Rites

Mountain Depths

According to "Blood of the Longhorn Beetle" records, in endless mountains where ice, snow, and clouds converge, life's ultimate secret lies hidden, tempting you constantly.

ID: 5000165

Type: None

Tips: None

Duration: 7 days

Waits For: 7 days

Marked as New Only on First Occurrence: 0

Starts Automatically: No

Triggers Result Automatically: No

Tag Tips: None

Tag Tips Up: Normal Result, Physique, Survival, Wisdom, Charisma, Magic

Tag Tips Text:

Random Text: None

Random Text Up:

Roll #1
Are you lost?
Type: Normal Result
Type Tips: Your Wisdom and Survival determine your full dice count.
Low Target: 8
Low Target Tips: You need at least 8 Success to avoid getting lost.
Roll #2
Are there supply problems?
Type: Normal Result
Type Tips: Your Physique and Survival determine your full dice count.
Low Target: 8
Low Target Tips: You need at least 8 Success to ensure everyone's provisions
Roll #3
Can you find the book's secrets?
Type: Normal Result
Type Tips: Your Wisdom and Survival determine your full dice count.
Low Target: 8
Low Target Tips: You need at least 8 Success to make discoveries.
Roll #4
Can you unearth it?
Type: Normal Result
Type Tips: Your Magic and Charisma determine your full dice count.
Low Target: 8
Low Target Tips: You need at least 8 Successes to obtain this treasure.

Actions When Wait Expires

This rite has no actions when the wait expires.

Slots

Slot #1
Mountain guide, requiring at least 5 Survival

Locks: No

Is Key: No

Is Empty: No

Is Enemy: No

Conditions:

Pops: None

Slot #2
Pack bearer, requiring at least 5 Physique

Locks: No

Is Key: No

Is Empty: No

Is Enemy: No

Conditions:

Pops: None

Slot #3
Scout, requiring at least 5 Wisdom

Locks: No

Is Key: No

Is Empty: No

Is Enemy: No

Conditions:

  • Type = Character
  • Tag (Wisdom) = 5

Pops: None

Slot #4
You must go yourself, requiring at least 5 Magic

Locks: No

Is Key: No

Is Empty: No

Is Enemy: No

Conditions:

Pops: None

Slot #5
You must spend 6 Gold Coins to fund the expedition.

Locks: No

Is Key: No

Is Empty: No

Is Enemy: No

Conditions:

Pops: None

Slot #6
These will yet prove its uses within your adventures.

Locks: No

Is Key: No

Is Empty: Yes

Is Enemy: No

Conditions:

Pops: None

Activation Conditions

This rite has no activation conditions.

Outcome

Prior

This rite has no prior outcome.

Regular

This rite has no regular outcome.

Extra

Venture into Mountains
Following wild horse and gazelle tracks across barren gobi and stone beaches, you penetrate deep mountain encirclement. You see snow-capped peaks - the book says between annual snow accumulations lies a red dust line. Only that mountain birthing this world lacks one, because all life and heat get absorbed by the secret treasure buried beneath, because summer never visits that peak.

Conditions:

Nothing Gained
You become lost in boundless desert until supplies run critically low, forcing abandonment.

Conditions:

Result:

Precautionary Measures
The night before climbing, [s2.name] approaches you gravely. [s2.gender] explains this place feels wrong - no vegetation on this mountain, no nearby creatures, meaning beyond backpack rations, you cannot obtain food through hunting... When food becomes insufficient for return journey, [s2.gender] demands retreat.

After your affirmative response, as if comforting you, [s2.name] winks and smiles - fortunately, you brought exceptionally ample supplies this time. You've never felt more grateful for [s2.gender(his,her)] robust, powerful muscles!

Conditions:

Caught Unprepared
Unexpectedly, this mountain lacks vegetation with no nearby creatures, meaning beyond backpack rations, you cannot obtain food through hunting...

Climbing barely begins when [s2.name] approaches gravely. [s2.name] informs you that carried food already proves insufficient for return - you must retreat immediately.

What disappointment... what misfortune.

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Result:

Begin the Ascent
Initially, looking up reveals blue sky while looking down shows exposed black stone... But somehow you become enveloped in strange mist. You cannot see each other five steps apart - white snow below, white fog above. Gripping each other's frigid hands, you struggle forward, unable to distinguish up from down, east from west. In bitter wind you face life's interrogation - whence do you come, like sourceless water; where do you go, like rootless wind!

Conditions:

Unknown Transformations
Initially, looking up reveals blue sky while looking down shows exposed black stone... But somehow you become enveloped in strange mist. You cannot see each other five steps apart - white snow below, white fog above. You struggle forward through this, unable to distinguish up from down, east from west.

More terrifyingly, from some unknown moment, you feel your companions' faces growing increasingly strange, rigid, inhuman... No, no! You wake everyone during the night, declaring your desire to return! You care nothing for life's secrets or precious treasures! You only want everyone's safe return!

With this thought, you suddenly know which direction leads away. [s1.name] and others silently follow until returning to the city for several days' recovery, slowly regaining familiar appearances.

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Result:

It Belongs to You
One exhausted night, you sleep alone in your tent. You dream companions becoming strange, peculiar, vanishing one by one in snow, leaving only ghastly white silence. Life and death brand painful marks on your respective palms. You see a massive scale rising from earth, solemnly and coldly weighing something - your love on one side, unknown on the other. A voice poses several questions - how did you answer? You cannot recall.

Awakening, you find a heavy stone heart in your embrace, strange flames dancing within yet providing no warmth.

You stare at it dazedly briefly, wake nearby companions, and descend together.

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Result:

It Doesn't Belong to You
One exhausted night, you sleep alone in your tent. You dream companions becoming strange, peculiar, vanishing one by one in snow, leaving only ghastly white silence. Life and death brand painful marks on your respective palms. You see a massive scale rising from earth, solemnly and coldly weighing something - your love on one side, unknown on the other. A voice poses several questions - how did you answer? You cannot recall.

Awakening, you find yourself lying on stone beach at mountain's base, companions unconscious nearby... You spend half the day rousing [s1.name] and others, then drag utterly exhausted bodies homeward.

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