"I think so! The observatories are neat."

"I've never been!"

"I'll show you sometime. - guess we could go today, there's one north of here."

"Ooh. I guess you and this carpet aren't busy till a scry hits paydirt."

"We're really not."

"I wanted to do some reading," grumbles Mahdi, but he turns the carpet around to go north instead.

"Do you get motion sick if you read on the carpet?"

"The books get a little bit of sand in them. Not too noticeable for something like this but we did a trip out to Mekshir once and when I got back they wouldn't close quite right anymore."

"It won't shake out? Or prestidigitate?"

"You can do it page by page."

"I guess that'd be annoying. Whatcha reading, anything good?"

He brightens. "Kareteret's Spell Alteration."

"Ooh, what kindsa spell alterations -"

"Extending range and extending effect duration. They're conceptually kind of similar." He gesticulates as he begins to explain this and Hagan, annoyed, switches laps to Fazil's instead.

Belmarniss takes notes on the book report.

And eventually they will approach a lonely lighthouse with a rundown observatory beside it on the cliff.

"Did one of the telescopes really need Mending? Why didn't a cleric of Desna handle it if it's her observatory?"

"Oh, most of them are in various states of disrepair. Desna doesn't so much have an organized church."

"I guess if it's abandoned."

"I think building one is more of a chaotic good thing to do than maintaining one. So they're mostly abandoned. It's a bit silly, but - anyone can go find one and learn how to fix it up, there's something neat about that."

"I guess. Wouldn't be that much outlay of resources to have people visit them occasionally and mend them but maybe that's happening organically via folks like yourselves."

"Depends where they are, but for some of them, yeah." And they land. The observatory has a powerful telescope staring at the sky and some heavy chests full of log books and not much else.

Belmarniss peeks at the telescope. "This is probably more useful at night."

"Oh. - yeah, probably. Sorry."

"Can't all cast from intelligence."