DM Entry: The Cenobite Ceremony

Guild Advancement (Cenobite)

·        Requirement: You must be an active member in good standing.

·        Requirement: You must complete 2 convenience jobs. If your guild does not have convenience jobs (like the Thief Guild), utilizing the active member perk twice qualifies for this requirement.

·        Requirement: You must have never benefited from the tweak option (see Tweaking PCs, below).

·        Cenobite Ceremony: You are officially inducted into the guild in a secret ceremony by the guildmaster (with other active members in attendance as witnesses). This ceremony takes place at your guild house. During this ceremony you are required to swear loyalty to the guild and your fellow-members. Under pain of expulsion you must also swear to protect the guild and your fellow-members with all of your power. You are then invested with the title of Cenobite (the lowest title for an active member).

·        Benefit: Aside from the higher standing within your guild, once the cenobite ceremony is complete, you are given a special glyph stone. This special magic item is a granite stone tablet, measuring 10 inches wide, 20 inches tall, and 1 inch thick, with hardness 10, 30 hit points and weighing 20 pounds. Engraved on the tablet are mystical secrets of the guild that are taught to new members. As long as the tablet is on your person (in your hand or in your backpack, for example), you may gain an insight bonus any one guild-related skill check per day equal to the number of achievements you have. Activating the stone is a swift mental action. If the glyph stone ever leaves your possession, even for a moment, the tablet crumbles to powder. If the stone is in your backpack but not on your person, it will not crumble unless someone else takes possession of your backpack. If the secrets contained on the stone are ever shared with a nonmember, the stone loses its magical properties.

This appears between Active Member and Favored Member in the guild section of the Aryathan Jiil Campaign Setting.pdf and this has been updated on the google drive.