📘 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
Aboard the party’s spelljammer, the group evaluated their newly acquired magical items—tools that could help them navigate the planes. Two magical signals were detected: one stationary and one approaching. After some deliberation, the crew opted to investigate the mobile signal and encountered a friendly merchant ship led by Captain Valriks Dunar.
They purchased a Driftglobe to power their helm and took a nearby portal en route to the Feywild. Upon arriving in a cavernous jungle, a Tyrannosaurus rex ambushed the party, prompting a rapid retreat. They recovered a powerful magical cloak and coin pouch before escaping. Later, they explored the stationary magical signal—an eerie, abandoned mirror-version of their own ship. When a mirrored disc was removed from its helm, the ship dissolved, leaving them adrift in the Astral Plane, where thought guides movement.
🧑🤝🧑 Party Members
| Character | Player | Class / Subclass | Race | Notable Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Valen Pyre | Slitzer | Wizard (Evocation) | Human | Cast Detect Magic and Identify; Confirmed magical cloak and mirror’s nature |
| High Jinks | Kate | Warlock (Great Old One) | Tabaxi | Scouted corpse; triggered T-Rex; bartered Driftglobe price |
| Leydrick Gefinhal | Jared | Cleric (Life Domain) | Dwarf | Boarded merchant ship; stayed back during combat |
| Dino Roar | Robb | Artificer/Fighter | Githyanki | Ritually cast Detect Magic; struck T-Rex; removed mirror disc; Defender destroyed |
| Rigg Dalhart | Ben (played by Robb) | Rogue (Swashbuckler) | Human | Received 100 gold from treasure; present but minimal action |
| Mono | NPC | Modron | Modron | Observed events; did not engage in combat |
📍 Key Locations
- Merchant Vessel – Valriks Dunar’s Ship: Elven/human crew; sold magical goods; based near Moander.
- Cavern Jungle: Tropical underground zone with hostile megafauna and buried magical loot.
- Mirror Nautiloid: Identical to party's ship; silent, stripped bare, anchored by a mirrored disc at the helm.
📑 Session Highlights
🔮 Magical Toolkit
- Compass: Three-use item; points to past portals or focused objects.
- Marble: Detects magical items across great distances.
- Atlas: Astral encyclopedia that reveals the most useful page based on need.
- Sunglasses: Allow wearer to see into the other side of a portal.
🚪 Merchant Encounter
- Approached traveling merchant vessel following magic signal from the marble.
- Captain Valriks Dunar greeted the party peacefully.
- High Jinks and Dino jointly purchased a Driftglobe (100g Jinks, 50g Dino).
- Merchant ship is associated with Port Moander, a known trade hub.
🦖 Jungle Cavern Encounter
- Entered a portal leading to a rocky jungle underrealm.
- Dino began ritually casting Detect Magic.
- High Jinks triggered a T-Rex while scouting a corpse.
- Dino landed a single hit before retreating; Steel Defender was destroyed by a tail strike.
- The party recovered a pouch of 500g and a magical cloak from the site.
- Everyone escaped back through the portal unharmed.
🪞 Mirror Ship Discovery
- Investigated the stationary magic signal—a duplicate nautiloid ship.
- No crew or gear onboard, only a blue mirrored circle in place of the helm.
- Dino removed the disc; the ship began to fade from existence.
- The party was left floating freely in the Astral Plane, using thought to navigate.
- Mirror of Life Trapping suspected, but no keyword was known to activate it.
🎁 Loot & Discoveries
| Item / Detail | Found / By | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Cape of the Mountebank | Valen (Identified) | Allows the wearer to cast Dimension Door and vanish in smoke once per dawn |
| 500 Gold (split) | Group (Jungle Corpse) | Rigg received 100g; remaining split between others or party fund |
| Driftglobe | Dino & High Jinks (Merchant) | Magical floating light; used to power the spelljammer temporarily |
| Blue Mirror Disc | Dino (Mirror Ship) | Believed to be a Mirror of Life Trapping; caused ship disintegration upon removal |
📌 Current Status
- Location: Astral Plane – mentally navigating after mirror ship collapse
- Next Objective: Explore the Feywild signal or track Mind Flayer movements in Limbo
- Party Level: 5
- Companions: Mono (Modron)
🔍 Ongoing Threads & Plot Hooks
- Mind Flayers in Limbo: Potential staging point for extraplanar threats
- Wizard in the Feywild: May offer aid or knowledge; said to help hide from Mind Flayers
- Mirror Nautiloid: Unknown origin; use and purpose of the mirror disc still uncertain
- Floating Navigation: Party now untethered from a ship, free-floating in the Astral