Welcome to Gaia! ::

This room is one of the four small square rooms on the map. Once you are all inside, the door closes behind you. The door seems to be sealed by some sort of Chaos and the room is covered in a dark fog.

This is the same fog that obscured the twelve paths in the Wilds and the path to the Observatory!

There is no going back. At least, not the way you came. You will need to find a new way out.

There is a sphere in the center of the room that looks like an orb with stars, constellations and astronomical phenomena. In fact, it looks a lot like the orb that is Urania’s personal item. But if you have been to Urania previously, you recognize it and know that, once activated, it can clear the fog.

It projects a voice that all in the room can hear:

“Please enter the password for activation. Hint mode is active.”

Then it adds:

“I am a glowing eye that blinks all month.”

Mechelen Squire of Lysithea

Mechelen followed Halle through the door and held tight to Almere's hand, just to be safe. "Another riddle...I don't think it's anything to do with like...womanly things...but...maybe the moon? I mean, it could kind of be like an eye blinking if you think of it that way? Like, closed eye on the new moon and open on the full, and the rest of it are just..."

She waved her hands and shrugged. "I think that's an okay guess, honestly! Maybe even a good guess, I know I was surprised with some of the answers before..."

Mechelen Squire of Lysithea

Looking over at the other Lysithea page who had followed them, Mechelen brightened and waved. "Ngome, right? You and I met this past fall in the leaves! I'm so glad to see you, I'm sorry that I didn't say hello before!"

Chewing on her lip, Mechelen sighed. "I'm going to give a guess, I think. I really, really think that we're on to something with the moon...and like, from what I've seen, Urania is super...space-y? So..."

She hesitated a moment and looked between the other three, worried that she might just...be very wrong.

Page Almere

"You can say the moon," Almere told Mechelen. "When I was up here before trying to help with stuff, the riddles weren't really trick questions. You just had to think outside the box."

She didn't know why her cousin had to be bringing up periods. She understood that it was a monthly thing but now she was blushing in the middle of her very important mission. Nobody was supposed to think about that! Especially not boys!

She took a half step behind Mechelen and said, "And then I had to give the world some cookies. Which, I do have more cookies, just in case."

Belmont, Squire of Jupiter

There were a few others here that looked familiar, but Belmont couldn’t name them. As he stood by Connie and Perdita and pondered, he kept his chin cupped in his hand. The fog around them was unnerving and unpleasant, but aside from that it didn’t seem harmful. He wondered if there were riddles and puzzles on Belmont, and if so if they would be as kind to him as Urania's world was to its guests.

He hadn't seen anything with such technology at his Wonder, but he was just happy that his Wonder wasn't crumbling around him as often as it had been when he'd first arrived.

Now definitely wasn't the time to want to investigate Urania. Chaos wasn't something to play around with, and though he hadn't spoken to Sessrumnir this trip, he'd always taken his words to heart. He wasn't going to screw around and put anyone in danger, and for as curious as he was, the time for questions could always be later--after this problem was handled.

Of course, he'd had his fair share of distractions already. On the way over, he'd made sure Connie knew how impressed he was with her paper making skills, and he'd badgered her a bit to show him some of her art sometime, but there was no point in carrying on in a solemn manner. Chaos could do enough to any doubt or worry, best to be in a good mood and try to have some defense against it.

"Well, that settles it, doesn't in?" Moon had seemed like the right choice at the get-go, and though he hadn't yet spoken up before now he'd been mulling over any possible alternatives. None had come to mind, and why keep pushing when sometimes the easiest answer was the right one? Especially with the second clue--wolves were always chasing the moon, weren't they?

Maybe on Urania as on Earth. If there were any other answers he might have tested, they were forgotten.

The younger group they shared the room with had come up with the same solution he had, and with no one offering any alternative suggestions, it was easy to settle on that one.

"I'm going to go with the moon, too." He didn't have other worlds to compare to, but it made sense on Earth.

"I can't say I've ever been really passionate about riddles, so if it's something more complex, I'm afraid to report that I've got nothing." Math problems? Sure, he loved those. Theoretical wordly riddles on another world, with a history and sky he didn't know?

...No. He really wished he'd asked Urania for a bit more information before they set off down here, but he was glad to have Connie and Perdita there with him. Foresight might have saved them a lot of problems, but at least they all seemed to be on the same page. For better or worse. It was only a shame that they didn't have any professional riddlers amidst their numbers. Or some cosmic trivia expert waiting to bestow greater knowledge on them.

Guine

Connie

Sunshine Alouette

Perdita

Meighei

Belmont is answering 'Moon'

Squire Halle of Lysithea

Listening to the others consider the riddle and come to much the same conclusion, Halle found himself nodding along, becoming more confident that they were on the right track. To be honest, if there were more space-themed riddles, he was really going to regret not dragging Lisse up along with him.

"I guess we should go by Occam's Razor then! The answer is moon."

It was still weird to see adults as...well, peers. But the time spent on Hy-brasil and Cybele had helped ease up some of the discomfort and suspicion that came with the situation. So instead of distancing himself and his friends from those gathered, after a moment, Halle raised his voice and addressed everyone in the room, "When it opens, I'm not sure what'll happen. I'm Halle," he gave a little wave, "squire of Lysithea and all my magic involves Shields." He summoned up his weapon, a small wooden shield, baring a cheerful looking unicorn head. "Would you guys mind sharing what your abilities are?"

They couldn't exactly plan a full strategy, but it'd be good to know if things took a fighting turn.

Elliott

The first place the map that Urania had so quickly sketched out -- to be honest, he would like to talk to her about her artistic talents after this was hopefully over and her world was back to being the flourishing place it should have been -- was a set of rooms that were covered with a dark fog. In the center of the room, he saw something that looked very familiar now, especially considering what he had helped the now Eternal Sailor Urania with. An orb that looked like a celestial globe, waiting to ask them the answers to riddles.

Alright. He was not the most skilled at Earth riddles, but this was a place in space. It did not presume him to have knowledge he was not entirely sure he held. To be fair, though, if it was somehow a riddle about a soap opera, he was fairly sure he would have the capacity to solve that one.

It did not ask him a riddle about soap operas. Alas.

The riddle sounded like it was almost assuredly space-related, which made sense considering what Urania was. There appeared to be two groups of people in the room, puzzling through what the solution was. There were a surprising amount of younger knights there. Were they all from Lysithea? That was an idle fascination for him. Perhaps he would need to figure out if Lysithean knights were all as young as they were.

That was unimportant, though, beyond the words they were saying. Elliott attempted to tilt his head to the side to see if he could pick up better what they were murmuring about. Moon? That would make sense. He imagined it did not have to do with the assigned female at birth menstrual cycle. One of them pointed out that the riddles on this planet were not trick questions, which backed up the concept that they were pointing to the moon.

The other, smaller group of knights and senshi seemed to have a similar inclination. Except for the one that was naming the concept of lighthouses, they also named the moon. It seemed like a no thought situation, in this case, then. If it wasn't a trick, he should follow what the overall tendency had been. What was it one of the Lysithean knights had called it? Occam's Razor? He was not sure what terminology that was, but it seemed to follow the general idea.

For Elliott, what solidified his guess of the moon was the second hint. There was a lot of art that depicted wolves howling at the moon. It would make sense that a moon-based riddle would be discussing wolves as part of its resolution. The moon was their guide. The moon was also what generated werewolves in fiction, was it not? It had to be the moon.

So that was why he finally padded over to the orb and offered, easily, "I think I agree with the general opinion that the answer id moon."

Mechelen Squire of Lysithea

Mechelen looked at the quickly filling room and felt…relieved. If this turned into some kind of a fight, at the very least, there was a lot of them here…and if nobody was super strong…at least together they could be kind of tough. Sort of tough? Tough enough, hopefully.

“I’m submitting my answer as moon too! And I’m Mechelen, Squire of Lysithea! It’s nice to meet all of you, and I hope that this…stays as…” She wrinkled her nose, trying to find the right words and not sound…rude but.

“Simple as this? If it’s all just riddles, I’m glad we have all of us to help! If it gets to be a fight, my magic is really good at uh…keeping people occupied for a little bit? But they aren’t able to be hit when they’re under my magic so…there’s that! It’s very nice to meet you Perdita! Your outfit is very pretty!”

She didn’t know that many Senshi, and was kind of excited to be able to meet one, and the two other Squires here…she had no idea what they were, but looked at Connie and grinned. “You’re so vibrant! I love it! I’ve never seen that symbol before either! And you!” She hesitated, for the first thing she wanted to say was that he was a big strong man but…

Mechelen couldn’t just say that in front of Halle! That would be so rude!

…Even if it was the truth.