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Mind-bogglingly popular game series that you follow from early on and cannot stop, waiting for new installment like a drooling addict.

Long-runner soap opera you're too invested into to just stop watching it.

A fun little comic strip in the daily newspaper that's been around forever.

3/6

Who said it's fun? I didn't for sure.

I'm just waiting here for it to die horribly already so it will stop showing on my Unread Posts list.

[Hotfire90]

B

[Harry Baldman]

B!

[crazyabe]

B. ONWARDS TO INSANITY!!!

[ANGRY_DEMON_NOISES]

Better watch out pantheonists,we just got a demon.

[Lunardog15]

b
also was that a pun.......

[Haspen]

You decide to delve into the book once more.

6*

You crack the code, or so you believe. Many vague things become clear, and the purpose of ritual is a simple one:

It is a deal with Prince of Glory, an otherworldly demon. He grants wishes upon summoning to the one who sacrifices 'their own blood', or as the book puts it, 'most precious one', usually a wife, a child, or someone such. The summoning must take place during moonless night, starting before midnight and ending before first greyness occurs. There's lots of chanting involved, in pentatic and symballic meter; melodical poetry that hasn't been in use for centuries (mostly because it sounds rather bad).

The Prince of Glory's power is not without limits, as even a demon as strong as him cannot affect whole world, but nothing wrong with cursing a nation or such. Prince of Glory is able to bestow numerous boons, and is skilled in granting personal strengths rather than curses and hexes.

The book also vividly explains what happens if one botches the summoning ritual, accidentally disturbs the blood signs or hestitates in uttering their wish. It also explains that Prince of Glory is sated most easily with wealth, and is willing to come generations or even centuries into future to collect his debt, either from the summoner's progeny or those who happen to live in their estates.

A) A demon-summoning book!? Burn it at once!
B) If I won't get a mountain of money for this book, the world's crazy!
C) This - this I can trust. I will make Methiant great again!

[Chevaleresse]

As much as I love the idea of forging a demonic contract to make ourselves immortal and knowledgeable beyond mortal ken, and using our great material wealth to pay the Prince off, fucking about with blood sacrifice is an excellent way to get reamed by both demons and priests.

At the same time, someone else's problem.

B

[Lunardog15]

a or b
probably a

[vastaghen12]

C

About time something interesting happens

[Weirdsound]

C, so long as C isn't 'use the book right now'

Ideally we should transcribe the ritual so one of our characters who isn't a WISard might use it in the future if the need arises.

Actually, we sometimes get options to trade artifacts to Wizards for services. Even if we never want to use it, it could still be good for that. Also, it would be cool when disease random events hit the family to possibly get "whelp, your kid's sick and probably isn't going to make it anyway, might as well feed it to a demon for favor."

As much as I love the idea of forging a demonic contract to make ourselves immortal and knowledgeable beyond mortal ken, and using our great material wealth to pay the Prince off, fucking about with blood sacrifice is an excellent way to get reamed by both demons and priests.

At the same time, someone else's problem.

B

B is the worst option. We don't need the money. All we'd be doing is giving somebody else a possible super weapon to use against us. If we don't want it, we should destroy it, and keep it until we have money problems.

[Hotfire90]

B Auctioning off the summoning ritual for a powerful demon certainly can't backfire horribly.

Just copy the book to sell one and keep a spare, profit and summoning demons!

[Prophet]

C Keep the book. Even if we don't use it right now it could be useful later. Plus I mean can you imagine how rare this book must be? Why would we want to get rid of such a priceless addition to our collection of knowledge?

[Harry Baldman]

C

Better living through demonology!

[Puppyguard]

C
Power...

[ANGRY_DEMON_NOISES]

C
For to long kings have been murdered by the ungratefull claric and commom folk,we will make methiante great again,either they like it or not,also burning it is a bad ideia.