Attendants!

The students attended the ceremony in the Tireless Hall, the principle site of the masking ceremony. Everyone was there, both students and teachers! We were told we could choose to wear our mask proudly or keep it hidden, only showing it to trusted companions. We would shape our masks, then don them as one once complete. Our group was the last to perform the ceremony, starting after some 3 hours had passed with other groups. Everyone was able to craft the masks they envisioned in their minds. Some of the masks even changed shape subtly to match what the students envisioned. As we donned our masks we were all surprised when the walls collapsed inwards, revealing giant bugs moving to attack. While the teachers moved to help other students we took on ours alone. It was a very tense fight, but we managed to defeat them in the end. Teacher Ulawa defeated her bugs, along with the students she was assisting, then turned to studying them giving us no help. Teacher Ayuwari fought a group on his own, then came to cheer us, again offering no real help. Eventually Teacher Ot finished with his group, then came to assist us, but just as the fight was ending. Imryll called out the Teachers who had stood by while we fought, possibly for our lives. Teacher Ot chastised them as well. Eventually Teacher Ayuwari jumped into the tunnel the beetles had come from. Teacher Ulawa said she was certain these types of bugs would never work together like this. We then went back to our Dormitory to heal up and recover.
A few months passed, with us training some more. We recalled some more information regarding Uduak Basni, the student who had gotten into trouble at the Magaambya & ended up turning himself to stone to escape punishment. We investigated his rooms and found that his statue was missing. In the meantime the Teachers had found a series of tunnels had been found beneath the Magaambya. They had begun assigning students to search these tunnels, with Teacher Koride Ulawa handing out the easier assignments to her favored students. Teacher Ot had an assignment for us. Teacher Ulawa was not impressed that we had been chosen for this important task. We headed in to investigate. Passing through the library we quickly found the way below. As we read the last parties notes on the tables here we became aware of a growing drone. Several of the group recognized the sound as Mining Bees.