Bag of Freeholding

The Bag of Freeholding is a magic item gifted to the party by the Echsian Senator Christo Gatimigy. Bags of Freeholding were provided to Senators on Echs to provide them a secure location to rest while travelling on official business, and were configured by their owner to their own tastes, providing a truly comfortable home from home. Christo's Bag became a regular and comfortable place of rest for the Party while on the road.

V1 - Christo's Bag of FreeholdingV2 - Ves' Bag of Freeholding
### **Appearance**

The bag is a medium-sized, very squishable jet-black velvet pouch, tightly bound with a silvered rope drawstring at the top.

The bag appears to be truly weightless. Even the fabric from which it is made flows like massless fluid through the hand.

On opening, the bag will hold it’s position in mid-air without support such that it could not be inverted and holds as if it was full, though remains weightless. Inside the bag, it appears to contain a pool of silvered fluid interspersed with swirling deep blue streaks.

### **Effect**

Upon touching the surface of the silvery fluid, you are transported into a cosy, spherical pocket dimension, in which the outer edge of the visible land is coated by a layer of impenetrably thick swirling fog. The fog is punctuated only by the opening to the bag, which has inverted inside the pocket dimension to prevent intruders, though remains open providing a portal back to the location at which the bag was activated.

In the centre of the Pocket Dimension, surrounded by perfectly tended flowers of the current owner’s choosing, sits a comfortably proportioned timber-framed Cottage. The Cottage, designed for a capacity of 10 residents, is equipped with a large front door, a sitting area with a magically roaring fireplace, dining table, drinks cabinet and pantry stocked with essential rations, and bunk rooms containing sufficient beds for the cottage’s current occupants. There is also a cupboard containing a large spare mattress for any guests who tend not to occupy traditional beds.

Once triggered, the dimension will exist for 24 hours or until all present guests have exited the Pocket Dimension. The physical Bag of Freeholding will remain tethered to the Plane in which it was activated, though will become invisible and undetectable by any means other than True Seeing.

All items still stored within the cottage that are not part of the Bag’s effect will be ejected upon exiting the Pocket Dimension and will lie at the side of the Bag after the effect ends. The Bag of Freeholding can be activated once per day.

### History

When the Bag was first provided to the Party it was still configured to Christo's personal tastes, being mostly used as a home for one utilising most of the available space for open plan living and a large en-suite bedroom. The Unseen Servants that came with the Bag studiously maintained supplies of tea and cake, levitating them over to the coffee table by the fire providing an Afternoon Tea Eternal. Christo's bedroom contained a number of trinkets seemingly important to him, as well as a private chamber containing a shrine to an unknown and dangerous being. The Party's brief and ill-advised foray into this shrine led to several members suffering mental injury before fleeing in terror.

Ves was the first of the Party to reconfigure the Bag, providing twin rooms for her companions while adding a ceiling to created a loft space, which she claimed for herself and her copious plant collection. Adding more rooms to accommodate a sevenfold increase in occupancy reduced the living space dramatically, though retained the original cosiness, as well as the self-replenishing afternoon tea by means of Unseen Servants.