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Wait ... no, you cannot plant your forged Master Family Patent in this archive! Well, you could, but ... Master Family Patents belong in the Forum. Your plan was to put your forged Master somewhere where it would be found and properly filed for you. Given the state of this house's archive, you doubt that anyone would notice that your forgery was out of place if you left it here. Shit! Alright, well ... shit! The Forum - no, no, there just isn't any way that you are going to be able to sneak into the Forum at this point. Not with everything else on your plate. Probably not even if that was the only thing you had to do for the rest of the night. But then what? Oh! Yes, what if you were to forge the Family Patents, but then kept the Master with you? Heads of families are supposed to have the Master Family Patent accessible to their primary residence, so they can readily have the Master kept up to date. Doing so would mean that you were the head of your family ... which would mean that you would have to be the sole surviving <span class="mu-i">member</span> of your family - making you all the more remarkable and outstanding. Wouldn't that just raise more questions than it would answer? Possibly ... but what other options do you have, besides this ... or staying on the Mount another day?
What if you just make a Personal tonight, then as soon as the opportunity arises, in another city on your way to the Frontier Provinces, you make a Master - and a new, <span class="mu-i">second</span> Personal, both associated with that city, and you plant these forgeries in that cities equivalent of the Forum? That ... that could work, but actually, wouldn't it be better to have the Master on you? From what Nasturtium told you, the Personal Family Patent should be enough to establish your 'right' to travel on the Thoroughfare. But with a Master in your possession, you affirm that you are the head of your family, which means that you can 'prove' that you aren't a runaway, or anything of the sort. Of course, having that much documentation is sort of suspect in its own right, so if you were to go this route, then the pair of Family Patents would have to be top-notch fakes, as it is a surety that together, they would come under much heavier suspicion than just a lone Personal might. With the Master being filed away in some Forum somewhere, then its authenticity cannot be called into question, at least, not immediately. You would be giving up your 'proof' that you weren't a runaway, but as in your estimation, less attention would be paid to either of the Family Patents, a lower quality forgery could pass muster under these circumstances. Which is an attractive proposition, considering this is the first time you have ever tried something like this.
