TotGaD: Ritual Requirements

TotGaD: Ritual Requirements

• You must prepare face paint from the rare flowers that grow in the Devourer's Grove. You will paint your face with the prescribed patterns as you coldly read the protective incantations found in the Book of Absolute Harrowing.
  
• In the week leading up to the ritual you must subsist on a diet of locusts, flies, and larva. If you become sick from this diet you must not perform the ritual; instead, begin the diet again when you are healthy.
  
• Collect enough corn husks to fashion thirteen dolls. These dolls must be bathed in a succession of liquids: sour milk, watered-down honey, grain alcohol, animal urine. At the ritual's conclusion the dolls will animate and engage in ritual combat with the sorcerer.
  
• Craft a large effigy of an owl from wicker. Debase yourself shamelessly before the owl; even when the owl begins to move, so not cease your debasements. Only when the owl's mouth opens may you safely stop; now feed the owl on carrion until it is sated. Once the owl refuses further food you may proceed with the rest of the ritual.
  
• Recruit twelve thespians to enact the play The Yellow King's Triumph. At the conclusion of the play, you may read the ritual's incantation and fulfill any other requirements it might demand.