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[applewatcher]

[Late one night, an anonymous message appears, both on the network and left affixed to walls and left outside the doors of disreputable businesses.]

So you wish to summon the Dark Brotherhood? You wish to see someone dead? Pray, child. Pray, and let the Night Mother hear your plea.

You must perform that most profane of rituals - the Black Sacrament.

Create an effigy of the intended victim, crafted from a heart, skull, bones and flesh. Encircle the effigy with candles.

Stab the effigy with a blade rubbed in nightshade petals, while whispering this plea:

"Sweet Mother, sweet Mother, send your child unto me, for the sins of the unworthy must be baptized in blood and fear."

Then wait, child, for the Dread Father Sithis rewards the patient. You will be visited by a representative of the Dark Brotherhood. So begins a contract bound in blood.

[Attached is an image, to demonstrate the ideal form of the ritual.]

[The network post seems to have been left open for comments.]

(OOC: Anyone who performs the ritual, please sign up here! And remember, please make sure character deaths are pre-approved by the mods here!)

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[darkpants_warmfeeling]

What the hell did I just read?

Anonymous text

[applewatcher]

Our Mother's gift.

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[exceptionalthief]

Well then. That doesn't sound Satanic at all.

Anon text

[fireandhoney]

Not quite. The Dread Father is Sithis.

anonymous text

[applewatcher]

Our Dread Father calls murdered souls to the Void. Our Unholy Matron hears the prayers of those who desire this fate for others. We are their children and theirs alone.

We do their bidding. Call out to Her, and we will answer.

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[extremeteenbible]

OH NO YOU DON'T

STOP TRYING TO RAISE UNDEAD UP IN THIS BITCH!!!

anonymous text

[applewatcher]

You are mistaken. We are killers in the service of our Unholy Matron, not necromancers.

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[knaval]

WHY R U LIKE THIS

anonymous text

[applewatcher]

Because we are loyal children of Sithis and fulfill these prayers of others, as our Mother pleases.

private

[liontomyself]

What is the cost beyond the ritual made of components that are rather hard to come by in this world?

[He does miss Niles. He was such a good assassin, but Leo was a little less... well-funded here. He couldn't just go BUY another retainer.]

private, anonymous

[applewatcher]

Negotiable, depending on the target and the means of the supplicant.

The components are fraught by design. None but those who have weighed the decision should seek our services.

[morethan084]

I think I'll pass, but, thanks for the nightmare fuel.

[Text]

[sleight_of_hand]

okay
let me get this straight

you want people to basically murder someone to get the parts needed
to call one of you crazy bastards
so you can go off and murder

you guys really didn't think this through did you????

anonymous text

[applewatcher]

Freshness of the Sacrament components is not required.

not here

[cassassin]

[but the bat is definitely taking notice.]

[applewatcher]

[Fantastic! C:]

voice

[secondplacescrow]

I knew this is going to happen. A bloody priest wants us to make some ritual and hope some poor sod will die for nothing.

anonymous text

[applewatcher]

A supplicant may have all the reason in the world to desire the death of another. Or none at all. It is not our concern.

text; network ID is just a moon emoji 🌙︎

[dragony]

So, if that's how you summon the Dark Brotherhood, what does it take to *desummon* your ilk? Will a "return to sender" message suffice?

anonymous text

[applewatcher]

Our Mother bore us into this world, it is by her will alone that we will leave it.

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[rebelarchivist]

Why outsource your murder? If you aren't willing to get your hands dirty then do you really deserve it in the first place?

anonymous text

[applewatcher]

Some lack the skills, or the resources. Others simply desire to buy death rather than deal it themselves. We do not judge them for their motives.

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[onlydoubts]

[ nnnnnnope. ]

Is this real?

anonymous text

[applewatcher]

It is very real. Pray to her, and we will come to make a contract.

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[foralways]

I certainly hope no one here intends to follow through with such a ritual. To encourage such a thing...

anonymous text

[applewatcher]

To wish death upon another is only natural. A fleeting urge for most. We are there to help those in which it festers.

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[therewillbeorder]

That hardly seems like a practical method to summon someone. Text messages seem a lot less messy.

Anonymous text

[applewatcher]

It is practical for us. We are sworn to complete our contracts once sealed, be the target peasant or emperor. We expect our clients to be similarly committed to their intent.

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[bindsthedead]

Well, it's rather dramatic for a Free Magic ritual, but there doesn't seem to be any means of controlling what you've summoned.

And murder here is a crime- whether magic is involved or not.

anonymous text

[applewatcher]

We come to negotiate, not to offer our souls. They are not ours to give.

Yes, it is. That is why we insist on the resolve of the summoner.