new Cypher ritual: Read Object

pages/adventuring/index.md

@@ -10,8 +10,8 @@ Footer:         Numenera, the Cypher System, No Thank You, Evil!, Invisible Sun,
 
 # Adventuring!
 
-Adventuring! is a play-by-chat fantasy campaign run in the Forgotten Realms, circa 1372 DR. Presently, it is situated in
+Adventuring! is a play-by-chat [Cypher System](/cypher/) fantasy campaign run in the Forgotten Realms, circa 1372 DR.
-the Dragon Coast.
+Presently, it is situated in the Dragon Coast.
 
 |> [![Map of Faerûn's Dragon Coast area, featuring Westgate, Reddansyr, and Teziir](faerun-dragon-coast-westgate.jpg)](faerun-dragon-coast-westgate.jpg)
 |: The current campaign location, an area of the Dragon Coast.

pages/adventuring/story-graph.md

@@ -71,5 +71,24 @@ digraph PLOT {
 
     Livestock_Robbers [label="Defeats bandits that drove livestock away"]
     Reddansyr_Farm -> Livestock_Robbers
+
+    Tracks_Livestock [label="Tracks livestock to goblin cave", shape="octagon"]
+    Livestock_Robbers -> Tracks_Livestock
+
+    Bandit_Selling_Livestock [label="Bandit trading the livestock for something", shape="rect"]
+    Tracks_Livestock -> Bandit_Selling_Livestock
+
+    Returns_Livestock [label="Frees livestock and returns them to the farm"]
+    Tracks_Livestock -> Returns_Livestock
+
+    UFC_Slaver_in_Reddansyr [label="Quarter Roy spots UFC slaver in Reddansyr"]
+    Returns_Livestock -> UFC_Slaver_in_Reddansyr
+
+    Starmantle [label="Starmantle", shape="octagon"]
+    UFC_Slaver_in_Reddansyr -> Starmantle
+
+    Reddansyr_Return [label="Returns to Reddansyr", shape="doubleoctagon"]
+    Returns_Livestock -> Reddansyr_Return
+    Return_to_Reddansyr -> Reddansyr_Return
 }
 ~~~

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

pages/cypher/index.md

@@ -8,6 +8,19 @@ Footer:         Numenera, the Cypher System, No Thank You, Evil!, Invisible Sun,
 
 # Cypher System
 
+The Cypher System, from Monte Cook Games, has become my favorite general purpose system, and perhaps one of my favorite
+systems overall. It is a lightweight "rulings over rules" system with only a couple core mechanics and a lot of player
+options, easily adaptable to any setting.
+
+## Homebrew and House Rules
+
+Custom content (descriptors, etc.) I've created for games in the Cypher system can be found at [this page of
+homebrew](homebrew). Additionally, I use the following house rules:
+
+* [Optional spellcasting uses pool points, not recovery rolls](homebrew#cost-of-optional-spellcasting)
+* [Recovery rolls can be applied in any
+  order](https://callmepartario.github.io/og-csrd/#house-rule-making-recovery-rolls-in-any-order)
+
 ## Campaigns
 
 * [A Storm Invited](storm/)
@@ -18,6 +31,12 @@ Footer:         Numenera, the Cypher System, No Thank You, Evil!, Invisible Sun,
 
 * [Farewell to the Spire](spire/)
 
+## Resources
+
+* [Old Gus' Cypher System Reference Document](https://callmepartario.github.io/og-csrd/) --- freely available rules text
+  for the Cypher System and other openly available sources
+* [Form-fillable character sheet](Cypher System Character Sheets-Revised-FormFillable-2019-09-10.pdf)
+
 ## Characters
 
 Characters made for other games:
@@ -25,18 +44,3 @@ Characters made for other games:
 * [Victor Cadela](victor-cadela)
 
 Making characters is fun, so I've made some [scratch characters](scratch-characters) for the hell of it.
-
-## Homebrew and House Rules
-
-Custom content (descriptors, etc.) I've created for games in the Cypher system can be found at [this page of
-homebrew](homebrew). Additionally, I use the following house rules:
-
-* [Optional spellcasting uses pool points, not recovery rolls](homebrew#cost-of-optional-spellcasting)
-* [Recovery rolls can be applied in any
-  order](https://callmepartario.github.io/og-csrd/#house-rule-making-recovery-rolls-in-any-order)
-
-## Resources
-
-* [Old Gus' Cypher System Reference Document](https://callmepartario.github.io/og-csrd/) --- freely available rules text
-  for the Cypher System and other openly available sources
-* [Form-fillable character sheet](Cypher System Character Sheets-Revised-FormFillable-2019-09-10.pdf)