Freeport Campaign

Rewards Earned

• Experience Points: 400
• Treasure: None

The group spent the remainder of the night patching up their various wounds. They decided the next morning to use Moth’s locate object spell to discern the present location of the thug leader who had led the attack on the Dented Helm. A few twists and turns later, the party stood in front of an abandoned house in the Docks District, roughly four blocks from the Helm. Moth indicated that the leader was below ground level, presumably in a basement below the house.

As the party approached the front steps, crossbow bolts whizzed out of hidden arrowslits, striking a couple of party members. Will and Moth hung back a bit to let the more combat-savvy fellows attempt to gain entrance to the place. Vivian and Spike smashed through the door on the right side of the house, while Gor-bob and Chow battered the front door. Inside the house, things turned ugly. Spike and Viv both fell into a pit trap beneath a rigged staircase, but managed to extricate themselves despite the hail of bolts coming from the second floor. Chow and Gor-bob took out a number of thugs after knocking down the front door, but were soon forced to retreat in the face of superior numbers. The party regrouped back the Dented Helm.

The next morning, Gor-bob received a message from one Togar Irontooth, a sage and instructor at the Freeport Institute, requesting a meeting at Irontooth’s office. En route to the Institute, Gor-bob and Spike happened to pass Enzo’s Tailoring. There they discovered Carmina Dell’orto, a certain young lady of Spike’s acquaintance, lying unconscious and burned on the front step of the building. She panicked when she regained consciousness, but soon calmed down enough to apologize, stating that she had no idea the group had anything to do with Enzo’s. Under the effects of Gor-bob’s Zone of Truth spell, she confessed that she was part of a group of trouble-seeking debutantes known as the Daughters of the Guild. These children of wealthy Merchant Guild members generally got together one night a week to drink and pick fights in Drac’s End. Lately, some of the Daughters had decided to add actual illegal activity to their repertoire. Enzo’s happened to the be the first location on Carmina’s list. The group began discussing what to do about the young lady.

Rewards Earned

• Experience Points: 600
• Treasure: None

Vivian chased down the goblins of the FREPRT FYR DPT, but was driven off by the city watch before he could bash ’em. After speaking briefly with a reporter from the Shipping News (the local newspaper), the group helped protect the Dented Helm from being burned down by a group of thugs. The leader of the group got away, but Moth was confident that she could track the fellow down by magically scrying his weapon. The group ended up capturing a few of the attackers and handing them off to the city watch.

Captain Lydon showed up a while after the fight, and talked with group regarding his assassination attempt and the circumstances that likely led to the attack, namely a sizable gambling debt to Finn. He cajoled the party into joining Captain Balama Theron on a potentially lucrative mission to recover a magical item known as the Rain Tiger. They agreed to meet with Theron to discuss the journey.

Rewards Earned

• Experience Points: 400
• Treasure: 5000 sp, 300 gp, exotic spices worth 75 gp, oil of slipperiness, +1 rapier

The party variously watched and participated in Swagfest.

Moth won the Dire Rat Chase by speaking with the target rat and convincing it to come with her back to the starting line. During the pursuit, the party encountered a shapeshifting dwarf (later identified as an aranea) in the abandoned house where they tracked down the rat.

Spike entered a fencing competition, but lost his match.

Rewards Earned

• Experience Points: 500
• Treasure: None to speak of

Messed around in town during the week leading up to Swagfest, one of Freeport’s major holidays. Swagfest commemorates the Great Raid, during which Freeport’s first Sea Lords led the city’s fleet on a three month journey of pillage and plunder 200 years ago. The holiday usually shuts the city down for two days – one to celebrate, and one to recover.

Investigated Enzo’s tailor shop in more detail, discovering a stash of suspicious yellow cloth in a secret compartment in the office. Gor-bob fashioned a nice yellow loincloth for himself, which the party suggested he wear on the outside of his regular clothing. Found no incriminating records of cult activity in the business ledgers, but plenty of handwriting samples for possible later use.
Appraised the value of the Brinewolf at 750 gp, and Enzo’s house at 1500 gp. Also discovered that both the warehouse in the Docks district and the abandoned house in the Eastern District last belonged to one Vandiver Hodgson, who arrived in Freeport 17 years ago and died four years later. Found that the average price for a house in Drac’s End large enough to accommodate the party costs about 4500 gp.

Visited the Indecipherable Scroll once again. This time around, Gor-bob livened up the festivities with his stylish loincloth and a well-placed zone of truth spell, but wisely heeded Wilmina’s admonishments against further spells.

Met Garek, the dwarven proprietor of the Dented Helm, a new drinking establishment in the Docks district. Garek put Vivian to work in exchange for numerous samples of the Helm’s house brews, concocted by Garek himself. Later, as opening day approached, the dwarf mentioned that he’d been visited by thugs representing the Buccaneers, the street gang currently running various questionable activities in the District. Garek enlisted the party’s potential aid in case the gang tried again to extort protection money from the Helm.

Attended the Swagfest opening festivities on the docks. Captain Lydon, a well-known sea dog, addressed the gathered crowds, presumably to gain public support for his bid for a seat on the Captain’s Council. During the Lydon’s speech, the group noted a hooded figured slinking through the crowd toward the back of the stage. A few seconds later, the figure reappeared behind the Captain with a dagger in hand. The group burst into action to try to interrupt the assassination attempt, but could not prevent the assailant from plunging the knife into the Captain’s back. The resulting confusion on stage allowed the figure a few seconds to summon an obscuring mist and plunge into the sea. The Captain’s bodyguards and the City Watch secured the area around the stage, but not before Spike and Vivian split up to pursue the assailant. While they ran along the docks, Moth summoned an alligator and sent it into the water with orders to follow the scent of the fleeing assassin’s blood. A few minutes later, the water 50 yards to the left of the stage roiled briefly and turned red. The alligator returned with the body of a human female clasped in its jaws.

The Captain hovered near the point of death until one of the party members stepped up to heal him, at which point the Watch ushered the party away from the stage for questioning. The Captain, now able to stand, thanked the party and invited the rest of the crowd to enjoy the ten kegs of ale that were due at any moment. After a cursory questioning by the Watch, the party rejoined the crowd and awaited further pronouncements from Captain Lydon.