Favorite Rituals?

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Hi gang! Its me again!

So, as the title suggests, I would like to know your favourite rituals that you have had done/ want to have done.

I shall give mine!

The Farming rituals- You turn 10 mana into 420 (Blazing) Rings, which translates to 21 Crowns, or 2 1/2 Thrones! You can also arrange with that money, for it to happen next year, restarting the cycle!

Blood and Salt- Turn your Fleet into cannibals! But seriously, this is a fun one to see happen, and can be worth it later.

Mantle of the Golden Orator- This is the only good congregation buff, as it improves your votes and liao, and turns you into a pompous prick for 10 minutes!

Golden Voyage- You get a dope adventure over downtime, and it tends to make Rhianos interested in you, so Eternal game!

Coil of the Black Leech- Turns you into an amazing hero killer, lets you absolutely spam Weakness and get away with it!

What are yours?

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My personal preference has been for Lure of Distant Shores: You ARE going to have a profitable and exciting adventure, whether you want to or not.

(I think you meant Golden Voyage, not Golden Sails).

Knights of Glory (another army of Fae, anyone?) was a favourite to watch being cast.

Winterā€™s Ghosts (Inflict economic recession! Hah!) was the basis of a past characters planā€¦

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Iā€™m a big fan of Call Winged Messenger, thereā€™s just something fun about writing to NPCs even if the admin can take a bit of time to sort!

As a fleet owner, Iā€™ve enjoyed getting both Lure of Distant Shores and Sularā€™s Promise, for both the RP and mechanical effects.

My coven performs wardings like There Is No Welcome Here around the Varushkan hearth every event and that can be a lot of fun if you get others involved! Last summit we did a virtuous animal play that required audience participationā€¦it was verging on pantomime, but everyone enjoyed joining in!

Looking at getting into some Day game soon, so Iā€™m curious to see what they bring for me!

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Ruthless Vigilance Healthy Crop.

  1. Itā€™s a good economic buff, which means peope want to get it cast a lot so you get to cast plenty of rituals. Profitable resource buff rituals donā€™t generate drama by themselves, but they let you play at being a ritualist more often, which is what you came to the game to do.

  2. It gives an amazing short term roleplaying effect which is awkward in a fun way. ā€œYou dislike being around weak peopleā€ is a pain in the ass for a physick. So it encourages roleplaying it up, or getting an anointing etc.

  3. It has a fluff effect of ā€œkills any flowers, kitchen herbs etc you planted in the marked garden plot with the medicianal herbs inā€. Iā€™ve got remarkably a lot of game out of that, and it reinforces that idea that magic is not ā€˜cool and funā€™ IC but dangerous and worthy of respect.

Also itā€™s soloable and scales well.

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Signs and Portents, which Iā€™ve gotten in the habit of OOC calling the Night Plot Button. Spend 2/4 mana, get a vision, instantly get something to do and something to care about as you go around figuring out ā€˜what does it mean?ā€™, ā€˜what can we do to stop it/help it happen?ā€™, ā€˜what do you mean thatā€™s a vision of Agramant?!ā€™, and meanwhile you could give useful information to someone. Lots of fun for only 2 mana if mastered.

I also had a lot of fun with Forge the Wooden Fastness, but I think that was less the ritual and more because doing any blood magic in the regio at midnight where a senatorā€™s drawing their territory with their own blood while you do spooky magic shenanigans will be fun. Was super useful when we did it though, and hopefully Iā€™ll get to do it again next week.

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The MU/fleet buff rituals are fun but too many people hog the fun doing it for free :frowning:

I like Call down lightnings wrath when im going to be fighting because Strikedown is a great thing as a spell :slight_smile:

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This event definitely proved that the fleet buffs can run into coven-slot limiters when people are going all out.

My familyā€™s Autumn coven of trading fleet-owners ended getting emergency education in Spring Magic on the sunday in order to get Blood and Salt done at a reasonable price.

We did a fun ritual casting, and the RP effect is interesting.

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Tragically the RP effect is only for 15 minutes, not for a season like the fun one that got used a lot the previous event :slightly_smiling_face: . The Freeborn who cast Blood and Salt on me and another Highborn was a lot of fun, so much so that we pointed a bunch of other Highborn captains his way, while not spoiling the ā€œsurpriseā€ ending :rofl: .

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