The Test Of Transcendental Transference
BTW I can't think of a good name. If ya can think of a better name please do. =)
I think this makes more sense as a worship test but it could easily be tweaked in flavor to be a body test. The main difference would be to switch getting your location from an altar to the Univ of Body and switch the transfer ritual from using an altar to just passing something like a relay race baton.
You do a small ritual at an altar to find out your transcendental location (a set of coordinates). This could be a solo ritual or maybe you have to do it with 1 or more other people who also get their coords. Everyone gets a random set of coords that do not change for some number of days or until the next cycle. When at their coordinates a person can summon a special altar (like the beacon altar) to perform a ritual at.
Each week the group with the most number of people all pass. Once you are part of a group you cannot take part in another group until the next cycle. Taking part in the following ritual, whether your group ends up passing or not will give you a decent stat bonus for like a full day. And you can take part even after passing to help others or to get the stat bonus. To balance this the ritual may need to burn some resource. The point of the bonus is to create some competition so people will still want to do this even after they have passed.
Person 1 must goto his location and bring 3 other people and perform the starting ritual with them. Only person 1 will be considered to have taken part and be part of the group. The other 3 people are not counted but they can take part in this chain or others at their own locations. Person 1 receives becomes prepared to trancend and receives some special item (Trancendental Twig?).
Now person 1 must meet person 2 at person 2's location. They perform a ritual. The ritual should involve person 1 placing the twig on the altar and person 2 taking it off. After successfully completing the ritual, person 1 trancends and receives his stat bonus. Person 2 becomes prepared to trancend. Person 2 must now meet person 3 at their location. Rinse and repeat. All the people in the largest chain who haven't already passed the test, pass.
There is no time requirement other than the weekly pass cycle. Once someone "prepares to trancend" (receives the baton), they can take aslong as they like to meet the next person as long as the cycle doesn't end. When the test pass is announced all is reset and the twigs go poof.
Possible tweaks:
To make the test more evil: