It was Thomas Mack.

I was convinced this entire time that it was Phyrran Caltin. He had been opposed to me since last spring, and had largely disappeared while I was facing off Headmaster Cross during the University Affairs trial. I was working with Dungeonmaster Landon on trying to unfreeze the Arturian Realm. It had been quite the struggle. I concluded near the end that the act was intentional because of how deeply rooted the script was. And I was still nowhere closer to figuring out how to reverse-engineer the thing, because the seed script was well-hidden.

The final week of June delivered two impactful revelations to me. The first was when my avatar was unexpectedly joined by Brobart. So Phyrran Caltin had actually come to my aid. At that point, I was speculating to myself whether or not Caltin had done this and then came to my aid in order to fabricate a situation to boost his own standing. My crux was the reason he would do that. He had no reason from what I knew.

Speculation for this also led me to question whether or not Caltin was the one having turned us into the Cross Administration regarding that informal fundraiser meeting last spring. I met with Caltin one night before the end of June at the Slack, where he discussed with me his reason for withdrawal. Again, it was coursework, but he emphasized how much he actually enjoyed taking part in the Society. So now at this point, I have my doubts. Furthermore, he did not mention anything suspicious, and was seemingly on friendly terms with me again; so I dared not ask.

I had been debating with myself on whether or not I should raise this concern with Dungeonmaster Landon to possibly investigate, when I received an invitation from Thomas Mack to dinner at the Standler in Ebony Town. I remembered him from earlier this year; he was the one who sang and pranced around the Slack at the University and drew unwanted attention, yet landing our Society a deal to secure much-needed funding to build a larger Caucus Chamber. This invitation, I was sure, was a call for a return favor.

So I dressed accordingly and appeared at the Atrium Restaurant on the first floor of the Standler. It was just me and him meeting up, as I discovered. And when we were seated at our table, the very first words out of his mouth were: "It was me."

"What'd you mean?" I said, my mind still on the fundraising deal.

"The freeze," he said. "The Big Arturian Freeze."

Now I understood. "How'd you do it?"

"When I remade my avatar this spring...and no need to worry who it was; for I've unmade him now...I decided to plant a Frost Spell in your rival ship, which you sprung obviously. It was actually meant to only freeze you, but I made a mistake. There was a very simple stanza in the script I meant to temporarily cancel out. Only..." He put his face in his palm. "...How forgetful I was. I forgot to put it back in. It was supposed to stop an infinite chain reaction."

"Tom," I said. "When I said 'how'd you do it?,' I meant 'could you show me the script you used so that we can reverse this?'"

He agreed to this. After we finished our dinner, he went to his hotel room upstairs and fetched a spellbook. After looking, I realized that a simple reversal spell on the seed clause was all that was needed. Reluctantly, he accepted my invitation to come back with him to Zachary Landon's Office and work on a resolution.

That meeting was on June 22. By the end of June 23, the Arturian Realm had returned to normal. Albeit there were some advantages lost for some of the Arturian entities when the Sea returned, much to their disappointment. But nonetheless, morale overall for the Society began to improve in short time.

Also that week, Landon, having previously announced earlier this year that he would step down for next year, publicly recommended to the Caucus to vote for me as the next Dungeonmaster, crediting what he saw was cunning strategy in reversing the Big Freeze of the Arturian Realm as well as my bold stand against Martin Cross. I had answered to a call earlier from numerous Members earlier this year, but I had been reluctant to follow through. However, I began to realize that if I did not rise to this, the Society was in danger of lacking bold leadership, especially in whether the change as we, successfully by the way, renovated the shaft chamber below the University Council Building and turned that shaft chamber into our new Caucus Chamber.

So I made my campaign over the Ticketer. And last week, the Caucus confirmed through the vote that they wanted me to fulfill Zachary Landon's role. So that I will do.

I will admit, status quo of the Society has quite improved since earlier this year.

***END OF STORY THREE***