Nightmare Realm Skills

Nightmare Realm Skill List

A lot of these skills are tied into his actual arena, seeing as AM is the arena.

Essentially, AM is a large supercomputer that exists underground. In the story, his complex is gigantic, spanning millions of miles and taking up a good chunk of the interior of the Earth. In NR, he has a fraction of his complex - it's underground but not quite so large - maybe a few miles.

The thing is, inside his complex, he almost has free reign to do anything. He can enact brutal physical tortures that would kill someone yet he can keep people alive to suffer through it. Any sort of torture you can think of, he can probably do, and your character can be lucky enough to live through it.

I will not do anything without your permission and I will not make him break the game.

I'll list a few examples of his skills, but this is not all-inclusive. These are just what I can think of off the top of my head and what he will likely use most of the time.

Physical Skills Inside of his Complex

 

• Wires - Metallic wires of different lengths and thicknesses can come out and wrap around your character. They can grow sharp and stab your character too.
• Temperature - The temperature can rise and fall drastically. Boiling-hot temperatures and freezing-cold temperatures can mess with your characters. Also fire.
• Giant Bird and other Summons - Seeing as the giant bird was actually mentioned in the story, I'll list it here. AM can certainly conjure up any sort of creature he wants to attack. The giant bird, for instance, can create hurricane-like winds. Or another creature can breathe fire, or another could chew your character to pieces. I don't know.
• Blinding - He can melt your character's eyes either permanently or temporarily. Or else he can flash immensely bright lights to blind your character.
• Deafening - Extremely loud sounds to completely destroy your character's hearing, or damage it.
• Mutilation - This is pretty much anything goes. Want your limbs torn off? Want to be sawed in half and put back together? Then sure, this is the option for you.
• Anything Else (physical) - Something you want that's not listed here? Suggest it to me and I'll gladly play it out  (I seriously have zero limits on playing out violence).

In addition, there are psychological effects AM has. These are diminished greatly from the story due to the loss of memories and due to having a fraction of his complex (and due to me not wanting to break the game again). Most of these psychological things would take place over an extended period of time. Let's say our character somehow got themselves trapped in AM's complex for like a month - then things could certainly happen.

Psychological (and other things that take a lot of time) Skills Inside of his Complex

• Morphing - AM could morph your character's appearance after a while. It's not something he would resort to right away, but he could gradually turn your character into a simian-type thing or a blob thing.
• Diminishing Intelligence - Over time, AM could gradually strip your intellect away and make you dumber and dumber by the day.
• Paranoia - Over time he could gradually turn your character very paranoid
• Other mental disorders/effects - Pretty much anything could happen over a period of time.

AM is limited in what he can do outside of his complex, but he can still do things.

Skills Outside of his Complex

• Killing - Yeah, he can kill people outside of his complex. It isn't specified how, though. But I'll assume that it's due to nuclear weaponry. This is something I have to figure out because I don't want to break the game.
• Communication - Derrrr.
• Manipulation - If AM communicates with you, he'll try to manipulate you. End of story.

There are also "manikins" wandering around in Nightmare Realm that are supposed to copy AM's appearance and his skills, but that is kind of impossible in two fronts: AM doesn't really have one set "appearance" since he's a giant complex, and his skills are game-breaking. So the mindless manikins having game-breaking skills would not be cool. So here are specifics about the manikins.

Manikins

• The manikin that represents AM is a tall, bipedal metallic robot that looks like Gort from the movie The Day the Earth Stood Still
• Saying the phrase "Klaatu barada nikto" will NOT disable this manikin's violence, though you can try
• The manikin does NOT shoot laser beams from its eye. It only looks like Gort - it isn't actually Gort
• The manikin is very strong and has a high defense. He relies on physical force, but can also cast fire, ice, and electric spells kind of like your average RPG mage.
• He has some of the things AM can do in his complex, but in smaller quantities and much less severe. Ask me if you need any specifics.

In addition, I will talk about how you can hurt AM. He's a giant computer-thing, so physically it's very difficult to harm him. You can try stabbing his walls or cutting his wires and it won't really do anything. However, because he only has a small fraction of his real complex, it's still possible, albeit very, very difficult. Let's say you put a giant bomb inside of his complex and it destroyed most of his banks and data, then that would either kill him or significantly weaken him. If you could tear away one of his massive data banks, then he would be impaired until he could repair the damage after a while.

You also have to be able to beat him at his own game. You have to do what he doesn't want, and even though he might retaliate with horrible punishment, at least it will give you the satisfaction of... having pissed him off. Or something.