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The Archivist @covenarchivist.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Special thanks: - every player who jumped in to play and explore the work. - the cast and crew of Oops, All Witches and The Witches of Wederra Keep - many others behind the scenes! If we forgot your part in production, we’ll catch it up later. Broken Sky is a Dancing Stickman production. 💠

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The Archivist @covenarchivist.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

- The Merciless Snare of Sorcery by @brandesstoddard.bsky.social - Hauntings at St. Comba's Academy by @wharthur.bsky.social

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The Archivist @covenarchivist.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Broken Sky is a game presented by an incredible cast of creatives both in front and behind the fiction. The following games were presented: - Reading the Ashes by @gamefiend.bsky.social - broken sanctum by @sebastianyue.bsky.social - Once, There Was by @loremistress93.bsky.social

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The Archivist @covenarchivist.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

:: The works left in this archive are for future witches to discover, to cast in ritual together or rebuild for new ceremonies and stories. Each one will hold the darkness back or bring a little light to the world where the torchbearers have fallen. This is not the end, but a transformation. :: 💠

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The Archivist @covenarchivist.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

🧿 #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. ::

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The Archivist @covenarchivist.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

🧿 #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. 💠

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The Archivist @covenarchivist.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

🧿 #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?

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The Archivist @covenarchivist.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

🧿 #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. :: 💠

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The Archivist @covenarchivist.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

🧿 #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! 💠

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The Archivist @covenarchivist.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

🧿 #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. 💠

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The Archivist @covenarchivist.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

🧿 #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. :: 💠

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The Archivist @covenarchivist.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

🧿 #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/

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Reading the Ashes | Quinn Murphy | Broken Sky

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The Archivist @covenarchivist.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

🧿 #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. ::

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The Archivist @covenarchivist.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

::A further page turn and they regard:: A face down tarot card, surrounded by potential www.brokensky.blue/oneirolancers The order the Lorekeepers are approached matters not, but we hope that each member of the Coven can witness what each presents 3/ 💠

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Oneirolancers | Sara Brink | Broken Sky

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The Archivist @covenarchivist.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

::They turn the page and on the next:: An old leather bound book, stained from a potion www.brokensky.blue/brewing-sere... 2/

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Brewing Serendipity | LaLionneCosplay | Broken Sky

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The Archivist @covenarchivist.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

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Reading the Ashes | Quinn Murphy | Broken Sky

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The Archivist @covenarchivist.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

🧿 :: A feather from a passing bird flutters down to your hand. In the pattern is a message. "Thank you for the care of your ceremony. The dreamer sleeps on but her rest is calm for now." :: 💠

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The Archivist @covenarchivist.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

🧿 #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.:: 💠

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Tristan @hydrangea-blues.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

#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/

Text reads: What is the form this Dreamspace takes? Create and describe the details of this place using this Archetype.

The image is of a card labelled XLIX, The Faultline. A deep black crack fissures the centre of featureless grey sands, with many smaller cracks stemming from it.

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The Archivist @covenarchivist.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

🧿 #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. :: 💠

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The Archivist @covenarchivist.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

🧿 #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.

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The Archivist @covenarchivist.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

🧿 #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 💠

An oracle spread and interpretation.
At the top, the IX Swords. A claw, covered in maggots and eyeballs, pierced through with nine swords.
In the center, The Castle. A closed eye surrounded by a wall of beads. The Underworld, worm-ridden grasses.
At the bottom, Journey. Twisting paths through a jagged, cratered landscape. Connect, two fingers touching. Magic, three in a circle, conjuring.

The interpretation, written into the Grimoire:
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

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The Archivist @covenarchivist.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

🧿 #BlueskyCoven #Expression :: Relief crosses the Archivist's face in a relaxing of their brow as they see the witch's words write themselves on the page. She is ready for a quest. The Oracle indeed has had visions, and the Archivist has old lore in the Grimoire they can send the witch, too. :: 💠

In black ink, the witch's message:
"But I need to get my bearings first. Maybie if I listen, the Oracle will give me another sign."

Below, in green ink, the Archivist's haiku:

The first sign is up.
The second sign is below.
She sleeps under roots.

An illumination in the Grimoire, an entry for

Oak, Coast Live (Quercus agrifolia)

There is a dried oak leave attached to the page with a copper wax seal.

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The Archivist @covenarchivist.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

🧿 #BlueskyCoven #Expression :: The black ink text of their words scrawls across a blank page of the Grimoire. The Archivist pens a limerick back, opening a portal to the past when the High Priestess put the call out to the Coven Under the Blue Sky. :: 💠

The page of an old book. In black ink, the words "What's going on? Whose call am I mean to heed?" In red ink, a limerick:

The High Priestess put out the call
To witches and arcanists all
Get on the bandwagon
With her and Jay Dragon
'Fore the curse causes Coven to fall

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The Archivist @covenarchivist.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

🧿 #BlueskyCoven #Expression :: Watching the witch's words appear in black ink across the pages of the Grimoire, the Archivist scribbles back a sketch of the comfiest pair of shoes they could think of - a pair of Crocs. :: 💠

A drawing in an old book - in black cursive, the words "Now what do I need? Where do I go? I probably should put on shoes first. Yes, I definitely need shoes." Below that, in blue ink, a sketch of a pair of Crocs.

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The Archivist @covenarchivist.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

"The curse still seeps up from the Underworld, for @dancingstickman.com has not met the fellows who would pull her from her deep despair. Witches of the Coven Under the Blue Sky, we pray you heed the third call." 3/

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The Archivist @covenarchivist.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

"The depths of the Labyrinth remain unplumbed, for @wederrakeep.bsky.social is still captured without the knowledge needed to escape. Witches of the Coven Under the Blue Sky, we pray you heed the second call." 2/

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The Archivist @covenarchivist.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

🧿#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/

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The Archivist @covenarchivist.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

🧿 #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. 💠

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The Archivist @covenarchivist.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

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

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The Archivist @covenarchivist.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

🧿 #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." 💠

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The Archivist @covenarchivist.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

🧿 #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 ? 💠

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The Archivist @covenarchivist.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

🧿 #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. 💠

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The Archivist @covenarchivist.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

🧿 #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! 💠

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The Archivist @covenarchivist.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

#BlueskyCoven As the timeline shifts and splinters, use this to work your will to concentrate the events of our Conclave back into form. 2/

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The Archivist @covenarchivist.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

🧿 #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/

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The Archivist @covenarchivist.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

:: The Archivist steps forward. :: I will of course record the affairs of this gathering of the coven. An account of the work of the #BlueskyCoven shall be kept in the Grimoire, and my faithful attendants Basil, Lyndon, and Rep, will make themselves ready to counsel the initiates. 🧿

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The Archivist @covenarchivist.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

:: With the arrival of the High Priestess, the Archivist casts about, confused. :: But where are the apprentices? They should have come at the call. What has happened to the covenant? 🧿

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The Archivist @covenarchivist.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

:: The Archivist bows their head in reverence as they and their attendants arrive in this sacred space. :: We've heeded the call of the High Priestess and we have come. 🧿

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The Archivist @covenarchivist.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

:: 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. :: 🧿

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