October 9, 2022

Luna and Cole were sitting in the living room painting their nails and talking about fashion when Nammu began tweeting things out.

"Okay, Drake's Ringdings. Gee, I fucking wonder who Nammu wants." Luna groans.

Cole walks back in wearing a black and red themed sailor dress that seems to fit absolutely perfectly.
"God how the fuck does this fit perfectly? What black magic are you doing?"

"Don't ask me, that was all Krystal." Luna’s eyes turn purple as Krystal takes control.

"I figured out how to use some of Lunes' magic to modify the app this morning. It was honestly kinda easy.
And now back to her." Her eyes return to blue. "Huh."

Kade looks on bisexually.

Also Luna’s back to her usual objective of figuring out what the hell Nammu is trying to say. "So Drake and Khione? Look to the cloud… Ah, gotcha. It’s an audio link.” She plays the following audio for the room.

Hello Luna ยท Path To The Non - Ferals

Cole looks back to Kade straightly? Luna’s single and ready to mingle.

"Alright, seems we got a mission from the Goddess Khione. We’re gonna unlock the old nonferal World.” She gets up, excitedly summons her Marked Broadsword and inventory, then disappears. Cole decides to stay back.

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Luna appears in the frigid cavern within Khione’s Realm, unsure what to do. She looks for anything that seems different and sees a new door open way down past where they stopped last time and enters it. Victoria, the newest Marked, joins Luna in this mission.

Luna walks into this new room where a painting of the Goddess Khione is visible alongside a mess of a cipher.

kS MJQORDL lQ??FAM GLLDO IS?RQMMZ RSGLK TSFO M.SOH KS KJD JDQ/DLM QLH ODIGKD KJD MDISLH QLH KJGOH PGLD YOS? KJD KJGOH /DOMDE

Luna recognizes it almost immediately. "Ah more Keyboard change cipher. Lemme just..." She inputs it into dcode and lets it do its work.

“To sharpen Nammu's inner compass, point your sword to the heavens and recite the second and third line from the third verse.” Afterwards, she loads up the third verse and writes down the target lines. With it written down, she does as was instructed.

"Ah there we go. So first I-" She unsheathes her Marked Broadsword and points it to the heavens. Then she recites: ‘And lift me on their crest to the stars. Open the Gates of the Night for me.’

Victoria, who hadn’t caught up yet, runs up to where Luna was. "Hey what did I miss?"

"Ah not much. I found this room, I pointed my sword to the heavens, recited two lines, and... there we go." She points over by the wall. "An entrance over there!"

"Shall we?" She begins to walk over there to the new room.

Victoria nods. "Let's go."

Luna walks into a new room called 83450630843064448 and notices a really pretty key and another code.

86045586462830626687072840465309687079673704458086096870546306307444807827302808430666602630843607732508430347780844730263052780546306308430732663083773

After inputting all of that into a T9 decoder, she gets: TO ILLUMINATE NAMMU'S PATH, HOLD YOUR SWORD'S HILT TO YOUR LINE OF SIGHT, STARE AT THE MOON, AND THEN SPEAK THE FIRST, THIRD, AND LAST LINE OF THE SECOND VERSE. The room itself is called VEIL OF THE NIGHT.

"Ah, I see. So let's see here. First I do this." She holds the sword's hilt to her line of sight. "Then I..." She stares at the Moon but feels a bit uncomfortable doing so. And now, with the lines in her short term memory, she recites:

"Ummu Tiamat, yours are the keys to to the kingdom of the Night. You swallow the light and cover the world with the Veil of the Night. Open the eyes of my soul so that I could see through Illusions."

Luna blinks and sees the path forward open. "Ah there we go. The moon may not be right, but at least I am." She chuckles and starts heading over.

Victoria laughs, looks at the pathway, then follows "Let's go!"

In the final room of Khione’s path to the nonferals, a sole painting of Khione could be found as well as one last cipher to solve. The room itself was named “fkxywaobgrwvixxjvvzwnthpegeykl” or “A PRESENCE TRANSCENDING WORLDS” and there was name for the painting, “DKGPWAMDNEHFFOKHRB” or translated to “An Inseparable Part” using the new Slidefair tongue.

"An inseparable part. Lemme see here." Luna looks to the future, which means use the painting with Futureboy’s steganographic decoder.

Victoria walks behind Luna and asks "Inseparable part?"

She turns around. "Ah, the painting there says 'An Inseparable part' in Slidefair tongue. And all of the worlds have cracked. The moon isn't right. Game start."

"Ahh I get what you mean now" Victoria says. "So what do we do now?"

"That I'm not entirely sure about. Seems me speaking that phrase to the moon activated Moon Isn't Right though." Luna’s honestly focused for once. No hyperventilation, no issues. Perhaps feeling as though she can save Nammu helped her out?

Victoria looks around the room for another code or hint, but there is only the picture.

"Got it. The key is Khione. To sever the restricting bonds holding Worlds apart, speak the first, third, and fourth line of Verse 5.”

"So we need to summon them with the sword?" Victoria asks

"First, third, and fourth line of Verse 5. It doesn't say anything like that. I'm just gonna follow the instructions as printed." Luna responds.

"Oh sorry."

"It's all good. So lemme just do that." Luna takes a deep breath, closes her eyes. and recites the lines she was told to.

"My soul is born of the Demiurge. An inseperable part of what is, was, and ever shall be. A soul more ancient than time, a presence transcending all Worlds."

She gets a notification from Nammu on Twitter which gets Luna to open her eyes. “Ah, Nammu tweeted. A video happening in 10 minutes. Moonlit Truths.”

Luna and Victoria take a seat next to each other as they watch the video together. After the video, Luna clenches her fists and looks unbelievably pissed. “Boogeyman, that fucking asshole.”

“But at least we have our deal for visitation rights.” Victoria says.

“Right, but we needed Drake too. Oh and uh hang on, what's this?” She notices a weird and uncomfortable tweet the pylon posted. “Oh great.” Luna groans. She starts to feel her focus slipping a bit and begins to breathe heavily. “That’s an issue. I’m gonna head back home and focus on not wanting to wreck Boogeyman’s face.”

“I will follow you.” Both Luna and Victoria disappear.