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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Envisioner" data-source="post: 7941387" data-attributes="member: 6749263">The TwoCaptain Garwynn escorts Dumos and Robyn to the House of Knowledge, an impressive marble edifice with a triangular pediment, decorated in seemingly mystical glyphs, above a portico surrounded in pillars whose tops and bottoms resemble scrolls.  A statue stands in the square before the entrance, carved in the likeness of an old man in a voluminous toga, his pate bald but fringed in hair that falls past his shoulders, and with a beard down past where his belly-button should be.  The old man's right hand is upraised, with one finger lifted and tipped in a Continual Flame (this relatively cheap and extremely useful permanent spell is instantly recognizable to anyone with even an Eldritch Knight's level of arcane education).  The rest of his hand is curled around the top of an open scroll, whose unfurled expanse is completely blank.  His left hand holds the loop of a wall sconce, topped with a candle that bears another Continual Flame, this one intentionally flickering side-to-side like an actual burning candlewick, while the one on his finger is a geometrically perfect teardrop of light that bears only the vaguest resemblance to a real fire.Garwynn gives a sweeping "behold my city's tourist attraction" kind of wave to the statue and the building behind it as he walks in front of you, then folds his arms and very casually leans back against nothing whatsoever (Dumos at least is bright enough to realize that his wave probably allowed his fingertips to brush against whatever invisible wall is now supporting his entire upper body, so he knew it was there before he risked falling over and looking like an idiot - then again, given what you've seen of this fellow, maybe he was comfortable with such a danger).  "Quite the sight, isn't it?  But at the moment at least, the rule appears to be 'look, don't touch'.  Qwynneth touched this barrier once and then walked through it as if it wasn't there, but nobody else has been able to figure out how.  We've been worried enough that we would have used the town's emergency Sending scroll to try and reach the temple's head, Sedrick Arkhelane, except that the Cult of the Dragon apparently knew where to find that, and used it to call in their pet dragon as soon as they were sure that the non-pet dragon was too tough for them to cut down.  And, naturally, the task of scribing a replacement would fall upon Sedrick himself or one of his subordinates.  So besides going and getting in touch with Qwynny, I'd appreciate it if you could find at least one of the clerics (and/or wizards) in there, and just sort of politely remind them that the rest of the town still exists."</blockquote>

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