Luna’s Journal - Gauntlet

Chapter 12 - Meet Agares - 10/23/2022

“Oh great due Agares! We are Marked people who seek knowledge from you.” Gem says.

“Ardat’s Marked?”

“Indeed we are.” Faustus says.

“Oh no. My sympathies.” Agares says.

“Thank you. We’ve come to take our Marks away and ruin her plans.” Gem says.

“Very well. Do you have all seven fragments?” Agares asks.

A B C I M N O

“What do they spell?”

“Cambion.” Luna says.

“CORRECT, THAT’S WHAT I WANT!” Ardat yells.

“Yes, we’re aware Ardat, but you don’t have to yell I have extremely sensitive hearing.” Luna responds with her ears flattened against her skull.

After Gem told her to get out, Agares explains that Ardat used her desire as one of the keys for the fourth key, then asks if we’ve seen the other one. He reminds of the poem for the key.

Nobody Will Discover It
Nobody Will Know It.

“The other key is Nobody. It is Keyed Vigenere, but Reversed. For Demons, instructions are reversed. Do you know what this means? It means when speaking Vigenere, the words are decrypted from English. Not Encrypted, but Decrypted. It’s backwards, you see.” Agares explains. “You decrypt to encode and encrypt to decode.”

“Ahhh you are brilliant!” Jinn says.

“Speak the Remembrance poem in front of the Cryptic Writings in the 4th key. I will bring the dawn when you do. Then open the flame and find the summoning spell for Byleth inside. Once you understand those words, the flame will turn rightside up and become its natural color, and the path to the Vast Meadow will open. I will remove her Mark from all of you and make you Unshut when you are ready to start.”

We took a few minutes to go over the directions both Orobas and Agares told us. And then, it began. The final push to SUMMON BYLETH.