A multimedia puzzle-story of an immortal being's struggle to define and exert their will upon a wholly deterministic and ambivalent multiverse, and the strange cult who loves them.
Codified from the Foscari Journals, the Dee-Kelly Correspondence, and the Encroachment Archives. I. FOUNDING ERA (16th–17th Century) Cosimo Foscari — Founder, Vintner, Occultist, Explorer The Cloak traces its formal beginnings
Continue readingUnder The Cloak series: The Cloak Of Nazili — Historical & Esoteric Foundations pt 2
I. Central Doctrine The Cloak of Nazili is an ancient mystic order who place the creative force of the universe—the impulse behind art, imagination, growth, reproduction, and consciousness—at the center
Continue readingUnder The Cloak series: The Cloak of Nazili — A Structured Mythos / Lore Codex Pt.1
Mystic Tape Deck · The Clock Of The Four Winds The clock of the four winds is a tall-case grandfather style clock originally assembled in 1710 by an Italian astronomer
The late 80’s and early 90’s were a very active time for The Cloak, especially along the I-5 corridor in the United States. One of the most significant hotbeds of
Continue readingUnder The Cloak Series: The zenith and tumble of the Morningside Encroachment
Mystic Tape Deck · The Dark Twins On the darkest day, before the light was shone upon the world again A binodal entity emerges from the wilting lotus with a
Mystic Tape Deck · The Professor A constructed visage, a fabricated guise, a finished frontispiece Worn to conceal, instead reveals, worn to reveal, in return conceals Reposed in authority, to
Asleep for eons inside the murky midnight of cavernous maw, deep beneath the mountain, a faint mechanical whirring… … Continue readingThe Smith
Mystic Tape Deck · The Librarian Lurking behind the vibrational excitement of the luminous veil Forged amid the diaphanous leaves of dusty ancient tomes A yearning to shed this putrid
Part one in a series outlining doctrine and practices of the Cloak of Nazili in modern times The Cloak, at least in the most modern contemporary sense, is a voluntary
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Mystic Tape Deck · The Grave Digger Pulling on the mud caked creased and drawn leather boots Feet cold, atonic and rheumatic, bunions bulging, inflamed Shabby woolen blanket tossed aside
In a cloistered hermitage hidden from the eyes of the prying
Reached only through the careful divination of echoes … Continue readingThe Forest Witch
Out here the sky is just wider they say
The cold is much colder, the dry much drier
And the wild is just wilder
It will change you without your permission … Continue readingThe Roadside Ghost
Resistors, Capacitors, Transistors, Inductors, Transformers, and switches, The technician creates the technician who creates the technician … Continue readingThe Technician
The universe distilled … Continue readingThe Vintner
Two pennies a vial, and a free nightly puppet show. … Continue readingThe Mountebank
The shepherd leads the sheep along the winding rutted path.
Their gentle bleating falls hollow amongst the cushions of corpses.
Nooses numbering eight tether them tightly ‘round their fattened necks. … Continue readingThe Cynic
The late 80’s and early 90’s were a very active time for The Cloak, especially along the I-5 corridor in the United States. One of the most significant hotbeds of
Long ago, beyond the mists which lie just inside the forest’s edge, among the gnarled roots of the most ancient of yews, sat the forest witch upon her verdant mossy
“This, then, is the doctrine of the resurrection. We do not believe–at least I do not–that law has been rudely violated in one extraordinary and unparalleled episode. We believe that
“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.” – Plato “There are very
“Man with all his noble qualities, with sympathy which feels for the most debased, with benevolence which extends not only to other men but to the humblest living creature, with