Custom Blood Magic: Ritual

Rite of the Carrion Crow (Intermediate - 3)

Members of the Cult of Lilith seek to commune with the Children of Lilith, many of whom are believed to have been destroyed ages ago. Through this ritae, the Cult of Lilith is able to uncover secrets lost to the world from the time before history was recorded. The Cult practices sacred Burial rites to those members who have passed, in hopes that future members of the Cult may come upon them to teach the history and lessons of the Cult.

System: This ritual has two effects. Firstly it may be used on a Cult of Lilith member who is still “alive”. When the member dies they will pass on, but their ability to aid the cult does not end. They may now be used for the rest of this ritual (this is largely a role-play mechanic). The Second part of the ritae allows you to summon back a member of the Cult who has undergone this ritual to help pass along wisdom, history, and insight into the cult itself. The user receives visions from a dead member of the cult. The result of which allows the caster to ask the deceased member of the cult one question in relation to the Cult of Lilith. For the remainder of the scene after using this ritae, the Cult of Lilith member may spend a number of Mental Traits (maximum of 5) to raise either his Occult Ability rating or Lore: Ba’hari by one for each mental trait spent. This bonus may go over the characters allowed generational maximum.

Require a tree that is grown around and over a kindred. Magic may be used to grow the tree around the kindred.
A blasphemous ritual is performed from midnight to just before dawn. At dawn the sun destroys the vampire as it normally would. The next morning, and every morning after this will cause a ghostly reenactment of the kindred burning to death.

From this point forward the dead tree is a haunt of a level equal to the dots in generation of the sacrificed Kindred. Each casting of this ritual causes the kindred to sacrifice a number of social traits equal to the level of the haunt created. These social traits may be rebought. You may not have more Haunts active than half your path rating rounded down

The Curses of the Rom are both devastating and virulent. The removal of such curses is often impossible to downright maddening for the afflicted. This has lead the Jati of the Ravnos to seek extreme measures for how to clear these curses from themselves and their allies. Partnering with the Sadhu of the Sabbat, one connived a way to trick the Romany of the world, to take on the curse of their own. By combining the arts of misdirection, Sadhanna, trickery, and some good old fashion drugs, the Sadhu will spend night after night convincing the sacrifice that they are here to save their one true love. Once broken, the sacrafice will offer up their own life willingly to the one afflicted by the curse, and in doing so, take the curse into themselves and onto their next life.

Mechanics:
The ritual will require the following items and space. An area equal to 10ftx10ft must be secured. The location needs to be clear of sunlight and facilitated at least one story underground for the duration of the ritual. A poultice will need to be created from the blood of the caster, the afflicted, and mixed with hallucinogenic drugs, chief among them is  Soma. A single poultice will need to be created each night until the cast is complete.  Finally the sacrificial target must be a True Blooded Rom.

Each night the caster will engage with the sacrifice by making them drink the poultice and weaving the magic.

After 3 nights the caster engages in a contested mental challenge with the afflicted, retest with occult.  If the ritual succeeds, the curse is then taken from the afflicted and transferred to the sacrifice. The curse lingers and follows the sacrifice into their next life, particularly powerful curses may linger along the family line of the sacrifice at ST discretion.

If the ritual fails, the sacrifice dies without taking on the curse and the caster must throw two simple tests. If they fail both simple tests, the curse spreads to the caster. The caster suffers full effects and duration of the original curse.

Advanced Ritual
Time Required: Thirty minutes.
Duration: One Night
Components: Possession of item from ‘mirror’.
Prerequisites:
Thaumaturgy: Path of Blood – Potency of Blood
Disciplines: Obfuscate: Mask of 1000 Faces; Presence: Entrancement
Ability: Occult – 3; Subterfuge – 2

Drawing on the hermetic teachings of sympathetic magic and constructive reality, this ritual creates a mirrored image to envelop the caster and cause her to appear as someone else entirely. Unlike the powers of Mask of 1000 Faces, this ritual allows the caster to ‘mask’ completely as the mirrored person – regardless of size, shape, sex, or distance from the caster.

The caster must collect an item from a person who will then act as a ‘mirror’ for their ritual.  The caster must discover and take into possession an intimate object of the ‘mirror’ or a piece of their body, such as a large lock of hair or a removed finger.  After the ritual is cast with the item, the caster uses this ‘mirror’ as their default mask when using the Mask of 1000 discipline.  They must continue to spend a mental trait to assume a different mask, and they will no longer have the option of choosing the usual unidentifiable visage that comes free with the power.

When the mask is activated, the caster will appear exactly as the ‘mirror’ appears at that same point in time.  They will have the same clothing, same five o’clock shadow, same ketchup stain on their chin, etc.  Once the image is captured, the caster may then carry on as she would and the image matches her own actions and words.  At this point, the image is no longer dependent on the ‘mirror,’ so that if the ‘mirror’ suddenly takes his clothes off, the caster will not be unexpectedly standing in Elysium in the buff.  If the mask is dropped for any reason, the image is recaptured when the power is reactivated and a new image is gained based on that new time.  

For example, Ivan the Thaumaturgical takes a lock of Susie’s hair while she is sleeping.  Susie is a twelve-year-old girl from Sheboygan.   Ivan casts the ritual three nights later in his chambers while holding the lock of hair.  Later that evening, he goes to the area pinball arcade where foul dealings are suspected in the back alley.  When he activates his Mask of 1000 Faces, his default mask is Susie.  He now looks like a 5’3” 12 year old girl wearing jeans and a Brittany Spears t-shirt.  He camouflages well in the crowd of teenagers and spies on the group that is congregating in the alley.  Half an hour later, Ivan has to drop his Mask to report to his allies.  After reporting, he masks again as Susie to return to his observations.  Unfortunately, it is a little late by now, and Susie is in pink pajamas and has toothpaste on her chin.  Ivan captures the image and finds himself suddenly very conspicuous and has to retreat.

A Tremere may have a stock of items useful in creating numerous ‘mirrors’ though she may only activate one ‘mirror’ at a time and must recast the thirty-minute ritual again to change to another ‘mirror.’

This ritual has never been known to work with non-sentient creatures or items, though it has been tested successfully on other vampires and garou.