Editing Living Ritual

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Rituals that are able to act on their own, are commonly created by [[Incarnation]]s but not exclusively. 

With the rise of the [[internet]] and internet rumors they have proliferated.<ref>“An Incarnation of Poverty might try to spread poverty.  Sometimes that would be with a cursed item; innocents handle it, they ignore the warnings printed on the item or shared by the seller, they lose their earthly belongings and fortunes, they die or suffer a dark fate, the item gets passed on, having strengthened Poverty, until someone figures out a way to deal with it.  Other times, it’s a ''ritual'' that finds its way to people’s hands.  In this modern era, when urban legends can gain traction and the internet is a thing, it’s getting more and more common.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/05/19 Excerpt] from [[Lost for Words 1.4]]</ref>


Those practitioners that specialize in using repairing improving and manipulating living rituals are called Proctors,<ref>Immaterial x Deals ... '''Proctors''' make Ritual Incarnates (see Incarnations) or latch onto dying/nascent ones to try to steer things and manage things, reaping a share of the rewards, and/or make their own ‘tests’ for people to fail. - [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LZFjFfwxLK1UWS59EY5js8ORYAlQLvLzBmkcqdpTp_0 PACT DICE]</ref> a [[rapacious]] practice. Those who specialize in actually ''running'' these races, or whatever form the ritual or test takes,  are usually called Contestants.<ref>Deals x Protection ... '''Contestants''' deal with Incarnations by challenging them to contests or taking on challenges such as Ritual Incarnates, building up a repertoire of boons and protections.  Keep Death’s number to play chess with her and on a victory, secure a day’s protection from dying… and then use practice to get an IOU to be called in on a specific day. - [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LZFjFfwxLK1UWS59EY5js8ORYAlQLvLzBmkcqdpTp_0 PACT DICE]</ref><!--<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/Weaverdice/comments/16j4ryu/comment/k0nz55p</ref>--> Those practitioners who have become enmeshed with a specific ritual without the ability to slip its grasp are called Yoked.

==Known Examples==
*[[Hungry Choir]]
*[[Placement Test]]
*Famous actor ritual<ref> ||The ritual is portrayed as an eccentric billionaire's attempt to give an opportunity to new actors and form new communities in a city where lots of lonely would-be actors flounder (LA, Toronto, Vancouver).  Twelve 'scenes' they have to act through the prove their mettle.  But they're very quickly put in situations that tell them they're not in Kansas anymore.  A 15 minute drive to the location, stepping out of the car to find themselves at a place that couldn't be within 15 minutes (like a flooded venetian city where they incorporated the flooding into the architecture).  The first scene is simple, if intense, and after the 'shooting', the eccentric asks them to give their all to make this the best dramas ever... and to cut their palms and drip blood into a bowl used in the scene.  One scene, go home, rest, relax, eat, socialize with your new fellow actors, read over scripts for the next scene, sleep, and dream of this strange city.  A few days pass, next scene, follow the script until they say cut.||
||Miss lines, break from the script, and you see behind the curtain, where the other actors remove masks and there are skulls beneath, or things bigger than whales slither through the water.  You can try to convince others, but they've been asked to improvise.  Whatever you see starts to follow you into your everyday life.  Break enough, have a breakdown, and the next script page calls for you to act out your death on stage.  Your body cools as the actors walk away, unnerved by how realistic the effects were.||
||Fall into it?  The role starts to take over, chasing each person, looking back at them in the mirror.  Sit still while we do your makeup, wear this collar.  Now you have different skin, hair, gender, voice.  Now act multiple roles in one scene.  Two faces look back at you in the mirror.  Then a scene where the director doesn't say cut, hours pass you can't remember reading the script but you know the lines, and there's no breather to go back to being you.||

- Wildbow on Discord</ref>
*Blue Funk, Ritual of Fear<ref>[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZI99rL4aAoecIT-z47BZhqquF8f6A16jBWH9Ahxk-Po Blue Funk]</ref>
*Ritual of Time<ref name=":0"/>
*Ritual of Envy<ref name=":0">“Not consistently.  I’ve heard about one where a notebook described how to find the location of a tunnel entrance, which regularly moved.  An Incarnate Ritual of Time.  Going through the winding tunnels would take the participants back in time.  They could alter their pasts, but while in the past, they had to arrange events so a specific scene would come to pass at a specific point in time, years in the future, as depicted on a mural along the way.  They got three tries and if they failed to replicate the scene, they were unwound from Time altogether.  The notebook was mass produced, some practitioners in the States got ahead of it, and used their expertise to beat it enough times it ran out of steam.  In another case, an Incarnate Ritual of Envy, participants could log into a website, and would join as a group, engaging in a game of several rounds of swapping minds with bodies among members of the group, similar to musical chairs.”<br><br>“What happened when a chair was taken away?”<br><br>“I don’t know.  The easiest and most obvious answer would be that that specific mind and body pairing were snuffed out.”<br><br>“Do they all end horribly?” Avery asked.<br><br>“They tend to, but typically, there’s incentive to win, a reward for the winner, that draws specific kinds of candidate into the ritual,” Charles said.  “Be careful with the Hungry Choir.  Have some protection if you’re getting close.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/05/19 Excerpt] from [[Lost for Words 1.4]]</ref>
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