Tuesday, 24 September 2019

147 - Overbooked

Ritual: Overbooked

Cost: 1+ significant charges.

Ritual Action: By a flight ticket and arrive late enough for boarding that the airline may have given your seat to someone else, but not so late as they could refuse you on tardiness alone. If they have done so kick up a stink and try to get them to compensate you with accommodation. If they hand or email a hotel voucher over to you then you’ll need to get them to verbally affirm that they are doing so of their own free will.


Check in to the hotel, bring food and drink. Eat and drink half of what you brought, leaving the rest on the table. Sleep with the original boarding pass under your pillow.

Effect: For the duration of the flight or until you wake up you share total sensory perception with the person who took your seat. You can’t read their thoughts but you can get a feel for their emotions based on the physical sensations they cause. By spending an additional significant charge while the effect is active you can provoke them to perform simple, brief actions (like standing up, saying a dozen words or punching the guy sitting next to them), they may resist by succeeding against a rank 5 Unnatural check.

By taking advantage of the proxied hospitality granted by the ritual you open yourself up to the same claim. You are automatically possessed by the next demon who tries for a day plus another day for each extra significant charge spent. The only way to avoid this secondary effect is for someone to offer lodging to the demon and convince them to finish the food and drink you started, which ends the possession.

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