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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Quickleaf" data-source="post: 6468692" data-attributes="member: 20323">[SBLOCK=Unsung][OOC]I believe I sent you a PM about the nature of the djab (dark spirit) haunting the ship, did I not?It's a djab (dark spirit) known as Xekik or Yellow Jack, the bringer of yellow fever. Djab are very dangerous (CR 9+), moreso at night than at day. During the day they generally are hidden and don't physically manifest. During the night they can generally manifest as they desire, though offering a suitable sacrifice for that particular djab can entice them out of hiding. Fighting a djab on "even footing" is a deadly proposition (in the 5e encounter design sense of 'deadly'); far wiser to find and exploit whatever weakness it may have, or to find/create a voodoo ritual to mitigate its power or contrain it somehow. There is no knowledge check you can make to learn such weaknesses; they can only be discovered thru play.There are rumors in some Voodoo communities that Yellow Jack as been invoked against particularly evil captains of slave ships, but doing so is a risky proposition because Yellow Jack, like the disease he is a manifestation of, kills indiscriminately. As a disease spirit, he expresses in multiplicity because diseases are reliant on a number of carriers to stay alive. Thus, he likely has powers of person/ object possession and/or can express in multiple forms simultaneously.Caillou, based on his study of Yellow Jack / Xekik the last few weeks, knows the favored sacrifices to summon this particular djab: (A) burning pox medicine, a medical text, or the bones of a great healer, (B) turning a healing potion (or enchanted waters) into poison, or (C) deliberately infecting a victim with yellow fever.That should cover everything![/OOC][/SBLOCK]</blockquote>

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