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    Synopsis:

    One of the memories available in the Colony "Brain Reader", found in the Vault.

    How to trigger:

    Insert the corresponding Brain Jar (_COL_Vault_MemoryJar_193f87db-6a26-4f00-a289-63e247740176) into the Brain Reading Device receptacle in the lower Colony, in the Memory Library. Then, interact with the floating head next to the receptacle to start the dialog.


  • 1.
    Slack-Skinned Head
    : Come now. You're as much a prisoner of this place as I. Let us aid one another.COL_BrainReader_Memory_Vault_AskedAid = False, COL_Brainreader_Memory_HasMet_Vault
    • 17. [Jump] Jump to Node 59 (2)
  • 24.
    Slack-Skinned Head
    : ...devnoteCOL_BrainReader_Memory_Vault_MindWiped
    End
  • 29.
    Slack-Skinned Head
    : HmmMM... fine bones... sharp jaw... some variety of elf?devnoteCOL_Brainreader_Memory_HasMet_Vault
    • 20.
      Slack-Skinned Head
      : Pretty enough for a flesh-prison - if not the noble githzerai features I was born with.
      • 6. Player: [PassiveRoll] REALLY_GITHYANKI = FalseRoll (Intelligence, History) vs 18 (0)
        • 63. [RollResult] True
          • 15.
            Narrator
            : *The monk-like githzerai, sibling-race to the warrior githyanki. Their contempt for one another is eclipsed only by their shared hatred of the illithids.*GLO_Githzerai_Knows_Githzerai
            • Link to Node 59
        • 3. [RollResult] False
          • 59.
            Slack-Skinned Head
            : I'd guess you're no willing guest of the ghaik either. Perhaps we might aid one another.
            • 12. Player: Why? This form fits you so much better, cousin.REALLY_GITHYANKI['Lae'zel 1', 'Karlach -1']
              • 13.
                Slack-Skinned Head
                : Well, a githyanki skull would be too tight a fit, cousin. Your people shunned psionics, after all - while mine mastered them.
                • 45. [Alias]
                  • Alias to Node 53
                  • 69.
                    Slack-Skinned Head
                    : I never broke, but... I've spent all these centuries awake. Aware. So here is my offer:
                    • 42.
                      Slack-Skinned Head
                      : Use your tadpole. Erase me - and I will pass my technique onto you.COL_BrainReader_Memory_Vault_AskedAid
                      • 36.
                        Narrator
                        : *A prickling flame runs across the back of your mind and the edge of your soul.*, WARLOCK_FIENDWARLOCK
                      • 36.
                        Narrator
                        : *An unusually cautious faerie tickle runs across the back of your mind and the edge of your soul.*, WARLOCK_ARCHFEYWARLOCK
                      • 36.
                        Narrator
                        : *You feel the oncoming void tug at the back of your mind and the edge of your soul.*, WARLOCK_GREAT_OLD_ONEWARLOCK
                        • 60.
                          Narrator
                          : *Your patron bids you caution before agreeing to this pact. The monk isn't telling you everything.*23a3676c-6216-6b8b-02c7-c1d076a98d54_KnowsLying
                          • 10. [Jump] Jump to Node 34 (2)
                      • 49. Player: [PassiveRoll] Roll (Wisdom, Insight) vs 18 (0)
                        • 40. [RollResult] True
                          • 34.
                            Narrator
                            : *You catch the lie - the monk isn't telling everything.*23a3676c-6216-6b8b-02c7-c1d076a98d54_KnowsLying
                            • 8. Player: I'm not sure I can - I have no psionic power.ILLITHID = False
                              • 44. [Jump] Jump to Node 31 (1)
                            • 4. Player: If you want my help, then tell me the truth.23a3676c-6216-6b8b-02c7-c1d076a98d54_KnowsLying
                              • 22.
                                Slack-Skinned Head
                                : ...All right. I... the ghaik did not find my monastery. I led them there.devnote
                                • 54.
                                  Slack-Skinned Head
                                  : They promised me immortality. And they gave it - I have been their rotting trophy for centuries.
                                  • 33.
                                    Narrator
                                    : *As her agitation swells, so does her latent psionic power. To your tadpole, that guilt and terror are almost... fragrant.*
                                    • 35.
                                      Narrator
                                      : *You realise the illithids locked her away not as a trophy, but as a fine vintage.*
                                      • 41.
                                        Slack-Skinned Head
                                        : Please - touch my mind, and purge it. The moment you do, my knowledge will be yours.
                                        • 67. Player: Reach out and consume her mind.ILLITHID['Astarion 1', 'Lae'zel -1', 'Shadowheart -1', 'Wyll -1', 'Karlach -1', 'Jaheira -1', 'Minthara 1', 'Halsin -1']
                                          • 16.
                                            Slack-Skinned Head
                                            : Thank you, I - wait.
                                            • 32.
                                              Slack-Skinned Head
                                              : No. NO. PLEASE!devnoteCOL_BrainReader_Memory_Vault_MindWiped, COL_BrainReader_Memory_Vault_ReceiveReward
                                              End
                                        • 27. Player: Reach out and purge her mind.ILLITHID
                                          • 43.
                                            Narrator
                                            : *The awareness that floods you is nothing like the tadpole. It is tentative, and tinged with the loneliness of aeons.*
                                            • 38.
                                              Narrator
                                              : *It fades beneath your touch, but you feel something left behind. A fragment.*
                                              • 58.
                                                Slack-Skinned Head
                                                : It is only knowledge yet, without comprehension. But when you use it, you will... see...
                                                • 66.
                                                  Slack-Skinned Head
                                                  : And I... I see...devnoteCOL_BrainReader_Memory_Vault_MindWiped, COL_BrainReader_Memory_Vault_ReceiveReward['Lae'zel -1', 'Gale 1', 'Wyll 1', 'Karlach 1']
                                                  End
                                        • 30. Player: Leave.
                                          • 25.
                                            Slack-Skinned Head
                                            : PLEASE!
                                            End
                            • 19. Player: You want me to kill you. What if I can free you instead?
                              • 7.
                                Slack-Skinned Head
                                : My people dwell in Limbo - a realm of pure, chaotic thought. With my mind gone, perhaps my soul will return there.<br>
                                • 2.
                                  Slack-Skinned Head
                                  : Or perhaps not. Death, freedom - they are one and the same.
                                  • 26.
                                    Slack-Skinned Head
                                    : Touch my mind, and purge it - at the very moment you do, I will make my knowledge yours.
                                    • 57. Player: When you say 'erase' your mind - do by any chance mean 'smash your brain to bits'?
                                      • 55.
                                        Slack-Skinned Head
                                        : ...I do not. The ghaik have been warping flesh for millennia - who knows what damage they can undo.
                                        • 46.
                                          Slack-Skinned Head
                                          : It is my mind they enslave. It is my mind that must die.
                                    • 65. Player: I'm not sure I can - I have no psionic power.ILLITHID = False
                                      • 31.
                                        Slack-Skinned Head
                                        : ...A terrible fate, to be born without a high-mind. It was the one gift the ghaik truly gave us.
                                        • 28.
                                          Slack-Skinned Head
                                          : Return with one who bears this gift, then. Please.
                                          End
                                    • 14. Player: Reach out and erase her mind.ILLITHID
                                      • 64. [Jump] Jump to Node 43 (1)
                                    • 39. [Jump] Jump to Node 30 (1)
                            • 52. Player: I'll do it.
                              • Link to Node 26
                            • 18. Player: Leave.
                              • 21. [Jump] Jump to Node 25 (1)
                        • 70. [RollResult] False
                          • 5. [Jump] Jump to Node 34 (2)
            • 23. Player: You called yourself 'githzerai'. Is that some kind of githyanki?GLO_Githzerai_Knows_Githzerai = False, REALLY_GITHYANKI = False['Lae'zel -1']
              • 71.
                Slack-Skinned Head
                : Oh, for a set of hands to slap your face. The yanki lost their way the moment Gith threw down the ghaik empire.
                • 56.
                  Slack-Skinned Head
                  : Only we zerai continue the war to end the ghaik forever. Only we fight them their own battlefield - the mind.
            • 0. Player: How did you end up in that vault? Aren't you zerai ultimate warriors?, REALLY_GITHYANKIGLO_Githzerai_Knows_Githzerai
            • 0. Player: How did you end up in that vault? Githzerai are supposed to be ultimate warriors. GLO_Githzerai_Knows_Githzerai
              • 48.
                Slack-Skinned Head
                : Warriors of the mind, cousin. A discipline unknown to your kind - and the very reason we were attacked.REALLY_GITHYANKI
                • Link to Node 53
              • 9.
                Slack-Skinned Head
                : Warriors of the mind. Oh, there's some physical prowess involved, but the battlefield on which we truly fight the ghaik is their own.
                • 53.
                  Slack-Skinned Head
                  : My order taught a psionic technique much-feared by the ghaik. They destroyed us for it, and kept me as a trophy.
                  • Link to Node 69
            • 62. Player: You're remarkably sane for a pickled brain.
              • 61.
                Slack-Skinned Head
                : A githzerai's mind is not so easily cracked. Our discipline was the very reason we were attacked.
                • Link to Node 53
            • 37. Player: I'm listening. What aid are you offering?
              • Link to Node 53
            • 50. Player: I'm not interested.
              • 47.
                Slack-Skinned Head
                : Only because I haven't told you how you will benefit.
                • Link to Node 53
      • 51.
        Narrator
        : *The monk-like githzerai, sibling race to your own githyanki. The only beings your people hate more are the illithids themselves.*GLO_Githzerai_Knows_Githzerai
        • Link to Node 59
  • 68.
    Slack-Skinned Head
    : Erase me. Please. My knowledge will be yours.COL_BrainReader_Memory_Vault_AskedAid, COL_Brainreader_Memory_HasMet_Vault
    • 11. [Jump] Jump to Node 42 (2)