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Team Crimson

Agmen, accommoda, Victoria

### Notable Members

Finnalca,Greninja20Shiny, ShadowPikachu0116, Deadpansupermax, Fankemonbricka162128, TwistedShadowzz, KirLudwig, AlegreGaming4, Legodipy, JustAGryffyndor, CharlesW9-Roblox, Bluegames8315, Dark1Amythest, GlaceonIsTheBestPokemon,Yoshi808, HelpingEevees

### Boss

Endebros

"**Agmen, accommoda, Victoria"**
*Train, Adapt: Victory*
Team Crimson is a fan-made, non-official Team of Pokémon Brick Bronze. This group is a PVP group.

## Members

Team Crimson has **30-ish** members, and ranks #2 in Team Popularity (Population).

## Showdowns

### Battle Colosseum

#### ?/?/2018

Team Crimson and Team Darkest Blue were arranged to battle — it was never carried out.

#### 02/10/2018

Team Crimson and Team Fox were arranged to battle — it was never carried out.

#### 02/12/2018

Team Crimson stopped the war with Team Darkest Blue. They became Allies.

## Allies & Enemies

Team Crimson has **4** Allies and **1** Enemy.

### Allies

#### Team Cloudy

After Team Crimson's creation, they immediately befriended the popular Team Cloudy.

#### Team Wooper

Due to being a branch of Team Cloudy, Team Wooper became Allies as well.

#### Team Alpha

Due to being a branch of Team Wooper, Team Alpha became Allies as well.

#### Team Darkest Blue

Their relationship started out rocky — Team Crimson and Team Darkest Blue were scheduled to battle. But the battle was canceled and later, they befriended each other.

### Enemies

#### Team Fox

Almost at creation, Team Crimson became Enemies with Team Fox due to a Profile Picture skirmish. They are still true Enemies.

## Team Crimson

Team Crimson is a PVP Team and is directly Hostile to its Enemies and possibly some Neutral Teams.

**Hostile to Enemy**
Silvan College

**Silvan College** is the fifteenth founded college of the University of Aldergate.

Silvanians have an easier time getting dates than academic acknowledgement - which I'm sure everyone agrees is unfair, especially to non-Silvanians.

## History

For all its accomplishments, Silvan will always be most celebrated for its looks. With all the grace and elegance of a chateau on the Loire, Silvan resembles a fairy-tale castle - and even non-Silvanians tend to romanticize the place. Paul von Hindenburg (who briefly attended Garton and Perse just across University Place and was a key voice in the agreement to put Aldergate off-limits during the Blitz) is famously quoted as saying:

> “I know not whether damage to Silvan would be prevented by angels or punished by devils, and I do not intend to find out.”
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## Architecture

The college complex is distinct by its crowned cupolas and the delicate open double-helix spiral stair/walkways that connect the buildings.

The picture is of the Château de Blois. Lovely as it is, it hardly does justice.
Vitrified doors

To gain the Door Prize achievement, you're going to have to use the intercoms on the five Vitrified doors located around the original Aperture Science labs. They are pretty obvious when found, but they are hidden in some less-than-obvious places. The first two can be found fairly easily, right after you finish the long elevator ride after the first set of Repulsion Gel test chambers. The final three are in the Control Room, which can't be missed. Follow the video to find the hidden door for the corridor containing the final three doors. Remember to hit the intercom on all five doors; otherwise you will not get the achievement.
Queensmeade College

**Queensmeade College** is the eighth founded college of the University of Aldergate.

Meades have their own thing going on. Whatever else they may get up to, chances are they've also written a book or launched a start-up or invented a new sort of pen or something. This can create the sort of awkward situations that lead to cabinet minsters or Chief Financial Officers talking excitedly about the self-produced single they've just dropped.

## History

Queensmeade is the twin of Ockham College, younger by the time it took Regent House to read its charter and say "aye" a second time. The character of the two institutions, however, could hardly be more different.

There's an old cartoon from the Daily Bystander that depicts Ockham as a brooding, long-haired aesthete mourning a sheaf of papers on which a grinning, wellie-wearing Queensmeade has trodden. That's not quite fair; the Wolf and Nobel laureates produced by the Queensmeade School of Agricultural Science are hardly your typical horny-handed sons of the soil. The college does, however, still embrace its roots - both in its blazon of arms (a quill flanked by wheat stalks with entwined stems), and in what remains of its celebrated Meade.

## Architecture

The unusual evolution of the Queensmeade complex was largely driven by the college's reluctance to encroach on the Meade - a plot of cultivated land within the bailey that for centuries played an important role in the experimental research of Queensmeade scholars. This restricted building footprint forced the growing college to expand vertically; it has been called “Troy at Aldergate,” a mass of historical accretions built one on top of another, steel and glass rising from Norman stone.

Being the college most visible from the Aldergate Road, the jumbled towers and turrets of Queensmeade are an iconic image associated with the University - that's the one you see on the t-shirts. It likes to be referred to as "the Noble Pile." It actually gets referred to as "the Tumor."

The picture is of the Abbey of Saint-Étienne. Imagine the different bits were added centuries apart, with different materials and in different styles, and you've got a pretty good impression of the Tumor.
Team Alpha

Team Alpha's Mascot

**"We are a team for tourneys and spreading justice!"**
**Team Alpha**is a (currently) peaceful Team that creates tourneys and spreads justice in the name of Arceus. Team Alpha is a branch of Team Wooper, which is a branch of Team Cloudy.

## Members

Team Alpha has **8** members:

* LatrellRBLX (Leader)
* xLadyLibrary (Admin)
* GalaxionX (Admin)
* CJeffers1999 (Advanced Trainer)
* wyattspoop (Advanced Trainer)
* Partymaster460 (Advanced Trainer)
* LightNexx (Advanced Trainer)
* Unknown 8th Member

## Showdowns

As of now, Team Alpha does not participate in Showdowns. They may overlook Showdowns with Team Wooper and Team Cloudy.

## Allies & Enemies

Team Alpha has **4** Allies and **1** Enemy (currently).

### Allies

#### Team Wooper

Team Alpha's first Ally was Team Wooper, as Team Alpha is a branch of Team Wooper. (Team Alpha's Leader, LatrellRBLX, provided funding for Team Wooper's group.)

#### Team Cloudy

Team Alpha's second Ally was Team Cloudy. As Team Alpha is a branch of Team Wooper, and Team Wooper is a branch of Team Cloudy, an Alliance is automatic.

#### Team Crimson

When Team Cloudy Allied Team Crimson, the Alliance went via a chain to Team Alpha.

#### Team Darkest Blue

When Team Crimson Allied Team Darkest Blue after a canceled battling, the chain of Allies carried the new Alliance to Team Alpha.

### Enemies

#### Team Fox

When Team Crimson made Enemies with Team Fox after an argument (and a need for an enemy), the chain of Allies carried the new Enemy down to Team Alpha.
Peter Abelard

**Peter Abelard** - Petrus Abaelardus to his friends - was, among other things, the first and only Chancellor of Aldergate University.

Although his nun-related shenanigans have largely coloured the modern world’s opinion of old Pete, he was the preeminent scholar, philosopher and logician of his day. Nobody in the academic community batted an eye when Empress Matilda offered him the Chancellorship in perpetuity, on the understanding that he could confer it at his sole discretion to whomever he liked.

Things turned sticky when Pete died later that same year while en route to Rome to fight charges of heresy. He never got around to naming a successor, and the University of Aldergate has been run by Vice-Chancellors ever since.

There's another bit of controversy surrounding the death of Abelard. Supposedly the old monk was asked on his deathbed whether he had any last words to impart, to which his alleged response was: "I don't know." Now, some ignorant persons have claimed that this was just Pete flubbing his line, rather than actually delivering his actus est fabula. Aldergatians, however, have always celbrated this final pronouncement of the great scholar as a rallying cry - in fact, as the essential motto of academia. Until we know everything we have no business claiming to know anything at all, that sort of thing. Anyhow, the Latin "Nescio" is the University of Aldergate's unofficial motto, and it appears on the University's coat of arms.
Day 1

Episodes:

* **Introduction and Day 1, Part 1 - Aldergate Revisited**
	+ After fifteen years away, Adrian Ward returns to ancient Aldergate University. When he left he was fearless and penniless; now he is one of the wealthiest persons ever to have lived, and he is scared of his own shadow. Well ... not his shadow. He's mostly afraid of the cabal of powerful friends he's left behind - and the ghosties and ghoulies that haunt his old new home. Listen now.
* **Day 1, Part 2 - The Return of the Prodigal**
	+ All alone, in the darkness of a medieval fortress during a power outage, Adrian Ward hasn't had quite the triumphal return he might have hoped for. At least Aldergate hasn't changed - from the silent masked figures on the Pentangle to the oh-so-discreet murder investigation, the University seems about as exceptional and eccentric as when he left it. There are even a few old friends about. And a few old enemies. And perhaps a skeleton or two, tucked away at the back of a closet he never thought he'd open again. Listen now.
* **Day 1, Part 3 - In the Company of Ghosts**
	+ Some things never change at dear, queer old Aldergate. Even when they ought to. And it isn't easy to wax nostalgic when running from one dangerous past runs you right into another. Back in the old days, a fresh-faced young Adrian Ward became friends - ish - with the girl who would in short order become the renowned and notorious Sammie Brayden. Inspiring and irritating, Sammie made it her business to be a perennial pain in Adrian's arse. Now her severed legs have been discovered practically on his new front door step ... plus ça change, eh? Listen now.
Empress Matilda

**Empress Matilda** has as good a claim as anyone to being the founder of the University of Aldergate. Magnificent woman, but perhaps her most important accomplishment was less the product of her genius and daring than a good old up-yours to her cousin Stephen of Blois.

Under other circumstances, Aldergate might have ended up going the way of Cambridge and Oxford; perfectly fine schools, if you like that sort of thing, but hardly bastions of bloody-minded scholastic independence. Back in the 1100's, however, the throne of England was in a precarious state, and Empress M was justifiably worried that Aldergate - her pet project - might fall into the wrong hands if she got usurped. She did, in fact, get usurped; not, however, before signing off on a charter that created the newborn University more or less as a sovereign state.

This mandate for independence was subsequently reaffirmed by Matty's son, Henry II.

Empress College is named in her honour.
Team Trend

The **Team Trend** was a Trend that began on the Pokémon Brick Bronze Wiki.

The Team Trend dates back to 2017.

#### Mid-2017

Long before many Teams blossomed, Team Cloudy was the first Team on the Pokémon Brick Bronze Wiki. They were very popular and had many members. While Team Cloudy definitely played a major role in the Team Trend, they did not exactly start it. IFauxy did not intend for Team Cloudy to accidentally support an uprising Trend on the PBB Wiki, just weeks after the Story Trend was at its fullest.

#### December 2017

It is believed that IAmEmilyTheCat started the Team Trend with Team Moon, now known as Team Fox. IAmEmilyTheCat may have looked at Team Cloudy, and decided to start her own Team. Many Teams spiraled out of the Team Trend in December, where the Team Trend was at its fullest, including IAmEmilyTheCat's two renames for Team Moon, Team Mind, Team Marsh, Team Blade, Team Wooper, and Team Alpha. Many of the Teams were not very well known, and none that spiraled out of December 2017 ended up extremely popular.

### 2018

#### January 2018

The excitement died down as people entered the new year. Little Teams were created in January of 2018. Team Darkest Blue may have been the only Team created in January 2018, but starting off as a fictional Team. They later became a real Team, as well.

Team Apex may have originated in January or February 2018.

#### February 2018

*(Current)*

The Team Trend isn't done yet, and February 2018 is proof. Instead of going down at the rate of January 2018, Team Crimson is created on Groundhog's Day (February 2). Team Crimson became popular very quickly, and may have been one of the main reasons this Wiki was created. Another Team with many members was a good reason to start a Wiki to keep track of all of those Teams. To add with the excitement, Team Cat dropped its name and became Team Fox.

Team Apex may have originated in January or February 2018.
Showdowns

This page shows all the showdowns and battles that Teams have had.

## Statistics

**Total Wins:** 1
**Total Losses:** 1
**Total Draws:** 0
**Total Canceled:** 2
**Total Battles:** 0
**Total Team Rank***\****:** 0

*\*All wins contribute 30-35 Team Rank to a Team, and all losses will lose [2/3 of what the winning Team won] Team Rank for a Team. If a Team has recently lost in the past or if the Team is on a winning streak, the amount of Team Rank won from a battle will go up.*

## List of All Showdowns

### ?/?/2018

**Day:** Unknown

 Group 2
 Status
 Winner

### 2/10/2018

**Day:** Saturday

 Group 2
 Status
 Winner

### Format

 Group 2
 Status
 Winner
CAROLINE

**Caroline** was the personal assistant to former Aperture Science CEO Cave Johnson, until later becoming his successor. Not much is known about her character, as she is only heard briefly through a small portion of Cave Johnson's prerecorded audio messages. it is believed that Chell might be Caroline´s daughter.

Although the amount of time she became CEO is unknown, it is clear that Johnson had praised her enough to have her essence extracted into acore to oversee the Facility's operations, the core of which became GLaDOS.
BOWfAX Technologies

A triumph of youthful ambition over common sense. Never legally incorporated, BOWfAX united exceptional minds and exceptionable personalities in the cause of innovation.

## Principle Officers

* Adrian
* Sammie
* Baz
* Neek
* Alastair

## History

### Termination

The formal existence of BOWfAX Technologies as a unified operation ceased on the night of the Hobson Mews fire, which resulted in the death of one corporate officer and the destruction of most of the firm's resources and intellectual property.
Bathsheba ffoulkes

**Dame Bathsheba "Baz" ffoulkes**, DBE, is the current Secretary and Steward of Aldergate University. She's also the oldest living pal of the great Adrian Ward, and is responsible for his return to Aldergate. To her the credit, to her the blame.

## Early years

Baz was Born in Leeds, wasn’t she? Or Hull? Her parents are Welsh, but they live in London. At least they used to – back in the lean days she used to have them up quite often to take the BOWfAX crew to dinner. Nice people, father was a big something-or-other with British Rail. Mother sat on boards of things. No siblings.

Not much else is known about the ffoulkes family history, except that Baz once mentioned that her granddad died in WWI. It's easy to imagine a sepia-toned Baz, captain’s pips upon her cuffs, strolling briskly across no man’s land with her baton tucked crisply under her arm. Utterly unflappable, even when one ought to be flapping like mad.

## Life at Aldergate

Baz was … sixteenish, perhaps, when she got her invitation to Old Carroll? Anyhow, she was seventeen when her path first crossed that of AW. Baz the Brilliant Busybody, hardest-working programmer in the School of Difference Engineering. For all her exceptional talents in comprehending and managing complex systems, her real superpower was an inhuman ability to keep plugging away at the most deadly dull tasks for days on end - with occasional breaks to microwave another Pot Noodle and flirt awkwardly with Neek.

Not so much an innovator, perhaps, as a dynamo powering the machinery of innovation. Out of all the Founders she probably generated the fewest of those cataclysmic brainwaves that illuminated the PULL sign on whatever door they’d spent the last hundred hours shoving against - but she was always the first to re-roll her sleeves and start tugging.

## Post-BOWfAX

When the Hobson Mews fire blew up BOWfAX it sent the surviving Founders flying all across the globe. Only Baz stayed on at Aldergate. And stayed, and stayed. Published a few papers on procedural systems interfacing, then wrote an automated script that politely refused the ensuing hailstorm of obscenely lucrative offers of employment. Man doth not live by code alone, however, so eventually she took a part-time job in the Bursary. Administration agreed with her, and now she’s the engine that keeps the University chugging along.

Not quite sure when she officially received the title of Secretary and Steward of the University. She accepted her damehood in absentia - coming to New York to recruit the 51st Vice-Chancellor may have been the first time she'd left Aldergate since she arrived.
Alderpedia Wiki

## Welcome to Alderpedia

Welcome to the official wiki for The Aldergate Papers . Here you will find answers to at least a few of the many, many questions that lurk in the shadows of ancient Aldergate University. Including those you would perhaps have preferred to leave unasked.

Caveat lector, eh?

Anyhow ... let us begin.

* The Aldergate Papers
* The University of Aldergate
* Our Hapless Hero
* Dramatis Personae
* On Bastardom

## Latest activity

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Old Carroll

**Old Carroll** is the twenty-third founded college of the University of Aldergate.

Rollos know what's what - which can be good or bad, depending on your perspective. If you're friends with a Rollo, you will come to love and to dread the phrase: "You know, technically there's no rule that says we *can't..."*

## History

*(Main article: The Far Four Colleges)*

Old Carroll was the fourth of the Far Four colleges. Also the fifth, sort of. And the sixth, seventh, eighth, etcetera.

Shortly after the creation of Carroll College, its founding scholars attempted a bold political coup: to conquer the University by a process of self-replication. A total of one hundred and seventy-seven Carroll Colleges were duly designated and established before Regent House caught wind of the plot.

What those original Rollos had realized was that, although the Lex Aldergatiensis lays out an extensive and exacting process for founding a new college, almost all of the bureaucratic checks and approvals related solely to the appropriation and allocation of land and resources. Once a grant was established, however, it could be transferred from one governing body to another quite easily, presuming unanimous approval by College leadership. The Rollos were, therefore, able simply to draw up founding documents for a new college and transfer the old college's holdings to it in toto. This would, for all practical purposes, cause the old college to cease to exist in reality, but not as a strictly legal entity. And each of those strictly strictly legal entities retained the voting rights in Regent House accorded by writ to any duly-appointed College of the University of Aldergate.

In theory, the Rollos had effectively seized complete democratic control of the University by turning each of their officers into a one hundred and seventy-seven member voting bloc. They were foiled by a quorum headcount, having accidentally rendered it mathematically impossible for Regent House to convene a session. Rather than face the bureaucratic mess and likely mob violence they might otherwise have faced, the Rollos agreed to dissolve all but their original college. The Lex Aldergatiensis was amended to close the loophole, and only Old Carroll remained.

## Architecture

The buildings of Old Carroll are mostly Georgian red brick. The College's footprint included the old East Gate Marketplace; rather than eliminate it, the Rollos enclosed and built over it. Market is still held daily.

The picture is of Yale's Connecticut Hall. Looks about right - bricks ought to be a bit darker, but you can use your imagination.
Chamber College

**Chamber College** is the fourth founded college of the University of Aldergate.

Roomies are pretty alright, generally. A bit standoffish, but not in a superior way - just cautious. They also have a distinctly un-Aldergatian tendency to obey rules, and to expect that others will obey them as well. Takes all sorts to make a world.

## History

Fiercely independent, even by Aldergate standards, Chamber is the only college that still upholds the so-called "Calpurnia's Law" mandating that students be trained in "ye artes of soldierey." This prickliness dates back to the bad old days of the School Militant, when the College opened its doors to fugitive Jews fleeing the Massacres of London and York.

Chamber subsequently developed a reputation for inordinate wealth, and was a favored target for would-be looters during the various peasant revolts and townie riots that stain Aldergate's history. These last few centuries have been relatively peaceful, but Chamber College isn't taking any chances.

## Architecture

No doubt there's other points of interest, but let's be honest: the Glass Pinecone. It exists. They said they'd do it, and they did it, and now it's there - a towering, sparkling, knobbly ... thing. Of course, when they set out to create a "mixed living and working space designed to foster both community and exploration" the outcome was bound to be peculiar, and it is.

To be clear: it's not bad-looking, exactly. Just unexpected.

Yes, yes, that picture is of the Gherkin; the GP is squatter, and has the sticky-out bits all over. However, the juxtaposition of old and new - and the way it sort of looms over things - captures the spirit of the thing nicely.
MacNaughton College

**MacNaughton College** is the twentieth founded college of the University of Aldergate.

Macs are both decorative and functional. Your typical Mac is the closest thing there is to a well-rounded Aldergatian - less likely to give themselves over entirely to a single narrowly-defined obsession, and more likely to go outdoors once in a while.

That doesn't mean Macs are any less mad - or less brilliant - than their more monomaniacal fellows. Rather, they tend to live at the intersection of multiple disciplines, and to interest themselves in the breaking of conventionally accepted barriers. Which all sounds very brilliant and noble, until you consider that some barriers exist for a reason.

Notable alumni include the late Samantha Brayden.

## History

*(Main article: The Far Four Colleges)*

MacNaughton was the first (by a few minutes) of the Far Four colleges.

The College occupies the former MacNaughton city estate, donated for that purpose by Elizabeth MacNaughton on condition that the scholars care for her collection of pet foxes and their offspring. The thriving MacNaughton College Fox Sanctuary currently boasts some two-dozen healthy, thoroughly domesticated – beasts, and sponsors an annual “Fox Hunt” in the streets of Aldergate.

## Architecture

Most of the original MacNaughton buildings still stand. Pride of place (and the hub of the college) is MacNaughton House, a stately Elizabethan pile. The picture is of Wollaton Hall - squeeze it into an urban setting, and you've got MacNaughton House.
Ashcraft College

**Ashcraft College** is the twelfth founded college of the University of Aldergate.

Ashcraft has a well-earned reputation for producing uncompromising perfectionists, for better and for worse. Dr. Lomu has a coffee mug in her office with the slogan: "Ashcrafters do it amazingly, eventually."

## History

Though founded in the same year as Ratigan College, Ashcraft's history is far less turbulent. Refusing to be rushed in its design and construction even as the University found itself in urgent need of more living and working space, the character of Ashcraft College as deliberate and precise has endured throughout the centuries.

## Architecture

A classic prodigy of the English Renaissance, the spacious Ashcraft façade boasts great, broad windows. The college's chief architect spoke of wanting “light, through and through" - and indeed, the college is something of a voyeur's delight. One Whipple Head described his office as being "separated from the Ashcraft dormitories by a dozen yards, two sheets of glass, and my increasingly vexed sense of modesty.”

The picture is of Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire. Flatten its face and squeeze it in between Ratigan and Queen's Parade and you've got the right sort of idea.
Team Fox

Team Fox Pokemon

Gyradoes

PokemonFan2017

Boybunny6262

FabulousMangle

IAmBestDuck

nelben18

XDragonHarrison

diamondcrreeperMG

**"Fox Is Better Than Eclipse"**
**Team Fox** is a Team led by IAmEmilyTheCat (known here as IAmNotEmilyTheCat). It is her current team — in order of most recent to oldest, its predecessors are Team Cat, Team Star, and Team Moon.

## Members

Team Fox has **11** members in total:

* IAmEmilyTheCat (IAmNotEmilyTheCat — Owner)
* PokeFreak117 (Admin)
* FluffyMermaid78
* Gyradoes
* PokemonFan2017
* Boybunny6262
* FabulousMangle
* IAmBestDuck
* nelben18
* XDragonHarrison
* diamondcrreeperMG

## Showdowns

### 02/10/2018

Team Fox accepted a battle with its main rival and Enemy, Team Crimson. However, both Team Fox representatives were unable to go, and thus, the battle was canceled.

## Allies & Enemies

Team Fox has **0** Allies and **6** Enemies.

### Enemies

#### Team Crimson

After a Profile Picture argument, the two teams became rivals. This started a long Enemy Chain...

#### Team Darkest Blue

...but the other end of the Enemy Chain ended at Team Darkest Blue.

#### Team Foxy

Vedsaik123 wanted to create Team Foxy just as Team Fox was created. Vedsaik123 rejected IAmEmilyTheCat's offer to join Team Fox, and Vedsaik123 created Team Foxy.

## Hostility Status

Due to having 6 Rival Teams (which includes the Direct Rival, Team Crimson), Team Fox is battling and may be for a period of time.

**Hostile to Enemies**
Day 6

Episodes:

* **Day 5 or 6, Part 1: De Profundis**
	+ A midnight snack becomes a matter of life and death as Adrian Ward - investigating Sir Reggie's wine collection - finds himself trapped underground by an unknown intruder. Imprisoned in the decaying darkness of the ancient sub-cellars beneath the Manse, he'll be lucky to see daylight again ... or, perhaps, not so lucky... Listen now.
* **Day 5 or 6, Part 2: Entombed!**
	+ The key to Adrian Ward's escape - if it exists - must lie somewhere in the lightless recesses of his premature tomb. If he hopes to save his life, however, he's going to have to risk it ... and he's running out of time. The clock is ticking, and the whispering shadows are closing in. Listen now.
Dr. Kilbury

**Dr. Lockwood "Prof K" Kilbury** is a resident scholar at the University of Aldergate. He holds a Professorship at Gambrel College, and is consequently a Regent of the University. He had the honor and privilege of mentoring, instructing, and ruthlessly mocking the illustrious Adrian Ward during the latter's early days at Aldergate.

He's barely changed a bit in the past fifteen years. Grown a bit of a belly, and ought to see his tailor about it - but otherwise, still the same sarcastic, bushy-browed old gargoyle as ever he was.

## The "Ultima Ratio"

Kilbury's principle academic work centers around the so-called "Ultima Ratio" - the idea that all knowledge is fundamentally interconnected to such a degree that perfect knowledge of any single truth could, with the application of logic, reveal a full understanding of the entire universe. More a theoretical exercise than a practical one ... although there have been attempts...

## Trivia

* Prof. K is a member in good standing of the Bloodletters Club.
The City of Aldergate

The **City of Aldergate** is a town in Aldershire, England. Located at the confluence of the rivers Alder and Fay, Aldergate is the home of the University of Aldergate, which is the city's largest employer and which owns all of the land within Aldergate's historical boundaries.

## History

There is evidence of human settlement on the site of modern-day Aldergate dating back to the Paleolithic era. The city's current footprint was established in the 1100s, when the city walls were constructed and the city's unique legal status established.

## Features and landmarks

### **Key locations**

#### ***Faymarket Square***

####

### **Commercial establishments**

***The Den of Buggery***

Est. 1564, The DoB is the oldest active gay bar in the world. Located on South Queen's Parade just past Garton & Perse. Popular night spot and performance venue, does a vicious Sunday brunch.

#### ***The Five Keys Public House***

Located down the far end of Grope Lane, the Keys is a marvelous place to share a friendly argument over a pint of Beckle's Very Particular Old Faywater Stout.

#### ***Kebabylon***

Located on Lamp Street in the Student District, Kebabylon is the finest source of 24-hour take-out in the known universe. Try the falafel, live with the consequences.

#### ***The Lignam Arms Hotel***

The most proper of English hotels. Located on the north side of Museum Square, the Lignam features the Rhodes House, one of the finest and probably the most expensive restaurant in England. The Bloodletters Club occupies the hotel's club room, but does not acknowledge the hotel itself.

#### **Maxwell’s Antiquarian Books & Curiosities**

Max's Ant - so called because that's the bit of the sign that's still visible when Max the Younger puts the shutters up - is located on Lamp Street in the Student District, close to the site formerly occupied by Hobson Mews. An ancient and mysterious establishment, it's always seemed more atmospheric than commercial; there are no recorded instances of anybody actually venturing into the shadowy old place with the intention of buying something.

### **Historical landmarks**

#### ***The Long Man***

###
The Wetherby Medical Complex

**The Wetherby Medical Complex** is a dedicated clinical and research campus owned and operated by the University of Aldergate.

## History

### **Creation**

In the 1950s, Regent House finally bowed to two unavoidable realities: that the University needed a unified medical campus, and that there wasn't room for it inside the City of Aldergate. The Wetherby Medical Complex was built just outside the city walls to the northwest, just a two-minute stroll up Queen's Parade from Buckminster College.

### **La Gorgone**

The buildings that make up the Wetherby Medical Complex were designed by Le Corbusier, and they're simply awful. A raw concrete brutalist nightmare that has probably killed dozens of patients with its sheer bleakness. The complex was dubbed "La Gorgone" by its designer, who famously said of his creation that it “captures harmonies of proportion that delight the intellect but wound the eye … it is a machine for
dying in.”

There is consensus among architectural scholars that La Gorgone represents an important and influential step in the progress of modern architecture. The nature of its influence is generally agreed to be that of a pitiable and terrifying object lesson.
Day 3

Episodes:

* **Day 3, Part 1 - À la recherche du temps volé**
	+ Sleepwalking is all very well. Sleeprunning across a library, less so. Sleepfalling down a flight of stairs, not at all. Adrian Ward is bruised and battered, and not at all in the mood to meet his Chief Constable - but he needs to know how the investigation into Sammie's murder is going. If the police are digging into Sammie's past, they may dig up things better left buried. Listen now.
* **Day 3, Part 2 - Frighted with False Fires**
	+ Fire in a crowded theatre is only the appetizer for an afternoon that features ancient monoliths, deadly chandeliers, sexy flying toasters, and Baz's awful yellow Reliant Robin. Listen now.
* **Day 3, Part 3 - Setting the Scene of the Crime**
	+ At last Adrian Ward visits the Gambrel College quad where Sammie's severed legs were found. How did the killer manage to dump them there without being spotted? And ... why? These and other questions haunt the new Vice-Chancellor - who has quite enough to worry about. A dead pal, a nasty fall, and rather a questionable run-in with the Masked Ones that continue to clutter up the Pentangle. Ah, well. Nothing a hot bath and a large scotch can't fix, eh? Listen now.
The Aldergate Papers

**The Aldergate Papers** is a serial audiodrama of mystery, murder, and academic excellence. Welcome to Aldergate University, a shadowy world of obsessive geniuses, masked strangers, hidden dangers, public nudity, and conspiracies that stretch across the centuries and around the globe.

Aldergate's ancient walls hide many secrets, and Adrian Ward - a fugitive billionaire with a dodgy brain and a troubled past - would like to hide as well. When an old pal's severed legs are found practically on his doorstep, however, it's clear his troubles may just be getting started...

Yes.

Anyhow, The Aldergate Papers is biweekly podcast, with new episodes released every second Sunday. All episodes are accessible on the official website, and via Apple Podcasts.

## Episodes

### Volume I - Return to Aldergate

* **Day 1**
	+ Part 1 - Aldergate Revisited
	+ Part 2 - The Return of the Prodigal
	+ Part 3 - In the Company of Ghosts
* **Day 2**
	+ Part 1 - Present Fears and Horrible Imaginings
	+ Part 2 - Encounters With the Local Wildlife
	+ Part 3 - Madness and Murder
* **Day 3**
	+ Part 1 - À la recherche du temps volé
	+ Part 2 - Frighted with False Fires
	+ Part 3 - Setting the Scene of the Crime
* **Day 4**
	+ Part 1 - A Midwinter Night's Mare
	+ Part 2 - The Facts in the Case of S. Brayden
	+ Part 3 - Up from the Ashes
	+ Part 4 - Tea Among the Bloodletters
	+ Part 5 - A Clue with a View
* '*Day 5 & **Day 6'***
	+ Part 1 - De Profundis
	+ Part 2 - Entombed!
* **Day 7**
	+ Part 1 - The Self Unknown
	+ Part 2 - The Morning Before History
	+ Part 3 - Vivat Rex & Curat Lex
	+ Part 4 - Heavy Traffic on Memory Lane
	+ Part 5 - Rendezvous at the Aldergate Museum
	+ Part 6 - Night of the Dawn of an Era
* **Day 8**
	+ Part 1 - The Time is Out of Joint
	+ Part 2 - Among the Lowest of the Dead
	+ Part 3 - Sir Adrian Views the Body
	+ Part 4 - If You Can't Keep Your Head
	+ Part 5 - Scenes from a Hostile Takeover
* **Day 9**
	+ Part 1 - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Fugitive
	+ Part 2 - The Shadow of the Hidden Hand
	+ Part 3 - The Choir Invisible
	+ Part 4 - Beneath the Labyrinth
	+ Part 5 - The Office of Invitation
	+ Part 6 - The Invitorium
	+ Part 7 - The Archives
	+ Part 8 - Yesterday, upon the Stair
	+ Part 9 - The Riddle of the Pooka
	+ Part 10 - A Tale of Two Doors
* **Day 10**
	+ Part 1 - The Parata Identity
	+ Part 2 - In Corpore Sano
	+ Part 3 - The Infernal Comedy
	+ Part 4 - A Crown Called Discontent
	+ Part 5 - The Kitten and the Tentacle
	+ Part 6 - Welcome to Brimstone House
	+ Part 7 - The Man in the Stolen Mask
	+ Part 8 - In the White Room
	+ Part 9 - Adrian the Spy
	+ Part 10 - Brave New Conspiracy
	+ Part 11 - These Violet Delights
	+ Part 12 - The Black Library
	+ Part 13 - Slouching Towards Midnight

### Volume II - Et in Arcadia

* **Day 11**
	+ Part 1 - Brimstone Revisited
	+ Part 2 - Stairway to Destiny
	+ Part 3 - Trialogue and Terror
	+ Part 4 - The Accidental Hostage
	+ Part 5 - The Birth of King Midnight
Delora College

**Delora College** is the sixth founded college of the University of Aldergate.

Delorans get it done. Whatever "it" may be, chances are a Deloran is doing it. They may be accused of not being the life of the party, but not by anyone familiar with the major players in any modern representative democracy.

Notable alumni include James (né Jane) Ambrose, the VC VC, 49th Vice-Chancellor of the University.

## History

As the Office of Invitations increasingly expanded its network of agents beyond Western Europe, the University faced an urgent need to expand beyond the original defensive perimeter of the First Five. The founding scholars of Delora embraced the twofold symbolism, establishing the new college as an "outsider" (the first college without an Anglo-Norman majority) and dedicating it to the "peaceful arts." This latter may also have been careful politics; Henry III had openly condemned Aldergate's steadfast refusal to lend either financial or political support to his efforts to reconquer his father's lost territories in France, and the University's pugnacious response nearly resulted in an armed standoff.

If Delora's rejection of all things warlike was indeed an attempt to appease Hank 3, it was little more than a token one. In its first few decades the college made use of the O of I's Lionheart-era networks to recruit heavily from the Levant, and Aldergatian influence was strongly suspected of fomenting the rebellions in Gascony that prevented the King from pursuing a planned crusade. Later, Delora joined Chamber College in openly defying the 1253 Statute of Jewry; if not for Henry's alliance with (and reliance on) Aldergate's own Fidiricu, things might have turned nasty.

The most enduring effect of the college's commitment to peacefulness may have been entirely accidental. In submitting its blazon of arms to the University Herald, Delora selected a lozenge rather than a shield for its escutcheon, a form generally reserved to female nobility. After some argument over whether a college could be female, the blazon was accepted. There is no indication, however, that it was ever the intention of the founding scholars for Delora to be a female-majority college - this did come to be the case, however, and continues so to this day. One reason for this may be the influential Gwendolen Society, founded and quartered in Delora, which is the University's oldest (nominally) gender-restricted organization.

## Architecture

Delora is one of the quadless colleges - it's all one big building, and quite a building. It was designed to be a virtual twin to Le Batard's White Tower (pictured), and has also been painted at various times throughout its history - generally Aldergate vermilion.
Bridge House

**Bridge House** is the eighteenth founded college of the University of Aldergate.

Bridgers are good people. Sometimes obnoxiously so. And the worst of it is that they tend to be genuinely humble, so you can’t even fault them for being insufferable. A Bridger spends their weekends teaching sustainable cancer to recycled children, and would be delighted for you to join them, but understands that you’re busy. Fairly makes you want to spit.

## History

The last of the colleges founded during the Wildfire Era of Aldergate's growth, Bridge House has always embodied a distinctive facet of the Aldergatian character. Whereas Guildford College was founded in angry backlash against the murder of Grey and Guildford, the creation of Bridge House reflected a more constructive sort of grieving.

Bridge House never embodied the overt defiance towards civil authority seen in other coronation colleges. In fact, the founding scholars took the exceptional step of requesting frequent audiences with Queen Liz – and in so doing may have fundamentally altered the University’s historical trajectory.

At a time when backroom diplomacy was at its most frenzied, the public and forthright efforts of the first Bridgers to lobby the Crown on matters of social and penal reform met with scorn and incredulity, in both Westminster and Regent House. However, initial mocking – the “Kinde Pilgrims of Aldergayte” are reported to have endured grotesque acts of bullying in the young Gloriana’s court – eventually gave way to a sort of tolerant affection. Their success in influencing Crown policy is difficult to assess, but their presence is assumed to have played a key role in creating the symbiotic relationship with Imperial Britain that characterized the next few hundred years of Aldergatian history.

The significance of the College as a passive political force remains a subject of interest and study to this day. This has forged an unusual relationship of curiosity and antagonism between Bridge House and Garton and Perse, which can be characterized by remarks attributed to a former G&P Head: “I should like to dissect them like a frog in a laboratory. I should like to either be certain how they function, or be certain that they don’t.”

Bridge House continues in its role as a force of public conscience to this day. The Oxley School of Humane Criminology at Bridge House is one of the oldest and most respected policy shops of its type, and Dr. Ito is Rector of the School of Waste Reclamation.

## Architecture

The college complex is much as it was when first built, humble in a way rarely seen at Aldergate. The half-timbered Tudor façade is reminiscent of prison bars.

One noteworthy feature is the Oxley Building, which (besides housing the OSHC) functions as an international law library and forum for debates and moot courts. Built in the early 1900s, it is a near-facsimile of the Old Bailey – hence the picture.
Wardon College

**Wardon College** is the sixteenth founded college of the University of Aldergate.

Wardon's reputation as a sort of plain-but-talented sibling to pretty-but-dim Silvan College is one that has endured for centuries, despite being utterly unfair to both of them. Wardies don't seem to mind; in fact, the college has a longstanding tradition of disregard for outward appearances. The current College Head embodies this attitude to an occasionally alarming degree; Big Botha's habit of going about in a disgraceful set of flannel pajamas has made him an unmistakable Aldergate landmark.

## History

Chartered at the height of the Wildfire Era of the University's growth, Wardon was initially populated almost exclusively by mathematicians. This sparked particular attention from Henry VII; at a time when black powder weapons were beginning to edge out archers on European battlefields, he foresaw the day when expertise in exterior ballistics would become the key to military superiority. To send a clear signal, Wardon followed in Delora's footsteps by declaring itself a "Peaceable College" and adopting a lozenge escutcheon.

In a mildly ironic turn of events, these days it is the Silvan faculty is far more mathematics-focused, whereas Wardon has long been a premier destination for artists and musicians (and, incidentally, military strategists). One notable alumnus is Edmund Rostand, who immortalized the uniquely self-deprecating - some might say humble-bragging - persona of his college in the protagonist of his magnum opus "Cyrano de Bergerac." Anyone inclined to doubt whether the character of Cyrano was written to represent Wardon has only to stand in front of the college's facade and look up.

## Architecture

The most salient feature of Wardon College is Wardon Tower, the three-tiered monstrosity that houses the famous Wardon Carillon. The tower is a popular spot for launches, lunches, and occasional suicides. The colonnaded stairway that spirals around the outside gets quite slick in wet weather, and is barely wide enough to allow two to stand abreast; this has led to precarious games and occasional tragic accidents.

The college complex is Perpendicular Gothic, and similar in style to Curmantle (post-facelift). Where Curmantle is grand and spreading, however, Wardon is vertical. Thanks to Wardon Tower, the college's limited University Place facing is as high as it is wide.

The picture is of the Belfort van Brugge. Not a spectacular likeness; Wardon Tower is octagonal in cross-section, and has the staircase running 'round the outside of it. And the clock-face ought to be right up top, and bigger, and made of frosted glass (or something along those lines) that they light up in different colors when the mood takes them. And there ought to be somebody eating a sandwich out on one of the sticky-out ledges, because people are odd.
The Far Four Colleges

**The Far Four Colleges** are MacNaughton College, Free Hall, Bester College, and Old Carroll.

Founded in quick succession by act of a single convention of Regent House, the Far Four are located at the extreme eastern end of the High Street - as distant from the rest of the University as they can get while remaining within the walls of the city. This is as petty and symbolic as it sounds.

## History

After the founding of Newgrave, the University went for over a hundred years without creating another college. The decision to suddenly charter four at once was the result of the single greatest schism in the history of Regent House.

While Aldergate had benefited enormously from its cozy (not to say symbiotic) relationship with the machinery of the British Empire, the abiding Aldergatian skepticism of external authority fostered increasingly vocal opposition to the University's habit of "infesting" the executive ranks of colonial bureaucracies and national joint-stock companies. This dissatisfaction was hardly assuaged by 35th Vice-Chancellor Hubertus de Vries, whose cozy relationship and immense personal investment in the Dutch East India Company resulted in the frequent vandalism of publications bearing his name and title to read "H. de Vries, V(O)C."

Besides those skeptical of Crown and Company interests, the burgeoning humanistic and independence movements in Paris and the American colonies had both leaders and sympathizers within Aldergate. Alice Mowbray, then the Head of Guildford College, crystallized the insurgent resistance in 1760 with an impassioned address to the Regents that invoked both the University's and her own (apocryphal) heritage. In part:

"My twenty-times-great-grandsire did not stand before King John so that I might kneel before John Watts. Shall this University kneel before George Frederick [the recently-crowned King George III] as it has knelt before George White?"

de Vries died in 1773, and - after a protracted period of wrangling within Regent House - Mowbray was elected to succeed him. Factional struggles within the Colleges themselves were resolved by the decision to charter four new colleges to receive the Disestablishmentarian scholars.
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* The Phantom Knights of Ancient Cloak
* The Phantom Knights of Ragged Gloves
* The Phantom Knights of Silent Boots

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* The Phantom Knights of Break Sword
* The Phantom Knights of Cursed Javelin
* The Phantom Knights' Twin Medals
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* The Phantom Knights of Lost Vambrace x2
* The Phantom Knights of Punctured Plackart