Talk:The Sanguine Ritual of Woe for Solitary Users/@comment-7706473-20140517091344

The legendary return of the old hands begans! And with a new pasta? Wonderful! Interesting take you've done on the traditional ritual pasta here - at first I was going to chide it for being fairly standard crowleyite-dogma, and then I got about halfway down and it got very interesting indeed. And then the ending happened, and it made everything above seem much more ominous; I especially like the desperation of the ritual; it seems exactly the sort of magic/k that'd be used by a very desperate individual who, perhaps, isn't so skilled in remanding spirits that they call up, and would rather call on power then understand it...

And it's definitely the idea of the ritual unavoidably causing bad things, though not necessarily to the caster, that make this so interesting. That, and the few sections that contain instructions that the caster should NEVER DO - and that I feel most people who would try such a ritual might skim right by - make it creepy in a lingering way, the kind where 'friends' keep telling you to try something out even though it's quite obvious you don't want any part of it.

Can the caster justify others suffering at potential gain for themselves. I - being far more fond of Levi, myself - would say no, and that any such work asks too much for too little in return. But how many people, I wonder, might not feel the same?

A bundle of one of those scented sage mixes - who uses those, they're terrible - replaced with freshly cut garden sage. It's good to see you back.