Milk of Set

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Setite Sorcery

This entry is a catch-all for a range of rituals too numerous to mention, though many Setites have their own names for concoctions created in this fashion. In each, the Setite creates a salve or unguent with magical properties. The exact details of the ritual and ingredients of the salve vary depending on the desired effect. Each effect must be learned as a separate ritual. When he wants his character to gain a new ritual, the player specifies a desired effect; the Storyteller deter- mines its level, according to her judgment of the unguent’s effectiveness as compared to other ritual effects. She should rule out any effect that too closely resembles an existing path or ritual from any tradition, unless the effect is a common one already available to a number of Disciplines. Effects must change their targets for the worse, or alter them so that they serve a new purpose. It takes one week per level to produce a single dose of salve or unguent. It stays potent for a number of weeks equal to the player’s successes, and then becomes useless.

Here are some possible manifestations of the Milk of Set:

Level: Effect
3: Add to gas tank of vehicle, so that it goes where the Setite wants, not where driver steers it.
1: Alter a lock so that it conforms to a key the Setite owns.
2: Burn through steel or concrete.
1: Make a drug more addictive.
Varries: Make hollow replica of object coated in salve.
1 per two health levels of damage dealt: Melt flesh on contact.
2: Salve slithers along the ground in sluglike manner, following trail of specified individual.
1: Seek out a computer and maliciously alter contents of its hard drive.