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A week had passed with no change. The anomalies were consistent, neither better nor worse than when they first manifested. No one was any closer to having answers.

Tonight, that might change.

At first, there wasn't any noticeable difference--a slight pull, like a nagging from the back of your mind. Slowly, it tugged harder, and then finally the presence swelled. If they weren't already, Knights would feel a strange pull, a call to power up. For the first time in a week, it didn't feel like a struggle.

But then, that was hardly a coincidence when the Code was intervening..

All Knights received a strange, astral letter. It manifested before them like a sparkling scroll. Illuminated by what might as well have been dust specs, the lettering on the page glowed.

It was more than an invitation, it was a summoning.


The request was succinct, in an elegant script. As soon as it was read, the letter glowed brightly. There was one chance to accept. If rejected, the letter disappeared. If accepted, the knight was transported to the Moon.

Housed as it always was, the Code glowed dimply atop a single pedestal. It lacked its usual brightness, but with each Knight that arrived, it shined a little brighter. It was almost as if their presence rejuvenated it. Or, maybe it was just that the magic it spent getting them there was returning to it.

The Code swirled in a steady, rotating mass of fine, glowing mist. It pulsed as if it had a heartbeat, though it was noticeably slower now than it had been in previous interactions.

The room itself shared similar architecture to the rest of the Moon Palace, though it was devoid of any decor. It was a safe haven, with no windows and only one door that led into the Hallway that would take them to the Celestial Theater. To returning Knights, nothing had changed. For Knights visiting for the first time, it might have seemed a little underwhelming compared to the rest of the Moon.

And yet, it served its purpose. There was room enough for them to gather here, and the Code was safe. Presumably.

It waited silently for the room to fill.

Hawara, Transcended knight of Uranus


It had been a week. A long week. Hawara was absolutely losing his s**t. Snippy, irrational, panicked, and just absolutely Feral, would have been a good word for how he was feeling. Drive-by punching Chaos could only do so much to sate the violent tantrum that not being able to go home boiled within in him.

Home in every way that counted, more home than the little RV that was his earth domicile, was his wonder. Every spare moment that wasn't dedicated to his husband, job, and park community was dedicated to it. Just when he had one area restored, more seemed to open up, showing that it was so much more than just the building he'd been mostly confined to. As sand that covered the surrounding ground receded old ground work and structures revealed themselves. He was excited to put in the work it needed of him. Taking care of it meant so much to him.... So being locked out... It was like a rejection that he just couldn't accept.

So he might have just gotten through punching-and-running from another poor Chaos victim of his temper when the letter from The Code reached him. He might have read it, but given the little time that passed upon receiving it and Hawara finding himself on the moon, it wasn't likely.

If he had read it though, he probably would have retorted with something like 'no s**t it' an emergency,' or something just as, if not more, crude.

Upon arriving Hawara might have thought that he would jump right in to demanding answers and general bitchery, however he surprised himself with his ability to remain thinly composed. There was obviously a fidgety-ness in the knight, and his jaw tightly set, lips thin as he fight to keep incoherent thoughts from escaping as equally incoherent words. He observed The Code with concern.

[Open for Interaction]

Hierapolis, Page of Cybele

Having a job like his, Domcallion didn't have much time for the powered shenanigans he had become pulled in to along side Steins. The magical 'adventures' were much more her thing while he, on the other hand, made his one a month trip to that thing called a 'Wonder,' which he explored with all the enthusiasm as he gave a new fantasy novel.

In his limited time, although he initially looked at it as a reluctant chore, the moment he'd power up and be on his way the child-like excitement to discover the significance of the place enveloped him. That said, when he found that on the night he was scheduled to go for his trip and discovered that he for some unknown reason couldn't, there was an odd feeling of something akin to disappointment in him. A feeling that made him realize just how much he really did maybe, kind of, sort of, enjoyed this part of what he now was.

Troubled though he was, he didn't talk to Steins about it, nor did he want to trouble Cybele with something he assumed may have been his own error. It wasn't like he really knew any one else to ask, despite everyone he'd seen at the games Cybele had not that long ago. Maybe he really should have been better about socializing like Steins had hoped he would do....

Maybe it was time he rally did get in to this more.... If he could.

It was with that mindset that he had powered up to begin with. That and, another more external pull he felt to do so. It was easier this time than it had been - something he was just remarking to himself when the letter appeared.

Hierapolis read it, a myriad of questions in his mind, none of which questioning whether or not he would attend - he already knew he would, which seemed to be all that was needed to then transport him.

It was jarring - he wasn't used to such things yet - and he had never actually been to the moon, or set foot before The Code there. He hadn't yet even found the piece of it that was somewhere on his wonder yet. However when he was the glowing ball of mist he knew that is what it was. Intuitively knowing things was something the excessively tall page was getting used to.

He had a million questions, not all of them in word form in his mind, nor that he was even conscious to having, but he hoped for answers none the less.

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Havasu Falls, Knight of Pluto

When the letter came it took a moment for the message to registered in his mind but once it did he grabbed the thing. Finally! Finally he was getting off his wonder! Meditating was the only thing keeping him from going stir crazy and even that was starting to get on his nerves. No one to talk to, nothing to really do, and knowing that work was piling up on your desk at home... it was hard to keep a calm demeaner. But he was finally getting out of there!

It took a moment before he found himself in a completely different place. "Oh thank god!" He breathed a sigh of relief and stood up to stretch. After working out the kinks he turned his eyes to the crowd slowly gathering, trying to spot anyone he knew and would have sent a message to... he was looking for a few people in particular but hadn't spotted them yet.

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Pendour, Knight of Neptune
Every night for the last week, Pendour had tried to connect with her Wonder. She'd gone out to the park and sat cross legged on a bench, staring up at the sky, or closing her eyes and seeing if she could feel the presence of her own starseed. These sessions were something between a meditation and a prayer. Each night she'd sat for at least an hour, although the last two times she'd found herself sitting there until the early hours of the morning.

Her sleep had not been the best.

The more she tried to connect with her Wonder, the more she thought about it. The more she thought about it, the more she missed it. She missed the waterfalls, the plants, the pillows. She wanted the feeling of peace that washed over her skin the moment that she arrived on its shores.

Time after time, it turned her away.

She lived in a house full of knights. She knew that she was not the only one having problems, but it got to her, all the same. She felt the numbness creeping into her head again. She felt an irritability creeping in, too, so when she wasn't powered up, she curled up in her room and tried not to talk to anyone.

The letter was what broke the cycle.

It didn't make her feel better, but at least if offered potential answers, so of course she answered the summons.

When she arrived, she wasn't her usual serene self. With her arms crossed and a lock of hair brushed over her bad eye, she waited to see what the Code had to say about all this.

Shangri-la, Knight of Pluto

It wasn't terribly wise, but he'd been out every night and since he had so had his sister. He had to stop trying to get to his wonder, as the lockout left him panicky and stressed. The same when for summoning his weapon, as he was extremely disheartened to watch it melt or crumble more often than not. He was a mess, if he was honest. He never imagined he'd be so distraught but being a knight as at this point in life as natural as anything and deeply apart of him.

He felt the nudge, the pull, though it took a bit to figure out that what it was. He powered up and it felt better than it had felt, easier which was a breath of fresh air. The letter that appeared before him, was honestly very welcome at this point.

He grabbed hold of it accepting the request and allowed the letter to take him away appearing on with others before the code and feeling a small sense of relief though he still didn't know exactly what was going on.

He looked around seeking out his family, hoping at least of few of them had accepted the invitation.

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Tortuga, Squire of Jupiter

He had been out patrolling. Not so much looking for youma or negas to scrap with but for knights that had gotten themselves into corners that their magic wasn't there to get them out of. Tortuga might have only been a squire, he might not have had access to his magic, and he might not have been the best fan of fighting but since he rarely used his magic he pretty much relied on his skills of a brawler. What skills he had. He also had a trump card in the little magical ring he had been granted several years before. Who would have guessed it would come in handy now!

So when the letter came he didn't really hesitate, he quickly took it and let the magic whisk him away to where ever the damned thing would take him.

Purple eyes scanned the growing crowd, noting the code swirling smugly... "Damn, Shang was right on the money." Looked like this whole mess had something to do with the thing, just as Shang had speculated.

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Sigiriya, Page of Ida

He had been out with Dessie when a strange internal urge had him coming to a stop. A rather quick discussion followed where Dessie speculated what was going on and urged the young man to power up. She kept watch when he did so, and when the letter showed up informed the page that she would head over to her father's house with Sarah. It was one of the safer spots she could be.

At her urging he took the thing and before he could do much else Sig was whisked away to where ever this was. Eyes wide he tried to understand what was going on. Brows rising with each new figure he saw. He knew he wasn't alone in being a knight in the city but he hadn't actually realized just how many there were. "Wow," He muttered, awe struck.

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Mechelen, Squire of Lysithea

Mechelen was so happy that she was with Amere for all of these strange goings on. She was worried about her friend, worried that she was still in the mindset that this was somehow her fault…she thought that the big group outing to the Moon had helped, but she still worried. Almere seemed so frail sometimes. So young…and she didn’t want the girl to worry.

Looking around, she nodded at her friend. “I’m pretty sure it is, yeah…and I guess that is the Code…I’m not sure what I was expecting but…”

This was like a shiny rock…not that there was anything wrong with shiny rocks but…she had expected…

More?

She wasn’t really sure, but it didn’t seem right to like…insult it.

“It looks like it’s getting brighter the more Knights come in…that’s kind of cool.”