Characters: Zak Trueblood (Rel Vobud) - Pat[0], Mena Timaly (Time Renald) - Denise[0], Lorraine Jace (Lori) - Marie[0], Jethro (Tom) - Dean[0], Kesh (Tes Larya) - Kim[0], Andre () - Gene[0],
The next morning, the party has decided that they will attack the Black Glove message service. They hope to obtain some evidence that Le Blank is involved in the Black Glove. While discussing this, Rel wakes and decares that he had another dream. In the dream, the Father's voice was saying "the school... help...the school... help..."
While at the store, the party meets Andre, a magic user and Graduate, who joins the party to help discover the person behind the School's destruction.
The party decides that they will travel south, attack the riders, then head east to the School. They head out of town and make the meeting point by around midnight. Shortly the rider's arrive. Using a sleep spell, the Andre puts the riders asleep and the party dispatches them. They have two scrolls which the party take and swords just like the one recovered from the assassins.
The party took the bodies and horses and traveled about an hour from the road before sleeping for the night. The next morning the party read the scrolls at the same time and received the following messages:
"Be on the lookout for my ring. --GB"
"Still no resistance. Nice work. --LJ"
Upon reading the scrolls, the words disappeared from the paper. After reading the scrolls, the characters continued to the school to see what had happened. That night, they are attacked by scorpions. The next day, they ran into a traveler camping on the path up the mountain to the school. He offered them coffee and they talked for a while. He tells them that he always camped on higher ground to avoid the scorpions that like to attack parties on the low-lying ground.
The party was suspicious of the man but continued on to the school. What they found was a disaster! The school was in ruins and was still smoking from the fires that had been set. The main gate was down and within the walls they could see much damage. One of the characters was hurt as they entered the gate (traps set by the leaving invaders). The party was then more cautious as they found many more traps in the main part of the temple. After searching throughout the temple and finding nothing of value, Zak noticed a faint image of the school's brand glowing on a wall at the end of a hall. Placing his arm against the glow (which no one else could see), a secret door opened. Just inside the door, they found two fingers! One was wearing a ring which looked like the <><> diagram.
This room has stairs leading up to two secret levels. There is a long hallway leading to more stairs. This staircase brings the players to the first secret level. On level +2 they find the Father's room. In the room they find a bed, books, scrolls, and other priestly things. The characters do not take anything from the room out of reverence for the Father. If they need something in the room, they can always return.
More stairs lead up to the top room in the temple. Here they find a room full of gadgets and books. Tes takes a small disk that shows different colors when turned different ways (CD-ROM). All the things in this room are from the old world and the characters have no understand of their functions.
The group heads back down stairs and checks out the complementary hall on the other side of the temple. Sure enough, there is another secret door. Here the stairs lead downward. The party descends the stairs to level -1. The party discovers a very strange level: A room full of religious and history books (i.e. library), a secret room with armor and weapons, and a maze with a teleport trap in it.
The characters spend some time reading, training, and gain a level while exploring the maze and a few secret rooms in the maze. Only after discovering the secret to the teleport trap (walk with faith: i.e. keep your eyes closed) can they pass to the stairs leading to the bottom level.
The bottom level contains a large room with the survivors of the attack. They are living in this room which has a garden (magical sunlight and rain), food and supply store, and dorms. The survivors are lead by Gerald McGrath, the highest ranking cleric in the order. There are about 50 people in the room.