Questions/Question 427

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#1 wiki | comment Topics: Edit question: edit bloodypath asked on FAQ/Main FAQ at 2025-11-12 Answer date: 2025-11-15	Hello! Perissodactyla questions. - In regards to pact-making, does employment (a formalized exchange of services for payment) trigger a Perissodactyla's pact abilities? - What are the intending limits of their dream abilities? For example, does a sleeping Perissodactyla wander through a series of dream bubbles from the safety of their own bed looking for one they'd like to peruse, or do they have to be awake/sleeping near their intended victim? - "Think of the Perissodactyla-type toolkit as being the sort of shapeshifting intended to lure victims to drop their defenses to enthrall them, put them to sleep, and feast upon their dreams." This bit seems to imply they have the ability to actually put people to sleep if the person isn't guarded. I wanted to make sure I was reading that right before running with it.	1. Employment doesn't have to trigger a Perissodactyla's pact-making. It can, if the Perissodactyla in question views their job with particular significance, and takes their duties very seriously- if they deliberately want to make a pact out of this. But the indifferent ritual of obtaining a paycheck for services will not, on its own, tie a Perissodactyla into a pact. 2. Perissodactyla-types don't have to be asleep themselves in order to enter the dreams of others, and they neither have to be awake for it. They have full command of the dream-state, regardless of what side of it they're on, the concept fully malleable. They also don't need to be physically close to a person whose dream they're invading, though how difficult it is to find/access is somewhat variable. Greater experience with being a Perissodactyla-type will make hunting down the right dreamer easier, but it's something that will take practice! But the unconscious world doesn't obey material rules of distance or sense, so the Perissodactyla does not have to be nearby their target to reach them. They will find it easiest of all to prey on those they're most familiar with, but that doesn't prohibit them from trying to prey on strangers. It just might be a bit more difficult... 3. And yes, that's the correct read of it! Perissodactyla-types can put other characters to sleep when they're either amenable (so their guard is down) or tricked into it (so their guard is down).