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Message: <blockquote data-quote="helium3" data-source="post: 4652678" data-attributes="member: 31301">Pieter hands the book to Jorje and then continues to read over his right shoulder, with Ranver doing the same over his left.As dark and depraved as the ritual book clearly is, whoever wrote it was a masterful artist and a brilliant illuminator. The hand drawn images dance around and across the pages, weaving in and through the magical writings of the rituals and the mundane text that explains their function and execution. The artist's bizarre melding of gentle woodland creatures and macabre graveyard scenes is at times nearly humorous and at others merely insane.The ritual book itself seems to be devoted nearly equally to magic related to the creation of illusions and phantasms and to the shaping of vital and galvanic forces. In terms of the sheer amount of magical power involved, the ritual that is about to be cast is at the high end of what the book contains. To the delight of both Jorje and Ranver, it also contains rituals that are more squarely within the realm of what both are able to master.After some study of the ritual in question, Jorje is able to ascertain several salient points:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Neither he nor Ranver are capable of mastering the magical energies involved. After some discussion it is determined however that Pieter can. Thus, Pieter will need to lead the ritual and Ranver and Jorje will need to assist. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The ritual is, in fact, not inherently evil. There will be no dark taint placed upon the spirits of those who participate in its casting. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Petra's assertion regarding the sacrifice of vitality is correct. Though the sacrifice normally needed would indeed be enough to kill a single victim, spreading the sacrifice out amongst the four amulet wearers will reduce the loss of vitality to a mere inconvenience.</li> </ul>Jorje's inspection of the tome leads him to discover one other item of interest. As he handles the pages he begins to get the sense that there is a smell of magic about the book. His first inclination is to assume that the finely crafted drawings and illuminations are in fact simple glamers. A quick investigation does not bear that hypothesis out.After additional examination, Jorje is able to ascertain that the cover of the book is magicked with some sort of illusion. As the front of the ritual book is blank, the most likely explanation is that the magic is concealing something from sight.</blockquote>

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