📘 Session 9 – Jungle Beyond the Portal
🪐 Campaign Arc
- Campaign: Spelljammer – Into the Void
- Session Title: The Jungle Beyond the Portal
- Dungeon Master: Jamie / Sicareus (DM)
- Setting: Astral Plane, Cavern Jungle, Mirror Ship
🧭 Overview
The session began aboard the party’s spelljammer as they examined a collection of strange magical items retrieved from recent adventures. After weighing their options, the crew pursued signs of Mind Flayer activity in Limbo. En route through the Astral Plane, they detected two magical signals—one moving and one stationary.
Intercepting the mobile signal, they encountered a merchant ship and traded for a Driftglobe, thanks to High Jinks’ bargaining. Using it to power their helm, they passed through a portal into a humid jungle cavern, where they narrowly avoided combat with a charging Tyrannosaurus rex. After escaping, they recovered valuable loot and investigated the stationary magic source: a stripped-down doppelgänger of their own ship, mysteriously powered by a blue mirrored circle. Upon removing it, the ship dissolved, and the party was left floating untethered in the Astral Plane, moving only by thought.
🧑🤝🧑 Party Members
| Character | Player | Class / Subclass | Race | Notable Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Valen Pyre | Slitzer | Wizard (Evocation) | Human | Cast Detect Magic and Identify; Identified Cape of the Mountebank |
| High Jinks | Kate | Warlock (Great Old One) | Tabaxi | Negotiated Driftglobe price; scouted corpse; triggered T-Rex |
| Leydrick Gefinhal | Jared | Cleric (Life Domain) | Dwarf | Boarded merchant ship; no combat engagement this session |
| Dino Roar | Robb | Artificer / Fighter | Githyanki | Engaged T-Rex; Steel Defender destroyed; removed mirror disc |
| Rigg Dalhart | Ben (played by Robb) | Rogue (Swashbuckler) | Human | Present but controlled by Dino’s player; no key actions logged |
| Mono | NPC | Modron | Modron | Observed T-Rex fight; provided no combat assistance |
📍 Key Locations
- Merchant Vessel: Peaceful traders with elven and human crew; sold magical goods.
- Cavern Jungle: Dense, misty underground realm hiding a deadly T-Rex and magical loot.
- Mirror Ship: Identical nautiloid ship with no crew, powered by a mirrored circle at the helm.
📑 Session Highlights
🚪 Merchant Contact & Trade
- Interception of a peaceful trade ship detected via magical marble.
- High Jinks bartered a Driftglobe for 150 gold.
- Traders mentioned the port of Mawanda, a Gith-friendly hub.
🦖 Jungle Cavern Escape
- The team triggered a Tyrannosaurus rex encounter while scouting a corpse.
- Valen detected magical items: a cloak and a pouch.
- Dino struck the T-Rex once before retreating.
- Steel Defender was destroyed by a tail swipe and flung back through the portal.
- The rest of the party retreated safely without taking damage.
🪞 The Mirror Ship
- Second magical signal was a mirror-nautiloid, empty and silent.
- A blue mirrored circle sat in place of the helm.
- When removed by Dino, the ship began to disintegrate.
- The party floated freely in the Astral Plane, moving by thought.
🎁 Loot & Discoveries
| Item / Detail | Found / By | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Cape of the Mountebank | Valen (Identified) | Once per dawn: Cast Dimension Door and vanish in smoke |
| 500 Gold Pieces | Valen (pouch near corpse) | Recovered in jungle cavern before T-Rex encounter |
| Driftglobe | High Jinks (Bartered) | Floating magical light; used to power the spelljammer |
| Illusion Mirror | Dino (Removed from helm area) | Triggered the disappearance of the duplicate ship |
📌 Current Status
- Location: Astral Plane – drifting free after mirror ship disintegration
- Next Objective: Investigate Mind Flayer activity in Limbo or Fey-aligned realms
- Party Level: 5
- Companions: Mono (Modron)
🔍 Ongoing Threads & Plot Hooks
- Mind Flayers in Limbo: Suspected buildup or activity remains unresolved.
- Feywild Signal: Initial magical reading had a faint Fey signature; unexplored.
- Duplicate Nautiloid Mystery: Who created the identical ship—and why?
- Drifting in the Astral: Next action will be to return to physical vessel.