Also heard as: the ship's sextant, the nine-setting device
A rare, touch-activated planar navigation device recovered aboard the looted ship, paired with a gold-bound crystal that performs the actual plane shift. Nine discrete settings; the party never fully mapped what each one does. Distinct from the later, unrelated Locate Portal Sextant found in Arc II.
History
- Found in the ship’s helm room alongside a gold-bound crystal emanating conjuration/divination magic 2020-01-20 @ 00:17:25–00:33:43.
- Donnie touches the crystal directly while experimenting with the sextant’s settings, triggering an accidental plane shift 2020-01-20 @ 01:02:51.
- Position 7 is established as triggering plane travel when the crystal is touched (with a helmet), powered by blood sacrifice; position 9 shows an unrecognized blinking symbol 2020-01-28 @ 03:40:30.
- Activates on its own overnight, dragging the ship into the first layer of the Abyss 2020-01-28 @ 03:40:30–03:45:48.
- Donnie resets the navigation settings from memory to jump the ship out of Hell, landing the party in the Feywild instead of home 2020-03-25 @ 02:31:40–02:36:13.
Unresolved
The exact mapping of settings 1–6 and 8 was never established in play; the mechanism by which the crystal activated itself unprompted is not explained.