Ceremonies

From Codex of Darkness
Ceremony Rating Dice Pool Description Book
Innate Bound Ceremonies
Bestow Regalia ••• Presence + Occult Act out an illustrative myth of the krewe to bestow its Regalia upon a celebrant for a chapter. GTS 2e 125
Krewe Binding ••• Presence + Manipulation Initiate celebrants into a new or existing krewe, or excommunicating celebrants from it. New celebrants receive the krewe's Mystery Cult Initiation. GTS 2e 125
Speaker for the Dead ••• Stamina + Composure Invite a ghost's voice to speak through you for a scene. GTS 2e 126
Pass On ••••• Manipulation + Empathy Commemmorate a ghost who has resolved her Anchors, inviting her to pass away. Bound restore all Plasm. GTS 2e 127
Other Ceremonies
Bloody Mary Done Me Wrong Manipulation + Investigation Summon a Rank 1 Doppelganger to torment the ceremony's subject for as long as they indulge their Vice. Mem 14
Dead Man's Camera Intelligence + Science Imbue film with the ability to photograph Twilight. GTS 2e 127
Death Watch Stamina + Medicine Hold a body still in time, neither healing nor bleeding nor aging nor hungering. GTS 2e 127
Diviner's Jawbone Wits + Empathy Consult a skull for the benefits of the Common Sense Merit for a week. GTS 2e 128
Extended Checkout Resolve + Crafts Preserve an object as a Rank 2 Castoff if it is destroyed. Mem 16
For Those Who Are Left Composure + Empathy Gain a bonus to dealing with grief and helping ghosts find resolution. Mem 20
Ishtar's Perfume Presence + Occult Anoint dead eyes with oils to see the last minute they saw in life. GTS 2e 128
Losing the Religion Composure + Wits Remove a ghost's Ban and Bane for a day but give them a bonus to Integrity rolls and discovering how to resolve their Anchors. Mem 18
Lovers' Telephone Manipulation + Computer Use a damaged phone to call the nearest phone to someone you know by name, even if that phone is normally nonfunctional or the person is a ghost. GTS 2e 128
Lowlands Away Wits + Empathy Leading a ships crew in singing a shanty gives the crew the benefits of the Good Time Management merit, allows them to ignore morale-related penalties, and makes them less likely to betray or start a mutiny. DE2 295
Crow Girl Kiss •• Manipulation + Expression Contest a curse or supernatural hex to drive it out of someone and trap it in a talisman. GTS 2e 128
Gifts of Persephone •• Wits + Crafts Envision something that waits in the Underworld which can help you surmount an obstacle, becoming Informed. GTS 2e 129
Ghost Trap •• Manipulation + Subterfuge Empower a ritual object to attract and transfix ghosts for a week. GTS 2e 129
L'amour du Vide •• Presence + Expression Give visitors to a haunted house the Spooked and Swooned conditions, as well as bonuses to being pitten against one another. Mem 17
Skeleton Key •• Resolve + Investigation Enchant a key to forever fit the next one lock it is put to, even incompatible types of locks. GTS 2e 129
What's Old Is New •• Resolve + Expression Give a mortal bonuses to replicating the events of a ghost's life and penalties to trying to defy them. Mem 21
Black Cat's Crossing ••• Intelligence + Intimidation Impose a ghostly Ban upon a person, or ward beings of a certain type from entering an area, for half a moon. GTS 2e 129
Bloody Codex ••• Wits + Investigation Enchant a work of writing to report the surface thoughts of anyone who marks it with a bloody thumb. GTS 2e 130
Boulevard of Winters Lost ••• Resolve + Expression Allow a ghost to Claim a human in turns rather than days, at the cost of their only Anchor one month later. Mem 14
DJ Amadeus's Sick Flow ••• Resolve + Socialize Everyone within range gains the Inspired and Obsessed conditions regarding a piece of information. Mem 16
Dumb Supper ••• Stamina + Expression Conjure a ghostly feast which sates up to 13 of the living and dead. Living diners recover all Willpower, and dead diners ignore Essence Bleed and the daily Essence cost of activity for three days. GTS 2e 130
My Twenty Dollar Cherubim ••• Manipulation + Persuasion Empower a ghost to guard a target, in exchange for a later favour. Mem 17
Shattered Bone Binding ••• Manipulation + Subterfuge Contest vs Resistance + Rank to trap a ghost within a binding circle, wracked with agony, while a bowl of water remains full. GTS 2e 228
Triptaka's Journey ••• Composure + Resolve Change Anchors, human or epheremal, following a journey to a Deep Dominion. Mem 18
Come As You Are •••• Manipulation + Esotery Bind two Krewes together. Mem 17
Forge Anchor •••• Resolve + Persuasion - Rank A living or Bound ritualist binds a new Anchor to a ghost. GTS 2e 130
Gas-Bone Plague •••• Intelligence + Medicine Binds a ghost to its old, specially prepared body, that begins spewing toxic gas from its injuries after one minute. Those within range gain the grave Poisoned Tilt, or Toxicity 3, repeated once per minute, if out of combat. DE2 408
Maggot Homunculus •••• Presence + Occult Conjure a body from maggots and summon a particular ghost to inhabit it for a scene. GTS 2e 130
Walking the Destroyers' Path •••• Presence + Occult Initiate a Clash of Wills against an unpassable physical boundary. Mem 21
Ghost Binding ••••• Composure + Intimidation Contest vs Power + Resistance to trap a hibernating ghost in one of his Anchors, which becomes a Memento. GTS 2e 131
Law Writ in Blood ••••• Presence + Politics Learn of the violation of a Krewe doctrine in your territory and compel ghosts to torment the transgressor. Mem 14
Persephone's Return ••••• Stamina + Occult Crack open an Avernian Gate where you stand for thirteen minutes. GTS 2e 131
Play It Forward ••••• Resolve + Science Enchant a film of a ghost to give watchers the Anchor and Open conditions for that ghost. Mem 15
Running with Atropos' Scissors ••••• Presence + Intimidation Sacrifice an Anchor, Touchstone or Social Merit for twelve hours in exchange for halved Plasm/Essence costs or 8-again on some Abilities. Mem 19
Notation Legend
Dot of a Trait Rating (Skills, Merits)
Power Trait Point (Vitae, Mana)
Willpower Point
Activation Damage B/L/A
Special/Other Activation Cost
Alternate Costs ●/●●●
Costs per Item ●/item
Optional Costs (●)
Cost Ranges ● to ●●●
●●+
Combined Notation Example ●(○)
●/item, 1L