After the caster states “Begin Ritual casting,” the following steps must occur before the Ritual is deemed complete:

1. The Ritual marshal calls a Pause Game.
2. If the recipient of the Ritual is an individual, the Ritual marshal will ask the recipient, “A Ritual is being cast on you. Do you accept it?” (note that a player must accept any Rituals that do not allow refusal, such as Banish to Other Plane, Divestiture, and Obliteration). If the player says “no,” the Ritual marshal must follow the rules set forth below under the heading “Unwilling Targets.”
3. The Ritual marshal makes sure that everyone in the Circle of Power is awake OOG.
4. The Ritual marshal assures that the Ritual can properly begin.
5. If the Ritual has not yet failed or automatically backlashed, the Ritual marshal tells everyone in the Circle of Power, “There is magic all around you” or a similar phrase.
6. The Ritual marshal calls “Lay on.”
7. The Ritual marshal rolls the ten-sided die once where the caster can observe the die roll. As the die roll takes place before the Ritual completes, the caster has IG knowledge of whether something is not going well with the casting and may use Terminate Casting to abort the Ritual based on the die roll.
8. The Ritual marshal determines if the Ritual fails for any reason other than the die roll.
9. The Ritual marshal waits the duration of the Ritual casting, in case a condition occurs that would cause an automatic backlash.
10. Assuming the Ritual has not automatically Backlashed, the Ritual marshal announces either “You have successfully completed the Ritual” (if the Ritual succeeded) or “Something has gone dreadfully wrong”, or similar, if it has failed.

The Ritual has now ended.