The transfer bell tolls again. Behind the Registrar, the private alcove remains barred, its sealed bundle only a handspan from disappearance.
A formally dressed Custodian’s Witness strides into the ledger hall carrying a second docket stamped with black wax. The hall falls quiet around the sound of their measured steps.
The Custodian’s Witness
By custodian authority, I certify this bundle for departure. The public record has no further claim upon it.
Court Clerk
That docket cites the same transfer hour as the erased entries. It is not a certification. It is the final instrument of concealment.
The Registrar
Mind your accusation. The commission and copied list belong in official custody, not in the hands of witnesses who have already obstructed a lawful transfer.
Serren shifts closer to Carciel, keeping the copied list and commission between them. The Clerk points to a narrow line on the new docket, where Odran Vey’s removals are described as never having existed.
✓ Quest Accepted
Expose the private transfer as an instrument of concealment
✓ Quest Accepted
Preserve the evidence’s public chain of custody
“Can the Court Clerk officially halt this transfer before the bell tolls again?”
YES, BUT (Likely, rolled 62)
The Court Clerk raises the copied list and invokes the hall’s public register, forcing the Registrar to acknowledge a witnessed challenge before the next toll. But the Custodian’s Witness refuses to endorse the halt, and the transfer remains officially contested rather than stopped.
“I compare the list with the public register”
SUCCESS (Superb Reasoning, rolled -1)
Carciel reaches past the raised papers to the open public register. He matches the copied dates and destinations against its entries, tracing the same clerk marks through the chain.
The comparison succeeds. Casta’s destination appears only beside private custody, while the public register lacks the transfer’s required receiving mark.
Court Clerk
There. The register proves the bundle leaves public custody without a public recipient. Enter that discrepancy under my challenge.
Carciel presses the copied list against the register as the Clerk records the matching entries. His injured palm splits again, leaving a small bloodstain across the margin and forcing him to bear down harder.
The Registrar
You have marked an official register with blood. That will be recorded as interference.
Serren Vale
Record the cause as well. He found the missing receiving mark, and the challenge now has witnesses.
The Court Clerk adds the discrepancy, the witnesses, and the bleeding mark to the public register. The private transfer now carries a verifiable challenge, but the Custodian’s Witness reaches for the black-wax docket before the next bell.
Quest Complete
Expose the private transfer as an instrument of concealment
Quest Complete
Preserve the evidence’s public chain of custody