Create the car that drive’s itself. Warning: My Mother the Car it isn’t.
Cost: 1 Significant charge
Ritual Action: Take an item associated with a fatal car crash; a piece of the car itself (broken glass, etc) if you’re quick or a wreath or other decoration that family members will sometimes leave on the site if you aren’t. Wrap this item in a piece of homespun linen with some roadkill. If you manage to steal a portion of the corpse of someone who died in a car crash, you only need this one item. Place the linen wrapped bundle into the drver’s seat of the vehicle you wish possessed and buckle the seatbelt around it. Then climb into the front passenger seat and sing a song about a tragic death due to an accident (the Mark Dinning song “Teen Angel” works great) and spend the charge. A ghostly figure will appear and then sink into the seat, vanishing from sight.
Effects: Placing a demon into a car is a recipe for one upset demon, and the demon will do its best to free itself from its prison by destroying the car as quickly as possible (say by driving into a bridge abutment). This will likely result result in the serious injury or death of the ritualist if he or she isn’t careful. Smart ritualists will immobilize the vehicle by, for example, draining the gas tank or “booting” one or more of its wheels before beginning. After the ritual is complete, the ritualist may attempt to control or bargain with the demon as normal.
Crafty ritualists have been known to use this ritual to assasinate rivals by leaving a trapped demon in someone’s car after siphoning the gasoline.
Addendum: the bundle, once the ritual is complete, is powerless and no longer neccessary. It may be discarded upon completion.
So the demon can do anything that a driver could then? So the windows can go up and down, the radio station change, the headlights on and off, doors lock and unlock and all that, or just drive? Also, does the car still need standard maintenance and upkeep for a car of it’s type?
Also, I would think that you could easily find a gear head, or car enthusiast who would enjoy or even want to be part of their car. In fact, I could see some people getting killed in a crash for the sole purpose of becoming the car they love.
Maybe, but you’d better have a way of summoning that specific demon–and this ritual doesn’t do that. Demons with other obsessions are going to do their damndest to get out an automobile. Kinda hard to make more money than Bill Gates or have sex with Jenna Jameson as a freaking 2001 Chevy Cavalier.
I dunno, I can see the hot rod demon getting off on Jenna Jameson having sex in him.
There are a surprising number of desires one can still satisfy as a car, if you can convince the demon not to kill the car instantly.