Stop the Death Curse
Status: 🔴 Urgent — campaign spine; now directly afflicting the party Location: Chult
Objective
End the death curse afflicting Chult. As of Session 12, the party is directly cursed: each character loses 0.25 maximum HP per day, or 1 max HP every 4 days.
Known Requirements
- Creatures: red dragon, medusa, eagleman.
- Red-dragon lead: the party reached and killed Siegfried in Wyrmheart Mine, but remembered the clue only after his death and had no way to question the corpse.
- Remaining direct clue paths: the medusa and eagleman. Siegfried’s corpse may become useful if the party later gains a way to speak with the dead.
- The Aubrey ritual components are a separate thread for curing Dr. Aubrey’s wife’s vampirism, not the Death Curse itself.
Progress
- Syndra demonstrated aboard the Brazen Pegasus that while the curse stands, resurrection magic cannot return the dead.
- Syndra and Throbbin Mistwillow previously sent Anthe Grackles, Jacque LeFleur, Mikshail Valakovich, and Cheezy Sloth into the jungle. Syndra believed them dead, though later evidence shows LaFleur survived.
- Session 12: the Golden Statue of Cayochan revealed that the whole party is now affected by the curse.
- Session 13: the party entered Wyrmheart Mine and cleared the encountered kobold defenses and six dwarven specters. Travel and rests consumed time, but the transcript does not support a reliable cumulative maximum-HP loss total.
- Session 14: the party killed Siegfried before asking where the curse lies. The red-dragon route is exhausted for now; the medusa/eagleman clues remain. Time advanced through another long rest, a short rest, and exploration, but no reliable cumulative maximum-HP loss total is stated.
- Jacques LaFleur believes Ras Nsi may be responsible because of his tie to the undead, but he does not know the location of Ras Nsi’s city.