So, the book says nicer PCs might try to help her out but it would be hard as she's completely insane. What if they just casted remove disease? (I assume that cures mental diseases also.) It's implied the whole reason she's CE is because of insanity, maybe she would change alignment if sane? Also, would she lose Cha and gain Wis like when Derros are made sane?
Depends which rules you want to use for insanity.
In the GM guide there's extended rules for madness. According to those rules you need greater restoration, heal, limited wish, miracle or wish to entirely cure an insanity.
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The adventure does not specifically say what insanity she has, so I made it Mania/Phobia (seemed appropriate in the given scenario). Before the end of book 2 your players should be 7th level. At this point your characters could cure Jolistina with a few castings of restoration.
Jolistina was my second favorite NPC in the whole adventure, Laori being number 1. I guess I have a thing for crazy women.
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Jolistina was my second favorite NPC in the whole adventure, Laori being number 1. I guess I have a thing for crazy women.
I feel the same, they both remind me of Harley Quinn (Jolistina more than Laori, of course). I also like the picture of her in the remake where she is tossing her dagger up in the air. I can imagine her juggling her dagger back and forth when she's bored, oblivious to the danger involved.
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I guess I have a thing for crazy women.
Same same. Including as players :)
Jolistina has taken on an outsized role in our campaign too. I had the PCs learn that she's 'Rolth's girlfriend' early on, from the Cerulean Society. They've been tracking her down after noticing her reported movements correlate with where the Blood Veil started out. She's quite distinctive so NPCs tend to notice her if she's been around.
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Jolistina went on to relocate and take on the role of Jackdaw in my Hell's Rebels game which took place quite a bit of time after CotCT. Definitely one of my group's favorite NPCs.
Interesting. My group captured Jolistina and she was turned over the the Korvosian Guard. She later escaped after the Queen basically replaced the the guard. I really had not put much thought into where she landed as the players were no where near Korvosa. Now that they are back and well into storming the Castle, I think I might have to put some thought into this.
I am going to be running Shattered Star at some point in the future, maybe a reappearance in Magnimar would be fun.