Custom Blood Magic: Ritual

Advanced Akhu Ritual

The essence of a barren person in form of some sort of fluid method must be mixed into the milk of Set, taken in a method that is representative of reproduction of some sort (it can be as minimal as a kiss for the sake of not violating boundaries OOC). Once mixed, it must be kept next to a head of lettuce for three days. Over the course of those three days, the color will drain from the lettuce and appear in the vial holding the base milk of set. This milk will be okay to use for a month, but then will expire. When prepping to use, the intended consumer writes their name on a piece of easily dissolved rice paper and puts it inside of the container that holds it. However they would represent reproduction, they must take or gesture out that action before they consume the vial. 

For the next week, the consumer is not afflicted by the flaws: Cannot Embrace or Infertile Vitae, and therefore may embrace. However, for the next month after consuming the Milk of Set, the consumer has bright red hair, much like Set, as well as the Bestial Trait: Snake Eyes that cannot be obfuscated by mundane or supernatural means.

Intermediate

Seshat, Daughter/Wife of Thoth ((Stories greatly conflict in this area)), is a Goddess ((Aeon)) rarely worshiped, but who touches the lives of every man, woman, and child every day. She is the Goddess of Astronomy/Astrology, mathematics, and measurement of time.

Sealing away Seshat is a Milk of Set to distance oneself or another from the influence of Seshat, who has locked us into a never ending cycle of rules and mandates dictated by clocks, watches, and timepieces everywhere, and thus enforces and strengthens the law and order imposed by Ma'at.

For the eternal, the strict adherence to the concept of time, the measurement of which was invented by Seshat and taught to mortals, only stands in the way of their progress and development.

To anyone under the effects of Sealing away Seshat, there is little difference between an hour, day, week, or month. If they do not choose to spend the willpower to stay awake during the day, they will awake the next evening feeling as if they had just dozed off for a moment, and should they happen to glance at the newspaper to note the change of days, within minutes they will simply forget their revelation.

To create a  preparation of Sealing away Seshat, the Lector-Priest must create an infusion of Skullcap, Valerian, Blue Lotus petal, and Psilocybin mushrooms, all of which have a notable effect on how the body perceives time. This is added to ink, bestowing upon any book written with it a measure of it's power. A book, scroll, or other document so inscribed will confound the readers sense of time until the reader has finished reading it in it's entirety, and the reader will be unable to skim or skip through it, as the trance causes them to read and understand every word. Nothing short of a situation in which the reader is placed in direct danger will awaken them from the trance caused by reading the book. This application does not, however, increase or decrease the amount of time the reader will take to read said book. After this effect has ended, the effect of the Milk shall be used up, however as the ink remains in the pages, should the book be soaked in a preparation of Sealing away Seshat, the book will 'drink' the Milk in to recover it's properties until read again. This may also be done to add additional uses to the book.

While under the influence of Sealing away Seshat, which lasts up to one week per preparation, the imbiber will have no concept of the passing of time. There are a number of benefits and drawbacks to this, many of which are at Storyteller discretion, however it is advised that the character only needs to spend 1 willpower for every 3 hours to stay awake during the day, so long as they are never exposed to combat or take damage, which will instantly negate this benefit. Sealing away Seshat has no ability to mitigate or reduce the effects of exposure to sunlight, however if the user remains indoors they may very well not realize that night has become day, and vice versa, and may continue their activities unhindered by the lethargy caused by the sunrise.

A sticky coating of the milk is applied to a single object. The object must be able to be carried or worn by a single person, or no more than 25-50 lbs. If the object is tampered with, opened, or forcibly removed while being worn by any but the owner of the object (specified at creation) the object is destroyed irreversibly by the coating.

The object must be placed in a sarcophagus with a layer of embalming fluid for one night's time, resembling the process of mummification. If the object is removed or the sarcophagus unsealed before this time, the object and fluid are destroyed. The embalming fluid must be prepared for one week in advance within the sarcophagus before the preservation of the item. Upon the opening of the sarcophagus the lector priest must win a static social challenge vs. the number of traits of the item, or a contested social challenge if the item is a fetish or fetter of any sort against the inhabitant. A failure destroys mundane items outright, and an inhabitant will be released which may cause it to attack.

(Advanced, requires observation of Aye and Orun to learn

According to the Yoruben faith and many African religions, the mortal world of Aye and the spirit world of Orun together make up the fabric of this world.  It is through this interconnection of the worlds that Shamans place their blessings and curses upon the members and lands of their communities.  As creatures of both worlds, vampires form a bridge between the two, fully functioning only when they are attuned to both worlds.  This potion creates a hazy disruptive distortion in the world of Orun around the inbiber, eating it's way through their aura into the surrounding area and isolating them from emanations originating in the spirit world.

System:  this odorless, nearly invisible silvery liquid tastes vaguely of iron and water.  It is collected like dew by leaving a consecrated phial invested with up to 3 traits of the caster's willpower in a place of spiritual death, devoid of life or activity on any layer of existence besides the mundane realm.  Should a single entity other than the harvester enter the phial's vicinity during the month it takes to collect, the potion will be ruined.  Likewise, if the vial is ever unstoppered it will be ruined at the end of the scene if it has not been consumed.

Once per night when consumed, tendrils of spiritual annulment spread through the drinker's veins, and into their aura, from which they leak out into the surrounding worlds.  For the duration of one scene or hour, the first magical effects, (up to a number equal to the willpower spent at casting) targeting the imbiber will fail to take hold as their pattern is cut off from the the arcane energies that weave and empower such effects. 

Any magic that would cause purely instant, direct, mundane damage is unaffected by this power, as it is manifested at the caster's location rather than the imbiber's.  Arcane healing effects on the drinker, however, are negated entirely.  Disciplines, like vampires, function on both Aye and Orun, and thus are unaffected, but thaumaturgy is.  As a side effect of this potion, the imbiber's self-control/instinct is considered 1 lower for the duration of the effect as their centering is disrupted by the spiritual imbalance surrounding them.

This potion only takes effect when it enters the system through consumption, which may be done once per combat round as a reflexive action.  Forcing someone else to consume a potion requires an action and a physical challenge.