Custom Blood Magic: Ritual
Some chronicles allow for their players to develop customized powers for their characters. The following is a compilation of player created custom content in OWBN. At this time, custom content that is created and/or used by vampire PC's is required to be listed.
Time to complete ritual: 30 minutes
Difficulty: Intermediate
How it works:
The caster holds a pen with the premade ink onto a blank page of papyrus when they initiate casting. The caster must have a photo, personal item, or vitae of target.
The ritual takes 30 minutes of concentration upon the intended subject. If successful, the caster then draws an accurate map of the current location of the subject that can only be seen by the caster. The papyrus will only show incoherent lines to anyone but the caster. If unsuccessful, the lines are also incoherent to the caster.
Ritual is susceptible to misdirection due to the use of Obfuscate: Mask of 1000 faces if the individual who is using Mask of 1000 has burned the appropriate traits to duplicate the exact likeness of the target. The individual traced by the caster is up to ST discretion if there is another individual enacting Mask of 1000 faces in exact duplication of the intended target.
Necessary components:
Papyrus paper:
Can be modern forms or handmade style. Size is unimportant; could be bound into a notebook for sake of ease for the user.
Hand made ink (dark red in color): Prepared before using ritual
- Uses one point of the caster's vitae to create, and the point is not able to be regained by the caster until the completion of the ritual.
- Is made of a mixture of mashed berries, vinegar, salt, and the caster's vitae. (The berry mixture was a commonly used style of ink making for ink pens, and can still be used today)
- Can either be in a quill or modern ink pen.
The item, blood, or photo:
The item that is to be used as an empathetic link to the target is to be burned, and the ashes mixed into the ink before ritual is cast. Blood is just mixed into the ink as is.
Photos are required to have been taken using a camera that predates the 1950’s, and processed using the required techniques employed in a black room for the film styles used at that time. Can not use digitally acquired photographs, nor images printed on modern printers.
Required abilities:
Crafts: Cartography, Photography (if using photographs)
Empathy x1