>[!metadata|no-t bg-blue] ># Rite of the Ashen Hooves >*[[Sympathy]] • Act*^[There are two types of sympathies: An **Act** has an immediate effect, while a **Procedure** has a continuous effect for as long as the sympathy is sustained.] > **Performance:** 30 minute **Duration:** 1 day **Materials:** None **Offering:** Flowers, meat, a vial with the blood of a priest of Sol. Paper and an ink pen. > >>[!quote|mark bg-black] Rite of the Ashen Hooves >>[[Headless Mule]], please hear my plea, >>Your flaming hooves know where they flee. >>Hunt the name that I hold inside, >>Tear the veil from where they may hide. >> >>Feed upon my offered dread, >>Mark their path in ashes and red. >>Do your work—then please pass me by, >>Lest I join the ones who shall die. > **RITES** >To perform the sympathy, you must bring the offerings to a cemetery or another burial site on a Thursday midnight. >Write the name or description of your a person you want to locate in the piece of paper, fold it and put it in your pocket, then you must lay down on the floor next to the offerings while reciting a rhyme to summon a [[Headless Mule]]. > **EFFECT** >You invoke a [[Headless Mule]] that will appear, eat the offerings, and give you its power to locate your quarry for the next 3 days. The mule will stomp you to death if you summoned it more than once in a month. > **AFTERMATH** >While you have the mule’s power, you are able to locate the creature you requested. During the day, you also suffer from horrible migraines, have a level of exhaustion and can’t be healed or recover HP or Hit Dice.