TotGaD: Ritual Requirements
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- Stitch a doll out of the finest leather and stuff it with broken shells. Live with it in your house for three days and nights. At midnight on the last night, bury the doll in desecrated ground. The site is now prepared properly for the ritual incantation.
- Within the month before the attempt the ritual you must reconcile two foes and end their enmity. However, during the ritual itself you will bind their names upon a parchment with a curse of eternal hatred. Once this has been accomplished the ritual may proceed.
- You must bring a golden mirror of great value to the site of the ritual. You will black the mirror's surface with black pigment. As you recite the ritual's incantation you must scrape a bit of the black paint from the surface of the mirror. Take care to remove the last bit of pigment from the mirror as you utter the last word of the incantation.
- You must order the construction of a princely crystalline sculpture that you will fill with various liquors of rarity and delicacy. As you read the incantation aloud the crystalline sculpture will begin to ring with the music of the spheres. It is vitally important to stopper your ears and finish the ritual quickly.
- Salvage wood from a shipwreck and fashion the timber into a crucifix. You must have a masked assistant nail you to this cross while the disparage you with a litany of your earthly failings. The ritual incantation may then begin.