Well-printed leaflets are circulated around the mercantile districts and those urban areas with lower crime rates:
“The College of the Stars invites Acryn citizens to an event fostering international relations. We are looking for charismatic, engaging citizens from everyday professions: traders, priests, alchemists, seamstresses, domestics, and so forth, to represent the good character of the Acryn people.
If your social standing is suitably mundane and you are interested in representing your city at the most sophisticated level, you are welcomed to the Celebration of Acryn Magical Aptitude, which will take place Saturday next at the National History Museum of Acryn. The soirée will comprise a drinks reception with string quintet, an exhibition of junior members' promising research, a guided tour of the museum, and dinner with eminent Strossbourg mages, culminating in a thaumaturgical fireworks display.

Would appropriate individuals please make yourself known to the College of the Stars Porters' Lodge by Wednesday noon.”

The following is printed on the reverse:

*The College of the Stars recognises your commitment and that the required dress standards may invite greater expenditure than usual in lower-class life, and is prepared to reimburse time and expense with a reasonable sum in addition to a FREE DINNER.*

*All applicants will be vetted by the City Watch, the Acryn Tax Office, and the College's own records, and by entering into the application process applicants consent to these checks. Please note that this event aims to represent the charm and character of the ordinary Acryn citizen and due to the import of dignitaries present, the invitation is ABSOLUTELY NOT extended to ANY manner of Adventurer WHATSOEVER. Please note cloakrooms will be provided.*

• Gerard Vidati - James G
• Sam Feldspar - Zac
• Bobby - Mat
• Philippa Blake - Emma
• Octavian Caecilius - Vicky
• Ozymandias Poon - Oliver

Various citizens present themselves on the Wednesday. After quite a large amount of scrutiny, particularly regrading their documents and shoes, the following party is cleared to attend the soirée: An aesthetic young Leader Priest, an apparently humourless clerk from the East Empire Company, a young fracturing mage from the College itself, an ordinary sort of healer, a pitiful blind man, and a charismatic young woman who appears to not have a profession and whose address, on further checking, seems to not exist; must be a clerical error, she seemed nice. They are to arrive at 6.23pm promptly at the Porters' Lodge where they will be shown the way to the Auditorium.

On arrival, a Porter delegated to managing the Cloakroom once again inspects their shoes before their weapons are deposited in the cloakroom, with appropriate tickets dispensed. They are greeted by Professor Oppenheim Black, who explains that they are to mingle with the Strossbourg guests and demonstrate the better side of Acryn. With varying degrees of charisma and aplomb, the guests 'mingle'. They meet the Strossbourg Ambassador, several Strossbourg mages, and a few College of the Stars Professors: Antonia di Carta, Henry Blackheart, and the rather dysphonic Archdean Rath, of the Department of Inadvisable Experimentation.

Gerard Vidati

• 30R
• 2 mana crystals from The College's supply

Sam Feldspar

• 30R

Bobby

• 30R eventually makes its way to her
• Has a record of being cleared of manslaughter by the Watch

Philippa Blake

• 30R
• Is on a long list of potential project supervisors, and may be contacted by a College student for a divine-magical Acryn social undertaking. This may happen during future adventures or debriefs at GM discretion.

Octavian Caecilius

• 20R
• The interest of the Brotherhood of the Closed Eye

Ozymandias Poon

• 30R
• Three-faced skull from outside reality
• Skull From Outside Reality Quirk

Skull From Outside Reality Quirk: This skull feels powerful when held, and harbours faint traces of mana. By worshipping it over time, you begin to get a subconscious idea of the skull's will. Once per adventure, you may call on it for wisdom in a situation and gain some sense of its thoughts on the matter. You also have a strong sense that its power can be grown…

Guide for GMs: this Skull is able to provide insights into magic from Wounding and Consumption, and its intentions are malevolent but will present as benevolent.