"Hm," He hums thoughtfully, "You make good points, but if you want to do this sometimes there's less risk in doing it right down to the letter, rather than making do, or making it up as you go."
He rubs the back of his neck, trying to think of ways to explain this to someone who's never practiced magic, "It takes years to master spells because every detail is important to make it work properly or work at all. Missing a word, missing a minute detail in how you draw a spiral in blood, the wrong color candle, etc."
He sighs, "I do agree, this feels like a trap, but the only piece of this ritual we know is important, other than the mirror itself and the blood, is that knife. I can maybe work with something else if you don't want to trust it, but it'll be an extra step. That knife is already ... consecrated, in a way, for the ritual we are going to preform. It's like... how do I explain this... that knife already has the symbol and magic etched into it, it is made to draw blood to perhaps get the attention of whatever you wish to call to, to satisfy with the ritual, its an instrument specifically for this very thing. It's been used in the original ritual. It has significance. It has potency."
He's not sure what he says even makes sense or is even giving the right kind of weight to the meaning of the specific ritual item, but it is important to do things to the letter, etc if they want the proper effect.
"However, using something new that I can... imbue for our use to ... essentially start fresh? It may give us more sway, or it may not. It won't hold as much power as the original artifact or instrument. But I assume we have the mirror and clearly we have a location, so that alone is a start. I'll need to... essentially speak to Mathias or... whatever this thing is that hungers for blood and is leading us there. And we can hope, without the numbers, without the exact details of the ritual, that we won't fuck it up too badly that we'll be ripped apart or worse." He studies the other man a moment.
"Doing spells, especially blood magic, with half-measures comes with great risk, but it can be done. There are three ways this will go, it won't work at all, it will work as planned and maybe we'll get answers, or it'll kill us. I hope you understand that. The latter is most likely. Even more so without all the material components or any kind of instruction or guide or anything to do the ritual proper." He shakes his head when the other gives him reassurance that he can back out at any point.
"I don't feel good about it, I won't lie, but with me helping, we have just a slight better chance of surviving this."
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He rubs the back of his neck, trying to think of ways to explain this to someone who's never practiced magic, "It takes years to master spells because every detail is important to make it work properly or work at all. Missing a word, missing a minute detail in how you draw a spiral in blood, the wrong color candle, etc."
He sighs, "I do agree, this feels like a trap, but the only piece of this ritual we know is important, other than the mirror itself and the blood, is that knife. I can maybe work with something else if you don't want to trust it, but it'll be an extra step. That knife is already ... consecrated, in a way, for the ritual we are going to preform. It's like... how do I explain this... that knife already has the symbol and magic etched into it, it is made to draw blood to perhaps get the attention of whatever you wish to call to, to satisfy with the ritual, its an instrument specifically for this very thing. It's been used in the original ritual. It has significance. It has potency."
He's not sure what he says even makes sense or is even giving the right kind of weight to the meaning of the specific ritual item, but it is important to do things to the letter, etc if they want the proper effect.
"However, using something new that I can... imbue for our use to ... essentially start fresh? It may give us more sway, or it may not. It won't hold as much power as the original artifact or instrument. But I assume we have the mirror and clearly we have a location, so that alone is a start. I'll need to... essentially speak to Mathias or... whatever this thing is that hungers for blood and is leading us there. And we can hope, without the numbers, without the exact details of the ritual, that we won't fuck it up too badly that we'll be ripped apart or worse." He studies the other man a moment.
"Doing spells, especially blood magic, with half-measures comes with great risk, but it can be done. There are three ways this will go, it won't work at all, it will work as planned and maybe we'll get answers, or it'll kill us. I hope you understand that. The latter is most likely. Even more so without all the material components or any kind of instruction or guide or anything to do the ritual proper." He shakes his head when the other gives him reassurance that he can back out at any point.
"I don't feel good about it, I won't lie, but with me helping, we have just a slight better chance of surviving this."