Ritual: Sea Shanty
Cost: 2 minor charges.
Ritual Action: Sever a limb. Doesn’t matter which one but the minimum loss should be a hand or a foot. Replace the missing extremity with a crude wooden prosthetic. Daub a small glyph that looks like a bipedal pig on the stump of the missing body part in the blood of someone estranged from their entire immediate family (with at least one member still living).
To activate the ritual sing “A-Roving”, the oldest recorded capstan sea shanty, on a repetitive loop. So long as you keep singing the effect will be maintained.
This ritual can be cast multiple times but each casting requires a fresh mutilation. You may remove more of a limb provided the new cut goes to the next joint.
Effect: Foul weather will not impede you or any vehicle you crew. It won’t be all sunshine and rainbows, but your survival and journey is guaranteed. Flying an airliner through a hurricane is possible under the effect of this ritual, for example. This provides no more help with navigation than you would be able to accomplish in normal conditions, so it won’t help you if you’re lost.
While the effect is active any missing extremities with provide you with phantom sensations of what to do next, minor course adjustments and the like. In some circumstances this goes so far as to seem to temporarily grant use of the missing parts. Fail to heed these directions at your peril.
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