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Rituals

Rituals should consist of 60 seconds of appropriate roleplay including talking, unless otherwise noted. Some require a ref, and will say this.

Everyone participating in a ritual spends 2 stamina to do so. More people participating makes it more likely to have a favourable outcome.

Only the leader needs to have the skill for the Ritual. The leader controls the effect and other participants should join in with their form of roleplay.

Your roleplay should fit the intent of the ritual and obvious you are trying to cause some effect. You could raise a revenant by roleplaying embalming a body with a bottle full of symbolic alchemy. You could use a Knowledge ritual by drawing a big, complicated spidergram of evidence.

The intent of the ritual must be clear to anyone who can hear what is going on, but a ritual may be performed quietly.

Rituals take some effort to get it going, but a lot more effort to stop. The only reliable way to stop a ritual is for all participants to stop roleplaying, be dying or suffering from DISRUPT.

If interrupted, you lose any stamina that went in to the ritual.

Repeat rituals

Participating in a repeat of a successful ritual on the same target more than once a day will have unhappy consequences. So the same group can’t use Knowledge 2 to ask about the same subject twice in a day, but they can ask about 2 different subjects.

If you want to do the same ritual with any of the same participants on the same target for a second time that day, you need a ref.

Enhancements

Some rituals create enhancements. These are effects that you can activate with 5 seconds of appropriate roleplay in order to gain a bonus for the next or current encounter. You may activate them once, and then they are gone.

Self-Sacrifice and Rituals

When you harm yourself personally during a ritual, you are devoting your body to your cause or just turning all the safety features off for more power. See here for how to do this.

Improvised Rituals

It is possible to improvise new rituals, although this is risky and unreliable. Mostly, people use the known, safe Rituals. See here for the rules for this. Improvising new rituals requires a ref.

Things Rituals Cannot Do

Rituals cannot:

Resurrect the dead
Teleport living beings or animated objects.
Grant invisibility
Anything that the refs can’t easily physrep given 5 minutes.

The refs will make it clear before you start when you are trying to do the impossible, and you will get a dangerous result if you continue.

Things That Are Really Hard

Indirect Fire. If you can't see it, you can't directly target something painful at it.

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 == Rituals ==
+*{{gloss|Rituals}} should consist of 60 seconds of {{gloss|appropriate roleplay}} including talking, unless otherwise noted. Some require a {{gloss|ref}}, and will say this.
-Rituals should consist of 60 seconds of appropriate roleplay including talking, unless otherwise noted. Improvising new Rituals requires a Ref. If you are trying to get more than the basic effect by putting in more Stamina, you require a Ref. Appropriate roleplay is not necessarily shouting about magic for a minute, but it must be appropriate to the intent of the ritual and obvious you are trying to cause some effect. You could raise a Revenant by roleplaying embalming a body with a bottle full of symbolic alchemy. You could use a Knowledge ritual by drawing a big, complicated spidergram of evidence. The intent of the ritual must be clear to anyone who can hear what is going on, but a ritual may be performed quietly.
+*Everyone {{gloss|participating}} in a {{gloss|ritual}} spends 2 {{gloss|stamina}} to do so. More people {{gloss|participating}} makes it more likely to have a favourable outcome.
+*Only the {{gloss|leader}} needs to have the skill for the Ritual. The {{gloss|leader}} controls the effect and other participants should join in with their form of roleplay.
-Everyone participating in a Ritual spends 2 Stamina to do so. More people participating makes it more likely to have a favourable outcome. Only the leader needs to have the skill. Some Rituals create Enhancements. These are Effects that you can activate with 5 seconds of appropriate roleplaying in order to gain a bonus for the next or current Encounter. You may activate them once, and then they are gone.
+*Your roleplay should fit the intent of the {{gloss|ritual}} and obvious you are trying to cause some effect. You could raise a {{gloss|revenant}} by roleplaying embalming a body with a bottle full of symbolic alchemy. You could use a [[Prof:Knowledge|Knowledge]] {{gloss|ritual}} by drawing a big, complicated spidergram of evidence.
+*The intent of the {{gloss|ritual}} must be clear to anyone who can hear what is going on, but a {{gloss|ritual}} may be performed quietly.
-Rituals are not fancy unstable magical twiddling that is easily interrupted. They are more like pushing a rock downhill. It takes some effort to get it going, but when it’s rolling, it takes a lot more effort to make it stop. The only reliable way to stop a ritual is for all Participants to be Incapacitated or suffering from DISRUPT. If interrupted, you lose any Stamina that went in to the Ritual.
+*{{gloss|Rituals}} take some effort to get it going, but a lot more effort to stop. The only reliable way to stop a {{gloss|ritual}} is for all {{gloss|participants}} to stop roleplaying, be {{gloss|dying}} or suffering from {{call|DISRUPT}}.
+*If interrupted, you lose any {{gloss|stamina}} that went in to the {{gloss|ritual}}.
-Participating in a repeat of a successful ritual on the same Target more than once a day will have unhappy consequences. So the same group can’t use Knowledge 2 to ask about the same subject twice in a day, but they can ask about 2 different subjects.
+===Repeat rituals===
-== Improvised Rituals ==
+{{gloss|Participating}} in a repeat of a successful {{gloss|ritual}} on the same {{gloss|target}} more than once a day will have unhappy consequences. So the same group can’t use [[Prof:Knowledge|Knowledge]] 2 to ask about the same subject twice in a day, but they can ask about 2 different subjects.
+If you want to do the same {{gloss|ritual}} with any of the same {{gloss|participants}} on the same target for a second time that day, '''you need a {{gloss|ref}}.'''
-You can improvise a Ritual to do anything of a similar level of power to a known Ritual or Spell. Improvised Rituals are dangerous, and get more so the more power is involved. They will always do *something* though this may not be particularly helpful. They work best if you research them in your Downtime, so that the Refs have time to decide on possible outcomes. You can improvise Rituals to cause the same effect as known Rituals. These will need more power to be successful than if they were led by someone who knew the Ritual.
+=== Enhancements ===
-If you perform an improvised ritual, every character involved secretly draws a bead from a bag and shows it to a Ref. The Ref announces the result after all beads have been drawn.
+Some {{gloss|rituals}} create {{gloss|enhancements}}. These are {{gloss|effects}} that you can activate with 5 seconds of {{gloss|appropriate roleplay}} in order to gain a bonus for the next or current {{gloss|encounter}}. You may activate them once, and then they are gone.
-*A white bead means they do not count as a Participant in the Ritual.
-*A red bead means they count as one Participant in the Ritual.
-*A black bead means they count as two Participants and the Ritual suffers a dangerous overload. All Participants suffer a Wound.
+== Self-Sacrifice and Rituals ==
-There will usually be 4 white, 1 black and 5 red beads in the bag, as well as a black token of a distinctive shape to allow you to deliberately pick a black.
+When you harm yourself personally during a {{gloss|ritual}}, you are devoting your body to your cause or just turning all the safety features off for more power. See [[Self-Sacrifice|here]] for how to do this.
-If you are actively being careless IC, Refs may require you to draw twice and take their choice of result. An example of this is trying to improvise a Ritual that is more powerful than any your PC knows.
-=== Combining two Rituals you know ===
+==Improvised Rituals==
+It is possible to improvise new rituals, although this is risky and unreliable. Mostly, people use the known, safe Rituals. See [[Improvised Rituals|here]] for the rules for this. Improvising new {{gloss|rituals}} requires a {{gloss|ref}}.
-You may attempt to combine the effect of a ritual with that of another Ritual you know. For example Knowledge 2 (Subject yourself to an Effect and learn about it) and Necromancy 1 (Reanimate corpse) might be combined to allow you to re-live a dead person’s last memories and find out how they died. Combining rituals requires the same bead draw as improvising them. However, any Participant who knows one of the Rituals may choose to draw a second time. If so, they must accept the result of the second draw.
-== Things rituals cannot do ==
+== Things Rituals Cannot Do ==
-Rituals cannot resurrect the dead, teleport living beings, grant invisibility, or do anything that the refs can’t easily physrep given 5 minutes. The refs will make it clear before you start when you are trying to do the impossible, and you will get a dangerous result if you continue.
+{{gloss|Rituals}} cannot:
+* Resurrect the dead
+* Teleport living beings or animated objects.
+* Grant invisibility
+* Anything that the {{gloss|refs}} can’t easily {{gloss|physrep}} given 5 minutes.
+The {{gloss|refs}} will make it clear before you start when you are trying to do the impossible, and you will get a dangerous result if you continue.
+== Things That Are Really Hard==
+*Indirect Fire. If you can't see it, you can't directly target something painful at it.
+[[Category: Rules]]
+[[Category: Rituals]]