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CHAPTER THIRTEEN
DARK ASCENT
that demon than before. Even after the demon departs, the manner in
which it has changed you will endure. With its presence within, parts
of yourself are awakened and shaken into activity. In no direct, conscious
way the demon will have taught you how to access the power that it
has learned over millennia to access, and will open your understanding
to those things that only the demonic can understand. You will be
changed, and the world around you will change as well, being seen
through eyes that never die and being touched by a hand which cannot
be removed.
Through the duration of the inmcation, which is from the time
that the demon is invoked until the time that it departs, the Powers of
Darkness will stream from you as they do from the demon. Its power
will become your power. Its knowledge will become your knowledge.
The rituals that you perform in this time will be as commands issued
by the invoked demon to its familiars and servitors. This period should
be used as a time to learn to act as demons act, think as they think,
dominate as they do. It should be a time of learning the ways in which
you too can hold that powcr.
Bcfore the ritual of demonic invocation is performed, an exact
amount of time should be set that the demon may residc within you.
Any less than thrce days will offer only a partial experience, while any
more than seven days will lean more towards possession than controlled
invocation. In most cases, the first days of inhabitance by the demon
will offer a new, exciting vantage of the world. You will retain your
own will and intelligence, accompanied by the insights given by inner
guest. With each passing day the balance will shift, until you are left as
the inner guest and the demon has become you. After seven days, you
will begin to lose your footing, and will slip periodically into darkness,
the demon peering at the world through your eyes and playing puppet
master over that which was once yours. The most dangerous time both
before and after the passage of seven days is when you are not able to
consciously retain control over your body and mind, which is most
often while you are asleep. You may awaken with vague memories of
nocturnal activities that you are certain you did not perform. yet you
remember having engaged in.
Although within the first seven days of possession it is usually
not difficult to willfully discharge the demon from your being, it is still
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