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+# Distract Timon
+
+When the PCs return to the courthouse to find the real Rennick, they are
+met again at the reception desk by Timon Pherenikos, who hands them
+**Form LUV-788 — Request to Enter into Matrimonial Union with Mr. Timon
+Pherenikos**. Timon remarks, with mild puzzlement, "Huh — I don't think
+this form is a figment of Rennick's imagination. Oh, well, I guess this
+is the form I'm supposed to give you." It is not. Timon, the form, and
+everything in the immediate vicinity of his desk are figments of the
+**seducer-PC's** imagination — lingering residue from the party's
+previous visit, when that PC tried to charm him. The chamber latched
+onto the unfinished business and conjured the whole bureaucratic
+romance.
+
+The form is the trap. While the seducer-PC is being walked through
+deeply uncomfortable questions ("Open Marriage?", "Mr. Pherenikos's
+Eye Color?", "Prior Interactions With Mr. Pherenikos?"), Timon's
+attention is fully occupied — and the other PCs may attempt to slip
+past the reception and into Rennick's office down the hall. The longer
+the form takes, the more time they have. Let the player squirm.
+
+One question on the form is special: **"Does your foot fit in the
+glass slipper?"** A glass slipper sits on Timon's desk. The
+seducer-PC is a satyr, so his hoof does not fit, and if he is not
+careful he will *break* the slipper. When that happens, Timon politely
+summons an imp, who fetches a replacement from a closet down the hall.
+There are many replacements. The closet has clearly been stocked for
+this exact recurring fantasy.
+
+The closet is the lever. Clever PCs may sneak away to tamper with it —
+pre-shape a slipper for a hoof, substitute one sized for a different
+party member, swap in a cursed one, or simply smash the whole
+inventory. Emptying the closet is the cleanest win: when the imp
+returns empty-handed, Timon has to leave his desk to investigate, and
+the path to Rennick's office is wide open. Which was the goal all
+along.