Skill Checks Knowledge (dungeoneering) or Profession (Yog-Sothothery philospher) DC 22, success Range medium (100 ft + 10 ft./level) Target one star vampire Duration until task is completed, up to day/level Saving Throw Will partial; Spell Resistance no This ritual binds a star vampire to carry out a single task directed by the caster When this ritual is initiated, the star vampire cannot harm any of the casters, nor can it move beyond the ritual's range except while the ritual is interrupted It receives a Will saving throw to negate the binding's control only after the casting is complete The Tcho-Tcho use this ritual—which prevents the entry of extraplanar creatures—to protect their villages BREW SPACE MEAD The corpse’s liver is removed, dried, and preserved School transmutation; Level Casting Time 24 hours plus 24 hours after the mead has fermented in a sealed container for at least year (2 phases, each 24 hours; no penalty for separation or interruption in the intervening time) Components V, S, M (various unusual ingredients), F (brewery equipment, an alchemical laboratory, or similar equipment) Optional Components F (the Celeano Fragments gives a +5 insight bonus on this ritual's skill checks), SC (up to 2, each of whom gives a +1 bonus and each must have at least rank in Profession [chef] or Craft [alchemy]) Skill Checks Profession (brewer) or Profession (YogSothothery philosopher) DC 15, successes Range ft Effect serving of space mead/level Duration hour/level, then days/level Saving Throw none; Spell Resistance no While the dried liver is within the area and the body This ritual creates one serving of space mead per caster level Space mead is normally very unstable, and evaporates uselessly after only hour per caster level, starting from the time the ritual is completed If consumed before that time is up, the drinker becomes immune to the effects of exposure to the vacuum of space and need not eat, sleep, or breathe for days per caster level BRIDE OF SATHLA School abjuration; Level Casting Time 16 hours (2 phases of hours) 132 Components V, S, M (herbs, oils, and incense worth 1,000 gp), F (body of a ritually drowned sentient humanoid, traditionally female) Skill Checks Knowledge (nature) DC 22, success (diagram); Knowledge (planes) or Profession (YogSothothery philosopher) DC 22, success Range touch Diagram the body is cut into seven pieces, and buried in a heptagram around the area's edge Area 800-ft radius emanation centered on a fixed point Duration year/level Saving Throw Will negates; Spell Resistance yes parts remain buried, extraplanar creatures are barred from entering the area Upon first interacting with the ward, a creature can ignore it with a successful Will save and spell resistance, but if both fail to overcome the ward, it cannot try to enter again for month CALL AZATHOTH School conjuration (calling); Level Casting Time hours (2 phases of hours; fails automatically if interrupted) Components M (3 Elder Signs, which are broken, and dust from a meteorite), SC (at least and up to 100, each of whom must have rank in Knowledge [planes] or Profession [Yog-Sothothery philosopher] or Mythos taint and who must chant from text; every 10 give a +1 bonus on non-diagram ritual skill check), T (at night under the open sky) Skill Checks Knowledge (arcana) or Profession (YogSothothery philosopher) DC 45, success (diagram); Knowledge (planes) or Profession (Yog-Sothothery philosopher) DC 55, success Range long (400 ft + 40 ft./level) Diagram primary caster stands in the middle of a 10-foot diameter circle representing complex permutations of various astronomical bodies across numerous planes drawn with meteorite dust Effect Azathoth influence nucleus Duration instantaneous Saving Throw Will negates; Spell Resistance no