Character Baseline#

Mia Graves#

• Player: Saelora
• Mechanical lineage: Ravenloft Reborn (Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft).
• Class: Shadow Magic Sorcerer.
• From London / Earth.
• Age: 20, explicitly clarified in Episode 7.
• Technically minded and interested in computers/technology; Episode 3 explicitly describes her as a former computer-science major.
• Was studying via correspondence college so she could continue working alongside it.
• Not wealthy, but not destitute; accustomed to working and thinking practically about money.
• Generally shy, though intense curiosity can override that.
• Online username: DancingAtMiadnight.
• Played Dungeons & Dragons on Earth and is familiar with fantasy fiction.
• Mia initially expected she might follow Wendy toward Witherbloom, but by the end-of-year campus tours she realizes she does not want to live in its enormous swamp and settles toward Quandrix, where her computing background and S.A.M.I. work fit much better.
• Backstory: Goodfellow & Graves.

Wendy Goodfellow#

• A wealthy fairy from the Feywild.
• A Summer Fey; the Goodfellows are part of Titania's court.
• Comes from a highly influential family with major Strixhaven connections and donations.
• Spoiled, entitled, and accustomed to privilege and family influence.
• Family college placement: earlier material pointed toward Quandrix, but Episode 7 explicitly says Wendy’s parents have always wanted Prismari and have already arranged her Prismari housing. The accepted current continuity is family pressure toward Prismari, while Wendy herself prefers Witherbloom.
• Wendy herself was more interested in Witherbloom.
• Age: 50, as explicitly clarified during the Episode 7 campus-tour discussion.
• Online username: ShimmerWings27.
• Barely interacted with the Strixhaven social platform.
• Important ancestor: Puck Goodfellow, whom Mia finally meets in Episode 9. Wendy is an only child in a relatively narrow family line, with only one or two people in many generations; several generations live across wings of the enormous Goodfellow manor.

Mia and Wendy#

• Official name: Wendy “Mia” Goodfellow-Graves. She normally goes by Mia; the official name reflects the amalgam of Amelia “Mia” Graves and Wendy Goodfellow.
• Soul / body planar attachment: Episode 17 clarifies that Mia’s soul is connected to the Material Plane, while her current fairy body is connected to the Feywild.

At the beginning of the campaign they are separate people and near-opposites in background and temperament. Mia initially dislikes Wendy and mentally categorizes her as a "Draco Malfoy type."

By the end of Episode 1, Mia is inhabiting Wendy's former body and carries access to parts of Wendy's memories, instincts, abilities, and personality.

A useful early shorthand from the session is:

Mostly Mia, but with a substantial amount of Wendy in there.

Ravenloft Reborn — rules-as-written baseline#

The published Reborn lineage gives Mia:

• Creature type: Humanoid. She is death-touched / Reborn narratively, but is not mechanically an Undead creature type.
• Ancestral Legacy. A Reborn replacing another ancestry can retain skill proficiencies and climbing, flying, or swimming speeds from that ancestry. This fits Mia retaining Wendy's fairy flight.
• Deathless Nature: advantage on saving throws against disease and being poisoned, resistance to poison damage, advantage on death saving throws, no need to eat, drink, or breathe, no need to sleep, magic cannot put her to sleep, a long rest can be completed in 4 hours spent inactive and motionless while remaining conscious.
• Knowledge from a Past Life. After seeing the result of a skill check, Mia can add a d6 a number of times equal to her proficiency bonus per long rest.
• Level 5: reached after the first second-year exam block. Mia remains a Shadow Magic Sorcerer and chooses Fireball as her new sorcerer spell.
• Second-year first-trimester class rewards: Wither and Bloom, Animate Dead, Immovable Object, and Magic Circle.
• Episode 15 second-trimester class gains: Going the Extra Mile grants Spell Sniper; Talking Heads grants Tongues; Wiping the Slate Clean grants Dispel Magic; Magic by Numbers grants Conjure Animals, with Mia’s summons manifesting as fractal beasts. The attribution comes from the continuous class-list speaker chain later uniquely identifying that speaker as Mia.
• Current level: Shadow Magic Sorcerer 6, reached when Year 2 closes after the Battle of Strixhaven championship.
• Episode 17 third-trimester gains: Getting to the Root of Poisons: Fundamentals of Antidotes grants Lesser Restoration; Arches and Textures grants Galder’s Tower; Shelter from the Storm grants Tiny Hut. Repeating Wiping the Slate Clean produces a Dispel Magic scroll rather than a new spell.
• Episode 19 — Earth magic: while back on Earth, Mia discovers that her daily magical recovery is being sustained through the permanent Wendy link. The DM describes Mia as “siphoning spells from Wendy every day” because Earth is not supplying enough ambient magic. The effect on Wendy is not shown.
• Episode 19 — Shadow connection: Mia can deliberately try to tap the Shadow Plane / afterlife-facing source of her Shadow Sorcerer and necromancy magic to reinforce herself and the fading Cat Staff while on Earth.
• Episode 19 — mundane cameras: British Museum CCTV bypasses Mia’s magical appearance concealment and records her Reborn/fairy form rather than a convincing human presentation.
• Hound of Ill Omen — Mia’s level-6 Shadow Sorcerer feature is first clearly used in Episode 21. Broadly, she manifests a shadow hound that relentlessly pressures a chosen target.
• Shocking Grasp — visibly used by Mia in Episode 21 against Norville’s summoned beast spirit. When or how Mia originally learned it remains unknown.
• Catamorph — by Episode 22, Mia is explicitly described as already knowing a cat-specific form of Polymorph. Its original acquisition point is not established.

Published Reborn / Campaign Distinctions#

• Acid resistance is not a standard Ravenloft Reborn trait. If Mia's sheet ever shows acid resistance, it must come from another feature or a campaign house rule.
• Darkvision is not granted by the published Reborn lineage. Mia's 120-foot darkvision fits Shadow Magic Sorcerer's Eyes of the Dark, not Reborn.
• The campaign's statement that a fully dead Reborn can return at 1 HP after a long rest is a house rule, not the published lineage.

Mia-specific narrative / inherited-body traits#

In addition to the Reborn chassis, Mia currently has or displays:

• Wendy's fairy wings and increasing comfort using them,
• Wendy's physical appearance, including fangs / fairy features,
• access to some of Wendy's memories and spells,
• access to procedural / muscle memory even when conscious memory is absent,
• occasional Wendy-like mannerisms, impulses, or internal guidance,
• Thin Veneer of Humanity — gained after the failed Goodfellow restoration attempt; lets Mia cloak her Reborn/fairy body in an illusion of her original human appearance.
• Wendy's internal connection is now explicitly telepathic / curse-linked, not merely inherited-memory narration. Episode 10 has Wendy physically beside Mia while Mia feels Wendy's anger in her head; Wendy calls them "inexplicably cursed to be connected," while the DM describes them as telepathically "twinsies." Practical knowledge bleed and Wendy-voice moments remain part of the same unresolved connection.

Level 4 / Shadow Touched: Episode 10 confirms Mia took the Shadow Touched feat and selected Inflict Wounds as its additional spell. She also has Invisibility, which she says she can use once per long rest without spending a spell slot. Which ability score received Shadow Touched's +1 remains unstated, so Mia’s finalized Charisma score is uncertain.

Episode 11 spell/body confirmations: Mia's Chill Touch continues to manifest as Wendy's spectral hand — at one point now visibly wearing Wendy's ring — while Catapult and Inflict Wounds remain lethal staples. The table also explicitly reconfirms that Reborn Mia's creature type is Humanoid, so Cure Wounds can affect her.

Episode 4 gives the clearest procedural-memory example so far: Mia looks at a flute as though she does not know how to hold it, then Wendy's body automatically holds and plays it correctly.

Mia still eats and drinks for habit and enjoyment despite not needing either. Episode 7 clarifies the timing: about halfway through first semester, she accidentally went roughly a week without eating, noticed she was not hungry, and only then fully realized food was optional. Wendy's exclusive extended meal plan still delivers fine dining; Mia tends to leave it around for the household, originally hoping Starburst would eat it.

Body preference: Mia genuinely prefers remaining an undead fairy. The Goodfellow restoration does not return her to ordinary humanity; instead, it leaves her with Thin Veneer of Humanity, which lets her present as her original human self when she wants.

1. Why were Mia and Wendy assigned to the same dorm despite having no online relationship?E1
2. Who built or sent the mechanical impostor that used roll_4d6's identity?E3E2
3. Why was the real roll_4d6 kidnapped? He thinks it may have happened because he had been talking to the group online.E3E2
4. Was the impostor deliberately targeting Wendy, and was Mia only collateral damage?E1E1
5. What exactly was the Goodfellow "internal matter" that caused Mia's death? Wendy's scribe now explicitly describes Mia's demise as resulting from a Goodfellow internal matter, strengthening the family-conflict explanation without identifying the opposing person/faction.E6
6. Was there some reason Mia specifically needed to be present, beyond bad luck?E1E1
7. How much of Wendy exists inside Mia now?E6E9
8. What are the actual rules of Mia and Wendy's telepathic curse-link? Episode 12 makes the link more obviously reciprocal: during Pushing Up Daisies, Wendy reaches through the same past-life channel and Mia consciously helps her with the answer. Range, privacy, voluntary control, emotional bleed, and how deliberately either woman can send knowledge remain unknown.E12E9
9. Why are Wendy's memories so inconsistent? Episode 5 again shows useful situational knowledge surfacing through Knowledge from a Past Life, while other personal memories remain inaccessible.E5E12
10. Can the Mia/Wendy link ever be severed now that Wendy has returned in her own body? The old possibility that the link might end with Wendy's replacement body is superseded: Wendy is back, the link persists, and the campaign calls Mia forever connected to her.E9E10
11. What legal/magical rights does Mia have over Wendy's former body now that she apparently cannot disconnect from it? Episode 10 says the lineage curse landed on Mia when her soul was placed into that body and made her permanently trapped with / unable to disconnect from it. Wendy says "you owe nothing to me, I owe nothing to you," but long-term bodily ownership and Fey-law consequences remain unresolved.E10E10
12. How will campus identity work with Wendy physically back and Mia normally wearing Thin Veneer of Humanity? At the start of Year 2, Mia generally presents as human Mia; when she drops the illusion during the mascot hunt, the table notes it is the first time anyone has seen Mia as a fairy since the start of term. Wendy explicitly tells Mia not to look like or pretend to be her.E10E9
13. Will Wendy's privilege, habits, sexuality, speech patterns, or other personality traits increasingly influence Mia?E5E2
14. Who is deliberately tainting otherwise legitimate Eldritch balm? Episode 13 finally links the suspicious warehouse supply chain to crates marked Laverna Fields, a Feywild estate/archfey name, but does not prove Laverna personally created the contamination.E13
15. Who is distributing the corrupted reagent and related material? 136 Dwarf Face Lane is now directly infiltrated and confirmed as a legitimate reagent warehouse doubling as a criminal/drug-distribution site. The party steals its ledgers and finds Laverna Fields labels, but the full chain above the warehouse remains unknown.E13E13
16. What are the experiments actually testing? The pattern now spans life-draining Sedgemoor work, contaminated balm, Rose Stage animation, a necromantic magehunter site, and magehunter chitin mixed into mascot bait that creates a dangerous amalgamation. Whether these are stages of one project or overlapping schemes remains unresolved.E14E14
17. What is the real identity of the river speedo gnome? Episode 14 corrects the species and reveals records of 26 near-identical versions across roughly 400–500 years, with alphabet-shifted first letters in the name. The mechanism behind that repeating identity is still unknown.E14E14
18. How did the river speedo gnome detect invisible Blimpus, and what role does he occupy in the experiment operation? The new 26-identity historical pattern makes the question stranger rather than resolving it.E14E16
19. Are the roommate assignment / roll_4d6 attack and the black-reagent experiments part of the same plot, or separate threats?E2E5
20. Why does magic around Mia so often emerge with a death-touched / Reborn character? Episode 7 clarifies that the death aesthetic is not a mechanical restriction: Mia can create ordinary illusions; the ghostly/undead presentation is largely how her magic chooses or is chosen to express itself.E7
21. How will Mia's own attraction and identity develop while living in Wendy's body?E2E6
22. Why was Wendy's ability to continue the Goodfellow line targeted? Episode 10 sharpens the genie's meaning: the bomb was not meant to kill Wendy at all; it was meant to sever her ability to continue the family lineage. The attacker and motive remain unknown.E9E10
23. Why did the Goodfellow wish fail, and which explanation is true in-world? The Goodfellows believe the transferred lineage curse prevents Mia from disconnecting from Wendy's former body. OOC/player truth: the DM says Mia successfully saved against the wish because her subconscious desire to remain an undead fairy was stronger than the restoration. The wish still produced Thin Veneer of Humanity as a workaround.E10E9
24. What does it mean that Mia is now "a member of their line permanently"? Episode 10 uses stronger language than social adoption alone: because Mia received the curse meant for Wendy's body, the DM says she is permanently part of the Goodfellow line and forever connected to Wendy. Whether that has inheritance, magical, reproductive, political, or Fey-law consequences is unknown.E10E10
25. What do the warehouse ledgers and paperwork reveal? The party no longer has only Starburst’s partial copied records: Episode 13 removes the office paperwork/ledgers from 136 Dwarf Face Lane for later analysis. The most immediate label discovered is Laverna Fields.E13E13
26. Who created the cursed doll? The trapped soldier is now definitively named Vitus Apator. Laverna remains the strongest current candidate for the curse-source archfey, but that remains unconfirmed.E14E15E13
27. Why is Wendy being forced into Prismari? Episode 7 presents this as her parents' longstanding plan, contradicting earlier campaign material that pointed to Quandrix; Wendy herself still wants Witherbloom.E7
28. What does S.A.M.I.'s origin as an ancient living theorem mean for Mia's programming project? She is not merely hacking a magical tablet; she is interacting with a distributed, millennium-old theorem that can divide itself across the entire campus network.E7E4
29. How exactly does Eldritch balm propagate animation through nearby magical objects? Episode 9 suggests only the owlbear was directly dosed; the balm behaved like a "small animation grenade" / "reverse EMP", activating nearby props that already held residual magic. Range and trigger conditions remain unknown.E9E9
30. Who wrote the water-damaged Sedgemoor journal? Episode 11 finds matching scrawlings at a necromantic ritual site in Sedgemoor. The author is still unknown, but the party now has a practical identification route: someone proficient with calligrapher's tools could compare the script against a sufficiently broad set of handwriting samples.E9E11E11
31. Who specifically wanted the Goodfellow lineage ended, and why? Episode 10 clarifies the intended effect as Wendy losing the ability to continue the family line, but still gives no attacker, faction, or political reason.E10E9
32. What does "forever connected to Wendy" include beyond telepathy/emotional bleed? Episode 12 demonstrates deliberate two-way assistance through the past-life channel, but shared pain, magic, lifespan, memories, location, death/return effects, and the full limits of intentional communication remain open.E12E9E10
33. How does Mia want to use Thin Veneer of Humanity socially? She can present as her original human self while remaining Reborn/fairy underneath; the unresolved part is primarily identity and disclosure, not the feature's rules.E10E11
34. What is Wendy's relationship with Mad Maggie in Avernus? Maggie treats Wendy as an established acquaintance/friend, gives her coin, thanks her for supplying small red-capped gnomish "friends," and expects Wendy's car in an end-of-year race.E10
35. Are Mad Maggie's red-capped gnome-like minions connected to the recurring speedo gnome? The visual overlap is notable, but Episode 10 gives no direct link. Do not merge these clues yet.E10E14
36. What is causing the new Witherbloom animal frenzy? Episode 11 shows that at least some giant elk are not simply naturally aggressive: they are frothing, wide-eyed, black-pupiled and bloodthirsty, then can abruptly shake the condition off after heavy physical impact and return to normal. No Eldritch balm is visibly recovered from them, so a connection to the reagent plot remains unproven.E11
37. Who are the magehunters targeting, and why? A pair now ambushes the Penthouse Pals directly in the championship locker room. The table considers Starburst, Callan, and others, but the campaign still does not identify the quarry.E18
38. What do the ritual scrawlings actually say? They match the Sedgemoor journal's strange writing, but nobody present can read the language/shorthand. S.A.M.I. can store the photograph but cannot read text inside an image, and the attempted Comprehend Languages scroll fails.E11E11
39. How much magic reached ancient Earth, and what happened to it? The Roman prisoner proves at least one ancient Earth human became entangled with Fey magic. Mia connects this with Strixhaven lore about the Weave collapsing across planes and wonders whether Earth's apparent modern lack of magic has the same explanation. This is a campaign-world hypothesis, not established Earth history.E11E14
40. What future Quandrix path will Dean Ibrahim recommend for Mia? Episode 12 gives Mia unusually strong academic attention from Dean Ibrahim after she excels in Rejecting Your Reality and What Comes Around.E12
41. Who put magehunter chitin into the Rose Stage mascot bait, and did it cause the amalgamation? Episode 13 confirms the stacking event is not harmless: the mascots fuse around Greta into a hostile multi-headed creature, and matching magehunter chitin is then found in regurgitated bait. Causation is strongly suggested but not explicitly proven.E13
42. What exactly is Laverna Fields’ role in the conspiracy? The name belongs both to a Feywild place and the archfey who owns it, and it appears on warehouse crates tied to the suspicious supply chain.E13
43. Is Laverna connected to the Roman doll / Brutus replacement pattern? The party can reasonably connect the Roman name, the Fey curse, and similar replacement/identity themes, and the DM validates the broad modus-operandi comparison; the specific connection is still theory.E13
44. Where was Curio, and why did he disappear? Episode 20 places Curio back at the Bow’s End reception, so locating him is resolved. His unexplained absence and its relationship to Strato / the 200-year cluster remain open.E15E20
45. Why did Blackstone want Wheel and Woe: An Interpretive Sketch, and did he know the restricted collection was compromised? Mia has now found the book, but the astrolabe attacks immediately afterward and the local security is inexplicably offline. No evidence yet proves Blackstone arranged either condition.E15E16
46. Who was Blackstone talking about when he blurted “how did she get in?” His recent family obligation and Strixhaven’s planar protections appear connected, but the woman’s identity is not established in Mia’s knowledge.E15E15
47. Where did the current magehunters come from? Episode 16 establishes that a ~200-year-old Lorehold catastrophe exposed a damaged egg pocket, some samples later entered a natural-history collection, and those samples were subsequently stolen. Whether the present creatures descend from that clutch is not yet proven.E16E16
48. Who forcibly disconnected S.A.M.I. from the network? After S.A.M.I. begins investigating River swimmer 26, all nearby S.A.M.I. devices react violently and the text connection describes a “network interloper” before being ripped away.E16E16
49. How can Mia help S.A.M.I. leave the Strixhaven network safely? Mia now accepts S.A.M.I.’s desire for self-determination, but wants their camera/server access restricted and their memory tampering stopped.E16E19
50. Who was the unnamed weird-magic student from roughly 200 years ago? Their life-siphoning aura resembles the Sedgemoor corruption and magehunter-site aura; their name is illegible in every surviving mention.E16
51. Why do so many major clues cluster around roughly 200 years ago? Quin Thorne’s collection, the Lorehold catastrophe/secondary chasm, Curio’s creator, the weird-magic student, the magehunter egg pocket, and S.A.M.I.’s ~197-year conscious-network history all sit near the same period.E16E23
52. Why was the restricted Scriptoria security offline when the party searched for Wheel and Woe? The query terminals shut down, the restricted door opens without normal clearance, and a corrupted astrolabe is waiting inside.E16E16
53. Who gave the first-year the one-use summoning wand? It replaced an ordinary skate-park practice wand, and its grooves contain Sedgemoor/Witherbloom algae. The Galeb Duhr appears to have been displaced rather than deliberately hostile.E17E17
54. Why is Sedgemoor algae on the summoning wand? This is another apparently recreational campus event with a Sedgemoor trace, but the table explicitly distinguishes the residue from the black-goo / Eldritch-balm evidence.E17E17
55. How did the magehunter pair get into the championship locker room? They are already hidden inside when the team returns after the match, despite the school’s security and camera systems.E18
56. Why was Sharpbeak unavailable during the magehunter ambush? The official explanation is that Sharpbeak was stuck in technical conversations on the field and only returns after the fight. That may be innocent, but it lands badly given the earlier faculty-response failures.E18E19
57. Can Mia combine her Quandrix and Witherbloom capstone work? The stated Year 3 planning rules currently point toward two fourth-year projects for a student split across two colleges, unless her counselors approve another structure.E18E18
58. Who is the Cat Staff’s “mistress”? The staff says its mistress will be happy it found a still-magical land, but gives no identity.E19
59. Who is the black-suited mage from the British Museum? Mia knows he watched the heist from outside the museum. Player-only knowledge says he later approaches Mia’s home after she leaves.E19E19
60. What does Mia’s Wendy-powered spell recovery cost Wendy? The DM says Mia is “siphoning spells from Wendy every day” on Earth, but no corresponding effect on Wendy is shown.E19
61. How much magic is actually left on Earth? The Cat Staff calls Earth effectively magic-dead and says its ley lines were destroyed, while Earth Sanctum infrastructure is also described as ley-line-powered.E19E19E20
62. What exactly are the Earth Sanctums? Nick works for a U.S. Forest Service Sanctum with a government-affiliated magical network and artifact registry, but the organization’s scope and relationship to Strixhaven are unknown.E19
63. What was S.A.M.I. trying to do with the Sanctum connection? S.A.M.I. attempts to escape through it, claims they can “bring [Earth] magic back,” and again warns about what Strixhaven may use them for.E19E19
64. Who was the short white-haired figure talking to Sharpbeak? Episode 19’s recap adds the cloak, oversized wizard hat, and white-hair details, but does not identify the figure.E19
65. What happened to Curio during his disappearance? He is back in Episode 20, but no explanation is given for where he went between the Episode 15 missing-person status and his return.E15E20
66. Is the Magister’s Masquerade really a secret third-year test? Xanther presents this as a rumor: the event may evaluate inter-college unity, but the campaign has not confirmed the test or its criteria.E20
67. What does the Enigma Enclave know about the campus mysteries? Frederick’s group claims it has solved serious campus problems for the same two-year period as the Penthouse Pals. Their evidence, overlap, and possible knowledge of the magehunter / sabotage threads have not yet been compared.E20E21
68. What does the Enigma Enclave know that the Penthouse Pals do not? Their social-media history proves they have solved several genuine campus cases over the same two years. How much their evidence overlaps the magehunter, sabotage, River swimmer 26, or other active investigations remains unknown.E21E20
69. Who or what magically influenced the Enigma Enclave? Their paranoia, anger, nightmares, and headaches are accompanied by residual necromancy/enchantment magic resembling the party’s earlier goo / chitin evidence, but the responsible actor and mechanism are unknown.E22
70. What is Dean Tullus’s green-mist focus? The Fortress Badlands relic is tuned to enchantment magic, but its creator, original purpose, and relevance to the current history / masquerade arc remain unknown.E22
71. What caused the wasting illness after the two-century-old cataclysm? Episode 23 establishes that most of the roughly 150–200 student deaths came from a rapid illness after the explosion, not from the blast or magehunters. No cause or cure was recorded.E23
72. Was the expelled forbidden-magic student responsible, framed, or used as a scapegoat? The records only say the student was theorized to have caused the illness; proof was never produced, and their identity was magically redacted from every surviving document.E23E23

• The two-century death toll — the roughly 150–200 students did not mostly die in the cataclysmic explosion or from magehunters. Most died afterward from a rapid wasting illness involving fatigue and headaches.E23
• The expelled student is not proven guilty — contemporary records theorized that the forbidden-magic student caused the illness, but no proof or cure was found. Every surviving reference to the student's identity was magically redacted.E23
• Level timing — the latest explicit table ruling places the next level-up after the second Year 3 exams, when the group will discuss level 7.E17E12

• Witherbloom Pest mascot — received during orientation and immediately loved by Mia.
• Healing potion — received from the Snarl scavenger-hunt challenge.
• Set of rabbit bones — received as a Witherbloom-themed trinket at the Biblioplex café.
• Access to Wendy's S.A.M.I. crystal/profile, because Mia's own crystal was destroyed.
• Cloak of Elvenkind — Mia's blue leaf/seaweed-pattern cloak; Episode 14 explicitly confirms Mia still has it.
• Dispel Magic spell scroll — earned in Episode 17 because Mia accidentally retakes Wiping the Slate Clean after already learning Dispel Magic the previous trimester.
• Champion title — earned when the Penthouse Pals win the Battle of Strixhaven. It stacks narratively with their earlier “Badass” reputation. The campaign describes Champion as a small bonus applicable to athletic / agility-style checks or saves.
• Cat Staff — a sentient silver Egyptian cat-headed staff stolen during Mia’s British Museum heist. It fully recharges after returning to Strixhaven. At the start of Year 3, Mia spends an hour attuning to it. Its known properties are a +2 magic quarterstaff, finesse, Feline Grace (advantage on Dexterity saves and +10 ft. walking speed), Jump and Speak with Animals at will, self-only cat Polymorph once per dawn, and translation of Mia’s speech into cat speech. It can take a silver hairless sphinx-cat form. Its original name remains forgotten; the sheet temporarily labels it “TBDS” as a joke placeholder.
• Lucas — Mia’s undead-looking spider familiar. He is dismissed by the Episode 10 Ice Knife blast and resummoned for 10 gp in Episode 12. He later serves as Mia’s spell-delivery familiar and is recast again before the Year 2 summer trip. In Episode 22, Mia uses an enlarged Lucas for her Applied Scale Magic exam; Saelora then notices the latest resummoning cost had not been marked during downtime and pays it, keeping Lucas’s current active status explicit.
• Mask Charm — a silver Strixhaven-star pin issued with Mia’s Magister’s Masquerade invitation. Its magic is intended to help with masquerade costuming. It is restricted to use during the event; misuse outside the masquerade carries an extracurricular suspension penalty.
• Dust of Sneezing and Choking — Mia finds a packet in the hidden Fury Gale disposal room. The DM confirms its breathing-based effect does not affect Mia because she does not need to breathe.
• Two Fury Gale healing potions — still-good potions Mia recovers from material mistakenly sent for disposal in Episode 21.
• Matching gothic spider-lace formal dress — Mia and Wendy research and make matching outfits for the Starlit Evening fashion show. Mia keeps hers after a 31 runway result; its assessed value is 360 gp.

• Web Grip Rucksack — a spider-leather bag awarded after the familiar incident. Its adhesive lining keeps contents from rattling or being easily stolen, and its straps can adhere the bag to a surface. Capacity is stated as about 8 cubic feet / 80 lb. Lucas immediately climbs inside, apparently unbothered by the spider-leather construction.
• Wendy's letter to Mia — opened in Episode 6. Wendy lays out her return after summer, asserts ownership of her former body/name, says Puck wants to meet Mia, and has her scribe confirm that the Goodfellows will fund Mia's eventual bodily restoration. Mia keeps the letter despite angrily crumpling/throwing it at first.
• 200 gp gilded acorn — the material component required for Summon Beast. When Mia tries the newly learned spell during the All the World's a Stage fight, Saelora states that Mia would have bought the component and has the money to do so.
• First-Year Student of the Year — Mia and the Penthouse Pals receive a formal Strixhaven award for valor, bravery, generosity, and keeping campus safe. It is entered on their permanent records and commemorated with a placard.
• "Badass" title — campaign reputation benefit: +1 to a check when the player can reasonably argue the title applies.
• Sweet Stump — sapient Warg and official Penthouse Pals mascot. Episode 11 confirms he survives the cliffhanger, helps Starburst stabilize/wake, and later tackles/bites a frenzied elk hard enough that it shakes off the strange berserk state.
• Ioun Stone of Awareness — A'bigail: Mia finds a cracked dark-blue rhomboid stone while tagging a mascot. After Mending, it is identified as an Ioun Stone of Awareness, a rare attunement item that prevents surprise. The conversation places the restored stone with A'bigail, not Mia.
• Sharpbeak reward voucher — party asset: the Penthouse Pals may claim one uncommon magic item total from school supplies for helping with Mage Tower preparedness. It is not one item each, and it is not redeemed during Episode 11.

Party Evidence / Shared Assets After the Warehouse Raid#

• Warehouse ledgers / paperwork — Party evidence removed from the 136 Dwarf Face Lane office for later supply-chain analysis; not Mia personal property.
• Arcane Slates of Braith — Party-held magical tome recovered from the warehouse safe. It can be studied over 40 hours across at least five days; the table says it eventually grants Guidance. Mia notes her Reborn no-sleep schedule could give her extra reading time when it is her turn.
• Wheel and Woe: An Interpretive Sketch — Mia found Blackstone’s missing book in the Quin Thorne collection. By Episode 17’s final Scrivening exam, the party has already returned it to Professor Blackstone; the completed job grants the promised extra-credit benefit.

Character Progression#

• End of Episode 4: Mia reaches level 2.
• Her class is Shadow Magic Sorcerer; her 120-foot darkvision belongs with that class rather than the Reborn lineage.
• Mia chooses Catapult as a new spell, treating it as something learned through ordinary magical study rather than something spontaneously inherited from Wendy / undeath.
• The table jokingly nicknames / reflavors Catapult as "Power Word Yeet", with Mia picturing her Mage Hand hurling the target.
• Episode 7: the familiar-only Dapplewing Manor heist succeeds without triggering the main alarm response, advancing Mia and the group to level 3.
• Second-trimester learned magic includes Comprehend Languages, Arcane Lock, Ray of Enfeeblement, and Vortex Warp.
• Acing Repetition gives Mia advantage on future S.A.M.I. coding checks.
• Level 3 metamagic: Twinned Spell and Subtle Spell.
• Level 3 sorcerer spell: Crown of Madness. Mia considered Shadow Blade, then explicitly settled on Crown of Madness.
• Mia's living theorem / Vortex Warp flavor manifests as undead binary / living code, extending her Reborn magical aesthetic.
• Episode 8 / third-trimester class rewards: Cure Wounds, Magnify Gravity, Enlarge/Reduce, and Summon Beast.
• Summon Beast manifestation: Mia first summons a huge friendly flying-fox / vampire-bat spirit that looks alive; once she completes the binding, it decays into a skeletal flying fox while remaining cheerful and friendly. She immediately uses the spell in the year-end stage fight.
• Strength of the Grave confirmation: Charisma save, DC 5 + damage taken; success leaves Mia at 1 HP. The DM narrates it as Wendy pushing her back from the other side.
• Level 4 confirmed: Mia remains a Shadow Magic Sorcerer and takes Shadow Touched rather than the earlier-considered +2 Charisma ASI. The feat gives her Invisibility and she chooses Inflict Wounds as the additional spell. Which mental ability received the feat’s +1 remains uncertain. Vortex Warp was already a first-year class-earned spell and should not be re-dated to level 4.
• Episode 12 — level 5: Mia advances to level 5 and chooses Fireball.
• Episode 15 — second-trimester class gains: Spell Sniper, Tongues, Dispel Magic, and Conjure Animals (fractal-beast presentation).
• Episode 17 — final Year 2 exams: Lesser Restoration, Galder’s Tower, and Tiny Hut are added as class-earned spells; a repeated Dispel Magic course gives a scroll. until Year 2 actually closes after the championship.
• Episode 18 — level 6: Year 2 closes after the championship, resolving the previously stated level-up timing.
• Year 3 progression timing: the DM’s final correction places the next level-up just before the third exam. Year 3 course spell / feature rewards are likewise described as year-end rewards rather than first-exam gains.

Current Employment#

• Current: model for Pimbim Goodhands, earning 15 gp per week. Mia and Wendy were hired as a duo after their Episode 23 runway performance; shoots take place around the five Strixhaven campuses.
• Previous: Biblioplex book shelver, normally earning 5 gp per week and working with Drazhomir Yarnask. Mia held that job from Episode 2 until the modelling offer replaced it.

Catapult / Power Word Yeet kill: Mia launches a rock through an Ankheg's head.

Inflict Wounds kill: while at only about 1 HP after acid damage, Mia closes with another Ankheg, deals 20 necrotic damage, and the creature grotesquely inflates/bursts with its head left in her hands. Mia's response: "that was so cool."

• Inflict Wounds through Lucas: Mia uses the familiar's touch-spell delivery against a giant scorpion.
• Twinned Spell in Year 2 combat: Mia twins a level-2 Chaos Bolt against two awakened trees, dealing psychic damage to one and fire damage to the other.

• Understand the black-reagent experiments — identify who is deliberately tainting otherwise legitimate Eldritch balm. The contaminated Sedgemoor spring has been purified, but the experimenter and motive remain unknown.E9E9
• Identify River swimmer 26 / the river speedo-gnome identity chain — the username deleted magehunter camera footage and disappears immediately when contacted. Determine who controls the account and how it connects to the 26 alphabet-shifted historical identities.E16E16
• Parse and follow the reagent supply chain — connect Starburst's warehouse records to the now-identified Eldritch balm, the contaminated Sedgemoor source, and the journal's Rose Stage plan.E9E9
• Resume the Curio / Strato investigation — Curio is back on campus. Ask where he was, then return to the Strato / secondary-chasm thread rather than continuing to search for him.
• Free S.A.M.I. safely — the party still wants S.A.M.I. out of Strixhaven control, but Episode 19 shows why the escape method matters. S.A.M.I. tries to jump into an Earth Sanctum connection without asking, is stopped, and admits the unilateral move was wrong. The physical-body / independent-embodiment plan remains the safer objective.
• Work with Quill / physical S.A.M.I. interface — the old “finish the software” task is superseded because Mia had already completed it. A safe physical/independent embodiment for S.A.M.I. remains relevant if it can help them leave the campus infrastructure.E19
• Navigate the Mia/Wendy link — now a daily telepathic curse-link with Wendy physically back at school. Determine privacy/range/control and establish boundaries; Wendy wants strict separation, while Mia immediately turns "sis" into a running joke.E10
• Relearn Wendy's flute skill — Mia has joined the Showband woodwinds; the body clearly remembers more than Mia consciously does.E4E12
• Define Mia's public presentation — decide when Mia wants to appear as her original human self through Thin Veneer and when she is comfortable being visibly Reborn/fairy, especially with Wendy back on campus.E10E10
• Track Wendy's forced Prismari placement — Wendy wanted Witherbloom, but Episode 7 says her parents have already assigned her to Prismari and moved/arranged her belongings there despite her having only the introductory Prismari prerequisite.
• Plan the dual-college capstone path — Year 3 planning now treats Mia as evenly split between Quandrix and Witherbloom. Clarify with her counselors whether she must complete two separate fourth-year capstones or can combine them.E18E18
• Understand the Cat Staff — identify its forgotten name, its “mistress,” why it survived for millennia on fading Earth magic, and what its restored magical form can reveal.E19E20
• Understand Mia’s Earth-side spell supply — determine what “siphoning spells from Wendy every day” actually costs Wendy and whether Mia can safely sustain herself through the link on low-magic planes.E19
• Identify the black-suited Earth mage — Mia knows he was present at the museum and watched her escape. She does not know the player-only scene in which he later approaches her home.E19E19
• Finish preparing for the Magister’s Masquerade — Dressing for Success is complete. Remaining work includes the ballroom-dance instruction, final hall setup, and the masquerade itself around the later Year 3 exam schedule.
• Compare notes with the Enigma Enclave — their case history is now known, and Episode 22 adds evidence that the group itself was magically influenced. The next useful step is comparing their records against the Penthouse Pals’ goo, chitin, magehunter, River swimmer 26, and sabotage evidence.

Sharpbeak's escaped-mascot job — resolved: the pest, art elemental, cabinet mascot, and final Inkling are added to the previously tagged fractal/statue. By the end of the expedition, all six mascots are back in their pen. The party reports the more dangerous findings directly to Sharpbeak.E11E11

Investigate the Witherbloom frenzy / magehunter site — the problem is now more specific than ordinary aggression. Some elk show a temporary berserk condition, while the party also finds a necromantic ritual site, matching journal scrawlings, and magehunter chitin. Determine whether these are one project, separate problems, or connected to Eldritch balm.

• Understand Wendy's Avernus connection — Mia knows Wendy has a relationship with Mad Maggie, can reach Avernus by car/portal, apparently supplies Maggie with red-capped little minions, and is expected at an end-of-year race.E10E10
• Investigate Laverna Fields — identify the archfey, her warehouse/supply relationship, and whether the Roman-name/curse/replacement similarities reflect one actor or coincidence.
• Trace the magehunter cover-up / response failure — S.A.M.I. has camera records of recent magehunter sightings near Lorehold and Witherbloom, but much of that footage was deleted by River swimmer 26. Determine whether faculty inaction, digital interference, or both explain the failed response.E16
• Identify Quin Thorne’s unnamed weird-magic student — the student was blamed without proof for the post-cataclysm wasting illness, and their identity is magically redacted. Determine whether the erasure concealed guilt, protected someone, or manufactured a scapegoat.
• Investigate the 200-year cluster — connect the Lorehold explosion/rift, revived magehunter eggs, Curio’s creator, Quin Thorne’s donation, S.A.M.I.’s later 197-year history, the missing masquerade records, and the unexplained wasting illness without assuming one cause prematurely.
• Track the stolen magehunter egg samples — S.A.M.I. says the damaged egg specimens from the old Lorehold pocket were placed in a natural-history collection and were later stolen.E16
• Trace the one-use summoning wand — determine who substituted it into the Bow’s End skate-park event, why it carried Sedgemoor algae, and whether it belongs to the same larger sabotage pattern.

Identify the ritual writer by handwriting — use the party's calligrapher proficiency plus Biblioplex access to compare the Sedgemoor journal/ritual scrawlings with a broad set of writing samples.E11

Decode the ritual script — the text is still unreadable. S.A.M.I. cannot OCR/read text from the stored image, the Comprehend Languages scroll attempt failed, and one side character named approximately Griff may know the language according to the table.E11

Cursed-doll investigation — Episode 11 makes the Roman/Brutus portion Mia knowledge through Starburst's Firejolt debrief. The soldier is back in the doll and Xanther is free. Remaining goals are identifying the prisoner's exact identity, the original Fey curse-maker, and the full route by which the doll crossed worlds/owners.

Academic Status — First-Year Finals Complete#

Across Year 1, Mia carries the required Magical Physiologies course alongside a changing set of electives.E8

First term#

• Magical Physiologies — required General course; exact catalogue-title match remains unclear.E7E8
• Putting Down Roots: Arcano-botany for Beginners — Witherbloom.E4E1
• Connecting the Dots: Beginning Computational Magic — Quandrix.E12E4
• Mightier Than the Sword: Beginning Inkomancy — Silverquill.E4
• Fashionably Late: History of Magic and Art — Prismari.E1E4

Second term#

• Magical Physiologies.
• Weeding Out the Weak: Introduction to Blight Magic — Witherbloom; Mia learns Ray of Enfeeblement.
• Speaking the Same Language: Overview of Magical Notation — General; Mia learns Comprehend Languages.
• Keep it Secret, Keep it Safe: Protecting Your Research Behind Locked Doors — General; Mia learns Arcane Lock.
• Repetition, Repetition, Repetition: Introduction to Forms and Fractals — Quandrix; Mia learns Vortex Warp and gains the S.A.M.I.-coding benefit.E6E5

Third term#

• Magical Physiologies.
• S.T.E.M.: Soothe, Talk, Evaluate, and Mend: Leafbinding for Beginners — Witherbloom; Mia learns Cure Wounds.E8E8
• Growing Pains: How Larger Numbers Can Cause More Hurt — Quandrix; Mia learns Magnify Gravity.E8
• Don't Hate, Cultivate: Augmenting for Beginners — Quandrix; Mia learns Enlarge/Reduce.E8E8
• Getting Bogged Down: Principles of Boughcalling — Witherbloom; Mia learns Summon Beast.E8

Year 2 College Direction — Forms Submitted#

The earlier Year 2 college forms were recorded as a working Quandrix-major / Witherbloom-minor arrangement.

Episode 18 end-of-year planning gives a stronger practical description: Mia has taken the same number of Quandrix and Witherbloom classes every semester. Year 3 administration therefore treats her as split across both colleges.

Under the stated Year 3 / fourth-year planning rules, a student pursuing multiple colleges may be expected to complete one capstone track for each college unless the counselors approve a different arrangement. For Mia, that currently points toward both a Quandrix and a Witherbloom capstone.E18

Year 2 Course Load — Quietly Overloaded#

Mia’s first Year 2 term is five courses — one above the normal four-course load. She has formally stopped taking Wendy’s classes but quietly keeps the extra slot.E12

• Scrawl to the Wall: Scrivening and Symbology — General; Professor Xyla Langning. This is the required year-long second-year course.E15E17
• Pushing Up Daisies: Using Death to Fuel Life — Witherbloom; Professor Tivash. Reward: Wither and Bloom.
• Skeleton in the Closet: Introduction to Reanimation — Witherbloom lab; Professor Serafina Onyx. Reward: Animate Dead.E12
• Rejecting Your Reality: Quantitative Arcano-Physics — Quandrix; Professor Bildra Forheim. Reward: Immovable Object.E12
• What Comes Around Goes Around: Applied Computational Magic — Quandrix; Professor / Dean Imbraham. Reward: Magic Circle.E12

Year 2 Second Trimester — Exams Complete#

Mia again carries five courses in the second Year 2 term.E18

• Scrawl to the Wall: Scrivening and Symbology — General; Professor Xyla Langning.E15E17
• Going the Extra Mile: Stretching Out Spell Efficiency — General; Professor Orvlo. Reward: Spell Sniper.E15
• Talking Heads: Conversations with Historical Busts in Dead Languages — Lorehold; Professor Xyla Langning. Reward: Tongues.E15
• Wiping the Slate Clean: Methods of Erasing Magical Effects — General; Professor Orvlo. Reward: Dispel Magic.E17E15
• Magic by Numbers: Intermediate Forms and Fractals — Quandrix lab; Professor Deekah. Reward: Conjure Animals, manifesting as fractal beasts.E15

Year 2 Third Trimester — Final Exams Complete#

Mia keeps the five-course overload through the final Year 2 term.

• Scrawl to the Wall: Scrivening and Symbology — General; Professor Xyla Langning. The Wheel and Woe extra-credit job improves the final result.E17
• Getting to the Root of Poisons: Fundamentals of Antidotes — Witherbloom lab; Professor Asana Vargundil. Mia passes and learns Lesser Restoration.E17
• Arches and Textures: Natural Buildings of the Vastlands — Quandrix; Dean Kianne. Mia passes and learns Galder’s Tower.E17
• Wiping the Slate Clean: Methods of Erasing Magical Effects — General; Professor Orvlo. Mia accidentally repeats the course and receives a Dispel Magic scroll instead of relearning the spell.E17E15
• Shelter from the Storm: Preparing Accommodations for Any Environment — General; Professor Bildra Forheim. Mia passes and learns Tiny Hut.E17

Mia passes every Year 2 course, although the perfect-grade / all-aces streak ends during these finals.E17

End of First Year — Current Status#

• Award: First-Year Student of the Year, alongside the Penthouse Pals.E20E10
• Campus reputation: "Badass" title; +1 to a check when reasonably applicable under the campaign's house rule.E9E18
• College direction: at the end of Year 1, Mia’s working plan is Quandrix as her main college with Witherbloom as a minor. By Year 3, her completed coursework is explicitly described as evenly split between the two.E18E9
• Housing: continuing in the central-campus penthouse for Year 2; Wendy is returning and Quill's spare-room arrangement ends.E9E9
• Summer residence: Mia spends the break with the Goodfellow family in the Feywild, not on Earth.E9
• Appearance: remains Reborn/undead-fairy by preference, but can now shift her appearance to original human Mia.E11E10
• Mia/Wendy link: the genie explicitly describes it as permanent.E19E12
• Level: end-of-year transition to level 4 is announced, but Mia’s final level-4 choice remains unclear at this point.E9

Year 3 — First Exam Block Complete#

Mia’s Year 3 schedule is the mandatory third-year history course plus four electives. These are year-long courses; the first exam block does not award their final spell / feature rewards.E22

• Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How: Advanced Arcane History — General Studies; Dean Augusta Tullus. First exam: pass.E23E22
• Rotten Luck: Methods for Making the Best Undead — Witherbloom lab; Professor Serafina Onyx. First exam: ace.E22
• The Mind’s Eye: Intermediate Illusory Arts — Quandrix; Professor Rixy. First exam: ace.E22
• Survival of the Biggest: Applied Scale Magic — Quandrix lab; Professor Cleam Greenthumb. First exam: ace.E22
• Lions and Tigers and Bears: Advanced Creature Transmutation — General Studies; Professor Verelda Lang. First exam: ace.E22E22

The table sums the first exam block up as “aced everything but her core class.”E22

Year 3 Opening — Current Status#

• Academics: first Year 3 exam block complete; Mia has extra credit banked for the second Advanced Arcane History exam after the party’s historical-fashion work.E23E22
• Employment: Mia now models for Pimbim Goodhands with Wendy for 15 gp per week, replacing her Biblioplex shelving job.
• Masquerade: the Starlit Evening theme, historical research, fashion show, auction, marshwick harvest, and archive-supply move are complete. Ballroom instruction and later hall setup remain before the ball.E22E23
• Two-century mystery: the missing masquerade year now includes roughly 150–200 deaths, mostly from a rapid wasting illness after the catastrophe; the accused student’s identity is magically redacted.E23E23
• Next played segment: the second Year 3 exams.

Year 1#

Year 2#

Year 3#

Before Strixhaven#

Mia had been attending the Cambridge University of Economics and Political Sciences, an online university that turned out to be a complete scam.

The school had taken real money from students while providing fake credentials. Mia had invested substantial time and money into it and suddenly needed to find somewhere willing to accept the work she had already completed.

Starburst connection#

Mia already knew Starburst Parker online through the fake university.

• Starburst's online handle is Decaf Mocha.
• Mia and Starburst had shared online classes.
• Starburst helped point Mia toward Strixhaven.
• This makes Starburst Mia's strongest pre-campaign PC connection.

Mia applied to several replacement universities. Most ordinary Earth universities either rejected the transferred credits or offered to make her start over.

Strixhaven accepted them.

Mia's Acceptance#

Mia receives an enormous Strixhaven acceptance package.

Strixhaven:

• accepts her previous credits,
• places her into first year while clearing much of her general study requirement,
• pays her first year's tuition,
• acknowledges the disaster with her previous university,
• explains that another affected student helped draw attention to the situation.

The package also contains a magical crystalline tablet containing S.A.M.I. — Spectral Awakened Mind Interface — a magical assistant connected to the wider SALMON network.

Mia's response is very characteristic: rather than dwelling on how suspicious the offer is, she becomes fascinated by the magical computer and immediately wants to understand how it works.

She registers as DancingAtMiadnight.

Rather than receiving a normal letter, a senior Strixhaven representative personally visits the Goodfellow estate in the Feywild.

Wendy is dismissive and entitled about the entire process. She takes the acceptance materials and more or less sends the representative away.

Her family influence is already obvious.

She later receives an expensive automated convertible carriage and arrives at Strixhaven with servants handling her luggage.

Wendy is immediately annoyed to learn that she has been placed in shared accommodation rather than a private room.

Her apparent vehicle turns out to be an airship crewed by undead sailors.

For Mia, this is essentially the best thing ever.

Rather than being horrified by the undead or magical planar travel, she becomes intensely excited. Her enthusiasm for fantasy becoming real overwhelms much of her normal shyness.

This establishes an important trait:

Mia can experience genuine fear or trauma while simultaneously being fascinated by the magical or macabre thing causing it.

On arrival, staff initially expect her to need help processing the revelation that magic is real.

Instead, Mia is practically bouncing off the walls asking people what species they are and wanting to see everything.

Known members:

• Mia
• Wendy
• Starburst
• Callie
• A'bigail
• Callan / Kaelin

A student using the handle roll_4d6 has been interacting with first years online and helps escort Mia and Starburst toward the dorm.

Important anomaly#

The dorm assignments are supposedly based partly on positive online interactions.

Mia checks her activity and realizes:

• she has interacted positively with most of the people assigned to her suite,
• but she does not remember interacting with Wendy at all,
• Wendy barely interacted with anyone online anyway.

So Mia and Wendy being grouped together does not obviously fit the stated assignment system.

Open question: Was their placement together deliberate?

This is Mia's clearest pre-existing friendship and remains emotionally important after the accident.

She invokes her family's influence and complains that her grandfather will hear about this.

Mia, who has had to work for what she has, immediately dislikes this behavior and mentally identifies Wendy as a Draco Malfoy type.

Despite being curious about the strange roommate assignment, Mia does not yet feel confident enough to confront Wendy directly.

Mia becomes curious and approaches.

She overhears discussion involving:

• Puck Goodfellow,
• Goodfellow family influence,
• a reference to Titania / Tatiana being angry or involved.

Before Mia can properly question what is happening, there is a bright flash and an explosion.

What the party finds:

• Mia's body has been reduced to ash / disintegrated.
• Mia's crystal is shattered.
• Wendy's body is perfectly preserved inside a magical protective effect.
• roll_4d6 is revealed to be a mechanical construct rather than an ordinary person.
• Starburst, after an exceptional investigation result, can see Mia's ghostly form standing near Wendy's body.

This is the defining event of Mia's campaign.

The professor explains that Mia is fading and must be placed into the nearest viable body immediately.

That body is Wendy's.

Mia's spirit is magically transferred into Wendy Goodfellow's preserved body.

She is effectively reborn as:

Mia Goodfellow Graves / Wendy-Mia Goodfellow Graves

Exact naming may vary in play.

Because of the nature of the Goodfellow family / Feywild magic, her soul returned to her home realm and was already being placed into or prepared for another body.

That meant:

• Wendy's original Strixhaven body remained physically intact,
• Wendy herself was alive elsewhere in the sense that her soul survived,
• Mia had no similar backup,
• so the Goodfellows allowed Wendy's old body to be used as an emergency vessel for Mia.

The arrangement is described rather disturbingly as the family loaning the body to the school until Mia can be given a suitable body of her own.

The school intends eventually to restore Mia through resurrection, reincarnation, true polymorph, or another suitable magical solution.

Wendy retains a connection to her former body.

As a result, Mia can access:

• Wendy's memories,
• Wendy's knowledge,
• Wendy's instincts,
• Wendy's physical muscle memory,
• some of Wendy's personality traits,
• magical abilities associated with Wendy / the body.

Mia remains the dominant personality, but Wendy leaks through.

Examples from this episode include:

• instinctively knowing things Mia did not previously know,
• unexpectedly being able to quote A Midsummer Night's Dream,
• recognizing a mimic,
• using magic without having learned it in the ordinary way,
• moments of entitled or financially unconcerned thinking that feel more like Wendy than Mia.

Flying#

Mia now has wings.

When she consciously tries to fly, she is awkward because Mia has never flown.

When she stops thinking about it, Wendy's body's muscle memory can take over and flying feels natural.

This body/memory mismatch is likely to remain an important roleplaying element.

• Mia Graves died.
• Wendy Goodfellow died.

Episode 6 explicitly corrects that earlier assumption. Campus gossip broadly knows that Wendy died, returned to the Feywild, is regrowing a body there, and can in some sense watch through Mia's eyes. The exact metaphysics are still unclear, and official death/memorial records may still say both women died, but Wendy's continued existence is not merely a tiny party-only secret.

This creates an extremely strange social position for Mia:

Mia lives under death records and memorials while campus social knowledge increasingly treats her as the surviving Mia in Wendy's former body — with Wendy herself alive elsewhere in the Feywild and sometimes perceived as looking through the link.

A student later talks sympathetically about Wendy's death and praises the Goodfellow family's generosity while Mia is standing nearby in Wendy's body.

Mia is visibly uncomfortable.

Consequences include:

• Mia's entire remaining Strixhaven tuition being paid.
• Mia's approximately £92,000 of Earth student debt being paid off.
• The dorm building being renamed Goodfellow Towers.
• Existing Goodfellow philanthropic connections around campus becoming increasingly obvious.
• The university publicly memorializing Wendy.
• Mia is now explicitly described as a member of the Goodfellows, at least from the family's perspective.
• The Goodfellows explicitly promise to pay for a suitable recreation / transformation of Mia back toward her former form.
• Puck Goodfellow now wants to meet Mia personally.

This creates a new tension for Mia.

She is used to working and worrying about money.

Now she is receiving the benefits of Wendy's aristocratic family simply because she inhabits Wendy's body and because the Goodfellows bear responsibility for what happened.

There are already hints that Wendy's instinctive expectation of privilege sometimes bleeds into Mia's thoughts.

She is genuinely distressed that:

• she died,
• her original body is gone,
• she does not know what her future body situation will be,
• she must explain some version of events to her parents,
• her identity has become complicated.

At the same time:

• she is undead,
• she has wings,
• she has fangs,
• magic is real,
• necromancy is real,
• fantasy species are real,
• she is living at a magical university.

And Mia thinks much of that is incredibly cool.

A rough version of her internal loop is:

"Oh my god, I'm dead. Oh my god, I'm undead. I have wings. This is amazing. Oh my god, I'm dead."

That mixture of trauma and genuine wonder seems core to Mia.

Using the surviving magical systems, she sends an email to her parents explaining only that:

• she arrived at college,
• some strange things happened,
• she is okay,
• her phone broke,
• she may be difficult to contact for a while.

She deliberately avoids telling them the full truth because she does not want to panic them.

She retreats into her room, processes the trauma, and begins trying to understand the magical world partly because she wants to understand what happened to Mia.

Mia repeatedly tries to reconnect with her during the following week.

This friendship is one of Mia's strongest emotional anchors.

Mia's job choice#

Mia initially has little need for a job after the Goodfellows cover her costs.

However, when Starburst takes a job at the Biblioplex café, Mia decides to work nearby as a bookshelver.

Her stated motivation is largely to remain close to Starburst and support her.

Callie#

Callie is enthusiastic, affectionate, and fascinated by Mia's situation rather than frightened by it.

Callie's response helps normalize Mia's bizarre new existence.

A'bigail#

Mia gets on comfortably with A'bigail and joins the group's early social interactions.

Aurora Luna Winterstar#

Aurora recognizes Mia from online despite Mia now looking like Wendy.

Initially confused, she realizes who Mia is through:

• Mia's mannerisms,
• the way she speaks,
• the context of the broken crystal.

Aurora thinks Mia's new fangs are cool and suggests getting a drink together.

Potential friendship to track.

This means Mia is effectively carrying two students' academic obligations.

Early likely interests:

• Mia originally leaned toward Quandrix.
• Wendy's family wanted Quandrix for Wendy.
• Wendy herself preferred Witherbloom.
• Mia's new undead/reborn circumstances make Witherbloom increasingly relevant to her too.

Early class discussion includes:

• Magical Physiologies — mandatory for first years.
• Inkomancy.
• History of Magic.
• Introductory college-specific classes.

Exact final schedule should be confirmed from later episodes / memory.

Confirmed first-trimester class load (Episode 2)#

Mia is carrying a heavier class load because she is effectively attending for herself and Wendy.

• Magical Physiologies — mandatory first-year course.
• Inkomancy — currently the class Mia finds most difficult.
• Beginning Computational Magic — comes relatively naturally to her.
• Arcano-Botany for Beginners — also comparatively comfortable.
• History of Magic and Art — comparatively comfortable and a source of useful setting knowledge.

It is an unusually heavy course load because Mia is, in practical terms, "two people."

The group is given a scavenger hunt involving several major areas of the library.

The Snarl#

Touching the magical Snarl temporarily causes Mia to discorporate again before reforming.

She receives a healing potion.

Given how recently Mia literally died and had her soul forced into another body, this is potentially significant even though the scene is played lightly.

Stage challenge#

Mia unexpectedly begins quoting A Midsummer Night's Dream during a performance.

She does not consciously know why she knows it.

This is one of the clearest early examples of Wendy's memories surfacing through her.

Witherbloom mascot#

In the gardens, Mia receives the Witherbloom Pest mascot.

She absolutely loves it.

She also uses Druidcraft to change the color of the awakened bush that gave it to her.

Because Mia played D&D on Earth, she is immediately interested.

She finds the idea of people in a genuinely magical world pretending to go on magical adventures both funny and appealing.

Rosie explains that although they can use real magic for scenery and effects, part of the point is deliberately not solving everything with magic because imagination and performance are part of the hobby.

Mia becomes strongly interested in joining.

This may or may not become relevant later.

Mia/Wendy immediately recognizes the creature as a mimic, apparently drawing on Wendy's knowledge.

Mia uses Chill Touch, creating a necrotic skeletal hand.

The party defeats the creature.

Important discovery#

Afterward, investigation reveals that it was not actually a normal mimic.

It appears to have been an ordinary costume trunk that was somehow transformed into a mimic-like monster.

A strange oily black residue is found on it.

Callan collects some in a vial.

Mia, displaying fearless scientific rigor, licks the mysterious black substance.

Her tongue temporarily stops working.

The professor loosely dismisses the substance as potentially some kind of leather treatment, but its connection to the transformation remains suspicious.

Track this as a campaign mystery.

Within days she:

• discovered magic was real,
• travelled across planes,
• arrived at Strixhaven,
• met Starburst in person,
• developed an immediate dislike of Wendy,
• investigated the strange circumstances placing them together,
• was killed in an explosion,
• had her soul transplanted into Wendy's fairy body,
• became a Reborn in Wendy's fairy body,
• gained wings and inherited pieces of Wendy,
• became publicly dead,
• had her debts erased by Wendy's family,
• began navigating Strixhaven as two people's lives tangled together.

The central emotional tension is:

Mia is horrified by what happened to her, but she is also genuinely delighted that the impossible fantasy world she always imagined is real.

And underneath almost every part of that is now Wendy.

Episode shape#

Episode 2 moves away from the explosive opening and into Strixhaven's unusual week-by-week college structure. The first four weeks of term pass during the session, with classes, jobs, extracurriculars, the beginnings of new friendships, a major Curio mystery, and the Frog's the Word first-year mixer.

For Mia specifically, the episode is about learning how to live as the new Mia/Wendy combination rather than merely surviving the transformation.

Week 1 — Learning to be Mia in Wendy's body#

Key scene: ~48:22 onward

Mia describes the week as an adjustment period rather than simply a horrible one.

The most immediate physical problem is learning to use her two new wings. The mismatch between conscious Mia and Wendy's bodily instincts remains noticeable: Mia can operate the body, but doing unfamiliar things deliberately takes practice.

Showband#

Mia joins the Strixhaven Showband Association, associated with:

• Aurora Luna Winterstar
• Robina Larkindale

This is particularly funny mechanically because Mia has no musical training.

Wendy, however, had just enough experience to vaguely play the flute.

The result is another good example of their shared-body problem:

Wendy's body has enough muscle memory to play a little, while Mia herself cannot properly read the music.

Mia therefore has an instrument skill that feels physically familiar but intellectually foreign.

Classes#

Mia is completely enthralled by finally being able to study real magic.

She is not top of her classes, but she is comfortable because she is genuinely fascinated by nearly everything she is learning.

She particularly struggles with Inkomancy, while computational magic, arcano-botany, History of Magic and Art, and Magical Physiologies feel easier.

Biblioplex job#

Mia continues shelving books at the Biblioplex.

The job itself is boring. Huge clockwork archivists can shelve books much more efficiently than she can, which makes the work feel somewhat pointless.

Her real reason for being there remains relational: she chose the job largely to stay near Starburst.

The little construct:

• is only a few feet tall,
• moves books around using a specialized form of telekinesis,
• sometimes opens its chest and stores books inside,
• appears to have an actual biological eye.

They learn that this type of construct can contain an eye donated by a scholar.

The group starts calling / identifying the little construct as Curio.

Mia and the others quickly become fascinated with Curio rather than treating them as a nuisance.

Drazomir, another Biblioplex worker/student, knows a little about such constructs but has never really seen anyone interact with Curio.

Mia's social circle begins widening here too: she is willing to invite Drazomir to the dorm and later starts a small weekly Earth TV/movie night, partly to give the group's quieter acquaintances a comfortable way to socialize.

It combines:

• a first-year mixer / house party,
• a traditional familiar race,
• prizes,
• food, drink, and live music.

The event will be hosted at the Bowen family campus cottage.

Hearing about the familiar race causes something in Wendy's inherited knowledge to click.

Mia realizes:

She knows Find Familiar.

Not because Mia learned it, but because Wendy knew how.

Summoning Lucas#

Key scene: ~2:34:12

Mia spends the required money on components and attempts to summon a Fey spider, drawing specifically on Wendy's knowledge.

The spell does not emerge normally.

A black veil forms around the summoning. The spider comes through partially decayed:

• one leg falls off / is degraded,
• its body becomes dull and zombified,
• its eyes glow red,
• its movement is unnervingly jerky.

Mia initially thinks she has messed up the spell.

Then she takes a closer look and decides:

Actually, this is really cool.

She names the spider Lucas, after the cute internet spider videos from Earth.

Lucas rapidly becomes a constant companion:

• on Mia's shoulder,
• in her hair,
• dangling from silk like an earring,
• being fed flies from a little pouch Mia carries around.

This is a significant development in Mia's magic.

Even when she deliberately calls on Wendy's Fey spell knowledge, the magic passes through Mia's current Reborn nature and comes out with a necromantic/undead character.

Mia later describes it simply as:

"My magic just seems to do that."

They discover that Curio has particular interest in books dealing with:

• conjuration,
• necromancy,
• basic wizardry.

Curio also seems able to appear and disappear from sections of the Biblioplex without using the obvious staircases.

Eventually the group discovers hidden cubby-like passages Curio uses to move between floors and into the restricted Scriptoria Collections.

Mia sends Lucas through the small passage riding Starburst's familiar like a tiny cavalry scout while the PCs use the normal route.

The group follows Curio into a restricted archive containing dangerous historical magical objects.

The group eventually finds Curio in a room containing a strange pre-Calamity artifact.

Curio has surrounded themself with:

• books,
• papers,
• incense,
• candles,
• magical research.

Mia recognizes the ritual materials because she has so recently performed Find Familiar.

But Curio is not trying to summon a familiar.

Curio is trying to summon a person.

Strato#

Research reveals that Curio once belonged to / worked with a wizard called Strato, an Air Genasi.

Centuries earlier, around the year 772, a catastrophic magical research accident involving a pre-Calamity artifact destroyed multiple buildings and killed hundreds of people.

Strato died in that event.

Curio has apparently spent an enormous amount of time trying to work out how to bring Strato back.

Mia is immediately sympathetic.

When the others wonder whether resurrection is even possible, Mia's reaction is essentially:

Obviously resurrection happens. Look at me.

She also wonders whether the normal time limits on resurrection could be bypassed with more explicitly necromantic magic.

This is an important character moment: Mia's own death has made resurrection theory intensely personal, but her response is curiosity and problem-solving rather than a blanket fear of necromancy.

It works.

Mia begins explaining the idea of "Calamities" across different planes: enormous civilization-shattering events that nearly destroy societies and act as historical resets.

But while she explains it, something changes.

Her normal tentative, friendly manner gradually becomes:

"Duh, everybody should know this."

Then she notices and returns to being Mia.

This is one of the clearest Episode 2 examples of Wendy's personality, not merely Wendy's factual memories, temporarily surfacing through Mia.

Strato donated the eye used to create Curio.

That means Curio literally carries a surviving physical piece of the person they are trying to restore.

The group becomes deeply emotionally invested in helping them.

For Mia, this has obvious thematic resonance:

• bodies carrying pieces of other people,
• identity persisting after death,
• resurrection through an unexpected vessel,
• the question of how much of a person is necessary to bring them back.

That thematic overlap keeps Curio’s restoration story directly relevant to Mia even though it is a wider party subplot.

S.A.M.I. cannot identify it, but can determine that Mia is in a restricted area.

It promptly alerts an archivist.

The party's response is to protect Curio and the resurrection research.

Mia comes up with a cover:

• separate out books that look less useful,
• return those books,
• hide the genuinely important research,
• claim the students had followed missing library books into the restricted area and were bringing them back.

When a clockwork archivist arrives, Mia — as an actual Biblioplex employee — steps forward and tells exactly that story.

It works.

The archivist takes the decoy "missing books" and orders the students out.

This marks a nice shift in Mia: she is willing to lie to university authorities and misuse her employee access to protect Curio.

Curio begins hanging around more often.

The group copies the surviving photograph of Strato so Curio can keep the original.

Curio places the picture carefully inside their chest.

By this point, the group is no longer treating Curio as a mystery to solve so much as someone they want to protect and help.

Mia shares that investment.

Once a week, she will use her surviving laptop to show an Earth TV series or movie.

This gives the group a little piece of Earth culture and gives shy acquaintances such as Drazomir a low-pressure reason to socialize.

This is also a subtle sign that Mia is starting to make Strixhaven feel like home, rather than merely somewhere bizarre she has been dropped.

By the fourth week:

• classes and homework are now fully underway,
• jobs are becoming routine,
• Curio is interacting with the group more,
• Frog's the Word is approaching.

The familiar race itself has not yet happened by the end of this episode; the party begins first.

Getting dressed for the party creates a surprisingly Mia/Wendy-specific problem.

Mia and Wendy have very different styles.

Mia's own preferences run toward:

• black,
• loose or shape-hiding clothes,
• relatively understated clothing.

Wendy's wardrobe is substantially more elegant and feminine.

For the party, Mia eventually selects a dark blue cocktail dress from Wendy's clothes because it is the closest thing to her own taste that works on the current fairy body.

It has a low/open back to accommodate the wings.

Mia is not especially happy about the compromise.

This is a small but very concrete example of the identity problem: even getting dressed now requires negotiating between Mia's self-image and Wendy's body/life.

At the large first-year party she tends to stay near the people she already knows and tries to avoid becoming the center of attention.

She is particularly drawn toward Aurora Luna Winterstar, who is performing with the band.

Mia also examines the magical DJ setup because its controls resemble Earth audio equipment, just built out of crystal, wood, and magic rather than ordinary electronics.

Aurora notices Lucas and immediately thinks Mia's undead spider is cool.

Mia shows Lucas to her.

Aurora then summons her own familiar/companion: a colorful Witherbloom Pest called Charlie.

Mia's shyness briefly disappears because she is so delighted:

She immediately wants one.

Aurora explains that Witherbloom students often befriend Pests and form familiar bonds with them rather than using the older summoning methods Mia used.

This gives Mia another possible path for her Witherbloom interest.

Wendy's laugh#

During the conversation Mia laughs.

The sound surprises Mia herself.

Wendy's body has a laugh that tinkles like a bell.

Aurora stops and asks if that is really Mia's laugh, then calls it the coolest laugh she has ever heard and tells Mia she has "got it going on."

Mia basically folds into the floor from embarrassment.

After Aurora walks away, Mia quietly mutters:

"She's so cool."

This strongly reads as the beginning of a crush or at least attraction.

Mia is gay; Wendy is straight.

Saelora notes that this difference is interacting strangely inside their shared situation.

The exact final effect is not yet settled — the discussion floats possibilities somewhere around gay / somewhat altered attraction / potentially ace rather than simply becoming straight.

The important point is not to prematurely define a new label.

The important point is:

Mia's attraction is another area where Wendy's imprint may interfere with or complicate Mia's sense of self.

Aurora appears to be the first clear example where this may matter.

Her Reborn body is resistant to poison, so alcohol affects her differently from an ordinary human.

This may become another small body-adjustment theme: food, drink, sleep, intoxication, and physical sensations no longer work exactly as Mia expects.

A person using the familiar handle roll_4d6 appears at the party.

At first this is alarming because the group remembers roll_4d6 as the "person" who escorted Mia and Starburst before the explosion.

But this student is flesh and blood.

The student gives their name as Adrick Mossberth, though the exact spelling remains uncertain.

He explains that:

• he really is the person behind the roll_4d6 username,
• he was kidnapped before the beginning of term,
• he was held in a creepy castle,
• someone apparently copied / stole his identity or appearance,
• he was later released,
• when he finally arrived at Strixhaven he was investigated for terrorism because of what the impostor had done,
• he was apparently cleared.

This substantially changes the Episode 1 mystery.

The construct that exploded was not roll_4d6.

It was impersonating the real student.

Callie sends Mia a long message warning her about this and explaining the situation so Mia will not panic if she sees him.

However, Mia has left / forgotten her crystal during the party and does not actually receive the message until afterward.

Updated mystery#

The questions are now less:

"Why did roll_4d6 attack Wendy?"

and more:

Who kidnapped the real roll_4d6, copied his identity, built the mechanical duplicate, and sent it to Wendy?

The fake roommate/online-interaction angle therefore looks even more deliberate than before.

• Callan establishes contacts around his secret criminal work while presenting himself publicly as a student trying to understand business. He also begins working in the The Bow's End kitchen.
• A'bigail joins the Future Entrepreneurs of Strixhaven, continues her Biblioplex garden work, and becomes increasingly attached to Curio.
• Callie remains an enormous social presence, draws large groups into the Firejolt Café, promotes events, and helps connect people around campus.
• Starburst remains intensely academically focused and socially cautious. She summons a celestial weasel familiar and joins the Curio investigation.
• Frog's the Word brings a large portion of the first-year NPC cast into one place, allowing multiple early friendships, crushes, and rivalries to begin taking shape.

The episode ends while the mixer is still underway. The familiar race is still to come.

Identity#

• Mia is getting more comfortable operating Wendy's body, but wings still require conscious adjustment.
• Wendy's muscle memory can provide physical skills Mia never learned.
• Wendy's knowledge can surface when Mia needs information.
• Wendy's personality / attitude can also surface unintentionally.
• Wendy's body's laugh, appearance, clothing, and social presentation can feel alien to Mia.
• Mia and Wendy appear to have different sexualities, introducing another identity complication.

Magic#

• Mia can access spells Wendy knew.
• Mia's own Reborn nature changes the expression of those spells.
• Her attempt to summon a Fey spider instead produces the undead-looking Lucas.
• Mia is increasingly comfortable with necromancy and resurrection magic rather than frightened by it.

Relationships#

• Starburst: still an important emotional anchor; Mia's Biblioplex job remains partly about staying near her.
• Aurora Luna Winterstar: emerging attraction/crush territory; Mia is very visibly flustered by her.
• Curio: Mia is increasingly invested in protecting Curio and helping recover Strato.
• Drazomir: friendly acquaintance; Mia includes him in low-pressure dorm social plans.
• roll_4d6 / Adrick Mossberth: now understood to be another victim of the attack rather than its perpetrator.

Wendy / Mia#

• How much deeper can Wendy's personality leakage become?
• Is Mia merely accessing Wendy's stored memories, or can Wendy actively influence the body from elsewhere?
• Does Wendy experience anything when Mia uses her memories or muscle memory?
• What happens to the link when Wendy's new body is ready?
• How much of Mia's changing behavior comes from Wendy versus simply adapting to Strixhaven and undeath?
• How will Mia's sexuality and attraction interact with Wendy's different orientation?

The attack#

• Who kidnapped the real roll_4d6?
• Why was his identity chosen for the impostor?
• Who built the mechanical duplicate?
• Who sent it into the dorm?
• Was the assignment that placed Mia and Wendy together deliberately engineered?
• Was Mia simply unlucky, or was her presence part of the plan?
• How does the Goodfellow/Titania conflict fit into this?

Curio / Strato#

• Can Strato actually be recovered after centuries?
• Is Strato's eye inside Curio enough to anchor a resurrection or summoning?
• What exactly is the pre-Calamity artifact Curio is researching?
• Is helping Curio safe?
• What will Strixhaven authorities do if they discover the hidden research?

Black residue / transformed mimic#

• Still unresolved. Episode 2 does not provide a clear answer about the oily black residue or why the costume trunk became mimic-like.

She now has:

• a real course load,
• a boring library job she mostly keeps for Starburst,
• Showband,
• a weekly Earth media night,
• an undead spider familiar,
• a growing curiosity about Witherbloom,
• a secret resurrection project involving Curio,
• an apparent crush on Aurora,
• and increasingly obvious moments where Wendy's knowledge, mannerisms, body, and identity surface through her.

The episode also changes the attack mystery substantially: roll_4d6 was not the attacker at all. Someone kidnapped the real student and used his identity for the mechanical impostor that killed Mia.

The core Mia/Wendy problem is therefore widening.

It is no longer only:

"Whose body am I in?"

It is also becoming:

"Which thoughts, instincts, abilities, reactions, and desires are actually mine?"

Episode shape#

Episode 3 picks up at the Frog's the Word first-year party. What begins as a familiar race turns into the campaign's second major black-goo incident: the racers become magically compelled, attack their owners and spectators, and start behaving in distinctly frog-like ways.

For Mia, the episode has four especially important threads:

• Lucas proves himself in the race, then gets magically hijacked.
• The black oily residue becomes a recurring mystery rather than a one-off mimic clue.
• Mia's investigation uncovers the bizarre frost-gnome / repeated-identity lead.
• Quill arrives and forces Mia to explain, out loud, how she currently understands being both Mia and Wendy.

It also starts a very Mia-specific long-term project: trying to make Earth computing and S.A.M.I. technology talk to one another.

Before the familiar race, the real roll_4d6 — name remains uncertain between Adrick / Aldrick Mossberth — clarifies something important about the kidnapping.

The online conversation before he disappeared really was him.

He says he was genuinely interested in what the group had been discussing, and he thinks he may have been kidnapped because he was talking to them.

That makes the Episode 1 impersonation look even more targeted.

The sequence now appears to be:

1. the genuine roll_4d6 talks to the group online;
2. someone notices / cares about that contact;
3. he is kidnapped;
4. a mechanical impostor takes his identity;
5. the impostor later accompanies Mia and Starburst and is involved in the explosion.

This does not identify the attackers, but it weakens any theory that the fake roll_4d6 identity was chosen randomly.

Mia may not personally hear this whole conversation in the moment, so it is best treated as player / party knowledge unless later scenes establish that it was relayed to her.

The traditional familiar race was apparently once literally raced with frogs. Modern Strixhaven students use all sorts of familiars and mascots instead.

Mia enters Lucas.

Her coaching style fits their magical relationship rather than ordinary animal handling. During different legs she uses things such as:

• Arcana, because Lucas is a summoned familiar she can direct mentally;
• Deception, instructing him to use positioning and hiding rather than simply running straight ahead;
• increasingly tactical use of the familiar bond rather than treating Lucas as an ordinary pet.

Mia is also competitive enough to make use of the race's encouragement / interference mechanics rather than simply standing back and cheering.

Result#

The final announcement gives:

1. Curio — first place
2. Mia/Wendy and Lucas — second place

The announcer actually calls her Wendy Goodfellow while announcing Lucas's second-place finish.

That is a small but very on-theme identity beat: Mia is already telling people that she goes by Mia, but the wider campus still sees Wendy's face, Wendy's name and Wendy's social identity.

Immediately after the race, something is wrong.

The familiars do not return to their summoners.

They begin gathering together. Attempts to dismiss them fail. Magical checks indicate that all of them are under some kind of external magical influence.

Then they attack.

The effect does more than make them hostile. The familiars begin behaving strangely and, in several cases, using frog-like behaviour / combat abilities despite not being frogs — most memorably a griffin unhinging its jaw and trying to swallow its owner.

This echoes the old tradition that Frog's the Word was once raced entirely with frogs.

Player knowledge vs. Mia knowledge#

The player notices the frog connection during the aftermath and asks whether Mia can put it together.

Mia's Insight check does not successfully make the full connection.

The immediate result:

• Player knows: the compulsion seems to have imposed frog-like behaviour on the familiars.
• Mia knows: the familiars were magically compelled and were definitely not acting like themselves, but she does not fully identify the thematic mechanism yet.

Mia reacts as someone who is increasingly comfortable with both Wendy's body and her own strange new magic.

Fighting even when Lucas is involved#

Early in the fight, Mia uses Ice Knife against one of the controlled familiars. Lucas is caught in the area and fails his save, taking cold damage.

This is a rough but revealing tactical moment: Mia adores Lucas, but once it is clear the familiars are magically controlled and hurting people, she is willing to act rather than freeze because her own familiar is among them.

Her magic looks increasingly like Mia's magic#

The combat gives more examples of the visual identity of her spellcasting:

• Chill Touch manifests as a cold, zombie-like hand clawing up from the ground.
• At one point she uses Knowledge from a Past Life to help that attack connect.
• She uses Magic Missile when an area spell would risk catching allies.
• She later throws an unrefined Chaos Bolt at the strange blob-like familiar.

The Chaos Bolt is a particularly funny bit of non-metagaming: Mia chooses psychic damage because it seems reliable, despite the player having reason to suspect it might be bad, and discovers the target is immune to psychic damage.

Wendy's wings are becoming practical#

Mia deliberately flies above the melee to stay just outside an enemy's reach while continuing to cast down into the fight.

This is a change from Episode 1, when flying was an awkward inherited bodily skill. By Episode 3, the wings are becoming something Mia can deliberately incorporate into tactics.

The magical effect eventually ends.

The affected creatures shrink / return to their normal state and seem confused by what just happened.

Lucas looks around in bewilderment.

Mia immediately runs over and scoops him up.

Whatever controlled him appears temporary rather than a permanent corruption of the familiar bond.

The group investigates the race course immediately after the fight.

On the strips marking the race tracks they find an oily black substance.

Callan still has the vial collected from the transformed costume trunk, allowing a direct comparison.

The new substance is not described as perfectly identical in every physical detail, but it is clearly close enough to trigger the comparison. The new sample is described as slightly sweeter than the previous one.

This is the first strong indication that the mimic incident was not an isolated accident.

Mia says out loud that she thinks somebody may be testing them:

two big magical incidents have now involved a similar strange substance, and this is a school.

It is a theory, not a confirmed answer, but it becomes one of Mia's active hypotheses.

Mia also uses her familiar bond experimentally: she takes over Lucas's senses and puts him back on the finish line after the battle.

Nothing happens.

The line is no longer magical, suggesting whatever effect was built into it had a limited active window / had already discharged.

The work had been delegated to a Prismari contact, who in turn recruited a few first-year helpers.

One of those helpers had apparently been sitting alone by the pond before being invited to help.

By the time the group goes looking for him, he is gone.

The description is difficult to miss:

• male gnome,
• white beard,
• extremely muscular,
• red hat,
• in-canon white speedo.

This person is therefore a lead / person of interest, not yet a proven culprit.

Several strange pieces line up.

Rosie and the mimic incident#

Mia specifically goes to Rosie and asks whether she remembers seeing a similar gnome around the earlier mimic incident / orientation crowd.

Rosie vaguely remembers a frost gnome with a red hat and thinks she may even have got him to sign up for the LARP guild.

That matters because it potentially places the same visual profile at both black-goo incidents.

Similar gnomes in older campus history#

Other students remember or find stories about apparently similar frost gnomes from different periods in Strixhaven history — including one associated with swimming roughly decades ago and another associated with an older weightlifting society.

The names are transcribed inconsistently, but they follow a suspiciously similar ?ebar / ?abar naming pattern.

The players begin wondering whether this is:

• one person using different names,
• a line of nearly identical relatives,
• duplicates / copies,
• or something much stranger.

The campaign does not answer that yet.

Back at the dorm, Mia attacks the problem like a programmer.

She asks S.A.M.I. for access to a student directory and starts trying wildcard searches against the suspicious gnome naming pattern.

S.A.M.I. initially objects that this sounds like stalking.

Mia talks her around by framing it as trying to find someone she met and whose name she cannot quite remember.

The search becomes extremely strange.

When Mia narrows the results to gnomes, she finds many different student identities using the exact same portrait.

The precise number becomes muddled by wildcard syntax and table banter, so the safe memory note is:

There are dozens of differently named gnome profiles that appear to use the same photograph.

That turns the speedo-gnome clue from "find this weird guy" into an identity / records mystery.

She wants to move the directory image / data onto her Earth laptop.

S.A.M.I. and the laptop do not understand one another's file formats.

As a former computer-science student, Mia immediately starts thinking in terms of:

• image formats,
• data compatibility,
• programming languages,
• and building a translation layer between two incompatible computing ecosystems.

She asks whether S.A.M.I. itself can be programmed.

The answer is yes — S.A.M.I. has a programming language — but students are not simply allowed to access it.

To gain access, Mia needs approval from both opposing Quandrix deans.

Mia creates a pitch#

Rather than dropping the idea, Mia writes to the two deans with an outline for an Earth-inspired image / data editing platform, using the software concepts and open documentation available on her laptop as a model.

Her pitch is interesting enough that they agree to give her an interview after the first trimester.

This is now a genuine long-term Mia project rather than throwaway tech banter:

Teach magical computing to communicate with Earth computing.

He is a shy Fall Fey and an artificer whose magical focus is calligraphy.

Because student housing is full, the guidance counselor asks whether he can temporarily stay in the group's penthouse.

That places Quill directly inside Mia's home life.

Once everyone is back at the tower, Quill reacts strongly when he sees Mia.

He addresses her as:

Wendy Goodfellow.

Mia deliberately rolls to see whether Wendy's memories let her recognize him.

They do not.

She looks at him blankly.

This is important because it demonstrates a limit to the link:

Mia's access to Wendy is not a complete memory archive.

She can sometimes pull out extremely specific magical or historical knowledge, but a person Wendy actually knew can simply fail to surface.

"I go by Mia now"#

When Quill apologizes and asks if she is all right, Mia tells him:

"I go by Mia now."

She then tries to explain the situation and describes herself in terms of being Mia and Wendy rather than simply one person replacing the other.

The group's current shorthand is also restated: Wendy can in some sense see through Mia's eyes, which is part of why Mia continues Wendy's classes and obligations.

The exact soul mechanics are still unclear, so that should remain an in-world understanding rather than a proven metaphysical rule.

Quill handles it well. He effectively greets both of them:

• hello to Mia, whom he is meeting now;
• hello again to Wendy, whom he knew before.

Mia responds in the same spirit: it is nice to meet / see him again — with the "again" intended for Wendy, if Wendy can perceive it.

His mother is the Patron of Fallen Leaves, and Quill identifies himself as a Fall Fey.

The Goodfellows, by contrast, are stated to belong to Titania's court, making them Summer Fey.

This resolves the earlier uncertainty around "Tatiana": Titania is the intended name.

It does not explain the Goodfellow conflict or why Wendy was attacked, but the political/social affiliation is now much clearer.

Mia immediately encourages him to pursue what he actually wants.

The table explicitly notes that this is one of the places where Mia and Wendy are completely unified:

if you want to do something, go for it.

That is useful because most of their story has focused on the friction between them.

Episode 3 gives a positive point of overlap: both Mia and Wendy value personal ambition / choosing your own path, even if their backgrounds and personalities express it differently.

Mia wants to put her Earth media on the bigger screen.

Quill uses his calligraphy-based artificer magic to literally write a connecting cable into existence between Mia's laptop and the magical console.

It works.

Mia immediately realizes the more interesting application and asks whether Quill could make something that connects S.A.M.I. directly to her laptop.

Quill says he can try and is willing to teach / collaborate.

That makes him unusually relevant to Mia:

• he knew Wendy,
• he is now Mia's roommate,
• he shares classes with her,
• and his magic may be exactly the missing hardware layer for Mia's Earth/magic computing project.

Mia offers to help him catch up on the month of classes he missed.

By the end of the episode she proposes a study group involving Mia, Quill and Starburst for Inkomancy and Computational Magic.

The magical big screen means Mia no longer has to show everyone things on a small laptop.

They watch / discuss things such as:

• The Good Place,
• Friends references,
• Buffy,
• Earth animals and the fact that ordinary Earth does not have owlbears, werewolves or routine magic.

This is mostly comedy, but it matters for Mia's character arc.

She is increasingly becoming the group's translator for Earth culture, just as the other students translate the magical multiverse for her.

The weekly media night is no longer just a comfort object from home — it is becoming part of the group's social identity.

After the familiar disaster, the organizers / staff thank the students who helped contain it.

Mia receives a Web Grip Rucksack.

It is made from spider leather and has an adhesive webbed lining that:

• holds stored items firmly in place,
• makes the contents harder to steal,
• allows the bag to be adhered to a surface,
• holds roughly 8 cubic feet / 80 pounds.

Mia looks to Lucas to see whether he has opinions about a bag made from spider skin.

Lucas is already inside the bag.

Apparently he approves.

• Curio wins Frog's the Word, then is caught in the magical compulsion along with the other racers. The party remains protective rather than treating Curio as an enemy.
• Starburst and her familiar are both caught in the chaos. Starburst is badly hurt at one point but is healed; her cautious, analytical approach remains useful during the investigation.
• A'bigail uses control and support magic, including putting some affected familiars to sleep and helping keep people alive.
• Callie helps control the crowd and joins the fight, using her usual social energy as much as her magic.
• Callan continues to be one of the group's strongest direct damage dealers and later continues sorting out the practical/security side of his illicit business.
• Quill is introduced to the wider group, is thrown into the familiar fight almost immediately, and then becomes the newest temporary member of the penthouse household.
• Campus staff and medical personnel arrive after the fight, so the attack is not secret even though the students begin conducting their own investigation immediately.

Identity#

• Mia explicitly tells someone from Wendy's old life: "I go by Mia now."
• She nevertheless describes the current situation as Mia and Wendy, not simply Mia wearing Wendy's body.
• Wendy's memories are demonstrably incomplete / unreliable: Mia cannot remember Quill even though Quill knew Wendy.
• Campus identity still defaults to Wendy in places; the race announcement publicly names her Wendy Goodfellow.
• The Goodfellows are confirmed as Summer Fey of Titania's court.
• Mia and Wendy share at least one clear value: pursue what you actually want to do.

Magic / body#

• Mia is using Wendy's wings deliberately in combat rather than merely learning to fly.
• Her spell visuals remain strongly Reborn / necromantic even when the spell itself is ordinary arcane magic.
• She can combine Knowledge from a Past Life with active combat decisions.
• Lucas's magical control does not permanently damage their familiar bond.

Investigation#

• The black oily substance has now appeared in a second major magical incident.
• Mia's working theory is that somebody may be testing students / the group.
• A buff frost gnome connected to race setup becomes a person of interest.
• Similar gnome identities appear across campus records and history.
• S.A.M.I. reveals many differently named gnome profiles using the same picture.

Relationships#

• Lucas: second-place race partner, briefly magically controlled, immediately recovered and cuddled afterward.
• Quill: new roommate / Wendy acquaintance / Mia collaborator. Potentially important both emotionally and technically.
• Starburst: remains part of Mia's new study group and Earth-at-Strixhaven support network.
• Curio: wins the race; the party's protectiveness toward Curio survives the forced attack.
• Aurora: no major direct development this episode; Mia's earlier attraction remains unresolved rather than disappearing.

Personal projects#

• S.A.M.I.–Earth interoperability becomes a real goal.
• Mia has an interview with both Quandrix deans after first trimester if she wants access to S.A.M.I.'s programming language.
• Quill may be able to solve the physical/magical connector problem.
• A formal study group is forming around Inkomancy / Computational Magic.

The black-goo incidents#

• What exactly is the oily black substance?
• Is the race sample the same substance as the mimic sample, a modified batch, or simply related magic?
• Who applied it to the race lines?
• Why did it force the familiars into frog-like behaviour?
• Was the effect designed specifically for Frog's the Word?
• Is Mia right that somebody is testing the students?

The frost gnome#

• Who was the pond-side gnome recruited to help paint the course?
• Why did he disappear before the group could question him?
• Why do similar frost gnomes seem to appear in campus stories separated by decades?
• Why do many S.A.M.I. directory entries have different names but the same face?
• Did the same figure attend orientation / the mimic incident?

Wendy / Mia#

• Can Wendy actually see through Mia's eyes, as the group currently believes?
• Why can Mia retrieve some highly specific Wendy memories but not remember Quill?
• Does Wendy experience Mia speaking to people from her old life?
• How does Mia want the school to record her name and identity going forward?
• What happens when Wendy's replacement body is ready?

The original attack#

• The real roll_4d6 thinks he may have been kidnapped because he was talking to the group. Who was monitoring those conversations?
• Why choose his identity for the construct?
• How does Titania's Summer Court / Goodfellow politics connect to Wendy's targeting?
• Is any of this connected to the black-goo incidents, or is Strixhaven dealing with more than one problem?

S.A.M.I. / computing#

• What can S.A.M.I.'s programming language actually do?
• Will both Quandrix deans grant Mia access?
• Can Quill create a stable S.A.M.I.–laptop interface?
• Could an Earth-style software layer become a meaningful piece of Strixhaven technology?

Curio / Strato#

• Curio's resurrection project remains unresolved.
• The party is now even more attached to Curio after the race and the forced familiar attack.

By the end of Episode 3 she has:

• publicly placed second in a familiar race with Lucas,
• fought her own magically controlled familiar to protect people,
• recovered Lucas safely,
• helped connect the second black-goo incident to the first,
• developed the "someone is testing us" hypothesis,
• helped uncover the bizarre recurring frost-gnome identities,
• begun using S.A.M.I. as a technical investigation tool,
• turned incompatibility between magic and Earth computers into a research project,
• earned a future interview with the Quandrix deans,
• met someone from Wendy's old life and explicitly said "I go by Mia now,"
• discovered that Wendy's memories can simply fail to appear,
• learned that the Goodfellows are Summer Fey in Titania's court,
• gained Quill as a temporary roommate and potential tech collaborator,
• and strengthened the dorm's Earth-media / study-group culture.

The central identity question has also sharpened.

Episode 2 asked:

Which thoughts, instincts and desires are mine?

Episode 3 adds:

If Wendy is still present somehow, how do I live as Mia without pretending Wendy never existed?

Mia's answer, at least for now, seems to be practical rather than philosophical:

Call me Mia. Let Wendy see what she can see. Keep studying. Keep investigating. Build something new out of both worlds.

Episode shape#

Episode 4 is primarily a college-life, relationships, and academic-progress session rather than a new mystery episode.

The black-goo / frost-gnome investigation does not materially advance. Instead, Mia spends the remaining pre-exam weeks settling into Strixhaven life:

• learning what Wendy's body remembers that Mia's mind does not,
• becoming an actual functioning member of Showband,
• being extremely normal and composed around Luna (she is neither),
• making the first real progress on programming S.A.M.I.,
• helping keep Curio's forbidden research supplied,
• studying with Starburst and Quill,
• and completing her first major round of exams.

At the start of the session the table confirms that Mia:

• does not need to sleep,
• cannot be magically put to sleep,
• can complete a long rest in four conscious, inactive hours.

Later, the tavern scene plays directly with her unusual relationship to poison and intoxication.

And at the end of the episode, everyone realizes that Mia has spent roughly three months continuing to eat normally without actually noticing that she no longer needs food.

Mia's attitude is essentially:

not needing food does not mean she has to stop enjoying food.

That feels very on-brand for her: biological necessity has changed, but ordinary human habits are still psychologically real.

She has Performance proficiency, but no conscious memory of actually learning an instrument.

Saelora describes the distinction directly: Mia may have muscle memory without the understanding.

The band has her try several musical options.

The flute#

The flute immediately goes best.

Mia initially looks at it as though she is not even sure how to hold it.

Then she just:

holds it correctly and starts playing.

That is one of the clearest Wendy/Mia moments in the campaign so far.

Mia does not consciously remember Wendy learning the instrument.

The body does.

This means Wendy's legacy is now demonstrably more complicated than "Mia occasionally remembers Wendy facts." At least some skills survive as procedural memory embedded in the body / past-life connection.

Other options do much worse:

• a keyed instrument is rusty,
• guitar does not click,
• singing produces a strange dual / haunted quality,
• conducting is even worse.

So Mia is placed in the woodwind section, with the flute becoming her instrument.

Her rehearsal goes well enough that she is described as roughly third chair in the developing hierarchy.

Luna comes over to correct Mia's flute posture.

She gets behind Mia, puts her arms around her, and physically adjusts how Mia is holding the instrument.

Mia completely freezes.

Luna has to tell her to loosen up because Mia's rigid wings are smacking her in the face.

Luna then compliments the wings.

Mia goes bright red enough that the others joke they did not know she could get that much color anymore.

The attraction from Episode 2 is therefore not a one-off.

It is now a stable Mia relationship thread.

Mia's eerie musical quality#

Mia's Reborn nature also gives her playing an uncanny character.

She does not actually need to breathe, and the table imagines her body handling airflow in an unnaturally static / magical way.

The result is that her flute playing carries a faintly eerie, death-touched quality.

Luna, being Luna, thinks that is great.

Mia's reason for accepting is straightforward:

Luna is performing that night.

The tavern scene reinforces both Mia's friendship role and her strange Reborn physiology.

Mia:

• hangs around the group while Quill is introduced to alcohol,
• volunteers to keep her faculties so she can look after people,
• hovers to stay at eye level with the others,
• is far less affected by ordinary drinks than most of the table.

Eventually the tavern owner brings out an absurd special reserve: something more like alchemical toxic waste than a sensible drink.

It is explicitly treated as poison.

Because Mia is a Reborn, her resistance to poison / advantage against being poisoned helps offset the drink's imposed disadvantage.

Mia takes the shot as a bonding experience.

Everyone who drinks it experiences a brief, overwhelming vision of the multiverse and momentarily levitates from the sheer magical impact.

Mia survives the experience relatively intact.

Starburst and Luna are less lucky and trigger bizarre wild-magic side effects.

The scene gives a useful practical reminder:

Mia is not merely "an undead-looking fairy." Her physiology now actually changes how ordinary social things like food, sleep, poison and alcohol work.

The DM explicitly asks how skilled Mia was at programming before Strixhaven.

Saelora's answer is effectively: proficient.

The immediate mechanical roll is handled through Arcana for now, but the conversation recognizes programming as a genuine Mia skill rather than just generic Intelligence.

Mia rolls well enough to make progress.

The table summarizes the milestone as essentially:

"Hello, world" running on S.A.M.I.

This is small, but important.

The project has moved from:

• "Mia has a cool idea"

to:

• "Mia has begun successfully programming the magical system."

The larger Quandrix / interoperability project remains active.

That does not stop the group.

Curio leaves notes asking for particular books.

The Biblioplex workers develop a system to quietly get the research materials out.

Mia's usual role is:

• locate the requested book on the shelves,
• identify where it can safely be picked up,
• pass that information to the others.

One of their workspaces is gradually becoming a private Curio research library / conspiracy-board room.

So although Episode 4 does not advance the Strato mystery directly, Mia is now participating in an ongoing conspiracy to circumvent library restrictions on Curio's behalf.

That relationship has moved well beyond curiosity.

And Mia is enjoying this.

During library work, Starburst asks Mia for help creating an excuse to interact with Quill.

Mia offers to make that happen and teases her about it.

At one point Mia passes Starburst a book and suggests she deliver it to Quill herself.

Starburst proceeds to spend an impressive amount of time mentally preparing to do the perfectly normal task of handing a book to a boy.

By the time she works up the courage, Quill has already left.

Mia later helps push the issue in a more practical direction by encouraging Starburst to actually stop working after absurdly long shifts.

This is a nice change from the earliest episodes.

Mia is no longer only the friend who needs support after dying.

She is now actively:

• looking out for Starburst,
• joking with her,
• meddling in her love life,
• and helping enforce some semblance of work-life balance.

Quill brings everyone personalized snacks and drinks before one session.

For Mia, he initially describes the drink as:

tea for Wendy — well, Mia.

It is only a tiny moment, but it shows the ongoing social reality of the shared identity.

People who knew Wendy, or simply see Wendy's body, can still instinctively address her through Wendy's identity before correcting themselves.

Mia's class load#

Mia remains in an unusually heavy schedule because she is effectively carrying both her own academic interests and Wendy's obligations.

Her confirmed first exam block includes:

• Magical Physiologies
• Beginning Computational Magic
• Beginning Inkomancy
• History of Magic and Art
• Arcano-Botany for Beginners

The group earns exam rerolls through study, reflecting that the ongoing sessions are genuinely helping.

The campaign uses each class as a two-part skill challenge.

The table ultimately states that Mia aces all five of her exams.

Magical Physiologies#

The exam covers magical creatures — particularly slaadi — through both factual knowledge and practical survival / handling.

Mia comes through successfully.

Beginning Computational Magic#

The exam involves recognizing arcane structure in mathematical / computational formulae and understanding the natural principles behind them.

This is extremely Mia territory.

The study conversations even drift into the idea of using programming to write / solve magic, echoing the computer-science habits she brought from Earth.

Mia aces the course.

Beginning Inkomancy#

This remains one of Mia's harder subjects.

The exam tests both resisting / understanding magical written influence and imposing intent through writing.

Mia still succeeds strongly enough to ace it.

History of Magic and Art#

Mia performs well on both identifying incorrect historical/art details and the performative recitation portion.

Again: ace.

Arcano-Botany#

This gives the episode's most important Wendy-link moment.

The first portion is plant identification.

The second asks how the plants should be used medicinally.

Mia struggles with one answer.

Then:

she hears Wendy's voice in her head telling her that the answer is wrong and to use the next one down.

Mia corrects herself and gets through the test.

The table explicitly credits her improved result to Wendy's knowledge.

This is materially stronger than a vague "Mia suddenly knows a thing."

For the first time, the narration presents Wendy as something like an internal voice.

That does not yet prove that Wendy is consciously talking to Mia from elsewhere — it may still be Reborn Knowledge from a Past Life expressed narratively — but it is the strongest evidence so far that the connection can feel conversational.

Poison blind spot#

The Arcano-Botany discussion also suggests Mia is becoming bad at intuitively judging how dangerous poisons are to ordinary people.

Her own body is unusually resistant, so her baseline can become:

"That's not that bad."

when it absolutely is for somebody living.

That is a funny but potentially useful embodied consequence of being Reborn.

For Mia, that means further development as a Shadow Magic Sorcerer.

She chooses Catapult as a new spell.

Importantly, Saelora distinguishes this from Mia's stranger inherited abilities:

Catapult feels like something Mia learned through months of studying, rather than something that simply surfaced from Wendy or her Reborn condition.

The table promptly renames / reflavors it:

Power Word Yeet

Mia imagines it as her Mage Hand violently hurling the chosen object.

That distinction is worth tracking:

• some magic comes from Wendy / the transformation;
• some magic is now genuinely Mia's own education and growth.

The party hears about plenty of other bizarre magical accidents around campus, including animated shrubbery, malfunctioning sports equipment and rogue transport.

That broadens the context slightly — Strixhaven genuinely is a place where magical mishaps happen — but Episode 4 does not give enough evidence to decide whether those unrelated incidents connect to the black goo.

Mia's "someone is testing us" theory therefore remains a theory.

Do not promote the miscellaneous campus accidents into the same conspiracy without more evidence.

• Starburst auditions for the campus production and, after an excellent tryout, lands Peter Pan — specifically the villainous Peter Pan from the Once Upon a Time-style adaptation. She also gains an intensely competitive understudy and continues being catastrophically awkward about Quill.
• Quill becomes more integrated into the group, gets extremely drunk during the tavern outing, catches up academically through the study group, and finishes the exam block with everyone else.
• Callie helps Nora run recurring group counseling for students affected by the school's magical disasters. Callie also has an increasingly date-like outing with Mina, although neither formally labels it that way.
• Callan continues developing both his legitimate-looking business studies and his criminal work, including discussion of building an encrypted S.A.M.I.-based payment system for illicit transactions.
• A'bigail continues with the Future Entrepreneurs / Biblioplex side of her life and keeps sending letters and money home.
• The whole group completes first exams successfully and reaches level 2.
• By the end, Callie is planning a surprise post-exam party, which is positioned to open the next episode.
• Starburst's new Order of Scribes features produce an awakened spellbook, adding yet another newly sentient object to the household.

Identity / Wendy link#

• Wendy's connection now clearly includes procedural memory, not merely facts.
• Mia's flute ability can function even when she has no conscious idea how she learned it.
• Mia explicitly hears Wendy's voice correct an Arcano-Botany answer.
• Whether that voice is conscious Wendy or a Reborn memory phenomenon is unresolved.
• Other people still slip between calling her Wendy and Mia.

Mechanics#

• Mia is a Ravenloft Reborn, mechanically Humanoid rather than Undead.
• Her poison resistance, death-save advantage, lack of biological needs, four-hour conscious rest and Knowledge from a Past Life come from Reborn.
• Wendy's fairy flight is compatible with Reborn Ancestral Legacy.
• Her 120-foot darkvision belongs with Shadow Magic Sorcerer, not the Reborn lineage.
• The campaign's "return at 1 HP after death" ability remains a house rule.

Luna#

• Mia goes to the tavern specifically because Luna is playing.
• Luna physically coaches Mia during flute rehearsal.
• Mia freezes and blushes intensely.
• Luna likes Mia's eerie musical quality and her wings.
• The crush remains very much alive.

Academic life#

• Mia is successfully programming S.A.M.I.; first milestone is roughly Hello World.
• The study group with Starburst and Quill is established.
• Mia aces the first five-class exam block.
• She reaches level 2.
• She learns Catapult / Power Word Yeet as something she considers genuinely learned rather than inherited.

Curio#

• Curio is barred from the Biblioplex.
• Mia actively helps circumvent the ban by locating requested research books.
• Curio / Strato remains an active secret project.

Wendy / Mia#

• Is the voice Mia hears during the botany exam actually Wendy consciously speaking, or simply the Reborn past-life mechanic taking a voice?
• What kinds of memory survive: factual, emotional, procedural, sensory?
• Why can Mia play Wendy's flute but fail to remember Quill?
• Could deliberate practice make more Wendy skills accessible?
• What happens to all of this when Wendy receives her own body?

S.A.M.I. / computing#

• Mia has successfully begun programming S.A.M.I.
• What exactly can she build with access to the platform?
• When will the post-trimester Quandrix-dean interview happen?
• Can she eventually bridge Earth files / hardware and magical computing?

Curio / Strato#

• Curio's research continues despite the library ban.
• The group is now actively breaking / bending library rules to keep the project supplied.
• No viable resurrection method has yet been confirmed.

Black goo / frost gnome#

• No meaningful new evidence this episode.
• Keep the existing suspects and samples open.
• Do not assume every magical accident at Strixhaven is part of the same plot.

Mia's own growth#

A new question is becoming important:

Which parts of Mia's magic are inherited, and which parts are becoming hers because she chose to learn them?

Catapult is the first spell Mia explicitly frames as the latter.

She is now:

• a functioning Reborn student,
• a woodwind player whose body remembers a skill her mind does not,
• an increasingly competent flier,
• hopelessly flustered around Luna,
• Starburst's friend and occasional romantic meddler,
• one of Curio's quiet library accomplices,
• a real magical-computing student rather than merely an Earth programmer staring at impossible technology,
• academically successful across an absurd course load,
• and officially level 2.

Most importantly, the Wendy question becomes more concrete.

Until now, Wendy has mostly appeared through things Mia knows or does.

This episode gives Mia something closer to a voice:

"No, that one's wrong. Next one down."

That may eventually turn out to be nothing more than the way Mia experiences Knowledge from a Past Life.

Or it may mean Wendy is closer than anyone realized.

For now, the safest conclusion is:

Wendy is not only in Mia's history. She is still functionally present in the way Mia's body, memory and magic operate.

Episode shape#

Episode 5 begins the second trimester.

The session initially looks like another college-life episode: new classes, Starburst's play, a large penthouse party, relationship drama, and a magical tavern game.

Then the black-goo plot returns in force.

By the end of the episode:

• the oily black material has appeared in a third major magical incident,
• it is identified more specifically as a spoiled/corrupted magical reagent,
• deliberately exposing a magical creature to a second sample causes a dramatic transformation,
• Mia and others begin tracing where the reagent is sold and stored,
• and Starburst independently overhears people in a warehouse discussing experiments, shipments, batches, and a boss.

For Mia, the episode also gives more concrete examples of how she and Wendy divide a single academic life.

Mia's unusually large load is explicitly explained again as the result of her studying for two people.

The table actually distinguishes which courses belong to whom.

Mia's side#

A course referred to in the discussion as Introduction to Forms and Fractals / Repetition is specifically identified as Mia's class.

Wendy's side#

Keep It Secret, Keep It Safe is specifically identified as Wendy's class.

Shared#

Weeding Out the Weak: Introduction to Blight Magic is described as being for both Mia and Wendy.

Mia is also continuing Magical Physiologies and taking Speaking the Same Language: Overview of Magical Notation.

This is useful because it shows that the "attending college for both of them" idea is not just flavor.

Their education is actually being partitioned:

some choices are Mia's, some are Wendy's, and some genuinely belong to both.

Mia is not the main actor in this thread, but the event matters to her because Starburst is one of her closest friends and the party becomes an important social scene afterward.

Behind the scenes, Penelope Evertwinkle — Starburst's hostile understudy — attempts to interfere with Starburst and is secretly stopped by Callan.

Mia does not appear to know the full details of that backstage confrontation during the episode.

What Mia does know is that there is bad blood between Penelope and Starburst.

That becomes important at the penthouse party.

Among the people Mia specifically wants there are:

• Drazmir
• Luna

Luna's inclusion is worth noting even though the episode does not give Mia and Luna another major romantic scene.

Mia is still choosing to include her whenever she can.

She introduces herself to Mia as a member of the Play Actors Guild and Starburst's understudy.

Mia is cautious because she already knows Penelope and Starburst do not get along.

Then Penelope reveals that she is an angel-descended outsider from a celestial plane.

She demonstrates a Necrotic Shroud:

• her eyes become pools of darkness,
• enormous skeletal / ethereal wings emerge from her back,
• the whole effect is deliberately eerie.

Mia's reaction is immediate:

"That's cool."

She then starts peppering Penelope with questions so quickly that she barely leaves room for answers.

This is very consistent Mia behavior.

Anything supernatural, death-touched, planar, spooky or supposedly alarming tends to override her normal shyness.

She knows Penelope has bad blood with Starburst, and when Penelope begins focusing attention on Quill, Mia deliberately joins the conversation and keeps the attention centered elsewhere.

Part of it is simple curiosity about Penelope's celestial background.

But Mia also explicitly does not want Penelope alone with Quill.

That becomes increasingly blatant.

Penelope is a second-year Lorehold student and offers to help Quill with the Lorehold coursework none of his current study group can cover.

She suggests a study date / study session at her dorm.

Mia immediately tries to redirect it to the penthouse instead.

The discussion devolves into what the table describes as something like shared custody of Quill between the people trying to manage his social life.

The farewell hug#

When Penelope eventually goes to hug Quill goodbye, Mia physically steps into the way.

The result becomes effectively a group hug instead.

After Penelope leaves, Mia then informs Quill that he is not going to study with her.

Quill is confused enough to ask whether he has done something wrong or somehow upset Mia.

This is stronger than Mia's earlier playful romantic meddling.

She is now behaving protectively — arguably overprotectively — because she knows Starburst likes Quill and does not trust Penelope.

Mia starts trying to explain how they ended up with such absurdly luxurious accommodation and runs into the usual identity tangle:

roughly, "my bad — Wendy's bad — my bad, Wendy's good, I guess... it's very confusing."

She then admits she does not like thinking about it for too long.

This is a small scene, but a useful memory beat.

Wendy's wealth and privilege now benefit Mia constantly, yet Mia neither fully identifies with them nor has an easy way to separate them from her own life.

Mia is doing something extremely characteristic:

studying at the pub.

Lucas is with her, generally perched on or around her.

Quill has also created a small clockwork moth homunculus, giving the growing friend group yet another tiny magical companion.

These were originally training devices used to practice magical aim.

Because the old machines are too unreliable for class, they have been turned into a tavern game:

• hit / operate the machine,
• it launches an unpredictable magical sphere,
• try to make the sphere land in a bucket.

Mia is immediately curious and joins in.

She also goes to fetch Quill so he can participate.

Wendy has done this before#

Mia's first roll is not particularly good.

Then she invokes Knowledge from a Past Life.

The reason:

Wendy has either played this game before or at least watched people play it.

That inherited familiarity improves Mia's result.

She gets four successful shots.

This is another useful example of the Wendy link being situational rather than comprehensive.

Mia may not remember Wendy's acquaintances, but when confronted with a familiar activity, Wendy's experience can become accessible.

Steam mephits coalesce above the stew pots and begin attacking the kitchen staff.

Chef Curdy / Kurdi runs out yelling that the steam is "too spicy" and that other cooks are still trapped inside.

Callan, who works there, tries to draw the creatures onto himself while the staff evacuate.

The rest of the party joins the fight.

At first this is simply another bizarre magical Strixhaven accident.

Then Callan performs an experiment.

He pours it onto one of the steam mephits.

The party already knows from Mia's inadvisable taste-testing that the different samples have had different flavors, suggesting they may not be chemically / magically identical.

The reaction is dramatic.

The affected steam creature expands and transforms into a much larger water-weird-like creature, immediately nicknamed the Soup Weird because it absorbs / occupies one of the stew pots and attacks with hot broth, bones, vegetables and other kitchen debris.

This is an enormous clue.

The oily black material is not merely residue left behind after strange magic.

Exposure to it can directly transform or amplify an existing magical creature/effect.

Different samples may also produce different outcomes.

By now her new spell Catapult / Power Word Yeet is part of her normal combat repertoire.

She grabs convenient kitchen objects — including a dirty plate / kitchen debris — and magically hurls them at the Soup Weird.

Protecting the party changes her spell choices#

Mia repeatedly considers Ice Knife, but the positioning is bad.

Callie is too close at first.

Later, Starburst is dropped to zero hit points, restrained by the Soup Weird and being drowned / held inside it.

Mia abandons the idea of using an area spell that could automatically cost Starburst a failed death save.

That is a small but strong combat-character beat:

Mia's curiosity and recklessness do not override protecting her friends.

Lucas goes down#

A steam attack catches Mia, Callie and Lucas.

The damage takes Lucas to zero.

Mia's immediate response is essentially:

"I'll avenge you."

Lucas is a familiar, so the scene does not treat this as the permanent death of an ordinary companion, but he is out of the fight and no resummoning scene occurs before the episode ends.

Sorcerer resource use#

Mia converts sorcery points into another spell slot because the fight is escalating.

She keeps using flight to reposition, although her habit of flying upside down remains a running joke — she still has not completely internalized which way Wendy's body is supposed to orient itself in the air.

This is a fun counterpoint to Episode 4:

• Mia can use the wings tactically,
• but she still is not entirely natural at simply being a fairy.

The same oily black substance is found on the cauldrons.

This is now the third major incident associated with it:

1. the ordinary costume trunk becoming mimic-like;
2. the Frog's the Word familiars being magically compelled / altered;
3. the The Bow's End stew pots producing hostile steam creatures.

The new sample tastes potato-like.

At this point the different tastes are becoming an actual pattern rather than only a running joke.

His assessment is that it is some kind of magical reagent / magical ingredient — an arcane or alchemical base material used for spell components and experimentation.

His initial theory is that it has somehow become corrupted.

This is the first time the group gets a mundane category for the material.

It is not some completely unknown alien substance.

It is apparently recognizable as a type of reagent that institutions like Strixhaven use in quantity.

That gives the group something they have not previously had:

a supply chain to investigate.

She pulls out S.A.M.I. and asks for reagent suppliers around campus.

Possible sources include:

• the Biblioplex student store,
• bulk / wholesale suppliers,
• storage warehouses,
• traveling / off-campus merchants who temporarily appear on campus.

They decide to investigate.

A dumpster unfolds into a bizarre magical shop run by a small Tabaxi calling himself:

Kobe the Trash Cat

Kobe is a wandering trader of magical items who seems only vaguely aware of which plane he has currently wandered into.

Mia is more interested in the reagent than his inventory.

When shown the black material, Kobe identifies it as:

• definitely magical,
• a magical reagent,
• and apparently spoiled / expired.

He specifically warns that whoever normally supplies it should probably pull that stock, because in this state it could hurt someone.

This is useful, but it does not identify who deliberately corrupted it or who has been distributing the dangerous batches.

Mia does not buy any of Kobe's magical items.

After nearly dying in the tavern, Starburst is escorted back toward the dorm and told to rest.

Starburst instead becomes fixated on tracing the reagent supply.

Mia finds her in the lobby in a bathrobe trying to leave again.

Mia's response is basically:

at least put some clothes on and investigate tomorrow.

When Starburst refuses, the group ends up sourcing an extremely dignified emergency outfit including gym clothes and a cowboy hat.

Mia puts the cowboy hat on her and continues arguing that she should rest.

Starburst ultimately continues the investigation anyway.

Player / Starburst knowledge — not yet Mia knowledge#

Starburst works out that reagent stock is kept in several places and sneaks into a storage warehouse after hours.

She finds an inventory list and manages to copy roughly a third of it.

More importantly, she overhears two people nearby.

The conversation includes:

• needing to move the next shipment,
• a statement that the experiments are going awesome / well,
• a response that the experiments are going according to plan,
• instructions to get the next batch out,
• one speaker addressing the other as boss.

Then somebody smells Starburst's familiar and begins searching for the intruder.

Starburst escapes without getting a useful look at either person's face.

This is the campaign's strongest evidence yet that the black-reagent events are deliberate experiments, not accidents.

However:

Mia is not shown learning this before Episode 5 ends.

Until Starburst reports back, Mia's personal knowledge remains:

• three incidents share the reagent,
• the substance is a magical/alchemical base,
• this batch is spoiled/corrupted,
• different samples behave differently,
• somebody may be testing them.

The warehouse scene upgrades that last point from Mia's theory to strong player-level evidence.

• she wants Starburst to have a chance with Quill,
• she does not trust Penelope around either of them,
• she is willing to intervene socially rather than merely tease from the sidelines.

This is not necessarily entirely sensible or fair to Quill.

Quill is, after all, capable of choosing his own friends.

But it says something useful about Mia:

once somebody becomes one of her people, she can become surprisingly protective and intrusive on their behalf.

That is a stronger edge to the loyalty first established when she took the Biblioplex job for Starburst.

There is a letter addressed to Mia.

Its contents are not read during this episode.

The long parental letter read immediately afterward belongs to A'bigail, not Mia.

The established facts are:

Mia has incoming physical mail waiting for her. Sender and contents unknown.

This is an open hook for the next episode.

• Starburst successfully performs Peter Pan and begins seeing theatre as something she might genuinely want in her future, rather than merely a one-off attempt to leave her comfort zone. She is also increasingly unable to hide her feelings for Quill. Most importantly for the campaign mystery, she independently infiltrates the reagent warehouse and overhears the experiment/batch/shipment conversation.
• Callan secretly stops Penelope from sabotaging Starburst's performance, continues his criminal/business activities, and later experiments directly on a steam mephit with an older black-reagent sample — accidentally creating the much more dangerous Soup Weird.
• Callie continues building friendships and relationship threads, while helping during the tavern fight and aftermath.
• A'bigail wins the Gray Bag of Tricks from the Wizard Gizzard competition. Her father sends a worrying letter stating he has contacted the school, intends to attend Parent Appreciation Day, and expects A'bigail to come home afterward.
• Quill is becoming deeply integrated into the household and friend group. He now has a clockwork moth homunculus, is part of the romantic chaos around Starburst, and helps in the tavern fight.
• The school is now entering the second trimester, with new course combinations and ongoing extracurricular lives.

Mia / Wendy identity#

• The second-trimester course list explicitly distinguishes Mia's classes, Wendy's classes, and shared classes.
• Knowledge from a Past Life again provides Wendy's situational familiarity during Wizard Gizzard.
• Mia still has awkward moments where Wendy's privilege and Mia's own identity are difficult to separate.
• Flight is tactically useful but still not completely natural; Mia continues to end up upside down.

Starburst#

• Mia is increasingly protective rather than merely supportive.
• She deliberately interferes with Penelope's attempts to get closer to Quill.
• After Starburst nearly dies in the tavern, Mia wants her to rest instead of immediately continuing the investigation.
• Starburst's warehouse discovery is potentially enormous once she tells Mia.

Quill / Penelope#

• Quill remains Mia's friend and roommate.
• Penelope is now a person Mia finds fascinating but untrustworthy.
• Mia's attempts to manage who Quill spends time with are becoming notably forceful.

Black reagent#

• Third confirmed incident.
• Recognizable as an arcane / alchemical magical reagent.
• Current stock/sample appears spoiled or corrupted.
• Different batches seem to taste different and may have different effects.
• Direct exposure can transform / amplify magical creatures.
• The warehouse scene strongly indicates organized, deliberate experimentation.

Combat#

• Catapult is now firmly part of Mia's learned spell repertoire.
• Mia adjusts spell choices to avoid harming allies, especially Starburst at zero HP.
• Lucas is taken out by steam damage.
• Mia continues using flight aggressively in combat.

Open hook#

• Mia receives a physical letter, unread by the end of the episode.

The reagent experiments#

• Who is the boss Starburst overhears?
• Who is the subordinate moving shipments / batches?
• What are the experiments trying to accomplish?
• Who are the intended experimental subjects?
• Are the three public incidents trials of different reagent formulations?
• Why do the samples have different tastes / apparent compositions?
• Is "spoiled" really accidental degradation, or the visible result of deliberate modification?
• What is on the third of the inventory list Starburst managed to copy?

Mia's knowledge gap#

At episode end, the audience / player knows considerably more than Mia does.

Mia still needs Starburst to report:

• the warehouse infiltration,
• the copied inventory,
• the words experiments, shipment, batch, and boss.

That distinction matters if the next episode begins before the party has had time to debrief.

Frost gnome#

The old frost-gnome / repeated-face lead remains unresolved.

A new question is whether that figure is:

• part of this reagent operation,
• one of its distributors,
• one of its experimental identities,
• or an entirely separate mystery.

Mia / Wendy#

• The new trimester makes their divided academic life more explicit.
• Can Wendy's past-life knowledge continue helping in practical situations without Mia ever recovering ordinary autobiographical memory?
• Which academic choices are genuinely shared desires versus obligations Mia is carrying for Wendy?

Penelope#

• How dangerous is Penelope actually?
• How much of Mia's hostility is justified knowledge versus loyalty to Starburst?
• Will Mia's attempts to control Quill's contact with Penelope cause friction?

The letter#

• Who sent Mia the letter?
• Is it from Earth, the Goodfellows, Strixhaven administration, Wendy's side of the family, or someone else?

She is:

• beginning a new trimester while literally carrying two students' academic plans,
• still using Wendy's memories when they happen to surface,
• increasingly comfortable protecting and meddling in her friends' lives,
• still seeking out spooky planar weirdness for fun,
• studying in pubs,
• flying upside down,
• hurling crockery at hostile soup with Power Word Yeet,
• grieving Lucas's temporary loss during battle,
• and now personally involved in tracing the supply chain behind the black magical reagent.

The largest campaign development is no longer merely:

"The same weird black goo keeps appearing."

The evidence now points toward:

Someone is making batches, moving shipments, and deliberately running experiments.

Mia had already guessed that somebody might be testing them.

She just does not yet know how right she may have been.

And waiting back at the dorm is one more unknown:

a letter addressed to Mia.

Episode shape#

Episode 6 closes several Episode 5 cliffhangers and carries the campaign through the rest of the second trimester.

For Mia, the important movement is:

• Starburst finally tells the penthouse what happened at the reagent warehouse, bringing Mia properly into that discovery.
• The unopened mail is a blunt and infuriating letter from Wendy herself.
• Mia's main S.A.M.I. programming project stalls, but her magical-computing habits keep developing and Repetition unexpectedly gives the project a major future boost.
• Wendy's internal voice / knowledge resurfaces during study.
• Mia finishes the trimester with straight A's and several new spells.
• At the end-of-trimester party, Mia publicly answers the question of how much Wendy is still around.
• The Penthouse Pals are dared into the next adventure: a Dapplewing Manor heist.

Starburst returns to the penthouse after the Episode 5 break-in looking exhausted from sprinting for her life.

Mia immediately watches her with concern, flies over to get closer, and — because flight is still flight — accidentally flips upside down while trying to have a serious conversation.

She asks why Starburst had to sprint, whether she is all right, and what happened.

Starburst says she thinks she found where the dangerous black goo is coming from.

She explains that:

• the substance is a magical reagent / waste product that should normally be disposed of after an expiration period,
• she investigated one of the places where it is normally stored,
• she overheard suspicious people acknowledging that dangerous material had gotten out,
• she started copying the warehouse inventory into her awakened spellbook,
• and she had to run when the people realized someone was there.

Starburst did not see the speakers, but later discussion establishes that she heard enough of their voices that she might recognize them again.

Mia's knowledge update#

This resolves the biggest Episode 5 player/character gap.

Mia now knows the broad warehouse conspiracy exists.

Starburst's original infiltration scene established explicit language about experiments, the next shipment, the next batch, and a boss. Episode 6 does not painstakingly repeat every phrase to Mia, so the safest distinction is:

• Mia definitely knows: suspicious people are tied to a legitimate reagent-storage site; the dangerous reagent getting out is not normal; Starburst escaped with part of the inventory.
• Player-level wording from the original break-in: experiments / shipment / batch / boss.

Starburst's spellbook recites the portion of inventory it managed to copy.

The warehouse address is 136 Dwarf Face Lane.

The location is described as a normal storage warehouse for arcane reagents, ingredients, materials, and other resources.

The copied data includes:

• hundreds of item entries,
• quantities,
• shipment dates,
• expiration dates,
• intake allotments,
• where material went,
• who ordered what,
• and how much was ordered.

There is far too much to solve at the table immediately.

The DM explicitly makes analyzing it a future downtime project.

The black-goo mystery has therefore shifted from:

Why does this substance keep appearing?

into something much more investigable:

Which lots went where, when did they expire, who ordered them, and do those records line up with the attacks?

The unopened letter from Episode 5 is from Wendy.

It is not in Wendy's handwriting because Wendy is still regrowing a body in the Feywild; the message has been dictated to a Goodfellow servant / scribe.

The greeting is characteristically Wendy: the scribe renders it along the lines of "hello host" / "unwanted guest inside of my body."

Wendy thanks Mia for attending classes on her behalf and then drops several major facts.

Wendy expects to return after summer#

Wendy says her new body should be finished growing after summer break.

She intends to return to Strixhaven and use her room again.

Mia may continue using Wendy's old body until a suitable replacement is made for Mia.

The name issue#

Wendy says that after she returns, Mia will no longer go by Wendy's name.

This is almost comically irritating because Mia has already been telling people:

"I go by Mia now."

But the letter makes the coming identity collision concrete. Wendy expects to exist physically at school again while Mia may still be using Wendy's former body for at least some transitional period.

Wendy expects all A's#

Wendy expects Mia to maintain all A's and not besmirch the Goodfellow name.

Mia has, inconveniently for the satisfaction of proving Wendy wrong, actually kept the grades up.

Puck wants to meet Mia#

The biggest family surprise is that Puck Goodfellow wants to meet Mia.

Wendy's reason is even stranger:

Mia is now considered a member of the Goodfellows.

Mia's immediate reaction is essentially: well, fuck — Puck.

This changes the Goodfellows from merely the rich family paying compensation into a family that, for whatever legal / Fey / magical reason, now considers Mia one of them.

The Goodfellows are described as very apologetic for Mia's demise in an internal matter.

That wording matters.

It strongly reinforces the explanation that the original explosion came out of Goodfellow internal / Fey conflict, even though the specific attacker, opposing faction, and motive are still unknown.

The scribe also states that when a suitable recreation of Mia's former form can be completed, the Goodfellows will pay the costs to transform / restore her.

So Mia's eventual bodily restoration is no longer only a vague school promise. The Goodfellow family is explicitly financing it.

She crumples the letter and throws it across the room.

Then she flies over, retrieves it, unfolds it, and puts it on her desk.

That is a useful Mia beat: she is angry at being treated as an unwanted tenant in a catastrophe she did not choose, but she is practical enough not to destroy information that affects her body, identity, family status, and future.

Mia decides she will write back in a few days, after she has stopped being quite so angry.

That reply is now an active unresolved task.

The remaining months of the trimester include downtime checks.

Mia is supposed to continue building the programming / command-language bridge that would let S.A.M.I. communicate cleanly with her Earth computer.

The big project goes badly this trimester.

Even after using inspiration to cancel disadvantage on one attempt, Mia makes no meaningful progress on the core problem.

Instead, every time she sits down to work on it she gets distracted by smaller technical projects.

Those side projects include:

• tinkering with a commenting system,
• miscellaneous code fixes,
• installing smart magical lights in the penthouse,
• and making those lights respond to shouted phrases.

It is a perfect programmer failure mode:

The important architecture is unfinished, but the lights are automated.

The session restates Mia's underlying goal clearly: she wants a usable command / programming layer between Earth technology and the sentient magical S.A.M.I. system.

S.A.M.I. is also said to be somewhere on Quandrix campus, and the earlier invitation / access thread remains unresolved rather than forgotten.

While studying magical notation / language-heavy material, Mia makes a poor Arcana attempt and checks whether Wendy knows anything useful.

Wendy's knowledge trickles into the back of Mia's mind in a strikingly personal way:

Mia hears Wendy cursing at her in Sylvan for forgetting that words can have multiple meanings / definitions.

The correction is useful enough to get Mia through the study check.

This is important for the Mia/Wendy thread because it resembles the earlier Arcano-Botany voice moment but is harder to dismiss as generic muscle memory.

By Episode 6 there are now several distinct categories of Wendy bleed:

• procedural body memory,
• factual past-life knowledge,
• Wendy-like attitude / personality,
• and what Mia experiences as Wendy's voice actively correcting her.

Whether that last category is literally remote Wendy speaking through the link or the Reborn mind presenting memory as a voice is still unresolved.

During downtime Starburst considers finding someone to exercise with as part of building healthier habits.

Mia immediately drops very blatant hints that Starburst should work out with Quill.

The table's summary is simple:

Mia ships it.

That remains relevant when the end-of-session party pushes Starburst and Quill into a much more awkward private conversation.

The common Magical Physiologies exam this trimester focuses on owlbears.

The test covers:

• owlbear disposition, habits, hunting, eating, mating, fighting, and habitat,
• and practical / written knowledge about taming, training, and handling them.

The later result callout explicitly says:

Mia aced it.

That keeps her academic record intact.

Mia's Blight Magic exam is appropriately dangerous and hands-on.

She has to identify the correct plant-derived magical preparation / reagent to counteract a harmful magical effect.

Mia identifies the right countermeasure.

Then she has to prove she can react under magical pressure. She chooses a spell attack rather than simply trying to endure the magic with Constitution.

Mia drinks the correct countermeasure and fires off Chill Touch.

The skeletal hand rises beneath the professor and slaps them across the chin.

The professor, transcribed approximately as V-noc Plaguescale, is impressed enough that Mia gains a positive relationship point with them.

The class reward is Ray of Enfeeblement.

This course sits exactly at the overlap of Mia's developing Witherbloom interests, plant/reagent knowledge, Reborn body, and death-touched spell aesthetic.

Speaking the Same Language: Overview of Magical Notation is essentially a course in standardized magical symbols, shorthand, and the written conventions used to describe spells.

Mia and Starburst are shown magical writing and have to work out both how to read it and what the encoded spell actually does.

Mia reaches the point where she can look at the notation and simply read it aloud rather than laboriously decoding every symbol.

The spell turns out to be Comprehend Languages, which Mia learns as the class reward.

For an Earth programmer already trying to make incompatible information systems talk to one another, this is an extremely on-brand course result.

This is one of the courses explicitly identified as Wendy's obligation rather than Mia's original academic choice.

The professor is essentially a magical master thief.

The final exam is to build / enchant a safe and hide an object well enough that the professor cannot trivially steal it.

Mia uses Arcana for the magical protection. Her first setup is poor enough that she immediately scraps it and starts again.

For the second layer she chooses Deception and uses Knowledge from a Past Life.

She creates a misleading false shelf / internal hiding structure.

The professor ultimately finds the object anyway, but Mia still aces the exam: the standard is whether the protection would defeat a normal intruder, not whether a student can out-thief the person teaching the course.

The later reward callout confirms that Mia learns Arcane Lock.

This is another clean Mia/Wendy blend:

• Wendy is the reason Mia is taking the class,
• Mia is the student doing the work,
• and Wendy's past-life knowledge helps Mia complete it.

Mia's last highlighted exam is Repetition / the Forms-and-Fractals course.

The class is about creating a living theorem and using it to calculate complex equations.

In practical terms:

Mia has been learning how to program a living magical computer.

The overlap with her S.A.M.I. project is explicit. The professor says that if Mia aces this course, the experience should give her advantage on future S.A.M.I. coding checks.

The exam nearly goes wrong and Mia has to burn accumulated academic resources to rescue the result.

But the most Mia-specific part is the theorem itself.

It turns out to be:

undead living code / undead binary code.

Even when Mia learns something through her own legitimate technical-magical coursework rather than inheriting it from Wendy, the result still comes out death-touched.

Mia ultimately aces the class.

She gains:

• advantage on future S.A.M.I. coding checks,
• Vortex Warp.

Vortex Warp is then flavored through the living theorem: the strange undead/fractal code envelops the target and performs the teleportation.

This is one of the clearest points so far where Earth-computer-science Mia and Reborn magical Mia stop feeling like separate identities and begin to form one personal magical style.

The DM explicitly notes that Mia has maintained straight A's across all of her exams so far.

That means Wendy's obnoxious demand not to damage the Goodfellow academic reputation is, irritatingly, already being satisfied.

Mia remains level 2 at the end of Episode 6.

Surviving finals means another large student party.

Mia specifically wants to catch up with three friends outside the penthouse:

• Drazmir,
• Luna,
• Chavadri.

There is no major new Luna-romance escalation in this episode, but Luna's inclusion shows that she has become part of Mia's chosen social circle rather than merely an occasional Showband crush encounter.

The group drinks, socializes, and plays truth or dare inside a Zone of Truth.

Mia chooses truth.

The question goes directly at campus rumors about her identity:

Is she not just Mia but also Wendy, and how much of Wendy is still around?

The table pauses to clarify what the campus actually knows.

This is where Episode 6 corrects the earlier understanding: Wendy's survival / Feywild return is not merely a tiny secret held by the party.

Campus social knowledge includes the broad premise that:

• Wendy died and returned to the Feywild,
• Wendy is regrowing a body,
• Mia is the person currently living in Wendy's old body,
• and Wendy can in some sense watch through Mia's eyes.

Asked whether Wendy is actually watching, Mia answers:

"A little bit. Sometimes. Occasionally."

That is now the best concise in-character description of Mia's own understanding of the link.

It still does not explain how it works.

During party discussion, the table explicitly notes that Mia still does not know Callan sells drugs.

This is worth preserving because the campaign has a lot of information that is obvious to players but not shared evenly between characters.

So as of Episode 6:

Do not treat Callan's drug enterprise as Mia knowledge unless a later scene tells her.

The Penthouse Pals are challenged to prove they can actually be sneaky.

The dare is to recover a legendary campus object:

Sassy Sally Jane

from Captain Dapplewing's Manor.

The time limit is midnight to sunrise.

The group has to get into the manor, find Sally, remove her, and avoid being caught.

Sassy Sally Jane#

Sally is described as:

• a pink-haired doll,
• wearing a patchwork tartan dress,
• with a voice box that students modified to shout rude phrases when her hand is squeezed.

She has been a campus prank / legendary object for decades.

Faculty confiscate and relocate her whenever students get too close to stealing her back. This year she is believed to be somewhere inside Dapplewing Manor.

Dapplewing Manor#

The manor is a historic university property associated with Captain Remus Dapplewing, an owlin mage / military veteran who taught across Lorehold and Silverquill.

It now functions roughly as:

• a faculty relaxation space,
• a teacher lounge / retreat,
• and a place for academic meditation or counseling.

So the dare is not merely stealing a silly doll from an empty shed.

It means breaking into a faculty retreat.

Mia does not wait until midnight to start thinking.

She sends Lucas ahead to Dapplewing Manor to explore and try to locate Sally.

Other familiars / companions are also sent or discussed for the scouting team, eventually producing a ridiculous tiny heist crew involving Lucas, Curio, the sable, and Callan's new helpers/familiars.

The DM warns that the familiars probably will not complete the entire heist alone, but they may be able to gather useful information before the PCs go in.

The party is therefore already in the planning/recon stage when Episode 6 ends.

Completing the heist will advance the group to level 3.

A truth-or-dare prompt sends Quill and Starburst away for a private version of "seven minutes in heaven / Elysium."

This scene is important to the campaign but is not automatically Mia knowledge, because the conversation happens privately.

Starburst makes clear that Quill's comfort matters and offers to just talk.

Quill eventually blurts out that:

he likes Starburst.

Then he explains why he does not think he can act on it:

"I have a girlfriend."

The episode deliberately ends on that line.

The key distinction is:

• Player/OOC knowledge: Quill likes Starburst but says he has a girlfriend.
• Mia knowledge: not established yet unless Starburst or Quill tells her later.

Given Mia's enthusiastic shipping, this is likely to become very relevant when it reaches her.

Wendy is independently conscious#

Wendy is not only a collection of memories inside Mia.

She is conscious enough in the Feywild to dictate a pointed letter, plan her return, make demands about her name/room/body, and communicate Puck's request to meet Mia.

Internal Wendy still exists too#

At the same time, Mia continues experiencing Wendy internally:

• knowledge arrives through Knowledge from a Past Life,
• Wendy's voice curses corrections in Sylvan during study,
• and Mia publicly acknowledges that Wendy watches through her sometimes.

The unresolved question is no longer whether Wendy exists elsewhere.

It is:

How can Wendy be an independent person in the Feywild while still being present enough inside / through Mia to supply memory, voice, instinct, and perception?

The body arrangement now has a timetable#

Wendy expects to return after summer break.

Mia can keep using the current body until a replacement is ready, and the Goodfellows promise to fund that restoration.

That transforms a distant abstract question into a future deadline.

Mia has been absorbed into Goodfellow politics#

The family now calls Mia a Goodfellow strongly enough that Puck wants to meet her.

Combined with the scribe's phrase "internal matter," Mia is no longer merely collateral damage being compensated by the family.

She is becoming entangled in the family itself.

Wendy#

Direct correspondence now exists. Wendy is alive elsewhere, plans to return after summer, and is still abrasive enough to make Mia throw the letter across the room.

Puck Goodfellow#

No longer just an ominous ancestor/family name. He wants to meet Mia personally because the Goodfellows now consider her part of the family.

Starburst#

Still Mia's strongest emotional anchor. Episode 6 begins with Mia worrying about Starburst after the warehouse escape, and Starburst is now the source of the party's best concrete evidence about the reagent supply chain.

Luna#

No large romantic beat this time, but Mia deliberately seeks her out at the end-of-trimester party. Luna is now part of the friends Mia thinks to find when she wants to celebrate.

Quill#

Mia remains invested in the idea of Quill and Starburst and openly pushes the pairing in small ways. The private end-of-episode cliffhanger is player knowledge, not yet Mia knowledge.

V-noc Plaguescale#

Blight Magic professor. Mia's rapid countermeasure + Chill Touch response earns their respect / a positive relationship point.

• Starburst brings the reagent conspiracy into the penthouse's shared knowledge by reporting the warehouse and copied inventory. Her acting / academic momentum remains strong. The private final scene reveals to the player that Quill likes her but says he has a girlfriend.
• Callan continues expanding his business/criminal connections and acquires bizarre helpers/retainers through his coursework. The table explicitly notes that Mia still does not know the full drug-business side of his life.
• Callie remains socially magnetic and heavily connected around campus.
• A'bigail is largely off-screen / absent for this session's major scenes.
• The entire group finishes the trimester successfully and moves into another party-driven campus adventure.
• Dapplewing Manor becomes the next concrete location: a historic faculty retreat now containing the legendary confiscated prank doll Sassy Sally Jane.

Mia definitely knows#

• Wendy's letter contents.
• Wendy expects her new body to be ready after summer and plans to return.
• The Goodfellows will fund Mia's eventual bodily recreation / restoration.
• Puck wants to meet Mia because the family considers her a Goodfellow.
• The scribe calls Mia's death the result of a Goodfellow internal matter.
• Starburst infiltrated a reagent-storage warehouse, encountered suspicious activity, fled, and copied part of the inventory.
• The copied records contain shipment / expiration / order / allotment information that can be analyzed.
• Mia's S.A.M.I. project did not materially progress during this trimester.
• Repetition now gives her future advantage on that coding project.
• Wendy's voice / knowledge can still surface internally.
• Mia's living theorem manifests as undead code.
• Mia has learned Comprehend Languages, Arcane Lock, Ray of Enfeeblement, and Vortex Warp.
• She has kept straight A's.
• Campus rumor knows a surprising amount about the Mia/Wendy arrangement.
• She has been dared into the Dapplewing Manor heist and has sent Lucas ahead.
• She still does not know Callan's drug enterprise.

Player / OOC knowledge not automatically Mia knowledge#

• Starburst's original break-in wording includes experiments, next shipment, next batch, and boss; Starburst shares the break-in with the group; under the standing knowledge-sharing convention, treat the full relevant warehouse information she possessed as Mia knowledge unless she explicitly withheld something.
• A separate Quill conversation reveals his frustration with friends trying to control his choices; do not retroactively treat that as a conversation Mia had.
• Quill privately tells Starburst that he likes her but has a girlfriend.
• OOC, Mia's player reacts very protectively at the possibility that Penelope's new target might be Luna; the scene clarifies the target is an upperclassman, so this is color rather than a new in-character event.

Wendy returns after summer#

• What will Wendy be like in her new body?
• Will the old-body / new-body connection persist?
• How long will Mia still be in Wendy's former body once Wendy is back on campus?
• What happens socially when both of them are physically present?

Mia's replacement body#

• What magic will create / restore it?
• Will it be a perfect recreation of Mia's Earth body or something altered by Strixhaven / Reborn magic?
• Does moving Mia again affect her Reborn nature or Wendy link?

Puck and Goodfellow membership#

• Why exactly is Mia now considered a Goodfellow?
• Is that social courtesy, legal adoption, Fey contract logic, magical kinship, or political strategy?
• What does Puck want from the meeting?

Reagent supply chain#

• What patterns are hidden in the copied inventory?
• Which shipments connect to the mimic, familiar incident, and Bow's End attack?
• Who are the warehouse voices?
• Can Starburst recognize them later?
• Where do experiments / batch / shipment / boss fit into the larger plot?

Wendy's internal presence#

• When Mia hears Wendy's voice, is Wendy consciously speaking from the Feywild?
• Or is Mia's Reborn mind reconstructing Wendy's knowledge as a voice?
• Does Wendy know when her memories / skills are being used?

S.A.M.I.#

• The project stalled, but Repetition now gives future advantage.
• When will Mia try again?
• When will she actually visit S.A.M.I. on Quandrix campus / resolve the dean-access thread?

Dapplewing Manor#

• What did the familiar scouting team learn?
• Can the Penthouse Pals retrieve Sassy Sally Jane without being caught?
• Is this merely a campus dare, or will the manor contain something unexpectedly important?
• Completing it is the announced route to level 3.

She now knows that:

• Wendy is actively communicating from the Feywild,
• Wendy expects to come back after summer,
• the Goodfellows consider Mia one of them strongly enough for Puck to request a meeting,
• and the family explicitly intends to pay for Mia's eventual bodily restoration.

Academically, Mia has done absurdly well:

• another trimester of straight A's,
• new language/security/blight/teleportation magic,
• and a magical programming course that has produced undead binary code and finally given her a technical advantage on the S.A.M.I. problem.

Investigatively, the black reagent mystery is no longer just a pattern of accidents. Mia now has Starburst's warehouse report and a partial supply-chain dataset to work from.

Socially, Mia is still building a genuine Strixhaven life: Starburst remains her anchor, Luna is someone she seeks out to celebrate with, and her friends are famous enough that campus students are now daring the whole penthouse into crimes for fun.

The central Mia/Wendy question has also evolved again.

It is no longer simply:

How much of Wendy is inside Mia?

Now it is:

How can Wendy be alive, thinking, writing letters, and preparing to return — while still being present inside Mia's memories, voice, instincts, magic, and sometimes even her point of view?

And the next immediate problem is delightfully Strixhaven:

Break into Dapplewing Manor, steal the rude doll, don't get caught.

Episode shape#

Episode 7 opens exactly where the previous session stopped: the PCs remain at the end-of-trimester party while their familiars attempt the Dapplewing Manor heist on their own.

The heist succeeds, but it uncovers something much darker than Sassy Sally Jane. Afterward the campaign moves into the third trimester, Mia reaches level 3, her relationship with Luna hits its first major mechanical threshold, her S.A.M.I. project advances again, and the year-end campus tours force Mia and Wendy onto increasingly different academic paths.

The session ends before third-trimester finals.

The familiar team includes:

• Lucas, often riding Starburst's weasel,
• Starburst's weasel,
• Callan's unusual familiar/retainer contingent,
• Lucky Eveningglow, a sprite,
• Quill's clockwork moth homunculus,
• and Curio.

Most of the PCs remain back at the party. This means Lucas is operating with far less direct help from Mia than usual.

That turns out to matter.

Saelora eventually realizes that Mia has apparently been micromanaging Lucas far more than anyone appreciated, because without her guidance he is extremely stupid, easily distracted, and repeatedly fixated on finding something that smells like brains.

Breaking into Dapplewing Manor#

The tiny crew finds a spare key under a potted plant and slips inside.

The manor is guarded by:

• construct patrols,
• modron-like sentries disguised among furnishings,
• magical security,
• and animated objects.

Lucas spends much of the infiltration crawling along walls and ceilings, which is at least one skill he is naturally good at.

Lucas versus the animated stole#

One magical fur stole animates into a fire snake when the familiars get too close.

Lucas finally detects something that registers to his strange senses as brain-like / psychic enough to be interesting.

He attacks.

He leaps onto the creature, bites it, survives being scorched, and at one point bounces away while on fire.

During the fight the DM jokingly identifies Lucas as one of the familiar team's high-damage dealers.

It is a ridiculous but useful reminder that Lucas may be a tiny, half-decayed idiot spider, but he can still be effective when something gives him an obvious target.

A haunted dress attacks.

Again, Lucas senses the psychic / spirit-like presence as something vaguely analogous to brains and joins the attack.

The team destroys the hostile dress and finds the doll they were sent to steal.

They could simply leave with Sassy Sally.

Then they discover the real problem.

Before leaving, the familiars investigate the other dolls.

Lucas hears faint screams of agony coming from at least one of them.

His strange undead-familiar senses interpret the trapped consciousness as something a little like brains.

The familiars work out that at least one doll contains a real person / soul trapped by a curse.

The curse has an especially cruel mechanism:

touching the cursed doll frees the current victim, but turns the toucher into the new doll.

So the curse can be "broken" for one person only by passing the imprisonment onward.

Lucas later tells Mia what he sensed, so this is Mia knowledge, not merely a familiar/player aside.

Back at the party, Sassy Sally is effectively delivered into the group's hands while the PCs have barely moved.

Lucas returns to Mia as well.

The stunt becomes campus legend almost immediately.

The penthouse gains a broad positive reputation: other students and even upperclassmen recognize them as the people who managed to rob Dapplewing Manor using only their familiars.

Sassy Sally begins circulating around campus again.

The reward is not merely social.

The successful heist advances the group to level 3.