Ritual: Cracking the Soul
Cost: 1 significant charge.
Ritual Action: Take candles made from the fat of turkeys which never touched the ground or saw the sun and a minimum of 13 mirrors manufactured before October 7th, 1849. In complete privacy sit in contemplation of your visage reflected in one of the mirrors lit only by the light of the candles from sundown to sunup. Do not look away from the mirror at any point. At daybreak recite a specific latin taunt declaring mastery over life and death and shatter the mirror.
Repeat this every night. After a week your reflection will change subtly, this an indicator that the ritual is working. After a few more days it will begin speaking to you, it knows everything that you do and will beg, cajole and threaten against completing the ritual. Do not look away from the mirror at any point.
Every night from the 13th onward there is a chance for the ritual to come to an end, when the mirror is broken if the pieces retain a shattered likeness you have succeeded. Eat the pieces of that mirror, do not let them pass outside of your body. Die. After death your remains need to be placed in a body of water with a reputation for healing. Then, if you succeeded, the ritual will take effect.
Effect: You become a demon. You didn’t go through the usual ‘death winnowing you down to your dying obsession’ business so you don’t have an Urge, which means you’re pretty crap at everything with only 20% to roll against. Them's the breaks when you stack the deck against passing beyond the veil. All other aspects of demonhood function as normal. If your remains are removed from the place they were placed for the ritual the effect is broken and you dissipate into nothing. Welcome to your afterlife.
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