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=MAJOR NIGHTMARES= | =MAJOR NIGHTMARES= | ||
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==The Raven King - Pain 12 (15 when using Voice)== | ==The Raven King - Pain 12 (15 when using Voice)== | ||
− | The Raven King is an old Nightmare | + | The Raven King is an old Nightmare. And once ruled the Mad City completely before the Red Queen and Mistress When toppled his reign and stole his power. At a distance the Raven King is a mere silhouette of a lanky man in a long coat with a raven's head and eyes that glow a terrible sickly green. |
The presence of any of the Awakened too near him reveal his true form, all flesh falling away like shadow leaving a blackened skeleton that is mostly human, with a raven's skull and taloned hands and feet. | The presence of any of the Awakened too near him reveal his true form, all flesh falling away like shadow leaving a blackened skeleton that is mostly human, with a raven's skull and taloned hands and feet. | ||
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In all her incarnations she appears as a bloodsoaked female. In the First Watch [from the first through the fourth hour] she manifests as a little girl [Pain 3]. In the Middle Watch [from the fifth through the eighth hour] she manifests as a stately woman [Pain 6]. In the Last Watch [from the ninth through the twelfth hour] she manifests as a gnarled crone with jagged nails and teeth [Pain 9]. No one even whispers about what she becomes during the Thirteenth Hour or what Pain she brings then. | In all her incarnations she appears as a bloodsoaked female. In the First Watch [from the first through the fourth hour] she manifests as a little girl [Pain 3]. In the Middle Watch [from the fifth through the eighth hour] she manifests as a stately woman [Pain 6]. In the Last Watch [from the ninth through the twelfth hour] she manifests as a gnarled crone with jagged nails and teeth [Pain 9]. No one even whispers about what she becomes during the Thirteenth Hour or what Pain she brings then. | ||
− | + | '''Special:''' The Pain Rating of Nightmares who come within sight of the Blood Queen drops two points and remains reduced while in her presence. Only the Raven King and Mistress When, (and perhaps the Keeper) are known to be immune to this effect. Inklings, for whatever reason, add one pain to their rating in her presence and tend to congregate near her unless ordered to do otherwise. | |
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− | '''Special:''' The Pain Rating of Nightmares who come within sight of the Blood Queen drops two points and remains reduced while in her presence. Only the Raven King and Mistress When, (and perhaps the Keeper) are known to be immune to this effect. | ||
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=NIGHTMARE LIEUTENANTS= | =NIGHTMARE LIEUTENANTS= | ||
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==The Fool - Pain 5== | ==The Fool - Pain 5== | ||
The Fool is a thin androgynous figure in black and white motley and an oval mask, half black, half white with only a bare rectangular slit for each eye and the mouth. The Fool does not speak, but can communicate quite fluidly through pantomime. In certain light, with certain movements, the observer would swear the Fool to be a lean young man under that mask, while in other light with certain other movements, the observer would be equally certain the mask hides a slim young girl. | The Fool is a thin androgynous figure in black and white motley and an oval mask, half black, half white with only a bare rectangular slit for each eye and the mouth. The Fool does not speak, but can communicate quite fluidly through pantomime. In certain light, with certain movements, the observer would swear the Fool to be a lean young man under that mask, while in other light with certain other movements, the observer would be equally certain the mask hides a slim young girl. | ||
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The Fool commands the '''Inklings'''. | The Fool commands the '''Inklings'''. | ||
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'''Special:''' The Jack is rarely encountered except that he is called or summoned by an Awakened, usually through inadvertently interacting with the discarded broken toys of the Scampers. When summoned in this fashion the Jack adds the summoning Awakened's current exhaustion AND any permanent madness to his Pain rating. | '''Special:''' The Jack is rarely encountered except that he is called or summoned by an Awakened, usually through inadvertently interacting with the discarded broken toys of the Scampers. When summoned in this fashion the Jack adds the summoning Awakened's current exhaustion AND any permanent madness to his Pain rating. | ||
− | The Jack is | + | The Jack is the only Nightmare known to serve lesser Nightmares - whether by weakness, madness, or design - and the Major Nightmares allow it. They do not approach the Jack or interfere in his designs. |
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==The Hartshorn - Pain 3== | ==The Hartshorn - Pain 3== | ||
Three shadowy human figures in rugged tasseled buckskins, tall and lean, with the skulls of great stags hovering where their heads should be, wander the Ways between the Mad City and the City Slumbering, doing the Keeper's bidding. No one knows if the Hartshorn are real Nightmares born from the souls of men or if they are creations of the Keeper, but their loyalty and devotion is uncanny and unquestioned. Tricks of the mind are the demesne of the Hartshorn, weaving the mists and damp into illusions of loss and pain in the minds of their prey. | Three shadowy human figures in rugged tasseled buckskins, tall and lean, with the skulls of great stags hovering where their heads should be, wander the Ways between the Mad City and the City Slumbering, doing the Keeper's bidding. No one knows if the Hartshorn are real Nightmares born from the souls of men or if they are creations of the Keeper, but their loyalty and devotion is uncanny and unquestioned. Tricks of the mind are the demesne of the Hartshorn, weaving the mists and damp into illusions of loss and pain in the minds of their prey. | ||
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=MINOR NIGHTMARES= | =MINOR NIGHTMARES= | ||
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==Willow Women - Pain 1 (6 during a Forced Gaze)== | ==Willow Women - Pain 1 (6 during a Forced Gaze)== | ||
Lithe and flexible and tall, the Willow Women are fair skinned with extremely long limbs and hands and feet and toes and fingers and their hair drops down all about them in a curtain of fine pale braids, like the hanging branches of the willow tree, hiding their faces and most of their form. The Willow Women will not willingly move aside their braids and look directly on another being and tend to keep their heads down and their faces hidden, but if someone were to part those pale braids, stark black eyes with no color or whites would stare back. Anyone caught in that naked gaze faces Pain 6 in a confrontation that cannot be avoided. In this special encounter all 6s rolled for Pain count towards Madness instead when determining dominance. | Lithe and flexible and tall, the Willow Women are fair skinned with extremely long limbs and hands and feet and toes and fingers and their hair drops down all about them in a curtain of fine pale braids, like the hanging branches of the willow tree, hiding their faces and most of their form. The Willow Women will not willingly move aside their braids and look directly on another being and tend to keep their heads down and their faces hidden, but if someone were to part those pale braids, stark black eyes with no color or whites would stare back. Anyone caught in that naked gaze faces Pain 6 in a confrontation that cannot be avoided. In this special encounter all 6s rolled for Pain count towards Madness instead when determining dominance. | ||
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==The Menagerie - Pain 1== | ==The Menagerie - Pain 1== | ||
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==The Broken Ones - Pain 2== | ==The Broken Ones - Pain 2== | ||
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+ | The Rag Girls - Molly Rags of RK | ||
==Plaguerats - Pain 2== | ==Plaguerats - Pain 2== | ||
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− | + | Urchins - Gas Mask Faced kids in wartime period garb, England WW1. Minor Nightmares | |
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+ | Gibbering Prophet - as per RK | ||
− | + | Hermit - as per RKish | |
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+ | ==DENIZENS== | ||
+ | Hagglers - Denizens of the Bizarre Bazaar | ||
− | + | Cogs - as per RK | |
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+ | The Eyeless (wax king esque) | ||
+ | The Fallen Legion - as per RK soldiers, gang members, etc | ||
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− | + | ==OTHER== | |
+ | Clockwork Insects | ||
+ | Wisps - as per RKish | ||
− | + | The Nethers - places where the Mad City bleeds over into the City Slumbering wholesale | |
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+ | The Bizarre Bazaar - as per DRYH/RK | ||
− | + | The Labyrinth - an overlay of confusion when the Mad City is close to the surface of the City Slumbering | |
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