First of all: CUNTILLIUS??????????????
anyway
Very long story (somewhat) short:
My 4ft tall lizardfolk bard (was meant to be a joke but errmmmm i gave him emotions and it was downhill ever since) showed up out of nowhere, picked a fight with him for no reason (i boo'd at him during orientation because i thought it was funny, and to be fair, it was), joined the play actors out of spite, proceeded to get better at performing than him (my character didn't even like performing pre-strixhaven that much anyway (yes despite being a bard. even longer story)), and became better friends with all his friends than him.
Quentillius got shown up in pretty much every category by this fucking defect of a lizard and well ummmmmm he broke a little bit and Archavios's """""favorite""""" cult, the oriq, saw him fighting for his life and went "bet". (Also important context: the druid and wizard were assholes to him too. and they like, threatened his life frequently, and made him permanently afraid of frogs. so they're 100% a part of the problem too, i will not accept the slander that i was the only problem. also my character has at least tried to mature from the experience, those two ain't do shit. the wizard might've gotten worse actually).
Luckily our DM isn't completely sadistic and quentillius didn't join the oriq. We found out what was going on because the other three party members noticed he was acting wack and the druid decided the correct decision was to break into his dorm and use meld into stone to hide in the wall and spy on him. y'know. like a sane person.
My character tried talking to him while also trying not to have him realize we know and I kinda fucked it up ermmm but also i've said it before and i'll keep saying it: just because my character has a charisma score does NOT mean i do.
anyway we all eventually talked to him (happened right before the mage hunter fight 2nd year. my DM just added onto that fight because he hates us (i am joking i think)) and when quentillius realized that maybe this is not a good idea and tried to say no, the oriq recuriter charmed him and we had to beat the hell out of them and all of us kinda got interrogated by the deans... which is fair.
and like 9/10 in game years (moved onto a homebrewed second half) later quentillius really doesn't give a shit anymore and my character has continued to never get over anything that has ever happened to him ever
so things are going great.