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Guidebook!

To complete Level 5 you must collect 3 ritual talismans and perform a ritual related to each.

In this level you will collect ritual talismans; each of these items is other-than-human — a creature, phantom, or phenomena. To perform a ritual, describe a sequence of actions, gestures, or recitations in the textbox that pops up when you bump into an item. (You will have 400 characters or less.) Rituals are repeated patterns of relationships with beings, knowings, and doings that shape the world (by repeatedly including some subjects, objects, ideas, emotions, or values and excluding others). If your ritual had traction, if practitioners took it up, what kind of world might be made? "User Rituals" are saved and can be viewed in the sidebar on each level's page. To see all ritual quests a player has completed across levels, click "See All" under their name.

Creature

You have collected the Creature talisman. Creature is a real or imagined being. You must perform a ritual with Creature or describe how Creature's participation in ritual co-shapes the reality you inhabit. This could be a chant, a step-by-step, a choreography, or prayer.'

Demon

You have collected the Demon talisman. Demon is an unnerving, dangerous, or evil spiritual or affective presence. You must perform a ritual for, with, or against Demon. Do you see how the performance of ritual might be permissive of some practices and intolerant of others — how repetition makes or breaks what is allowed to happen? Write a ritual recollection, a series of steps, a ceremonial process, or an idea.

Presence

You have collected the Presence talisman. Presence is an empathetic other-than-human being. Presence is felt in many different ways. Presence can bring comfort or responsibility. You must perform a ritual with, before, in the midst of, or for Presence. This could be a poem, idea, sequence of "doings," or a prayer.

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Enter your name to begin! You may leave and return at any time, your progress is automatically saved. Please see "Gameplay" below for detailed instructions. Reading the accompanying essay (also below) will help you on your Cyborg Ritual quest.

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