*Those in Shadowdale will see a particularly annoyed wizard roaming up and down the northern road on a warpath. The particularly inquisitive will note that he is taking various devices from his apartment and returning to a specific spot alongside the road. There an arcane contraption stands on a tripod, he focuses it along the road to seemingly zero effect, furiously scribbling notes during the act, occasionally adjusting the device with a frown.
Those near him will hear him mutter with obvious irritation the colorful phrases of 'damn djinn's creating catastrophes and profiting from them' and 'of course the warlock makes the idiotic bargain, its how he became what he is...' *