After writing the original post, I considered doing the same thing for every other 'official ritual,' but put it off for a while. As of now, I've written up enough of them to show off. Obviously, spoilers for scenarios and campaigns follow, though I tried my best to put them in the order of when they were released. That way the more recent stuff is harder to accidentally read.
Currently, I have material written for Night Visions from Control Group, Hourglass, Impossible Landscapes, and Iconoclasts. I'll try to keep this list updated as new things are published, but it'll take a while. I can't read everything the second it comes out and others I'll be holding off on because I want to play in them.
Devil Blocking Hymn
Prevents Téthuans (a monster unique to Night Visions) from coming too close to the operator.
Critical Success: The ritual’s protection lasts for 4 turns. Additionally, the operator can attempt to fail a SAN test to learn the Elder Sign. This only teaches them the gestured version (like a conductor directing a choir), but increases a musical Art skill by 1D4% and Unnatural by 1%.
Fumble: The operator dissociates, distracted by the alien melody and rhythm, granting any Téthuan a +20% bonus to their next attack roll against the operator.
Fumble: The operator dissociates, distracted by the alien melody and rhythm, granting any Téthuan a +20% bonus to their next attack roll against the operator.
Hourglass
Deathless FlameCreates a candle out of someone's corpse-fat and brain matter so you can converse with them after death until the wax burns out, in which case you have to activate the ritual again.
Critical Success: The candle will never run out of wax to burn as it draws on the WP of those around it. Let it burn too long alone and it goes out like a flame deprived of oxygen.
Fumble: The brain or melted remnants of the candle are destroyed. The spirit is lost forever.
Critical Success: The candle will never run out of wax to burn as it draws on the WP of those around it. Let it burn too long alone and it goes out like a flame deprived of oxygen.
Fumble: The brain or melted remnants of the candle are destroyed. The spirit is lost forever.
Impossible Landscapes
The Preliminary Invocation to PrimeumatonSummons a 'demon' from the Ars Goetia that can perform a task for the operator or temporarily grant them an unnatural ability.
Critical Success: If the operator leaves the circle before inscribing the final seal, they have a premonition, 1/1D6 SAN from unnatural unless the operator is adapted to helplessness. This allows them to avoid their Misfortune unless they hesitate or deliberately leave themselves in harm's way. If the operator resisted the distractions, they know what powers the summoned demon possesses. They can also name a power. If any demon possesses it, they learn its name. If no such demon exists, the operator learns the closest candidate if they succeed on an INT test. However, they lose the maximum amount of SAN from using or witnessing the demon’s powers.
Fumble: If failing the activation roll lowered the operator’s Corruption below 2, there is no effect. Otherwise, they are subject to a Misfortune corresponding to their new Corruption level within the next 4D6 hours unless they remain within the circle.
Critical Success: If the operator leaves the circle before inscribing the final seal, they have a premonition, 1/1D6 SAN from unnatural unless the operator is adapted to helplessness. This allows them to avoid their Misfortune unless they hesitate or deliberately leave themselves in harm's way. If the operator resisted the distractions, they know what powers the summoned demon possesses. They can also name a power. If any demon possesses it, they learn its name. If no such demon exists, the operator learns the closest candidate if they succeed on an INT test. However, they lose the maximum amount of SAN from using or witnessing the demon’s powers.
Fumble: If failing the activation roll lowered the operator’s Corruption below 2, there is no effect. Otherwise, they are subject to a Misfortune corresponding to their new Corruption level within the next 4D6 hours unless they remain within the circle.
Iconoclasts
Call Forth Those From Outside (Father of War)Summons the avatar of Nyarlathotep that is one of the main antagonists of the scenario.
Critical Success: If the operator can succeed in an opposed POW test with the Father of War, they can impress one command upon him. If this contest fails, the operator can burn 1 permanent point of POW to force control, but this only angers the Father even more.
Fumble: The sky darkens and a hunting-horror or a host of 1D6 winged servitors arrive to scour clean the area of the operator and any trace of their assistants.
Clear the Path
Critical Success: If the operator can succeed in an opposed POW test with the Father of War, they can impress one command upon him. If this contest fails, the operator can burn 1 permanent point of POW to force control, but this only angers the Father even more.
Fumble: The sky darkens and a hunting-horror or a host of 1D6 winged servitors arrive to scour clean the area of the operator and any trace of their assistants.
Clear the Path
Shifts one metric ton of material per Willpower Point spent to create a path to walk through.
Critical Success: Each WP spent moves two metric tons of material. If attempting to use this against a flood of obsidian chips from the Father of War, they use their initial WP score to oppose the Father’s roll, temporarily increasing it by the amount of WP spent on the ritual.
Fumble: The operator loses the full amount of WP spent on the ritual. Or half the cost if using the optional Ritual Cost Rebalancing rule.
The Closing of the Breach (Father of War)
Critical Success: Each WP spent moves two metric tons of material. If attempting to use this against a flood of obsidian chips from the Father of War, they use their initial WP score to oppose the Father’s roll, temporarily increasing it by the amount of WP spent on the ritual.
Fumble: The operator loses the full amount of WP spent on the ritual. Or half the cost if using the optional Ritual Cost Rebalancing rule.
The Closing of the Breach (Father of War)
Banishes the Father of War
Critical Success: If the Throne of Blood remains unsealed by an Elder Sign, the operator and their assistants can spend 20 WP to create one to block the Father of War’s return. If already sealed, the cursed amphora implodes, taking the Elder Sign with it as the Father’s obsidian chips melt into nothingness. He can never be summoned again unless someone builds a new Throne.
Fumble: Minuscule cuts appear all over the operator, their assistants, and any nearby allies, who each lose 1D4-1 HP. The Father of War adds this total to his HP or WP, distributed as he prefers.
The Flower of Dilmun
Critical Success: If the Throne of Blood remains unsealed by an Elder Sign, the operator and their assistants can spend 20 WP to create one to block the Father of War’s return. If already sealed, the cursed amphora implodes, taking the Elder Sign with it as the Father’s obsidian chips melt into nothingness. He can never be summoned again unless someone builds a new Throne.
Fumble: Minuscule cuts appear all over the operator, their assistants, and any nearby allies, who each lose 1D4-1 HP. The Father of War adds this total to his HP or WP, distributed as he prefers.
The Flower of Dilmun
A ritual used by Rassam to unnaturally extend his lifespan at the cost of his own mind.
Critical Success: The potion lasts 4 hours and grants 18 CON. Additionally, the drinker’s INT score does not decrease when the ritual’s effects end, no matter how many previous uses.
Fumble: Any extra CON gained from the ritual fades and the operator immediately faces the total INT losses accrued. If drunk by someone else within 1D4 hours, it acts as a 5% Lethality poison. Fumbles are harmless to operators not currently under the effects of the ritual.
Geasa
Critical Success: The potion lasts 4 hours and grants 18 CON. Additionally, the drinker’s INT score does not decrease when the ritual’s effects end, no matter how many previous uses.
Fumble: Any extra CON gained from the ritual fades and the operator immediately faces the total INT losses accrued. If drunk by someone else within 1D4 hours, it acts as a 5% Lethality poison. Fumbles are harmless to operators not currently under the effects of the ritual.
Geasa
A more powerful form of Infallible Suggestion with indefinite duration.
Critical Success: The operator receives a +20% bonus on their opposed POWx5 roll and can try again on subsequent rounds by spending 2D4 WP or 1 POW. At Handler discretion, operators with at least 4 SAN can reattempt the POWx5 contest at the cost of 1D4 SAN instead.
Fumble: For the next 1D4 hours, the operator loses 1 WP whenever they refuse a command or request. Observers with the Psychotherapy skill can tell the operator is very suggestible. Unnatural 15% or a successful test confirms this (and tells the observer about the WP loss).
Critical Success: The operator receives a +20% bonus on their opposed POWx5 roll and can try again on subsequent rounds by spending 2D4 WP or 1 POW. At Handler discretion, operators with at least 4 SAN can reattempt the POWx5 contest at the cost of 1D4 SAN instead.
Fumble: For the next 1D4 hours, the operator loses 1 WP whenever they refuse a command or request. Observers with the Psychotherapy skill can tell the operator is very suggestible. Unnatural 15% or a successful test confirms this (and tells the observer about the WP loss).
If using the optional Ritual Cost Rebalancing rule, forcing a fumble into a critical success doesn’t double the cost of reattempting the opposed POWx5 roll.
Transmutation
Transmutation
The operator can turn any element from the Periodic Table of the Elements into any other element with the power of alchemy and Azathoth.
Critical Success: The operator enters a thoughtless trance as their mind feeds off the powers they invoke. They can either transmute elements even without a sample of the final product, or violate the conservation of energy and increase the yield mass by INTx5%.
Fumble: The rigid alchemy falls into entropy as the operator merely ‘donates’ the ritual’s costs to Azathoth’s court. They lose 9 WP and must succeed on a First Aid or Medicine test or lose an additional hit point as they overbleed themselves. The Surgery skill automatically succeeds.
Critical Success: The operator enters a thoughtless trance as their mind feeds off the powers they invoke. They can either transmute elements even without a sample of the final product, or violate the conservation of energy and increase the yield mass by INTx5%.
Fumble: The rigid alchemy falls into entropy as the operator merely ‘donates’ the ritual’s costs to Azathoth’s court. They lose 9 WP and must succeed on a First Aid or Medicine test or lose an additional hit point as they overbleed themselves. The Surgery skill automatically succeeds.
If using the optional Ritual Cost Rebalancing rule, they only lose 4 WP, not 9, on a fumble.
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