Post by Max on May 6, 2009 22:05:22 GMT -6
Rituals for the kinder, gentler Sorcerer. I believe these are all of the Rituals which abjure human sacrifice and torture. Text in brackets indicates the needful items and/or actions. Italics are notes by the sorceress Ama Grim.
The Accursed Pits of Sighing [Disembowelment -- does not specify a living sacrifice?]
Banish the Nighted Essence [10k gp diamond]
Banishment of the Lightless Chasm [snake slain with special sickle]
Blasphemous Glyphs of the Night Ocean [study of strange underground glyphs]
Cast into the Icy Vacuum [quart of lava]
The Chambered Vaults of Wandering [pound of special clay]
Descent of the Six Thousand Steps [artifact of the snake-men]
The Desiccating Slime of the Silent Halls ["The blood of the naked and earringed sacrifices must be spilled upon the hot sands...." How much blood must spill? Could slaying the sacrifices be not required? An it be true a smarter question, Ama, is what fool would call up the Slime?]
Dispel the Watery Death [sacrifice is "any mammal"]
Dispelling of the Primordial Flow [artifact of the snake-men or aliens]
The Encrusted Glyphs of the Deep [study of the glyphs, any non-human mammal]
Enshacklement of the Rotted Chain ["Two Yellow Men in the advanced stages of a fatal disease must be burned alive;" mought they go willingly, and mought an herb or poison be brewed to cloud their senses?]
The Glyphs of the Ebon Lake [secret lore, special materials]
The Hanging Azure Madness [self-mortification, special location. But: what purpose does it serve to touch minds with "a filthy and pestilential pterosaurian demon of the poisonous upper atmosphere?"]
Impediment of the Iridescent Fume [15k gemstones, artifact of the snake-men]
Litany of the Lightless Sea ["powdered roots of black poisonous" tuber]
The Mad Ensorcelled Inscriptions ["The sorcerer must spend two days daubing the freshly-spilled blood of Green females within the inscriptions..." Menstrual blood, somway preserved? But again, what good is served daydreaming gone a quarter of the day in "communion with bizarre gods?" Yet another ritual for sybarites and lotus-eaters.]
Measureless Chimes of the Uttermost Rim ["This five-minute ritual requires eight musical chimes made of meteoric metal..."]
Obstruction of the Suckered Abomination [Needs only powdered crystal from the North, a mettlesome heart, and an aim good enough to hit a barn door]
Stench of the Liquescent Amoeba [artifact of the snake-men]
The Accursed Pits of Sighing [Disembowelment -- does not specify a living sacrifice?]
Banish the Nighted Essence [10k gp diamond]
Banishment of the Lightless Chasm [snake slain with special sickle]
Blasphemous Glyphs of the Night Ocean [study of strange underground glyphs]
Cast into the Icy Vacuum [quart of lava]
The Chambered Vaults of Wandering [pound of special clay]
Descent of the Six Thousand Steps [artifact of the snake-men]
The Desiccating Slime of the Silent Halls ["The blood of the naked and earringed sacrifices must be spilled upon the hot sands...." How much blood must spill? Could slaying the sacrifices be not required? An it be true a smarter question, Ama, is what fool would call up the Slime?]
Dispel the Watery Death [sacrifice is "any mammal"]
Dispelling of the Primordial Flow [artifact of the snake-men or aliens]
The Encrusted Glyphs of the Deep [study of the glyphs, any non-human mammal]
Enshacklement of the Rotted Chain ["Two Yellow Men in the advanced stages of a fatal disease must be burned alive;" mought they go willingly, and mought an herb or poison be brewed to cloud their senses?]
The Glyphs of the Ebon Lake [secret lore, special materials]
The Hanging Azure Madness [self-mortification, special location. But: what purpose does it serve to touch minds with "a filthy and pestilential pterosaurian demon of the poisonous upper atmosphere?"]
Impediment of the Iridescent Fume [15k gemstones, artifact of the snake-men]
Litany of the Lightless Sea ["powdered roots of black poisonous" tuber]
The Mad Ensorcelled Inscriptions ["The sorcerer must spend two days daubing the freshly-spilled blood of Green females within the inscriptions..." Menstrual blood, somway preserved? But again, what good is served daydreaming gone a quarter of the day in "communion with bizarre gods?" Yet another ritual for sybarites and lotus-eaters.]
Measureless Chimes of the Uttermost Rim ["This five-minute ritual requires eight musical chimes made of meteoric metal..."]
Obstruction of the Suckered Abomination [Needs only powdered crystal from the North, a mettlesome heart, and an aim good enough to hit a barn door]
Stench of the Liquescent Amoeba [artifact of the snake-men]
