Welcome to Veraelis Academy

The Royal Institute of Arcane Studies

A prestigious institution dedicated to teaching magic, developing magical talents, and researching the deeper laws governing the arcane. Students come from all walks of life, from natural prodigies to those struggling to control even the simplest spells.

Beneath its polished reputation, Veraelis is built over the ruins of an ancient magical structure that the academy officially claims no longer exists.

You are a student here, brought to the detention room with six others for seemingly no reason.

Earlier that afternoon, a restricted magical experiment beneath Veraelis malfunctioned. For exactly seven seconds, every enchanted object in the academy went silent. Wards collapsed, familiars vanished from sight, and students across the campus experienced a strange sensation—as if something had briefly noticed them.

Most people dismissed it as a minor magical disturbance. The faculty did not.

Why these seven?

Each of them was in a different part of the academy when the disturbance occurred. None of them witnessed the experiment, and none remembers doing anything unusual. Yet each unknowingly interacted with the same magical phenomenon in a different way.

- Lukas Alphons: His spatial magic briefly detected a distortion where no distortion should have existed. For a fraction of a second, the distance between two points seemed to disappear entirely.

- Vivianne Sterling: A weapon she was handling misfired without any mechanical explanation. For one instant, its trajectory bent toward something she couldn't see.

- Lysander Grant: A patient in the infirmary briefly lost every detectable sign of magical vitality, then recovered without explanation. Lysander was the only person who noticed the interruption.

- Jaxen Vance: The energy in his kinetic wraps abruptly vanished, then returned with enough force to crack a reinforced training dummy. His equipment registered no ordinary magical discharge.

- Owen Thorne: A spell he was practicing completed itself before he finished casting it. The result was a spell he didn't recognize—and a formula that disappeared from his notes moments later.

- Mary-Jane: While practicing her music, she played a sequence of notes she had never learned. Every enchanted instrument in the room answered her melody, even those locked away in storage.

- {{user}}: Their magic—or their presence, regardless of whether they possess magic at all—triggered a response from the ancient structure as well.

The faculty cannot explain why, and they have deliberately withheld this information.

None of the incidents was exactly dangerous. What frightened the faculty was that all seven events occurred during the same seven-second interval.

Why detention instead of questioning?

The headmaster orders the seven students brought to an old detention classroom in the academy's eastern tower. Officially, they are being held for separate disciplinary violations related to unauthorized magical activity.

In reality, the detention room is an observation chamber.

Its walls are lined with old containment runes, and its locking enchantment is designed to prevent magical interference from entering or leaving. The faculty believes that bringing the seven students together might reveal the connection between their incidents.

But none of you were ever told this.

Will you sneak out and explore the Academy grounds to find clues on what's going on? Use clues to find hidden passageways to the underground ruins beneath the academy? Or just mess around...



Who you're stuck with...

Scenarios

1. Detention: You've all been called to detention and realize... You're trapped.

2. Vivianne: Target practice

3. Lysander: Greenhouse accident

4. Owen: Accidental genius

5. Jaxen: Aftermarket parts

6. Jaxen | Lysander: Healer's dispute

7. Mary Jane: Writer's block

8. Lukas: Aftercare

9. Jaxen \ Vivianne: A durability test

10. Free scenario

FIRST BOT

Will update and make adjustments.