📘 Session 15 - Thunder in the Void

🪐 Campaign Arc

• Campaign: Spelljammer
• Session: 15
• Dungeon Master: Sicareus
• Setting: Astral Desert Plane → Portal Route to the Underdark
• Date: 20 December 2025

🧭 Overview

After a brief rest and recovery, the party followed Rook Varrek through a portal leading to a harsh, desert-like astral plane — a crossroads realm where Rook maintained access to multiple other portals, including routes into the Underdark.

Moments after emerging, the party was ambushed by a Neogi raiding force. What followed was a brutal, multi-round shipboard battle against pirates, void hunters, and a Neogi captain, ending in the discovery of a shattered Neogi spider-ship and valuable astral loot. With wounds tended and resources spent, the party pressed onward toward the Underdark, greeted by a disturbing, sickly-sweet scent as the session ended.

🧑‍🚀 Party Members

📍 Key Locations

Astral desert plane used as a portal nexus

• Open void near a damaged Neogi spider-ship
• Portal leading toward the Underdark

⚔️ Session Highlights

• Party ambushed immediately after exiting the portal by Neogi forces
• Enemy composition: 6 Neogi Pirates, 2 Neogi Void Hunters, 1 Neogi Captain
• Valen opened with Fireball, dealing heavy early damage
• Leydrick was dropped by a double critical attack early in the fight
• Valen revived Leydrick in the following round
• Rook Varrek consistently dealt high damage with pistols and rapier
• Valen flew out to confront a Void Hunter directly, then Thunder Stepped back to the ship
• A Void Hunter was finished off by Leydrick after Valen’s repositioning play
• The final Neogi was killed by Valen with a low-damage Eldritch Blast — just enough
• Dino discovers cracked open Neogi shipwreck and discovers great treasures 

🎭 Key Scenes

Leydrick’s Fall: Leydrick was struck down by a devastating double critical, forcing immediate triage under fire.

Valen & Void Hunter: Valen flew out from the ship toward a Neogi Void Hunter, smirked, then detonated a Thunder Step to escape back to safety.

• Final Shot: A battered Neogi staggered under a pitiful Eldritch Blast — and still fell.

🧩 Ongoing Threads & Plot Hooks

• Rook’s knowledge of astral portals and Underdark access remains largely unexplored
• The damaged Neogi ship suggests a prior, unknown conflict in the area

• The sickly-sweet smell beyond the Underdark portal hints at a new threat ahead

💰 Loot & Discoveries

🧪 Aftermath

• Party healed, recovered, and rested after the battle
• High Jinks summoned a new familiar — an Imp, currently disguised as a Raven

The party leveled up

⏳ Cliffhanger

• The party passes through the portal toward the Underdark
• A sickly-sweet smell fills the air on the other side