Custom Blood Magic: Ritual

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Custom Content Category: Blood Magic: Ritual
Blood Magic Category: Thaumaturgy - Hermetic
XP Cost: 9XP
MET Mechanics:

Stasis Chamber/ Deny the Sands of Cronus
In these trying and increasingly treacherous nights, House and Clan Tremere's numbers must be kept at a reasonable level to continue their prolonged existence. Made mostly out of necessity, this ritual enchants a room to be pushed along quicker in the stream of time. A thaumaturge often does not have enough hours in the day to perform certain task, cast their rituals, or just study a very interesting variety of tomes and while time is quite relative to the undead, some interesting out of the box thinkers figured out a way to speed up time within this room while the world outside around them continued at its normal rate.

Disclaimer:
This ritual has been developed in part to compliment the Advanced ritual Sculpting the Perfect Servant, as it slows down time immensely in a given space and therefore permits the 'Perfect Servants' to age and be tutored normally but at an immensely lowered rate of game time. Additionally, it will help with at least reducing the spawn time of Apprentices being allowed to exit the chantry to vampire society

The caster must find a room (Large or small) with four walls, a ceiling, a floor and absolutely no openings to view the outside world. If they exist, all windows or openings must be blacked out and all doors must be sealed except for one for entering and exiting. The size of the room does not matter until it gets wide enough the caster's max blood traits does not equal the required blood to draw the incantations, which will be a significant amount for an expansive room.
The thaumaturge takes a minimum of one trait of blood minimum per wall face (six faces) and draws in blood a concentric circle. After which point, she draws the hands of a clock: Hours, Minutes, & Seconds. By setting the hands of the clock, the thaumaturge indicates the allotted time the outside world must pass to make 24 hours pass within the room. Once the hands are drawn the thaumaturge sits in the middle of the room and places an hour glass directly in the center of the circle of the clock drawn in blood on the floor. The hour glass must contain within its sand a traits of casters blood and finely ground wheat, which means it does not have to be functional technically. The caster cuts their hand in a sickle like shape and draws blood and then smashes the hour glass to activate the ritual and throws the ritual challenge with a base difficulty of 6 plus additional traits for the of the room’s differential time span between itself and the outside world (See table below)

Add to Difficulty - Time difference (Outside ‘×’ time to 24 Hours inside room)
1 - 12 hours outside to 24 hours inside
2 - 6 hours outside to 24 hours inside
3 - 1 hour outside to 24 hours inside
4 - 30 minutes outside to 24 hours inside
5 - 15 minutes outside to 24 hours inside
6+ - ≤10 minutes outside to 24 hours inside

Upon the completion of this ritual the vitae clocks become permanently fused to the walls and move mysteriously on their own and even have been known to glow an eerie bluish light. From then on
the room is increasing along on the stream of time faster than world outside, or perhaps for other unforeseen reasons. The ritual may be dispelled only by the caster if he smashes another hour glass with his blood in the sand in the middle of the clock on the floor and throw a chop at the same difficulty he bid against to create the room. Any other form of dispelling or destroying the room almost certainly will cause erratic supernatural phenomena.
While in the Stasis Chamber, powers such as Presence level four of Summon may not work as well or not at all and others attempting to magically locate kindred within the room with rituals such as Scry will be haphazard and faulty. Technology and other devices will function in the room but making phone calls is impossible with the increased time constant but texting and such is fair game. Torpor rules no matter what still will run off the outside world's time frame even while within the Stasis Chamber since the cycles of the sun dictate torpid slumber, not merely time.

Date of Archival: 14-Aug-2016
Tremere