Circling the Square

Jace picked the office door lock. It’d seemed a simple idea: identify everyone attending meetings, then run stats to prove Masonry wasn’t the path to power. He’d felt vindicated when the numbers showed on average Masons were slightly more successful.

Until he noticed the distribution was off. Which was the start of the rabbit hole. But those records marked the end of the journey. Pick the lock, membership file at random, and —

Natal chart showing poor financial sense, list of rituals… this one too…

The Masons had real magic but they used it to make likely failures into passable businessmen.