Once a year The Chaos Eclipse envelopes the city. We have always been taught that during a Chaos Eclipse that it is possible to use the "Chaos Ritual" to rid the city of the horrid beasts we know of as Dark Mares, but until last year, The year of Turmoil, Dreamers of the city have been unable to put exactly all the pieces of the ritual together to perform it properly.
Last year was indeed an eventful time during the Chaos Eclipse. Scrolls of Relminus the Blind, began to pop-up throughout the city, 17 codices in all, seemed to give detailed instructions from Relminus himself on how to perform the ritual successfully. With the help of Selika, member of the Sable Moon, I was able to obtain the information of all 17 codices and put them in the correct order.
After much discussion with my family at the Light, we decided we were indeed going to try to rid the dream of some of these beasts when the Eclipse was indeed upon us, since we now knew what had to be done. We studied carefully. The first codex in the sequence stated the following:
" The reaper must be created in a place where the dream resonates with power, by a dreamer who pursues the path of Dreamsmith. The words to be inscribed on the reaper; One word of doubt, one of fate, one of brotherhood, one of hate. Two words of opposition, three words of power, the name of the DM whom chaos will devour."
At the Light, we are lucky because we already had a resident Dreamsmith in our home, Ruler Valourin, who bears the mark of a Smith. So it was decided that he would indeed begin working on the Reapers. We decided on the place of power and late into the night Valourin, myself, and a few others brainstormed for the words that would be placed on the reapers as called for.
Valourin then inscribed the reapers for the ritual at the power gen on the Evernight exit on Harrow Glades. He inscribed about ten, one for each mare that had been seen lately and who were likely to give us a visit during the Eclipse. We then stored the reapers in our house library.
There were three phases of the Ritual that through the 17 codices we were able to determine. The three phases were as follows:
Phase 1: A dreamer possesing the reaper speaks the words of isolation and then gives the reaper to the Dark Mare. Words of Isolation; "Darks name! Let the chaos within you bring your own destruction!"
Phase 2: Requires 4 dreamers, one of each focus, to join party and become the party of the four foci. The four must position the mare's Soulsphere between them the best they can. The party then evokes their art and speaks the words of sundering. The arts evoked are; Free action, Judgment, Purify and Blind. Words of Sundering- "Darks name! Let the elements of the dream be your undoing!"
Phase 3: A house prime is used to destroy the Dark Mare. A dreamer holding the prime must speak the words of destruction and then shows the mare the prime. Words of Destruction- "Darks name! In the name of the Dream may you be utterly destroyed!"
In the days before the Eclipse arrived our family practiced the ritual a few times at the keep to work out any kinks.
Then on the evening of the Eclipse, we were guarding the keep and I located Xatoc in Dorsal Rift.
So I warned the rest of the family there and ran to get the reaper designated for Xatoc from the House library.
I got back in the middle of the fight with Xatoc but it didn't take long for LovesLight to take it down with her blast.
So we prepared to perform the ritual even though at the time we had no FateSender to fill the part of the lucid focus, but we located Innioc, member of the Sable Moon, in threshold and OfF KiLTeR quickly ran to ask his help.
Innioc obliged and came up the Mountain with OfF to aid in the ceremony. Luckily, Xatoc was entertaining himself with the members still present in the keep, roaring and deafening us all while trying to steal our dreamsoul with his pain aura. Unbeknownst of our plans, the foolish beast goofed around long enough to allow us to begin the ritual.
With the party of the four foci completed, we set out to do the ritual, Flushy started by saying the words of isolation "Xatoc! Let the chaos within you bring your own destruction!" and gave the reaper to Xatoc.
The party of the four foci consisted of, Delucian, the Gatekeeper, OfF KiLTeR, the Dreamseer, Innioc, the Fatesender, and myself, the Soulmaster. We were already in position and Delucian started us off evoking Free Action as he spoke,
"Xatoc! Let the elements of the dream be your undoing!" OfF KiLTeR follwed him with the evocation of judgement as he spoke, "Xatoc! Let the elements of the dream be your undoing!"
I was next as I evoked the art of purify I spoke the words, "Xatoc! Let the elements of the dream be your undoing!"
Innioc finished up phase two evoking blind on Xatoc as he spoke, "Xatoc! Let the elements of the dream be your undoing!"
LovesLight came in with the final blow once again, by speaking the words of destruction "Xatoc! In the name of the Dream may you be utterly destroyed!" and showed the Dreaming Stone to Xatoc and completed phase 3.
We all held our breath and stood in eerie silence. Then, after a second of worry, Xatoc painfully roared his way from the dream for the last time. Never to wreak his havoc ever again!
One down...
