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== Involvement == | == Involvement == | ||
Arriving at the [[House of Healing]] and gaining entry to the surgery theatre, Malus will be busy educating his undead nurses on a poor 'patient'. While cordial at first seeing | {{Spoiler warning|act=2}} | ||
Arriving at the [[House of Healing]] and gaining entry to the surgery theatre, Malus will be busy educating his undead nurses on a poor 'patient'. While cordial at first seeing you as a new student, preaching his view of Absence being the way to understanding Shar. After mutilating the 'patient' he will urge to do the same to you. Beyond attacking to defend yourself, there are a mix of [[Skill Check|Skill Checks]] that can be done instead: | |||
* A [[Difficulty Class|DC]] 14 [[Investigation]] check with advantage for [[Rogue]] to check nurses tools and point out that they're unusable | * A [[Difficulty Class|DC]] 14 [[Investigation]] check with advantage for [[Rogue]] to check nurses tools and point out that they're unusable | ||
* A DC 14 Investigation check will lead to pointing out the nurses aren't skilled enough for surgery. | |||
* A DC 14 [[Religion]] check will let | *A [[Difficulty Class|DC]] 14 [[Investigation]] check will lead to you pointing out the nurses aren't skilled enough for surgery. | ||
* A DC 16 [[Persuasion]] check will suggest the nurses aren't ready and just make | *A DC 14 [[Religion]] check will let you use the ways of Shar to counter '''Malus''' own views. | ||
*A DC 16 [[Persuasion]] check will suggest the nurses aren't ready and just make you sick instead of 'curing' you. | |||
If any of these checks are successful, '''Malus''' will ask how to train the nurses properly, leading to two differing Persuasion checks. | If any of these checks are successful, '''Malus''' will ask how to train the nurses properly, leading to two differing Persuasion checks. | ||
* | *DC 21 with advantage for [[Monk]] or [[Bard]] Suggest that '''Malus''' offer himself up to be practiced on by the nurses, which he gleefully accepts. After a bloody scene in which they blindly hack away at his body, the nurses will become passive, and the master surgeon very much dead. | ||
* | *DC 21 with advantage for [[Rogue]] or [[Fighter]] Convince '''Malus''' to have the Sisters test their skills against each other, leading to a bloody brawl between them. | ||
If the | If the player has first read the ''[[Surgery and Physiology: A Sharran's Primer]]'' book in the room behind '''Malus''', two additional options are available, both of which are instead DC 18, and both of which result in the nurses killing '''Malus''': | ||
* | * [INTIMIDATION] I have read your treatise. Initiate the final lesson, or die by my hand. (DC 18) | ||
* | * [PERSUASION] ‘Only with sacrifice is mastery gained.’ For the sisters to learn, you must submit. (DC 18) | ||
If the nurses were convinced to fight each other, the mad surgeon will press to tend to | If the nurses were convinced to fight each other, the mad surgeon will press to tend to you next. He can be attacked, proving much easier to defeat without the support of his nurses. Alternatively, he can be convinced to do the work for you: | ||
* A DC 21 Persuasion check, requesting that Malus perform the procedure on | * A final DC 21 [[Persuasion]] check, requesting that Malus perform the procedure on you | ||
* | * DC 21 [[Deception]] check with advantage for [[Sorcerer]], [[Cleric]], [[Fighter]], or [[Druid]] asking that Malus bless you with the blinding procedure | ||
Awed by | Awed by your diligence, '''Malus''' will happily make an example of himself, stabbing and killing himself through the eye. | ||
== Combat == | == Combat == | ||