By Peloquin (ka.vanadis@karlskrona.mail.telia.com) for the Pica
The Pica spends two days meditating, making accumulated Willpower and Gnosis rolls. Fifty successes each are needed. The Pica then spends her entire temporary Gnosis and Willpower rating, and snatches the small silver disk that comes falling through the air towards her.
And the moon is gone.
The Pica must perform the ritual every month to keep the moon, and her eyes will inevitably shine with a white glow. For each month the moon is kept captive, there is no moon, a phenomenon no one has so far seen. Bear in mind that this is no lunar eclipse, but the disappearance of the very piece of grey rock orbiting our planet, so tides would be messed up, the Earth's spin would be affected, and most importantly of all, in these days, the Shapeshifters would see this as Apocalypse come too soon.
The Gift has only been used once, many tens of thousands of years ago, and the disastrous effects caused an entire city to disappear. Maybe you've heard of it. The natives called it Poseidonis, and the citystate it governed was called Atlantis.