Editing Voss/Transcript

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==Without [[Lae'zel]] & Non-[[Githyanki]] character==
{{Dialogue start}}
'''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.

{{anchor|threat}}'''Kith'rak Voss:''' And as for you, tell me - why shouldn't I run you through this instant?
*{{dopt|'''Player:''' {{Ability check|Sleight of Hand|15}} - ''Silently hold his stare and discreetly prepare to attack}}
**{{dcond|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?
***{{anchor|precious}}'''Kith'rak Voss:''' A vessel fell from the sky. We seek a precious weapon that was taken from it.
***{{anchor|artefact}}'''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.
****{{dopt|'''Player:''' I'll help if I can.}}
*****'''Kith'rak Voss:''' Of course. Obedience is your only hope. Now stand still...
*****{{anchor|detect}}'''Narrator''': *He begins to move his hand in a quick flurry of gestures.*
******{{dopt|'''Player''': ''Do nothing''}}
*******{{anchor|detectfail}}'''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...
********{{anchor|failcase}}'''Kith'rak Voss:''' Baretha! Rid us of this worm. I need to continue the hunt for the weapon. 
********{{anchor|latefail}}'''Sarth Baretha:''' At once... ''Htak'a!''
********'''''[[File:Poisoned Condition Icon.webp|30px|none]](Dialogue ends, resulting in combat)'''''
******{{dopt|'''Player:''' {{Ability check|Arcana|10}} ''Silently interpret the meaning of the gestures.''}}
*******{{dcond|If you pass the check}}
********'''Narrator:''' *You realize he's casting [[Detect Thoughts]].*
*********{{dopt|'''Player:''' {{Saving Throw|Wisdom|10}} ''Resist the probing into your mind.''}}
**********{{dcond|If you pass the check}}
***********{{anchor|detectpass}}'''Kith'rak Voss:''' Bah! Nothing even approaching a useful thought in that skull. I ought to just kill you...
************{{dopt|'''Player:'''{{Ability check|Persuasion|15}} - I could help if you let me live - search for this weapon, perhaps.}}
*************{{dcond|If you pass the check}}
**************{{anchor|spare}}'''Kith'rak Voss:''' Unlikely you'd be successful... but it costs me nothing to spare your sorry life.
**************{{anchor|recruited}}'''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.
**************{{anchor|passcase}}[[File:Thaumaturgy.webp|30px]]'''''(Dialogue ends in peace. The party gains experience for each opponent defeated by your words. {{Approval|Gale|+1}}. [[Charlatan]] backgrounds are [[Inspiration|inspired]].)'''''
*************{{dcond|If you fail the check}}
**************{{anchor|hindrance}}'''Kith'rak Voss:''' Help? Absurd. You're already a hindrance, wasting my time.
**************{{dact|seeabove|failcase}}
************{{dopt|'''Player:'''{{Ability check|Intimidation|15}} - Why are you hesitating, then? Try it, I dare you.}}
*************{{dcond|If you pass the check}}
**************{{anchor|buffslaves}}'''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.
**************{{dact|seeabove|passcase}}
*************{{dcond|If you fail the check}}
**************'''Kith'rak Voss:''' Killing vermin requires no daring.
**************{{dact|seeabove|failcase}}
************{{dopt|'''Player:''' [[Barbarian|[BARBARIAN]]] {{Advantage}} {{Ability check|Intimidation|15}} - Give it a try. I'm hungry for a little fun.}}
*************{{dcond|If you pass the check}}
**************{{dact|seeabove|buffslaves}}
*************{{dcond|If you fail the check}}
**************{{dact|seeabove|failcase}}
************{{dopt|'''Player:'''{{Ability check|Persuasion|15}} You ought to just ''leave.'' You've no right to decide my fate.}}
*************{{dcond|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...
**************{{dact|seeabove|recruited}}
*************{{dcond|If you fail the check}}
**************'''Kith'rak Voss:''' I have every right. I am strong, you are weak.
**************{{dact|seeabove|failcase}}
************{{dopt|'''Player:''' [[Paladin|[OATH OF THE ANCIENTS]]] {{Ability check|Persuasion|15}} You must've seen my knowledge of these ancient lands. I could be of use to you.}}
*************{{dcond|If you pass the check}}
**************{{dact|seeabove|spare}}
*************{{dcond|If you fail the check}}
**************{{dact|seeabove|hindrance}}
************{{dopt|'''Player:''' ''Attack''}}
*************{{dact|You chose violence.|failcase}}
******{{dopt| '''Player:''' [[Wizard|[WIZARD]]]/[[Warlock|[WARLOCK]]]/[[Sorcerer|[SORCERER]]] {{Saving Throw|Wisdom|5}} - ''He is casting [[Detect Thoughts]] - steel your mind to resist it}}
*******{{dcond|If you pass the check}}
********{{dact|seeabove|detectpass}}
*******{{dcond|If you fail the check}}
********{{dcond|seeabove|detectfail}}
******{{dopt|'''Player:''' ''Attack.''}}
*******{{dact|You chose violence.|failcase}}
****{{dopt|'''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...
*****{{dact|seeabove|detect}}}
****{{dopt|'''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.
*****{{dact|seeabove|latefail}}
****{{dopt|'''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...
*****{{dact|seeabove|detect}}
**{{dcond|If you fail the check}}
***'''Kith'rak Voss:''' You think I don't see that pathetic fumbling?
****{{dact|seeabove|failcase}}
*{{dopt|'''Player:''' {{Ability check|Insight|10}} - You would've done so already if you didn't want something from me first.}}
*{{dopt|'''Player:''' {{Ability check|Intimidation|15}} - I just want passage - if I have to go through you, so be it.}}
**{{dcond|If you pass the check}}
***{{anchor|bravery}}'''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''?
***{{dact|seeabove|artefact}}
**{{dcond|If you fail the check}}
***'''Kith'rak Voss:''' I gave you a chance to save your hide. Instead you chose empty bluster. 
***{{anchor|worms}}'''Kith'rak Voss:''' You are a waste of flesh. Perhaps the worms will have use for you.
***{{dact|seeabove|failcase}}
*{{dopt|'''Player:''' [[Barbarian|[BARBARIAN]]] {{Ability check|Intimidation|18}} You'd sprain your wrist trying.}}
**{{dcond|If you pass the check}}
***'''Kith'rak Voss:''' Senseless creature - I don't want to dull my blade on your overly thick skull.
***{{dact|seeabove|bravery}}
**{{dcond|If you fail the check}}
***{{dact|seeabove|worms}}
*{{dopt|'''Player:''' {{Ability check|Persuasion|15}} I don't know you, I pose no threat.}}
**{{dcond|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.
***{{dact|seeabove|precious}}
**{{dcond|If you fail the check}}
*{{dopt|'''Player:''' [[Fighter|[FIGHTER]]]/[[Ranger|[RANGER]]] Try it - let's see who walks away alive.}}
**{{dact|seeabove|bravery}}
*{{dopt|'''Player:''' [[Rogue|[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.
**{{dact|seeabove|failcase}}

== Githyanki character ==

'''Kith'rak Voss:''' You are unknown to me, kin. Are you straight from the creche, wandering ''unbidden''?

{{dcond|If approaching with other non-Gith party members}}

'''Kith'rak Voss:''' And in the company of local vermin...? Explain yourself, ''vin'iisk.''

*{{dopt|''(If using {{SAI|Disguise Self}})'' '''Player:''' Honestly? I'm not really a gith.}}
**{{anchor|disguise}}'''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.
**{{dact|seeabove|latefail}}
*{{dopt|'''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.
**{{dact|seeabove|latefail}}
*{{dopt|'''Player:''' {{Ability check|Deception|15}} These are my prisoners. I intend to bring them to the creche for interrogation.}}
**{{dcond|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...
***{{anchor|weapon}}'''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'.*
****{{dopt|'''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.
*****{{anchor|survivors}}'''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!
*****{{dact|seeabove|passcase}}
****{{dopt|'''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.
*****{{dact|seeabove|survivors}}
****{{dopt|'''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.
*****{{dact|seeabove|latefail}}
**{{dcond|If you fail the check}}
***{{anchor|liar}}'''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.
***{{dact|seeabove|latefail}}
*{{dopt|'''Player:''' {{Ability check|Performance|15}} These are local guides. I'll get rid of them once they cease to be useful.}}
**{{dcond|If you pass the check}}
***'''Kith'rak Voss:''' Cunning. You will do well, ''vin'iisk.''
***{{anchor|weapon2}}'''Kith'rak Voss:''' You will return to the creche and fetch reinforcements. But first, a question...
***{{dact|seeabove|weapon}}
**{{dcond|If you fail the check}}
***{{dact|seeabove|liar}}
*{{dopt|'''Player:''' ''Attack''.}}
**{{dact|You chose violence.|failcase}}

{{dcond|If approaching with only Gith party members<ref>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.}}

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

*{{dopt|''(If using {{SAI|Disguise Self}})'' '''Player:''' Honestly? I'm not really a gith.}}
**{{dact|seeabove|disguise}}
*{{dopt|'''Player:''' {{Ability check|Deception|15}} ''Play along as a gith. Say you're indeed from the creche.''}}
**{{dcond|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.
***{{dact|seeabove|weapon2}}
**{{dcond|If you fail the check}}
***'''Kith'rak Voss:''' ''Lies.'' You speak like the vermin from this wretched world. What are you, a deserter?
***{{anchor|liar2}}'''Kith'rak Voss:''' No matter. Baretha! This one is no kin to us. Kill her. I will continue searching for the weapon.
***{{dact|seeabove|latefail}}
*{{dopt|'''Player:''' {{Ability check|Performance| }} ''Impersonate a fierce gith and refuse him any explanation.''}}
**{{dcond|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.
***{{dact|seeabove|weapon2}}
**{{dcond|If you fail the check}}
***'''Kith'rak Voss:''' There is no conviction in your voice. What are you? A deserter? A traitor?
***{{dact|seeabove|liar2}}
***{{dact|seeabove|latefail}}
*{{dopt|'''Player:''' ''Attack''.}}
**{{dact|You chose violence.|failcase}}

{{Dialogue end}}