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I have my ritual… now am I brave enough to see what could happen? | I have my ritual… now am I brave enough to see what could happen? | ||
== | ==Feb 5 2022== | ||
I cast the ritual. The Beggar's Prayer was straightforward and the magic was simple. I could feel it swirling around me. I saw slivers of light form as I touched each card. It chanted for 5 minutes straight, trying to get my hands to pull the cards to finish the ritual. I was shaking… my breath caught in my throat. It felt like eternity as I grabbed the deck. The two cards I pulled powered my ritual and the 5C was blank for a moment. The room was still for a moment and my panic gave way to absolute quiet. And then sitting in front of me was a band of bills. $4000 dollars… enough to cover the cost of Edna's next month's rent on the Sage Cauldron plus enough to stock Kyle's fridge for a few weeks. It was exactly what I asked for. | I cast the ritual. The Beggar's Prayer was straightforward and the magic was simple. I could feel it swirling around me. I saw slivers of light form as I touched each card. It chanted for 5 minutes straight, trying to get my hands to pull the cards to finish the ritual. I was shaking… my breath caught in my throat. It felt like eternity as I grabbed the deck. The two cards I pulled powered my ritual and the 5C was blank for a moment. The room was still for a moment and my panic gave way to absolute quiet. And then sitting in front of me was a band of bills. $4000 dollars… enough to cover the cost of Edna's next month's rent on the Sage Cauldron plus enough to stock Kyle's fridge for a few weeks. It was exactly what I asked for. | ||
The silence was broken as a dark winged shadow fluttered behind me. I spun around wildly but saw nothing. A deep rasping voice rang out, "that spell was beneath my abilities! Call on a lesser spirit for such paltry matters. I do not wish to be bothered if the limits of your ambition are so miniscule." The voice was ringing from every corner of the room, shaking the lights and rattling the walls. "You bound me to your service for four great tasks, four grand works. This was an inconvenience, a chore, a minor errand, not what I was summoned for. You have a divining tool in your hands. Use it! Ask how to easily gain money next time or bind a minor servitor demon into the deck for such menial jobs. If you call on me again for such trivial matters I will destroy whatever it is you're trying to save!" | The silence was broken as a dark winged shadow fluttered behind me. I spun around wildly but saw nothing. A deep rasping voice rang out, "that spell was beneath my abilities! Call on a lesser spirit for such paltry matters. I do not wish to be bothered if the limits of your ambition are so miniscule." The voice was ringing from every corner of the room, shaking the lights and rattling the walls. "You bound me to your service for four great tasks, four grand works. This was an inconvenience, a chore, a minor errand, not what I was summoned for. You have a divining tool in your hands. Use it! Ask how to easily gain money next time or bind a minor servitor demon into the deck for such menial jobs. If you call on me again for such trivial matters I will destroy whatever it is you're trying to save!" | ||
==Feb 6 2022== | |||
Edna was beside herself when I gave her the money. She wanted to know where I got it from. I paused, trying to think of something convincing. She wasn't going to believe that a demon brought it to me. I had to think quickly. "We raised the money at a garage sale at my uncle's house," I said unconvincingly. She frowned. We stood in silence for a while. I felt like such a heel. Here is a woman whom I trust and love more than anyone. She is more like a parent to me than those who birthed me, and I'm lying to her. I'm making her angry. But then she sighed. | |||
"Alright, Grant, you don't want to tell me the truth. At least tell me that no one got hurt." I let out a breath that I didn't know I was holding. | |||
"No one is hurt." | |||
"Is anyone in trouble?" | |||
"No," I said, not really believing it myself. I didn't know what this new power could do. I guess I needed to find out. | |||
==Feb 7 2022== | |||
Where do I go from here? Like… what do I do with this power? How often do I use it? How… should I use this? | |||
Basic reading: | |||
AC - Protection of Earth: The place I need to protect… I suppose this represents the Caldron. | |||
7S - Unlikely Assistance: I’m gaining unlikely assistance from this deck and demons… | |||
6S - Magick: So I should do more magick… | |||
I guess the deck is really saying that the best way to protect the rest of the Outcast Psychics is to capture demons and use their power…. This still feels dirty somehow. | |||
==Feb 8 2022== | |||
To fortify the Caldron to be the safe place I want it to be, I need to summon a demon who is a great builder. [[Malphas]] will be bound into the [[8D]] which signifies a new project, changing this place into a stronghold. | |||
I painted a castle on the front of the card and then I lit four red candles and placed the card in the middle. When the shadow of Malphas began to creep into the card I slammed a brick down on the card hard enough to extinguish the candles and sealed him inside. This is almost too easy. | |||
==Feb 9 2022== | |||
Leonard Milshiff, local entrepreneur and philanthropist, was found dead inside his home on the 6th. Apparently he was robbed. Leonard was one of the land developers who was putting pressure on the Sage’s Cauldron… I think I’m going to be sick… | |||