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If a fellow Corax has repeatedly acted dumber than a box of rocks, there comes a time when you've just got to scrub out the inside of his head and hope the next pile of garbage he accumulates between his ears is more useful. If someone does something really, really, really dumb, a bunch of the old-timers can pull this rite out of mothballs and wipe his mental hard drive downloading all the good bits first. Whoever leads the ritual gets the core dump from the sucker, err, target, err, object of the rite. Meanwhile the victim has his head pretty much wiped of anything more complex than 'Gee, pretty flowers.' Actually, I'm exaggerating a little bit. The rite takes the victim back to right after First Change, meaning that there's a chance that he'll learn things properly the second time. Basic motor skills, language abilities, things like that they generally tend to slay in place even when the rite goes really well. By the way, it's a good thing this rite's only available to grand poobahs of the breed. Can you imagine the hell that would break loose if Murder's Daughters got ahold of it?
System
This rite requires a small, empty wooden box, preferably painted with scenes from the target's life. At least three Corax, including the one performing the rite, must surround the target (who, hopefully, has been subdued or at least restrained). The box is then opened and a litany of the victim's deeds is chanted. As each event is named, the memories of that moment fly from the Corax into the box. Associated memories flee as well, until such time as the Corax' mind is emptied of everything post-First Change. Note that the rite is an all or nothing proposition; one cannot use this to excise only certain memories.
The Corax performing the rite must then seal and crush the box, at which point, all of the memories contained enter his mind. This is not a burden to be undertaken lightly the Rite of Memory Theft is only performed when a Corax has done something truly horrendous, and no Corax carries around the memories of another breed's failure or crime lightly. It's one thing to know of another raven's missteps, another thing entirely to make them your own.
This rite costs a point each of Gnosis, Willpower and Rage, and lasts as long as it takes to sing all of the deeds of the victim. The rite also calls for a contested Willpower roll between the Corax casting the right and the target, though each additional Corax present lowers the ritemaster's difficulty by 1 This rite can only be used on other Corax.
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