Rites

Dagger's Path

Having slain their servants, you enter the god's domain - this realm descends, merging with your world, revealing jagged claws. Stone transforms into blades, light forges mechanisms and stairs: this is the path to divine audience, recorded in sacred texts. The heavier one's sins, the faster the blade-wheels spin, the easier one's dismemberment... And your sins? Those wheels nearly spark from friction.

ID: 5010047

Type: None

Tips: None

Duration: 0 days

Waits For: 0 days

Marked as New Only on First Occurrence: 1

Starts Automatically: Yes

Triggers Result Automatically: No

Tag Tips: None

Tag Tips Up: Fight Result, Physique, Wisdom, Magic, Combat

Tag Tips Text:

Random Text: None

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Roll #1
Observe the mechanism
Type: Fight Result
Type Tips: Your Magic and Wisdom are affected by Aether of the True Faith.
Low Target: 10
Low Target Tips: You need at least 10 Success.
Roll #2
Withstand the blades
Type: Fight Result
Type Tips: Your Magic and Physique are affected by Aether of the True Faith.
Low Target: 7
Low Target Tips: You need at least 7 Success to win.
Roll #3
Pause the mechanism
Type: Fight Result
Type Tips: Your Physique and Combat are affected by Aether of the True Faith.
Low Target: 10
Low Target Tips: You need at least 10 Successes to win.
Roll #4
Sever the blades
Type: Fight Result
Type Tips: Your Combat and Magic are affected by Aether of the True Faith.
Low Target: 7
Low Target Tips: You need at least 7 Success to win.

Actions When Wait Expires

This rite has no actions when the wait expires.

Slots

Slot #1
Aether of the True Faith strengthens god power while weakening yours

Locks: Yes

Is Key: No

Is Empty: Yes

Is Enemy: No

Conditions:

  • Type = Item
  • Tag (lock_136) Costs one of 1, 2

Pops: None

Slot #2
Mechanism Observer

Locks: No

Is Key: No

Is Empty: No

Is Enemy: No

Conditions:

Pops: None

Slot #3
Blade Resistor

Locks: No

Is Key: No

Is Empty: No

Is Enemy: No

Conditions:

Pops: None

Slot #4
Mechanism Disruptor

Locks: No

Is Key: No

Is Empty: No

Is Enemy: No

Conditions:

Pops: None

Slot #5
Blade Breaker

Locks: No

Is Key: No

Is Empty: No

Is Enemy: No

Conditions:

Pops: None

Slot #6
Consumable

Locks: No

Is Key: No

Is Empty: Yes

Is Enemy: No

Conditions:

Pops: None

Activation Conditions

This rite has no activation conditions.

Outcome

Prior

Steel Ecstasy
Badriyyah reveals she dreamed this moment long ago... the Cultic God told her: when the time comes, she would become a sturdy thorn, embracing the false blade, opening the path for the final awakened one.

That person is you. She smiles, kisses your cheek, then flies toward the rapidly spinning blades. No blood, no shattered limbs - only explosively growing vines and branches amid fragrance. The judgment mechanism jams, blades stop, and colorful flower carpets form your path forward...

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Inevitable Doom
As time passes, their radiance intensifies until finally overwhelming your consciousness... Everything ends.

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Regular

This rite has no regular outcome.

Extra

Misdirection
This blade mechanism is magically trapped, but anything with physical form follows operational principles. Observe, analyze, then attempt circumvention... theoretically.

[s2.name] identifies a weakness, but something goes wrong... When you try blocking the blades there, the entire knife-path convulses, swallowing you whole...

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Divine Flaw
This blade mechanism is magically trapped, but anything with physical form follows operational principles. Observe, analyze, then attempt circumvention... theoretically.

[s2.name] discovers a light-gear transmission with delayed intervals... meaning it can be sabotaged.

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The Star Courage
According to [s2.name]'s plan, someone brave must risk death to jam a slower outer blade, progressively slowing all blades on the same magical circuit... creating an opportunity to disable the mechanism.

Undoubtedly, the great Highlord suits this task perfectly... or God-chosen? They leap forward, facing the blades - then catch one bare-handed. Electricity and sparks engulf them as the massive blade-wheel wails... The whirlwind of knives finally reveals a gap...

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Mortal Sacrifice
According to [s2.name]'s plan, someone brave must risk death to jam a slower outer blade, progressively slowing all blades on the same magical circuit... creating an opportunity to disable the mechanism.

[s3.name] accepts this grave responsibility... [s3.name] secures three shields to [s3.gender(his,her)] shoulders and dons extra chain mail... Blades repeatedly strike, sending brilliant sparks flying, until finally, [s3.gender(his,her)] hands bleeding, teeth gritted... [s3.name] stops the massive blade - but only momentarily. As shields shatter one by one, [s3.name] is gradually dismembered, [s3.gender(his,her)] blood stimulates the knife-path mechanism. The Destroyer's teeth convulse, swallowing everyone whole...

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Race Against Death
According to [s2.name]'s plan, someone brave must risk death to jam a slower outer blade, progressively slowing all blades on the same magical circuit... creating an opportunity to disable the mechanism.

[s3.name] accepts this grave responsibility... [s3.name] secures three shields to [s3.gender(his,her)] shoulders and dons extra chain mail... Blades repeatedly strike, sending brilliant sparks flying, until finally, [s3.gender(his,her)] hands bleeding, teeth gritted... [s3.name] stops the massive blade - Hurry! The blade still advances incrementally toward [s3.gender(his,her)] neck!

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He is the prince kissed by the swords
The knife forest reveals gaps, but traversing requires extraordinary swordsmanship, agility, and courage - only the most outstanding warriors qualify for this challenge... Of course, this awaits you, our great Sultan. Consider it warm-up before god-slaying!

The Sultan approaches blade-dancing almost playfully. Momentarily, you even imagine the divine knives rotating to complement his movements. He extends his waist, leaps nimbly, kisses blade-tips... Finally, he wedges his twin blades into the glowing mechanism [s2.name] identified. With a slight nod, he awaits courtiers' applause.

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Keying Error
The knife forest reveals gaps, but traversing requires extraordinary swordsmanship, agility, and courage - only the most outstanding warriors qualify for this challenge...

[s4.name] leaps into the fray, [s4.name] nimbly dodging, parrying... spinning alongside blades... Unfortunately, [s4.name] turns [s4.gender(his,her)] head, missing the correct mechanism... The blades reconfigure, unexpectedly shredding [s4.name]... This blood stimulates the knife-path mechanism, the Destroyer's teeth convulse, swallowing everyone whole...

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Mechanism Halted
The knife forest reveals gaps, but traversing requires extraordinary swordsmanship, agility, and courage - only the most outstanding warriors qualify for this challenge...

[s4.name] leaps into the fray, [s4.name] nimbly dodging, parrying... spinning alongside blades... Finally, [s4.name] thrusts [s4.gender(his,her)] weapon into the glowing mechanism [s2.name] identified.

With piercing metallic shrieks, these instruments of judgment, this forest of knives, temporarily ceases operation.

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Engineering Genius
Now's our chance! Mortal metal won't last long! Quickly break off a divine blade to permanently jam this mechanism!

Mahir practically pounces with excitement, mockingly critiquing divine riveting techniques while effortlessly removing a man-height blade... These supposedly purest-soul-forged magical weapons should endure long in the Destroyer's own mechanism... Let's proceed quickly!

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Material Paradox
Now's our chance! Mortal metal won't last long! Quickly break off a divine blade to permanently jam this mechanism!

Um... this creates a paradox: our metal isn't strong enough, so we need divine metal, but what can cut divine metal? Before finding an answer, the mechanism reactivates... The Destroyer's teeth convulse, swallowing everyone whole...

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Perfect Strike
Now's our chance! Mortal metal won't last long! Quickly break off a divine blade to permanently jam this mechanism!

[s5.name] thrusts [s5.gender(his,her)] sword into a blade connection gap... effortlessly removing a man-height blade... These supposedly purest-soul-forged magical weapons should endure long in the Destroyer's own mechanism... Let's proceed quickly!

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