# 📘 Session 15 - Thunder in the Void

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</details>## 🪐 Campaign Arc

- **Campaign:**<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> Spelljammer</span>
- **Session:**<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> 15</span>
- **Dungeon Master:**<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> Sicareus</span>
- **Setting:**<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> Astral Desert Plane → Portal Route to the Underdark</span>
- <span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">**Date**: 20 December 2025</span>

## 🧭 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

<table id="bkmrk-characterplayerclass" style="width: 100%;"><colgroup><col style="width: 15.6151%;"></col><col style="width: 8.579%;"></col><col style="width: 14.6648%;"></col><col style="width: 10.3703%;"></col><col style="width: 50.7788%;"></col></colgroup><tbody><tr><th>Character

</th><th>Player

</th><th>Class

</th><th>Race

</th><th>Notable Actions

</th></tr><tr><td>Valen Pyre

</td><td>Justin

</td><td>Wizard (Evoker)

</td><td>Human

</td><td>Fireball opening strike; Thunder Step; revived Leydrick; final Eldritch Blast kill

</td></tr><tr><td>High Jinks

</td><td>Kate

</td><td>Warlock (Great Old One)

</td><td>Tabaxi

</td><td>Chill Touch pressure; Eldritch Blasts; later summoned new familiar

</td></tr><tr><td>Dino Roar

</td><td>Robb

</td><td>Artificer / Fighter

</td><td>Githyanki

</td><td>Dancing Longsword; frontline control; post-combat ship investigation

</td></tr><tr><td>Garrick “Rigg” Dalhart

</td><td>Ben

</td><td>Rogue (Swashbuckler)

</td><td>Human

</td><td>Ranged Sneak Attacks; heavy wrench damage; claimed Ring of Spell Storage

</td></tr><tr><td>Leydrick Gefinhal

</td><td>Jared

</td><td>Cleric (Life)

</td><td>Dwarf

</td><td>Downed by double critical; revived; finished a Void Hunter; heavy post-fight healing

</td></tr><tr><td>Rook Varrek

</td><td>NPC

</td><td>—

</td><td>—

</td><td>Portal guide; heavy pistol and rapier damage throughout the fight

</td></tr></tbody></table>

## 📍 Key Locations

*Astral desert plane used as a portal nexus*

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- 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

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**Leydrick’s Fall:**<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> Leydrick was struck down by a devastating double critical, forcing immediate triage under fire.</span>

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**Valen &amp; Void Hunter:**<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> Valen flew out from the ship toward a Neogi Void Hunter, smirked, then detonated a Thunder Step to escape back to safety.</span>

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- **Final Shot:**<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> A battered Neogi staggered under a pitiful Eldritch Blast — and still fell.</span>

## 🧩 Ongoing Threads &amp; 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

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

## 💰 Loot &amp; Discoveries

<table id="bkmrk-itemfinderdescriptio"><colgroup><col></col><col></col><col></col></colgroup><tbody><tr><th>Item

</th><th>Finder

</th><th>Description / Status

</th></tr><tr><td>5,000 Gold

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</td><td>Party

</td><td>Recovered from the cracked Neogi spider-ship

</td></tr><tr><td class="align-center">Wand of Web

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</td><td>Party Inventory

</td><td>A wand etched with sticky, filament-like runes

</td></tr><tr><td class="align-center">Cloak of Protection

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</td><td>High Jinks

</td><td>Lightweight cloak that subtly bends fate and fortune

</td></tr><tr><td class="align-center">Ring of Spell Storage

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</td><td>Rigg

</td><td>A smooth ring capable of holding dormant spells

</td></tr><tr><td>3 Astral Diamonds

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</td><td>Party

</td><td>Crystalline gems humming faintly with planar energy

</td></tr></tbody></table>

## 🧪 Aftermath

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

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#### **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