Take on some of the sun’s might for a season.
Power: Minor
Cost: 4 Minor Charges
Effect: You gain 5 more Body points and get a +10% shift to any magick involving the sun until the start of the next season.
Description: This ritual has to be performed at the start of a season right before dawn. All it requires painting your whole body yellow and staying in one places for the daylight hours, while naked. Also sometime during the day someone is going to come and challenge you to a fight. If you win the blessing is yours. If you loose then you get nothing but beaten up. Charges spent are lost since the ritual ensures that someone is going to come and challenge you to a fight not that you win and get the blessing.
Seems a might powerful for the relatively low charge cost- I’d bump it up to two significant charges, myself, or one and drop the +10% magic.
The reason I made it a minor ritual is that the ritual can work and yet the caster ends up getting nothing. There is a chance that instead of getting buff you get beaten. Besides if you miss the chance to use it you have to wait until next season.
The actual number of minor charges only matters for adepts. I can see how still having enough charges to use one’s blast makes the ritual more effective since you aren’t taking that big of a risk. Instead of making it significant I’d say you have to fight the person using Struggle. No blasts.
As for the bonus to magick I didn’t mean magick while in sunlight but magick that involves the sun. If someone knew Greater Blessing of the Sun or Cause Eclipse the bonus would apply to those rituals.
Still I agree that 5 body points for a minor ritual isn’t too shabby. You can regulate how easy it is by the strength of the challenger. I’d personally say the challenger is evenly matched except that Struggle is their Obsession skill. I guess I should have made it clearer that the ritual just summons the challenger whose defeat causes the empowerment.
Wait… there’s a paradox.. nah I’m afraid it’s just an ordinary contradiction here.
They must stand still all day, yet they must also fight and defeat a challenger.
Doesn’t say how they must fight them.
Technically, a ‘fight’ could be a verbal sparring, or a game of chess.
Russian roulette, maybe?