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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jeremy E Grenemyer" data-source="post: 9079117" data-attributes="member: 12388">(Here is the next bit of current clack that Ed Greenwood generously responded with. Enjoy!)Ches. Ninth day of the first tenday.The statue of King Duar that stands at the east end of the courtyard between the Royal Court and the Royal Palace, at the “going down” (west end culvert, where the waterway at the heart of the Royal Gardens goes underground to flow under the city and into the harbour), looking northeast along the water, has spoken. That is, an on-duty guard and a clerk of the Court hastening between Court and Palace both heard a deep, rough male voice issuing from the statue that slowly and clearly declaimed: “There is one sleeper yet, should a ghazneth return.” This statue has been said to speak before, years ago when it was first erected, but War Wizards summoned to examine the statue found no dweomer upon it, and the two witnesses say they saw no magic mouth appear—and the guard looked swiftly in all directions, but saw no one standing near who might have been a spellcaster. There’s gossip in the Royal Court that this might have been the doing of a War Wizard working mischief, from an office in the building, but this has been dismissed as speculation, and nothing more. A guard has been posted, with a scribe, day and night since the utterance, but nothing more has been heard. Most of the talk across the city has concerned the identity and whereabouts of the sleeper, followed by conjecture about which ghazneth would return, how, and why. The Crown remains officially silent on the matter, but someone at the Royal Court went around the taverns leaking this much: the War Wizards summoned to the statue are “certain” that neither the guard nor the clerk (neither of whom have been officially identified) had been drinking.</blockquote>

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