The University’s Secret

A One-Shot Adventure for 4-6 Players, Level 8

OVERVIEW

50 years after the Catastrophe, Blackbriar University’s Department of Theoretical Physics has made breakthrough discoveries in reality manipulation. As students disappear and professors act increasingly erratic, investigators uncover an academic cult breeding ground where forbidden knowledge is taught in secret lectures.

THE UNIVERSITY

🏛️ Main Campus

Victorian Gothic Architecture - Physics Building - Great Library - Clock Tower - Underground Labs

🎓 Academic Areas

Department Spaces - Lecture halls - Research labs - Faculty offices - Study rooms

Hidden Facilities - Reality labs - Pattern classroom - Entity research - Quantum vault

KEY NPCS

👨‍🏫 Dr. Eleanor Blackwood

Department Head - Reality theorist - Pattern scholar - Cult recruiter - Academic leader Secret: Half in another dimension

📚 Professor James Morton

Quantum Researcher - Reality resistant - Truth seeker - Pattern analyst - Hidden ally Secret: Collecting evidence

📖 The Scholar

Entity Manifestation - Knowledge hunter - Reality bender - Pattern master - Student collector CR 10

ENCOUNTERS

Academic

• Transformed students (CR 7)
• Reality experiments (CR 8)
• Pattern equations (CR 8)
• Knowledge entities (CR 9)

Environmental

• Reality zones
• Pattern radiation
• Knowledge fields
• Time distortions

KEY SCENES

🎓 The Lecture

Features: - Reality teaching - Student transformation - Pattern learning - Knowledge transfer

🔬 The Laboratory

Features: - Reality experiments - Pattern generation - Entity research - Student processing

📚 The Final Exam

Features: - Knowledge confrontation - Reality breach - Pattern completion - Entity manifestation

INVESTIGATION ELEMENTS

Academic

• Course materials
• Research notes
• Student records
• Experiment data

Supernatural

• Reality readings
• Pattern formulas
• Entity traces
• Knowledge corruption

MECHANICS

Campus Navigation

• Reality zones
• Pattern avoidance
• Knowledge protection
• Time management

Research

• Data analysis
• Pattern recognition
• Reality measurement
• Knowledge filtering

DISCOVERIES

Academic

• Teaching methods
• Research goals
• Pattern theory
• Reality manipulation

Cult Operations

• Recruitment process
• Knowledge transfer
• Pattern training
• Reality studies

COMPLICATIONS

Academic

• Class schedules
• Faculty oversight
• Student interaction
• Research security

Reality

• Knowledge corruption
• Pattern interference
• Reality bleed
• Time distortion

DM GUIDANCE

Atmosphere

• Academic horror
• Knowledge corruption
• Reality distortion
• Scientific dread

Pacing

1. Campus investigation
2. Class observation
3. Lab discovery
4. Knowledge confrontation

VICTORY CONDITIONS

Essential

• Stop experiments
• Save students
• Secure research
• Contain breach

Optional

• Document methods
• Preserve evidence
• Free faculty
• Map patterns

RESOURCES

University Assets

• Research equipment
• Academic records
• Pattern formulas
• Reality tools

Knowledge

• Scientific data
• Pattern theory
• Reality research
• Entity studies

REVELATIONS

Cult Education

• Training methods
• Knowledge transfer
• Pattern teaching
• Reality studies

Future Implications

• Academic spread
• Knowledge corruption
• Pattern distribution
• Reality manipulation

CONCLUSION OPTIONS

Success

• Research contained
• Students saved
• Knowledge secured
• Reality stabilized

Partial Victory

• Some research lost
• Students transformed
• Knowledge leaked
• Reality damaged

Failure

• Research spread
• Students lost
• Knowledge corrupted
• Reality breached

CONNECTION TO SERIES

This adventure reveals how the cult infiltrates academic institutions to recruit and train new members while conducting reality research. The teaching methods and research discovered here explain how cult knowledge spreads through educated circles and how new reality manipulation techniques are developed.