When you really want a candy bar…
Power: Minor
Cost: 4 Minor Charges
Description: Pick a vending machine. It doesn’t matter what kind of vending machine it is, or what it vends. As long as you can put money into it and products come out of it, it’ll work.
Purchase something out of it that can be burned.
Set that product on fire in a plugged bathroom sink, and allow it to go out on it’s own. Once it ceases to burn, vomit on it, letting none of the vomit land outside of the sink. Add a drop of your blood.
Mix this for three minutes while chanting the names of diseases, and then drop in 13 Canadian quarters and 8 U.S. pennies.
Once the coins are in the mixture, stir it three more times counterclockwise, then write “Lngnhchcx” across the front of the vending machine using the vomit mixture.
Unplug the sink, and wash all the vomit out of it, rinsing the coins clean.
If you’ve done everything correctly, the burned product should wash away with the vomit and the coins should look shiny and new. Feed the coins into the vending machine, and watch the fun.
Effect: Once all the coins have been fed into the machine, it will rapidly and violently “vomit” up the products and money it’s holding, except the coins used in the ritual. It will continue to “dry heave” for several minutes afterwards, ruining it’s electrical system and vending mechanisms. Particularly old or fragile machine may even shake themselves apart.
The origins of such a modern ritual are unknown. It first appeared in Chicago, and has spread throughout the world. It is commonly known as far as rituals go, and due to it’s fairly benign effects can usually be cheaply bartered for.
Gross, but cool!
One question, though. Why do so many rituals seem to involve bodily fluids?
Partially for juvenile gross factor.
Partially because there’s some genuine occult precedent
Partially because it’s just cool
Partially because they’re cheap and freely available
Freely available? You ever tired to induce vomiting? It’s harder than you’d think!
(but I guess that’s the point :D)
Yeah, easily available.. but not pleasant.
Kinda like Plutomancy vs. Epideromancy. Anyone can hurt themself, any time. But wouldn’t you rather gain money?
Not only that, but bodily fluids are important parts of life. Very little has as much sheer meaning as most body fluids. Blood? Vomit? Semen? Universal powers, there.
I like the ritual. Its fun, quirky, and might be how some poor, junk-food dependent duke gets his meals. I mean, magick isn’t JUST for killing people and top-secret spy-mojo. Magick is EVERYWHERE! Yeah. Faeries, unicorns, elves with pointy green caps.
This is my absolute favorite ritual