8th-Level Rituals Call Hunting Horror: Conjure an uncontrolled hunting horror Contact Ithaqua: Invite Ithaqua's influence Obscene Fertility Rites of Shub-Niggurath: Give Shub-Niggurath influence over an area 9th-Level Rituals Avatar of the Black Goat with the Thousand Young: Conjure Shub-Niggurath bodily Call Azathoth: Invite Azathoth's influence Call Father Yog-Sothoth: Invite YogSothoth’s influence He Who Must Not Be Named: Invite Hastur's influence While these advantages are significant, the disadvantages are why it is called a curse The victim’s other body fluids are also acidic, though not to the same degree as the victim’s blood Any sweat will, over time, tatter and ruin all worn clothing, and any saliva will eventually tarnish and destroy eating utensils This effect also makes it hard for the victim to have a romantic or social relationship except with another subject of the acid blood curse Any armor the victim wears degrades over time, gaining the broken condition after 1d4 weeks of wear and becoming destroyed after twice as long If the subject is wounded, any worn armor is also exposed to the acid damage As a result, subjects generally belong Ritual Descriptions to character classes that not normally wear armor ACID BLOOD CURSE Okkators other than the masked, because it prevents School transmutation; Level Casting Time hours every three months for year (4 phases; no penalty for interruption) Components V, S, M (rare herbs, spices, and oils worth 100,000 gp) Skill Checks Craft (alchemy) DC 26, successes; Heal DC 26, 2 successes Range touch Target willing or helpless humanoid touched Duration instantaneous Saving Throw none; Spell Resistance no them from being able to interact easily with society This ritual protects the subject from acid, turning the subject’s blood and bodily fluids highly acidic, which damage and corrode any material they drip upon The subject gains acid resistance 20, ignoring the first 20 points of acid damage from each attack The subject's highly acidic blood damages weapons that penetrate the skin Creatures that deal damage to the subject with slashing or piercing weapons in melee take 1d6 points of acid damage from blood spatter Slashing and piercing weapons that damage the subject also take this damage, which ignores hardness The acid blood curse is not normally performed on AVATAR OF THE BLACK GOAT WITH A THOUSAND YOUNG School transmutation [chaotic, evil]; Level Casting Time 24 hours (7 phases of hours; fails automatically if interrupted) Components V, S, L (any area affected by the obscene fertility rites of Shub-Niggurath) Optional Components SC (up to 10, each of whom must have at least ranks in Knowledge [religion] or Profession (Yog-Sothothery philosopher) and chant from text; +1 bonus on ritual skill checks per participants) Skill Checks Knowledge (nature) or Profession (YogSothothery philosopher) DC 23, success (diagram); Knowledge (religion) or Profession (Yog-Sothothery philosopher) DC 38, successes Range close (25 ft + ft./2 levels) Diagram target must be in the center of a 5-foot circle drawn entirely in blood throughout the casting Target a living creature of at least Small size that has Intelligence or higher Duration instantaneous Saving Throw Fortitude negates; Spell Resistance yes This ritual blesses its willing or unwilling subject to be an avatar through which Shub-Niggurath can manifest 130