📘 Session 9.2 – Jungle Beyond the Portal

🎶 Music

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🖼️ Images

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🪐 Campaign Arc

Campaign: Spelljammer – Into the Void
Session Title: The Jungle Beyond the Portal
Dungeon Master: Jamie / Sicareus
Setting: Astral Plane, Cavern Jungle, Mirror Ship

🧭 Overview

The session opened aboard the party’s spelljammer as the group tested their new magical toolkit—items capable of tracing portals, revealing knowledge, and peering through veils. Detecting two signals—one drifting closer, one fixed—the adventurers elected to pursue the mobile source first. This led to a peaceful meeting with Captain Valriks Dunar and his merchant crew, where the group bartered for a Driftglobe to aid their vessel.

Passing through a nearby portal, the party found themselves in a cavernous jungle where danger struck quickly. A massive Tyrannosaurus rex attacked, scattering the party and destroying Dino’s Steel Defender before they narrowly escaped. Despite the chaos, they claimed valuable treasures from a fallen corpse.

The second signal proved more disturbing: an abandoned mirror-version of their ship. The eerie vessel dissolved into nothingness when Dino removed a mirrored disc from its helm, leaving the party adrift in the Astral Plane, where navigation relies on thought and will alone.

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Party Members

Character	Player	Class/Subclass	Race	Notable Actions
Valen Pyre	Slitzer	Wizard (Evocation)	Human	Cast Detect Magic & Identify; confirmed magical cloak and mirror’s nature.
High Jinks	Kate	Warlock (Great Old One)	Tabaxi	Triggered T-Rex while scouting; bargained Driftglobe price.
Leydrick Gefinhal	Jared	Cleric (Life Domain)	Dwarf	Boarded merchant ship; remained cautious during jungle combat.
Dino Roar	Robb	Artificer/Fighter	Githyanki	Ritually cast Detect Magic; struck T-Rex; removed mirror disc, causing ship collapse.
Rigg Dalhart	Ben (played by Robb)	Rogue (Swashbuckler)	Human	Received 100g from jungle loot; quieter this session.
Mono	NPC	Modron	Modron	Observed without intervention.

📍 Key Locations

Merchant Vessel (Valriks Dunar’s Ship): Elven/human crew, traders near Port Moander.
Cavern Jungle: Tropical underrealm with hostile megafauna; site of T-Rex ambush.
Mirror Nautiloid: A silent twin of the party’s ship, anchored by a mysterious mirror helm.

📑 Session Highlights

Tested magical toolkit: compass, marble, atlas, and sunglasses for planar navigation.
Met Captain Valriks Dunar and purchased a Driftglobe (funded by Jinks and Dino).
Portal to cavern jungle led to a brutal T-Rex ambush; Dino’s Steel Defender destroyed.
Looted 500g and a magical cloak before retreating.
Investigated stationary signal: discovered mirror-ship duplicate.
Dino removed helm’s mirror disc, dissolving the ship and leaving party adrift in Astral Plane.

🎭 Key Scenes

1. The Merchant’s Bargain
High Jinks leaned in with feline charm, haggling with Captain Valriks for the Driftglobe. Dino chimed in with hard logic and coin. Between their voices, the deal was struck, and the faint glow of their new purchase pulsed aboard their ship.

2. The Jungle Terror (Dino & Steel Defender)

Dino Roar raises his sword defiantly as a towering Tyrannosaurus rex looms above him in a shadowy cavern jungle. His Steel Defender lunges forward to shield him but is moments away from being crushed by the dinosaur’s massive tail. Dust and broken foliage scatter across the scene.

3. The Mirror’s Secret
Valen’s eyes gleamed behind arcane focus as he warned of the mirror’s danger. Dino, unmoved, pried it free. The ship’s planks shimmered, becoming mist, until the void consumed it. The party’s feet found no deck beneath them—only the endless Astral expanse.

🧵 Ongoing Threads & Plot Hooks

Mind Flayers in Limbo: Possible staging point for Illithid forces.
Wizard rumored in the Feywild: Might aid against planar threats.
Mirror Nautiloid: Purpose and origin of the mirrored disc remain unknown.
Astral drifting: Navigation now tied to willpower alone.

🎁 Loot & Discoveries

Item	Finder	Description / Status
Cape of the Mountebank	Valen (identified)	Once per dawn, cast Dimension Door , vanishing in smoke.
500 Gold	Party (corpse in jungle)	Rigg took 100g, remainder split.
Driftglobe	Dino & Jinks	Floating orb of light, powering helm.
Blue Mirror Disc	Dino	Artifact tied to mirror ship; caused disintegration when removed.

⏳ Cliffhanger

Ship gone—party now drifting in the Astral Plane.
Decision looms: pursue Feywild lead or confront Mind Flayers in Limbo.
Mono silently observes, offering no guidance.