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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cerebral Paladin" data-source="post: 3313993" data-attributes="member: 3448">Thanks, Ladybird!  (And welcome, Aylowan-- glad to have you with us.)----Dame Brionna and Kit proceeded to the throne room to find the document compartment.  But despite carefully checking, Kit could not find it.  “If we didn’t know it was here, I would be convinced that there is nothing concealed.  I could locate the doors to the secret access passages without much difficulty, even if I didn’t know where they were, but I’m getting nothing on this compartment.”“Maybe it’s magically concealed?  If there were a spell that made it look like it wasn’t there, would you be able to find it?”“Probably not…  But we need a mage then.”They quickly returned with a trusted mage in the Archducal service.  He cast a powerful detection spell and looked around the room.  “Ah, yes.  There’s a compartment built directly into the throne itself.  Very well secured, too-- it’s both magically concealed and sealed against entry.  Still, that shouldn’t be too hard to deal with.”  He cast a spell to dispel its wards and frowned.  “Perhaps I was too hasty…  The ward was beyond my dispel’s power.  Truth be told, I’m now uncertain that I can dispel it, and I would certainly not be able to today.”“You needn’t trouble yourself,” replied Dame Brionna.  “We will have another mage who specializes in such things deal with it.  Thank you for locating it.”After he left, Kit said to Dame Brionna, “I think we should ask Lady Constance to handle this.”“I don’t know… I don’t like dealing with diabolists, certainly not any more than necessary.”“But is there anyone else who’s likely to be powerful enough that doesn’t introduce new security risks?  We still haven’t even had a chance to vet the Minister of Magic.  Lady Constance is the safest route.”Dame Brionna grudgingly agreed.  The choice was fortuitous:  when they spoke with Lady Constance, she chuckled.  “I could dispel the wards, but there’s no need to-- I placed them and can tell you how to bypass them.  The passphrase is ‘gryphon hunter’; if you say that phrase while standing near the throne, the compartment will open.  When you close the compartment, it will seal itself again.”</blockquote>

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