A Nightmare: Your Memoirs

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**A Nightmare: Your Memoirs** is a Sunless Skies Random Event.

## Story description

*You've been meaning to do this for a long time: write down your true history, someplace not for public consumption, the version you might not tell to strangers.*

*Chapter One comes quickly and fluidly to your pen. There is comfort in remembering things you have not thought of in a long time. But now what?*

## Trigger conditions

Location: The High Wilderness

Area: Limbo

Frequency: Always (100%)

## Interactions

Best if no one else reads this.
*Game note: Reduce your Terror by 50, but increase your Nightmares.*

Your private drawer, to which only you have the key. Other manuscripts, all in your handwriting. Chapter One after Chapter One after Chapter One. Some of the incidents are the same – or nearly so – but the motives are different, the chronology jumbled. Some of the happenings definitely did not happen to you. This one has a signature at the end. Your signature looks a bit like that, but you don't use that peculiar flourish, not since... when did you stop?
The hull creaks. You recall yourself. Stack the manuscripts more neatly, cram the drawer shut. Lock it. Only you have the key.+ Airs of Terror = (1 to 100)
+ -50 x Terror
+ +1 x Nightmares
+ Visitation =  Date+2
Best if no one else reads this.
*Game note: Your Terror will increase.*

Your private drawer, to which only you have the key. Other manuscripts, all in your handwriting. Chapter One after Chapter One after Chapter One. Some of the incidents are the same – or nearly so – but the motives are different, the chronology jumbled. Some of the happenings definitely did not happen to you. This one has a signature at the end. Your signature looks a bit like that, but you don't use that peculiar flourish, not since... when did you stop?
The hull creaks. You recall yourself. Stack the manuscripts more neatly, cram the drawer shut. Lock it. Only you have the key.+ Airs of Terror = (1 to 100)
+ +10 x Terror
This was an exercise only for yourself.  | + 1 x Fuel
The pages smoke, then curl to black. Here and there you can see a phrase long enough to read it back before the fire consumes it.
Already these memories are strange and belong to someone else. When did you ever wear a cloak of peacock feathers? When did you submit to having your tongue tattooed? For that matter, did these things ever happen to anyone? What an outrageous set of lies. Whoever wrote this must have been an extraordinary fabulist.

It was no one you know, at least. The fire burns down, the ashes crumble, and you are warm enough to go back to bed.+ Airs of Terror = (1 to 100)
+ -1 x Fuel
Being alone with these thoughts is what makes them so difficult.
*Game note: The higher your own Veils, the harder this will be.*

+ Hearts challenge (**Special** for 100%)
 **An unsympathetic audience**
"Again?" he asks.
Then he starts narrating the other versions you've written, and it's hard to hear. You lose track for a while, and when you return to yourself, you're down a crew member.+ -1 x Crew
+ Airs of Terror = (1 to 100)
"Again?" he asks.
This is upsetting. It is confusing. It displeases you. But you rein in the bad feelings and merely yell at your crewman. Next time this happens, he'll know better. He'll pretend he's never heard your secret memoirs before.

That's best for everyone.+ Airs of Terror = (1 to 100)
+ +5 x Terror

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