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.
This creates a tracer program that is activated if anyone attempts to break into a system guarded by "Keep Out!" Once activated, this program instantaneously provides the "hackers" real IP address, and maps this address to the ISP (city and state) providing that IP. Duration is a number of weeks equal to the caster's Willpower at the time of casting.
Required to be cast from within the system: Path of Technomancy - Remote Access is required
Intermediate Ritual
This ritual allows the caster to tranfers the ability to make use of an enchanted item from themself to another cainite. By coating the item in a blood trait from another vampire, which is consumed in the casting, attunement of a single item is given to that cainite. The caster of thos ritual loses their own attunement to the item in the process.
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Intermediate Ritual
The caster must place the book to be copied on a flat surface. A tray must be placed on top of the book and filled with a mixture of one trait of vitae and 20ml of black ink per hundred pages to be copied. A blank book of the same size or larger (length, width, and page count) must then be placed into the ink.
The caster then chants the incantation for twenty minutes, drawing a copy of the knowledge from the first book up into the second and awakening the blood in the ink, causing it to bind the ink on the pages and copying all information (text, images, writing, etc) from the original book.
Nothing can be omitted, added, or changed except for the following: As the contents are being copied, as long as the caster can understand the language that the original text was written in he can cause the text to take the form of another language that he is fluent with. Regardless of how many languages were present in the original text, if the caster is changing any of the languages during the ritual he can only select one language for the modified copy. (For example: If the original was in spanish, french, and english and the caster chooses to change any or all of the languages then all of the changed language must be in a single language.) He can choose not to change a language that he understands but if he decides to change any language, all of that language in the book will be modified to the new language. Any text that he does not understand in the book is copied exactly as it appears in the original and cannot be changed. Any text with a magical effect active upon it will fail to be copied.
Using the principles of alchemy, chemistry and physics, the Thaumaturge causes his skin to take on the properties on an object. Transmogrification Indurate uses the properties of a hard object and strengthens the bonds between molecules of the caster’s skin, causing it to become hard and resilient. Once the skin is broken however, the ritual immediately ends and the recipient is left without it’s protection. The Thaumaturge must have an undamaged figurine of either metal or stone each time the ritual is cast.
System: The Thaumaturge holds an undamaged figurine of either metal or stone against his exposed skin and chants for 10 minutes. Slowly the hardness of the figurine transfers to the Thaumaturge, whose skin takes on a barely noticeable stony or metallic coloration and texture. When the ritual is complete, the figure, having transferred it’s hardness to the recipient, crumbles into useless powder. The recipient gains one health level of ‘natural armor’ to represent hardening of the skin. The ritual ends immediately once the health level of ‘natural armor’ is lost, and as such it cannot be healed once lost, but the ritual may be recast.
Turning lead into gold has been a long sought after hermetic formulae, and those who have practiced it have met with various results. The essence of this ritual takes those failed results and puts them into a practical use, if only for a limited time.
Transmutable imagery will take an object and change the appearance (and only the appearance, none of the other qualities of the intended substance) of its components to that of another element or substance. Lead into gold, plastic into wood, stone into glass, wood into metal, etc.... This ritual takes 15 minutes to cast, and requires the consumption of a portion of the transmuted substance by the caster, a single drop of the caster’s blood is dripped onto the object which then takes on that substance’s appearance until sunrise.
Advanced Ritual
Description:
System: An empty trap, typically based on Pandora's Box, though other forms can be made, may be activated to pull in incorporeal Fallen with a ranged Physical Challenge (retest Occult). Once inside the trap, Fallen are incapable of using Evocations. This includes Infernal servants such as imps and hellhounds. The Demonic Trappings last a number of Weeks equal to the Casters Permanent Willpower at the time of Casting. The incorporeal demon does not regain traits or willpower while imprisoned. The Thaumaturge may not communicate with the Demon inside the trap without opening the trap and releasing the infernal entity. Some powerful demons may be the exception to this and may attempt to make deals for their freedom. Stays active until triggered.
Cost: 1 Blood and 1 WP to cast
Using this ritual, The necromancer creates a Candelabra that may be used to bestow the ability to consume mortal food / drink / etc. The necromancer begins by binding any wraith to a silver Candelabra. Then, with a mixture of a pint of their own vitae and an amount of candle wax, they create the candle that will be used to finalize the binding and make the item permanent. The candle is set into the middle fixture of the Candelabra and lit. As the wax burns, a point of willpower is spent by the Giovanni as they chant an Italian blessing of hearth and home. The ritual takes 8 hours to complete and once the candle is fully burned out, the wraith is destroyed o itOs essence used to fuel the enchantment. From then on, when any candles are placed in the Candelabra, As long as there are candles burning, people around the table and in the room are able to eat / drink / consume as if they were mortal. The experience provides the same sensations and pleasures that it would if the participants were mortal and living. The effects last for about 8 hours after the candles stop burning as long as the person has been sitting around or near the candelabra for at least an hour.
This ritual must be recast on the Candelabra once a year, as the soul has been fully consumed by the magic.
Typhoid Mary (Advanced - 5)
The Bahari have long been developing their abilities to use the poisons of nature and the ways of their Dark Mother. Upon command of the Bahari, they have been able to bring forth a power of both dark magic and the ability of the thorn magic they have harnessed.
Mechanics: Using your own inner spirit, the target melds their body with the very stuff made of tangible life magics of the Verbena. Your body starts to take on the shape of a plant-like creature sprouting forth vine-like tentacles and thorns all around your torso. You must expend two blood traits and a social trait to evoke this power. You immediately sprout forth four vines just like the power of Black Metamorphosis. The thorns upon your body exude a certain poisonous ichor that when touched gives the target the negative physical trait: Sickly, as their body starts to become weak and feeble. .You may make one additional assault at the end of each turn by using the vines, in addition to any strikes that you normally gain or make with Celerity. You gain the bonus traits: Intimidating x2 and Tenacious x2 while taking on this aspect of the Dark Mother and the naturalistic side of her emulation. Damage from the tentacles is 1 lethal and the loss of 1 physical trait as the poison works it’s way through your body. The form power lasts for a scene or an hour.
Prerequisite: Must know Typhon's Brew
Required ingredient: Nile River water
The basic process for this ritual is the same as preparing Typhon's Brew. However, the only difference is that Nile river water (properly filtered) is added to the mix in order to dilute the alcohol content and reduce the taste of vitae severely. Nile river water is necessary in order to maintain the mystical power of the infused vitae in the liquid so that vampires can still consume it without immediately becoming violently ill. The result would be a lightly red tinted clear brew that has a 1% alcohol proof and only the mild tinge of vitae taste.
Mechanics: With such a diluted brew it negates the blood point regaining originally found in Typhon's Brew so that ghouls and vampires cannot gain a blood point, no matter how much they drink of it. As per Typhon's Brew, this mixture cannot cause blood bonds.
Must have the Unconquered Ritae, La shay' haqiqah, koulo shay' moumkin cast upon them
This ritual allows for a pebble taken from the Unconquered Alamut to be used identically as a pebble from the Eagle's Nest for the purposes of using Pebble From the Mountain. As the Unconquered have reclaimed what they call home and the trip to the true Alamut is a danger to many, the Unconquered Sorcerers created a means to replicate it.
System: As per the Basic ritual, Pebble From the Mountain (Blood Magic: Secrets of Thaumaturgy, p. 125, MET translation in the Dur-an-Ki packet), but instead of needing a pebble from the Eagle's Nest, it requires one from the Unconquered Mountain and is an Intermediate level ritual. For this to work the Ashipu MUST have the Unconquered initiation ritae, La shay' haqiqah, koulo shay' moumkin, cast upon them.
This ritual has the same restrictions on it as Pebble From the Mountain in the current Dur-an-Ki packet.
This ritual is designed to bestow a duration to any ritual that the Tremere can cast, or to weaken an effect that the ritual is normally intended. It can only effect a ritual that the ritualist can cast, and only from that caster. The duration can be anywhere from a night, to as long as a year and a day. If used to weaken a rituals effect, you can convert damage to a lesser amount, reduce the amount of traits bestowed, or have it grant no damage or benefit at all. It may give the appearance of the ritual cast, but with no actual effect. Whatever effect you choose (with your ST approval) it must be weaker than the original ritual. It also doesn't change the original ritual's casting level, for instance, it will not change an intermediate to a basic, even with added detriments. Additionally, if this ritual test is failed, test again and if the second test fails the original ritual is destroyed and you must start completely over. Obviously some rituals are not compatible with Unraveling Arcana's Coil.