Cost: 3+ minor charges.
Ritual Action: Take an empty bottle of alcoholic spirits which you drank yourself and fill it with a combination of three of the following: sea water, your own urine or blood, lemon juice squeezed from lemons fertilized by an animal carcass, volcanic ash, used motor oil, and balsamic vinegar. Do not use the same combination in any future castings. Add a handful of rosemary and iron nails (if the nails were pulled from a coffin gain a +10% shift to your ritual roll).
Hide it somewhere. Burying it under your house is good as is stuffing it under some floorboards or drywall, since it’ll take 3 nights of sleeping within 3 yards of it for the protection to take hold and you won’t want anyone finding it. On the third night spend the charges and roll to see if the ritual succeeds.
Effect: Until the beginning of the next lunar month you gain limited protection against remote magickal attacks. All curses, blasts and other deleterious hexing suffers a -20% shift if cast beyond the range of conventional eyesight. Further, if any of these attacks would cost an attacker charges on a success those charges are lost on a failure too. This second effect absorbs charges up to the amount originally invested in the ritual. If that amount is exceeded you lose your protection permanently.
The bottle’s protective powers can be refreshed by spending the first 3 nights of a lunar month sleeping within 3 yards of it. You remain unprotected during this period but at its conclusion the ritual is automatically refreshed until the beginning of the next lunar month, as is its charge absorbing capacity (you can’t add to that though, so spend up big the first time). If you miss a month you need to start over with a new bottle.
If anyone gains physical possession of your witches bottle you lose your protection until you get it back. Anyone who has it also gets a +20% shift to fling negative magick your way, if they’re willing to swig a mouthful of it before casting they can also flip-flop the roll. If it is destroyed you cannot create a new one for a year.
Old witches bottles have one other use: if they belonged to someone who has become a demon the contents can be used to control them while in possession of a host. Splashing them provokes an opposed roll Urge vs. Secrecy (or an adept, avatar or supernatural identity). Success compels the demon to follow one verbal instruction for no greater than 3 days. The instruction can be as complicated as you like so long as you can deliver it before the demon fitfully wipes themselves dry.
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