help with nightmares (also -10 Dreams: Death by Water)
- -0 to -10 CP: Allow Dr Schlomo to Publish your Dreams (average varies by dream type)
- -10 CP: Dance with your Spouse(s) on The Feast of the Rose! (also -10 CP Scandal; available only during the Feast of the Exceptional Rose)
- -3 to -4 CP: Various options from A Moment's Peace
- -3 CP: Some options from An Evening with your Spouses; requires Spouse:
Philosophically Perfect Partnership. - -2 CP: Work diligently on A Day with God's Editors (also -2 CP Scandal); requires the
Membership of God's Editors affiliation. - -1.4 CP (average): Invite the Shivering Relicker in for a chat (with a Scholar of the Correspondence), can be improved up towards -1.6 CP with nightmares-reducing gear.
Semi-reliable opportunity cards in the Hinterlands:
- -1 to -7 CP: Play with your hellworm; requires
Your Very Own Miniature Hellworm
Items:
- -46 to -56 CP: Magnificent Feast (gifted at Christmas)
- -10 CP: Appalling Secret (sacrificed from your inventory; 30% Luck, 10 secrets consumed on success and 2 on failure; expected value of -3 CP and -4.4 Appalling Secret per action)
- -4 CP: Bottle of Greyfields 1868 First Sporing
- -2 to -3 CP: Dispose of an Unusual Pail of So-Called Snow (Christmas)
- -1 to -4 CP: F.F. Gebrandt's Superior Laudanum (if you are a PoSI, this raises your Laudanum Habit)
- -1 CP: Key to a Dripstone-Snared Temple (on moving in, if Nightmares ≤ 4; purchased at Christmas)
- -1 CP Page from the Liber Visionis (if burnt; obtained through Uncovering the Secrets of the Face-Tailor)
- Lose half your Nightmares for
2 x Professional Perks
Equipped items (chance to reduce Nightmares gain while equipped):
- Aurochs-Fur Coat (from Whitsun)
- Bejewelled Cane (from the Keen-Eyed Lapidary)
- Cheerful Goldfish (
0.40 at the Bazaar) - A Firm Conviction of the Absence of the Supernatural (from Mr Chimes' Lost & Found)
- Spiked Rosary (from Ambition: Bag a Legend! 31)
- Storm-bird (from Parabola)
- Weasel of Social Discomfiture (from The Dome of Scales)
- Cryptographic Chiropteran (from Hallowmas 1898)
- The Walls are Right (from Greet the Merry Gentleman)
- Amber Ambassador's Seal (from Accept a token of Starved Esteem)
- The Final Resting Place of an Old Friend (from The London Horticultural Show)
- The Distinction of the Waking Fire (from The Sixth Coil)
Subcategories
This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
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Pages in category "Nightmares Loss"
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A
- A challenging theft
- A comfy chair by the fire
- A disturbance outside
- A dreamless sleep
- A familiar sensation
- A fortunate effect (8 FATE)
- A light caught by snow
- A lucky batch (8 FATE)
- A natural philosophy
- A quick commission: Songs of Old
- A remarkable tincture (8 FATE)
- A solid sort
- A tactical opportunity: a game of cricket
- A visit from the Sardonic Music-Hall Singer
- Accept 2
- Accept her help
- Act as a mirror
- Active Access Codes
- Actually, perhaps you should chuck it in the river after all.
- Actually, you really could turn and flee
- Add your own dead to the pile
- Advise the girl to return to the Widow
- Ah, the heady fungal bouquet
- Allow them to watch over your rest (sincere)
- An afternoon off (1 FATE)
- An easy theft
- An investment in soaps
- Analyse the way the wind is amplified by the rocks
- Arm yourself
- Arrange for the girl to return to the urchin-gangs
- As the Star of Society's Salons
- Ask for help with both wounds and nightmares (4 FATE)
- Ask for help with nightmares 4
- Ask for help with the nightmares
- Ask for her help with your Nightmares
- Attend the Ambassador's soirée
- Attend the Feast
- Attend with a weasel
- Attend with a weasel of quality
- Attract a companion for the rest of the evening
- Awaken from a familiar dream (Delighted)
- Awaken from a familiar dream (Eastern Wind)
- Awaken from a familiar dream (Northern Wind)
- Awaken from a familiar dream (Southern Wind)
B
C
- Calm the mountain
- Capture a glowworm in a jar
- Carouse
- Carouse at Mrs Plenty's Carnival
- Cast a handful of pins into the water
- Celebrate thoroughly
- Charge into the breach!
- Charm your way into the committee room
- Chuck the horrid little thing in the river
- Clear your mind
- Clear your mind 2
- Close your eyes (A dream about a field of candles)
- Cocooned? (The Burial of the Dead)
- Collect a handful of sparks
- Concentrate less
- Concentrate on the food
- Confess your sins
- Consign it to the flames!
- Contemplate a winning position
- Continue the lesson
- Convince him otherwise
- Copy what your reflection is doing.
- Could you have acquired a shadow?
- Cry to the storm-bird
- Curl up into a little ball
- Curled up with a book
D
- Decline 3
- Deliver the file to the Implacable Detective
- Deliver the message
- Describe your dreams of dead men
- Describe your dreams of mirrors
- Describe your dreams of water
- Dine with Society
- Dinner in your Room
- Disembark
- Dismiss the claims
- Do nothing 3
- Don't blink
- Don't hesitate. Cast it as far as you can.
- Dose yourself with (your dish) 2
- Dose yourself with the Curatorial Cocktail (No Robe)
- Dose yourself with the Curatorial Cocktail (Robe)
- Doze
- Doze off
- Dream with the Bohemians
- Drink before taking to your bed.
- Drink tea to alleviate your Nightmares (Nightmares 1-3)
- Drink tea to alleviate your Nightmares (Nightmares 4-5)
- Drink tea to alleviate your Nightmares (Nightmares 6-7)
- Drink tea to alleviate your Nightmares (Nightmares 8)
- Drink to forget
- Drop the knife and run
E
- Encourage the moths
- Engage them with a different tune
- Engineer a substitution
- Enjoy a feast at Heorot
- Enjoy a meal alone
- Enjoy a meal together
- Enjoy a raucous night in the Singing Mandrake
- Enjoy the certainty that your vengeance bought
- Enjoy the comfort of having your loved one back
- Enjoy the knowledge that the Hybrid is safe
- Enjoy your considerable wealth
- Escort for an evening
- Examine one
- Exhale a Breath of the Void
- Explore the Wisp-Ways
F
- Face an enemy from your past
- Face your fears
- Faerie treasure!
- Feed your Reprehensible Lizard a treat
- Fight
- Fight the vines
- Fight to stay awake
- Find shelter
- Find that familiar tomb again
- Fire as soon as he reaches the chalked X
- Flee (Dream)
- Foist the Organisation of your Wedding onto your partner
- Follow a glowworm.
- Follow a light into the trees (6 FATE)
- Forget the idol. Look ahead
- Forgive, or forget (20 FATE)
- Free the glowworms
- Freedom from care (10 FATE)
G
H
I
- I command the pale fire! (3 FATE)
- I will call the lightning down upon them! (3 FATE)
- I will embrace the storm! (3 FATE)
- I will introduce them to the thunder! (3 FATE)
- I will speak to the stars (3 FATE)
- Ignore it as best you can
- Ignore the Merry Gentleman
- Ignore the Merry Gentleman (Tracklayers' City)
- Ignore the Merry Gentleman 2
- Invent your dreams (10 FATE)
- Invite the Shivering Relicker in for a chat
- It's a corpse-candle! Leave it alone.
- It's a harbinger of death
- It's a harbinger of death.
- It's a natural phenomenon. Ignore it.
- It's fascinating. Watch it.
L
- Lament your sins
- Leave 1
- Leave 2
- Leave him to rot
- Leave it to the imagination
- Leave the books alone
- Leave your student to their own devices
- Let her guard your sleep
- Let the embers die
- Let the song wash over you
- Let the sparks fade
- Let them alone
- Lie back and close your eyes
- Lie back and daydream
- Lift your hands to your face
- Light a candle to explore with
- Listen 3
- Listen 4
- Listen to her play the violin
- Listen to her sing
- Listen to it (5 FATE)
- Listen to the people
