Ritual Candle

Ritual Candle is a consumable item used to guarantee a Bootleg in the next encountered Rogue Fusion.

Ritual Candles can be bought from Ranger Wilma in Town Hall or obtained as a one-time reward from Hoylake for completing 120 entries in the Bestiary.

Usage

Upon using this item, the player is prompted to recycle a tape to influence the bootleg for the next encountered Rogue Fusion. Doing so will complete the ritual and activate its effect, resulting in a 50% chance to be of the same type as the sacrificed tape, and a 50% chance to be of the same species with a random bootleg type. The effect immediately wears off upon initiating an encounter with a Rogue Fusion. This has no effect on non-fusion static encounters. Completing the sacrifice will affect all players currently present in a multiplayer lobby; the consumption of the Ritual Candle need not be done while on multiplayer, so long as the tape is sacrificed while in a lobby.

For the fused Miss Mimic static encounter, the non-Miss Mimic component will be affected by the Ritual Candle. Similarly, on Unstable Fusions the non-Anathema component will be affected.

Info

Icon	Name	Description
	Ritual Candle	Burn this candle and then sacrifice (recycle) a recorded tape to influence the next fusion you encounter. It will have a chance to contain a bootleg that matches either the type or the species of the tape you sacrificed.

Ritual Candle can be recycled for 25 Fused Material .

Guides and Strategies

The Ritual Candle's effect wears off as soon as an encounter with a Rogue Fusion has been triggered, which means fleeing from it will waste its effect. As a result, common ritual candle strategies revolve around disabling autosave, checking Rogue Fusions, and resetting if it's not the desired bootleg. This works because Rogue Fusions encounters, and consequently the influenced bootleg's nature (matching type or species), is a Passive quest and is seeded upon spawning.

Since Version 1.6, a menu now appears when interacting with Rogue Fusions. Previewing will not consume the candle, but initiating the encounter will. If the Ritual Candle effect is active, both the Fusion name and type are not displayed, while the fusion's appearance is obscured, making only the silhouette recognizable. Hacking the fusion through the Hacking Glove will take precedent over the Ritual Candle and not remove its effect if the hacked fusion is encountered.

The following community guides have been made on using the Ritual Candle:

• Bootleg Monsters and Ritual Candle Guide (Steam Guide) by Lost_Kitty
• Candles & Cassettes: A Ritualist Guide to Bootlegging (Steam Guide) by Avalonia
• Ritual Candle Guide (Infographic) by Cirrus Aeltir

Generally, recycling a tape of the desired type will only be practical if the desired bootleg Monster can spawn naturally in at least one location in New Wirral, whereas recycling a tape of the desired species only has a 1/28 chance (50% to pick the species, then it randomly picks any of the 14 types) to get the desired bootleg, but it allows the player to check Rogue Fusions in locations outside of the species' natural habitat.

Trivia

• According to the item description when purchasing from Wilma, Captain Skip discovered the Ritual Candle.

References

Items

Consumables Resources • Tapes • Healing • Cures • Coffee • Pear Fusilli • Reodorants • Smoke Bombs • Olive-Up! • Upgrape • Ritual Candle Misc Fusion Radar • Others Pier of the Unknown Prize Ticket • Attraction Pass • Warehouse Key Multiplayer Cyber Material • Hacking Glove