Living Ritual

Rituals that are able to act on their own, are commonly created by Incarnations but not exclusively.

With the rise of the internet and internet rumors they have proliferated.

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. - PACT DICE</ref> a rapacious practice. Those who specialize in actually running these types of tests and rituals 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. - PACT DICE</ref> Those practitioners who have become imeshed with a specific ritual 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>

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