I've been thinking back to when I first met Carol during my first year at Cabotton. Believe it or not, I actually knew who Carol Owen was before I met Rachele. In fact, Carol is one year older than me while Rachele is one year younger.

During her freshman year, so the year before I arrived, Carol tried to challenge Sarah Marks in the same fashion that she is doing with Rachele now. At first, I thought it was just a rumor, but when I met her in person, she started sharing with me her grandiose vision of the Third Level Society. Apparently, she had it in her head that the succession of Dungeonmasters, Administrators, and Prefects had it in their heads to preach "balance of dynamics" all in the name of some ulterior motive or another. Carol had been fantasizing that she was going to arrive and bring about a "reform" in order expel those who were "not being genuine" out of the Society.

She had initially been friends with Sarah Marks, acting as her supporter against Peter Crane and Kara Martins. She had proposed her agenda to Sarah Marks to have an undercover force of Prefects weed out and ban those who "had the potential" to be like Peter and Kara. At one point, she approached Sarah, Dyla, and Richard, who were serving as three temporary co-Dungeonmasters at the time, to try and create an administrative role for which Carol could carry out her agenda.

First time she did it, they did not respond; nor did they respond when she approached them a second time. After that second time, Carol told a friend of hers, who Carol would not name to me, that Sarah was turning against her. The friend said that perhaps Sarah was busy but Carol refused to believe that when she was telling me the story. Carol then approached Sarah while she was in the Dungeonmaster's Office and asked her to convince Dyla and Richard on her agenda. It was then and there that Sarah told Carol that she had been extremely busy, and also that Carol's idea was an overreach, both logistically and ethically.

It was at this point that Carol began turning against Sarah.

While Sarah, that year, was running for the Dungeonmaster position, Carol established her own Dungeonmaster campaign platform. Carol had told me that at that point, she had near-unanimous support from the Society Membership altogether. But according to others, she actually had only roughly four or five supporters. Obviously, Sarah Marks won the Dungeonmaster position, while most of the Society did not even know who Carol was.

Nevertheless, Carol cried foul on the whole ordeal and began spreading a rumor that the whole system was rigged. Right after Sarah officially began her Dungeonmaster tenure, Carol convinced about fifteen other Members to join her in a petition to try and oust Sarah. This was brought to the Bookkeeper and was promptly ignored. Carol and her followers then took the petition to University Affairs, who rejected the motion. In response, Carol and her followers protested the University by staging a sit-in. University Affairs threatened to call the Campus Watch on them. They stood down and left, but Carol continued to cry foul on "the system."

Sarah Marks caught wind of this and suspended Carol's Society Membership, calling for her permanent ban. The Bookkeeper rejected that motion and allowed Carol to remain in the Society. Nevertheless, Sarah Marks wrote a letter of referral for Carol to see a psychologist, while Carol, herself, kept a relatively low profile in the time since...that is, until now.

Late last year, before Rachele took over the Dungeonmaster role, Carol apparently came up to her and told her what had happened three years ago. Rachele felt that perhaps Carol was judged too harshly, and so promised to appoint her as an Administrator over the Prestia Sector, a promise Rachele followed through on last month. As a Sector Administrator, Carol established her network of secret Prefects and ran a system that technically did not violate the Statute of Principle but did lead to some complaints. Rachele admonished her over the whole ordeal, but they agreed to keep the Prefect system in place and have Carol continue to be the Administrator, so long as the Prefect network did not cross over lines into other Sectors.

So then came the Lykian attacks two weeks ago. This, of course, prompted Rachele to travel to Caylor in Southeastern Ereautea, one of the communities affected by fallout from the attacks on Hasphitat and a place with which Rachele had some sort of connection. By this point, relations between herself and Carol had improved, and Rachele was apparently inspired by Carol's ability to lead in her role as the Prestia Sector Administrator; so she had Carol take her spot temporarily as Dungeonmaster while she went to Caylor. Apparently, during that time, Carol had grown quite confident in her Dungeonmaster role. And when the time came that Rachele sent her a ticker message that she was returning soon, Carol was a bit disappointed that she had to step down.

Right before then, however, Carol caught wind from a group of her undercover Prefects of the hidden portal I created between Evernorth and Cray Fenton's dymensional plane. However, instead of actually investigating this and leading up to me, Carol convinced herself and her followers that Rachele had lied about banning my card idea, and that Rachele, herself, was carrying out some sort of conspiracy.

Rachele was supposed to be back by today, but according to Valian, Carol still has herself locked in the Dungeonmaster's Office. Apparently, the Bookkeeper has not taken Carol seriously and has not taken action against Rachele. But Rachele is nowhere to be found.

Quite frankly, I have no idea what is going on. And I am beginning to take Richard's idea a little more seriously. I hate to leave Cabotton at this point, but perhaps it is for the best.