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📘 Session 9.2 – Jungle Beyond the Portal

🎶 Music

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🖼️ Images
  • [Placeholder: Merchant ship encounter]
  • [Placeholder: T-Rex ambush in cavern jungle]
  • [Placeholder: Mirror ship discovery]
  • [Placeholder: Astral drifting aftermath]

🪐 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

AboardThe session opened aboard the party’s spelljammer,spelljammer as the group evaluatedtested their newly acquirednew magical items—toolstoolkit—items thatcapable couldof helptracing themportals, navigaterevealing theknowledge, planes.and Twopeering magicalthrough signalsveils. wereDetecting detected:two signals—one drifting closer, one stationary and one approaching. After some deliberation, fixed—the crewadventurers optedelected to investigatepursue the mobile signalsource andfirst. encounteredThis led to a friendlypeaceful merchantmeeting ship led bywith Captain Valriks Dunar.Dunar and his merchant crew, where the group bartered for a Driftglobe to aid their vessel.

TheyPassing purchased a Driftglobe to power their helm and tookthrough a nearby portal en route toportal, the Feywild.party Uponfound arrivingthemselves in a cavernous jungle,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 Tyrannosaurusfallen rexcorpse.

ambushed

The thesecond party,signal promptingproved amore rapiddisturbing: 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. WhenThe eerie vessel dissolved into nothingness when Dino removed a mirrored disc was removed from its helm, leaving the ship dissolved, leaving themparty adrift in the Astral Plane, where navigation relies on thought guidesand movement.will alone.

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Party Members

Character

Player

Class / Class/Subclass

Race

Notable Actions

Valen Pyre

Slitzer

Wizard (Evocation)

Human

Cast Detect Magic and& Identify; Confirmedconfirmed magical cloak and mirror’s naturenature.

High Jinks

Kate

Warlock (Great Old One)

Tabaxi

Scouted corpse; triggeredTriggered T-Rex;Rex barteredwhile scouting; bargained Driftglobe priceprice.

Leydrick Gefinhal

Jared

Cleric (Life Domain)

Dwarf

Boarded merchant ship; stayedremained backcautious during combatjungle combat.

Dino Roar

Robb

Artificer/Fighter

Githyanki

Ritually cast Detect Magic; struck T-Rex; removed mirror disc;disc, Defendercausing destroyedship collapse.

Rigg Dalhart

Ben (played by Robb)

Rogue (Swashbuckler)

Human

Received 100 gold100g from treasure;jungle presentloot; butquieter minimalthis actionsession.

Mono

NPC

Modron

Modron

Observed events;without did not engage in combatintervention.

📍 Key Locations

  • Merchant Vessel – (Valriks Dunar’s Ship:Ship): Elven/human crew;crew, sold magical goods; basedtraders near Port Moander.
  • Cavern Jungle: Tropical underground zoneunderrealm with hostile megafaunamegafauna; andsite buriedof magicalT-Rex loot.ambush.
  • Mirror Nautiloid: IdenticalA tosilent party'twin of the party’s ship; silent, stripped bare,ship, anchored by a mirroredmysterious disc at themirror helm.

📑 Session Highlights

🔮 Magical Toolkit

  • Compass: Three-use item; points to past portals or focused objects.
  • Marble: DetectsTested magical itemstoolkit: acrosscompass, greatmarble, distances.atlas, and sunglasses for planar navigation.
  • Atlas:Met 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 greetedand thepurchased partya peacefully.
  • HighDriftglobe (funded by Jinks and Dino jointly purchased a Driftglobe (100g Jinks, 50g Dino).
  • MerchantPortal shipto iscavern associatedjungle with Port Moander, a known trade hub.

🦖 Jungle Cavern Encounter

  • Entered a portal leadingled to a rockybrutal jungle underrealm.
  • Dino began ritually casting Detect Magic.
  • High Jinks triggered a T-Rex whileambush; scoutingDino’s a corpse.
  • Dino landed a single hit before retreating; Steel Defender was destroyed by a tail strike.destroyed.
  • The party recovered a pouch ofLooted 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)

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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 thebeing site.
  • Everyonecrushed escaped back throughby the portaldinosaur’s unharmed.
    • massive

    T-Rex encounter battlemap

    tail.

    🪞Dust Mirrorand Shipbroken Discovery

    foliage
    • Investigatedscatter across the scene.

    stationary3. magicThe signalMirror’s Secret—a
    Valen’s duplicateeyes nautiloidgleamed ship.

  • Nobehind crewarcane orfocus gearas onboard,he only a blue mirrored circle in placewarned of the helm.
  • Dinomirror’s removeddanger. Dino, unmoved, pried it free. The ship’s planks shimmered, becoming mist, until the disc;void consumed it. The party’s feet found no deck beneath them—only the shipendless beganAstral toexpanse.

    fade

    🧵 fromOngoing existence.Threads & Plot Hooks

    • Mind Flayers in Limbo: Possible staging point for Illithid forces.
    • TheWizard party was left floating freelyrumored in the Feywild: Might aid against planar threats.
    • Mirror Nautiloid: Purpose and origin of the mirrored disc remain unknown.
    • Astral Plane,drifting: usingNavigation thoughtnow tied to navigate.
    • Mirrorwillpower of Life Trapping suspected, but no keyword was known to activate it.alone.

    🎁 Loot & Discoveries

    Item / Detail

    Found / ByFinder

    Description / Status

    Cape of the Mountebank

    Valen (Identified)identified)

    AllowsOnce theper wearer todawn, cast

    Dimension Door

    , and vanishvanishing in smoke once per dawnsmoke.

    500 Gold (split)

    GroupParty (Junglecorpse Corpse)in jungle)

    Rigg receivedtook 100g;100g, remainingremainder split between others or party fundsplit.

    Driftglobe

    Dino & High Jinks (Merchant)

    MagicalFloating floatingorb light;of usedlight, topowering power the spelljammer temporarilyhelm.

    Blue Mirror Disc

    Dino (Mirror Ship)

    BelievedArtifact tied to bemirror a Mirror of Life Trapping;ship; caused ship disintegration uponwhen removalremoved.

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    📌 Current StatusCliffhanger

    • Location:Ship gone—party now drifting in the Astral Plane – mentally navigating after mirror ship collapsePlane.
    • NextDecision Objective:looms: Explore thepursue Feywild signallead or trackconfront Mind Flayer movements in Limbo
    • Party Level: 5
    • Companions: Mono (Modron)

    🔍 Ongoing Threads & Plot Hooks

    • Mind Flayers in Limbo: Potential staging point for extraplanar threatsLimbo.
    • WizardMono insilently theobserves, Feywild:offering Mayno 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 Astralguidance.
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