If I may interject I believe the IC conflict has now migrated to OOC. In keeping with civility I suggest you both drop it. Characters butting heads IC is fine, welcome even. I like how all the mages gathered are jerks. Yes they have to work together, but they have their own quirks and agendas that inform their actions.

In the same vein, us as roleplayers might want things for our own characters but we also have to consider the bigger story. Tis a dance of compromise. 

So sayeth his gracious Grittyness