Ptricia finally backed off.<br/><br/>"Okay, that should do it. I could probably have taken down the wards, but doing that would have triggered an alert, as will trying to change anything. So I simply tweaked the magical flow, effectively adding some extra conditions to the detection alarm trigger. Stated in English, it would resolve to... '...unless the creature within the ward is less than 6 inches tall. Since I couldn't get at the runes empowering it, I couldn't make a permanent change, wouldn't want to, but for the next couple of hours, our rodent forms can wander about with impunity."<br/><br/>She stepped over to the open access panel. "Great, that's what I need!" She pulled some insulated patch cables from the box, and shoved them into various places in the revealed circuitry. There were a couple of fat sparks, then nothing, except that the adjacent fan started slowing down. She stepped back and extended a gangplank arrangement from the frame alongside the fan.<br/><br/>She extended an open paw in the direction of the plank. "Our way in awaits. That duct should lead straight into the base upper levels. Wait for the fan to stop, and, in you go!"