Ask the Goblin Priestess for Help

Priestess Gut may be able to help with the tadpole problem.

Ask the Goblin Priestess for Help is a sub-quest of Act One's main quest,  Find a Cure. It can be initiated by speaking with Sazza at the Druid Grove.

Objectives

Find the goblin priestess.

• "We learned that a goblin tribe is led by a priestess with powerful magic. Dealing with goblins is risky, but this might be one way to cure ourselves."

Follow Priestess Gut.

• "We decided to trust Priestess Gut. If we follow her to her chapel, she'll examine the parasite."

Drink Priestess Gut's potion.

• "Now that we have some privacy, Priestess Gut is prepared to assist us. All we need to do is drink a potion.'""

Quest Complete

• "We were drugged and imprisoned by Priestess Gut. She hopes that we'll turn into mind flayers so she can study us. We need to get out of here - now."
• "Priestess Gut might have been able to help us, but being a goblin proved to be fatal for her. We'll need to find another way to remove the parasite."
• "We've been marked as enemies of the Absolute - there's no way Priestess Gut will help us now."
• "We repelled Priestess Gut's mental probe. Not capable of understanding what ailed us, she told us she couldn't help."
• "We left the area without seeing if the goblin priestess could heal us."

Walkthrough

Priestess Gut can be found in front of the giant fane to the Absolute, immediately north of the front entrance of the Shattered Sanctum at X: 297 Y: -18. She offers to brand the party with the Brand of the Absolute, which the party can accept or reject. Regardless of whether the brand is taken, Gut recognizes the party as fellow True Souls. She attempts to probe into the party's minds with her illithid powers. Permitting this allows her notice that something is amiss. The party can explain that this is the result of the tadpoles and ask if she can help. Gut replies that the party should join her in her private chambers where she has a cure for the tadpole. Blocking her mental probing results in Gut saying she cannot help the party.

In her chambers, Gut once again asks whether the player character is ready to clean their head. She is keen on talking to the party leader; if any other party member tries to speak to her, she says she needs only "those of faith". Also she demands that the player character be separated from the rest of the party, and the others leave the chapel.

Once the player character tells her that they are ready, she says that a special cleansing potion must be taken first. However, an  [[Arcana|]] check reveals that it is a Potion of Sleep. If called out on this, or if the party member in question is resistant to  falling asleep due to  Fey Ancestry (i.e. being a  Drow,  Elf or  Half-Elf), she becomes hostile and attempts to use  Call for Help to bring several nearby goblins into the frey. If the fight spills outside the chapel, there is a chance that Roah Moonglow and her bodyguards become hostile to the party, too.

However, if the potion is taken (and works), she chains up the party member and says that she intends for them to become her pet squid.

The party member can attempt to free themselves with a number of checks:

• Use the priestess' key. (if the player has the Priestess' Key)
• [ACROBATICS] Dislocate your wrist and wriggle free. (DC 12) (failing the check deals 3Piercing damage)
• [ROGUE] Dislocate your wrist and wriggle free.
• [BARBARIAN] [STRENGTH] BREAK FREE. (DC 20 )
• [STRENGTH] Tense your muscles, straining against the chains. (DC 20)
• Preserve your strength.

If the party member fails the checks or chooses to preserve their strength, they are rescued by Korrilla who appears from a portal to assassinate both Gut and her Ogre guard Polma. Then she disappears after telling the party that she acts on the orders of Raphael and warning them to be more careful.

Attitudes

• Once the player character followed Priestess Gut to her private chambers, they can still refuse her offer and get Shadowheart's approval. If then having a change of mind again, it is still possible to accept the offer to get Karlach's approval and Astarion's disapproval.