Embryonic Stone

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Description: The embryonic stone is a collaborative work, infusing the ideals and principles of both alchemy and necromancy to produce blood in a crystallized form which can be utilized for ingestion, or as foci paths and rituals. This process requires an invocation to the darker powers, the eggs of carrion birds which are ritually cleansed and injected with alchemical ingredients and a burial site to serve as a necromantic incubator for the eggs.
Origin: Benesj Cherno
Ingredients: Carrion Bird Eggs / Cemetery / Corpse / Gum Arabic / Mercury / Mummy Dust / Salt / Sulfur / Blood
Casting: The ritual begins in a cemetery where the caster makes an invocation to the powers of the Underworld (they may be his ancestors, the gods of his land or even the demons of the dead) to aid him in the act of creating the stone. The eggs of a carrion bird (the eggs must come from a carrion bird, which is symbolic of death, while the eggs represents the principle of incubation, which has dual applications in both alchemy and necromancy) is ritually cleansed with salt water (the philosophic principle of clarity and unification), then incensed with burning sulfur (the philosophic principle of masculinity and volatility) and injected with a calculated mixture of gum Arabic, mercury, mummy dust and blood. Finally, the eggs are buried in an old grave, amidst the physical remains of the grave’s original occupant (the black stage) and left to mature for three whole nights (representing the three additional stages of the great work).
System: If the ritual is successful, each egg has essentially been mystically petrified, transformed into an embryonic stone. Each success on the ritual roll equates to the creation of another embryonic stone. A failure on the ritual produces rotten eggs, while a botch can produce stones that are specifically toxic to the one who ingests them and cause aggravated damage if they come into contact with him or her.
Notes: Discussion with Jamie on 5/10/07 yielded the true potential for this ritual. The ritual preserves blood for later use as a power-source for ingestion, paths or rituals.