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Nod

In the first episode Nod is only a name and a place. A puddle shows a dream-side New York where snow flies up from the storm drains into a sky full of endless stars UC E1·00:22:20. Later the party finds ivy leaves that Brennan says are "from Nod, the Sixth Borough" UC E1·01:46:31.

Nod is the Sixth Borough of dreams and also the child who rules it, whom Alejandro describes as the "spirit of hope and dreams" and "Monarch of the Sixth Borough" UC E6·00:00:04. After the Pete trouble, Nod is dying in the waking world, and the party takes a train to the Sixth Borough UC E8·00:01:16 UC E8·01:44:26.

Nod tells Pete "I'm sorry you didn't get a choice. I needed someone, and there wasn't any way for me to ask" UC E8·00:07:56. Nod wakes as a gray-skinned child with black eyes UC E8·01:46:32. Nod says "My title is the Gray Orphan" UC E8·01:49:18. Nod objects to being called a baby: "I prefer Nod to gray baby" UC E9·00:09:44. Nod explains the world to the party, rules the realm but says "I don't have any money, I'm a kid", and gives Pete a choice about his magic UC E9·01:00:41 UC E9·01:36:42.

Later Nod calls the conclave to order UC E13·00:21:06. Contacted by Pete's Mind Link about the Golden Door, Nod says "The door is open, I can't close it" UC E14·02:29:39. When Pete calls on Nod, everyone regains spell slots, and Nod says "I'm the most powerful child there has ever been" UC E16·01:39:12 UC E16·01:39:27. Nod says "I knew I picked right" UC E17·01:22:40. Nod says "I assumed you wanted him to be here forever", and Pete's father then leaves with Pete UC E17·01:56:24 UC E17·01:56:30.

By episode

UC E1: Start Spreading the News

  • Dream-side New York (the other side of the puddle): "snow is issuing out of the storm drains in the street and flying up into a sky full of endless stars" — 00:22:20
  • Nod, the Sixth Borough — source of the ivy leaves: "These are from Nod, the Sixth Borough." — 01:46:31

UC E3: Pigeon Plus Ones

  • Nod — voice in the preview: "Dreams are anything you make them." — 01:49:46 (preview).
  • Nod / the Sixth Borough — Kingston: "just above it is Nod or the Sixth Borough" — 00:09:22. Separately, Pete's dream shows "the dream-like city of New York" of dark glass skyscrapers — 01:01:48; the dream is not said to be Nod.

UC E4: Scramble in the Sewers

  • The dream realm — "you're suddenly for a moment floating in the dream realm again" — 01:14:41.

UC E5: A New York Wedding

  • Nod / the gray orphan — "the gray orphan, the spirit of the dreaming realm" — 01:03:15; "monarch of the sixth borough" — 01:05:12. Said to Pete (as Pete recalls): "Everyone who ever came here had a dream." — 01:05:50.
  • The Dreaming / the sixth borough — "monarch of the sixth borough" — 01:05:12.

UC E6: The War of Bugs and Rats

  • Nod — recap only, spoken by Alejandro: "Nod is the spirit of hope and dreams. Sometimes referred to as the Monarch of the Sixth Borough." — 00:00:04. Not mentioned in the episode proper.
  • The Dreaming — "the dream realm has fully merged with this section of New York" — 00:32:23.

UC E7: We Need to Talk About Pete

  • Nod — "the realm of Nod" is where the dream insects return (00:01:16); also the gray child in the mirror: "It's this little gray kid that made you this thing, against your will." — 01:53:04; "Nod." — 01:53:38; after the blast: "I knew I chose right." — 01:56:13, and kisses Pete's cheek.
  • Nod / Dreamland — "It's the sixth borough, it's the dream land." — 00:59:13.

UC E8: Subway Skirmish

  • Nod — "Nod the Monarch of Dreams" dying in the waking world (00:01:16); at the start Pete "holds Nod". "I'm sorry you didn't get a choice. I needed someone, and there wasn't any way for me to ask." — 00:07:56. Wakes on the train: "this strange alien child with jet black eyes and gray skin that is the spirit of all the lost children that have ever lived in New York" (DM) — 01:46:32. Says: "All can be explained. All can be answered here." — 01:46:58. Title: "My title is the Gray Orphan." — 01:49:18. Faerie "used to be in my dominion" — 01:48:23. Glides "through the mist as though on a conveyor belt" — 01:49:59. Players call Nod "gray baby"; Nod objects: "I've never called myself a baby, did someone call me a baby?" — 01:49:08. Nod: "Also, I don't have any money 'cause I'm a kid." — 01:48:58.
  • Nod / the sixth borough — "While you walk in the sixth borough, you walk with my blessing." — 01:46:58. "a little whisper of mist covering the ground as though you were walking on the surface of a cloud" — 01:44:26. "Snow swirls up from the ground and into the sky" and the sky is "filled with stars" — 01:42:54. The train's last stop. A diner "around the corner that should be open" — 01:46:58. "bakeries full of dream pies" — 01:45:27.

UC E9: Borough of Dreams

  • Nod — the Monarch of Dreams; DM's summary: "Nod, the Monarch of Dreams" — 00:01:02. Floats, "jet-black eyes unfocused" — 00:02:31. "I prefer Nod to gray baby. I am gray but I'm fully not a baby." — 00:09:44. Title: "the Gray Orphan of New York" — 00:30:07. Pete is leaned on: "Nod looks very much like a little kid whose beloved older brother has just come back from college" (DM) — 00:28:25. "I rule this entire realm but I don't have any money, I'm a kid." — 01:00:41. Gives the order "egg creams for the entire table" — 00:27:23. Says Pete saved their life — 00:29:51. Gives Pete a choice about his magic — 01:36:42. "there's something to be learned from both, I think." — 01:48:17. Nod keeps a dream moth in their dress pocket — 01:34:25.
  • Nod (the Sixth Borough) — "the shimmering star-filled skies of the Sixth Borough, snow rising from the streets, into the celestial heights" — 00:01:02. Between five and twenty shooting stars at any time; "bubbling and chattering from inside various buildings" — 00:11:10. Mist ankle-high that recedes from Kingston — 00:11:10. Glassy buildings showing "strange potentials and images and fun illusions" — 00:12:19. In Nod Misty's illusion magic costs no spell slots — 00:15:10.

UC E13: Faeries and Feces

  • Nod — floats through the mist, "monarch of the realm of Dreams"; calls the conclave to order — 00:14:31, 00:21:06
  • Nod (the Dream / the Sixth Borough) — near the old FAO Schwarz; "here in Dream, this giant toy store is there" — 00:08:51

UC E14: Showdown at the Stock Exchange

  • Nod — contacted by Pete's Mind Link: "The door is open, I can't close it. It's rending the dream realm apart, something very powerful is happening." — 02:29:39
  • Nod / the Dream — Pete floats into a weird red-light district; the Golden Door in Nod where the blood sigil forms into a knob; buildings "buckle and snap" when the door opens — 01:16:18, 01:20:19, 02:00:18

UC E15: Hall of Heroes

  • Nod: appears to Pete in the Blink: "This is the hour. This is it." — 00:11:43; says something bad is happening at the Occult Society and with Kugrash's son — 00:12:03.
  • Nod / the Golden Door: in the dream storm — 00:10:24.

UC E16: Times Squaremageddon

  • Nod: called by Pete; everyone regains a spell slot of the highest level they can cast — 01:38:59, 01:39:12; "I'm the most powerful child there has ever been." — 01:39:27; "The phylactery, we're already inside, we cannot see the outside of it." — 01:40:05; Nod's effect repeats (Pete summons Nod again to roll a d4): spellcasters regain a fourth-level slot, Ricky a second-level — 02:14:14–02:14:33; "Destroy this angel, I hate his stupid guts, he's a butthead." — 02:14:51; says destroying the phylactery needs outside knowledge and "There is a way for ones within this spell to know anything" — 02:15:14, 02:15:41

UC E17: Times Squaremageddon Pt. 2

  • Nod: "If we were to leave to find the phylactery on the outside, it would be too late." — 00:00:40 (recap). Restores spell slots (Pete's d4: 1, everyone regains a first-level slot) — 00:54:13. "And what it is, is anything." — 01:11:23. "I knew I picked right." — 01:22:40. Keeps Pete's father in Nod — 01:56:24.
  • Nod: Pete's father stays; the diner (Brennan) — 01:54:47