prismatica | you're a lich girl, and you've gone too far

username: undyingsoul

[It's a full day after Rita's article that anyone hears from Ambrosine anywhere else on the network, and then...]

To all of you who had inquiries for me in the last post: I have filed a report with the Moon Knights and expect further developments shortly. I advise you all to remain vigilant, as there are more than a few ways to invade private spaces through magical means. I may have been the first person whose home Rita Skeeter broke into, but I doubt I will be the last.

Yes, I am a necromancer. This isn't the terrible taboo it is in some other cultures, as my people have practiced the art as a means of survival during more difficult times throughout our history, and often willingly donate our bodies to service after death as a sign of devotion to causes we held dear in life.

Several of the ruling families in my kingdom were members of one of two cults to fiends whose full intentions I do not know, but can only assume are absolutely terrible. As their queen my first duty was to our realm's future, so I undertook the process of lichdom at great personal risk to myself to buy enough time to see to the slow process of stripping the very institution that empowered me of that same power while ensuring relative stability.

In the interest of transparency, I have attached my research notes to this post. Consider yourself lucky; this information does not flow freely in my world. Yes, I understand the terrible gravity of what I'm doing here. Ah, well. As they say, knowledge is power.

[The following attachment is a scanned PDF of some pages from a wizard's spellbook, full of weird jargon, mystic runes, hard-to-read small handwriting that Ambrosine tried to cram into the smallish pages, and weird eldritch diagrams. Oh, and a little doodle of a skull. In addition to the stuff in the pastebin, there's also a diagram for some sort of sacrificial circle where both the phylactery and the person being sacrificed go, and...oof.

After attuning yourself to the phylactery, apparently the final step is just whispering some sort of ritualistic prayer to basically revoke your soul's rights to any sort of afterlife right before you do the sacrifice and drink the potion that freezes the blood in your veins and lich-ifies you? OOF.

At the very least there's no mention of liches needing to feed on anything, so well, the assumption is that once the ritual is over, that's it in terms of gross shit.

Congratulations; everyone who read all of that now knows the secret to lichdom. You've learned it. You can't un-learn it.]

The sacrifice given for my particular version of the ritual was a man who stabbed his entire family to death and was slated for execution, so I'd save my sympathies for someone more worthy if I were you.

Anyway, enjoy the rest of your week.

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I will say one thing about my world.

A mage of her level doing what she has done to someone with the magical might to become a lich?

Downright suicidal.

Mage? That woman actually is capable of sorcery? I assume it to be little more than parlor tricks compared to what a real practitioner of the arcane arts would be capable of. She certainly did not SEEM to have any real power, though I will admit it can be somewhat difficult to judge over one of these devices.

Still, if she wishes to make enemies, she has picked a rather poor group to do so with. I consider her beneath my notice. There is no joy in crushing a fool, and no glory in shattering the dreams of the weak. However, who is to say others will be a bit less inclined to leave her alone? Truly, the woman is a simpleton.

She did manage to break into my home, but perhaps that was just arrogance and carelessness on my part.

No longer.

I'll admit that I'm a bit insulted at having to use the term. There was no great love for the craft in the way she spoke of it, more smug complacency than anything.

It is, technically, correct. But there is a difference between the paltry spells of a novice and those cast by a true master. I will not pretend I know what the woman is capable of, but I do know that were she to try something like this in my home, she likely would not have the time to regret it.

But enough of that. I must ask. This information you provided, is it truly the process you went through? Do not misunderstand me, I am not calling you a liar. But if so, I can only imagine it is a matter of time before some simpleton attempts to replicate it. The only thing holding them back is finding the actual ingredients. I do not believe this land is rich in wyverns, for instance. I also rather imagine they would fail, though the image of that fool trying it DOES amuse.

May the gods forgive me for unleashing this knowledge upon the masses.

But the ritual itself has a rather unforgivingly high rate of failure.

A small comfort, but if you fail, you die.

I would say that if someone fully intended to go this path they would likely have found out the method themselves. I, for obvious reasons, have no need of the knowledge. I am no more whim to the ravages of time then you are.

[There's an amused sound to her voice.]

If anything, it will serve to weed out the unworthy. If someone is fool enough to undergo such a ritual without proper preparation, they well deserve the end result.

you're a lich girl, and you've gone too far | Text, filtered from Rita

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