Vacation in Stormhome: Around Cliffwash > Dawnside > Docks

Alright, time to go check out the docks.

Similar to the Airship Tower, I see Crows circling for safety, though here most of the tugboating is done by, well, real boats. A crew of Lizardfolk is talking in Draconic, shouting here-and-there, keeping an eye on the boats from the waterside and docks, and a few braver souls crouch or lay on pathing and rock-buoys. The Crows mostly appear to be circling and watching for things or accidents further to sea. Here and there I see people drop things overboard, at which point a Lizardfolk will hop into the water and swim to the thing and retrieve it. Looks like they are earning tips. There’s a bit of a hubbub a bit further away, and I watch as twelve very burly Lizardfolk all jump in at once and return to the surface with chains hooked to each of their chest harnesses. They haul themselves up to a pebbly area of the beach. They struggle a bit getting up to some hooks further inland, but once there they remove the chains and all are locked onto some pulley system. They once more go to cranking a wheel on the pulley system and up come twelve Warforged and six carts full of stone, roughly chopped out. By the sand and barnacles on them, I’d guess they are terraforming the seafloor so all the docks can accept bigger ships. The Warforged push the stone away, and more come back with empty carts. Once they’re back under the water, the Lizardfolk unspool the wheel, hook the chains back to the harnesses, and slowly move back to the beach so the platform the Warforged are on sinks slowly and safely to the seafloor. They return to the surface in about ten minutes, and snack on some fish they found while under.

Between the Crows flyin’ around and the Lizardfolk diving in and out of the water time goes by pretty quick and I soon find myself getting hungry. Time to head back into town for some chow.