Three Portlands

The City of Three Portlands (FP-01) is an independent city-state and pocket dimension linked between the cities of Portland, Oregon and Portland, Maine, as well as the Isle of Portland; this triad is from what the name Three Portlands is derived from. 
Three Portlands is controlled by a genius loci known as the Mayor, who maintains the health of the city and the dimension, while the Three Portlands City Council governs the city as a whole. The city is a hub for the paranormal, with many paratech companies and occult schools taking root. Additionally, the Unusual Incidents Unit holds primary criminal jurisdiction within the city, after the Hoover Mandate was signed in 1929.
==History==
===Founding===
While the exact origins of the Three Portlands pocket dimension is unclear, it is generally believed that thaumic feedback from the Sixth Occult War created the Nexus and its genius loci; as such, Three Portlands was most likely created during the 1880s but not before the incorporation of Portland, Oregon into the United States in 1851. The British Occult Service discovered Three Portlands soon after its creation, with the earliest documentation dating back to 1899.UIU Location Dossier — "Three Portlands"
=== Sidhe exodus===
As the dimension of Avalon degraded from the consequences of the Sixth Occult War, the BOS began making plans to transport the native Sidhe to Three Portlands. This exodus would be successfully negotiated with the genius loci in 1805, and most of the Sidhe were ferried to Three Portlands before Avalon's full deconceptualization in 1907; although, some Sidhe were instead taken to isolated portions of the Hebrides. The Sidhe would become an integral part of Three Portlands, serving as the backbone of its government and its people. The BOS largely distanced itself from Three Portlands afterward, focusing instead on Earth.
===World War I ===
When World War I began, most BOS agents left in Three Portlands were recalled to participate in the war and prevent another occult war; as a result, Three Portlands was left to fend for itself. A city council and municipal government formed in 1915, though this was unrecognized by the BOS until 1922, when the genius loci was inducted as the Mayor in the city charter.
===American intervention and the Hoover Mandate===
During the Roaring 20s, the lack of direct authority left a way open for paracriminal organizations to infest the city and evade US authorities via the vast Way network, particularly after the enactment of the Volstead Act and the beginning of Prohibition. Alcohol and other illegal goods were smuggled to the United States through Three Portlands, with the Chicago Spirit overseeing much of this racket. 
The BOS began making efforts to obscure the city from other normalcy agencies, including the Bureau of Investigation. However, this did not last, and the Bureau of Prohibition eventually discovered Three Portlands in 1929 while pursuing the Chicago Spirit. The existence of the city was concealed, and all investigation transferred over to BOI Director J. Edgar Hoover. 
A clandestine war was waged by the BOI against the paracriminal organizations within Three Portlands; while initially successful, the citizens and government of Three Portlands began open conflict against the BOI. After a firefight between the City Council and the BOI, Hoover sieged all known entrances to Three Portlands and imprisoned anyone trying to enter or exit the city. After two months of a relentless standoff, President Herbert Hoover intervened and formulated the Hoover Mandate: autonomy would be granted to Three Portlands, though US federal agents could operate in Three Portlands at a limited degree. Despite many citizens' protests, the City Council signed the Mandate out of fear of further escalation. 
The BOS was extremely negative towards the Mandate's signing, perceiving American involvement as a threat to their operations in the city. Tensions between BOI and BOS agents within Three Portlands skyrocketed as each attempted to gain more power within the city. 
===Seventh Occult War===
The outbreak of the Seventh Occult War in 1939 allowed the BOS and the FBI (what the BOI was renamed to in 1935) UIU to sign the Howard-Grant Agreement in 1940, with the United Kingdom relinquishing all claims in Three Portlands in exchange for wartime concessions. Three Portlands was significantly advantageous to the Allied Occult Initiative, serving as a supply route and shelter for AOI agents due to Three Portlands' elaborate Way network. This network was used to funnel supplies and personnel between North America and the United Kingdom; however, the SS Ahnenerbe Obskurakorps eventually apportated onto the Isle of Portland and attacked Three Portlands in 1943; this would later be known as the Battle of Three Portlands.
The goal of Obskurakorps and the Thule Kriegsmagier was to seize ICSUT Portlands and loot the AOI storehouse within the campus. They were met with unrelenting resistance from FBI UIU and BOS agents, ICSUT faculty and students, Three Portlands Municipal Police golems, and local citizenry. This assault was repelled, and Three Portlands was secure once again.
===Cold War===
After the end of World War II and the Seventh Occult War, Three Portlands grew rapidly, thanks to the tightening of the Veil bringing many human occultists and anartists to Nexuses such as Three Portlands or Backdoor SoHo. Additionally, paratechnology companies such as Prometheus Labs began making their home in Three Portlands, due to its tax laws and exemption from many Veil regulations. Reflecting Portland, Oregon, Three Portlands soon became a hub of paratechnology and anart. After the AOI became the United Nations Global Occult Coalition, the UNGOC deigned to hide the existence of Three Portlands from the SCP Foundation due to the threat of the loss of Three Portlands' autonomy.
They successfully delayed the Foundation's discovery of Three Portlands through memetic misinformation campaigns, though the Foundation inevitably discovered its existence in 1970. This prompted a shift in public relations between the UIU and Three Portlands' citizenry, which greatly increased after the death of Hoover in 1972; eventually, a quarter of the UIU's irregular agents were native Portlandsers. Additionally, the city became a center for the Maxwellist movement, which was a transhumanist denomination of the Church of the Broken God. The lax Veil policies and thriving paratech industry allowed Maxwellism to flourish well into the 1980s. The UNGOC's response was to found the city of Eurtec as a competitor to Three Portlands' industry, with Portlands slowly losing in this battle.
===Modern day ===
The end of the Cold War and the end of the eigenweapon arms race was the death knell to the paratech corporations still within Three Portlands; Eurtec was able to offer its hosted companies bailouts, while Three Portlands was helpless to stop it. The Three Portlands offices of Prometheus Labs would close, and paracriminal organizations such as the Lighthouse Mafia would rise. As the new millennium approached, Three Portlands recovered from the crash of its paratech market thanks to Vincent Anderson and Anderson Robotics, who took advantage of the void left by Prometheus and established his corporate headquarters within the city; he also engaged in philanthropic activities, which turned Anderson into a loved figure within the city. This allowed Anderson to openly violate federal and international restrictions on paratech development, as it was unfeasible for the FBI UIU to intervene against him. The Foundation had limited success against him, though Anderson continued to elude authorities.
This stalemate period ended in 2018, when it was discovered that Anderson used Saker androids to infiltrate the US government, with Anderson vanishing from public life to avoid assassination or capture. Despite covertly controlling his company from behind a puppet leader, Anderson was captured in 2024 during a large-scale raid by a UIU-Foundation task force, ending in his company's dissolution and a significant drop in public opinion of the UIU.
==Alternate realities==
==Organization==
==Notable locations== 
*31st North Deerway Avenue
*All Orpheum Theatre
*Anderson Robotics Headquarters
*ICSUT Portlands
*Little Avalon
*Memorial Park
**7th Occult War Memorial
**Gormogon Wedge
**Sidhe Consulate
*Outer Periphery
*Prometheus Plaza
**Docks District
**Prometheus Three Portlands offices
*Roselawn & 17th
**Mug Runneth Over
*Seventh Portland Street
*Shadow of the Portland Observatory
*Shadow of Reed College
**Deer College 
***Anderson Hall
***Arabic House
***Blackwood Hall
***Canyon
****Canyon House
***Chinese House
***Community Safety Office
***Enochian House
***French House
***German House
***Haunted House
***Knorr Hall
***MadSci
***Old Dorm Block
***The Quad
***Russian House
***Spanish House
***Wormwood Memorial Library
*Three Portlands Community College
*Three Portlands Plaza
**Cambium Circle
**Three Portlands City Hall
**Three Portlands Mayor's Office
*Three Portlands Wilson's Wildlife Shelter
*Too Many Portlands Streets Avenue
*Unidentified old house
==Anomalies==
== Meta ==
===Appearances === 
*Anderson Robotics Hub - 6 May 2016
*The Analog Kid - 16 May 2016
*Entry Page: 2680 - 13 Jul 2016
*Preliminary Report of J. C. Randall Upon His Party's Efforts to Catalogue the Multiverse - 5 Jan 2017
*UIU Location Dossier — "Three Portlands" - 18 Jan 2017
*Zeitgeist - 14 Jan 2018
*Nx-03 - 26 Feb 2018
*About Deer College - 24 Jun 2018
*Entry Page: 001 - djkaktus's Proposal III - 1 Dec 2018
*Adoption Poster: Ol' Shock! - 22 Dec 2018
*Deer College Student Body Handbook - 19 Apr 2019
*Entry Page: 5350 - 13 Mar 2020
*Entry Page: 6500 - 25 May 2021
*Entry Page: 001 - ROUNDERHOUSE's Gold Proposal - 4 Nov 2021
*New Atlantis, Arizona - 5 Dec 2021
*Entry Page: 6571 - 17 Feb 2022
*Entry Page: 7000 - 25 Jul 2022
*List of Common Anomalous Misconceptions - 1 Aug 2023
==References==
Category:Locations
Category:Locations of Interest
Category:Nexuses
Category:Free Port
Category:Dimensions
Category:Cities