Quote Originally Posted by SteveMB View Post
Agreed. The first use of the hats with activation words ("Hoffa" and "Livingston") and the general statement "They use codes" is enough to indicate the use of passwords -- generally, it can be assumed to happen "offstage" between panels unless there's a reason to go into more detail.
I assumed that this referred to coded messages themselves and that the words were more of a spell component. (Come to think of it, this would be an example of magic words used by non-casters in order to invoke external, in this case magic-item related, magics.)