Drumming of Despair

Drumming of Despair

◊Descriptors – auditory, demonic

◊Effect –Drumming of Despair or Neverending Nightmares • 21

Drumming of Despair (perception area, selective Affliction 7)

◊Modifiers – alternate effect: 1 flat point; area: +1/rank, selective: +1/rank

◊Action – standard

◊Area – close; all subjects able to perceive the nightmare with an auditory sense

◊Duration – instant

◊Results – targets impaired (one degree), disabled (two degrees), paralyzed (three or more degrees)

◊Resist – Will

Description

The thunder of its hooves beats dreams into despair.

The presence of a nightmare is terrifying to mortals. The nightmare selects any subjects able to perceive its stamping hooves with an auditory sense which must then make a Will resistance check (DC 17) or become impaired. With two degrees of failure the subjects are disabled instead, or paralyzed with three or more degrees of failure.

Subjects are permitted a Dodge resistance check (DC 17), to stopper their ears or otherwise block the effect of the nightmare’s hideous drumming. If successful, they evade the effect.