Ritual

A Ritual is a type of Ability. It is an Action that is performed over time. Ritual is the general term, regardless of what type of Ritual it may be, such as an Invocation, it will always be a Ritual.

A Ritual uses an Appropriate series of Skill Checks until the Severity has been met. These Skill Checks can only be performed at a rate equal to or greater than the Ritual's Interval.

A Ritual can be paused to perform other tasks by performing a Multitasking Save. A paused Ritual can be contributed to by others with a Successful Multitasking Save. Failing either of these Multitasking Saves can cause the following, as Appropriate:

• If the Multitasking Save Fails, the Ritual Fails.
• If the Multitasking Save Fails, the Ritual Critically Fails, causing a catastrophic side effect, as Appropriate.
• If the Multitasking Save Fails, the current progress is reduced by half of the total Severity, rounded up. If this should cause the progress to fall below 0, the Ritual Fails or Critically Fails, as Appropriate.

Should a Skill Check to progress a Ritual be a Critical Success, add the various bonuses to the D20 twice when calculating the progress gained for that Check.

Rituals are shown in the format of - Skill Ritual; Severity/Interval

Example: To use the Setup 80 Ritual of a Heavy Sniper Rifle appears as: Tech Ritual; 50/Action.

Interval is a mechanical term involved in Rituals.

An Interval denotes the Action speed at which you can perform Checks to progress a Ritual.

Example: If Johnny Tutorial was attempting to perform the Setup Ritual on his favourite Heavy Sniper Rifle, that Ritual has an Interval of Action. Johnny could only perform a Skill Check any time he could perform an Action, each one costing him an AP.

Severity is a mechanical term involved in Rituals.

Severity denotes the Total required to achieve Success on a Ritual.

Example: If the famous Merc, [Buck Texas], was attempting to perform the "That’s Mine!” Ritual on his favourite Flashrifle, that Ritual has a Severity of 80. [Buck] would require a combined total of 80, across all of his Tech Checks.

During the previous Periodic Intervals [Buck] achieved Totals of 27 and 31, meaning the progress of the Ritual is 58 out of a Severity 80, [Buck] needs a Total of 22 or more to complete the Ritual during this Interval.

[Buck] rolls his Tech Check and gets a Total of 24, which is added to his progress for a total of 82. Since 82 is greater than the Severity of 80, the Ritual is Successful and [Buck] gains the benefits of "That’s Mine!”.