Custom Blood Magic: Ritual

Iron Maiden (Intermediate - 3)

As the Iron main closes you feel your skin crawl as the needles press the first point into you. Then they slowly begin to pierce and tear through the flesh, and that’s when you realize what true pain feels like. Every inch of your body is pierced with needles. It’s all your mind can think about. Your mind begins to focus on nothing but the pain. No sound, no sight. Just the pain that the mother has chosen to give you.

Mechanics: Spend a willpower and enter into the chamber. The chamber closes around you and you take 2 lethal which can not be soaked.  After the damage has been taken your mind begins to meditate on what you must do. Your senses are dulled all except for the pain. The longer you stay in the worse this ritual becomes.  After 1 night your hearing deafens, acquiring the flaw Deaf. After 2 nights your voice becomes hoarse from the screaming and you become mute. After 3 nights you start hallucinating and seeing things that aren’t really there. However this does have a purpose. Once you leave the chamber you may inflict these effects on someone for the evening. You must have line of sight, or a sympathetic link. The Bahari must stab their hand, bleeding two blood traits and throwing them onto the iron maiden and scream out the name of their victim. When you next see this victim a contested Mental Challenge (Retest Torture) risking 1-3 mental traits equal to the effects you wish to invoke, against the victim.  If the user wins, all 3 effects happen to the victim.  If the user ties, the victim becomes deaf and blind, if the user loses, the victim begins to hallucinate as if under the effects of Haunting, additionally the Lilin begins to suffer the effects instead and the victim is immune to further attempts for one month.