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# Exploits Log
Every exploit Phelan uses, logged for continuity tracking.
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## Exploit #1: Dog Fear Curse — Sensory Channel Mismatch
- **Chapter:** Ch03
- **Target:** Fear curse anchored to visual processing channel (three primary anchors, two redundant supports, feedback loop)
- **Flaw:** Curse designed for human perceptual framework, applied to a dog. Dogs prioritize olfactory over visual data — the curse only controlled ~50% of the animal's response.
- **Method:** Three-layer intervention. (1) Binding salts weakened the magical signal. (2) Silverthorn suppressed the fear response. (3) Amplification sequence boosted scent processing. The curse's own feedback loop consumed more energy fighting contradictory data with each refresh cycle. Anchors failed in sequence. Curse collapsed from within.
- **Cost:** Full hyperfocus crash the night before (migraine, thornwell root required). Physical exhaustion, trembling, bloodshot eyes the morning of.
- **Flaw Sight used:** Yes — perceived full lattice from 12 feet (unusual range). Kept ability concealed from Mere.
- **Notes:** Binding salts and silverthorn treatment originated with Mere Fields (three weeks of independent trial and error). Phelan added the amplification layer to weaponize her existing approach.
## Exploit #2 (Leon D'Nardis): Ward Overload — Input Flooding
- **Chapter:** Ch05 (described in conversation, not witnessed)
- **Target:** Nested detection-and-response ward array on the Vethani Crypts. Fourteen layers, ~60 years old, pre-Compact era.
- **Flaw:** Ward designed to counter precision intrusion — each probe triggers a proportional response. System assumed input would be specific and surgical. No threshold for processing volume.
- **Method:** Generated ~400 simultaneous low-level magical inputs across all monitored channels. Random noise — no pattern to match, no precision to counter. Response array saturated trying to process contradictory data from 400 sources. Detection still ran but response mechanism locked up. Leon walked through.
- **Item recovered:** Mallory focusing crystal, pre-Compact, original inscription. Sold for 1,200 silvers to anonymous buyer.
- **Notes:** Brute-force cousin to Phelan's precision approach. Same philosophical family — exploit the working's own design assumptions. Important concept: input flooding as a technique.