Freeport Campaign

Rewards Earned

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

After a couple of blessedly uneventful days working on Four Gulls Mercantile paperwork, Spike suggested to Carmina that they spend an evening taking in the city’s various interesting sights. She agreed and said she’d meet him at the Indecipherable Scroll later. He ran into Chow, who had just finished delivering another batch of Freeport Four cookies to Finn’s headquarters, and the two of them headed back across town to the Scroll.

At Wilmina’s request, Spike graced the dinner crowd with the rawest sailor shanties he could muster, much to Carmina’s delight as she strolled through the door with her friends and “business associates,” Jenna and Barb. After a leisurely dinner, Chow and Spike agreed to meet the girls’ “guy friends” at the raucous Mermaid next door in a couple of hours for a crawl through Drac’s End. Spike explained the Daughters’ standard operating procedure (dress up as masked men, get drunk, and cause trouble) to Chow, who offered to disguise the two of them for the evening’s festivities.

An hour or so later, a couple of strange “holy men” wandered into the Mermaid and proceeded to confuse the hell out of one “Jim of Freeport” by taking notes and sketches of the fellow’s speech patterns and such for their “research.” After a reasonably fashionable interval, three masked fellows stumbled into the bar and joined “Jeff” and “Club” (?) for several drinks.

The rest of the evening passed as a series of vignettes linked by boisterous singing through the streets of Freeport:

• An escaped owlbear charged Spike and got him in a crushing hug before Omar Nkota, proprietor of Omar’s Exotic Pets, calmed the beast down. Nkota used a healing unguent to repair Spike’s wounds, and agreed to let Four Gulls Mercantile and Edo’s Tropicain know if he had need of any particular jungle specimens.

During the fight, Chow panicked and fled to Will’s office in the new Teach Investigations building in Old Town. He later explained that a similar creature had mauled his brother during one of Chow’s earliest hunting trips in his homeland.

• Chow recognized a Syndicate bookie in the Fields of Honor, though there wasn’t much action there at that relatively early hour.
• They grabbed a quick bite and some watered down beer at the Dead Pelican in Scurvytown.
• They wandered along the Docks to the One Ring, where they caught the end of a bareknuckled fight between a halfling and a gnome. The next bout ended with a minotaur messily beheading his elvish fencer opponent after an even fight. Jenna and Barb turned a bit green at the gore, but fortified themselves from their hip flasks.
• The group made its way back to the Field of Honor after Barb challenged Chow to a duel to first blood. He agreed and smacked her almost immediately from third distance with his whip. Honor satisfied, the group headed back to the Mermaid.
• After they dropped off Jenna and Barb at their parents’ Merchant District estate, Spike and Chow verified that the competent-looking fellows that had been shadowing the group all night were indeed guards looking after the twins.

Their eventful evening concluded, the fellows (and Carmina) headed to their respective domiciles.

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