These wizards are researching the powers of runestones, and may be used to join to The Great Orb Project minigame. To do this, just click on them, and choose "Join-Game". The wizards will help place the player in the least populated team, either Wizard Acantha's green team, or Wizard Vief's yellow team. One of the wizards can be seen as playing with runes, while the wizard is doing it, you cannot talk with them.