Memory Points

Biodata

System Mechanics

Acquisition

Memory Points are awarded for meaningful actions within Investigator scenarios.

• Completing feats and great deeds 4 29
• Solving mysteries, deciphering background lore, and conducting exploration 4 28 34
• Gaining approval, recognition, admiration, reverence, or fear from others 4 21 29 32 34
• Killing or harming intelligent beings, including supernatural entities 4 8 32
• Successful deception can also generate rewards 50
• Shared kills can award points, while large numbers of weak enemies can yield substantial cumulative rewards. Illusory people in a collective dream yield fewer points than real people. 68 322
• Deeply engaging with someone and resolving their psychological trauma—or inflicting irreversible psychological trauma—can award additional points and unlock memories based on that person’s potential. 215
• Separate rewards can be granted for a bluff and for the trick played through it. Some scenarios also award points for achievements tied to their particular systems, such as Perth Coins earned. 317 414

Uses

• Dream Entry — While asleep, a player may spend points to enter memories of people they killed or who recognize them, gaining proficiencies, traits, specialties, or skills through firsthand experience. 4
• Memory manifestation — After a scenario, points can exchange for non-sentient objects encountered in that scenario. Manifested items are stored in a personal dream space and can be summoned or dismissed at will. 4 34 35
• Specialty-memory preservation — Points can preserve a specialty memory for later Dream Entry. Xia Lun preserved Nonhuman Toughness for 2,500 points. 34
• Information Panel enhancement — Points can upgrade the Information Panel to display attributes, health information, and item details; this function works outside scenarios. 35 38
• Special mechanisms — Points can be spent on scenario-exclusive mechanisms such as the Fantasy Casket, which costs 10 points per draw. 35
• Personal Space improvements and game modes — Points can expand and furnish a player’s Personal Space or unlock Multiplayer Scenario Mode. 161
• Cross-world exchanges — When sufficient Attraction unlocks an exchange, points can anchor a scenario world’s passage of time to the player’s world, enabling certain cross-world items or connections. 294 295 415
• Recovery in Personal Space — Points can automatically repair bodily damage there. This saved Xia Lun after his body was destroyed during his Knowledge 3 advancement. 414

Restrictions

• Memory Points ordinarily cannot be traded directly between players. The Information Panel enables players to exchange Manifestation Authority; a later reference to points White Line had given Xia Lun does not explain the transfer mechanism. 39 424
• Dream-based improvement carries a substantial mental burden; repeated entries may blur the distinction between reality and illusion. Some memories also impose attribute or other entry requirements. 39 215 295
• Manifestation normally applies to non-sentient objects from completed scenarios. Large structures require enough points and sufficient Personal Space to contain them. 4 35
• At 100% Memory Manifestation Authority, a player may manifest every non-sentient object they have seen in a scenario; at 200%, they may manifest objects they have not seen. Although initially described as the maximum, the 200% cap can be exceeded through higher scenario ratings, discounting exchange prices. 34 160 294
• Preserved memories may have different retention periods. Xia Lun’s Nonhuman Toughness memory was preserved until his next scenario, whereas his later purchase of Xuan Yan’s sword-proficiency memory was preserved permanently. 34 87

Power Progression

Documented Point Record

Notable Expenditures

Related Systems

• Memory Manifestation Permission — Scenario ratings increase both point rewards and manifestation access. Xia Lun reached the then-described maximum permission level of 200% after clearing Sea Battle Royale with an S- rating; subsequent ratings exceeded that usual cap and discounted exchanges. 34 160 294
• Special Memories — Altering a memory’s original course and fulfilling its source’s wish can create a Special Memory, which may yield additional proficiencies, specialties, traits, or skills. Xia Lun later acquired the Ritual Apprentice Special Memory. 23 34 424
• Memory Fruits — In Dream Entry, abilities appear as colored fruits. Their availability, source, number of memories, and point cost determine whether they can be recalled. 14
• Recognition-based memories — Being recognized or revered by an individual may unlock their abilities as recoverable memories, as with Geliide’s Nonhuman Toughness. Admiration also made Xuan Yan’s swordsmanship available. 14 34 87
• Attraction and world-time anchoring — Profoundly changing a scenario world can raise a player’s Attraction enough to unlock a Memory Point exchange that anchors its time to the player’s world. 294 295 414 415
• Manifestation Authority exchange — Players with upgraded Information Panels can exchange Manifestation Authority, a mechanism distinct from ordinary direct trading of Memory Points. 39