Waking Mind

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

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

Properties

• Miscellaneous Items
• Rarity: Common
•  Weight: 5 kg / 10 lb
• Price: 1 gp

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

Dialogue

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.

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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.

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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.
• My order taught a psionic technique much-feared by the ghaik. They destroyed us for it, & 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: If you want my help, then tell me the truth. (Requires successful automatic Insight check.)

• ...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.
• Please - touch my mind, and purge it. The moment you do, my knowledge will be yours.

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Choose either Illithid Persuasion option (consume/purge her mind) to receive Githzerai Mind Barrier (Condition).