Blood Horn Blues 610: Observatory

Jameson, Turner, and Devin Black.

You are all up in the observatory.

You just discovered a letter from the last leader that you know of, of the Brotherhood of Orion, shortly before he was summarily murdered by the Axeman.

He attempted to contact a few of the other members of his order that might still be out there abroad to find a solution to the problem of the Axeman as it was threatening to destroy the Brotherhood.

So along with it, you found two other scraps of paper in here.

which both appear to be arcane in nature and describe rituals though one much darker than the other uh would you guys like to describe what these are that you found i can just sum up these for you guys i guess let me sum up so one ritual like i said Seems much darker than the other.

One of them is very clearly a ritual from the Brotherhood of Orion themselves.

This is called the Rite of the Turned Key.

This appears to be one of their standard rituals that they use of sealing some of these gates, closing these liminal spaces.

that allow these other entities and influences to have sway over our world here.

The Rite of the Turn key looks fairly complex, requires a lot of involvement from numerous participants.

which it can be done with fewer, but from what it sounds like, the minimum effective and useful and safe participants would be four or five people involved in this casting.

It looks like we need a bunch of stuff we don't have, either.

The three, like, the required components.

We gotta have a key with a seven-pointed star.

We've gotta have the three lanterns, a ranged Tamira, the Belt of Orion, Alnitak, Alnilum, Mintaka, candles, oil lamps.

I mean, these things all seem like the sword and the shield, the reflective pool, and the boundary.

I don't know how we get, like, the three lanterns.

I'm thinking they're all in

the same place.

But if you read through there, Devin, so these things are things you could potentially get, right? So, like, the key that it requires, a brass or iron key engraved with a seven-pointed star or an equivalent artifact of the Brotherhood.

And it lists a few.

The star-etched amulet and a heptagonal...

Heptagonal? Heptagonal.

Heptagonal.