Custom Blood Magic: Ritual

Challenge: Social (Retest Occult)

Cost: “X” Temp. willpower, equal to the level of virtue restored.

Duration: Scene

Difficulty: Static: Triple the Level of the Virtue Level Violation

Notes: This Ritual may only be used on another target;

Effect: If successful the Target restores a permanently lost Virtue Trait, so long as “Penance” is performed in the same session/night in which it is lost.  This ritual has no effect on Morality Traits.  After the Ritual is successful, the Samedi is considered temporarily 1 less in the restored virtue for as many days as the level restored.  This ritual may not be used on the same Target within X game sessions for the same Virtue - where X equals the level of virtue restored.

Shepherding one’s community is no easy task.  Loco & Ayizan are no strangers to this either.  It is through them the first Hougan and Mambo whom you call upon for their ages of experience and power.  For if anyone could heal the mind it is them.

Loco & Ayizan, even more so than Papa Legba are very formal and very traditional - thus easier to offend, Naturally gifts always go a long way..   Although the Loa will help the Samedi’s community  They must hear aloud what individual has done.  Why they have done it.  How they could avoid it.  Lastly; how they will endeavor to be better.  

Once they are satisfied, Loco will grant his permission for the individual to be marked.  The Samedi then creates a paste from Cornmeal, Wood Ash, and both their and the targets blood.   As it is mixed, and chanted over it thins to a paint like consistency and has a rough texture.   Loco’s Veve is then put over the Targets chest. The ritual is concluded as the Samedi then places their hand over the veve and thanks the loa for their aid.

The Target experiences a brief possession, as Loco Passes through their body, as if their entire essence takes a few moments to “no longer be in the driver seat” and a feeling that all that they are is channeled through the veve, into the Samedi’s hand. During this Loco may be seen by the Target, and the Samedi as a Ghostly irredecent soft light that passes from one body, into the next.  When the Samedi removes their hand the veve is gone (as it is now on the Samedi’s chest)  After the fact, Loco leaves the target with a parting memory that although he has healed them; their transgression was passed to their priest so that it may no longer be theirs to burden.  Let it be a lesson that nothing is without cost, and your Priest has paid yours.