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Card #c1417IR // #c1417Synthesis

Protect a valuable by displaying it as something ordinary instead of hiding it.

— In our words · Source: Cugel's Saga (Jack Vance)

[Use when]

Carrying one high-value item through a crowded, theft-prone place where a locked case would mark you as the target.

[Why it matters]

Cugel wires the Pectoral Sky-break Spatterlight to his hat, where it seems "only a hat-clasp": searchers hunt for hidden treasure, and every lockbox or false bottom tells them where to dig. An object in plain, mundane use gives them nothing to pattern-match.

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