Delphi's Entry 1

I've never really had a diary before, but I worry as time progresses and I just simply have a feeling that something bad is going to happen. The professors don't seem worried, but I am. Since I've started going to Strixhaven things have been happening. My first day here, I met some wonderful friends but one of the chests every first year has to go through turned out to be a mimic and attacked a few people. It turned out it was coated in this black goo. We still have no idea what this black goo is, if the professors know they haven't told us. The second was when we joined in on a frog race at the tavern, someone had coated them in black goo and they became large frog creatures that attacked us. The frogs are still alive and well, I've been taking care of them since. The third was at the large improvised play that everyone put on as a group, I unfortunately can't remember what it was called. Zanther and I started dating after that but I mostly just remember him and what happened. A cardboard cut out of a Owlbear came to life, it wasn't covered in the black goo but for some reason an actual Owlbear was captured in the cardboard. They never found out who released it. After that some little elementals that head chef Curty Axechucker was using to help with her duties it seems that somehow the main pot she used covered in the same black goo making the elementals go insane attacking people. Each time we've dealt with the issues, the professors are always there to clean things up and "investigate" but it doesn't go anywhere. The next year the Witherbloom tree was overwhelmed with creatures, we were sent to deal with them. We did but while there we ended up finding a ritual used to cast something which I believed was either to summon or make a creature. We found a colorful scale, which was taken to Professor Lang but she hadn't the slightest idea what it was. We didn't think anything else of it for the rest of the year as we were quite busy with the Mage Tower games. I was researching a personal project heading into the other Library that isn't easily accessible on a task from Professor Blackstone to find a specific book. While there we found a book that had the description fitting of the scale that we had found previously. It was a Mage Killer, we showed it to Professor Lang and she expressed they're in the outer realms and we have nothing to worry about. We should've worried about it more, directly after the Mage Games, we were attacked by two Mage Killers. They didn't succeed in their attempt but still scary nonetheless. Something is after us and wants us dead, yet the Professors did another investigation with all the information we provided and found nothing again. I have reason to believe it is the same person, our third year hasn't had any deadly events but things have still happened. People have been getting sick, we have reason to believe it's a similar sickness at a lower level than what struck two hundred years ago. The plague killed a few hundred people if my memory serves me right. The current virus only makes people dizzy and quite tired, while in the latest case we've seen they don't realize what they're doing yet have attacked people thinking we're dangerous creatures. So either the virus is adapting or it's being altered. Professor Travash has been helping where he can but he still isn't aware of whats going on. My friends have a theory but it isn't a very strong one, they believe that Dean Tolis has been sick our entire third year. They believe that the spherical artifact she holds, has been effecting her and other around her. While she did interact with a few of the students the day they tried to attack people, we have no proof that the two are related at this time. She also brushed against quite a few people at the dance, I'm noting this here for my own memory in case they're right and those students end up sick. The statue at this dance gave us a warning that something is brewing but we're already aware. On our way home from the dance, we found some confused students looking at a flickering light pole. They had the same confusion that the students setting up the dance that attacked us, these students looked like they were going to but Catalyst the wonderful Bard she is incapacitated them. One of them had a ripped piece of her dress in their hand, they explained she asked for their help they started acting weird and she ran. In the event that I am killed or die, if at all possible please revive me. I still have reason to believe that we're being hunted and I worry for my own safety.