So Rahvin decided one day that Master had too many people in it - we were an elite group of magi, not some clearinghouse for anyone who liked magic. I don't know the whole story, I was only level 22 and pretty much completely newbriffic (I thought I was hot #### because I knew that Wyvern Tower had a secret passage).

So I (and everyone else Rahvin sees) get uninducted. I got a quest about a day later (I'm not sure everyone got a quest to get back in, or if it was just that I kept plugging away even after getting uninducted) and I'm just a complete dolt during the whole thing. Here's a summary of what poor Rahvin had to put up with.

First he asks me to solve the following riddle and bring him the answer:
"Alone I sit, gently crying. With each tear, slowly dying. What am I?"
So I have no effin' clue. And this is pre-web, so I couldn't Google it.

So, he leads me on about 3 hours (maybe more?) of questaciousness. It was awesome, and one reason why Rahvin kicked so much ass. He leads me here, and there, and then I'm supposed to kill the queen of spiders in arachnia (damn there are some old-school areas he quested me in). He tells me she is very tough and I'll need to use this special scroll to kill her. I tell him I never practiced scrolls. I'm sure at this point he's smacking his forehead at the computer at my idiocy - a mage without scrolls practiced.

Quick tangent - I didn't have scrolls practiced because I didn't realize what each stat-level was. I had a 16 int with Twist until I was level 30 when someone told me that a 17 int would practice to 75 with TWO pracs. Good lord.

So he sets my scrolls to 100%, tells me "You've known how to use scrolls all along." and sends me on my merry way.
I die in 2 rounds. Never did find out what that scroll was supposed to do. I tried "read scroll" and got "A small scroll lies here."

Heh. So we continue on, I forget what all happened next. Finally he loads Heimdall in front of me. He says "This is Heimdall. He has 20000hp. He is level 60. He will hit you hard enough to kill you in one round." Then he casts frenzy and haste on Heimdall. "What is your most powerful damage spell?" I tell him it is fireball. "How well do you know yourself? How much damage does your fireball do?" I tell him about 50 hp. He tells me to cast my spell at Heimdall. I do, and Heimdall dies (figured out later he had obviously set his hp. Probably to 1 hp, but maybe to 50). I gain 1850 exp and was like "holy crap!".

So Rahvin tells me that believe in myself and my Magic is where true power comes from. He advances me to level 23 (had a massive exp hole from the spider queen and various other deaths), restores me, inducts me back into Master.

Then he tells me "By the way, the answer was 'A candle'. You could have gotten one by buying it in Midgaard."