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| description = The '''Waking Mind''' is a unique item found in the [[Mind Flayer Colony]] in [[Act Two]].
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| notes = When placed on the Mind-Archive Interface within the [[Mind Flayer Colony]], the Slack-Skinned Head will speak using this brain:
| notes = * When placed on the Mind-Archive Interface within the [[Mind Flayer Colony]], the Slack-Skinned Head will speak using this brain:<br> ''HmmMM... fine bones... sharp jaw... some variety of elf? Pretty enough for a flesh-prison - if not the noble githzerai features I was born with.''
{{Quote inline|HmmMM... fine bones... sharp jaw... some variety of elf? Pretty enough for a flesh-prison - if not the noble githzerai features I was born with.}}
* Speaking to the head can grant the permanent buff {{cond|Githzerai Mind Barrier}}
Speaking to the head can grant the permanent buff {{cond|Githzerai Mind Barrier}}
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==Dialogue==
==Dialogue==
When placed on the Mind-Archive Interface within the [[Mind Flayer Colony]], the [[Slack-Skinned Head]] will speak using this brain.
When placed on the Mind-Archive Interface within the [[Mind Flayer Colony]], the [[Slack-Skinned Head]] will speak using this brain.
*HmmMM... fine bones... sharp jaw... some variety of elf?
* HmmMM... fine bones... sharp jaw... some variety of elf?
*Pretty enough for a flesh-prison - if not the noble githzerai features I was born with.
* Pretty enough for a flesh-prison - if not the noble githzerai features I was born with.
*I'd guess you're no willing guest of the ''ghaik'' either. Perhaps we might aid one another.
* I'd guess you're no willing guest of the ''ghaik'' either. Perhaps we might aid one another.
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Reply: You called yourself ''githzerai''. Is that some kind of githyanki?
* {{Ability check|History}}: *The monk-like githzerai, sibling-race to the warrior githyanki. Their contempt for one another is eclipsed only by their shared hatred of the illithids.*
*Oh, for a set of hands to slap your face. The ''yanki'' lost their way the moment Gith threw down the ''Ghaik'' empire.
* Reply: How did you end up in that vault? Githzerai are supposed to be ultimate warriors.
*Only we ''zerai'' continue the war to end the ''ghaik'' forever. Only ''we'' fight them their on their own battlefield - the mind.
** Warriors of the ''mind''. Oh, there's some physical prowess involved, but the battlefield on which we truly fight the ''ghaik'' is their own.
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Reply: You're remarkably sane for a pickled brain.
* Reply: {{Dialogue option|Why? This form fits you so much better, cousin.|tags=githyanki}}
*A githzerai's mind is not so easily cracked. Our discipline was the very reason we were attacked.
** Well, a githyanki skull would be too tight a fit, ''cousin''. Your people shunned psionics, after all - while mine mastered them.
*My order taught a psionic technique much-feared by the ''ghaik''. They destroyed us for it, and kept me as a trophy.
*I never broke, but... I've spent all these centuries awake. ''Aware.'' So here is my offer.
*Use your tadpole. Erase me - and I will pass my technique onto you.
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* Reply: {{Dialogue option|How did you end up in that vault? Aren't you ''zerai'' ultimate warriors?|tags=githyanki}}
Reply: If you want my help, then tell me the truth. (Requires successful automatic {{Ability check|Insight}}.)
** Warriors of the ''mind'', cousin. A discipline unknown to your kind - and the very reason we were attacked.
 
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* ...All right. I... the ''ghaik'' did not find my monastery. ''I led them there.''
* Reply: You called yourself ''githzerai''. Is that some kind of githyanki?
* They promised me immortality. And they gave it - I have been their rotting trophy for ''centuries''.  
** Oh, for a set of hands to slap your face. The ''yanki'' lost their way the moment Gith threw down the ''Ghaik'' empire.
* ''Please'' - touch my mind, and purge it. The moment you do, my knowledge will be yours.
** Only we ''zerai'' continue the war to end the ''ghaik'' forever. Only ''we'' fight them on their own battlefield - the mind.
 
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* Reply: You're remarkably sane for a pickled brain.
** A githzerai's mind is not so easily cracked. Our discipline was the very reason we were attacked.
----
* Reply: I'm not interested.
** Only because I haven't told you how you will benefit.
----
* Reply: I'm listening. What aid are you offering?
* My order taught a psionic technique much-feared by the ''ghaik''. They destroyed us for it, and kept me as a trophy.
* I never broke, but... I've spent all these centuries awake. ''Aware.'' So here is my offer:
* Use your tadpole. Erase me - and I will pass my technique onto you.
----
{{Ability check|Insight}}: *You catch the lie - the monk isn't telling everything.*
** Reply: If you want my help, then tell me the truth.
*** ...All right. I... the ''ghaik'' did not find my monastery. ''I led them there.''
*** They promised me immortality. And they gave it - I have been their rotting trophy for ''centuries''.
*** *As her agitation swells, so does her latent psyonic power. To your tadpole, that guilt and terror are almost... ''fragrant''.*
*** *You realise the illithids locked her away not as a trophy, but as a fine vintage.*
*** ''Please'' - touch my mind, and purge it. The moment you do, my knowledge will be yours.
----
* Reply: You want me to kill you. What if I can free you instead?
** My people dwell in Limbo - a realm of pure, chaotic thought. With my mind gone, perhaps my soul will return there.
** Or perhaps not. Death, freedom - they are one and the same.
----
* Reply: I'll do it.
* Touch my mind, and ''purge'' it - at the very moment you do, I will make my knowledge yours.
----
* Reply: When you say 'erase' your mind - do you by any chance mean 'smash your brain to bits'?
** ...I do not. The ''ghaik'' have been warping flesh for millennia - who knows what damage they can undo.
** It is my mind they enslave. It is my mind that must die.
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* ''Reach out and erase/purge her mind.''
** *The awareness that floods you is nothing like the tadpole. It is tentative, and tingled with the loneliness of aeons.*
** *It fades beneath your touch, but you feel something left behind. A fragment.*
** It's only knowledge yet, without comprehension. But when you use it, you will... see...
** And I... I see...
----
*** ''Reach out and consume her mind.''
**** Thank you, I - wait.
**** No. NO. PLEASE!
----Choose either [[Illithid Persuasion]] option (consume/purge her mind) to receive [[Githzerai Mind Barrier (Condition)]].
----Choose either [[Illithid Persuasion]] option (consume/purge her mind) to receive [[Githzerai Mind Barrier (Condition)]].

Latest revision as of 19:11, 26 November 2024

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The Waking Mind is a unique item found in the Mind Flayer Colony in Act Two.

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A humanoid brain - alive and in perfect condition - suspended in cerebrospinal fluid.

Properties


Where to find

Found in the Necrotic Laboratory inside the Mind Flayer Colony after solving the brain mapping puzzle.

Notes

  • When placed on the Mind-Archive Interface within the Mind Flayer Colony, the Slack-Skinned Head will speak using this brain:
    HmmMM... fine bones... sharp jaw... some variety of elf? Pretty enough for a flesh-prison - if not the noble githzerai features I was born with.
  • Speaking to the head can grant the permanent buff Githzerai Mind Barrier Githzerai Mind Barrier

Dialogue[edit | edit source]

When placed on the Mind-Archive Interface within the Mind Flayer Colony, the Slack-Skinned Head will speak using this brain.

  • HmmMM... fine bones... sharp jaw... some variety of elf?
  • Pretty enough for a flesh-prison - if not the noble githzerai features I was born with.
  • I'd guess you're no willing guest of the ghaik either. Perhaps we might aid one another.
  • History check: *The monk-like githzerai, sibling-race to the warrior githyanki. Their contempt for one another is eclipsed only by their shared hatred of the illithids.*
  • Reply: How did you end up in that vault? Githzerai are supposed to be ultimate warriors.
    • Warriors of the mind. Oh, there's some physical prowess involved, but the battlefield on which we truly fight the ghaik is their own.
  • Reply: [GITHYANKI] Why? This form fits you so much better, cousin.
    • Well, a githyanki skull would be too tight a fit, cousin. Your people shunned psionics, after all - while mine mastered them.
  • Reply: [GITHYANKI] How did you end up in that vault? Aren't you zerai ultimate warriors?
    • Warriors of the mind, cousin. A discipline unknown to your kind - and the very reason we were attacked.
  • Reply: You called yourself githzerai. Is that some kind of githyanki?
    • Oh, for a set of hands to slap your face. The yanki lost their way the moment Gith threw down the Ghaik empire.
    • Only we zerai continue the war to end the ghaik forever. Only we fight them on their own battlefield - the mind.
  • Reply: You're remarkably sane for a pickled brain.
    • A githzerai's mind is not so easily cracked. Our discipline was the very reason we were attacked.
  • Reply: I'm not interested.
    • Only because I haven't told you how you will benefit.
  • Reply: I'm listening. What aid are you offering?
  • My order taught a psionic technique much-feared by the ghaik. They destroyed us for it, and kept me as a trophy.
  • I never broke, but... I've spent all these centuries awake. Aware. So here is my offer:
  • Use your tadpole. Erase me - and I will pass my technique onto you.

Insight check: *You catch the lie - the monk isn't telling everything.*

    • Reply: If you want my help, then tell me the truth.
      • ...All right. I... the ghaik did not find my monastery. I led them there.
      • They promised me immortality. And they gave it - I have been their rotting trophy for centuries.
      • *As her agitation swells, so does her latent psyonic power. To your tadpole, that guilt and terror are almost... fragrant.*
      • *You realise the illithids locked her away not as a trophy, but as a fine vintage.*
      • Please - touch my mind, and purge it. The moment you do, my knowledge will be yours.
  • Reply: You want me to kill you. What if I can free you instead?
    • My people dwell in Limbo - a realm of pure, chaotic thought. With my mind gone, perhaps my soul will return there.
    • Or perhaps not. Death, freedom - they are one and the same.
  • Reply: I'll do it.
  • Touch my mind, and purge it - at the very moment you do, I will make my knowledge yours.
  • Reply: When you say 'erase' your mind - do you by any chance mean 'smash your brain to bits'?
    • ...I do not. The ghaik have been warping flesh for millennia - who knows what damage they can undo.
    • It is my mind they enslave. It is my mind that must die.
  • Reach out and erase/purge her mind.
    • *The awareness that floods you is nothing like the tadpole. It is tentative, and tingled with the loneliness of aeons.*
    • *It fades beneath your touch, but you feel something left behind. A fragment.*
    • It's only knowledge yet, without comprehension. But when you use it, you will... see...
    • And I... I see...
      • Reach out and consume her mind.
        • Thank you, I - wait.
        • No. NO. PLEASE!
Choose either Illithid Persuasion option (consume/purge her mind) to receive Githzerai Mind Barrier (Condition).
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