Level 4
Burning Blade
Type A, Level 4
This ritual can be cast on a number of swords. The swords can be otherwise enchanted but cannot be Durable or Potence rated. Once activated by spending a step and taking a health level of damage slashing yourself with the blade, it ignites in flame adding 1 Ag to the damage of the blade and rendering it potence rated for the next 5 rounds. At the end of the 5 rounds, the blade melts into slag.
Bone of Lies
Type B, Level 4
The caster must soak the fingerbone of a person dead for a hundred years in a solution of fat and ten points of kindred vitae. When the bone is touching a person and they speak a falsehood the bone darkens and is unusable for the remainder of the night. A person can have multiple fingers though.
Bone of Contention
Type B, Level 4
Exactly as per bone of lies except it darkens when the caster wills it to darken and only needs the fingerbone of a person. Once the Bone darkens it is unusable for the remainder of the night. A person can have multiple fingers though. Telling the difference between a Bone of Lie and Bone of Contention is possible only with a level 6 occult test.
Bottled Voice
Type B, Level 4
The caster must defeat their intended victim in a social challenge in front of a crowd of no fewer than three people. That night, by reciting an incantation, and sealing a point of the victim's blood in a specially prepared bottle with wax, the vampire may steal a target’s capacity to speak, and put it into a bottle, where it will remain until it is opened or broken. or 28 days pass, whichever comes first. If it is sealed with the victim's express written agreement the voice may be sealed in the bottle indefinitely.
Flask of 'Leaden Heart'
Type B. Level 4
Upon drinking, The caster is immune to social challenges for the one night but must relent to all physical challenges. Drinking the liquid Iron from the flask deals 1 ag to the imbiber. Once consumed the flask is used, and takes an action to refill.
Innocence of Child's Heart
Not Dismissable
Type B Level 4
The caster must take a toy from an unwilling child and carry it on their person, by twisting the head ( or equivalent piece ) from the toy, the caster activates the object. The ritual lasts one night and a new toy must be used for each casting. for the duration of the ritual the caster's aura gives the following answer to any magical detection, Manner of creature: Human, Are you lying: No, Emotional State: Innocent, Diablerie Veins: No, any other valid questions are revealed as if one were a normal human child with an emotional state of innocent. if the toy is moved more than 1 foot from the caster the magic of the item is lost.
Rending Sweet Earth
Type D, Level 4
This ritual involves repeatedly thrashing a section of ground with a leather whip. When it is performed, a 10' × 10' x 10' section of earth will disappear. If a vampire happens to be earth-melded in that section of earth, she will be awakened as the earth around her disappears, unless she is in torpor.
Splinter Servant
Type A, Level 4
A stake is carved from a hundred year old tree and capped with wax, when the wax cap is broken the stake will turn into a tiny wooden creature made of shards and hate which will attack the nearest moving object. Deploying the creature requires an action. The creature has 7 physicals and is unaffected by mental or social powers, it has an automatically refreshing brawl retest, Medicine 3, and one health level. The creature can attack three times before becoming inanimate and its attacks are always considered attempts to stake, it does two lethal. No other enchantments can be put upon the stake. The Creature cannot be triple overbid. It can move 4 steps per round. The Creature counts as the Helper of the character who deployed it.
Jinx/ Paper Tiger
Type A, level 4
The caster prepares a trait of the victim's blood which becomes a small red gem. When the caster smashes this red gem, (takes a step), the victim fails their next challenge or loses access to their Fortitude based Soak (3 and 4) for the next round. This ritual Takes an action to cast. Requires the target’s blood to cast. Smashing the orb takes a Step. Though its type A, the character cannot make more than they have traits of the targets blood.
Scry/'Vision of Distant Foes'
Type D, Level 4
Caster requires a pool of water 4 feet across and 1 foot deep. they can cast this spell on a place. they must have some sort of geographical referent for the place. i.e. 35 24 front steer apartment 3g living room, or a set of gps coordinates. Ted's haven doesn't count. This must be a place you have seen before even if it is through another's eyes or scry window. The pool then shows a top down view of the room. room is defined as standard. The scry point of view is from the ceiling of the room if any or 20 feet up if outdoors in the center of the room, looking downwards. this camera angle cannot be moved, paned, or rotated. The spell lasts until dawn or until dismissed. n.b. scry does not work on areas with no moisture in the air. All subjects entering the scryed area get an awareness test to detect a sensation of being watched. Alternately, if you possess an object with a strong emotional attachment to the target( blood always works) you may scry a specific individual
Stone Dog
Type B, Level 4
This ritual requires a 7 foot diameter cauldron capable of boiling lead and holding a half ton, several enough lead to fill said cauldron when molten, a child whose voice has not yet changed, a guard dog whose pedigree is known unto the 7th generation, and a stone statue of a dog large enough to fit the guard dog inside and small enough to fit in the cauldron. The dog is placed inside the statue and the child strapped facing upwards to the top the dog/statue/child combination is lowered slowly into the lead as it is brought to a boil, the pot is then covered and let to simmer for a lunar month. At midnight 28 days from the beginning of the casting a stone dog is formed, it must then be quickly removed from the boiling lead lest it drown or the lead cools and suffocates it. Wash and use. The Stone Dog is a large, mastiff-like creature used to guard buildings. It can make itself seem to be a statue and requires 1 blood per day to survive, the dog loses 1 health level per day it is not fed. A stone Dog takes a ghoul slot. Unlike other ghouls it may naturally spend its exp on Visceratika.
The Stone dog is a very primitive form of Gargoyle and those who believe Gargoyles are their own creature type often believe the Stone Dog is akin to their version of a Ghoul.
Mirror Walk
Type B, Level 4
The caster bathes a pair of mirrors no smaller than 3 feet by six feet in ten points of their own blood. He then has until dawn to place these mirrors in a ritually prepared space. If the mirrors move more than a centimeter from their positions at dawn that day they become useless and shatter. Anyone standing in front of one of the mirrors can spend a willpower and appear in front of the other mirror. This spell lasts for one month and must be recast. This ritual takes an action to cast.
Escape to a True Friend
Type B, Level 4
This ritual involves the supplicant and a willing friend exchanging 10 points of blood with each other and the drawing of an elaborate magical tattoo on each of them. From then on when one of them would fall unconscious they may activate this ritual. At that time the " True Friend" may spend a permanent Willpower in order to teleport the other one to their side. The activator of this ritual explodes forth from their True Friend, unconscious but alive. If the Friend chooses not to spend the Willpower then the ritual fizzles. This ritual does not function on ghouls, only on kindred. The player can connect this ritual to an Ally ( As per the background, in which case they make a chop against the Storyteller using their dots of Ally as a retest. Success means it works, failure means ... they weren't a great ally.
The ritual must be recast once used. If this ritual is used it must be marked on your sheet this ritual takes an action to cast.
Bureaucratic Condemnation
Type C, Level 4
This spell is cast on a specific, named by the caster. It strips from them one action they took at random. You cannot strip a person to less than one action. This ritual takes an action to cast.
Expedient Paperwork
Type C, Level 4
The opposite of bureaucratic condemnation; cast on another persona and it gives them another action during down time. This ritual takes an action to cast.
Recure of the Homeland
Type A, Level 4
This ritual puts an enchantment on a handful of dirt from the place of the vampire’s birth. A handful of dirt so prepared may be used to heal one aggravated wound per night. This ritual may only be cast once per night. This dirt can only be so used once. Dirt so prepared remains prepared for 28 days. dirt imported from one's homeland only counts as being from one's homeland for 28 days, after that time the soil has naturalized. This Dirt can only be used to heal the one whose blood was used to create it.
