Dragon: The Embers Core Book - MrGone's Character Sheets

elieve he’s woken. The dreamscape
suddenly converts to that of the Dreamer’s
favored place of slumber, with both the
Nightmare and any other entities flung to
nearby hiding places. This Numen costs
five Dread, and renders any Lucid
Dreamer Hysteric. It likewise confuses
any Dragon that was in the dreamscape at
the time of the False Awakening. A
Dragon subjected to the False Awakening
Numen must pass a reflexive Wits +
Composure roll to recognize she is still in
the Dreamtide. (NOTE: False Awakening
removes any twists the Mutation Numen
inflicts)
• Dream Maiming: Made famous
by a particular series of popular movies,
Dream Maiming allows a Nightmare to
inflict actual injuries on a Dreamer’s body.
For two Dread the Nightmare can attack a
Dreamer’s Health instead of his Willpower.
These injuries, being material and not
mental, cannot be healed while the
Dreamer is sleeping and thus carry over
into the real world.
Material Nightmares use this Numen to
frighten, not kill. Pandemonium
Nightmares are not so conservative,
though, and likely cause plenty of waking
world problems.
• Powerless: The Nightmare has
such an imposing presence it disarms any
attacks directed toward it. Guns break
before they can fire, bullets melt, swords
break, knives shatter, bones fracture, or
something stops the attack from inflicting
harm. Heaven help someone who tries to
attack the Nightmare unarmed. For one
Dread the Nightmare completely
neutralizes an incoming attack that it saw
coming. If Willpower was used for the
attack, the weapon used ceases to function
but the determined Dreamer (or Dragon)
still manages to land a blow (it breaks
after a single use, instead of right before a
single use). Nightmares cannot use this
Numen on attacks they don’t expect.
• Mutation: With one touch the
Nightmare twists the flesh of another
within the Dreamtide. The Nightmare
spends three Dread and rolls Finesse +
Craft. Successes both inflict damage and a
penalty to act with the manipulated bodypart
on a one-to-one basis. There may be
some benefit to said alteration, but it is
gravely outweighed by the penalties.
Besides that, there’s always the horrifying
implications of watching a hand expel all
its bones (or twist into a hammer, or
whatever else you can imagine).
Hysteric Dreamers cannot escape this
horror while they are dreaming, though
they are saved when they awaken. Lucid
Dreamers can simply undo the mutation,
though any injury they suffered may linger.
Dragons, having traveled to the Dreamtide
with their physical body, take such horrid
disfigurements home with them when they
pass back through the Miasma. To
remove the mutation, a Dragon must spend
five Breath over the course of two days.
Such Breath need not be spent all at once,
but all five points have to be paid by the
end of the second day, and the Breath
cannot be spent for dual purpose.
• Ford the Miasma: Only possessed
by the most powerful of Pandemonium
Nightmares, this Numen allows the beast
to phase through the Miasma and enter the
real world. Such action costs three Dread
each turn for three turns, and if the
Nightmare is interrupted during this
process it must start over.
If said Nightmare manages to finish
fording the Miasma, it becomes ensnared
in Twilight (though it need not worry
about anchors) until something drags it
back to the Dreamtide. To become
material and interact directly with the
waking world, it must purchase minutes
with Dread (So a Nightmare spending