Editing Ritual (section)

==Known rituals==
Retrocog ritual<ref> - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/11/10 Excerpt] from [[Cutting Class 6.5]]</ref>

'''Winter connection ritual'''<ref>“Like that, sure, but more… I dunno.  More like you get benefits just for doing the ritual, and you don’t have to go anywhere.  Maybe you deal with some people.  Some of it was in the collector stuff we looked up.”<br><br>“Doing a ritual so the world sends the trash-tier trinkets and doo-dads your way,” Lucy noted.<br><br>“Yes,” Verona said.  “And some that are like, they increase your claim.  Just a big, expensive ritual, and it gets harder to take stuff from you.  And you can do it multiple times, but each time the price doubles.  And you have to renew.  So if you’ve got some crazy claim ritual where the cost doubled up to something like a million dollars, you’re having to pay that every five years or whatever.  So you have to be careful.  Because failing to be ready when the renewal time comes clears you out.”<br><br>“Sounds like the sort of thing Bristow would ''love'', and would definitely do,” Lucy said.  “And if you can find it in the Blue Heron Institute texts, chances are good he’s probably read it too.”<br><br>“Probably,” Verona said.  “And he’d take a ton of safeguards to protect himself, and probably wouldn’t schedule any big school takeovers for when the renewal thing is due.”<br><br>“Unless he needs the school to pay what’s due?” Avery asked.<br><br>“I don’t feel like that’s the key to handling this whole thing,” Lucy said.  “Anyway.  Yes, there are rituals that give you big benefits.  And they’re pretty much always on, sometimes needing renewal, or a constant power source, or whatever.”<br><br>“Yes,” Verona said.  “So my guess?  Silas has this.  And Faerie ''love'' the social manipulation and subtle crap.  So how does that work with something like a Winter Faerie?”<br><br>“A creeping frost over connections?” Avery asked.<br><br>“What does frost do, though?” Verona asked.<br><br>“Chills?  Makes things more rigid?” Avery suggested.<br><br>“Or it’s a prelude to freezing them,” Verona said.  “Imagine.  A big ritual, and it locks things down?  Imagine that this kid is spending time around people, establishing a relationship as… I dunno.  A friend, an enemy, a boyfriend, a student, and then freezing those relationships.”<br><br>“What’s the advantage in doing that to ''us?''” Lucy asked.<br><br>“I think there’s a ''huge'' advantage in knowing exactly where you stand with people,” Verona retorted. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/11/24 Excerpt] from [[Cutting Class 6.9]]</ref> - Keeps [[Connections]] from shifting around.

[[Collector]] trinket ritual <ref> - [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Od3iu2TXe5r677wHEMCudG5hDUrlM6-E0kgiuvlkuuw Pact Dice: Collectors]</ref><!--Verona mentions this a few times-->

'''Proper spellling ritual '''<ref>“What was her name?  Marlene Roy?”<br><br>
“Marlen,” Toadswallow said.  “Like the fish, but with an ‘e’.  That’s the letter ‘e’, not the drug.”<br><br>“I have no idea what you’re on about, Toad, but I get the impression a lot of those clarifications are rude.”<br><br>“Then I’m doing it right.  Some practitioners have an ear for the distinctions.  How to spell something by how it’s said.”<br><br>“That’s ''bizarre.''”<br><br>“It’s necessary.  A little perk that helps keep a contract with an Other from going awry, usually obtained with careful attention or a small ritual.”<br><br>“Huh.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/11/16 Excerpt] from [[Playing a Part 15.6]]</ref>- Being able to phonetically get the spelling of someones name

'''Drifter ritual '''- Helps ensconce the Drifter state,<ref>Marlen was a drifter.  Some practitioners tried to tie themselves to a place and its power.  She’d done the opposite.  She’d ritually disconnected herself from Earth and the earthly at a young age, with the consequence that getting in touch with her was hard.  Which was largely the point. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/10/26 Excerpt] from [[Fall Out 14.z]]</ref> allowing them not to be teathered by earthly concerns.<ref>“You’re not acting like it,” the woman replied.  “I’d rather die.  Being caught like this is bad enough.  I’m not talking about the goblins either.  Being grounded, my rituals inactive, dehumanized, bound?  Eating’s a chore, sleeping is uncomfortable, I have to use the washroom, and for most of that I’m being ''watched'', ''watched'', ''watched''.”<br><br>“Wait, you don’t have to go to the bathrom or eat, normally?” Verona asked.<br><br>“Very little,” Marlen replied, glaring at Verona.<br><br>“That’s pretty cool.”<br><br>“It ''is''!” Marlen snarled the last word, jerking the cuffs and making the cable squeak where it was knotted around the beam above her.  Nibble rose from his position, poised over the back of the couch like he was ready to hurry over.  Marlen made herself relax.  “It ''is'' cool.  Since I was ten, it’s all been easier.  Now I’m sweating, sitting in this dense, ''stinking'' meat, I’m chafing, I feel the prickle of the air.  I feel random twinges and pains I’d forgotten humans experience.  I want to be ''free'' of this again.  I want to ride my bike.”  - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/12/21 Excerpt] from [[Left in the Dust 16.4]]</ref>

Protection rituals - <ref>“Ear protection?” Avery asked.<br><br>“I hang out with goblins.  One of the first rituals Toadswallow taught me was a funky ritual a while ago to keep my hearing!” Liberty was raising her voice to be heard over the goblins. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/12/18 Excerpt] from [[Left in the Dust 16.3]]</ref> Used to protect certain body parts from harm.
===Alcazar Rituals===
<blockquote>''Main article: [[Alcazar]]''</blockquote>The opening up of objects and people to rumage around and extract and change things.
===Hatching Rituals===
Turning objects into people, sometimes even letting them walk around.
===Emergent Rituals===
Those performed by the innocent unknowingly and one of the research subjects for [[Historian]]s.<ref name="Hist">“You’ve been coming here a while?” Avery asked.<br><br>“Three years. Dom is from a family of historians. They study patterns in history, to see if any accidental rituals emerge.” <br><br>“Accidental rituals?” Verona asked.<br><br>“I don’t know how much to explain, because I don’t know how much you know, and I’m not the best teacher. Uh, when non-practitioners do stuff, they can still create rituals. We call them accidental or emergent rituals. If you find a big enough or ancient enough one, you can tweak it or harness it. City layouts forming diagrams that influence economy? Big money, potentially. Patterns in, I dunno, wars followed by baby booms? That could potentially be a whole generation that’s special. They came here to deal with Ray, the guy I’m apprenticing under, so I’ve got the scoop there.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/08/29 Excerpt] from [[Leaving a Mark 4.4]]</ref>