‘Mexico City Niceties’ (Catalogue NLHAY-19393)

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‘Mexico City Niceties’ (Catalogue NLHAY-19393) by xexnoncores

Catalogue NLHAY-19393
Status	Selling
Demand	Medium
Value	120000GBP/161025USD per catalogue
Availability	In Use
Identifier	Mexico City Niceties
Description	A collection of ritual sigils from various sources in Mexico City aligned towards prosperity, good fortune, and warding off monetary losses.

Initial Writeup
Penned by:	Silas King
Date	June 15th, 2010
Interest	Medium-High
Identifier	Mexico City Niceties
Description
It is no secret to anyone in the know that the Three Portlands has changed significantly since the late 1980s. Ever since Amos and Ruprecht began pumping money into the city, it has transformed from a scattershot Georgist city-state into a sprawling, glittering metropolis that rivals Houston for both beauty and infrastructure. However, these changes created a ripple effect that trickled down into other anomalous communities. The Sidhe, once ritually tied to the Three Portlands because of Little Avalon, began a migration out once it became clear our magic was here to stay. I would say based on city census data, over half of them have left for Mexico City, with a few having settled in Eurtec. Our catalogue is focused on the former today. With so much Celtic influence flooding into an already superstitious Latin American space, it was no surprise that blossoms of extremely colorful magic emerged. Runic carving crossed with animistic and Catholic belief nearly excited me, as it’s been centuries since such collisions have occurred culturally from this specific ethnic group of fae descendants. I was given the “lucky” task of paying a visit to Mexico City to see what these could take the form of, as they could serve our clients both as novelties and our contractors as useful collateral. Few outside of the city have borne witness to these kinds of things, so it will be a new experience for all involved. Percival also told me getting out of the company libraries would be good for me. Like an archivist needs to be told to get his head out of the books he reads.
File Opened Under:	Catalogue NLHAY-19393
Marshall, Carter & Dark Ltd.

NLHAY-19393-01

NLHAY-19393-01
Availability	Infinite use
Purpose	Summons the spirit of Saint Cajetan upon the user for positive luck regarding wealth for the next six months. Can also be used to reverse avarice demon curses.
Ingredients	1 molcajete, 1 lodestone (any size bigger than the thumb’s fingernail), 3 four-leafed clovers, 5g of gold dust, 175ml of holy water, 1 sabino wood plank
Ritual Instructions	Must be performed on a “cold” day, colder than the average temperature of a living human body. Mix clovers, gold dust, holy water and lodestone into the molcajete and grind. Grind until arm is tired or for three minutes, whichever is first, and pour onto plank. Take plank and set on a windowsill. Resulting sigil will form within thirty seconds. Burn after a week.
Notes	Don’t let the mixture touch your skin before it’s poured onto the wood. It stains more permanently than a tattoo. — Silas King
Marshall, Carter and Dark Ltd.

NLHAY-19393-02

NLHAY-19393-02
Availability	21 times per lifetime
Purpose	Dian Cécht’s¹ and Patecatl‘s² cure for faebound fever arising from contact with cursed bank accounts, currency, or silver.
Ingredients	125ml of milk, 3 tallow candles, 2 corn husks, 2 woolen rugs, 1 sabino wood cup
Ritual Instructions	Must be performed on a day without a full moon. Light candles in a sacred space, drinking milk slowly over the course of thirty seconds. Spit out onto corn husks laid out beneath candles and wait for evaporation. Once completed, press husks over woolen rugs, implanting one foot on each. Wait for two hands to caress the cup and imprint the sigil, declaring the serpents of the heart to be cleansed. Burn all ingredients in the nearest hearth.
Notes	Why the limited number of uses? I’m still not sure myself, but perhaps it has something to do with the hands. The communion of Patecatl and Dian Cécht must be a chaotic one. — Silas King
Marshall, Carter and Dark Ltd.

NLHAY-19393-03

NLHAY-19393-03
Availability	3 times per month per person
Purpose	Creates optimal temperature conditions for artistic goods meant to be sold or auctioned off. These conditions are highly resistant to tampering by outside influences.
Ingredients	1 black rooster (alive), 1 magnet, 1 stone carving of the Virgin Mary, 2 chile cascabel, 1 Mexican clay flower pot, 120g of cojita cheese
Ritual Instructions	Cannot be performed on any day where Mars and the moon are visible at the same time in the night sky. Take rooster and bleed it by the neck onto the cheese. Take cheese and place at the feet of the Virgin Mary carving and wait it for it to dissolve into a colorful puddle. Once done, discard carcass by disposing of it and the chile cascabels together into a pot near the room you want to stabilize. Let pot sit for 24 hours before using magnet to draw the lines of the sigil on the room’s door.
Notes	Found this one from someone helping out a local art gallery. They were using this to keep some awfully tacky art intact. I’m sure we can do better with this. — Silas King
Marshall, Carter and Dark Ltd.

NLHAY-19393-04

NLHAY-19393-04
Availability	Infinite use
Purpose	Transmutes lead into a laptop computer and chalk into corresponding charging cables.
Ingredients	250g of powdered lead, 300g of powdered chalk, 100ml of juniper berry syrup, 500ml of mezcal, 1 wooden spoon
Ritual Instructions	Take powdered lead and mix with juniper berry syrup. Mix then the powdered chalk and mezcal, allowing for both mixtures to sit until Venus is at its highest point in the sky. Combine and stir with a wooden spoon until a rolling boil is achieved, at which wait for the sigil to form on the hand and flash. Once complete, close eyes and the products will manifest around the bowl. The laptop’s model will be of the current year and its brand the highest quality.
Notes	A highly unusual recipe; I can’t tell if this is alchemy, witchcraft, or some secret third type of magic. The fact these sigils aren’t drawn but rather signal the completion of the ritual is what sets them apart from traditional Celtic runes, which possess power in themselves. Oh well, I’m sure this trend will come to an end eventually. — Silas King
Marshall, Carter and Dark Ltd.

NLHAY-19393-05

NLHAY-19393-05
Availability	Twice per month
Purpose	Wards against the sudden loss of value in a bank or stock brokerage account; most effective against losses of 50% and over.
Ingredients	1 blank check, 20ml of black ink, 2 pairs of scissors, 2 lodestones
Ritual Instructions	Must be performed on a sunny day. Consecrate scissors by order of when they were purchased. Say what account is to protected; cut routing number off using the first pair, then the check in half with the second. Pour ink over cut pieces, then place the lodestones on top. Sigil will manifest on the paper within twenty seconds.
Notes	Found this one online after piecing a bunch of clues together to get a password. Took me forever to figure it out—why was something so simple guarded so heavily? — Silas King
Marshall, Carter and Dark Ltd.

NLHAY-19393-06

NLHAY-19393-06
Availability	Seventy-seven times per year
Purpose	Transforms physical currency into food. Transmogrified food can be of value equal up to quintuple the amount of currency provided.
Ingredients	Currency, 400ml of sheep’s milk, 7 mistletoe berries, concrete carving of Santa Muerte, iron carving of Lugh,³ 7 kernels of dried corn
Ritual Instructions	Crush mistletoe berries beneath the statue of Santa Muerte, and the corn beneath the statue of Lugh. Take currency and place between the two statues, pouring sheep’s milk over soon after. Sigil will flash ten seconds after completion, with food following after.
Notes	This one is so paltry that I’m surprised it was included at all, but I suppose it makes sense, given it can summon caviar on demand. Cool party trick for those with too much money. — Silas King
Marshall, Carter and Dark Ltd.

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INTERNAL MEMO No. 53021

ATTACHMENT CODE: Catalogue NLHAY-19393-01

DATE: 29/06/2010

TO: PERCIVAL A. DARKE

PENNED BY: SILAS KING

Please lock down the hallways to my office. Someone sent me a hex quite foul through official correspondence— Could your arduous self bother to come and help me seal it back in its envelope?

And I don’t know how it got past our wards—don’t ask. I am really not in the mood to listen to your voice right now.

The following letter has been translated from Spanish.

To the wretched fae it may concern,

Bad tidings, foul breath upon you, may God have pity upon your soul. How dare you plunder my inventory. How dare you steal from our city. Do you have no sense of shame? Coming into my shop, pretending to be a customer? Asking for my help like you did not intend to copy what I keep secret for a reason? Does the markup your company sells at not bring embarrassment to your being?

I thought you one of my elvish neighbors, one of their kin. Your fair skin and curly hair were enough to fool me, as was your weariness. Though perhaps I mistook it for tenacity, as God knows the Sidhe within this city have suffered enough under the Foundation trying to stamp them out from the public eye. Perhaps I thought of you as merely someone looking for help, as someone who needed help with food and paying the bills, who needed something to put your kids through school, to give them a better life. Do you not understand how cushy your golden handcuffs are? Do you know what it’s like to work three jobs and suffocate under the existence of normalcy? Do you know what it’s like to be a parent uncertain of the future, so uncertain not even magic can still your wavering heart?

I have alerted the other witches in this city to your company’s presence. Trust me by all of the magic we wield, we will stamp your sorry British asses out of this continent once more if we have to. If the Americans can do it, so can we.