The dice in Don't Rest Your Head are simple. Roll seperate pools of dice for Discipline, Exhaustion, Madness, and Pain. When a die rolls 1, 2, or 3, it's a success. If you meet or beat the amount of successes Pain has, you win the match.
However, whichever pool has the highest result colors the roll. Success or failure, this will change the outcome of the roll.
Let's spin the wheel.
Scene I
Pain: 6, 5, 2, 3. Two successes.
Discipline: 6, 4, 3. One success.
Exhaustion: 1. One success.
SUCCESS...
THE COLOR OF PAIN!
Our intrepid hero rushes off into the night, demanding an explanation, or at least an apology. The mannequin takes shortcuts into rubbish-strewn alleyways, leaps over obstacles and crawls into tight spaces. For a moment, our guy wonders if he'll ever catch up. In fact, the way his heart's beating, he wonders if his chest is gonna burst.
Finally, the mannequin hits a deadend. Our guy approaches, picks up a stick off the ground, wonders if that sends the wrong message, so he drops it. The mannequin stares him down, an achievement for a being lacking eyes.
This is a weird moment for our guy. His sleep-deprived brain finally clunks into place like a faulty automatic. He just ran half a mile chasing down a department store dummy that stole his... He can't quite articulate it. He thinks it over.
So the mannequin takes its chance and rushes him They struggle a little bit, eventually our guy comes out on top. Not difficult when your opponent weighs about as much as a pug. He yells in the mannequin's face,
“What's going on? What'd you, what'd you take? What the hell's wrong with you?”
The mannequin stares at him. Then its face shifts, like melting plastic, into a reflection of our hero's mug.
“I cannot answer the first and last question, brother. But I'm afraid the Breakers of Heaven's Doors must borrow your soul.”
Our protagonist's stomach sinks. He shouldn't have hoped this situation would resolve itself in a simple fashion.
A coin of despair has been paid into the bowl. All coins will disappear by the Sabbath next.
Besides our next course of action, I would like to know: how does our dude react to having his soul stolen?