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V Magic ritual, but Cthulhu will later communicate with the primary desire is to summon a Great Old One or other caster through dreams or nightmare visions of sunken horrendously destructive entity R’lyeh Those who cast this ritual that not worship Tomes containing this spell occasionally Cthulhu automatically gain a major insanity or are recommend not casting it under conditions in which drawn to cults of Great Cthulhu it could accidentally summon powerful creatures that If the caster sleeps on the circle then they are can immediately summon other creatures, since the guaranteed to receive messages from Great Cthulhu or required circle is often sufficiently magically charged one of the star spawn Non-cultist casters who sleep on and large enough for the servitor to summon nearly the circle can be psychically attacked by a star spawn any creature it desires after it arrives on the same planet, and their location is made known to the nearest cult of Great Cthulhu CALL SERVITOR OF THE OUTER GODS School conjuration (calling) [chaotic, evil]; Level Casting Time 24 hours or less (1 phase of hour plus phases of hours and any fraction thereof; any interruption causes automatic failure); see text Components V, S, M (fresh blood from eight Medium or two Large creatures), F (a wind instrument which is played by at least one caster, a tome such as the Necronomicon containing the ritual), SC (at least and up to 12, each chanting from text; +1 bonus on non-diagram ritual skill checks per 2) Skill Checks Knowledge (religion) or Profession (YogSothothery philosopher) DC 20, success (diagram); Knowledge (planes) or Profession (Yog-Sothothery philosopher) DC 14, success per hours of ritual or fraction thereof Range close (25 ft + ft./2 levels) Diagram The circle is 30 feet in diameter and may be drawn with any material, except the glyphs which must be drawn in blood and refreshed repeatedly throughout the casting No participant can stand inside this circle except to refresh the glyphs with blood Effect one Servitor of the Outer Gods Duration instantaneous Saving Throw Will negates; Spell Resistance yes The ritual's casting time can be shortened to a minimum of hour by sacrificing prepared conjuration spell slots, which reduce the casting time by hour per spell level so used Spellcasters who cast spells spontaneously can sacrifice available spell slots this way so long as they know a conjuration spell of that level CALL STAR VAMPIRE School conjuration (calling) [chaotic, evil]; Level Casting Time hour Components V, S, F (De Vermis Mysteriis or another magical tome or spellbook containing the ritual, which must be read directly from the book), T (at night under a clear and starry sky) Optional Components SC (up to 5, each giving a +1 bonus on skill checks, who must recite the ritual from text and have at least rank in Profession [Yog-Sothothery philosopher]) Skill Checks Knowledge (geography) or Profession (YogSothothery philosopher) DC 22, success Range medium (100 ft + 10 ft./level) Effect one star vampire Duration instantaneous Saving Throw Will negates; Spell Resistance yes This ritual calls a star vampire (page 383) down from the void Invisible, its presence is usually first This ritual calls a servitor of the Outer Gods (see page recognized by a disturbing tittering The star vampire 371) at the center of a large ritual circle The servitor is generally hungry and interested in eating live so called will often in turn summon other servitors humanoids or warm-blooded creatures or eldritch horrors with malign intent to bring forth something beyond the casters' ability to deal with Sometimes, it may be the creature's goal to parley and CONTACT DEEP ONES School evocation; Level Casting Time hour offer knowledge to the casters, and at other times its 135