Memory

You see not an entity, but instead a moment, occurring as if it were a play. A scene from your past, from the life that you left behind, a Memory haunting your present.

Draw a card to determine the nature of the Memory:

♥ The scene that plays out to you is one that pulls at your heartstrings, a warm and treasured moment. If it were not over so soon, you could have spent however long embracing it. Diminish the severity of your Pain by one step, for 2 Encounter’s time.

♠ You wish that you could have gone on without having to see this – one of your lowest points, worst mistakes, played out to you as if in cruel mockery. As if it didn’t already haunt you enough in the early hours of the night, coming to you again and again in vengeance. Discard a random card from your hand, and what remains is your hand for the rest of the day.

♦ You follow the scene that plays out, one of those seemingly important yet far-distant memories you had not given thought to in so long – how had you forgotten this? And yet… the memory does not feel all that familiar, but you struggle to tell if it because you’ve misremembered it. If your Knowledge is at least 3, you can dismiss this Memory as being false, an illusion – but if your Knowledge is less than 3, this new scene replaces a memory you once had, changing your sense of self.

♣ You watch this scene from your past, one of the last moments you had with someone else before you came to this place... but something feels uncanny, wrong. That person keeps stealing glances at you, like an actor distracted. Until they no longer pretend not to look, the Memory fading as they walk towards you, the look in their eyes both unfamiliar and malicious – replace the Memory with a hostile Hollow.