Freeport Campaign

Rewards Earned

• Experience Points: 500
• Treasure: None to speak of, other than favors owed by some of the upper crust

After returning from a quick milk run to Coral Bay, the group received invitations from Bobbin Brandydale, owner and manager of the Last Resort, to the Grand Reopening of the city’s premiere hotel. Spike and Carmina spent a fair amount of time getting decked out in new finery, while Chow saw to some personal business about town.

The group arrived at the Last Resort a half hour before the doors were scheduled to open and took their place in the long line of ticketholders among the crowd of onlookers. While waiting, they ran into Father Peg Leg Peligro, who introduced them to a fellow ship captain and follower of Harrimast, Richard “the Hawk” (last name).

After being seated by Bobbin himself, Chow, Spike, and Carmina invited Peg Leg and Richard to join them at their table. The group swapped numerous stories over dinner, while generally keeping an eye on their fellow diners and listening to the conversations around them.

The pleasant evening was punctuated with several notable events:

• One Henry Tranco, tenant of the Last Resort, was visited by a couple of large guys in ill-fitting suits, who left the hotel after a quiet but heated conversation with the man. Chow bought Tranco a drink, but learned little from the ensuing conversation. Later, several other fellows joined Tranco for a couple of bottles before retiring upstairs for what sounded like a high-stakes game of poker. In fact, the stakes were apparently high enough to draw Captain Lydon from the table he shared with his new comrades on the Captain’s Council.

One by one, Tranco’s buddies returned downstairs in varying states of inebriated despondency. Lydon was last to return, and seemed put off when Spike rebuffed his efforts to borrow “just enough for one more buy-in.” The thugs returned around midnight, and seemed disappointed when they came back downstairs with a pair of jingling bundles under their coats.

• Countess Matilda, an elderly noble exile from Eisen, made a grand entrance to the delight and scattered applause of the gathered diners. She was seen to by Bobbin and the hotel’s head chef, and was soon joined by Baron Philippe de Clorevin, a noble visiting from the mainland nation of Montaigne. The Countess held court at her corner table all evening, and passed some small talk with Chow regarding trade opportunities in Eisen.

After a full evening, the Countess retired to her suite. Baron de Clorevin, deprived of his sparkling companion, sipped a glass or two of fine brandy and headed upstairs to his suite.

A while later, one of the Countess’s servants discovered that her Lady’s famed necklace, the Tears of the Sea, was missing. The Countess upbraided her staff and the hotel guards, but was soon assuaged by the Baron, who took immediate charge. Unfortunately for the Baron, Chow and Spike were upstairs investigating another matter, and found the necklace hidden in the Baron’s chamber pot. The Sea Lord’s Guard took the Baron into custody after Spike apprehended the man, and the Countess thanked the group and the Guard for returning her (since cleaned) property.

• More events to follow…

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