Cost: 2 minor charges.
Ritual Action: Dig a hole, at least 4 feet deep and large enough to contain something you want to hide (pile of stolen bearer bonds, dead great-aunt, high-school diaries, etc.) but don’t have yet in a location at least a mile from any other living person. Afterwards if you’re in the northern hemisphere either use a kamidana at your home or travel to a Shinto shrine to pray, do not mention or consider your task and follow all the normal religious protocols. If you’re in the southern hemisphere it’s easier, pray to Saint Adjutor over the hole you’ve just dug. Again, don’t mention or consider your task.
Go and get the thing, bring it to the hole and bury it without being caught. Do not engage in an act of worship, either Shinto or Catholic, ever again. Other religions aren’t restricted.
Effect: Two effects. First, any rolls to find the hidden thing are at a -20% shift so long as you do not breach the religious practices requirement. Secondly, the first three stress checks (if any) you would take recovering the thing and bringing it to the hole are delayed until you have completed the ritual. Once you’ve covered in that last bit of dirt they all come at once but until then you’re as cool as a cucumber. If at any point during the recovery you decide against going through with the ritual or are kept from doing so (minor delays are okay, getting thrown in a holding cell is not) it fails and any checks mitigated so far come rushing in.
Ritual Action: Dig a hole, at least 4 feet deep and large enough to contain something you want to hide (pile of stolen bearer bonds, dead great-aunt, high-school diaries, etc.) but don’t have yet in a location at least a mile from any other living person. Afterwards if you’re in the northern hemisphere either use a kamidana at your home or travel to a Shinto shrine to pray, do not mention or consider your task and follow all the normal religious protocols. If you’re in the southern hemisphere it’s easier, pray to Saint Adjutor over the hole you’ve just dug. Again, don’t mention or consider your task.
Go and get the thing, bring it to the hole and bury it without being caught. Do not engage in an act of worship, either Shinto or Catholic, ever again. Other religions aren’t restricted.
Effect: Two effects. First, any rolls to find the hidden thing are at a -20% shift so long as you do not breach the religious practices requirement. Secondly, the first three stress checks (if any) you would take recovering the thing and bringing it to the hole are delayed until you have completed the ritual. Once you’ve covered in that last bit of dirt they all come at once but until then you’re as cool as a cucumber. If at any point during the recovery you decide against going through with the ritual or are kept from doing so (minor delays are okay, getting thrown in a holding cell is not) it fails and any checks mitigated so far come rushing in.
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