📘 Session 9 – Jungle Beyond the Portal

🪐 Campaign Arc

• Campaign: Spelljammer – Into the Void

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  Session Title: The Jungle Beyond the Portal
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  Dungeon Master: Jamie / Sicareus (DM)
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  Setting: Astral Plane, Cavern Jungle, Mirror Ship

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🧭 Overview

The session began aboardAboard the party’s spelljammerspelljammer, asthe theygroup examinedevaluated atheir collectionnewly of strangeacquired magical itemsitems—tools retrievedthat fromcould recenthelp adventures.them navigate the planes. Two magical signals were detected: one stationary and one approaching. After weighingsome their options,deliberation, the crew pursuedopted signsto of Mind Flayer activity in Limbo. En route through the Astral Plane, they detected two magical signals—one moving and one stationary.

Interceptinginvestigate the mobile signal,signal theyand encountered a friendly merchant ship andled tradedby forCaptain Valriks Dunar.

They purchased a Driftglobe, thanks to High Jinks’ bargaining. Using itDriftglobe to power their helm,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 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 investigatedexplored the stationary magicmagical source:signal—an aeerie, stripped-downabandoned doppelgängermirror-version of their own ship,ship. mysteriously powered byWhen a blue mirrored circle.disc Uponwas removingremoved it,from its helm, the ship dissolved, andleaving thethem party was left floating untetheredadrift in the Astral Plane, movingwhere onlythought byguides thought.movement.

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🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Party Members

Character	Player	Class / Subclass	Race	Notable Actions
Valen Pyre	Slitzer	Wizard (Evocation)	Human	Cast Detect Magic and Identify; IdentifiedConfirmed Capemagical ofcloak theand Mountebankmirror’s nature
High Jinks	Kate	Warlock (Great Old One)	Tabaxi	Negotiated Driftglobe price; scoutedScouted corpse; triggered T-RexRex; bartered Driftglobe price
Leydrick Gefinhal	Jared	Cleric (Life Domain)	Dwarf	Boarded merchant ship; nostayed back during combat engagement this session
Dino Roar	Robb	Artificer / Artificer/Fighter	Githyanki	EngagedRitually cast Detect Magic; struck T-Rex; Steel Defender destroyed; removed mirror discdisc; Defender destroyed
Rigg Dalhart	Ben (played by Robb)	Rogue (Swashbuckler)	Human	PresentReceived 100 gold from treasure; present but controlledminimal by Dino’s player; no key actions loggedaction
Mono	NPC	Modron	Modron	Observed T-Rexevents; fight;did providednot noengage in combat assistance

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📍 Key Locations

• Merchant Vessel:Vessel – Valriks Dunar’s Ship: Peaceful traders with elven and Elven/human crew; sold magical goods.goods; based near Moander.
• Cavern Jungle: Dense, mistyTropical underground realmzone hidingwith ahostile deadly T-Rexmegafauna and buried magical loot.
• Mirror Ship:Nautiloid: Identical nautiloidto shipparty's withship; nosilent, crew,stripped poweredbare, anchored by a mirrored circledisc at the helm.

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📑 Session Highlights

🔮 Magical Toolkit

🚪 Merchant Contact & Trade

• InterceptionCompass: 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 peacefulportal.
trade

ship

🚪 detectedMerchant viaEncounter

magical

• Approached traveling merchant vessel following magic signal from the marble.
• Captain Valriks Dunar greeted the party peacefully.
• High Jinks barteredand Dino jointly purchased a Driftglobe for(100g 150Jinks, gold.50g Dino).
• TradersMerchant mentionedship theis portassociated ofwith Mawanda,Port Moander, a Gith-friendlyknown trade hub.

🦖 Jungle Cavern Escape

Encounter

• TheEntered teama portal leading to a rocky jungle underrealm.
• Dino began ritually casting Detect Magic.
• High Jinks triggered a Tyrannosaurus rex encounterT-Rex while scouting a corpse.
• ValenDino detected magical items:landed a cloaksingle and a pouch.
• Dino struck the T-Rex oncehit before retreating.
retreating;
• Steel Defender was destroyed by a tail swipestrike.
• The party recovered a pouch of 500g and flunga magical cloak from the site.
• Everyone escaped back through the portal.
portal
• The rest of the party retreated safely without taking damage.unharmed.

🪞 The Mirror Ship

 Discovery

• SecondInvestigated magicalthe stationary magic signal—a wasduplicate nautiloid ship.
• No crew or gear onboard, only a mirror-nautiloid, empty and silent.
• A blue mirrored circle sat in place of the helm.
• WhenDino removed bythe Dino,disc; the ship began to disintegrate.fade from existence.
• The party floatedwas left floating freely in the Astral Plane,Plane, movingusing bythought thought.to navigate.
• Mirror of Life Trapping suspected, but no keyword was known to activate it.

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🎁 Loot & Discoveries

Item / Detail	Found / By	Description
Cape of the Mountebank	Valen (Identified)	OnceAllows perthe dawn:wearer Castto cast Dimension Door and vanish in smoke once per dawn
500 Gold Pieces(split)	ValenGroup (pouchJungle near corpse)Corpse)	RecoveredRigg inreceived jungle100g; cavernremaining beforesplit T-Rexbetween encounterothers or party fund
Driftglobe	Dino & High Jinks (Bartered)Merchant)	FloatingMagical magicalfloating light; used to power the spelljammer temporarily
IllusionBlue Mirror Disc	Dino (RemovedMirror from helm area)Ship)	TriggeredBelieved theto disappearancebe a Mirror of theLife duplicateTrapping; caused ship disintegration upon removal

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📌 Current Status

• Location: Astral Plane – driftingmentally freenavigating after mirror ship disintegrationcollapse
• Next Objective: InvestigateExplore the Feywild signal or track Mind Flayer activitymovements in Limbo or Fey-aligned realms
• Party Level: 5
• Companions: Mono (Modron)

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🔍 Ongoing Threads & Plot Hooks

• Mind Flayers in Limbo: SuspectedPotential buildupstaging orpoint activityfor remainsextraplanar unresolved.threats
• Feywild Signal: Initial magical reading had a faint Fey signature; unexplored.
• Duplicate Nautiloid Mystery: Who created the identical ship—and why?
• DriftingWizard in the Astral:Feywild: NextMay actionoffer willaid beor knowledge; said to returnhelp tohide physicalfrom vessel.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