So it came to be, when Ivella Ogden and her roommates had established for themselves a reputable business of TableQuest, word had spread that on 124 West Mason Street in the town of Cabotton in the province of Ereautea stood a dymensional plane, a very attractive thing for a darkfire cartel leader like Darius Weller. But how would Weller ever come within grabbing distance of the thing unnoticed? He disguised himself as a revered and pious man, establishing himself as the University Chaplain. He settled himself in what was once a storage room on the second floor of the Administration Hall and converted it into his office, and ran a granular string from the corner wall of his office to the Northwest Corner of Fleming House. This granular string cast a tunnel through which ran a rail line upon which ran a cart powered by pulley. Thus, Weller was able to go directly from his Chaplain's Office directly to the Basement Chamber of Fleming House. With the same type of granular-string-cast tunnel, he ran a pulley line from this Basement Chamber to the shed in the woods to the East of Campus, beside which stood the trail that led to the abandoned hangar at Gentry County Airfield, with that hangar serving as the base for his cronies.
On the night of the incident, while she and her roommates were leading a TableQuest session, Ivella Ogden was told by Darius Weller, who cast his own mysterious avatar in the dymensional plane, to meet in the Northwest Corner of Fleming House and deliver a copy of darkfire-resistance scripts from pgs 312-17 of the Algorithms Book. Ogden immediately knew that she was being deceived by a darkfire figure, and knew that she and the entire TableQuest chapter were in grave danger. So she seized the Algorithms Book right out of its place in the dymensional frame, thus immediately terminating the TableQuest session, and quickly made her way to a trusted friend on 127 West Mason Street.
That trusted friend was Mervin Lorens.
Lorens, in turn, dispatched a group of House-Keeper vigilantes to search for and confront the aggressors threatening Ogden. After careful searching, they finally located Darius and his cronies meeting in the Basement Chamber; thus, the first confrontation. Meanwhile, Ivella Ogden and a few friends from the TableQuest session, under protection and guidance of the House-Keepers, found a hiding spot in the surprisingly spacious attic of the Planetarium, into which they planted a granular plane to provide them with more space. Here, they gathered and resolved to re-establish their dymensional plane and begin a continuous TableQuest session.
Except this was different. Whereas TableQuest involved a leading Dungeonmaster and a few co-leaders administering certain sections of the dymensional plane and establishing the rules of play while numerous players allied or rivaled each other, placing bets of real wealth on the outcomes of various agendas, Ogden's new establishment sought to lay down a new order governing a set of democratically-approved ethics and preserving a balance of power. In fact, every member of this ongoing session had a say in the rules of play and have been set to elect fellow members to positions of leadership on a yearly basis.
This ongoing session is, in fact, an organization now names the Third Level Society. Their official date of establishment was 13 September 1243, as that was the day that the group of runaway TableQuest members voted in a policy document known as the "Statute of Principle," which named their organization the Third Level Society.
Accordingly, every Member of this Society composes a body known as a Caucus. They were originally going to throttle a political cause to Cabotton Council to establish a government policy to govern TableQuest sessions all throughout the locality. However, the figure behind that idea left unexpectedly after a great deal of debate among the Members, and majority ruled for the organization to remain independent of general politics. Nevertheless, they kept the name "Caucus."
Every first Saturday of the month of November of every year, this Caucus elects a Dungeonmaster to head administration of this Society, be it the appointment of co-Administrators and a policy interpreter known as a Bookkeeper, as well as having the final approval on policies and decisions approved by the majority of the Caucus vote. And at least every Wednesday night, the Caucus meets to vote on issues or new policies for the Society.
I do not know the exact internal dynamics of this organization, for I have only attended one meeting a couple of weeks ago. But I do know that the Society voted to have Ivella Ogden as its Dungeonmaster for the next year.
Speaking of the matter, I met with Ivella Ogden and confirmed that she was the author behind "O, IM." She seems a very intelligent individual, a confident leader, and a cunning strategist. I know that she will go far with this Society; and I know that she and her allies are hell-bent on the eradication of the issue of dymensional plane darkfire infiltration, for the design of this new dymensional plane gives me a great deal of hope.
As for tonight, I have finally secured my possessions and prepared the Scalar for my long-awaited vacation to the Chemkan Ridges.
***END OF STORY ONE***