Unrest Site event art, Slay the Spire 2

Unrest Site

You find a secluded Rest Site and start a fire to get some rest.
Or so you thought.

Once the fire is started, it begins to swell, reaching not upwards but sideways towards a grove of oil-seeping trees.

Should you try resting anyways?
All this adventuring has left you exhausted, and despite the oddities, you decide to sleep.

You toss and turn as the fire roars and crackles through the night. The disgusting trees give off a wretched scent from their pitch-black sap.

You wake up, recovered, but not replenished.
These trees are clearly malicious so you decide to get rid of them.
Days later, you're covered in ash and oily goop.

A massive flock of little byrd spirits rise from the slain trees and drop a small box at your feet.
“Thank you for freeing us from those trees... cheep cheep!”

You should really sleep more.
Individual choiceEach player picks their own

What you can obtain

Relic
RandomChoice: Kill the Trees
Heal
0 HPChoice: Rest Anyways
Curse
Poor Sleep
Curse
Retain.
Unplayable.
Poor SleepChoice: Rest Anyways

Where it appears

How ? rooms roll ›
Act 1Overgrowth
Only when
HP at or below 70% of Max HPEvery player, in co-op

What each choice does

Rest Anyways

Heal to full HP. Receive Poor Sleep.

Heal0 HP
Poor Sleep
Curse
Retain.
Unplayable.
CursePoor Sleep
What the game says
All this adventuring has left you exhausted, and despite the oddities, you decide to sleep.You toss and turn as the fire roars and crackles through the night. The disgusting trees give off a wretched scent from their pitch-black sap.You wake up, recovered, but not replenished.

Kill the Trees

Lose 8 Max HP. Obtain a random Relic.

Can kill you

RelicRandomMax HP−8
What the game says
These trees are clearly malicious so you decide to get rid of them.
Days later, you're covered in ash and oily goop.A massive flock of little byrd spirits rise from the slain trees and drop a small box at your feet.
“Thank you for freeing us from those trees... cheep cheep!”You should really sleep more.

Which option to take

A relic in act one shapes the whole climb, and 8 max HP is recoverable. Take the rest when you are within one bad fight of dying and no rest site is close, then remove Poor Sleep at the first shop; it is worse than most curses because it never leaves your hand.

Kill the Trees

Our pick
RelicRandomMax HP−8
  • Kill the Trees unless the heal saves the run.

How it plays

  • Rest Anyways heals all missing HP, using the gap measured when the event opened, and adds Poor Sleep to your deck.
  • Poor Sleep is Unplayable with Retain, so once drawn it occupies a hand slot for the rest of that combat.
  • Kill the Trees lowers your max HP by 8 and gives the next relic from your run's relic queue, rarity rolled like an elite reward.

Changes by version

  1. 18 Dec 2025ChangeInternal playtest
    Spawn requirement changed from 55% max HP to 70% max HP or lower
  2. 4 Dec 2025NumberInternal playtest
    Kill the Trees option's HP cost decreased from 11 to 8
  3. 13 Nov 2025ArtInternal playtest
    Cleaned up and added VFX
All 4 patch notes1 older
  1. 2 Oct 2025TextPyreInternal playtest
    Renamed Impossible Pyre event to Unrest Site
    TextPyreInternal playtest
    Updated text for Unrest Site (previously Impossible Pyre) event

Internal playtest notes are from before the Early Access release. Names and numbers in them can differ from the game today.

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