Campaign Lore & Notes
The Death Curse
- Location lies within chult
- To find it, need one of these: red dragon, medusa, eagleman
- “Trust the numbers” — told by Calypso to Bonzo
- The curse prevents resurrection magic from returning the dead while it stands. Syndra Sylvane demonstrated this aboard the Brazen Pegasus.
- Syndra and Throbbin Mistwillow previously sent a legendary party into Chult: Anthe Grackles, Jacque LeFleur, Mikshail Valakovich, and Cheezy Sloth. Syndra believed they died, but later evidence shows at least LaFleur survived.
- Session 12: the Golden Statue of Cayochan revealed the whole party is now afflicted. Current mechanical clock: 0.25 max HP lost per day, or 1 max HP every 4 days.
- In Session 14, the party killed Siegfried at the bottom of Wyrmheart Mine before asking where the curse lies. No one could speak with the dead. The medusa/eagleman clues remain, and the corpse may become useful if that magic is acquired later.
- LaFleur suspects Ras Nsi because of his undead ties, but does not know Ras Nsi’s city/location.
Mina Aubrey’s Vampire Curse
- Dr. Jack Aubrey is seeking a cure for his wife’s vampirism.
- Ritual components: heart of a dragon ✅, tears of an angel, milk of a faerie.
- Guidance: “Light a candle to the milk and that will show him the way.”
Bodius’s Family Painting
During the long rest in Wyrmheart Mine, Bodius dreamed of his family before the fire: his father teaching him the stars, his mother serving Sunday boiled hot dogs, and a ball game reflected in the room. Hours later, Siegfried’s hoard contained a crystal-framed painting of that exact scene. How the painting came to exist or reach the hoard is unknown.
The Algiz Rune
- Arrow shaft that killed throbbin-mistwillow bore an algiz rune — “of the Symposium”
- Mr. Stephens wore an algiz-rune marking necklace moments before the murder; the arrow bore the same sign.
- The Symposium is a confirmed hidden faction, though many people still treat it as a myth.
- Calypso told Bonzo: “The Symposium is real and it is not real. Sometimes the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing you it does not exist.”
- Balm Bitdoom is a confirmed Symposium member and explicitly said “the Symposium is always watching” before disappearing after the party got the Kilburg Card Deck contract in writing.
The Purple Substance
- Faintly purple manticore blood (looted from the colosseum) matches the purple bloodshot eyes of rhalzar-biskarr’s triceratops in the races
- velmera-biskarr’s lab is likely producing this substance and using it on both arena animals and race dinosaurs
Flea’s Father
- flea’s father is a guide named Mosquito
- Mosquito’s partner or crew member is Chago
- Lilith, a jungle guide, is searching for Mosquito and Chago
- Lilith last saw them at the Temple of Cayochan
- Plan: meet Lilith at first light at the ship; bring a canoe
Midsommer Night’s
- Darrius had a blank invitation to Midsommer’s Night Song
- Volo said the invite uses invisible ink and is revealed by playing an average song most excellently
- Balm Bitdoom gave Isilrod a glowing parchment invitation after Isilrod and Bonzo’s duet
- Invitation text: “Welcome Brotherbard. Join us in 5 nights time at old Tin Tops Juke Joint and Casino for an evening of Song.”
- Old Tin Top’s Juke Joint and Casino is a hidden shipwreck/canopy casino in the jungle
- Isilrod’s invitation became a magical guide when played, leading the party through a hidden threshold to the casino
- Session 10 reached the 284th Midsommer Night’s Song; Isilrod advanced to round two after performing “The Old Mountain Keeps Eating Away”
- Shago’s note appears to tie the idol delivery to the Night Song, then points south toward the Basin and an unclear “Grackles/Fleer” lead
- Session 12 confirmed LaFleur is alive and was disguised as Isolde the Moth. “Grackles” is likely LaFleur’s captured companion at Shadowfang Keep, but the exact name remains unconfirmed.
- Session 13 split the routes: LaFleur and Summer continued toward Shadowfang while the player party diverted to Wyrmheart Mine.
Balm Bitdoom’s Debt
- Balm Bitdoom wants the Kilburg Card Deck from Ras Nsi’s pocket
- Deadline: 3 months
- If the party provides it, they can keep Balm Bitdoom’s gifted items except for 1 item
- If they do not provide it, Balm Bitdoom says he will kill one party member
- Contract is now in writing
- Party suspicion: Balm Bitdoom may be big-bad-adjacent; possible counter-plan is to level up and kill him in 3 months instead of surrendering the deck
- Balm Bitdoom’s exit line: “Don’t forget — the Symposium is always watching!”
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