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This is a transcript of the interaction with Kith'rak Voss and Sarth Baretha's Githyanki squad near the Mountain Pass. A pivotal dialogue exchange in Act One, it contains a number of ability checks that, if passed, allows the party to skip a difficult fight and proceed to the Rosymorn Monastery Trail.
Without Lae'zel & Non-Githyanki character
Kith'rak Voss: What easy prey you make, walking right within my blade's embrace.
Kith'rak Voss: These creatures are so simple to ensnare, Baretha. You mewl too much about your task.
Sarth Baretha: Forgiveness, Kith'rak.
Kith'rak Voss: And as for you, tell me - why shouldn't I run you through this instant?
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- (If you pass the check)
- Kith'rak Voss: Hmm. You make good use of silence. Too many think hot air will save them...
- Kith'rak Voss: If I have no use for you alive, I'll have your death, slow and sweet. Understand?
- Kith'rak Voss: A vessel fell from the sky. We seek a precious weapon that was taken from it.
- Narrator: *You suddenly feel a strange anxiety take hold - not your own, but that of the artefact you carry. Somehow, it's afraid...*
- Narrator: *You attune your mind to it. The artefact does not want to fall into the gith raiders' hands any more than it does the Absolute followers'.*
- Kithrak Voss: Help us find it and I will leave your blood beneath your skin, unspilled.
- Player: I'll help if I can.
- Kith'rak Voss: Of course. Obedience is your only hope. Now stand still...
- Narrator: *He begins to move his hand in a quick flurry of gestures.*
- Player: Do nothing
- Kith'rak Voss: What's this...?
- Kith'rak Voss: Ts'kva! You carry a ghaik parasite in your head! Death will be a kindness to you...
- Kith'rak Voss: Baretha! Rid us of this worm. I need to continue the hunt for the weapon.
- Sarth Baretha: At once... Htak'a!
- (Dialogue ends, resulting in combat)
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- (If you pass the check)
- Narrator: *You realize he's casting Detect Thoughts.*
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- (If you pass the check)
- Kith'rak Voss: Bah! Nothing even approaching a useful thought in that skull. I ought to just kill you...
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- (If you pass the check)
- Kith'rak Voss: Unlikely you'd be successful... but it costs me nothing to spare your sorry life.
- Kith'rak Voss: Very well, istik. Seek out survivors from the ship that crashed on this wretched world.
- Kith'rak Voss: Bring me their heads. Bring me the weapon. If you succeed, the reward will be great.
- Kith'rak Voss: Now go.
(Dialogue ends in peace. The party gains experience for each opponent defeated by your words. 
+1. Charlatan backgrounds are inspired.)
- (If you fail the check)
- Kith'rak Voss: Help? Absurd. You're already a hindrance, wasting my time.
- (See above)
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- (If you pass the check)
- Kith'rak Voss: So bold in the face of death... Perhaps you may live after all.
- Kith'rak Voss: Better to let stronger blood thrive. It can give rise to worthier foes and hardier slaves. Don't disappoint me.
- (See above)
- (If you fail the check)
- Kith'rak Voss: Killing vermin requires no daring.
- (See above)
- Player: [BARBARIAN]
Advantage 
DC 15 Intimidation check - Give it a try. I'm hungry for a little fun.- (If you pass the check)
- (If you fail the check)
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- (If you pass the check)
- Kith'rak Voss: My blade is my right. If I can take your life, it is mine. But perhaps you have other uses...
- (See above)
- (If you fail the check)
- Kith'rak Voss: I have every right. I am strong, you are weak.
- (See above)
- Player: [OATH OF THE ANCIENTS] DC 15 Persuasion check You must've seen my knowledge of these ancient lands. I could be of use to you.
- (If you pass the check)
- (If you fail the check)
- Player: Attack
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- Kith'rak Voss: Bah! Nothing even approaching a useful thought in that skull. I ought to just kill you...
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- Narrator: *You realize he's casting Detect Thoughts.*
- Player: [WIZARD]/[WARLOCK]/[SORCERER]
Wisdom saving throw - He is casting Detect Thoughts - steel your mind to resist it- (If you pass the check)
- (If you fail the check)
- (seeabove)
- Player: Attack.
- Player: You'll need to start from the beginning - what is this weapon you're after?
- Kith'rak Voss: Do not speak. Your bleating offends me ears. Just stand still...
- (See above)}
- Player: Produce the artefact. Ask if this is what he seeks.
- Kith'rak Voss: It cannot be.
- Kith'rak Voss: Just like that, you offer up what I seek. Remarkable. You have my thanks.
- Kith'rak Voss: In gratitude, I'll grant you a swift death. Baretha? You know what to do.
- (See above)
- Player: I might know something. But it'll cost you.
- Kith'rak Voss: You haggle with your own life, fool. Be silent and hold still...
- (See above)
- (If you fail the check)
- Kith'rak Voss: You think I don't see that pathetic fumbling?
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- (If you pass the check)
- Kithrak Voss: Chk! You dare speak to me like my better? Others have died for lesser insults - slowly.
- Kithrak Voss: But your bravery amuses me. Finally I find a wolf in a world of lowing cattle...
- Kithrak Voss: You may live. For the moment.
- Kithrak Voss: Now, we seek a weapon, taken from a vessel that fell from the sky. Understand, istik?
- (See above)
- (If you fail the check)
- Kith'rak Voss: I gave you a chance to save your hide. Instead you chose empty bluster.
- Kith'rak Voss: You are a waste of flesh. Perhaps the worms will have use for you.
- (See above)
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- (If you pass the check)
- Kith'rak Voss: Senseless creature - I don't want to dull my blade on your overly thick skull.
- (See above)
- (If you fail the check)
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- (If you pass the check)
- Kith'rak Voss: Of course you are not a threat! You are nothing until I tell you otherwise.
- Kith'rak Voss: For you to keep sucking air, it is necessary for you to tell me something of worth.
- (See above)
- (If you fail the check)
- Player: [ROGUE] Claim you're an important person. A valuable hostage - or ally.
- Kith'rak Voss: No creature from this wretched world is important, half-wit.
- Kith'rak Voss: The only value you hold is as meat to the carrion birds.
- (See above)
Githyanki character
Kith'rak Voss: You are unknown to me, kin. Are you straight from the creche, wandering unbidden?
(If approaching with other non-Gith party members)
Kith'rak Voss: And in the company of local vermin...? Explain yourself, vin'iisk.
- (If using
) Player: Honestly? I'm not really a gith.- Kith'rak Voss: Tsk'va! You seek to impersonate us? To spy on us?
- Kith'rak Voss: Baretha - kill this fiend. I will hunt for the weapon elsewhere.
- (See above)
- Player: These are my comrades. I will not stoop to explain my choice of company
- Kith'rak Voss: Insubordinate at best. A blood traitor and deserter at worst.
- Kith'rak Voss: Baretha - kill them and search the bodies. I will hunt for the weapon elsewhere.
- (See above)
- Player: DC 15 Deception check These are my prisoners. I intend to bring them to the creche for interrogation.
- (If you pass the check)
- Kith'rak Voss: How dilligent you are, vin'iisk. If only all our queen's warriors served with such rigour.
- Kith'rak Voss: Take them to the creche. And see about fetching reinforcements. But first, a question...
- Kith'rak Voss: We hunt a weapon, taken from the ghaik slave ship. Have you seen such an item?
- Narrator: *You suddenly feel a strange anxiety take hold - not your own, but that of the artefact you carry. Somehow, it's afraid...*
- Narrator: *You attune your mind to it. The artefact does not want to fall into the gith raiders' hands any more than it does the Absolute followers'.*
- Player: I need to know more. What is its appearance? Its purpose?
- Kith'rak Voss: It is polyhedric in shape, inscribed with the sacred runes of our people. It is our queen's, and she shall have it back.
- Kith'rak Voss: Clearly you know nothing of this, vin'iisk. No matter, it will be found. Make for the creche.
- Kith'rak Voss: And if you come across any survivors of the ghaik vessel, kill them and search them. Thoroughly.
- Kith'rak Voss: Baretha - keep hunting. And do better. Qudenos - we fly!
- (See above)
- Player: I don't know of such a weapon.
- Kith'rak Voss: No matter. More spears will make short work of this hunt. Make for the creche.
- (See above)
- Player: Produce the artefact. Ask him if this is what he seeks.
- Kith'rak Voss It cannot be... You have the weapon? Someone would have reported it to me.
- Kith'rak Voss Unless... you carried it off the ghaik ship yourself.
- Narrator: *He begins to move his hand in a quick flurry of gestures. You realise he is casting Detect Thoughts. You feel him rummaging in your head already.*
- Kith'rak Voss ...It is true. You were corrupted by the filthy spawn of the ghaik. Yet you still retrieved our queen's weapon.
- Kith'rak Voss You have done well, in spite of your affliction. Allow me to reward you. Baretha?
- Sarth Baretha: Yes, Kith'rak?
- Kith'rak Voss Kill her. Make it swift and clean.
- (See above)
- (If you fail the check)
- Kith'rak Voss: Your lips spill falsehoods! You have taken on the soft, cowardly ways of this world.
- Kith'rak Voss: Baretha! Rid us of this disgrace. I have to continue my hunt for the weapon.
- (See above)
- Player: DC 15 Performance check These are local guides. I'll get rid of them once they cease to be useful.
- (If you pass the check)
- Kith'rak Voss: Cunning. You will do well, vin'iisk.
- Kith'rak Voss: You will return to the creche and fetch reinforcements. But first, a question...
- (See above)
- (If you fail the check)
- Player: Attack.
(If approaching with only Gith party members[1])
Kith'rak Voss: Explain yourself, vin'iisk.
- (If using ) Player: Honestly? I'm not really a gith.
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- (If you pass the check)
- Kith'rak Voss: Curious. Most coming from the creche would come across this bridge behind me. You did not...
- Kith'rak Voss: ...but I suppose you are young and untested. This world can be confounding to navigate.
- (See above)
- (If you fail the check)
- Kith'rak Voss: Lies. You speak like the vermin from this wretched world. What are you, a deserter?
- Kith'rak Voss: No matter. Baretha! This one is no kin to us. Kill her. I will continue searching for the weapon.
- (See above)
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- (If you pass the check)
- Kith'rak Voss: Ha! Your tongue is sharp - good. The creche's hatchlings have not been compromised by this meek, wretched world.
- (See above)
- (If you fail the check)
- Kith'rak Voss: There is no conviction in your voice. What are you? A deserter? A traitor?
- (See above)
- (See above)
- Player: Attack.
Footnotes
- ↑ Leaving all non-Gith party members far out of range will count; quite glitchily, all of these party members will still appear directly behind you during the cutscene.