[Bozos of Bones]

Mildly insulting!?
"Welcome, Archmage. I need help with my assignment. I am to collect four different kinds of mushrooms if I am ever to become a journeyman..."
I can't imagine anything different in Oblivion either. But, as I gather right now, you have to fully complete a ring now to ascend to the next one, atleast within a group(Dark Brotherhood, Mages Guild etc.)