Curse Escape Clause: Difference between revisions

* ''[[City of Villains]]'' characters can be cursed by the Circle of Thorns with a particularly nasty curse that will cause them to undergo the same horrible end that the Circle's enemies, the descendants of the Mu, are planned to face. It's not clear exactly what the result of the curse itself would be, but the Circle were going to slowly torture and kill each Mu, then rip out and then send to a special corner of Hell their souls to be the feed of a demon named Lilitu. As there's roughly 1 billion descendants of Mu on the planet, and the player character would have that done roughly a billion times simultaneously to him or her, mystically inclined contacts tend to assume the term blast radius is apt. Destroying and trapping Lilitu prevents the curse from working.

* Presented in the ''[[Quest for Glory]]'' series introduces the concept of a counter-curse that can, well, undo the original curse. [[All There in the Manual|The manual]] for the original game (Hero's Quest) stated that the more powerful the curse used, the less stringent the counter-curse would be. In other words, if a curse was overly powerful, then undoing it would be child's play, but if the curse is minor, countering it would require very specific conditions to occur. And all curses and counter-curses are in rhyming verse, which necessarily results in ambiguity. The player character naturally undoes the curse (though, strangely enough, it's ''not required'' to fulfill all the objectives of the counter-curse to win the game, resulting in the game telling you [[What the Hell, Hero?]].) The counter curse is a follows:

''Drive the curser from the land'' {{spoiler|Baba Yaga laid the curse, she needs to be driven out of Spielburg.}} }}

* Invoked with [[King's Quest VI]] where Alexander is cursed by the Beast. Alex, being a minor sorcerer, points out that ''every'' curse has a weakness to which the Beast tells him to go out and fetch a "Beauty" for him.