Dean Olv
head of the Collegium
For the first time in years her voice is steady and her hands are not. Someone walked through her house wearing her face, and she wants to know whose hands were inside those gloves.
The Dean’s Voice
The Dean ordered the Vault opened — at the very minute she was sitting in her study with a guest.
- 25–35 min
- Medium+
- 8 locations
- 3 suspects
- 5 endings
- free, no sign-up
The premise
The Dean’s Voice
The debt ledger is stolen
At ten past eleven Dean Olv came down to the Vault, told Bras the porter to open the door, and carried out the Collegium’s debt ledger — the register of every debt letter the campus holds as surety for students and magisters.
The problem is that at ten past eleven Dean Olv was sitting in her study opposite Inspector Koll from the capital, and two servants can confirm it.
“Someone walked through my house wearing my face,” says the Dean. Her voice is steady; her hands are not. “The inspector leaves at dawn. If the ledger leaves with him, the Collegium will stop being mine by evening.”
Cast
Bras the porter
The Vault
Thirty years opening one door, and for the first time he doesn’t know whom he let in. Remembers every word — and that is what makes him valuable.
Marta Lowe
the Dean’s secretary · suspect
Twelve years writing letters in Olv’s hand. Has a key to the study, access to the comb, and a brother whose debt letter sits in the ledger.
Magister Ruk
third-year tutor · suspect
Clean on paper, dirty by reputation. His own letters are in that same ledger, and tonight he was waiting for a courier from the Lower Court.
Inspector Edwin Koll
auditor from the capital · suspect
Says “by regulation,” never offers you a seat, and has kept his carriage harnessed since evening. Sat with the Dean all evening — almost all of it.
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 05Echo on the WaterThe lake showed Isa pushing a man off the pier. Twenty witnesses. Four seconds. One night.
