Nightmare

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Nightmare (Background, current rating x3)

You appear in people's nightmares. At any time, you may roll your rating in this background, difficulty 6 targeting a creature that has had a nightmare about you to arouse their subconscious memories of the experience. Success grants extra dice equal to your rating in the background on intimidation rolls. Success also forces opponents to make a courage roll, difficulty of your background rating +2, with a failure resulting in them fleeing and/or suffering a -1 dice penalty for the day. A botch causes them to fall into a waking nightmare state.

Light sleeper reduces the difficulty of the courage rolls by merit rating, sleeplessness negates this power (except dots 9 and 10), and the flaw nightmares increases the difficulty by 1.

Any creature that remembers a nightmare with you in it (has successfully been awakened before) is at +2 difficulty for all courage rolls because of you, not including courage rolls made because of this background.

1) People you have met before have nightmares about you 2) People who have seen you before have nightmares about you 3) Everyone who speak a language you speak has had nightmares about you 4) All humans have had nightmares about you 5) Any creature that has met you before has nightmares about you 6) Any creature that speaks the same languages as you has had nightmares about you 7) All creatures that dream have had nightmares about you 8) Any creature that sleeps has had nightmares about you. 9) Any creature that blinks has experienced a flashing image and fright of you (sleeplessness no longer resists this power) 10) Any creature that can form mental images has at one point in time envisioned you destroying them.