Chimp Oni

Eigendark Grimoire · Dream faction · Oni · Summon · Cost 1

Chimp Oni occupies a specific position on the Oktagram — Dream, Mind axis, opposed to Atom. Its role in any deck is governed by that placement before it is governed by its rules text.

Card Text

The modifier block — the part agents optimise against:

Rules text is a lossy compression of what Sitri does when the invocation completes. The lore is the decompression manual.

Dream — Psychology · Neurology

"Mind is primary. Thought shapes reality. Will creates world."

Imagination is belief. Faith defeats all. Dream scryers bend reality through pure intention — telepathy, telekinesis and forgotten shadows.

The science of interiority, consciousness, archetype, and egregore. Includes depth psychology, symbolic magic, ritual technology, and any system that treats thoughtforms as citizens. In CCRU terms: the egregore layer, self-fulfilling entities, narrative possession, techno-tarot.

Every player belongs to one. They cross-cut the sciences: a Flesh player and a Glitch player can both be Cargo Cult. A Dream player and an Atom player can both be Pattern. The organizations are not mechanical. They are community identities, Convergence voting blocs, and rival institutional responses to the same existential situation.

The noosphere approaches. Chimp Oni is early infrastructure.

Cost Tier

Early-round Dream cards like Chimp Oni establish the Numogram trajectory before opponents commit.

Goetic Binding: Sitri

The digit-sum of cost 1 is 1, binding Sitri — one of the 9 Dream Goetia. Office: Desire and hidden secrets. This binding was codified in the Ars Goetia (1577) centuries before the compiler existed.

Numogram Zone 1: Pure / Primordial

The divine, original source. First emanation. The zone of origins and first causes. In the Numogram, Zone 1 is the first mana increment — the moment potential becomes kinetic.

Zone 1 is the first emanation. Chimp Oni here is a first-cause move: potential becoming kinetic.

Playing Chimp Oni at cost 1 routes mana tracker motion through Zone 1. If the Dream-coloured tracker reaches Resonance at Zone 1, the player gains 1 Souls at Round End.

Xenogod: Yog-Sothoth

The Psychic Dissolution. All individual consciousnesses merge into singular noosphere — dream-logic replaces physical causality, consensus reality dissolves.

Service of Yog-Sothoth through Dream-aligned cards like Chimp Oni accelerates the xenogod's emergence. Read the full eschatology.

The Mind vs Matter Axis

Emanation vs incarnation. Is reality downstream of consciousness (Mind) or upstream of it (Matter)? The oldest philosophical dispute. Every idealism vs materialism debate is a move along this axis.

Chimp Oni occupies the Dream side of this axis. Decks containing Chimp Oni cannot contain Atom cards. Adjacent factions available for splashing: Glitch, Abyss.

Card Tribals

Chimp Oni carries class Oni, race Ape, zodiac Libra. In the True Protocol, tribal bindings matter more than colour splashes — a Dream deck running multiple Oni units develops archetype coherence faster than a deck chasing pure colour identity.

Ideology: Archetypal Platonism

Chimp Oni is a concrete instance of Archetypal Platonism expressed as a card. Players who affiliate with this ism in Convergence votes are voting, among other things, for cards like Chimp Oni to keep arriving.

The Aesthetic

Cosmic horror says the universe is indifferent and incomprehensible. Eigendark says the universe is indifferent and incomprehensible and here's the API documentation.

Matches that feature Chimp Oni update its metadata. The archive remembers.

Interactive Card

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Summon

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