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The dragon is kept as comfortable as can be safely arranged. The mages regain mana; Ice goes to Prime's house to put him under. The dragon is eventually needled into revealing that he used a small invisible monster from his "monster bin" to spy on the sphinx and learn the password to the mysterious portal. The small invisible monster is caught and caged and fed millet and offered to Idania to poke at. The dragon is mirrored, on his medallion and his eye both, and allowed to shift from out of his restraints and go home. He makes a perfunctory request to use Phix and Max's bathroom first and doesn't stop to wait for their reply before he does so, then leaves without further ado. Cam makes some additions to the robot army, less their network connections; an existing robot comes to the Belfry, describes the parts it needs to add the new ones to the network, receives same, installs them, and takes the new additions home except for one that is set to watch over twin surveillance mirrors in a disused Belfry corner.
And then Phix asks:
"So, what could be done to portals to make them less vulnerable to small invisible monster spies?"
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from_scratch
from_scratch
"Well, the disguised tree outside Vernon's house in Inferno is probably not ideal."
castmyown
"And we might not want ours to be in our house anymore," volunteers Max.
darkest_evening
"Okay. I can move both, I just need to know where I'll be putting the new portal."
shesepankh
"Where else would ours go? We don't have a campus yet, and I don't think we can pay for it in cash - the old Chamomile bills Ice turned up have daemons posing next to the presidents and I don't think we'd better have Cam counterfeit big stacks of it."
castmyown
"I'm not sure, honestly. You just mentioned that you might not want it in our house anymore?"
shesepankh
"Yeah, I just - am quite lacking in better ideas. Unless you know where we can buy some land cheap to put a campus on in the next few days."
darkest_evening
"You have a few days to talk about it. Or you can put your campus in space or something, we have Cam."
shesepankh
"A space campus would be cool, but the shuttle would be noticed. I guess we could hide it under the Avalon, if Adana knows how to hollow out space under a small town without it collapsing?"
ask_nicely
Adana giggles. "Thanks, Cam, but I'd still want a map of plumbing and wiring and sewage and such."
shesepankh
"It's probably available, I'll look into it. Anyway, our portal is on a door. We can unhinge it and put it in the underground campus with its revisions when the campus exists."
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