The Placement Test

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The Placement Test is a Ritual Incarnate created by the Carmine Exile to upend the local lordships.<ref name=":0">Second email, very in depth.  Zed was focused heavily on the big threat.  A ritual incarnate had arisen about halfway between Thunder Bay and Winnipeg.  Dryden was a town about the size Kennet had been, and a force around Dryden was turning people into places and objects into people.  Each of the five thousand residents were unspooled into hallways, roads, and other things, and the various things they wore and had with them became people.

Practitioners, Zed wrote, were able to hold onto themselves, just a bit, but they unspooled easily if hurt or- Avery guessed it was coup.  Any insult, any setback, it’d be a knock against their ability to keep from unspooling and becoming more place.  Too much of a knock against their Selves and they’d become an ongoing fixture.

But implements retained the connection, at least, with memories and limited abilities of the practitioner, Others were mostly unaffected, and a full outfit of complementary pieces of clothing would become a team of people who associated with each other but didn’t remember a life before the Ritual Incarnate.  Before what Zed was calling a Labyrinth.

Oh, and the same dangerous Others that were out here were in there.  Mostly occupying themselves killing the Lord and his family members that had been camped out there, at the far west of Musser’s territory.

Leaving Zed to theorize about how it might be tackled.  Summoned Others to give guidance, a very specific sort of outfit, for a goal-oriented, cohesive team- Zed theorized hyper-urban tactical clothing for a tactical squad.  Any practitioners with implements would be ideal.  All to get to what Zed was thinking was a core of power that was still vulnerable. - Excerpt from Wild Abandon 18.2</ref>

Nature

Targeted at humans specifically practitioner, Others are unaffected.<ref name=":0"/> innocent humans don't notice and practitioners are left vulnerable.

In a mix of such practices as alchezar hatching rituals and more

Origins

Believed to be one of several purpose built Lords meant to trip up Mr. Musser. <ref name=":77"> Avery sat back, thinking.

don’t go, she typed.  She sent that fast, so Zed wouldn’t commit to anything in the meantime.

Then, while she was typing a follow up message, she got a reply: why not?

“Telling Zed… Don’t go, because Charles Abrams created the Hungry Choir as a trap for Alexander and the other big practitioners.  It had a big juicy battery full of power at the center, basically,” Avery said out loud, as she typed.  For her parents’ benefit.  “And this thing Zed is telling me about might be Charles’ second try at that.  Hold off for now.  Maybe you should tackle the Others who took over the call center.  Whatever that’s about.” - Excerpt from Wild Abandon 18.2</ref>

The Ritual

The effects of the ritual are in place ass soon as you cross the border. The Ritual, or more accurately the competition at the center of this ritual is a capture-the-flag fight.<ref> - Excerpt from Wild Abandon 18.z</ref>

Rules

A Living Ritual that transforms along the Person→Place→Thing line, meant to be a multiday slog with a final game of capture the flag at the end. One is meant to avoid the various Others that have taken up residence in it.

Manifestations

Uses Others as agents rather then manifesting itself.

Person→Place

Presumably the transformation here is effected by where the person spends their life, what they're focused on and more.

<ref name=":8">“People, places, things,” Antlers said. “Those are the mechanics. People become places, things become people, and…”

“Places become things?” Wicked Hat asked, pointing at the doll. A popular brand, with messy hair, scuffs on the feet and legs, and a bright blue dress. - Excerpt from Wild Abandon 18.z</ref>

Place→Thing

Locations that have become objects are seemingly immuvable.

Thing→Person

A direct example of a hatching ritual with the item becoming a person with a character related to the tool itself.

History

Created by the Carmine Exile and revealed when overturning the Musser Lordships. It caused the deaths of a practitioner family.<ref name=":77"/>

Bloody Days

Zed, Brie and the girls' things went into the ritual as part of an expedition. While they were not able to influence it directly they gained valuable information about it.

The information was sold and used by others to deal with it.<ref name=":6">“There was a ritual incarnate,” Toadswallow said. “Like the Choir.”

“More or less dealt with by the girls, Zed, and Brie, then finished off by others.”

“Hm, good,” Toadswallow said. He looked up at Bubbleyum. “Just the one thing Making a field into a whole town we have to get across.” - Excerpt from Go for the Throat 23.d</ref>

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