GameMaster says:
Does anyone have any idea what this ritual should look like? I got the table set for a generic ritual, but I am not sure what all should be involved.
We can help, but rituals are your baby. They are mostly up to you, within (or even stretching) the bounds of what is described in the
rules on magic. You seem to be off to a good start, and it involves other players, which is great.
What it 'looks like' is also, very much, up to you, and can vary based on the situation. For instance, if you sneak off in the middle of the night it will be different and more Stealthy than when you are doing it 'on stage' before an audience.
In this case you are doing it in the open. It does still look a bit like a show, but you are also publicly declaring that you are doing 'magic that will do observable things in the world'. In PbtA parlance that is definitely what we call 'Handing the GM a Golden Opportunity' for someone to see you doing magic and for that to come back to bite you in the proverbials (maybe giving you the reason to leave town with those who understand better that you did it for good?). I don't know if I will make that GM Move, we will see what happens next.
We had discussed that your HP starts low because you have already performed a ritual before we get here. We can make that the start of this one, in which case you only need a minute of so to finish. But, given that you probably have a little time —as the mist is not fully formed yet— we can take the time to finish this one and have the other already done and standing by. That way you can issue two commands, which it sounds like is what you are doing.
Maybe you previously enchanted a bottle (possibly with the help of the sample you got from
Roald?) to capture the mist, and the current ritual is to disperse the mist, allowing the others to act with more safety?
We will make a roll (what that is will depend on exactly what is being done at the time) to see how effective the dispersal is, but the mist is not the problem, the mist is a tool used by the problem, so dispersing it will allow you all to get directly to the
source of the problem.