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A curious syncretic ritual that combines Haitian Vodoun with imagery and ideas drawn from a comic book, Baron Zaraguin’s Sting is a powerful defensive ritual. The ritualist must imbibe blood laced with LSD just before sunrise and spend the day in a wooden coffin containing at least ten live scorpions. The visions the vampire suffers during her long day of confinement combined with the stings of the angry scorpions open her mind to communion with Baron Zaraquin, the patron loa of scorpions and spiders.

System

For every two successes (rounded up) rolled on the ritual, the vampire takes one level of lethal damage

from scorpion stings. This damage is unsoakable but can be healed normally. In exchange for submitting to the scorpions’ stings, however, the vampire also gains Baron Zaraquin’s blessing for one night per success. During that time the difficulty on all rolls to supernaturally influence the sorcerer (such as Dominate or Majesty) or to read her aura or her mind increases to 9. Furthermore, any character who attempts to use such powers against the sorcerer suffers one unsoakable point of psychic bashing damage for every 1 rolled on the attempt. If such a roll actually botches, the damage is lethal and the character also has a brief vision of a giant spiritual scorpion, a manifestation of Baron Zaraguin, as its tail strikes her in the forehead for the affront.