New Paphos (The Base)

Dm has already set up for our introduction. Go check tunnels

Ulkar and Seren have been wandering around getting a feel for the base.Athria and Aashas arrive on base
As you step off the boat onto the wooden planks of the dock you look around at the beginning of this new adventure
The dock hands are under the instruction of an older man who bellows just about everything. You lot there! get out of the way. We don't mind the company but you stopping the unloading of the ale. And everyone know the day isn't done till the ale is safely stored in our guts. Only they don't allow drinking on the docks.
Get along there.
You quick step up the dock to a ramp leading to a stone boathouse.
Just inside the cool shade of the boathouse a guard picks you out as newcomers and give some basic information. The base is situated at a fork in the river and surrounded on 3 sides by a 20' wall. The last side has a low wall of about 4 feet from the base level and looks out over the river that is 10' below base level. The entire area is hot, humid, and carries the scent of the swamp just to the west. Looking around there are bits of old building to be seen but most are patched with newer, and most likely magical, stonework. The older original buildings are built form solid stone blocks with smooth patches of stone filling in the gaps and reinforcing the older crumbling stonework. A variety of races are easily seen though many seem like you, adventurers here for fame and fortune.

Ulkar and Seren have wandered down to the docks to watch the commotion as see Athria and Aashas getting sent off by the dockmaster and guard. You all readily identify each other as newcomers and so wander to the tavern to eat, drink, listen to more stories and talk about your plans.

Tidbits you overhear while chatting

A Cat-Kin, wearing a normal but nice-looking robe/short kimono/gi, a dagger at his waist, a headband with a gem built into it, and a bag/rucksack for travelling, walks into the tavern and orders a drink and some food as he takes a table before sitting back to relax. The newcomers hear other remark on this as he is usually with his fellow scouts. He has had some success and been with the expedition a couple of weeks so it known well enough. Perhaps this veteran can give some pointers to the newcomers.

As the evening sets in the tavern becomes a busy place as scouts, guards, and craftsmen settle back to relax after a day of hard work, danger, or just boring drudgery. Shmautz, a graceful catfolk sporting a elegant cloak and accompanied by some sort of tiny automaton is recognized by most though known by few. Having been with the expedition some weeks he is recognized as one of the more successful scouts. Word of hit team dissolving spreads through the tavern and it looks like some of the new recruits are already looking to see if they can get any tips of join him on his next outing. Word from the clerks office is that Schmautz is scouting a promising Remnant having something to do with the tiny golem. The Remnants have gotten a bit of a dangerous reputation. Each is contained in a barrier, almost like a Border but smaller and more stable. But with the advent of the Border storms and they chaos it caused most are happy to let the scouts scout the Remnants while they sit back and collect tales.

The quartet of tunnel delvers are also a bit of a hot topic. Blronvid the dwarf smit warrior and Skeeve the human mage have been working in the rooms and passageways recently discovered below the base. By all accounts the amount and danger of traps they have encountered almost make the speculation on the wealth they must be accumulating almost reserved. Still it looks like they picked up a couple of new companions. The large wolfkin Raggy with his pet wolf draws most of the attention allowing the smaller human Vlax to almost go unnoticed. Word that the tunnels are nearly clear brings to question if the two newcomers are swooping in to get double the loot for half the effort or half the loot for double the danger.

As the topics of loot and dangers are passed around the room some discus the local shops, mostly stocked in staple supplies with weapons, armor, and survival gear taking up most of the rest of the shelves. Still the artificer Valpip and wizard Fiznick are known to have a few items of power and sell the occasional scroll or potion to make adventuring all the more thrilling to the tale tellers and listeners around the room.