What are some interesting rituals people have come up with for the Ritual ability? I’ve got the ability but can’t for the life of me think of any interesting rituals. Any and all help appreciated.
What are some interesting rituals people have come up with for the Ritual ability?
What are some interesting rituals people have come up with for the Ritual ability?
I’ve got a player who is working on a ritual to astral project, Dr. Strange-style.
I’ve suggested remote viewing, probably with a bowl of ink.
A nice fall-back is something for summoning a Horror to obey you.
You could create a ritual that makes a space physically painful to anyone who lies in it, and use it before any important criminal meetings where you think someone’s trying to play you.
Random ones I’ve been thinking about for a bit. I think my player and I agree, coming up with good Rituals is hard.
Our resident ritualist Shade has used a ritual to summon a tiny air demon (which manifested as a surly, verbally abusive pixie) to do some recon, a gigantic earth demon (which looked like a big stone golem) for the express purpose of going on a kill-crazy rampage against the Billhooks, and most recently a water demon (which looked uncannily like Setarra) to grab someone off of the docks and drag them under.
Some of the less crazy rituals he’s done include:
A ritual to form a psychic link to a swarm of rats, also for recon.
A ritual that tears a rip in the Ghost Field to allow the user to wrap it around themselves like a cloak. This renders the user invisible, but threatens to inflict Harm on them in the form of frostbite.
My whisper has a ritual that allows him to eat brains to consume memories. The brain is described as an information source (Narrow/+2D Otherworldy Horrors), for example, and I have a 4-clock I can spend on rolls to either add that benefit or indulge his Weird vice (Memories).
A ritual that charges a pendant which when touched by someone else creates a portal and pulls them into the void sea leaving the pendant behind.
I’m somewhat proud of this one:
“Echo Shift: The ritual brings echoes of a location back into reality, and pushes the current reality into the past where the echo was brought from. It is weird because occasionally things manifest which were never there.”
A ritual to summon, bind and protect a thought tendril of a forgotten god. Our Leech has opened their mind to a god summoned within such a ritual and is now a traumatised disciple of the god of a thousand faces/facets. The ritual dissuades enemies of the god from approaching and provides an opportunity to peer into its impossible crystalline geometries to see distorted visions of many places and times at once, sometimes counterfactual realities, sometimes just other places in this reality. The particularly foolish can even step into it, which is like stepping into a mirror with absurd angles and perspective distortions made solid, and follow its impossible paths to other places. Unfortunately, just gazing upon the ritual circle will usually cause trauma.
My Slide started out with a ritual to create hollows, adding them to her own personal gang of cohorts that she controls with her mind. From there, she quickly picked up a ritual from the Dimmer Sisters that effectively turns her into a psychic vampire, allowing her to directly attack a target’s life essence with Attune and roll for recovery. (She then later used said ritual to absorb the spirit of an ancient sorcerer, giving her access to true magic and the ability to control the elements, but that’s neither here nor there.) I also plan on learning a shape-shifting ritual to basically double down on her frequent use of the disguise kit.