Rite of the Long Arm

By Mitchell Kelly, for the Lugh of the Long Arm totem.

Level Four Rite

Description

This allows the enactors of the Rite to produce a weapon of great power against Awakened foes. The Ritemaster must gather together the following: ground chalk, the brain of an Awakened enemy, and some items from the body of the enemy who is to be the target. This includes hairs, nail parings, scraps of flesh caught under fingernails etc. Then, the Ritemaster, along with at least three others, including the person who will use the weapon, must mix together the ingredients, form them into a ball, and leave them to harden in the sun. The participants must call upon Lugh and give voice to their hatred of the target whilst making the ball, and two points each of Rage, Gnosis and Willpower must be spent.

The ball is a lethal weapon. Launched from a two-handed sling at the target, who must be within visual range, it will strike unerringly. The target can use Disciplines, Gifts, Arts or even Magick to hide or avoid the ball. This is a waste of time: the user can launch the ball successfully provided that she knows the target is within her range of vision. She does not have to see the target. The ball does not miss, and even Correspondence magick won't help. The ball will simply follow the target, but it can be dodged: this only requires five successes on the Dodge roll, diff 9. If five successes are not achieved, the successes gained each negate one die of damage. The ball inflicts fifteen dice of aggravated damage, as it crushes internal organs and splinters bones... The brains of a victim of the ball are said to be especially potent in the production of new missiles.