haunted communion

• School necromancy; Level 7
• Casting Time 70 minutes
• Components V, S, M (special paints and a small, salted pastry), F (silver bell worth 500 gp), SC (up to 18)
• Skill Checks Knowledge (arcana) DC 31, 3 successes; Knowledge (religion) DC 31, 3 successes; Linguistics DC 31, 1 success
• Range touch
• Target(s) one haunt within 60 feet
• Duration 1 hour and 10 rounds (D); see text
• Saving Throw Will negates; SR true
• Backlash The primary caster is exhausted.
• Failure The casters take 1 permanent negative level and a –4 penalty on all skill and ability checks for as long as the negative level persists.

This ritual must be performed within 60 feet of a haunt. The primary caster rings the silver bell using an object associated with the haunt’s origin or source of power. Once this is done, the primary caster draws an intricate circle adorned with occult symbols around a plate bearing the small, salted pastry.

If the incantation is successful, the haunt’s spirit enters into the pastry (making the haunt inert for the duration of the ritual) and one of the casters must eat the pastry before the next hour or the ritual ends. failure: to do so allows the haunt to go free and increases any DCs of the haunt’s effects by 4 and grants a +4 bonus on attack rolls made by the haunt for 24 hours. Once a caster eats the pastry, the spirit of the haunt speaks through the individual who ate the pastry, and is required to truthfully answer 10 questions (1 question per round) before departing, though since the haunt is an emotional echo, the answers may be brief, cryptic, or repetitive, as with speak with dead. Once the 10 questions are answered or the spell is dismissed, the haunt can manifest as normal.