After the Evil Side of Evilness claimed rulership over the University of Leuda by the Power of Cookies and Coursework, the University falling under the spell of Professor Fynn Ollamh of the Tribe of Monaghan, the Professor Who Must Not Be Named and his lackeys.
Earthwalls sprang up over night, student bodies were elected and held council in order to make and break alliances - and they were made and they were broken. The venerable University, one could day, descended into chaos.
Fleeing the campus, a sage called (or teching assistant, the terms were congruent anyways) onto the foreign students at the university, foreign teachers and staff - a group of heroes to liberate the campus from evil, hopefully without hurting anyone. One morning, our brave heroes stood at the Western entrance to the campus, the street to Leuda behind them and the campus, nestled into a small valley, in front of them.
Left of them was the building known as Med-House, the Faculty for Medicine. It had an earth wall erected around it, decorated with the scelletons from the closets and biology rooms, normal guards keeping watch as well - with brooms and bycicle helmets.
The street was unblocked and in the distance, after an open space adorned with flowers and the odd tree, was the Old House, the accompanying Office Tower looming over the campus - at the top, the sage had said, was the Professor Who Must Not Be Named.
It would be hard to enter and to overthrow him, the sage had said that as well.
They needed allies, friends, better equipment - and the heroes (hopefully) knew that, too. Otherwise... the world was lost...