Ritual:If We Shadows Have Offended
If We Shadows Have Offended (3)
| Requirements: | Changeling, Rituals 3, Chicanery |
| Components: | Juice from a berry, a lantern or other light source that can generate shadows, a mirror, a target who has been put to sleep within the past five minutes. |
| Cost: | 3 Glamour |
| Cast Time: | 10 minutes |
| Purpose: | Could the memories of a target, making it seem like a recent event was a bad dream. |
The target of the ritual must have been put to sleep or knocked unconscious within the past 5 minutes. The ritual can only affect events that happened within the past 24 hours. Talk to the player of the target out of game to get their consent before using this ritual.
The ritualist will say
“As you hear my voice, let the calm embrace of sleep overtake you. As you fall asleep, perhaps not all that you’ve seen was true. As you see my hands, let them guide you to the land of dreams. As you remember this day, realize that perhaps all was not as it seems. Watch and see the visions playing in your mind. Watch and see the wonders you shall find!
The ritualist mimes anointing the eyes of the target with a liquid made from the juice of a berry. While doing so, describe a single recent event of up to an hour in length that the subject witnessed which you wish to alter their memories of. You may only target memories the target formed up to 24 hours ago, and if the target does not have the memory you describe (either because it has already been erased or because you were mistaken about what they witnessed) the Ritual will have no effect.
Once the anointing is complete, and the memory being targeted has been described, the ritualist and any assistants begin the play. They first place a lantern on one side of the sleeping target, then a mirror on the opposite side. They will re-enact the events that they wish to alter in the target’s memories. The more vivid and in-depth the performance, the more potent the memory alteration shall be. Impromptu costuming and props are strongly recommended.
Once the play concludes, the ritualist will say
“The events you saw you once thought were true. But now you know that cannot be. The events you saw were but a dream. You understand that now certainly! Awaken now, and leave this trance. The dream is done, we end our dance. Of true and false, real and fantasy. Awaken now, uncertain of what you’ve seen..."
When the target wakes up, they will remember the performance in place of the memories targeted. Details the performance failed to mention, or which contradict the target's other memories, become hazy and dreamlike-- the target may become confused as to what they remember, and might even come to realize their memories have been tampered with, but will not recover the targeted memory.
