Isa Werner
your roommate, third year · suspect
She was on the pier, pushed Bram away and left. Denies nothing except what she didn’t do. Twice this year her name has been in a case — and twice you stand between her and the council.
Echo on the Water
The lake showed Isa pushing a man off the pier. Twenty witnesses. Four seconds. One night.
- 30–40 min
- Hard
- 8 locations
- 3 suspects
- 5 endings
- free, no sign-up
The premise
Echo on the Water
Isa Werner accused of assault
At sunset the surface of the Black Lake showed an echo: the boathouse pier, a man in a travelling cloak, and Isa Werner pushing him in the back. Twenty students and two magisters saw it. It lasted four seconds.
The man in the cloak is Bram Holt, a debt collector for the Lower Court. He lies in the Infirmary with a broken arm and says Isa pushed him into the lake over her family’s debt letter.
Isa is confined to your room until the disciplinary council. “I know you believe her,” says Dean Olv. “The council doesn’t care. The council needs someone to explain what the water showed. By six.”
Cast
Bram Holt
debt collector for the Lower Court · suspect
Came “for a signature,” lies there with a broken arm and tells his version to everyone who comes in. Drinks Lower Court liqueur and won’t admit it.
Lys Ravel
senior student · suspect
She has been forbidden to go near the lake. She goes anyway. Her salt circle pulls any memory by the water to the surface — not only the one she calls.
Magister Veda Orn
Department of Remembrance
Took over the department after Hale: dry, quick, with no tenderness for the lake. Can read an imprint in a bowl of water and never confuses perception with fact.
Ors Cade
boatman
Heard shouting, laughter and one blow with no splash. Didn’t go to look — and now thinks he should have.
Healer Od
Infirmary
Checks clothes with a green lamp and bones with her hands. She doesn’t care what twenty people saw; she cares what the cloth shows.
Dean Olv
head of the Collegium
Left space in the council record for a second name. “Don’t argue with the council. Argue with the water.”
How the investigation works
01Follow the trailCrossing the campus costs time. You can’t see everyone before dawn.
02Gather threadsSome questions only open up after other discoveries.
03Prove your theoryAt the end you need a culprit, a motive and evidence.
More cases from the Collegium
- Case 01The Night Before the RiteThe Threshold Codex has vanished from the Vault. You have one night and three names.
- Case 02The Girl Who Drowned TwiceA student is pulled from the Black Lake — a student who died there three years ago.
- Case 03The Wager in the Trial GardenThe best shield-caster of his year never came out of the maze. Everyone says “a duel.” The gate says otherwise.
- Case 04The Dean’s VoiceThe Dean ordered the Vault opened — at the very minute she was sitting in her study with a guest.
