Ritual: Snowbound
Cost: 4 minor charges.
Ritual Action: Go outside during the first instance of snow in the winter season of your region. Build a snowman as tall as you are, place three items symbolising: your identity (like a birth certificate) in its base, your connection to your closest (highest rated) bond in its chest, and your obsession in its head. Strip naked, dressing it in your clothes as you build it. Finally (still naked) perform some version of an initiation rite for a religion that you belong to with the snowman as the subject (you). If you don’t belong to a religion that has that or cannot physically perform it on a snowman you’re ineligible for the effect.
Effect: Got a curse bothering you? Whether it’s a gutter magick whammy or a supernatural wasting disease you can temporarily deflect it on your snow doppelganger. You’ll be free of that temporary penalty or your skin will stop sloughing off as long as it’s in one piece. Effects that would damage a snowman will erode your creation at a rate the GM deems appropriate but otherwise it’s as durable as anything made out of snow. You can shore it up with naturally occurring snow, but that only counts if you do it. I wouldn’t try using freezer crust.
This curse binding lasts until either the snowman is destroyed (damaged sufficiently that it would be life threatening to a real person), the end of winter, or you leaving the region. It also diminishes you a little while it’s active. Once per session the GM has the option of choosing to either place a -10% shift on a roll or deny the use of a passion (expending it). People who’ve experienced this describe it as being a little like a temporary sense of seasonal affective disorder and awareness of their life’s impermanence.
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