The Ritual of Nourishment
Auspex •••, Obfuscate •
For thousands of years, the Followers of Seth have known the magical formula that calls a Reflection to one place and allows it to feed on a plate of food. Mekhet who know how to manipulate and perceive the spiritual nature of objects can, with the right formulae and a plate of freshly prepared food and a glass of wine, give a Reflection form and shape, and sate its hunger. Although the Sethites teach this devotion, anyone can learn it, if the Sethites choose to teach it.
Effect
The vampire using this devotion can wield it on any vampire’s Reflection: he need only know the name of the vampire to whom the Reflection belongs. He has to prepare the food himself, with a drop of Vitae, and lay it out in a formal manner (which means, in the modern West, with a full table setting, accompanied by a glass of wine). Having made the food, lit the candle and sat down at the other side of the table, the vampire using the devotion begins to chant the ancient words.
Dramatic Failure: The Reflection does not come, and worse, wherever it is, it goes into an immediate Hunger Frenzy.
Failure: Nothing happens. The Reflection goes its own way and ignores the summons.
Success: The Reflection materializes by the food (even if it doesn’t have the Materialize Numen) and begins to eat. It cannot leave the table until it has finished, and can converse with anyone in the room while it does so, if it elects to. For every success rolled, the Reflection gains one point of Essence, and even if the vampire only rolled one success, the Reflection does not need to feed tonight.
If anyone attacks the Reflection, it vanishes, and any benefit the ritual may have granted is lost.
Exceptional Success: As for success, except that the Reflection gains its full Essence pool.
Dramatic Failure: The Reflection does not come, and worse, wherever it is, it goes into an immediate Hunger Frenzy.
Failure: Nothing happens. The Reflection goes its own way and ignores the summons.
Success: The Reflection materializes by the food (even if it doesn’t have the Materialize Numen) and begins to eat. It cannot leave the table until it has finished, and can converse with anyone in the room while it does so, if it elects to. For every success rolled, the Reflection gains one point of Essence, and even if the vampire only rolled one success, the Reflection does not need to feed tonight.
If anyone attacks the Reflection, it vanishes, and any benefit the ritual may have granted is lost.
Exceptional Success: As for success, except that the Reflection gains its full Essence pool.
Related Organizations
Material Components
Cost: One Vitae, mixed in with the ingredients of a plate of food
Gestures & Ritual
Dice Pool: Presence + Occult + Auspex – Reflection’s Resistance
Effect Casting Time
Extended