A thoughtful introduction to our cast of characters and magical school setting. An altercation in the Zuo House common room, a scathing gossip column, and an unexpected incident throws a wrench in the line-up for the day's intramural mage tower game.

Aerojaunt Field has been torn asunder as an unknown force causes a sinkhole that takes several of the mage tower players with it. Our crew works to free themselves from the pull, uncover the source of this calamity, and do what needs to be done to protect Strixhaven - even if that means self-sacrifice.

Our party dives into the gaping hole left in the center of Aerojaunt Field and finds themselves in a long-forgotten sewer system. The unanswered questions pile up as the players catch themselves in a stampede of costumed rats and at the threshold of a room with a mysterious red X painted on the door.

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Our crew decides to glimpse what lurks behind the door with the red X and finds themselves caught up in a maelstrom of memories, emotions, and apparitions. An unexpected hero, a surprise run-in with a peer, and face-to-face with the Pied Piper himself...

Stag wrestles with the message her great-grandfather is trying to convey through the corrupted spiritual guardian. Kleca attempts to thwart the party from impeding his plans, whatever those might be. The party regroups after narrowly escaping and then disperses to process the events of the evening in their own ways.

X returns to the sewers to tie things up, the party pushes through the next few weeks of school coping in their own ways, Jaisha and Baru come together to problem-solve the rings they intend to make, the party meets in the bog to solidify their plan, Cirro has a tense lunch with Aurora, and Stag finally works up the courage to call home.

Our graduate students are called to a campus-wide presentation about the Ascension Cycle, but this lecture had a lesson nobody was prepared for. Featuring SPECIAL GUEST Aabria Iyengar as Professor Salomé Sorva, our party wrestles with expectation, insecurity, and truth as their lies begin to fall down around them.

cw: fantasy violence, death of loved ones, trauma & grief, complex & complicated relationships, romance and flirting, references to sex, possession, and disreality.

Our graduate students regroup in the wake of Professor Sorva’s revelations. They make plans for the future in Barugash’s workshop before heading back to Zuo House for a night of fitful – and terrifying – dreams.