Ability:Tea Ceremony

[[:Category:Abilities|abilittea ceremony is done in collaboration with others (although they do not need to have tea ceremony). it requires willing and active participation from all targets. as part of tea ceremony, you must ask three questions about the alignment, motives, or intentions of the group. each participant (including yourself) must individually answer these questions. the questions are asked one at a time, and each participant must answer before the next question is asked. if anyone refuses to answer truthfully, the tea ceremony fails and all participants are vulnerable to mana drain and mana drain is boosted against them for 24 hours. this occurs once everyone has answered the latest question or immediately if someone refuses to answer whatsoever. if the tea ceremony is successful, all participants are resistant to mana drain for 24 hours and suffer no negative effects of mana loss other than death and unconsciousness. tea ceremony can only be performed once per long rest.

tea ceremony costs an amount of mana equal to twice the number of participants. each participant must pay at least 1 mana. after that, the remaining cost of may be paid in any combination by any of the participants.

note: tea ceremony detects only whether the participants believe their answers to be true, not whether or not they are.

note: if an effect such as lie is used to deceive the tea ceremony, it continues as if the lie were true.

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Todo: Decide if this should be rewritten using Heighten mechanics.