Set at
The Acropolis Consortium of Magi, the party’s goal is to sneak into the office of Dr. Professor Profenroptorten to steal the answers for her impossibly difficult final exam. Since Dr. Profenroptorten knows that some of her students may attempt to cheat in this way, every semester she sets up traps and places her familiar in her office to keep watch and guard the answer sheet. Because no wizard is capable of getting into the office, three daring students have come up with the idea of sending their familiars to sneak in while they themselves sit in the library and pretend to study.
The party also has to be careful of specialized scrying mirrors that are set up in common areas of the school. These mirrors record what happens around them for up to 12 hours and anyone with enough clearance may cast a spell to review what was seen. (These mirrors were developed after somebody stole books on high level necromancy and liches in 41AL. These mirrors are not in more private spaces such as offices or classrooms).
The Party
- Snuggles O'Hare (he/him) - almiraj familiar of the human wizard Caroline (she/her)
- Obsidian (Obi) (they/he) - raven familiar of the earth genasi Basalt (he/him)
- Snek (he/him) - snake familiar of unnamed wizard npc
Summary
The party of familiars is summoned in the library the night before the test. The wizards pretend they are simply sending their familiars out to grab something simple for them. As familiars are constantly coming and going, this will not be suspicious and they can easily and freely walk until they reach an area where there are no mirrors watching them.
As the party nears the office, they spy the first trap: a room with lasers keeping them from walking through and a mysterious white fog above the lasers. Obsidian wants to fly through the fog but is stopped by Snuggles. Snuggles volunteers to try and jump through the lasers, and he very quickly gets to the other side and turns them off.
As they approach the door, it begins to speak to them and tells them they must answer a riddle to get through. The party answers the riddle and goes through to find a hallway that looks normal except for a glowing floor. Obsidian flies above the obvious trap and gets to the next door.
This door is much less enthusiastic about his job than the first one and so he gives Obsidian an extremely easy riddle to answer. Once the door is opened the floor stops glowing so Snek and Snuggles are safe to walk along the floor, and the party walks together into Dr. Professor Profenroptorten’s office. They see on the desk that has the test answers they came for is the professors familiar, a Korvaxen (two-headed fey raven) named Lapis (right head) and Bob (left). As the party sneaks toward the desk, they end up waking the Professor’s familiar, and Bob begins screaming an alarm as the door slams shut behind them.
Snuggles, already at the desk when the professor’s familiar wakes up, successfully steals the test answers and replaces them with a magical paper that instantly copied the answers.
The party scrambles to try and exit before the Professor can arrive and find them. Obsidian goes to the door to find it is locked and can now only be opened by the professor since the alarm has gone off. They then see that above the door there is a vent big enough for them to fit through. The party scrambles inside and begins to make their escape.
As the party is running through the vent, the professor hears them above her and begins to follow them. When they reach the vents above the room with the lasers they find that the same fog that was at the top of the room is also in the vents, and as they move through it Snuggles is briefly stunned and needs to be carried for a moment by Snek and Obsidian.
After exiting the vent, they smartly drop balls behind them, which the professor promptly slips on. This gives the party the time they need to get back to the library.
As they get to the library, the party’s victory is cut short as the test answers begin to glow with a blue light and it is assumed that the professor is able to magically track it. The familiars begin to get ready to distract the professor when she comes in as Caroline grabs a pen that quickly copies the answers onto a blank piece of paper. She then throws the answer sheet away from them and one of the familiars plants the sheet on a classmate (Jeremy, no familiar).
As the professor enters the library, Snuggles distracts her by shooting her with his crossbow. Dr. Professor Profenroptorten demands an explanation of what is happening, and when she is not convinced announces that she will simply review the scrying mirrors while everyone stays in the library.
After reviewing the footage, Dr. Professor Profenroptorten is able to see that Caroline had the answer sheet before it was planted on Jeremy. She then announces that Caroline and Jeremy will have to take a special test with different answers instead of failing them. With the copy of the answer sheet that Caroline made, Basalt and Snek’s wizard will both be able to easily pass the test.
Caroline studies hard and still manages to get an 89% on the test. After the test, Snuggles decided to snitch on the other two wizards who were in on the plan to steal the answers. Snek is angered by this and tries to fight Snuggles, but the professor shows up and quickly breaks it up before things can get serious. Dr. Professor Profenroptorten tells Snuggles that young Caroline got the highest grades on the test, and she offers to either personally tutor her or write a glowing letter of recommendation in whatever field she might decide to pursue in the future. Snuggles states that Caroline will likely join the order of scribes, and as she was only 13 years old at the time when she passed what is decidedly the hardest class in the entire school, her future accomplishments will certainly be many. After automatically failing the class when it is revealed that they cheated, Obsidian and Basalt, as well as Snek and his wizard, decide to simply travel the land and possibly go on some adventures.
NPCs
Dr. Professor Profenroptorten
A powerful enchantment wizard and teacher of the advanced mathematics of enchantment and illusion magic class
Dr. Professor Profenroptorten is a 3’5” gnome. She always wears blue robes with stars on them and a blue wizard looking hat that is two feet tall with a brim that has a one foot radius. She always carries with her a four foot tall staff with a crystal ball on top and her two-headed raven familiar by the name of Lapis (left head) and Bob (right head) can usually be found perched on the top of her hat or on the crystal ball atop her staff.
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