At some point during the late night, we gained another Premonition and unlocked 3-2 in the process.
The Video title is “Songstress” in Vigenere
Ardat announces that The Vigilant have something else they can do.
The Vigilant have gained a new ability: They can translate a half a line of text, once every four hours. (This is between all of the Vigilant, meaning only one half-line every four hours between all of them.)
Archaicjinn uses it as soon as he can to translate part of 3-2. Gem, who became Unshut, also gained her Seer ability, which allows her to see channels others cannot. She is able to see 2-1. She reads, “If you miss your taken men, then go and tell the Calzone Man that There are four tongues.”
Calzone Man refers to a puzzle from right before the very first The Moon Isn’t Right back in April 2021 which led Nammu’s Marked to a cytube channel with a password. In any case, the cytube channel was rather easy to find, as it was the only one whose title seemed to be encrypted, but it requires a password. Because Gem read the line out in Threshold, she was cursed with Silence and LatentMoths became unsilenced. Apparently Ardat does not like it when the contestants use their abilities…
We were able to figure out that the password to the Cytube was “Fidelio” as one of the things Ardat holds dear is Loyalty. This unlocks another video.
A challenge was given to Nammu’s Marked. Figure out what Ardat’s Greatest Desire is.
Down in the Taken waiting room, we managed to finish solving 3-2 and had Victoria read it aloud in Threshold.
“POWER OF THE STARS, HEKATE AND PERSE! THE DEAD OF EVIL DOMINATE YOU! THROUGH THE DEAD LANGUAGE I WILL DOMINATE YOU!
By my will I open the Northern gates
By my will I open the Eastern Gates
By my will I open the Southern Gates
By my will I open the Western Gates
I call thee! Spirits of the ancient realm. Thee who were the breath of a panting world, still giving birth to life. I resurrect thy consciousness. I resurrect thy primal instinct and thy will to survive. I wrest thy disembodied presence from eternity to come forth now and protect me as you would protect your offspring. For I am your offspring by the continuity of life and I inherited this era that was prepared by your hand, your existence, your death and now your resurrection.“
The issue is, however, is this one must be specifically spoken by The Necromancer, of whom we originally chose Code. Code often has a wonky sleep schedule, so during the day, he is unable to respond, so Ardat assigned Archaicjinn the Necromancer’s understudy, a role he can use as he wishes until Code returns.
The Necromancer - roll 5d20 for a 50/50 shot (roll 51 or better) to return one of The Taken, once every 90 minutes.
Archaicjinn, feeling the power of the Necromancer, takes 5 of the D20s from the table and rolls them. Unfortunately, he rolls a 40, which does not revive anyone and cannot use it again for an hour and a half.
3-3 opens up and Nammu’s Marked get right to work on decrypting and translating the included Chinese.
Song of Divination, Luo Zhihai
Wind blowing to Sichuan Province, the Patio Spring
Raining in the Lijiang River, Song of Divination
How do the bee and grasshopper know the dragon and phoenix's hearts
How can a pheasant understand a large swan's ambition
The rest of the text wasn’t so easy to decrypt unfortunately.
While we were working on that, Archaicjinn did another Necromancer roll and this time revived me. Which unfortunately locked me out of my running notes I had for yet another video given to us.
This video is very akin to another puzzle from a few months ago named A Frantic Mind, in which there are many many different kinds of ciphers required to solve everything in the video. I made a lot of progress on it but lost it all when I was revived. But on the bright side, I did gain a powerful new ability. Scholar.
The Scholar - 70/30 chance of deciphering a text or noticing an unseen detail, once hourly (/roll 10d10 and get 31 or better)
And of course, the moment I gained the ability, I used it. I hit the target very cleanly and began to countdown to my next use. With it, part of 3-3’s ciphertext was decrypted, which requires Victoria to state the first seven notes found in the Chinese.