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Freeport

Freeport illustrative location art
Illustrative location art based on campaign notes.

Summary

Freeport is a busy, stylistically mixed trade city with a harbour and no trade taxes, previously known as Mainport on Browning’s pre-Dome map. It is ruled by the reclusive Freeport Baroness, actually a sentient necklace that controls its wearer as the public face. Freeport hosts Pact leadership, shops, inns, an auction house, and the secret Underbelly venue the Drunken Duck; the Baroness also provided forces for the shield-crystal mission. After the merfolk rescue, the city became unusually cold and snowy and was swept by shared dreams and warnings.

Known Details

  • The Baroness rules Freeport through a wearer controlled by the sentient necklace and loaned forces for the shield crystal operation.
  • Mainport is the pre-Dome name for the city that became Freeport.
  • Freeport first appeared as an oddly busy, bustling coastal city and a mishmash of styles, with Kairibidius’s ship docked there and trade moving through the harbour without trade taxes.
  • The party met Tiana/Taina at the Siren & Garter.
  • Locations include Pirates Pearls Plundered, Esmerelda’s shop, Bugbear, Drunken Duck, and the Freeport auction house.
  • Zinquiss planned to sell the mother-of-pearl elemental chariot at the auction house in seven days.
  • Freeport became unusually cold and snowy after the merfolk rescue, with widespread dreams or warnings including a moon crashing into a city.
  • The Baroness’s audience room was old and jewel-heavy, with paintings of predecessors all wearing the same mayoral-looking necklace.
  • The Baroness gave the party access to the Drunken Duck, a secret Underbelly venue airwise from the Jewelry District. Inside, its walls were covered in pillows or soundproofing, with red dragonborn, tabaxi, an automaton, halflings, and a gnome among the clientele. The barman referred to Eliana as “the Little Finger,” later clarified as her role in The Hand.
  • The later attended auction was at the Grand Auction House in Hartwall, not a separate Freeport auction.
  • A Day 36 Tirar leech vision was previously transcribed as Rellport; this likely refers to Freeport, but remains marked uncertain in the cleaned day.

Timeline

  • day-17: Freeport is named as a contact destination.
  • day-20: The party works with Freeport’s Baroness and Pact leader.
  • day-22: The chariot sale is planned at the Freeport auction house.
  • day-23: The party returns through Freeport, sees dream panic and snow, meets the Baroness, and visits the Drunken Duck.

Map-Derived Road Distances

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