Nightmares

The endless hunger

Beasts of hunger, nightmares are dreams unsuppressed, their mounting famine driving them to unspeakable acts, overtaking their very minds ‘till nothing but the desire to eat remains.

Transmission & Vectors

When becoming a dream, players roll a d20, and on a critical fail, they become a nightmare instead of a dream.

Causes

Caused by a failure in the appetite suppressant of the musical heart, which inevitably leads to expontentionally worsening hunger than quickly drives the subject mad.

Symptoms

Mental symptoms: Incredible hunger that blocks out all else, including all relations.

Physical symptoms: More gaunt overtime.

Treatment

Final destruction of the musical heart (kills the host, but ends the agony).

Prognosis

Day 2: Hunger pangs.

Day 4:losing sleep and restlessness.

Day 5: irritable behaviour, increasingly violent.

Day 6: Feasts uncontrollably.

Day 7: Attacks anything.

Affected Groups

Anyone who was a citizen became a dream, and 5% of those people turned into nightmares. Anyone who becomes a dream after this has a chance to become a nightmare as well.

Hosts & Carriers

Dreams, and they are affected by it.

Prevention

Not becoming a dream is one of the only forseeable ways for this to not happen, along with being lucky.

History

During the casting, five percent of the entire population quickly turned to madness and started trying to feast on what was left of the non-dream population.

Cultural Reception

Nightmares are feared.

Type

Mental

Origin

Magical

Cycle

Chronic, Acquired

Rarity

Uncommon