diff --git a/pages/cypher/homebrew.md b/pages/cypher/homebrew.md index 2dbd2bb..e070bfc 100644 --- a/pages/cypher/homebrew.md +++ b/pages/cypher/homebrew.md @@ -133,3 +133,28 @@ technology, or some kind of unnatural being, but you use your size and strength * *Sky/Air (2 Intellect points).* You or a creature you touch can fly short distances for ten minutes. You must land at the end of your movement, or otherwise fall. Action. + +## Rituals + +### Read Object + +Bestows information about an object's history. The object must be handled by the caster inside a circle traced in silver +powder, who reads any impressions left upon it, obtaining a piece of information occasionally over the duration of the +ritual's effects. The nature of the object, including its magical auras, the strength of the creatures who handled it, +its historical significance, and so on, may all affect the level of the ritual and the duration necessary to concentrate +on the object after the ritual is cast. The caster knows when there is no further information to gleam from the object, +and the spell ends at this point if not interrupted prematurely. The ritual may succeed only for the caster to learn +that the object has no information to yield, for whatever reason. + +Examples of information that can be obtained via this ritual include the object's name (if it has one), an image of the +last creature to handle the object, an image of the last moments an object was last used, knowledge of the item's +historical significance, if any, and so on. + +* **Level:** The level of the effect or significance of the object +* **Time:** One minute per level of preparation, one minute per level of performance +* **Roles:** Creating magic circles, tracing runes in silver powder, lighting candles +* **Side Effects:** False information, mental strain, the object's owner or creator, or an adversary, scrys upon the + caster +* **Reagents:** The object, silver powder, candles +* **Pool:** Intellect +* **Other Assets:** Identifying magical auras, historical/historical/etc. knowledge