🧿 #BlueskyCoven :: In many of the stories of the Archivist's shelves, good triumphs over evil. As they watch the curse progress across the land and, in disparate pockets, succeed or fail as brave witches step up to confront it, they know the real world is more varied. ::

🧿 #BlueskyCoven :: Sentences form and crumble around the library. :: Smoke curls along the floor, seeking any crack it can find to expand its essence and presence. :: The curse is spreading, and much like a wildfire, it may be too late to contain it. 💠

🧿 #BlueskyCoven #Discovery :: Tick-tock, goes the clock. The Archivist acknowledges this newly discovered key. They catalogue this, filing it away into another collection. Perhaps an enterprising witch may deign to seek the Archmage out?

🧿 #BlueskyCoven #Discovery :: The sky darkens outside the window of the library as the curse stretches further, unchecked. In the 'to-file' box, a page from an old school homework, half-completed, a corner chewed. The Archivist sets it out with a pencil. Someone should finish this. :: 💠

🧿 #BlueskyCoven #Discovery :: This one is a pin in a map on the wall, places traveled, places lived. Only, the roads on this map are burning, slow embers creeping across paper leaving empty charred paper between places. :: A spell runs rampant! The Cursed close in. Cast this ritual with haste! 💠

🧿 #BlueSkyCoven :: A geode of scintillating crystals sits on display. Plucked from the Valley of Muses, it is remarkable in its own right. You hold it close and hear the song of a witch who stood against the darkness, pushing it back from this sacred place. :: Sing and play! Break the curse. 💠

🧿 #BlueskyCoven #Discovery :: A new page arrives, folded in on itself; this is a paper-locked letter. If you don’t know how it's folded, you’ll destroy the text inside. It’s another ritual to help break the curse. The archivist files it with hope that one witch will decipher the message. :: 💠

🧿 #BlueskyCoven #Discovery :: A new page arrives, folded in on itself; this is a paper-locked letter. If you don’t know how it's folded, you’ll destroy the text inside. It’s another ritual to help break the curse. The archivist files it with hope that one witch will decipher the message. :: 💠

🧿 #BlueskyCoven #Discovery :: The Grimoire is open but the Archivist pauses in their recording to return to earlier pages They remain open, and visible A chance for all the Coven to see :: A feather, with crumbs of ash www.brokensky.blue/reading-the-... 1/

🧿 #BlueskyCoven #Discovery :: One page in the Grimoire is unlike the others, covered as it is in a thin frost. This page speaks of an enigmatic winter witch. It speaks of how few have seen her, fewer still have survived. It also speaks of the secrets she holds. She is worth seeking out. ::

🧿 #BlueskyCoven #Discovery :: One page in the Grimoire is unlike the others, covered as it is in a thin frost. This page speaks of an enigmatic winter witch. It speaks of how few have seen her, fewer still have survived. It also speaks of the secrets she holds. She is worth seeking out. ::

🧿 #BlueskyCoven #Discovery :: The Grimoire is open but the Archivist pauses in their recording to return to earlier pages They remain open, and visible A chance for all the Coven to see :: A feather, with crumbs of ash www.brokensky.blue/reading-the-... 1/

🧿 #BlueskyCoven :: A quill scratches on a parchment as this new ceremony is recorded. A path; a poison; a cry. The Archivist hears and sees the power of this spell. The curse wavers, but it does not break. Yet. We are glad for the coming help.:: 💠

#BlueskyCoven In dreams I travel the cracks between what was, what is, and what may yet be. It's a good place to divine - lost things, things that slipped through the cracks, often end up here. A voice, calling: "Let me out." An echo, defeated: "No one hears me." 1/

🧿 #BlueskyCoven :: The Archivist writes the story backwards, from the end to the beginning. :: When they emerge from their absorption, they have to read the first page several times for the significance of Meridian's descent to dawn on them. :: 💠

🧿 #BlueskyCoven #Discovery The High Priestess has spoken -- the Coven Under the Blue Sky must perform the ritual magic that will keep the curse at bay while they search for the keys to ending it.

🧿 #BlueskyCoven #Expression :: The Archivist offers their own #Inspiration to the Coven. :: Perils many beset this quest Twisted paths your wits may test Locked away, the Accursèd wait For the Coven to collaborate Should you struggle to journey's end This burden should be shared with friends 💠

🧿#BlueskyCoven :: Turning their mind to the gathering storm clouds, the splintering sky, and the still-open Gates, the Archivist turns to the Book of Names. :: They scratch out the Oracle's guides to the doors. Hurriedly, they pen the names of the witches who heeded the first call. :: 1/

🧿 #BlueskyCoven The Oracle has perceived the other Gate. Quickly -- the Coven must cross through both portals to find the source of the curse and seal it off. Follow the trail through the Oracle's vision. 💠

🧿 #BlueskyCoven One among you has found the door -- now who will find the key? 💠

🧿 #BlueskyCoven #TarotWar :: The Archivist makes a quick note. :: "The God of Order and Sovereignty pits its own courts against themselves in order to advance upon the High Priestess. The Prince of Blades perishes and The Nameless Thing That Invented Death's interests are advanced." 💠

🧿 #BlueskyCoven #Inspiration A quest from the Oracle! Which witches will endeavor to seek the keys to close the door on the demon that has claimed @wederrakeep.bsky.social ? 💠

🧿 #BlueskyCoven :: The Archivist jerks their head up from their tome with a start. A bit of ink is splattered across their nose. :: A practiced witch themself, they sense the tugging of the Strands that binds the demon's puppets to itself and beyond to the Coven. :: This can't be good. 💠

🧿 #BlueskyCoven The curse has breached the threshold and is in our world. Quickly - the Coven Under the Blue Sky must gather to help the High Priestess and the Oracle contain it. Seek out your covenmates! 💠

🧿 #BlueskyCoven Initiates! If you require assistance during this gathering of the Coven Under the Blue Sky, please accept these tools of working. :: They present a list of names. :: These are the Accursed, the Coven elders, and my faithful attendants. 1/

:: The Archivist ends their long trek through the desert at the keyhole arch, carved through the rock by the currents of a long-dead ocean. As they squint at the portal, their attendants follow, carrying ancient scrolls upon their backs. :: 🧿