Voss/Transcript

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.

Kith'rak Voss

The dialogue tree contains many branches and will change consequentially if the interacting character is a Gith, if Lae'zel ran ahead of the party in a scripted event or if Lae'zel speaks to Voss while under control of the party.

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?

• Player: DC 15 Sleight of Hand check - Silently hold his stare and discreetly prepare to attack
  • (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)
          • Player: DC 10 Arcana check Silently interpret the meaning of the gestures.
            • (If you pass the check)
              • Narrator: *You realize he's casting Detect Thoughts.*
                • Player: Wisdom saving throw Resist the probing into your mind.
                  • (If you pass the check)
                    • Kith'rak Voss: Bah! Nothing even approaching a useful thought in that skull. I ought to just kill you...
                      • Player: DC 15 Persuasion check - I could help if you let me live - search for this weapon, perhaps.
                        • (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)
                      • Player: DC 15 Intimidation check - Why are you hesitating, then? Try it, I dare you.
                        • (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)
                          • (See above)
                        • (If you fail the check)
                          • (See above)
                      • Player: DC 15 Persuasion check You ought to just leave. You've no right to decide my fate.
                        • (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)
                          • (See above)
                        • (If you fail the check)
                          • (See above)
                      • Player: Attack
                        • You chose violence.
          • Player: [WIZARD]/[WARLOCK]/[SORCERER] Wisdom saving throw - He is casting Detect Thoughts - steel your mind to resist it
            • (If you pass the check)
              • (See above)
            • (If you fail the check)
              • (seeabove)
          • Player: Attack.
            • You chose violence.
      • 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?
      • (See above)
• Player: DC 10 Insight check - You would've done so already if you didn't want something from me first.
• Player: DC 15 Intimidation check - I just want passage - if I have to go through you, so be it.
  • (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)
• Player: [BARBARIAN] DC 18 Intimidation check You'd sprain your wrist trying.
  • (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)
    • (See above)
• Player: DC 15 Persuasion check I don't know you, I pose no threat.
  • (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: [FIGHTER]/[RANGER] Try it - let's see who walks away alive.
  • (See above)
• 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)

As Lae'zel

Lae'zel's conversation, if she is not the Avatar and approaches the Gith as a member of the party, is a direct route to combat.

• Lae'zel: Rider - my time is short. Lead me to...
• Kith'rak Voss: Sh-sh-shh. Such a familiar tone.
• Kith'rak Voss: Were I not merciful, I would slice the skin clean from your meat.
• Kith'rak Voss: Yet you are not bleeding. For I am nothing if not merciful.
• Kith'rak Voss: Your name, child.
• Lae'zel: ...Lae'zel.
• Kith'rak Voss: 'Lae'zel.' Proud. Regal, even.
• Kith'rak Voss: You will call me Jhe'stil Kith'rak.
• Lae'zel: Voss, Knight Supreme. The queen's silver, the queen's sword.
• Kith'rak Voss: I am who you say.
• Kith'rak Voss: A ghaik vessel has fallen from the sky, Lae'zel. Thieves aboard have taken a weapon most precious.
• Kith'rak Voss: Take word to your creche. You are to join our search.
• Kith'rak Voss: Speak up, child. Affirm your mandate.
• Lae'zel: My mandate, Jhe'stil Kith'rak, is to locate this creche. I was infected aboard a ghaik ship and need to be purified. Your mandate is to aid me.
• Kith'rak Voss: Purified? Oh, Lae'zel - why must the truth be so bitter? Soon, your skin will go grey, and your blood will run silver. You will shed your skin to become ghaik.
• Kith'rak Voss: Only in death are the infected cleansed.
• Kith'rak Voss: You will give us the weapon. Then you will bend your head for the sword.
• Lae'zel: Stand down, knight. I do not have what you seek!
• Kith'rak Voss: Our queen's word binds me.
• Kith'rak Voss: Baretha, see that her skull is split and the tadpole crushed. Then examine her corpse. I will take word to the Undying Queen.
• Kith'rak Voss: Qudenos - to the sky!

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  Disguise Self) 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)
    • (See above)
• Player: Attack.
  • You chose violence.

(If approaching with only Gith party members)

Kith'rak Voss: Explain yourself, vin'iisk.

• (If using  Disguise Self) Player: Honestly? I'm not really a gith.
  • (See above)
• Player: DC 15 Deception check Play along as a gith. Say you're indeed from the creche.
  • (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)
• Player: Performance check Impersonate a fierce gith and refuse him any explanation.
  • (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.
  • You chose violence.

Trivial changes

• If Shadowheart is in the party, she will appear to become nervous at points. These changes do not change any outcomes.