Main quest: The Death Curse
Everyone who has ever been raised from the dead is wasting away, and that now includes the whole party. Find Acererak in Chult and stop him. Clock: weeks. → Death Curse
Active jobs
Pirates of the Jahaka Anchorage
From: Zindar (S3) · Reward: everything the pirates have stolen (“more than two zeros”), plus an introduction to Wakanga O’tamu and maybe discounts on magic.
- Pirates have been attacking merchant ships 2–3 days out of port for a few weeks, probably from the abandoned Jahaka Anchorage.
- Route: 1 day by sea or 2 days by road from the South Gate. A licensed guide is required. → Jungle Guides
- Status: choosing a guide. Azaka Stormfang or River Mist & Flask of Wine.
Lord Alistair’s missing courier
From: Lord Alistair (S4) · Reward: “worth your while”
- His courier and ledgers of diplomatic contracts vanished in an ambush near “the old city”, by the Tiriki Anchorage, three nights before Day 1.
- Suspects: the Ytepka Society and/or Merchant Prince Zhanthi.
- Status: accepted by Quill as “the famous scholar”. Possibly on the way south.
The stolen bronze basin
From: Master Vul (S5)
- Shrine of Kubazan: water restored ✅. Four thugs dead ✅. One bronze basin still missing.
- Heavy tracks of three people lead into the jungle, the way the archer ran. Why would anyone risk this for a bronze bowl?
- Status: at the shrine, about 1 pm on Day 2.
Azaka Stormfang’s heirloom
From: the guide notice board (S3) · Reward: a free guide
- Help Azaka recover a stolen family heirloom near Firefinger. Not yet followed up.
The Velvet Serpent
From: notice board (S2) · Reward: 20 gp · Held by: Elias
- “Lost my brother, went into the Velvet Serpent two nights ago. Please help.” The Velvet Serpent is in Old Town. There’s an address on the notice.
- Status: untouched.
Promises & appointments
- Fred at the Thundering Lizard, three days after Day 1. “Ember” (Elias) promised to help Fred Johnson win Pickering’s heart. Fred likes his nose.
- The big dinosaur race, three days after Day 1. Quill on Big Iron, Gimbal on Mountain Mover, Gondolo on Kintergas’s coin. → Dinosaur Racing
- Kito and Marta: Kito works for Zindar and should be staying at the temple with Marta. He fears The Hooded Man will come after him.
Mysteries
The spiral-sealed scroll case
The Hooded Man (brown-grey robe, incense, human hands) paid Kito to deliver a Spiral-Sealed Scroll Case to the harbour. Someone waited on a warehouse roof. The Flaming Fist grabbed it, and Blaze has it. The seal rings a bell for Elias.
Blaze and the Flaming Fist
An erratic commander, a predecessor removed after “that nasty business”, a garrison of thugs, and a door into the hillside nobody mentions. Possibly a Dyer son in the ranks.
Quill and Glimpse
No memory, magic that does what it likes, a child’s journal, a voice in an empty pocket, a pink axolotl asking him to play, and now a bottle of pink soap where he used to sleep.
Kale’s patron
A serpent that wants to devour the sun. Its likeness (insultingly magenta) sits in Syndra’s curio room. Something is waking, and Gimbal is starting to distrust Kale.
The leaking dreams
Selûne’s protection is thin in Chult. Something is crossing over or breaking out. Is it connected to the Soulmonger?
Odd objects
- Syndra’s Curios: the obsidian skull and magenta serpent came from a street merchant in Port Nyanzaru. Who is he?
- Asmodeus Holy Symbol from a dead tiefling in Zaldara’s cells.
- Quill’s Encrypted Scroll.
- An old general who once led undead legions in the jungle (Fred’s story).
Done
- ✅ Burgle Zaldara’s Lair. (Got the phylactery for about thirty seconds; everyone died; the Harpers got the book anyway.)
- ✅ Dye Works for Nala: dye master found (ghoul), vent cleared. Paid 20 gp, Mask of the Venom Eater and Gravewearer’s Shroud.
- ✅ Rescue Kito from Fort Beluarian.
- ✅ Unblock the Shrine of Kubazan.