What do you see, Nell?

Session 3.
Nell, seven. Referred by her school.
Night terrors since January, every night. She wakes up screaming, and in the morning she won't say what she saw.
Three sessions, and not one word about it.
Next time I will give her paper and a pencil.

What do you see, Nell? is a horror survivors-like where everything you see is her drawing: the paper, the smudged charcoal, her room, the monsters, her powers, even the blood. It is not a game for children. It is what a frightened child draws when she can't stop seeing it.

Survive the page

Grow stronger, pick her powers, and turn them into something worse.

• 24 powers, each with its own evolution, plus 3 secret unions and 14 pairs that work together
  
• 18 passives, 30 monsters and 8 bosses
  
• A night takes about 20 minutes

Something waits at the end

Each night is twelve pages, and every third one ends with something bigger. The page goes quiet, its name is written across it in red, and it comes out of the dark: the Teacher and her ruler, the Girl in the Bath, the Hat Man, the Tooth Fairy, and four more.

Fold it, and say what you see

Everything that bleeds on the page bleeds twice: every kill leaves a splat of ink or blood, and every splat has a twin across the fold. When the page ends it folds shut and opens again as an ink blot that looks back at her, and her doctor asks: what do you see, Nell?

Every answer is a rule for the next page, good and bad at once. hands makes her hit 40% harder, and fills the page with long hands. two of me makes every power happen twice, and gives everything on the page 70% more health.

When it's too much, call for Mom

The longer the page goes on, the more scared she gets. When she can't take any more, she screams for her mother: the door opens, the hall light floods the page, everything on it is hurt and thrown back, and that part of the page stays lit.

Five nights, and the mornings after

• Five nights in 15 places: her room, the hallway, the woods, school, the bathroom, the basement, Grandma's house, the hospital, and worse
  
• Ten to play, each with a rule of their own: Nell, the friend who stopped coming to school, her big brother, the ones she draws herself as, and two you will have to find
  
• Collect the teeth the night leaves behind and put them under her pillow for 14 lasting upgrades, and take one of 12 keepsakes from under her bed into each night
  
• 10 fever levels for when the nights get easy
  
• Tonight's session: one night a day, picked by the doctor, the same for everyone
  
• Don't wake up: after page 12 of The Last Night, she doesn't have to

Find out what she saw

After every night the doctor writes a note, and keeps it in her file with everything she has drawn. Something happened in January, and Nell won't say what. Keep drawing, and she will show you.