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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 9794810" data-attributes="member: 63">The somewhat unsatisfying answer would be that remove curse works on curses, not thoughtforms that have possessed you.Protection from Evil would have an effect, giving Xambria advantage on any new saves to resist, but it doesn't expel a possessing entity. Sijhen would just stay quiescent until the spell lapsed. Maybe Xambria would seem a bit more calm for a while, which could clue the party in that she is affected by something magical, but they just don't have the right tools to deal with it.Reading the description of Dominate Person, though, Xambria would get a new save if she takes damage, so if the party casts Protection from Evil and then stabs her, yeah, she'd get advantage on the save. If I were to write this adventure for 5e today, I'd probably make it so the prolonged mental wear-down by Sijhen means that Xambria just doesn't get saves to break free, and Prot from Evil just gives her the ability to make a save at all when injured.Short of stabbing her while she's got Prot Evil on (which feels a lot like a Clergy exorcism), to get Sijhen out would take something like guessing it's there and casting suggestion for it to leave. Dispel Evil also works, if the PCs want to call in a favor for a high-level caster. Gidim are very unlike any malady the PCs would be familiar with, so the old reliable solutions they might expect to work won't. But that doesn't mean ingenuity can't work.If they go for a full effort to drive Sijhen out early, I say let it work. Sijhen's able to turn invisible, fly through walls. It will get away. After it's gone, Xambria can give them the spiel that normally is queued up for the finale. Sijhen can end up possessing someone else (like the Ragman) and slipping through the sewers to trigger the weird dimensional incursion of the climax at some point when the PCs are at RHC HQ - but probably still after it goes to the underwater Mavisha portal.The story still works, even if the PCs understand what's going on earlier.</blockquote>

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