“You can only lead a horse to water, you can’t make them drink.”
I would say to take care of yourself and keep your relationships first. If they ask you can show them what’s real, but don’t make life hard for yourself by trying to make people see before they are ready.
You’re welcome to take the fact that he hadn’t been around BALG for years, that we could have told him many better ways to better his position than relying on a lottery, and that he left here long before we could help him.
You can also search for “win lottery” and find we already talked about it… a lot… and you have sensible responses like this one, which questions if a pact would even work for this, and nobody says “use Lucifuge” and nobody says “oh and offer that”:
As far as winning the lottery goes, I think it’s unlikely.
To explain why I’ll explain a little bit about how magic creates change. Think of your goal as a tug of war between two small children: an adult pulling on either end of the rope will have a large effect.
Now imagine that, in addition to the two small children, there are now three adults on either end of the rope. Because the adults are stronger, you joining either side will have less of an impact. Obviously, the more people at either end of the rope, the less impact you will have.
The adults in this scenario can be likened to practitioners who want a certain out come. The more people with a stake in the the scenario, the more conflicting rituals are going to be cast ( more people on the rope) so your ritual will have a progressively smaller impact.
With the lottery, there are a lot of people who want to win. So the chances that you will over come all that will is very small.