[@Midir: I'll move on a bit - just reply when you can<img alt=":D" src="./images/smilies/icon_mrgreen.gif" title="Very Happy"/>]<br/><br/>At Euanthane's correction, the Seneschal appears quite embarassed. "Oh ... My apologies, lady Euanthane. I must have received some ... erroneous informations." He stands up, his hands extended over the table.<br/>"Well, let's talk about business. Allow me to explain things from the beginning.<br/>"Five days ago, a rather young sorceress came to Faminburg with her six students. Her name was ... uhm... Jaenyn of Thorns, if my memory doesn't fail me. They stayed for one day, without causing any particular trouble - excepting their quite bizarre behaviour and clothing. The second day she demanded a hearing, just to ask the authorisation to use the ruined underground cathedral near our city to perform some 'harmlessy magic experiments' with her students - she said that performing them in open sight might have disturbed the citizens or cause other turmoils, and so on. She also presented me a paper ... an official certificate from the Royal Arcane Academy<span style="font-weight: bold">[Knowledge check with Diff 0 to read Spoiler (Diff 0 = you have to roll 4 or higher with 1d8+your skill value)]</span>, so I gave my permission. They left for the chatedral in less than two hours, and since then nobody has seen them anymore. One of our citizens, a girl said to have some magic powers, followed them, and she's gone too."<br/>He inspires deeply.<br/>"There's more, of course. Since then, three more people disappeared, and we found stains or ... trails ... of green slime around the city. I always considered myself quite an intuitive man, so I sent two guards at the entrance of the chatedral; but they disappeared too. And, of course, some people is blabbering about monsters seen in the night and stuff like that. Now, before being forced to deploy half the city guard for some threat of which existence I'm not even sure, it would be very useful for me to have someone ... someone with very peculiar skills and lots of courage and spirit of initiative .... to check the chatedral, discover what's going on there and, if possible, stop it.<br/>"If you serve me well, you'll earn my trust, an official Seal of Trust if you need it, and 100 écu each. I doubt you'll find any survivors in there, but if you do, rescue them; and clear the place from every threat for my city.<br/>"Do you accept this task, and have you any question?"<br/><br/><span style="font-weight: bold">Spoiler - The Royal Arcane Academy (Knowledge Diff 0)</span><br/><div style="padding: 3px; background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 1px solid #d8d8d8; font-size: 1em;"><div style="text-transform: uppercase; border-bottom: 1px solid #CCCCCC; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 0.8em; font-weight: bold; display: block;"><span onclick="if (this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display != '') {  this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = ''; this.innerHTML = '&lt;b&gt;Spoiler: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=\'#\' onClick=\'return false;\'&gt;hide&lt;/a&gt;'; } else { this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = 'none'; this.innerHTML = '&lt;b&gt;Spoiler: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=\'#\' onClick=\'return false;\'&gt;show&lt;/a&gt;'; }"><b>Spoiler: </b><a href="#" onclick="return false;">show</a></span></div><div class="quotecontent"><div style="display: none;">The Royal Arcane Academy is the only school of arcane magic in the Blue Kingdom and, as far as you know, in the whole world, excepting maybe for some very small, local and unofficial societies). It's housed in the Mirean Castle, in a beautiful region of green gentle hills, crystal clear ponds and lakes, and fairytale woods; the Mirean region is north the Kingdom capital, Belgadria. The Academy has no more than two hundred students and about forty teachers and Masters; most of the students will never go beyond the most basic spells. Teacher and Masters are granted with signed papers with the Mirean sygil and the royal seal, granting them trust and some authority - at least concerning arcane business - all over the kingdom, and are much esteemed even outside its borders.</div></div></div>