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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Falkus" data-source="post: 3482384" data-attributes="member: 22634">After examning some of the rituals, Nick can understand why they're kept under lock and key. They're all relatively easy to cast, requiring no preexisting arcane or psionic abilities. And they all cause death and destruction, often on a scale that usually requires nuclear devices to achieve mundanely.After spending three long hours pouring through the rituals, Nick finally hits paydirt, and finds a ritual that matches the information he's retrieved so far. The Summoning of Dak'Kar. Created by the Cabal of Five shortly before they were destroyed by the armies of ancient Egypt. The purpose of this ritual is to summon the dark demon of slaughter, Dak'Lar, and give him a city to do with as he pleases.The first step is to make a pentagram on the city in question, done by performing a human sacrifice at each of the five points. The sacrifices aren't especially involved, once the initial casting is done, all it takes is one of the people involved to kill someone and chant a few specific words. This has to be done over the course of five days, and at the same time on each day. Using a lesser summoned fiend, ideally a servant of Dak'Lar, to perform the sacrafices can enhance the power of the ritual.The second stage is a sixth sacrifice, which must be a being of power, at the center of the pentagram. This involves a two hour ceremony, culminating in the caster of the ritual carving out the heart of the sacrifice and eating it.Dak'Lar will then be summoned. He will take the city as his own, and engage in a fortnight of slaughter and destruction, at which point he'll return to the lower planes, taking the city with him.According to an attached document, the only known casting of this ritual occurred at Pompeii.The only thing that doesn't match the facts you've gathered so far is that completing the ritual doesn't actually give the people casting it any sort of power or demonic favors or whatnot. In fact, the most they'll probably get is to be Dak'Lars first victims.</blockquote>

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