Isa Werner
your roommate, third year · suspect
Sharp, honest to the point of discomfort, holding a Vault key she never returned. The one person in your year you trust without proof.
The Night Before the Rite
The Threshold Codex has vanished from the Vault. You have one night and three names.
- 20–30 min
- Introductory
- 10 locations
- 3 suspects
- 4 endings
- free, no sign-up
The premise
The Night Before the Rite
The Threshold Codex is stolen
The Codex has vanished from the Vault — the only book by which the Rite can be performed. Teo was found beside it with burned hands. He has not woken up.
The Dean has given you one night. By dawn — a name. Otherwise the Rite is cancelled for the whole year, and none of you will cross the Threshold. Isa included.
Cast
Kaspar Doll
year prefect · suspect
“Top of the year” — so he says, and almost everyone agrees. A perfectly tidy room, a perfect robe for the Rite, a perfect alibi.
Magister Ruk
third-year tutor · suspect
A brilliant teacher with debts, vials and a smile that is a little too soft. People whisper about his “apothecary,” but no one has complained yet.
Teo Lann
third year, the injured one
Found by the pedestal, hands burned, unconscious. What he was doing in the Vault at night, no one knows but him.
Dean Olv
head of the Collegium
Gives you one night and not a single piece of advice. Trusts facts, not people — and knows where that leads.
Healer Od
Infirmary
Has seen every burn in the Collegium for thirty years and can tell one from another. Says little, is wrong even less.
Pim the gardener
Trial Garden
Walks the campus at night with a lantern and notices more than a gardener should. Likes apple liqueur and dislikes people trampling his hedges.
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 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.
- Case 05Echo on the WaterThe lake showed Isa pushing a man off the pier. Twenty witnesses. Four seconds. One night.
