You study the painting beside the southeast passage: the stone sundial beneath a perfect noon-shadow.
Gypsy Study painting insight
AquaDyne rolled 1d20 and got 17
At first, the meaning seems obvious enough. Sundial. Noon. Shadow. But with the thought of the Silent Crypt still in mind, more details begin to stand out.
The painted sundial is not shown outdoors. It stands inside a cluttered chamber, surrounded by shelves, broken wood, and scattered objects. The light striking it is strangely deliberate, as if someone has arranged the room so that one particular shadow falls exactly where it should.
You are fairly certain this painting is telling you two things.
First, the Wizard’s Study has its own puzzle, and that puzzle has something to do with making the sundial show noon.
Second, your guess about fuel feels promising. If any room in this place is likely to contain old furniture, loose wood, paper, books, candles, or other things that might help make a proper sustained fire, it would be a wizard’s study.
The southeast passage waits quietly beneath the sundial painting.
