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Given that:

• a party character (human/wereraven gloomstalker ranger) got kidnapped and had an experiment done on her, during which she had six red worms implanted in his body (the worms clung to her heart, making her sick and unable to change her shape to raven);
• some comments suggested this is not from the CoS book, and the DM probably created this situation;
• the party as a whole is willing to help our ally heal, and the DM is receptive to ideas if those are creative and have no obvious downsides or side effects;
• Other players are dragonborn druid (me), dwarf paladin, tiefling bard, tiefling barbarian, half elf warlock, aasimar sorcerer. All lvl 7.

What spells or actions would help fight these body parasites?

What the group thought so far:

1. Attempting a surgery, together with the paladin; we are both good in medicine and could probably go through the saving throws required;
2. Acting as a good druid and looking for herbs that are known to kill helminths, like neem, triphala or clover; I don't know if those exist in Barovia, so this course of action could be ruled straight out;
3. Casting stone skin on the victim in an attempt to make the parasites' teeth break (the RAW says that the person's flesh would become hard as stone, what is not clear is whether internal tissues count as "flesh" or only skin and muscles);
4. Use healing magic (like lesser restoration) that explicitly cure diseases and conditions, but it's not written anywhere whether parasites count as disease or not.

Would any of those ideas work, or is there a spell/course of action we did not anticipate?

Given that:

• A party character (human/wereraven gloomstalker ranger) got kidnapped and had an experiment done on her, during which she had six red worms implanted in his body (the worms clung to her heart, making her sick and unable to change her shape to raven);
• Some comments suggested this is not from the CoS book, and the DM probably created this situation;
• The party as a whole is willing to help our ally heal, and the DM is receptive to ideas if those are creative and have no obvious downsides or side effects;
• Other players are dragonborn druid (me), dwarf paladin, tiefling bard, tiefling barbarian, half elf warlock, aasimar sorcerer. All lvl 7.

What spells or actions would help fight these body parasites?

What the group thought so far:

1. Attempting a surgery, together with the paladin; we are both good in medicine and could probably go through the saving throws required;
2. Acting as a good druid and looking for herbs that are known to kill helminths, like neem, triphala or clover; I don't know if those exist in Barovia, so this course of action could be ruled straight out;
3. Casting stone skin on the victim in an attempt to make the parasites' teeth break (the RAW says that the person's flesh would become hard as stone, what is not clear is whether internal tissues count as "flesh" or only skin and muscles);
4. Use healing magic (like lesser restoration) that explicitly cure diseases and conditions, but it's not written anywhere whether parasites count as disease or not.

Would any of those ideas work, or is there a spell/course of action we did not anticipate?

Rewriting the question to isolate the context and focus on the specific problem:

Given that:

• a party character (human/wereraven gloomstalker ranger) got kidnapped and had an experiment done on her, during which she had six red worms implanted in his body (the worms clung to her heart, making her sick and unable to change her shape to raven);
• some comments suggested this is not from the CoS book, and the DM probably created this situation;
• the party as a whole is willing to help our ally heal, and the DM is receptive to ideas if those are creative and have no obvious downsides or side effects;
• Other players are dragonborn druid (me), dwarf paladin, tiefling bard, tiefling barbarian, half elf warlock, aasimar sorcerer. All lvl 7.

What spells or actions would help fight body parasites?

What the group thought so far:

1. Attempting a surgery, together with the paladin; we are both good in medicine and could probably go through the saving throws required;
2. Acting as a good druid and looking for herbs that are known to kill helminths, like neem, triphala or clover; I don't know if those exist in Barovia, so this course of action could be ruled straight out;
3. Casting stone skin on the victim in an attempt to make the parasites' teeth break (the RAW says that the person's flesh would become hard as stone, what is not clear is whether internal tissues count as "flesh" or only skin and muscles);
4. Use healing magic (like lesser restoration) that explicitly cure diseases and conditions, but it's not written anywhere whether parasites count as disease or not.

Would any of those ideas work, or is there a spell/course of action we did not antecipate?

Given that:

• a party character (human/wereraven gloomstalker ranger) got kidnapped and had an experiment done on her, during which she had six red worms implanted in his body (the worms clung to her heart, making her sick and unable to change her shape to raven);
• some comments suggested this is not from the CoS book, and the DM probably created this situation;
• the party as a whole is willing to help our ally heal, and the DM is receptive to ideas if those are creative and have no obvious downsides or side effects;
• Other players are dragonborn druid (me), dwarf paladin, tiefling bard, tiefling barbarian, half elf warlock, aasimar sorcerer. All lvl 7.

What spells or actions would help fight these body parasites?

What the group thought so far:

1. Attempting a surgery, together with the paladin; we are both good in medicine and could probably go through the saving throws required;
2. Acting as a good druid and looking for herbs that are known to kill helminths, like neem, triphala or clover; I don't know if those exist in Barovia, so this course of action could be ruled straight out;
3. Casting stone skin on the victim in an attempt to make the parasites' teeth break (the RAW says that the person's flesh would become hard as stone, what is not clear is whether internal tissues count as "flesh" or only skin and muscles);
4. Use healing magic (like lesser restoration) that explicitly cure diseases and conditions, but it's not written anywhere whether parasites count as disease or not.

Would any of those ideas work, or is there a spell/course of action we did not anticipate?

Our level 7 group is playing CoS, and last session we had a party member (who is a wereraven gloomstalker) kidnapped by baba Lysaga, who then proceeded to implant a bunch of red worms into the ranger's body; the worms clinged onto her heart and since then she is feeling ill and cannot polymorph anymore.

I want some ideas on how to tackle the issue next session, but I can see all my ideas being denied by the DM, as he usually makes our moves fail unless they are original and smart.

Other players are dragonborn druid (me), dwarf paladin, tiefling bard, tiefling barbarian, half elf warlock, aasimar sorcerer. All lvl 7.

What I thought so far:

1. Attempting a surgery, together with the paladin; we are both good in medicine and could probably go through the saving throws;
2. Acting as a good druid and looking for herbs that are known to kill helminths, like neem, triphala or clover; knowing our GM, said herbs would probably be nonexistent in Barovia, or fail;
3. Casting stone skin on the victim in an attempt to make the parasites' teeth break (the RAW says that the person's flesh would become hard as stone, but one would debate whether internal tissues count as "flesh" or only skin and muscles);
4. Use healing magic that cure diseases, but it's not written anywhere whether parasites count as disease or not.

Any other ideas would be welcome!

Rewriting the question to isolate the context and focus on the specific problem:

Given that:

• a party character (human/wereraven gloomstalker ranger) got kidnapped and had an experiment done on her, during which she had six red worms implanted in his body (the worms clung to her heart, making her sick and unable to change her shape to raven);
• some comments suggested this is not from the CoS book, and the DM probably created this situation;
• the party as a whole is willing to help our ally heal, and the DM is receptive to ideas if those are creative and have no obvious downsides or side effects;
• Other players are dragonborn druid (me), dwarf paladin, tiefling bard, tiefling barbarian, half elf warlock, aasimar sorcerer. All lvl 7.

What spells or actions would help fight body parasites?

What the group thought so far:

1. Attempting a surgery, together with the paladin; we are both good in medicine and could probably go through the saving throws required;
2. Acting as a good druid and looking for herbs that are known to kill helminths, like neem, triphala or clover; I don't know if those exist in Barovia, so this course of action could be ruled straight out;
3. Casting stone skin on the victim in an attempt to make the parasites' teeth break (the RAW says that the person's flesh would become hard as stone, what is not clear is whether internal tissues count as "flesh" or only skin and muscles);
4. Use healing magic (like lesser restoration) that explicitly cure diseases and conditions, but it's not written anywhere whether parasites count as disease or not.

Would any of those ideas work, or is there a spell/course of action we did not antecipate?